Justin Hall Show

Theme: Primitive Skills

Opening credits -
pictures of Justin talking and looking serious, Justin doing weird/funny stuff, pictures of Justin's friends, interview outtakes, weird devices, underneath a theme song.


Introduction -
(setting: Justin's Living Room or Porch?)
JUSTIN, WHITTLING A STICK WITH A SHARPENED ROCK, NOTICES THE AUDIENCE AND ADDRESSES THEM DIRECTLY:

We are all pretty well enabled.  Each of us might have at least one phone we answer; some have two or three.  There's email, and web pages when we need information, and movies and television when we need distraction.  If we need to eat, we got to the store and throw something in the microwave.

It's a pretty easy life, compared to some of the trouble our ancestors went through to get their daily bread.  Still, what if the power was to go out?  Or what if the truckers went on strike?  Chances are you wouldn't have to survive on squirrel-meat, but if you did, you'd want to have Colin Adams with you.

JUSTIN CUTS HIS THUMB, MAKES A SOUND AND SLINKS OFFSCREEN

First Sequence - John
FOOTAGE OF JUSTIN WALKING UP TO COLIN NEAR A BUNCH OF TREES

VOICE OVER:

"Colin is a freelance web illustrator, meaning he makes web sites pretty, and he makes little animated movies.  But when work is over, he's as likely to head to the trees as he is to the TV.
"Back in high school, him and some friends taught themselves "primitive skills" - how to provide for everything you could want when left to just your wits."

JUSTIN AND COLIN SITTING AROUND A MAKESHIFT CAMPFIRE

"So you made this fire, how?  By rubbing sticks together?  I never believed that actually worked."

"You've eaten roadkill?"

"How do you manage both of these worlds, technology and primitive skills?"

"There's a primitive skills community out there - what are those people like generally?"


Second Sequence - Bringing it all Back Home
JUSTIN WALKS BACK INTO HIS LIVING ROOM

"The ability to survive with nothing may be a dying art, but just because you exist in a world largely controlled by machines doesn't mean you can't take matters into your own hands.  Just look out who you offer your roast leg of roadkill to."

(Summary based on content shared by interviewees)