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Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, A production of I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: Well Together Everything. So don't don't geez, Cody, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I I disagree. I mean I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: our listeners are are foolish dukes. Um, that's that's really

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Speaker 1: that's really harsh. Well, I mean, I can't believe that

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Speaker 1: came out of your mouth. The marketplace of ideas and

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Speaker 1: I'm just like giving you know, options for the market, right.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe they maybe they are, maybe they're not,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's worthy worthy of debate. Well, this

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Speaker 1: is really going to hurt our chances to go public,

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Speaker 1: which we were planning to be the first podcast to

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Speaker 1: be publicly traded. Thanks Cody, we still can we don't.

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Speaker 1: Just don't have to air this part. Well, that would

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Speaker 1: have to start the whole show over again. Hey, speaking

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Speaker 1: of dishonest, you know who's not the most honest man

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Speaker 1: who has ever existed? It has been Shapiro. Do you

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Speaker 1: have anything vaguely related to Ben Shapiro to share with

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Speaker 1: us today? My? Oh, let me check, let me check

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Speaker 1: my my websites. Oh oh wow, here's oh wow. Here

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Speaker 1: is Ben Shapiro's first published book, A book of short stories.

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Speaker 1: Now I cannot believe you did this instance. But do

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Speaker 1: you mean to tell us all that Ben Shapiro, the

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Speaker 1: author of True Allegiance, Yeah, has a previous fiction publication.

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Speaker 1: Oh his premier before you, the incredible H much loud, foundational.

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Speaker 1: Let's yeah, Jackson, and give some context because this is

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Speaker 1: a different show. UM, and I think there's probably are

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Speaker 1: some of some of our listeners perhaps don't know what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about. We did a different show for a

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Speaker 1: year straight on a different on We for a year

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Speaker 1: straight on Robert's other show, Behind the Bastards. Uh. Cody

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Speaker 1: and I would intermittently come on and he would just

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Speaker 1: read aloud to us sections of Ben Shapiro's awful novel. UM.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we need to debate that. UM. I

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Speaker 1: think that people can go back and peruse that library

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Speaker 1: if they want to catch up over the fun holidays.

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Speaker 1: But for now, what we are going to be presenting

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Speaker 1: to you over a number of episodes are Ben Shapiro's

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Speaker 1: short stories. Uh. This is uh, this I believe was

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Speaker 1: self published. Baby use an e book. I self published

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Speaker 1: a book to you know? I no, no, no, nothing

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Speaker 1: that Um it is no longer available. Uh, where e

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Speaker 1: later Cody is like, oh my god, I caught it.

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Speaker 1: There are Yeah, there are many many bad links out there,

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Speaker 1: ones like a Google doc that you can go to

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Speaker 1: like somebody. Yeah, um but I found that's extremely funny.

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Speaker 1: Safely it is virus free and um so you think

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Speaker 1: until you start reading still you crack that motherfucker open,

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Speaker 1: and that's when the virus part of virus. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: there's already some guy in Macedonia like going over cody

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Speaker 1: we're very happy he clearly, I think just because it's

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have that on the version I have, But

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Speaker 1: But I think there is a yeah here, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Explanation Point and What's Fair. An incredible invention leads to

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Speaker 1: I bet, thank you. And then there's a list of

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Speaker 1: the Washington Who at the Washington Who Cody? Whom the post?

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Speaker 1: What is that quote? I'm looking that up right now.

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Speaker 1: foe of extraordinary polemic agility? A foe of extraordinary polemic agility?

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Speaker 1: As when you just do a search for that, all

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Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro's ham fisted propacanda fiction. Even worn it's so funny,

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Speaker 1: Can't argue with that. Uh, this volume contains his first

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Speaker 1: welcome back. Wow. Narrative polemics of Ben Shapiro. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I show her around? She didn't have to ask me twice.

422
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: That's a new paragraph. And then here's another new paragraph.

423
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: We walked up to the door and I took her

424
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: in my arms, and that's when Jim opened to the door.

425
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: He was back from State where he was studying agricultural engineering,

426
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: and he looked at me, laughing with his eyes and said, hey, brother,

427
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: I'm home. When I finally we confirmation Jim's brother. When

428
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: I turned back to introduce M, she was looking at him.

429
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: They were married six months later. This is so bad.

430
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: It's bad news for this guy talking right. Oh you

431
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: mean the writing also? Yes, yeah, the writing is quite bad.

432
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: He spends so much time on dumb details and zero

433
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: time on where the story is. Like it understands that

434
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: the least important thing about the story is that there's

435
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: a story. Right. Yeah, well I think he's gonna You know,

436
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: Jim just gets everything he wants right. And it's not fair.

437
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: I've read the first sentence of this U this short story.

438
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: All is fairer to be close enough. I always thought

439
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: of myself as a fair man. But a new section.

440
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: We've the passage of time. Uh. This is after they've

441
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: been married six months later. Uh. The next summer, Dad

442
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: died in an accident. Mom was walking around like a ghost,

443
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: and the farm was going to ruin. Jim and M,

444
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: who were off living near state, came home to help

445
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: take care of Mom and the farm. Dad had left

446
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: him in charge since he was the first born. Jim

447
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: and M moved into the house with us. The farm

448
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: was still workable well, Jim was m moved into the

449
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: house with you. Jim lived there. I think, I mean, hey, brother,

450
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm home moments doesn't know whatever. Jim and Man moved

451
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: in the house with us. The farm was still workable,

452
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: and Jim figured that he could save up enough money

453
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to buy some machinery. Jim took over the master bedroom

454
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: with M and Mom moved into Jim's old room. I

455
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: stayed where I had always been. It was pretty terrible

456
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: to be around the house, what with mom haunting is so?

457
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: Oh say it differently, man, So I spent most haunting

458
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: it like that bit like haunting them for stupid dead

459
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: Uh So. I spent most of my extra time in

460
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: the weight room at school, classic bulking up for next year.

461
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: I didn't like to be near Mom. It made me

462
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: feel depressed inside. I was a high school graduate and

463
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: I was getting invited to all the best parties. Anyway,

464
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: One night, Jim and M asked if I could take

465
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: care of Mom for a while so they could go

466
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: out and grab dinner. I said sure, I was downstairs

467
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 1: watching TV when I saw the water dripping through the ceiling.

468
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: It turns out the mom was in the bathtub, her

469
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: head under the water, not breathing. I had learned some

470
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: basic mouth to mouth and I was able to get

471
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: her breathing again. But she was never the same after that. Now,

472
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: Jim and m and I had to help her get

473
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, shower herself, feed herself. What the fuck?

474
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Wait a minute. He is just going through

475
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: so much. It's a lot going on. Yeah, this is

476
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: a I mean, it's actually Ben's pitching his full length

477
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: family drama. It's actually just like the treatment for it.

478
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: He's doing this thing that like upper like money, having

479
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: a coastal elite, Conservatives do to pretend that they're not

480
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: coastal elites because Ben is, as far as I know,

481
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: a California boy. Um, and it's they're doing this thing

482
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: where they imagine and I don't think Ben has ever

483
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: spent a particular amount of time near working class or

484
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: even poor. He grew up in Burbank. Yeah, he grew

485
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: up in Burbank. And he's doing this thing that conservatives

486
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: in his position do, where in order to try to

487
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: separate themselves from the liberal coastal elites that they demonize.

488
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: They imagine, they imagine they actually know anything about what

489
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: rural life is like. And in Ben's case, he's imagining

490
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: this like constant train of horrific disasters and tragedies and

491
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: folksy nonsense, and it's it's just like, yeah, because you

492
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't actually know what the actual like

493
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: struggles in in rural America are. Like if you did,

494
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: I think he would be spending less time on trying

495
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: to take Karama and more time talking about like like

496
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: even if you're going to focus on like your mom's

497
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: health issues, the lack of like actual medical care of

498
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: hospitals and whatnot in rural areas, the difficulty in actually

499
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: like getting someone to treatment when you're out in the sticks,

500
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: um how to like like it kind of glosses over,

501
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: like how they actually got her treatment. Okay, Like you

502
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: pull her out of the bathtub, Now where do you

503
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: take her? You're an hour and a half away from

504
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: the hospital, Like do you have gas? Do you maybe

505
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: only have one car and your brothers away in the car,

506
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: and so you can't do anything for a while, Like

507
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: every year, if he knew anything about what it was

508
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: actually like dealing with problems for people. But he's imagining, Yeah,

509
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: now suddenly, okay, we've taken care of Ma, and yeah

510
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Um, it's not good. It's it's like

511
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: Jade Vance, right, yeah, it's that stuff. It's like, oh yeah, look,

512
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: I can imagine the hardships. Um, but now they have

513
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: to they know, now they have to, you know, get

514
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: into the bathroom, shower herself, help, help help, he feed yourself.

515
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: I imagine something. I imagine it's time for an act

516
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: for a time for a nat break. Oh well, we'll

517
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: find out soon. What happens at State State is always

518
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 1: capitalized and it's unclear where. Um it's like the state college. Right.

519
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: It's like it's like he's trying to keep it as

520
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: vegue as possible, because like Lincoln, Americana Midwest. Yeah yeah,

521
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: but you know, we'll be right back. We will together everything,

522
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: so don't don't. And then we came back, and it

523
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: was this moment back we did. We didn't come back.

524
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: We we buffed our watch, we shined it, we like

525
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: rubbed it more, we spat on what I did little more,

526
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: and then we came back. I walked on out to

527
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: that forest, and I easily found the knife I chucked.

528
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: Just took a minute of me like you just left

529
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: it there? Because yeah, like I remembered that I threw

530
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: it and it didn't hit the rabbit, but like the

531
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: general area where I threw it, and I was able

532
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: to find it and come home with it, and now

533
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: I still have it. Oh good good? After that sounds easy? Uh,

534
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: Like you would only need like a short ad bricks

535
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: worth of time to go find that knife that you threw. Honestly,

536
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: any who uh that fall starting for State? I blew

537
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: out my knee there with the scholarship offer to State?

538
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: How did you out your knee? Say? Yeah, how did

539
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: you like? What was the move? You know? Haven't again?

540
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: A thing a writer would do is describe, you know,

541
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: the excitement of this big game, how much it meant

542
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: to you. You've got like this girl who's like super

543
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: into you, and they're about to be you know, your

544
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: whole future is writing on this pivotal moment, and then

545
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: you describe the actual scene. You know, you're running the

546
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: ball sailing overhead, and as you leap up to catch it,

547
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: somebody like comes in and tackles you and get you

548
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: like right in the side, and you land as he

549
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: pulls you down. You land on your right leg and

550
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: it fucking pops your knee out and it tears, and

551
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: you you know, and the story you cry in the

552
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: game and point out it's not because it hurt. It's

553
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: because I knew that I wouldn't be able to play anymore,

554
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: Whereas the way this is written, it's like, yeah, and

555
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: then I blew up my knee and then the scholarship

556
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: was gone, and I balled like a baby. But like,

557
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: it's not connected to the game or the event. It's

558
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: connected to like losing the scholarship, but that he wouldn't

559
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: be able to use a font that's true. This is

560
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: you are correct. This big, this incredibly important event in

561
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: this person's life is two sentences long. You are here.

562
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: Here's the central issue that Ben keeps having. He is

563
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: he thinks that he is making an emotionally affecting story

564
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: by having sad and difficult things happen to a family

565
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: of characters. But all he is doing is listing sad things,

566
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: rather than making us inhabit a moment in which something

567
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: difficult and sad happens. And it's because he understands the

568
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: broad strokes, Oh, yeah, your mom can get sick and

569
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: you don't have much money. You could you can hurt

570
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 1: yourself while playing in a game and not be able

571
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: to to go pro. But he doesn't understand enough about

572
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: what it actually means to be poor with a suffering,

573
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: sick family rout in the middle of nowhere, or what

574
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: what sports are to write scenes in which things happens

575
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: happen emotional. This is the epitome of facts don't care

576
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: about your feelings. Feelings, and this happened, this happened, and

577
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: like there's no attempt at like an empathetic approach to

578
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: it to like you're saying, like, yeah, get into this story,

579
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,959
Speaker 1: get into the characters and like live these moments. Yeah,

580
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,479
Speaker 1: well then this happened, and that's what that's that's bad.

581
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: So when facts don't care about your feelings, you're it's

582
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: you can't like, it's not human, it's not Yeah, like

583
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: maybe maybe have this guy going through the ship with

584
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: his mom and like like set up how difficult his

585
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: life is as he's you know, seventeen eighteen about to

586
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 1: go into college and then like his coach sees him

587
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: stressed out and he's like, hey, man, don't worry like

588
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: their scouts out there, You're so good. This is gonna

589
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: set you up for life, like you're you're you know,

590
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: you're going to move through this. All your hard work

591
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: is going to pay off. And then we have the

592
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: scene where he actually injures himself, and then maybe there's

593
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: like at least some kind of emotional connection. Maybe maybe

594
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: maybe you established the suffering and make him hope for

595
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: this moment before it falls apart, right, and like even

596
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: like describe like him playing football when he's not big

597
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: and burly and like he just really wants to, like

598
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: he loves he loves the game, you know, and then

599
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: it finally gets to play it and describe that feeling.

600
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: The title of this series should be editing Ben Shapiro's

601
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: book for him. Oh my god, it's a task, but

602
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: somebody needed to do it. Also, actually, now that I

603
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: look at it, the very first paragraph is also intended weird. Yeah,

604
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: and the second one. I just mean, you guys are

605
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: pitching great notes, great feedback. It's just like you might

606
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: make this a story. Feedback to Ben would be write

607
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: a story. Yeah, Like if you're like, if you want

608
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: to write a short story. I would recommend that you

609
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: write a short story, um as a list of sad

610
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: things that has a list of sad things with a

611
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: lesson that he wants people to gain from. I'm sure

612
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: we're building to it. We're getting there. I mean, I know,

613
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: I know from the title in the first fair Yeah,

614
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: fairness is bad. What I get it? Sucking Ben, But

615
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: like it's it's written like a parable. It would be

616
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: something where he has to take something for himself because

617
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: he stopped being fair. He's been fair as a life

618
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: or some ship. Let's get yeah, like, yeah, we're gonna

619
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: learn that fairness. I'm excited to get their cody. But

620
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: the important thing is I came home Comma quit state period.

621
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: I was there for football anyway, not for my studies.

622
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: When the football went, so did my shot at the

623
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: big time? Well yeah, the big time was the football?

624
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: Like what sorry, yeah, okay, fine, bad sentence. We're moving on.

625
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: And was like a saint. She took care of mom

626
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: and me and she made sure we got what we needed.

627
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: Jim would farm and he'd got right and he'd come

628
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: back at night. No, I don't even mean it like that,

629
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: Just like anyway, go ahead, the caretaker. Yeah she was.

630
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 1: She filled her role katie you see. Um, and he'd

631
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: come back at night and would have dinner already for him.

632
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: There we go exactly. Uh. Pretty soon I was able

633
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: to get around on my own. I'd never be able

634
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: to run fast again, but I could at least help out.

635
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: Jim used me mostly for field work, and he handled

636
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: the sales and the accounting and the marketing or whatever

637
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: the hell else need to be handled. Wait, that's weird.

638
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't Jim do that because you're injured? Whatever. I

639
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,479
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty cush of him to sit there. Okay,

640
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: here we go. I probably I thought it was pretty

641
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: cush of him to sit there in the air conditioned

642
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: office and make the decisions while I sweated. Mm hmmm yeah, yeah,

643
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: yeah again. Another piece of advice would be learned how

644
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,720
Speaker 1: to use the words that just like the words also

645
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: like it's it's one of those things where like you know,

646
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: if you like uh center, like if you align the

647
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: text so it's like lined up on the left and

648
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: the right and it sort of spreads out the words.

649
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes it'll it'll split words and have a dash by

650
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: the line, so like this is sweat dash new line ed,

651
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: which is like, it's like really highlighting that it's the

652
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: wrong word anyway, uh, and make the decisions while I sweat.

653
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: But there wasn't much I could do to complain. He'd

654
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: been to college, he knew his stuff. We got along

655
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: like that for a few years. Things hummed along, or

656
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: I guess mosy along is more like it. Same thing.

657
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: There is the thing that he does that he doesn't

658
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: seem to care about, and I try to remind I

659
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: give people a pass if it happened sometimes, but he

660
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: doesn't all the time. Writer right every so often in

661
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: a book that's beautifully written, it's unavoidable. And you see

662
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: a word twice really nearby. These important absolutely so important

663
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: to me. When I write a couple of sentences, like,

664
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: I do a pass specifically to make sure there's no repetition.

665
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed for him that it's like, yeah, it's the same.

666
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: It's reading somebody's rough draft, but it's reading a ninth No.

667
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: When I was a ninth grader, I wrote better fiction

668
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: than this. It wasn't good, but it was better than this. Sure,

669
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: but like an average ninth grader maybe no, you're right,

670
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: I think an average ninth grader. I remember like the

671
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: cartoons and ship my friends would draw, and they all

672
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: had better grip of story structure than this. No, this

673
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: is like sixth grade, fifth grade ship. Yeah, things hummed along,

674
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: mosey along, it's more like it. Because those different those

675
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: those different folksier Cody Mosey is what rural that much folong? No, no, no,

676
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: But I also hate the conceit of um the same thing,

677
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: like in a tweet or anything when someone goes like

678
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: corrects themselves and then keeps it. Do you know what

679
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean? That concept that structure of like things hummed along? Well,

680
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: I guess mosey along is more like it. Edit it.

681
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: It makes mosy to long? Do you know what I mean?

682
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: That's like again trying to be cute. See, it's a

683
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: tactic that I'm always like out of here with that.

684
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: If you're trying to make it feel like authentically you know,

685
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: rule and down home. UM don't have the character self

686
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: editing his own thoughts to make himself. We're hearing your

687
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: thought process been as a man whose only time outdoors

688
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: has been that one time you couldn't get to a

689
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: rest stop driving off the five and you had to

690
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: pee by the side of the road and you got

691
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: scared because of the wind, like bad. Come on. I

692
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: I used to write these like, uh, spooky short stories. Uh.

693
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: They were like half like there was like gross and

694
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: silly and like kind of terrible on purpose, and the

695
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: narrator was like bad and I would do like comed

696
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: along or I and more like like I guess I

697
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: don't know the word for it actually anyway, and like

698
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 1: I would do because you're making fun of that. Yeah,

699
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: and mosy is the kind of word today you would

700
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: more often here from like I don't know, somebody who

701
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: got rich in the Bay Area and decided to move

702
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: to a town outside of Reading in the middle of

703
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: nowhere in order to feel more authentic cowboy where torn

704
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: good will fucking car hearts but whatever mailed that Robert,

705
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm delighted by this episode so far. Yes, m hm anyway,

706
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: continuing to repeat this again, we got along like that

707
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 1: for a few years things hummed along or I guess

708
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: mosey along. It is more like it period until Jim

709
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: had his idea period and then we skip a couple

710
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: of lines. It's a new section of time. It struck

711
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: him one day while he was taking don't. You don't

712
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: need to skip this, you can just like it's to

713
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: compete a new paragraph. This is weird, all right. It

714
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: struck him one day while he was taking a look

715
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: at the wheat the wheat crop. That night at dinner,

716
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: we couldn't stop him from running on at the mouth. Okay, okay,

717
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: that's all right. I'm gonna oh, finally a conversation M.

718
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: Like I've been waiting, like showing interaction with between these people,

719
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: like what would what would one person say to the

720
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: other in a room together? We haven't any dialogue, But

721
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: finally some dialogue. M. Tommy, you won't believe this, he said.

722
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: Hold on, Jamie said, M. Mom's drooling. She wiped it

723
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: Mom's mouth while Jim babbled onto her. He never was

724
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: good at listening. The plow is just not aerating the ground, baby. Okay,

725
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: Well now he's sounding like the guy from Chrue Allegiance. Yeah, yeah,

726
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: that's how. Okay, good Good can take a bullet for you,

727
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: fucking baby, get run over by a tractor for you, baby.

728
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: He whipped out a piece of odd from his pocket. Jimmy,

729
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: take that dirt away from the table, said in his pocket.

730
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: In his pocket okay, because he's so goddamn folksy, he's

731
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: so down home fucking country boy that he keep his

732
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: motherfucking here. Look at how dance it is. Look how

733
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: there isn't any oxygen getting in there. What if there

734
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 1: was a plow that was even finer about aerating the ground.

735
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: My god, we could feed the entire world with machinery

736
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: like this makes rain cheapest dirt. He's the Tony Stark

737
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: of farms. Yeah. The only issue with everywhere not being

738
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: able to grow all the grain they want is the

739
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: soil is to dents d you gotta make it. Yeah, okay,

740
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: then the farm nowhere, Ben Shapiro, just like you didn't

741
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: have to do this, man, you could have whatever. I mean,

742
00:45:55,040 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are yes. Soil is a makes the

743
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: only i mean, the only specific of farm life that

744
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: we're getting is this conversation about soil aeration. That's obviously bullshit.

745
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: You know, Like, but he started diagramming charts at the table.

746
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: My head was spinning, and I wasn't paying attention, So

747
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: why was your head spinning? Like what? Sorry? If you're

748
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: like it's like you're like, if you're not paying attention,

749
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: then it's not like, oh, my head is spinning, like

750
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: so many things, like no, you're not paying attention, You're

751
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: like blanked out, like whatever, It's fine, Who cares. My

752
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: head was spinning and I wasn't paying attention. I don't

753
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: think m was either. She was wiping it Mom's mouth,

754
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: and I have to admit I couldn't take my eyes

755
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: off of herky. I've never seen Jim so excited. He

756
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 1: wasn't the excitable type. Different word, man, use a different word. Uh,

757
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: he wasn't the excitable type. You understand, he got straight

758
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: a's through school. That doesn't mean you're not excitable. What

759
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: he was always teacher's pet. That also doesn't mean you're

760
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: not excitable. What. Everybody knew he'd go to college and

761
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: make a name for himself. Like nobody excitable. Ever, and

762
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: Jim knew it too. Ever, since he came back to

763
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: the farm, he'd been in a funk, like farming was

764
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: too low for him, I see, unlike Burbank's own, Ben Shapiro,

765
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: Austin's now right and again, one of the funniest things

766
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: about this is that, like the actual like buying tractors

767
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: is a fucking nightmare right now, because John Deere has

768
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: such domination of the market, and they do all sorts

769
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: of fund up ship to like make it illegal to

770
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: repair your own tractors a good like for example, say

771
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 1: someone competent like Cory doctor. Would it take on the

772
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: story with aspects of these themes. It would probably be

773
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: about how somebody figured out an incredible way to increase

774
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: crop efficiency and productivity by improving their tractor, and then

775
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: the John Deer Corporation came after them and destroyed their

776
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: life for legally modifying their own piece of equipment. Like again,

777
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: an author with something to say could take elements of

778
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: this and make a story. But this has been so

779
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess magically, the fact that the tractor, the

780
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: fact that there's a huge barrier to entry and even

781
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: manufacturing tractors, the fact that John Deere keeps it on

782
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: such like, all this stuff, I'm gonna guess is not

783
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: at all a factor in the stories. Would that be correct, Cody,

784
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: what you're saying being I would say that is correct.

785
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: This yard boy just make a tractor that gets huge.

786
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: Despite what you're describing seeming to me to be a

787
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: bit unfair, Yeah, it does seem I mean it seems

788
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: like you could make a great story called What's Fair

789
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: about You? Maybe his dad raises him with these strong

790
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: energy fairness and they're farming family and aspects of John

791
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: Dear's intellectual property ship fucks them over and sure to

792
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: get Bench Shapiro this episode, I think he's going to

793
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: be really yeah, yeah, anyway, just been I guess my

794
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: other piece of advice, my third piece of advice to

795
00:48:55,800 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: you this episode is have something to say. Yeah, oh, well,

796
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: get to what he has to say. I shouldn't be

797
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: telling him, just dying to know what is fair? Mhm,

798
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: nothing's fair. Life's not fair, I assume, and shouldn't be,

799
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: is what I assume he is about to say. But farming,

800
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: it's too low for Jim, is what I've gathered. I

801
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: always think that's why he hold up in the office

802
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: and let me do the grunt work. But now he

803
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: was excited again. Wait, he said he wasn't excited. He was,

804
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: and he's not excitable. You said he wasn't excitable and

805
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: that he never liked that, he never liked farming. So

806
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: he's excited about farming again. Two paragraphs earlier quote, I'd

807
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: never seen Jim so excited and then so now here

808
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: we are, but now he was excited again. Great, the

809
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: energy coming off him like the buzz in the air

810
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: after a lightning strike, Unlike anything before, except apparently some

811
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: other time that I'm remembering. He was drawing diagrams and

812
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: he was grabbing him. This is so god like. Delete

813
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: one of those sentences. He was drawing diagrams, and he

814
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: was grabbing him around the waist and singing little songs

815
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 1: to her. And he was even holding up those drawings

816
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: so Mom could see, even though she wasn't really seeing anything.

817
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: Too many evens in there. Uh. Then he came around

818
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: and gave me a hug around the neck. It was

819
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: the first time he'd hugged me since we were in

820
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: elementary school together. Tommy, he said, we're gonna be rich.

821
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: The productor's name is Tommy. Okay, okay, uh. Moving on

822
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: through time. As much time as he had spent in

823
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: the office, he was now spending it in the barn,

824
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: messing with our mechanical plow. Every time I'd go in there,

825
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: he'd be underneath the thing, a hammer or a wrench

826
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: in his hand, bashing away at the thing, not the thing,

827
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: things tightening something here screwing something there. Yeah, I shouldn't

828
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: have called it the thing twice in a row, real

829
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: close together. It's just and like it's just awkward. Every

830
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: time I'd go in there, he'd be underneath the thing,

831
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: a hammer, a wrench in hand, bashing away. It's the

832
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 1: thing awful, it really, it's like nails on a chalkboard.

833
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: To me, I don't interject every time it happens, but

834
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: it's like something twinges in my spine. Not again. The

835
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: finances went to the dogs. Okay. One time I signed

836
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: a check at the grocery and we were overdrawn. Another time, wait,

837
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: you can't overdraw the check? Bub how did you know? Yeah?

838
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: All right. Another time, I mean maybe they can, maybe

839
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: there's something, but go on. Another time the mortgage man

840
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Speaker 1: came down the road, fucking kidding me. Another time, that's

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Speaker 1: like that's our version of tax man or whatever. Another

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Speaker 1: time the mortgage man came down the road and asked

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Speaker 1: if we needed more time on the payment. We didn't.

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Speaker 1: Jim had just forgotten to pay him. Even m was

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Speaker 1: getting worried about his absent mindedness. And with Jim out

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Speaker 1: of control, everything's fun. Out of control. Oh fuck, that's

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Speaker 1: good that's just good clean fun. Cody, That's that's just

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Speaker 1: good clean fun. That's we no notes on that clean. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well let's splut this into a part two. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: can do part two. We can continue this on into

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Speaker 1: the fucking new year. Um. I would do this the

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Speaker 1: rest of my life because I mean, be careful. That's

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Speaker 1: how we get ourselves into another new show. Like, let's

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Speaker 1: not say anything. We can't take good Katie can't. We're like,

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Speaker 1: we're good at it. And then let's just do it

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Speaker 1: every day and the souls are dead. Um, there's not

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Speaker 1: like a good like time jump coming up for another

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Speaker 1: couple of pages. Um, although we stop it here. Uh, honestly,

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Speaker 1: we can stop it. Uh yeah, and with gim out

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Speaker 1: of control, it seems like a good stopping spot. Agree,

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Speaker 1: you guys are yeah everything yeah, don't with everything out

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Speaker 1: of control on this podcast, don't let yourself spin out

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Speaker 1: of control until next time when this is though. What

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Speaker 1: an amazing writer. Yeah, this is a Christmas holiday miracle,

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Speaker 1: a miracle we tease something fun for you guys, and

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Speaker 1: this is this is what you've you've you deserved this

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Speaker 1: after the year. This is like it's like either a

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Speaker 1: compliment or a threat like yeah, I don't know which

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Speaker 1: all is fair. Maybe we deserve this, you deserve this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can imagine us like patting a patting an exhausted

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Speaker 1: nurse on the shoulder and saying you deserve this, and

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Speaker 1: also staring at like an n f T brow and

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Speaker 1: going you deserve this. You and your ape show UM,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I think um with gmatic control. Everything's when

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Speaker 1: I control. And we'll be back, uh next time to

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Speaker 1: find out the rest of this paragraph. And I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Oh everything, so everything, So I tried. Worst Year Ever

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