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Movie Adaptations, “Justified” Shoplifting, and Vice · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life audio.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I'll talk about that John finally gets into reading
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  Speaker 2: fiction but hates it when the movie ends different than
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  Speaker 2: the book. Meanwhile, I get a random VENMO from a
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  Speaker 2: listener who's trying to keep me out of jail, and
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  Speaker 2: tell you the story of the time left handed polo
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  Speaker 2: players got banned. Plus of conversation about vices, neighbors, and
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  Speaker 2: the advantages of failing in private. Today's episode is not
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  Speaker 2: sponsored by New Year's Resolutions. Start off the year the
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  Speaker 2: right way with empty promises, but first a word from
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  Speaker 2: our actual sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: It's a coming up on New Year edition.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm John here with Johnny Johnny. Another year has passed
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  Speaker 3: and here we are.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be New Year's when this comes out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, unless you get your stuff done faster, that's true,
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  Speaker 3: could be New Year's Eve. There was a I was
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  Speaker 3: getting jokes together for joke about that, and one that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't use was what do you call someone who
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  Speaker 3: knows all the words to old lang Seyn?
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  Speaker 1: What a liar? It's true because nobody everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 1: hell yeah, you just it's very nobody knows all the words.
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  Speaker 1: They just know. That never brought to mind.
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  Speaker 3: That's not even the part I know old acquaintance be forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: That's the part I know, which how many old acquaintances
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  Speaker 3: have you forgotten?
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  Speaker 1: So many? Yeah? And do you reconnect at New Year's
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  Speaker 1: that's what you do. All you'd be like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: need money. I did.
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  Speaker 3: I watched that scene from when Harry met Sally the
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  Speaker 3: New Year's party when he goes into.
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  Speaker 2: There's maybe not a better last little monologue in a film,
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  Speaker 2: yeah than that. You know, we just lost Rob Ryan
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  Speaker 2: or senseless tragedy. But uh, I think that's close to
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  Speaker 2: a perfect movie. It is. It's just so great.
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  Speaker 3: It's so well proportioned throughout time. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: Like they you don't get I was, I was telling
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  Speaker 3: you a breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: There's a movie.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna ruin it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a movie watched.
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  Speaker 3: It's a that is a adaptation from one of my
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  Speaker 3: wife's favorite fiction books.
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  Speaker 1: And also know its a novel. Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: Well there are fiction books that aren't novels, aren't there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, is it always a novel if it's
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  Speaker 2: a fiction book?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, you could have like a like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know children's fiction, right, or tell a zombie story about
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  Speaker 1: not being a novel, you know what I'm saying. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it would unless it's a real zombie story and
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  Speaker 3: then it's non fa we're headed there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get to that. But literally, the book or
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  Speaker 1: the movie was nothing like.
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  Speaker 2: But not just in like a normal like well he
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  Speaker 2: was he wasn't tall, he was short in the book.
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  Speaker 2: It was like it changed so.
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  Speaker 3: Much, a different love interest, a different like. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: so like I think that the movies today and you
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  Speaker 3: made the point of yeah, they sometimes test them if
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  Speaker 3: they didn't sell or what. And I think something like
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  Speaker 3: when Harry met Sally, it's like, whoever wrote the screenplay?
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  Speaker 1: New we're doing this? Like you have to be patient
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  Speaker 1: with that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't give like, yes, I understand the social
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  Speaker 3: media world, but like true art to some extent, it
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  Speaker 3: needs to be something that the artist likes and either
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  Speaker 3: people join you in it or they don't. If it's
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  Speaker 3: all about the bottom line and the sales, then you
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  Speaker 3: can't stay true to your art. And so there's there's
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  Speaker 3: a balancing act there. But I always want to write
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  Speaker 3: things that there are some things I write that didn't
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  Speaker 3: sell well and I'm still really satisfied. I just assume
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  Speaker 3: that people didn't get what they should have gotten, you know,
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  Speaker 3: saying like hey, you should have come along, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And that may made me stupid and unsuccessful, but.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be a question that better to write
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  Speaker 2: for yourself and have no public, then to write for
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  Speaker 2: the public and have no sense of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, if you die, think that's something.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's something that people who have no sales, right,
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  Speaker 2: they go, well, it's like sona be like, well, people
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  Speaker 2: just wout like that guy with the yacht.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I know, I'm probably.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 1: I look, I just looked over. He's playing pickleball. He
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  Speaker 1: looks pretty just doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: No, And I think like there is something to be
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  Speaker 3: said for pop art is for what's popular, right, doing
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  Speaker 3: something for the people. But populism, Johnny's a slippery slope
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  Speaker 3: and things can get out of hand pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: We just finished watching.
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  Speaker 3: The second season of Marie Antoinette on has she said no?
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  Speaker 3: Because I mean to say, well, she hasn't said it
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  Speaker 3: in the dramatic adaptation yet. Yeah, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty it's pretty complicated. What's going on behind sit say it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Are there people now that say she
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  Speaker 1: didn't say that?
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  Speaker 3: She her character as the character has been developed, would
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  Speaker 3: not be someone who would say it.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't herb was Marie Intonman's okay, because you know that's
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  Speaker 2: the takes at the end of the grocery I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe what she was trying to do was give them
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  Speaker 1: the cake off the table.
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  Speaker 3: She just wants to let him meet my cake, let
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  Speaker 3: him meet the cake. And then they're like, how dare you?
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  Speaker 3: It is a tale of so that the Duke de Orleon,
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  Speaker 3: which looks like Orleans to us holyon, like he is
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  Speaker 3: obsessed with her, and you know she rejects his advances.
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  Speaker 3: He then becomes the richest man around and begins like
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  Speaker 3: with the printing press, prints like a million copies of
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  Speaker 3: these things to disgrace the crown and raise up the
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  Speaker 3: people against.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was used by her.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that tries to get He's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: when they reconcile somewhat, he's like demanding that his son
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  Speaker 3: is to marry her daughter, and she's like, yeah, my
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  Speaker 3: daughter will not. My daughter will not be a pawn
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  Speaker 3: in politics like I was or and you know these these.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know all this about Marianntoinette.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true. It was telling
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  Speaker 3: you the show. The show is my French history license.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't take a French history class in college, which
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  Speaker 3: would have done it all. I would have known everything
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  Speaker 3: about French history if i'd have taken that class. So
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  Speaker 3: just like I took.
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  Speaker 1: This is your French history class, and it's by Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know world history to some extent, which
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  Speaker 1: is so funny.
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  Speaker 3: When you do a world history class, it's like we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do a class on everything that ever happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're not, Like you're telling me some
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  Speaker 1: high points here.
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  Speaker 2: I still remember a lot of my world history stuff though,
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  Speaker 2: because I was fascinated, because I just saw it as
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  Speaker 2: a big story. I always got hundreds on my world
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  Speaker 2: history stuff because I could just see it as a
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  Speaker 2: linear story. Yeah, and it made me, It made it.
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  Speaker 2: The fact's easy to remember for me for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: It is a linear story, you know. I could literally
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  Speaker 2: see it. I can see the layers somehow in my head.
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  Speaker 2: I could, whereas math I was just it was lost.
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  Speaker 3: In what It always fascinates me about history, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that you know history. If anything gets co opted
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  Speaker 3: in the political rhetoric, it's history. Yeah, everything's being rewritten.
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  Speaker 3: And they make good looking books and write history, and
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  Speaker 3: you know there's like all this all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's when people say that write good looking books, they
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  Speaker 1: make good looking books.
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  Speaker 3: That's actually a line from a John Foreman song. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 3: going to make good looking books and write history. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the I forget what he rhymes with.
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  Speaker 1: But capitol hills and lowercase people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the best lines, one of the
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  Speaker 2: best lines that's at Yeah, what a great line from
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  Speaker 2: a John Foreman song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But in the end, like history can't be told in
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  Speaker 3: its fullness because it's about everybody. Like you can tell
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  Speaker 3: major themes everything, but I always think about and that's
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  Speaker 3: the stuff I'm writing now for the University of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's so many stories I'm uncovering of people you've
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  Speaker 3: never heard of. And how really, what if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about how the Civil War, how say, slavery
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  Speaker 3: in the Upper South affected you know, the lives of
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  Speaker 3: people in a city like Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: It's very specific to them. And when you when you
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  Speaker 1: draw up.
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  Speaker 3: Sweeping not just generalizations, but like, okay, you know this
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  Speaker 3: was what was common. Even if you come up with
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  Speaker 3: what is common, you still to you still have to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the exceptions or how it was different. For
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  Speaker 3: for Sally Thomas, who is this unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've erected.
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  Speaker 3: A gravestone in Nashville for her different historical societies, but
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  Speaker 3: her story is so unbelievable, but it was real and
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  Speaker 3: it's not everybody else's story. So that's why I like
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  Speaker 3: if someone can find those figures, Like you only want
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  Speaker 3: to find a big history book write about someone who's famous,
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  Speaker 3: but there are other people that would be just as
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  Speaker 3: famous if they were known. You know why they're not famous,
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  Speaker 3: We don't write about them, And so that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the part.
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  Speaker 2: It's their closeness to money. Like that's things like history
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  Speaker 2: is written by the powerful. They get to tell the
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  Speaker 2: story a little bit so they can make themselves the heroes.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's the whole Hamilton thing, the resurgence of the
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  Speaker 3: popularity of Alexander Hamilton in American culture literally through Lynn
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  Speaker 3: Mayel Miranda's basically resurrection of a story. And that's sort
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  Speaker 3: of the whole point of it. Is like this was forgotten. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because he died and no one was around to write
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  Speaker 3: it like that did the rest of the founding fathers
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  Speaker 3: in the way that it was.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I'm trying to get as much money
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  Speaker 2: as I can. It's not because I want you know,
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  Speaker 2: success and you know comfort and leisure. No, I want
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  Speaker 2: to be able to control the narrative about me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's totally much more deemable reason, absolutely than just wanting.
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  Speaker 2: Riches for riches to That ends, John, before we go
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  Speaker 2: to the break narrative. Because listen, I got a random
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  Speaker 2: venmo today related to past episodes of the show. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: must be going back, by the way, you could go
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  Speaker 2: back and listen to past episodes that talk about that
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  Speaker 2: podcast dot com over almost four hundred episodes. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: someone has been binging because I got a venmo today
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  Speaker 2: from hold On, let me find it Andrew Fellman want
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  Speaker 2: to credit him?
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  Speaker 3: And Andrew came here one day, exced Andrew Filman paid me
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  Speaker 3: three dollars and fifty cents and the memo on the venmo.
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  Speaker 1: The memo on the venmo was hot dogs from Kroger.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember the story?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I paid for hot dogs at the self checkout, evidently,
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  Speaker 2: and then I left one of the bags.
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  Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of stuff, but it was for
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  Speaker 1: whatever Fourth of July cookout.
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  Speaker 2: And then I get home and I realized I don't
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  Speaker 2: have those hot dogs I bought.
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  Speaker 1: And then we grieved over it.
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  Speaker 2: In the show, you didn't understand the moral dilemma, but
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm old hot dogs, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: go back. It's too late to go back and be
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  Speaker 2: like I left my hot dogs. They already put him back.
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  Speaker 2: So I should be able to go and steal a
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  Speaker 2: pack of hot dogs that's not really stolen, but I
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  Speaker 2: should just be able to put them in my coat,
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  Speaker 2: and if I get away with it. I really didn't
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  Speaker 2: get away with it because I've already paid the dog
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  Speaker 2: the three and fifty three hundred and fifty three dollars
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  Speaker 2: and fifty cents for the hot dog. And you're like, no,
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  Speaker 2: what's right is right? What's wrong is wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Does not sell like me?
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, it's a very you know, come on, what
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  Speaker 2: are you gonna do? This is let's this lame miss.
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  Speaker 2: Basically I have to steal the hot dogs to feed
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  Speaker 2: my family.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, we deal with the real issues here on talking.
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  Speaker 2: Now, longtime listener Andrew Fellman has he thinks he made
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  Speaker 2: it right, but.
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  Speaker 1: Really did he? But now Johnny has to steal two
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  Speaker 1: packs of hot dogs? Wait, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I guess he did kind of make it right, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it still feels like a niche that I need
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  Speaker 2: to scratch. What if it leads to like a life
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  Speaker 2: of crime though, Well that's what that's what the danger is.
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  Speaker 1: You go in there. Maybe it feels good, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: this was a rush?
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  Speaker 3: Is that the real itch that you want to scratch?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what this is really all about?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Somehow inside like crime must be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: People do it? Yeah? Have you ever do you ever
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  Speaker 1: see anything when you were a kid? No?
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  Speaker 2: You were, you were a real follower. No, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember if I ever did anything that I was
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  Speaker 2: like that was.
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  Speaker 3: Whether Andrew sending you That reminds me he sent us
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  Speaker 3: a message. Oh okay, and he this is so funny
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  Speaker 3: because I was remember I didn't want to. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: tell it wrongly, but the way he introduced his wife
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  Speaker 3: to talk about that they were returning from a day
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  Speaker 3: trip shortly after their way and had several road hours
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  Speaker 3: on the road, and he wanted to share the podcast
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  Speaker 3: with her so they could talk about stuff because we
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  Speaker 3: covered so many broad topics, as you know, john that's nice, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like stealing hot dogs history. And so he went to
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  Speaker 3: number one forty eight, which is that that's his favorite
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  Speaker 3: episode and the discussion of Johnny being short of a
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  Speaker 3: pack of hot dogs by Kroger and his nefarious plans
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  Speaker 3: to seek restitution, which I think he's.
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  Speaker 1: Describing that accurately.
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  Speaker 3: And as we listened and laughed, he learned to his
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  Speaker 3: horror that his wife completely agreed with you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so learn it's too late to back out.
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  Speaker 3: Just got married, Yeah, to steal the steal a compensatory
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  Speaker 3: pack of hot dogs. She completely aligned with him and
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  Speaker 3: felt he was justified his plans uh to extract the
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  Speaker 3: subject hot dogs using curries as accomplice. And you were
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  Speaker 3: to bring your wife into this, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: really well she got to distract the shopkeeper.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, anyway, I hope this will help Johnny understand
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  Speaker 3: why he receives a venmo of three dollsred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: cents the next fek.
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  Speaker 1: He let him, He let me let us know that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to guy, what a great listener. That's
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: the best Christmas gifts. You know what.
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  Speaker 2: What's funny is, I'm trying to remember I got a
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  Speaker 2: couple of good Christmas gifts this year from family. My
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  Speaker 2: in law's got me a big sign that says the
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  Speaker 2: grand Ole Opry and it's it's like, uh iron, It's
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  Speaker 2: got light behind it so I can hang it.
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  Speaker 1: Up like a wall hanging. It's pretty cool.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: It's like a guitar and it says grand Ole Opry
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  Speaker 2: the big logo. They bought it at the mister bought.
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  Speaker 1: At the Opry shop, the shopry as you call it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, it was a very lovely gift. But they're
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  Speaker 1: not calling it shop prey.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, of all the gifts, I think
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  Speaker 2: this one means even more hot dogs three dollars because
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  Speaker 2: it means that he listened to the show. It means
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  Speaker 2: that he's been paying attention and listen.
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  Speaker 1: That's the that's the culture. This is the currency of
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: today's culture.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we what we want from all of from
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  Speaker 3: our wives, from our husbands. I just want someone to
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  Speaker 3: pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. That's the thing. Like you can buy
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  Speaker 1: somebody a gift, but like the real gift.
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  Speaker 2: Is like someone's time and attention, and you gave me
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  Speaker 2: that gift today. Thank you, thank you very much, so
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  Speaker 2: thanks for listening. John Let's take him in it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and here I hope it's Kroger so much. Please please
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  Speaker 2: be programs. Let's take him in here from a few
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  Speaker 2: of our fine sponsors, and.
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  Speaker 3: We're back, Johnny. Yes, I mean it's that time of
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  Speaker 3: the year. Yeah, I can't wait to hear what deep
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: quote you have for us for New Year? Is it
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: going to be about a new year and new year?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Boy? Uh, you're you're you're going to wait and
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  Speaker 1: find out. Actually you don't. It's right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's my sibbing wet, my segment. I can't use words.
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  Speaker 1: They call it. They talked about that Benjamin Franklin. Okay, wich,
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  Speaker 1: I know you like it on a founder. Ye.
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  Speaker 3: You know there's a new book out by turn Out
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  Speaker 3: about Franklin. No, yeah, same guy that wrote the Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: And Book Washington. Oh okay, yeah, gotta get it. Gonna
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  Speaker 1: read it.
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  Speaker 3: But my wife is pretty excited because I may try
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: to read a few fiction books this year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you told me that she's like, she's just like it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's like, I agree to go to Disneyland with her.
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  Speaker 3: That's she's she's in a way you did. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 3: voracious fiction reader, like she reads a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I think you think of yourself as someone who you know,
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  Speaker 2: fiction readers for people that have a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be improving yourself.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: You need to be Yeah, so like you always want
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: to be fixing some problem with a book that you're right,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: self help is your deal?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, And I don't like myself, that's why. That's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: what I mean. But fiction that's the point. Though.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Fiction does that too, though, its just in a different
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: way because you're seeing the world through the eyes of
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: these fictional characters and you're like, oh, that person fixed
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: themselves in this way. Really, it's all self help.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, even if you're just helping yourself to escape
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: from your real life. Yeah, I need that, That's what
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. Yeah, she's trying to give that to you.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: She is, and I resist it. But I have three books.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Now we're going to see what happens. OK, But I'll
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: see you next year. This time, Benjamin Franklin said, be
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: it war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: and let every new year find you a better man. Okay,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: be it war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: and let every new year find you a better man.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I think this was in his Poor Richard's Almanac.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, so at the end almanac with it. It's got
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that that sort of.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Aphoristic style, you know, very colloquial to the time, So
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I get it. It seems a little generic maybe for us,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: but there's actually a lot to be said there to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: your point about self improvement.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Be it war with your vices.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: You know, I think about therapy, language and all the things.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: And you and I were talking a little bit of
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: breakfast about this too, like what happens to us when
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: we can name the vices of our life, especially early on,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: because I learned to name the vices later right after
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: I see established patterns.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: But then there's a season of life.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And I was having this conversation with my buddy from
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: high school and college the other day. There's a season
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: in my life where what I would consider now to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: be a vice, which would be maybe my like sort
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: of doey eyed belief that I could do anything that
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: caused me to plunge headlong into myriad of things that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I would never try if I didn't have that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you go accomplish something.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Like The example I gave him was like songwriting. I
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: just thought I like doing this. Uh huh, I'm just
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: gonna do it. And so I wrote hundreds of songs
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: and they all sucked. But maybe two Yeah, but no
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: that's not true. Come on, yeah, no, there's only like
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: one or two I would let you know. Or or
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: my belief that I could be the lead singer in
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the band for some stupid like I don't think I
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: set out to be the lead singers. It's like, well
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do a band. Someone's got to do it
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: kind of thing. Yeah, you know, Uh it took us
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: what two years, I think for me to find a
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: look at you and go what are we doing? Like, dude,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: you got the lead singer voice.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know why you didn't say anything.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But like but like that, go you go Okay, you
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: look back and go how stupid that kid was? And
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: then you also go, if that kid hadn't been stupid?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Do I am I writing today? Am I are you
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: doing comedy today? Because we were stupid enough to go
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: try something back then that gave me the.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Mone Yeah, you could take a flying lead. It didn't
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: feel like I had nothing to lose. Now I'm more
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: careful because I have a lot to lose.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think naming then also like, I'm not
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: saying I want to return devices, and I'm not saying
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: that was a vice, so obviously true vice is right, selfishness,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: those kinds of things, I don't think they have ourdeevable quality.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: But there are some things that are just youthful, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I think today's youth lack them in a lot of ways,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: not the selfishness and other things that social media perpetuates.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: But I think it's harder for them to take those
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: blind leaps because they will be so exposed by social media.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: If they make a mistake, it can be memorialized forever
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: in a video or in a meme.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Now that is true. I think that that will be studied.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: That idea of like, yeah, you don't get you don't
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: get to fail.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: In private as much, no more, even if you failed publicly,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: there was nothing there to keep a record of it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I've thought about that a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in my career that I've stayed under the radar for
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: so much, Like I've made a good living at comedy
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: since twenty twelve, I've made my full time living from comedy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But I'm still under the radar enough. Even now, I'm
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: so under the radar that I can fail and it
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: does not it's not career killing. Yeah, I can take
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a chance on staf You know, that's a gift. You know, Oh, absolutely,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: it's a gift.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And you get to a level where it's like this
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: better be good, or we paid this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Or like you get to a level where it's like
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: you're so public that what do you what else you got?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: What else you got?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: While I was able to craft something for years and
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you know in private.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that The Veggie tell story is eventually they
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: had to go make this full length feature film and
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: it's what bankrupt the whole thing.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Jonah movie or whatever, which I thought was great.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: But movie can be great and still lose millions because
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a big gamble no matter what the stake,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: And so you just go. I don't know if you
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: ever want to get to the play. We all want
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: that place where someone says it's time to take the
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: big jump in the big and you go, Or can
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I consistently do something that I that's good for others,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: that's good art.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the Eugene Peterson thing about like
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: small steps in the same direction.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like his whole his whole process was just.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Like incrementally, I'm going towards the path that I know
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: that I should be on.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You know, Andy Stanley, who just announced his retirement, will
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: be coming from what I hear M. You know, one
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: of my favorite books he ever wrote was called The
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Principle of the.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Path yea yea yeah, yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And basically it's so super simple is that you're not
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: looking for a path. You're on one, and every every
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: path that you're on has a destination. If I get
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: on I forty east, like I will today to go
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to Knoxville to go watch a basketball game. If I go,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if I go slow, fast, As long
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: as I'm on that road going east, I will eventually
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: run into Knoxville. And that is so like someone that
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: the day was talking about relationship, they were, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: thinking about getting back into or whatever. I was like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you know, where that path leads you've been on it before,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: so decide if that's the destination. Don't jact like I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: let it get on this and see what happens. You
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: know what happens, right, it goes. And I think that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the whole idea of the New Year's And I actually
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: am not an anti New Year's resolutions.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Guy. I didn't even think I have a word for
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the year, which I.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Never have those. But I really feel like I have
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a word I'm supposed to have for the year.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Which is you going to tell me?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: It's contentment? I think I really struggle with with you know, yeah,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: contentment being present in the moment, you know, not thinking
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: about what to fix or what.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: How did you get this word? You just figured it out?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I was I was dropped in your spirit. Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: It was one of those kind of God things like
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: it's correction. It's again to be it worth advice of
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the fact that I can't be present.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: What is it godliness with contentment or contentment with godliness?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Godliness with contentment is great.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Gain yep, yeah, yeah, it's good because you know, there's
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: two ways to be rich, right, There's there's the to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: have more or less, right, yeah, and needing less is
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the that's true contented path.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah, it's a tricky one.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: So what I need is I need our listeners to
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: give less to Patreon because I.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Don't think they Yeah, I don't think they could get
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: if you are a patron support. We love you so much.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you for Yeah, you make the show go. Well,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we make the show. You helped the show.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You you supplement with your three dollars and fifty cents
• 23:14
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• 23:19
  Speaker 3: If we weren't your good friends, there's no way we
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: could speak this candidly in a funny.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Way about love you. Yeah, we love you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: So we do this to please This year we will.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Become we'll find ourselves a better man. Yeah, I'm not accounting.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Franklin said, Yeah, we're gonna be at war with our vices,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: at peace with our neighbors. Yeah, and let everybody being
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a peace with your neighbors is tougher than it sounds like.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: That's so easy to say, And man, that's a tough one.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: And but just so you know, Benjamin Franklin may have
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: said that, but what happened was is we also went
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: to war with England. So he said this and then
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: turned around and went to war with He was like,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: well not them, not it right?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh well, Benjamin Frank, what is this deal?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: He's always wearing a ponytail, says all these weird things.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Hangs out in France a long time. Do you have
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a ribbon with the ponytail? Do you want? Itzo? That
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: was your childhood photo for school.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: You know what's weird about the whole Marie Antoinette French
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Revolution story, and this really does got me. It's a
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: little bit in the Hamilton is that they're the reason.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: The reason that the French Revolution happened from the bankruptcy
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: of the government was the American Revolution that they helped
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: pay for. And then when they had a revolution, we
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: just sat back and watched. Man, We're like, sorry about that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: We're too young to get involved. And that was really
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: probably true, but yeah, we kind of just like that home.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Sorry about your gia teens.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But uh, you're bumming me out. Yeah, john Let's lift
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: up the spirits of people with my segments. Let's start
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: with Johnny's old jokes. We call it joke about that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Johnn sixty five year old woman has a heart attack
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: and is rushed to the hospital. While on the I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: See You, she has a near death experience where she
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: sees God, Oh my God, is my time up? No,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you have another thirty three years, two months, and eight
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: days to live. So the woman recovers contemplates her experience.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: She figures that since she has so much more time
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: left to live, she might as well go all out
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: and make the most of it. So she's had to
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: stay in the hospital, have a complete makeover the works, facelift, tummy,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to a calyposuction, et cetera. She even has someone come
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: in to bleach her teeth, color her hair, give her
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a new hairstyle. After the last procedure, she's released from
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the hospital, but while crossing the street, she's struck by
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: an ambulance and killed. Arriving in front in front of God,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: she yells, what's going on? You told me I had
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: another thirty three years. God replies, sorry, I didn't recognize you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Oh Man. Yeah. I don't know if it's theologically sound,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but it's a funny. Funny.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Tell you all the places this joke falls.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: John.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: In college, I took a job at a toy factory
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: where we made little plastic Dracula figurines. There are only
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: two of us on the line, so I had to
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: make every second count. That's really kind of a dad joke,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: but it's still funny to me. When I read it,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it made me laugh.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Those are my favorite come on, good stuff. I know
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: it's a low form of comedy. Johnny and we're not
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: all like Johnny, but I like we're all like Johnny.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I've decided a famous lawyer, John is hit by a bus,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: and this is a lot of people hit hit by
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: buss and dying. Famous lawyers hit by a bus and dies.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: He opened his eyes to find himself standing before the
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: pearly gates. There are thousands of people cheering. There are
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: streamers in a huge bandit that says welcome Frank. There's
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a band of angels playing upbeat music. Jesus and Saint
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Peter are waiting and run up to shake his hand.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: A little shell shocked from his recent death in the hubbub,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Frank looks at Peter and says, why am I getting
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: such amazing reception?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Is it always like this? Peter exclaims, no, not at all.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: You're just the oldest person we've ever welcomed. Into heaven.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Frank blinkson says, no one over fifty three has ever
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: entered heaven. Saint Peter and Jesus look at each other
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: for a moment. Confused, Peter looks back and pulls out
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a scroll and starts skimming it. Wait a moment, he says,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: fifty three. Our records say you're two hundred and six.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Frank is ask how do you figure that? Well, Saint
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Peter replies, we couldn't find your date of birth in
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the record, so we just totalled all your billable hours.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: That's a shady lawyer joke. All that work to get
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to lawyers over bill and they're shady and awful people. Anyway,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: if you're listening and you're a lawyer, you probably know
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: this joke already, Like lawyers tell lawyer jokes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: They know all the anyway.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: All right, finally, John, this one's kind of got a
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: New Year's bent to it because it's about goal setting
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and about like letting things go. My therapist told me
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to be less angry at people, I should write letters
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: to the people I hate and then burn them. It
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: has worked, wonders, but I still don't know what to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: do with the letters.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: They've burned the people. It's dark.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of darkness.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Don't burn people and don't hit them with buses or
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: what do I think that should go?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Without saying, God's probably going to know your identity in
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: heaven even on that strategy, right as like, oh, maybe
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: he won't know.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: John, Let's do this week in history.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: We call it talk about then, John, this week nineteen
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: seventy one, smoking ads were banned on television. The last
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: day for cigarette commercials on US public television and radio
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: January first, nineteen seventy one. The man applied to all
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: broadcast mediums regulated by the FCC. This is what made
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: it strange. Though The last cigarette commercial blah blah blah,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: was on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson, a lifelong smoker,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: died of emphasine. It was reported that he repeatedly said
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: all the time in his life, these things are killing me,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: which a lot of people who smokes to say, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: they really did kill him.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: He dub emphasma.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Smokeless tobacco ads were allowed until nineteen eighty six. Ironically,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: this did not have the intended effect. Though This is
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: kind of an interesting little culture thing because the fairness doctrine,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: which was in place, then meant that they had to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: put anti smoking ads on in the con in the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: same amount as the smoking ads to even the tables.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: So when the smoke poking ads went away because of
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the ruling, the fairness doctrine said, well, we don't do
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the anti smoking and so listen to this.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Smoking increased by two point five percent annually over the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: next several years. Plus the cigarette industry's total advertising budget
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: decreased by eighty million in nineteen seventy one. So because
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: people weren't getting the anti smoking you know, PSA's.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Anti smoking ads are more effective than the pro smoking ads.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Interesting that negative stimulus says, hey, don't do this. Like
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: we think of it as like kids are gonna want
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to smoke more you, but it's just like they weren't
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: seeing the commercials. But then they also weren't seeing the negatives,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and so you're still seeing it in movies. That's the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: other thing is you're seeing John Wayne light up in
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a Cowboy movie and you're like, that looks pretty cool. Yeah,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and so kids were getting Yeah, you're seeing your favorite
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: rock star smoke a cigarette while he does an interview
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and you're like, that looks pretty cool, and you weren't
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: getting the anti smoking ads right to defight it, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: so smoking rose by almost three percent.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Interesting, that's very fascinating.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John, this week nineteen forty two, new car sales
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: were halted due.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: To this week nineteen forty two, that's going to be
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: a shortage of some sort.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Of US halted the sale of new civilian automobiles because
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: World War two. Auto manufacturers ceased production of civilian cars
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: the following February as they converted the production of military
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: vehicles to the production of military vehicles, airplanes, torpedoes, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: other supplies for World War two, So they changed everything
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: into why didn't really stopped making cars? As they did that,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the existing stockpile of over five hundred thousand automobiles were
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: rationed to purchasers deemed.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Quote essential drivers.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: So it's almost like COVID where you had to be
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: an essential driver to even get a car in this
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: half million stockpile.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Sales and production resumed in nineteen forty five, three years
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: shortly after Japan surrendered, so we kind of went back
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: slowly back to normal. But I'm sure there was supply
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: chain and yeah, but yeah, I knew that we kind
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: of did the whole thing, like people gathering scrap metals
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: right and doing the whole thing. But I didn't know
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: that there was a big stockpile of cars and you
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: had to kind of get on a list and be
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: adeemed a certain thing to even get in line to
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  Speaker 2: get one of those cars.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And so it was a while.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: So if you were one of those people that had
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to have a new car, I don't have many of
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: those people there were back then. Now we have people
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: who have to have a new car every year. They
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: go a lease and they do all this stuff. But
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: if you were one of those people back then, it's like, sorry,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you're just whatever. You So if you bought the starter
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: car and thought I'll get into the Nope, not until
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the war's over, you won't.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do your bit, do your bit, that's right, John.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: The worst blunder in college football happened this week nineteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine. During the Rose Bowl Game January First, the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: California Golden Bears center Roy Riggles he ran raggy. Roy
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Wriggles ran sixty five yards is the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: During the game.
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  Speaker 2: He was stopped six inches from the goal by his
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  Speaker 2: own teammate, a safety, scored on a blocked punt the
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: next play and caused them to lose the game eight
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to seven. He then became known as Roy wrong Way Riggles.
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  Speaker 3: My gosh, yeah, what's crazy is that they blocked a
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  Speaker 3: punt to actually do it. All he did was position
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  Speaker 3: them for a major play, which is a safety getting
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  Speaker 3: a block.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he set it up to be. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: set him up to be on their own goal line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then the.
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  Speaker 3: Well, lots of people kick out of the end zone
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  Speaker 3: and don't get a block punt and lose the game.
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  Speaker 2: The wrong way Wriggles rattled them, Raggy, it was very wrongly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to the family of Wrong Way. Roy wrong
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  Speaker 1: Way Wriggles.
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  Speaker 3: That's back before nil. He can't even monetize that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: He could have had some deal where he like, you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: goes the wrong way in the commercial right, some rental cards, wrong,
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  Speaker 2: go the wrong way. Yeah, he's on the go with
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: he's in England. Yeah, wrong side of the street. John
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  Speaker 2: this Week nineteen seventy seven. You'll like this because you
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: have a left handed daughter and I'm left handed. But
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: a polo ban on left handed play was initiated January first,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven by the US Polo Association. Huh, it
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  Speaker 2: went into effect. All players must now use their right
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  Speaker 2: hands to swing their sticks, except players who played left
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: played left handed before for the band. So if you
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: were an existing left handed person your grandfathered in. That
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: must have been sandfathered in.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're one of these people who you know
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  Speaker 2: wants to use both hands or your ambidextrous, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it only right handed people. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they did it. Maybe it has had something to do
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  Speaker 2: with the horses.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: They had something to do with who knows, to give
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you an unfair advantage.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: It must have been like a crazy advent. Just think
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: about it. You're on the other side of the horse
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: from everybody else, I guess, but well sells an expression.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: You know what you're this guy. I'll tell you right now.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: This guy. This guy's playing on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the horse.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: This guy's a left.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Handed polo player. You know what I mean?
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I play some basketball over Christmas with my nephews.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, and how'd you do? You know what? Not great?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: But it beat you? Yes, Wow, that's a tough that's
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a tough moment.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I mean my father in law on horse, which he's
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: a pretty good shooter. St yeah, and I was I
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: actually found my shot. This is crazy. It finally came back.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I think I had like eight in a row, like
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I was I was doing. And then my brother in
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: law was like, I coulda run air and go with me,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: and so we ran on the road for a minute
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: and we came back a shot and never returned.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: So then I started playing my nephews.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Was like the shot I was hitting earlier was gone.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: It was like it was like golf all.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Of a sudden, it's on your mind. Well and also my.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Body mechanics and yeah, John, this week I was saying
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: all that to say my nephew is left handed, but
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: oh he shoots right handed? What Yeah, he's great.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He's not left handed. No, he's left handed. I mean
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I do a lot of things right handed.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I played the guitar right handed, so I guess, yeah,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: but that's weird to shoot a ball with your off hand. Yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: because that's you, like, how you figure out what your
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: dominant had. It's not just how you write, it's what
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you play.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: A sport with.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I know he's very athletic, so he can't shoot left
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: handed at all. Yeah, he can, but he plays predominantly
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: right handed. That's interesting.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: It feels like some but that'd be a real advantage
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: if you could use both. Mactor Rob brighter again. It
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: feels like like a Princess bride situation in the fencing scene.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, he could be like, sure, Michael Jordan,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: you're up by two, but I'm not really right handed,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: and he goes.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Over the left and yeah, then Michael Jordan, He's vanquished.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: But that never really happened because he was the greatest.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: John the inventor of Pong. This is our final The
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: inventor of Pong. Alan Alcorn was born today nineteen forty eight.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: He's an American computer scientist. He created the video game
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Pong in nineteen seventy one. After hiring Alcorn, Atari founder
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Nolan Bushnell gave him a learning exercise of creating a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: version of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: console before the Atari twenty six hundred tennis game. Bushnell
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: liked the result so much he decided to market it,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: naming it Pong, and it became the world's first commercially
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: successful video game Magnevox later sued Atari for patent infringement.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: So he's like, hey, hey, work on this for me,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: and then he names his game Pong. This guy shady
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: these corporations.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Founder of Atari was named Bushnell. Isn't that a Japanese
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: sec hold on Atari founder Nolan Bushnell? That seems yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: not like it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think Atari was was Atari. I thought Japanese
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: company because of the name. Yeah, like Nintendo. What I
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: thought that?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I thought an American company. Evidently, huh look it up. Yeah,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: there's no way to know. Yeah, you're right. I'd rather
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: just not know. It's fine. Uh, well, we'll answer that
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: question next week. We will.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Well, we call that a cliffhanger. We always remember, somebody
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: will send me three dollars and fifty cents.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: That's the greatest thing. Atari twenty six hundred. You probably
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: get one from near that now. Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: You know what they had in Costco the day, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I regret not getting it a hot dog they had.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I always regret not getting a Cosco hot dog they
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: had for five hundred dollars. Yeah, they had these a
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: stand up, No, they had to sit down. Oh, two
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: player like at the pizza.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Huh. At the table.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the table a galagha centipede table. We could play
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: from both sides, and Johnny, I should have got it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I regret it right now. That's a five. That's five. Listen.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: That's why.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: That's why you get to adult hood and have a
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: little bit of disposable income so you can buy the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: thing that you wanted as a kid.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Well what I thought, get the church to buy it
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: because the kids can play it downstairs.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You going to play those games these.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Let's just say they don't. Who's here all day at
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: the office. You you know what I'm.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Saying, saying a world record in galagy.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: No kids would play. That's the sad thing. We have
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: a we have a pingo. Yeah, we have ping pong,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: pable ping pong, ping pong table downstairs right now. And
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: I love ping pong.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: It all goes back to pong. How often do I
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: go back and go down there and play? No? Never, Well,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you need somebody to play with, that's the thing.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Well, Chris is down there and he plays a great
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: ping pong player.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Pal he's Pias.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: His brother Paul played with him anyway, Paul, they called him,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: well anyway, Yeah, happy New Year.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Please don't steal someone's intellectual property and pass it off
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: as your own this year.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Begging you or hot dogs? Yes, just.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Stealing in Jenier the last.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: You've already paid for the hot dogs. And then it's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: not really stealing. Be it war and it's just an adventure.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: It's a fun little adventure.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Be at war with the theft within you. You know what
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, Johnny, that's really the takeaway.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I will push down my vices like you know, kind
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: of like you're pushing down the trash can to make
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: room for a little more trash.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: That's how I feel like when I'm pushing down the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: compacting them for later. Yeah, making that's This is a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: weird metaphor, but it will preach guys.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Check out Johnny w jo inniew dot com because this
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: guy has launched a forty eight city bus tour and
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: he wants you to come go to the bus with him.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Come to the show. Oh sorry, you're not allowed on
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the bus. Okay, the bus is full, but come see
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: thet three dollars and fifty cents. Who knows though that's true.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Bring me a pack of hot dogs. We can talk.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: It'd be a weird thing for people to bring. I
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: think it's a totem that's going.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: To get like a canned food drive furry favorite, furry
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: favor with hot dogs.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Let them meet dogs, right, hot dogs right, just thought. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: well but yes, please come see the shows. And uh yeah,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: we're excited. I'm very excited about the show.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you live within one of the states, I'm
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: coming to a lot of cities. There's a good chance
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Johnny's coming close.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, new dates being announced. Check the website out to
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: see if your city is one of them.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: As qualified qualified at please submit yeah, the proper paperwork
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and we'll see.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Go on, call this eighther number and vote number five
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: for Johnny's tour. Don't vote six, that's someone else's tour.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: So anyway, guys, thanks for us spending the year with
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: us though it was actually a great year for talking
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: about this. Yeah, we've got a lot of new friends
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: and listeners. And thank you to our network Life Audio. Yes, man,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: they're amazing partners. We've really enjoyed the time we've had
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: with them and how much they help us out. And
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: uh yeah to Tommy man. Here, here's to Tommy, Johnny
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: and I if we had glasses. Right now, we'll clink
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: to Tommy from Life Audio. We'll see if he listens
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: or not. Now we're going to need true.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: You should get an email Anna three for the shadow.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: That's right, guys, thanks for the time you gave us
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: this week. Let's do it next year.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Here on talk about man, know that a.
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  Speaker 3: A the rible know, but the thing at a bat,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: but the
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  Speaker 1: Be