My guest today is an actor and author named Bradley Upton. Though his career has taken him from stage to screen to keyboard, Brad always seems to encounter a specific type of creature in his work – vampires. We had a fun conversation about blood suckers, myth and reality, Hollywood, and ensuring that your life’s work is fun. I found Brad to be honest, thoughtful, and engaging, and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation. I hope you enjoy it as well.

In our conversation, we discuss mythology and context, vampires, being real versus a pretender, human beings, genuine people, sociopaths, sociopath statistics, evolutionary need for variety, acting, the work is supposed to be fun, who we are around other people, trauma, religion, science, the ways to believe in God, mythology and literalism, the Book of Mormon, awe as the source of science and religion, awe for people, magic, art, psychics, social skills, playing and learning as adults, picking games to play, we’re all acting, and playing games for fun.

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Guest Name: Bradley Upton

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