I was an eleven year old Peeping Tom. I loved James Bond. I wanted to be James Bond. Which is why, naturally, I became the founder and president of Spy Club.

This is a first for The Lapse, in that this story is by yours truly, Kyle Gest. We’d originally recorded guest narration (big ups to William Hopkins, accent extraordinaire), but a couple catastrophes later, we couldn’t use it. The final result is our very first story without an additional narrator. This is straight from me to you! I think it’s a barrel of monkeys.

A reminder for my Canadian brethren: I’m on TV! You can catch me Wednesday nights on The W Network at 10PM Pacific. Check your local listings for The Audience Canada if you’re keen to put a face to the voice.

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For a while, mum and dad are perfect. Right, even when they’re wrong. It’s only as we get older that our parents become humanized. People with problems. Linda Feuerhelm should’ve been too young to have that revelation, but as you’ll hear in this week’s episode… there’s something very wrong with Linda’s mum.

Major, major thanks to Jessie Brennan for this episode’s transcription and to Alex Ricci for the ongoing editorial assistance. I’m so sorry, I forgot to mention them both in this episode’s credits. They’re absolute gems. I’ll be mentioning them again the next.

I’m on vacation, so it’ll be an extra week before the show returns. Worry not! We’ll see you in three.

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Emily is 6″1′. If that doesn’t seem like a big deal, try again. The average Canadian woman is less than 5’4″. Emily is taller than 99.6% of all the world’s women combined.

This is the original, unaired pilot of The Lapse Storytelling Podcast. With a couple hiccups in our regular scheduled programming, I thought it’d be a treat to share just where The Lapse came from. It’s funny. I didn’t realize how much narration I did back then.

We’ve all got a story to tell. A great story. Hell, multiple great stories. The trick is, while everybody’s got one, it’s the telling that makes the story tick. I started The Lapse with that theory in mind and I still believe it’s true. I hope you dig this one. I’m still proud of it.

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Gabriel Bellman has witnessed more disasters than any one person rightfully should. Volcanoes, earthquakes, riots, terrorism… Despite hopping around the U.S. from state to state, where Gabriel goes, bad news seems to follow.

The strange thing about being a magnet for disaster? It begins to feel familiar. Routine. Call him unlucky, but the man lives to tell about it.

Gabriel is the founder of the Frozen Film Festival in San Francisco. He’s been running the thing since 2006 and it’s begun to attract some seriously talented filmmakers. If you’re going to be in San Fran July 17th – 20th, check it out. He’s also a director himself; his latest documentary, The Bellman Equation, is available online. And if that weren’t enough, Gabriel runs his own (250+ episode!) podcast Film 4 Thought.

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This is, without question, the darkest episode The Lapse has ever aired.

Try not to take what I’m about to say as reductive. Because when Wichita Sims underwent treatment for breast cancer, the ingredients were a known quantity: chemo, radiation, group counseling. It was standard practice. Routinized. Regimented. She stuck to the recipe and she lived to tell it.

There’s no such thing as boilerplate brain surgery. One slip, one miscalculation, and you may irreparably change a human being. When Wichita developed a brain tumor, her doctor told her not to worry. Unfortunately, that is where her story begins.

For more on Wichita Sims, including her previous struggles with breast cancer, you can read her work online at www.WichitaSims.com.

Download A Few Loose Screws HERE on iTunes or stream it at the link below.

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