1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 2: Book Club book Club, book Club book Club. Hello and 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: welcome to the Cool Zone Media book Club, the only 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: book club where you don't have to do the reading 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 2: because I do it or you. 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: I'm your host, Margaret Kildoy, and usually I bring you 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: stories that I can point to some political reasoning behind. 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 3: But this week I wanted to do something fun and 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: my idea of fun which still means weird, old timey shit, 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 3: but fun nonetheless. And one of my friends said to me, well, 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh's in public domain, you could do Winnie 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 3: the Pooh. And I thought, ha ha ha, that is 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 3: a funny joke. And so I looked up some Winnie 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 3: the Pooh and I started reading it to two of 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: my friends this morning, and I was like, wait, no, 16 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: this is really fun to read. It's just fun. It's 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: very well written in a kind of interesting way. It's 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 3: just literally, like the words roll off the tongue in 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 3: a fun way. So that's what I'm going to read 20 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 3: to you today. I'm going to read you some chapters 21 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 3: from the book Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh was 22 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: written by a guy named AA Milm and it was 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 3: written for his son Christopher Robin, who's the sort of 24 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: main character, well, Winnie the Pooh's the main character, but 25 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: the main human character. And it's basically a bunch of 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: children's stories that an incredibly talented author wrote for his 27 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 3: kid about his kids stuffed animals, and it did it 28 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 3: in a really interesting way. And so then I had 29 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 3: to do this thing where I was like, ah, I 30 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: need to look up Miln's like to figure out if 31 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 3: he's just like an absolute bastard. And I don't know 32 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 3: everything about him yet. This is like not something I'm 33 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 3: incredibly well versed in, but I spent several hours reading 34 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: about Milm this morning, and I can tell you that, 35 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: if nothing else, he was a pacifist. Although he was 36 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 3: a pacifist who fought in both World Wars, and he 37 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: fought the First World War because he felt like he 38 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 3: got tricked into thinking it was the war to end 39 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 3: all wars. And then he wrote this book, this anti 40 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 3: war book called Peace with Honor in nineteen thirty four 41 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 3: that was basically like, hey, we shouldn't go to war, 42 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: like propacifism argument. But then as the Nazis came to power, 43 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: he was like, you know what, well, and the Nazi's 44 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 3: already come to power in nineteen thirty four, but as 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: things got real obvious, he actually changed his mind and 46 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 3: he was like, in nineteen forty he wrote a book 47 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 3: called War with Honor, and I don't think that book 48 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: is a particularly important radical text or anything. It's all 49 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: about how the atomic bomb is good because it'll end 50 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 3: the war. But either way, he came around on anti fascism. Well, 51 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: I think he was always anti fascists as best as 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 3: I can tell. But basically he was like, you know what, like, 53 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: I'm anti war, but Hitler is essentially the devil and 54 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 3: needs to be stopped. And personally, I don't think he's 55 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: wrong about that. I don't feel pacifist about World War 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: two at all. So he's really interesting quotes, right, like 57 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 3: when the Austrian Archduke Fernadad or whatever the fuck gets 58 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 3: off and it starts World War one, his quote about 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: it was that this has quote resulted in the death 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: of nearly ten million men who were not archdukes. And 61 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 3: he also wrote wars are fought for economic reasons, but 62 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 3: they are fought by volunteers for sentimental reasons. And he 63 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: talks about how propaganda machines like work to create cultural 64 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: consensus that we should all go off and sacrifice ourselves 65 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 3: into the war machine. None of that has anything to 66 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 3: do with Winnie the Pooh, and I don't know what 67 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 3: he feels about colonialism or any of that stuff, but 68 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 3: I do know that after he survived World War One, 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: he was like, I am so lucky that I survived 70 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: World War One, so I'm going to work very very 71 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 3: hard to try and create art. And he did. He 72 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: was just an incredibly hard working author. And then the 73 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh books just kind of like took off 74 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 3: rather than like ride them into the sunset. He did 75 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: them for a while, and then he was like, you 76 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: know what, I don't really want to do this anymore. 77 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: And I have so much respect for that. So I 78 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: don't know enough about him to really say anything one 79 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: way or the other, but the stuff I've read about 80 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: him is interesting. Aa Milne, Winnie the Pooh, everyone, thanks 81 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 3: for doing something fun with me. Chapter one, in which 82 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: we are introduced to Winnie the Pooh and some bees 83 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 3: and the stories begin. Here is Edward Bhaer coming downstairs. 84 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 3: Now bump bump bump on the back of his head 85 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, 86 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 3: the only way of coming downstairs. But sometimes he feels 87 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 3: that there really is another way, if only he could 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 3: stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And 89 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 3: then he feels that perhaps there isn't anyhow. Here he 90 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 3: is at the bottom and ready to be introduced to you, 91 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh. When I first heard his name, I said, 92 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 3: just as you were going to say. But I thought 93 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 3: he was a boy, so did I said Christopher Robin. 94 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: Then you can't call him Winnie. I don't. But you 95 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 3: said he's Winnie their Pooh. 96 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: Don't you know what there means? 97 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 2: Ah? 98 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 3: Yes, now I do, I said quickly, And I hope 99 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 3: you do too, because it is all the explanation you 100 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 3: are going to get. Sometimes Winnie the Pooh likes a 101 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 3: game of some sort when he comes downstairs, and sometimes 102 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire 103 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 3: and listen to a story this evening. What about a story, 104 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 3: said Christopher Robin. What about a story? I said, could 105 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 3: you very sweetly tell Winnie the Pooh one? I suppose 106 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 3: I could? I said, what sort of stories does he 107 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 3: like about himself? Because he's that sort of bear. Oh, 108 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: I see, so, could you very sweetly? I'll try, I said, so. 109 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: I tried. 110 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 3: Once upon a time, a very long time ago, now 111 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 3: about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest 112 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: all by himself, under the name of Sanders. What does 113 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 3: under the name mean, asked Christopher Robin. It means he 114 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: had a name over the door in gold letters and 115 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 3: lived under it. Winnie the Pooh wasn't quite sure, said 116 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 3: Christopher Robin. Now I am, said a growly voice. Then 117 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 3: I will go on, said I. One day, when he 118 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 3: was out walking, he came to an open place in 119 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 3: the middle of the forest. And in the middle of 120 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 3: this place was a large oak tree, And from the 121 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 3: top of the tree there came a loud, buzzing noise. 122 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, 123 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 3: put his head between his paws, and began to think. 124 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 3: First of all, he said to himself that buzzing noise 125 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: means something. You don't get a buzzy noise like that, 126 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 3: just buzzing and buzzing without its meaning something. If there's 127 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 3: a buzzing noise, somebody's. 128 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: Making a buzzy noise. 129 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 3: And the only reason for making a buzzy noise that 130 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 3: I know of is because you're a bee. Then he 131 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 3: thought another long time and said, and the only reason 132 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 3: for being a bee that I know of is making honey. 133 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 3: And then he got up, and he said, and the 134 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 3: only reason for making honey is so that I can 135 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 3: eat it. So he began to climb the tree. He 136 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 3: climbed and he climbed, and he climbed and he climbed, 137 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: and he sang a little song to himself. It went like, this, 138 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: isn't it funny how a bear likes honey? Buzz buzz buzz. 139 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: I wonder why he does. Then he climbed a little further, 140 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 3: and a little further, and then just a little further. 141 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: By that time he had thought of another song. It's 142 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 3: a very funny thought that if bears were bees, they 143 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 3: build their nests at the bottom of trees, And that 144 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: being so, if bees were bears, we shouldn't have to 145 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 3: climb up all these stairs. He was getting rather tired 146 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 3: by this time, so that is why he sang a 147 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 3: complaining song. He was nearly there now, and if he 148 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 3: just stood on that branch, crack oh, help, said pooh, 149 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: As he dropped ten feet on the branch below him. 150 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: If only I hadn't, he said, as he bounced twenty 151 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 3: feet on to the next branch. You see what I 152 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 3: meant to do, he explained, as he turned head over 153 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 3: heels and crashed onto another branch thirty feet below. What 154 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 3: I meant to do? Of course it was rather, he admitted, 155 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 3: as he slithered very quickly through the next six branches. 156 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: It all comes, I suppose, he decided, as he said 157 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 3: goodbye to the last branch, spun round three times, and 158 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 3: flew gracefully into a gorse bush. It all comes of 159 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 3: liking honey so much. Oh help. He crawled out of 160 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 3: the gorse bush, brushed the prickles from his nose, and 161 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 3: began to think again. And the first person he thought 162 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 3: of was Christopher Robin. 163 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: Was that me? 164 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 3: Said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring to 165 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 3: believe it. 166 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: That was you. 167 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 3: Christopher Robin said nothing, but his eyes got larger and 168 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 3: larger in his face got pinker and pinker. So Winnie 169 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 3: the Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin, who 170 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: lived behind a green door in another part of the forest. 171 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 3: And do you know what was plastered on that door? 172 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 3: Dear listener, nothing but ads. It just the ads are 173 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 3: just always there. They just interject themselves into all of 174 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 3: your childhood favorites. 175 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: Here they are, Andrew back. 176 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said, good morning. Winnie the 177 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 3: Pooh said you, I wonder if you've got such a 178 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 3: thing as a balloon about you. 179 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: A balloon. 180 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 3: Yes, I just said to myself, coming along, I wonder 181 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 3: if Christopher Robin has such a thing as a balloon 182 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 3: about him. I just said it to myself, thinking of 183 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 3: balloons and wondering, what do you want a balloon for? 184 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: You? 185 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 3: Said Winnie the Pooh, looked round to see that nobody 186 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 3: was listening, put his paw to his mouth, and said, 187 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 3: in a deep whisper, honey. But you don't get honey 188 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: with balloons, I do, said Pooh. Well, it just happened 189 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 3: that you had been to a party the day before 190 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 3: house of your friend Piglet, and you had balloons. 191 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: At the party. 192 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: You had a big green balloon, and one of Rabbit's 193 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: relations had had a very big blue one and had 194 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 3: left it behind, being really too young to go to 195 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: a party at all, And so you had brought the 196 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 3: green one and the blue one home with you. Which 197 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 3: one would you like, you asked Pooh. He put his 198 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 3: head between his paws and thought very carefully. It's like this, 199 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 3: he said, when you go after honey with a balloon, 200 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: the great thing is to not let the bees knows 201 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 3: you're coming. Now, if you have a green balloon, they 202 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: might think you were only part of the tree and 203 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 3: not notice you. And if you had a blue balloon, 204 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 3: well they might think you were only part of the 205 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 3: sky and not notice you. The question is which is 206 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 3: most likely. Wouldn't they notice you beneath the balloon, you asked? 207 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 3: They might or they might not, said Winnie the Pooh. 208 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 3: You never can't tell with bees. He thought for a 209 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: moment and said, I shall try to look like a 210 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 3: small black cloud. 211 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: That will deceive them. 212 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 3: Then you had better have a blue balloon, you said, 213 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 3: And so it was decided. Well, you both went out 214 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 3: with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, 215 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 3: just in case, as you always did. And Winnie the 216 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 3: Pooh went to a very muddy place that he knew of, 217 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: and rolled and rolled until he was black all over. 218 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 3: And then when the balloon was blown up as big 219 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 3: as big, and you and Pooh were both holding on 220 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: to the string. You let go suddenly, and Pooh Bear 221 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 3: floated gracefully up into the sky and stayed there, level 222 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 3: with the top of the tree, about twenty feet away 223 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 3: from it. Hooray, you shouted. Isn't that fine? Shouted Winnie 224 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 3: the Pooh down to you. What do I look like? 225 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 3: You look like a bear holding on to a balloon, 226 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 3: you said, not, said Pooh anxiously. Not like a small 227 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 3: black cloud in a blue sky. Not very much. Ah well, 228 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: perhaps from up here it looks different. And as I say, 229 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 3: you never can tell with bees. There was no wind 230 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 3: to blow him nearer to the tree, and so there 231 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 3: he stayed. He could see the honey, he could smell 232 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey. After 233 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 3: a little while, he called down to you, Christopher Robin, 234 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 3: He said, in a loud whisper, Hello, I think the 235 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 3: bees suspects something. What sort of thing, I don't know, 236 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 3: but something tells me that they're suspicious. Perhaps they think 237 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 3: you're after their honey, and maybe that you never can 238 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 3: tell with bees. There was another little silence, then he 239 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 3: called down to you again, Christopher Robin. Yes, have you 240 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 3: an umbrella in your house? I think so I wish 241 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 3: you would bring it out here and walk up and 242 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 3: down with it and look up at me every now 243 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 3: and then and say tut tut. It looks like Rain. 244 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: I think if you did that, it would help the 245 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: deception which we are practicing on these bees. Well, you 246 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 3: laughed to yourself, silly old bear, or you didn't say 247 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 3: it aloud because you were so fond of him, and 248 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 3: he went home. 249 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: For your umbrella. 250 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: Oh there you are, called down, Winnie the Pooh. As 251 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: soon as you got back to the tree, I was 252 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 3: beginning to get anxious. I have discovered that the bees 253 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 3: are now definitely suspicious. Shall I put my umbrella? You 254 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:04,239 Speaker 3: said yes, But wait a moment. We must be practical. 255 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 3: The important bee to deceive is the queen bee. Can 256 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 3: you see which is the queen bee? From down? 257 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: There? 258 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: No a pity. Well, now, if you walk up and 259 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 3: down with your umbrella saying tut tut, it looks like Rain. 260 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: I shall do what I can by singing a little 261 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 3: cloud song, such as a cloud might sing. 262 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: Go. 263 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 3: And so while you walked up and down and wondered 264 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 3: if it would rain, Winnie the Pooh sang this song, 265 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: How sweet to be a cloud? Floating in the blue. 266 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 3: Every little cloud always sings aloud, How sweet to be 267 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 3: a cloud floating in the blue. It makes them very 268 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 3: proud to be a little cloud. The bees were still 269 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 3: buzzing as suspiciously as ever. Some of them indeed left 270 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 3: their nests and flew all around the cloud as it 271 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 3: began the second verse of the song, and one bee 272 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 3: sat down on the nose of the cloud for a moment, 273 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: and then got up again. Christopher ow Robin called out 274 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 3: the cloud. Yes, I have just been thinking, and I 275 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 3: have come to a very important decision. These are the 276 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: wrong sorts of bees? Are they quite the wrong sort? 277 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: So I should think they would make the wrong sort 278 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 3: of honey, shouldn't you? Would they? 279 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: Yes? 280 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 3: So I think I shall come down, how asked you? 281 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh hadn't thought about this. If you let 282 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 3: go of the string, he would fall bump and he 283 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 3: didn't like the idea that, so he thought for a 284 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 3: long time, and then he said, Christopher Robin, you must 285 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 3: shoot the balloon with your gun, if you got your gun. 286 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: Of course I have, you said, But if I do that, 287 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 3: it will spoil the balloon, you said. But if you don't, 288 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: said Pooh, I shall have to let go, and that 289 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 3: would spoil me. When he put it like this, you 290 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 3: saw how it was, and you aimed very carefully at 291 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 3: the balloon and fired ow, said Pooh, did I miss? 292 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: You asked. 293 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 3: You didn't exactly miss, said Pooh, But you missed the balloon. 294 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, you said, And you fired again, and 295 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 3: this time you hit the balloon, and the air came 296 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: slowly out, and Winnie the Pooh floated down to the ground. 297 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 3: But his arms were so stiff from holding onto the 298 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 3: string of the balloon all that time that they stayed 299 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 3: up straight in the air for more than a week. 300 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 3: And whenever a fly came and settled on his nose, 301 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 3: he had to blow it off. And I think, but 302 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: I am not sure, that that is why he was 303 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 3: always called Pooh. Is that the end of the story, 304 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 3: asked Christopher Robin. That's the end of one. There are 305 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 3: others about Pooh and me and Piglet and Rabbit and 306 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: all of you. Don't you remember? I do remember, It's 307 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 3: just that when I try to remember, I forget that 308 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 3: day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the heffalump Oh. 309 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: They didn't catch it, did they No, Pooh couldn't because 310 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 3: he hasn't any brain. Did I catch it? Well, that 311 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 3: comes into the story, Christopher Robin nodded, I do remember, 312 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 3: he said, Only Pooh doesn't very well. So that's why 313 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 3: he likes having it told to him again, because then 314 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: it's a real story and not just a remembering. That's 315 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 3: just how I feel, I said. Christopher Robin gave a 316 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: deep sigh, picked up his bear by the leg, and 317 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 3: walked off to the door, trailing Poo behind him. At 318 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 3: the door, he turned around and said, coming to see 319 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 3: me have my bath? I might, I said, it didn't 320 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 3: hurt him when I shot him? Did it? Not a bit? 321 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 3: He nodded and went out, And in a moment I 322 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 3: heard Winnie the Pooh bump bump bump going up the 323 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 3: stairs behind him, and what he also heard was the 324 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 3: sweet serenade of advertisers singing an evening song, unless you 325 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 3: have cooler zon media, in which case you just hear 326 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 3: the interjections and we're back, all right. I'm a skip 327 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 3: chapter two because it's just literally about Winnie the Pooh 328 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 3: getting stuck in a door and being too fat, and 329 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 3: so they starve him because that sucks. I mean whatever, 330 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 3: I'm not trying to canceled Winnie the Pooh, but I'm 331 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 3: not going to read it. I'm going to read chapter three, 332 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 3: which is in which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and 333 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 3: nearly catch a woozle. And I'm totally reading this one 334 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 3: because of the name that comes up in the first paragraph, 335 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 3: because it's so sick. The Piglet lived in a very 336 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 3: grand house in the middle of a beach tree, and 337 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 3: the beach tree was in the middle of the forest, 338 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 3: and Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next 339 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 3: to his house was a piece of broken board which 340 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: had Trespasser's W on it. When Christopher Robbin asked the 341 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 3: Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's 342 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 3: name and had been in the family for a long time. 343 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 3: Christopher Robin said, you couldn't be called Trespasser's w and 344 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 3: Piglet said, yes, you could, because his grandfather was and 345 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 3: it was short for Trespasser's will, which was short for trespassers. William, 346 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 3: and his grandfather had had two names in just in 347 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 3: case he lost one, Trespassers after an uncle and William 348 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 3: after Trespassers. I've got two names, said Christopher Robin carelessly. 349 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: Well there you are. That proves it, said Piglet. 350 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 3: One fine winter's day, when Piglet was brushing away the 351 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 3: snow from the front of his house, he happened to 352 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 3: look up and there was Winnie the Pooh. Pooh was 353 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 3: walking round round in a circle, thinking of something else, 354 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 3: and when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking. Hello, 355 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 3: said Piglet. What are you doing? Hunting, said Pooh. Hunting? 356 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 3: What tracking something? Said Winnie the Pooh, very mysteriously, tracking what, 357 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 3: said Piglet. Coming closer. That's just what I ask myself. 358 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 3: I ask myself, what what do you think you'll answer? 359 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 3: I shall have to wait until I catch up with it, 360 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 3: said Winnie the Pooh. Now look there, he pointed to 361 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 3: the ground in front of him. What do you see there, track, 362 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 3: said Piglet. Pall marks. He gave a little squeak of excitement. Oh, Pooh, 363 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 3: do you think it's a a woozle? It may be, 364 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: said Pooh. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. You 365 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 3: can never tell with pall marks, But these few words. 366 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 3: He went on tracking in Piglet after watching him for 367 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 3: a minute or two ran after him. Winnie the Pooh 368 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 3: had come to a sudden stop and was bending over 369 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 3: the tracks in a puzzled sort of way. What's the matter, 370 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 3: asked Piglet. It's a very funny thing, said Bear. But 371 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 3: there seems to be two animals now, This whatever it was, 372 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 3: has been joined by another, whatever it is, and the 373 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 3: two of them are now proceeding in company. Would you 374 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 3: mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out 375 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 3: to be hostile animals? Piglet scratched his ear in a 376 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 3: nice sort of way and said that he had nothing 377 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 3: to do until Friday, and he would be delighted to 378 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 3: come in case it really was a woozle. You mean, 379 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 3: in case it really is two woozles, said Winnie the Pooh, 380 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 3: and Piglet said that anyhow, he had nothing to do 381 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: until Friday, so off they went together. There was a 382 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 3: small spinney of larch trees just there, and it seemed 383 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 3: as if the two woozle so if that's what they were, 384 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 3: had been going round this spinney. So round the spinny 385 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 3: went Pooh and Piglet after them, Piglet passing the time 386 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 3: by telling Pooh what his grandfather Trespasser's w had done 387 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 3: to remove stiffness after tracking, and how his grandfather Trespasser's 388 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 3: W had suffered in his later years from shortness of 389 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 3: breath and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what 390 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 3: a grandfather was like, and if perhaps this was two 391 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: grandfathers they were after now, and if so, whether he 392 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 3: would be allowed to take one home and keep it, 393 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: and what Christopher Robin would say, And still the tracks 394 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 3: went on in front of them. Suddenly Winnie the Pooh 395 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 3: stopped and pointed excitedly in front of him. Look what, 396 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 3: said Piglet, with a jump, And then to show that 397 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 3: he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once 398 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 3: or twice more in an exercising sort of way. The tracks, 399 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 3: said Pooh. A third animal has joined the other two. 400 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 3: Pooh cried Piglet. Do you think it's another woozl No, 401 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 3: said Pooh, because it makes different marks. It is either 402 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 3: too woozles and one as it might be whizzle, or 403 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 3: two as it might be whizzles and one. If it 404 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 3: is so woozle, let us continue to follow them. And 405 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 3: so they went on, feeling just a little bit anxious. 406 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 3: Now in case the three animals in front of them 407 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 3: were of hostile intent, and Piglet wished very much that 408 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 3: his grandfather tw were there instead of elsewhere. And Pooh 409 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 3: thought how nice it would be if they met Christopher 410 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 3: Robbin suddenly, but quite accidentally, and only because he liked 411 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 3: Christopher Robin so much. And then all of a sudden, 412 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh stopped again and licked the tip of 413 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 3: his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling 414 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 3: more hot and anxious than ever before in his life. 415 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 3: There were four animals in front of them, do you see, Piglet, 416 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,479 Speaker 3: look at their tracks, Three as it were woozles, and 417 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 3: one as it was whizzle. Another woozle has joined them, 418 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: And so it seemed to be. There were the tracks 419 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 3: crossing over each other here, getting muddied up with each 420 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 3: other there, but quite plainly every now and then. 421 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: The tracks of four sets. 422 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 3: Of paws, I think, said Piglet, when he had licked 423 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 3: the tip of his nose too and found it brought 424 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 3: very little comfort. I think that I have just remembered something. 425 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 3: I have just remembered something that I forgot to do yesterday. 426 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: And I shan't be able to do tomorrow, So I 427 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 3: suppose I really ought to go back and do it now. 428 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 3: We'll do it this afternoon, and I'll come with you, 429 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: said Pooh. It isn't the sort of thing you can 430 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: do in the afternoon, said Piglet quickly. It's a very 431 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 3: particular morning thing, and it has to be done in 432 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 3: the morning, and if possible, between the hours of what 433 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: would you say? 434 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: The time was about. 435 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 3: Twelve, said Winnie the Pooh, looking at the sun between 436 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 3: as I was saying, the hours of twelve and twelve five. 437 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 3: So really, dear old Pooh, if you excuse me, what's that? 438 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 3: Pooh looked up at the sky, and then he heard 439 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 3: the whistle again. He looked up at the branches of 440 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 3: a big oak tree, and he saw a friend of his. 441 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 3: It's Christopher Robbin. He said, Ah, then you'll be all right, 442 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 3: said Piglet. You'll be quite safe with him. Goodbye, and 443 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 3: he trotted off home as quickly as he could, very 444 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 3: glad to be out of all danger again. Christopher Robin 445 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 3: came slowly down this tree, silly old bear, He said, 446 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 3: what were you doing? First? You went round the spinny 447 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 3: twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you, and 448 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 3: you went round again together, and then you were just 449 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 3: going round. 450 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: A fourth time. 451 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 3: Wait a moment, said Winnie the Pooh, holding up his paw. 452 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: He sat down in thought, in. 453 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: The most thoughtful way he could think. 454 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 3: Then he fitted his paw into one of the tracks, 455 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 3: and he scratched his nose twice and stood up. Yes, 456 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 3: said Winnie the Pooh. I see now, said Winnie the Pooh. 457 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 3: I have been foolish and deluded, said he, And I 458 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 3: am a bear of no brain at all. You're the 459 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 3: best bear in all the world, said Christopher Robbin soothingly. 460 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 3: Am I said Pooh hopefully, and then he brightened up suddenly. Anyhow, 461 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 3: he said, it is nearly luncheon time, so he went 462 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 3: home for it. 463 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: The end. 464 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 3: I did read Winnie the Poo as a kid. 465 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: You know. 466 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 3: The stories are sort of like familiar and unfamiliar to me. 467 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 3: I had no idea how often you all have read it. 468 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: I just have really enjoyed when I read it to 469 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 3: my friends, singing weird little songs, and so I thought 470 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: you all would too. And the other thing that I 471 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 3: think about, because I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 472 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 3: Margaret but how are you going to tie Winnie the 473 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 3: Pooh into Lord of the Rings. And I have an 474 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 3: answer for you, and that answer is very British because 475 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 3: it involves three British men. It involves Milne who wrote 476 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh, it involves Tolkien, who wrote Lord of 477 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 3: the Rings, and involves a man named Michael Moorecock, who's 478 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 3: a pulp anarchist fantasy author writing more in the sixties 479 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 3: and seventies, and who's still alive today, most famous these 480 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 3: days as the person who created the chaos start. He 481 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 3: wrote an essay called The Epic Pooh in which he 482 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 3: just trashes on Lord of the Rings. He's it's like 483 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 3: a well written, just absolutely eviscerating critique of Lord of 484 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 3: the Rings, which I obviously therefore completely disagree with, because 485 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings is perfect in every way and 486 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 3: specifically a critique the idea. So Winnie the Pooh is 487 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 3: being used to represent like the ultimate British cozy fantasy, 488 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 3: where like, you're not worried about shit, and I think 489 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 3: that's fair. That's what Winnie the Pooh represents. But it's 490 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 3: about fucking stuffed animals and it's for a kid. So 491 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 3: I don't think you can get mad at Winnie the Pooh, 492 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 3: but to claim basically the argument that Morecock makes. It's 493 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 3: been a little while since I read this essay. The 494 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 3: argument he makes is that the Hobbits represent the rural 495 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 3: British and basically the like, you know, stick your heads 496 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 3: in the sand attitude of the world, where you're like, well, 497 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 3: my life is fine, So everyone's life is fine despite 498 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 3: all of this like horror and bloodshed happening just outside 499 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 3: the Shire or just outside you know, England or whatever. 500 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 3: And so basically Morecock critiques Lord of the Rings as 501 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 3: being like too cozy, too neat, to like, ah, we're 502 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 3: off to the war and we come back again. And 503 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 3: I think that there's parts of this that are fair 504 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 3: and parts of that aren't. I think that Lord of 505 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 3: the Rings is actually specifically like at least Tolkien and 506 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 3: Milne fought in World War One, right, and Milne actually 507 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 3: fought in World War Two also in the same way 508 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: that Orwell did, which was as part of the Home Guard, 509 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 3: which was the people who were running around in case 510 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 3: and were like training to fight in case the Nazis 511 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 3: invaded England, which was a very real possibility that did 512 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 3: not happen. And so even though he was in his 513 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 3: I want to say, fifties or sixties, Milne was Captain Milne, 514 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 3: although he made all of the people under him, and 515 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 3: just call him mister Milne because he's like that. And 516 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 3: so to accuse Tolkien now, I'm just standing up for 517 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 3: Tolkien's honor. It's sorry, more cock. If you're listening, you 518 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 3: might have been more right than me. I don't know 519 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 3: whatever to accuse Tolkien of. Like sanitizing war is a 520 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 3: very interesting thing, because trench combat in World War One 521 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 3: is like kind of the worst thing I seen imagine 522 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 3: having happen in your life, and it's usually the end 523 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 3: of your life. It's often the end of your life, 524 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 3: you know. And actually one of the core ideas I 525 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 3: think on some level, I think Tolien is aware that 526 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,479 Speaker 3: the Hobbits are representing this, you know, sort of British 527 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 3: attitude or whatever. Right, but they come home again changed. 528 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 3: That's like one of the core parts of it, right. 529 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 3: Some of them come home like braver and stronger, but 530 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 3: some of them just come home like fuck them broken, 531 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 3: you know. Anyway, That's how I can tie Winnie the 532 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 3: Pooh into Lord of the rings, you're welcome, have a 533 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 3: good week. And also there's exciting stuff coming around the 534 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: bend for cools on Media Book Club that we're gonna 535 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 3: be able to change up the content pretty soon. I've 536 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 3: been enjoying this sort of content, but we've got like 537 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 3: a bunch of ideas and it's going. 538 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: To be good. 539 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 3: And also, if you like anthropomorphic animals and you like 540 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 3: my storytelling, you might like a book that came out 541 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 3: this very last week, unless you're listening to this in 542 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 3: the future in which it came out a while ago. 543 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 3: Came out in July and twenty twenty five. It's a 544 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 3: book called The Defender's Almanac, and it's a tabletop role 545 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 3: playing game set in the world of the board game 546 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 3: Defenders of the Wild. And if you're thinking, but I 547 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 3: don't know that board game, or even I don't play 548 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 3: tabletop roleplaying games, you actually still might like this book. 549 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 3: It's from Outlandish Games, and it is a standalone thing. 550 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 3: You don't need the board game to play it. But 551 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 3: it's also an almanac. That's why it's called The Defender's Almanac. 552 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: And it's basically I wrote. I didn't write the game 553 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 3: mechanics or anything like that other people who are better 554 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 3: at that did it. I wrote a lot of stories 555 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 3: of anthropomorphic animals coming together, finding bravery and fighting machines 556 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 3: because I like doing that sort of thing, and you 557 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 3: can get it now. It's out, it's available. That's what 558 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 3: I got. I'll see you all next week for another 559 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 3: episode of pool Zone Media Book Club. It could Happen 560 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 3: here as a production of cool Zone Media. For more 561 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 3: podcasts from. 562 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 2: Cool Zone Media, visit our website cool zonemedia dot com, 563 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 564 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 2: or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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