1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: A podcast, Play Good, I'm Bud's Night, I'm the next 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Music History on Foot podcast Dennis Lahane. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: Could you go back in time and give your younger 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: self writing advice? 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: No, No, because I got great writing advice, you know, 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: very young. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 3: Sixteen, you know, and the first thing I ever taught 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 3: was you know, write what you know. What that means is. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 3: That doesn't mean if you come from a family as 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 3: a dry cleaning business, you know. 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 4: You right about the dry clean business. 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 5: It means right about what you know. 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 6: It means that most universal things will have happened to 14 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 6: you by yours. 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 7: By the time you're a certain age, you'll have had 16 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 7: your heart broken, you'll have lost your illusions. You'll have 17 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 7: understood both the taste of victory and this thing of defeat. 18 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 4: You will know all of these things that are super 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 4: important to every human being. Right about your broken heart, 20 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 4: right about your disillusionment, right about your triumphs, your happy moments. 21 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 5: Whatever you know through the filter of characters, through the 22 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 5: filter of other things. 23 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: That's next time on Taking a Walk,