Spotting Stories with Hidden Poison | (Ep. 195)

How do you identify stories with poison in them? They never say "TAKE THIS POISON." They always coat it in chocolate first...
- "Make Me Famous" pitch reviews segment continues with "The Ghost Train". Maybe this is the episode wherein Nate finally likes a pitch.
- Then the guys turn to stories that start out sweet but conceal poison in the end.
- Harry Potter and The Hunger Games both start a story with something admirable (the underdog, self-sacrifice). That's the chocolate.
- But once you like the chocolate, an author *can make you eat anything after that... even poison (self-pity, dissatisfaction, ungratefulness, victimhood mentality).
- To demonstrate how a true underdog story works, Nate reframes the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors (not what that is).