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Speaker 2: I want to recommend you got to get started reading it,

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Speaker 2: though it's going to take you fifty years.

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Speaker 1: It's one more thing, Oh jees more Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: One more thing is it Ulysses? Because I think I've

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Speaker 3: been working on that for nine months and I haven't

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Speaker 2: Ulysses is a pamphlet you get at your doctor's office.

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Speaker 3: Compared to this book, stay with us. It's a business card.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about this on Tuesday's Armstrong and

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Speaker 3: tease in the One More Thing podcast for the radio show,

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Speaker 3: but just came across this. So when they started cracking

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Speaker 3: down on illegals up in Wisconsin where you got a

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Speaker 3: lot of dairy farm stuff like that, a variety of

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Speaker 3: dairy farmers started getting robots and you got one farm

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Speaker 3: now that produces three times more milk per worker now

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Speaker 3: because of the robots they hired doing a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, it's achieved the same thing and artificially hymen

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Speaker 2: them wage. Would I suppose I hope you don't convince

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Speaker 2: his people. Hey, it's worth it to invest in the technology.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: I gotta hope you don't get your teeth pulled off.

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants that get your ringer?

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Speaker 3: Made Katie WinCE enough? Very that would be that would

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Speaker 3: be very painful. In my opinion, Yes, I think so ill.

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Speaker 3: Nobody does laundry anymore with that sort of system where

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Speaker 3: you're actually putting clothes through a ringer to dry them out.

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Speaker 3: breasticle caught in a ringer is.

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Speaker 1: Very righted, it's much lower, certainly.

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Speaker 2: Apparently back in the day that that saying was popularized,

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Speaker 2: women didn't have enough, like multiple shirts to throw one

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Speaker 3: Good God, that would hurt. Oh was that a regular occurrence?

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Speaker 3: My grandma were so alive. I'd ask her because she

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Speaker 4: My grandma, Yeah, agreed, any any any I can only

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Speaker 4: imagine it's not probably not as bad as the balls,

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Speaker 4: but I mean any incident with the boob is just not.

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Speaker 3: Get your testicles caught in the ringer. You're doing your

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Speaker 3: laundry in a weird way.

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Speaker 1: I get more leverage.

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Speaker 2: So I find this so interesting and I would love

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Speaker 2: The article is entitled the Strangest Book in Harvard Library,

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Speaker 2: but it's the strangest book in any library. And this

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Speaker 2: piece was written by Ted Joya, who I love. I'd

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Speaker 2: never heard of the Inmand Diary.

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Speaker 3: Jackie, had you ever heard of that?

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Speaker 2: You're very literary? He has not, Folks, Katie, the Inmand

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Speaker 3: I've heard of it, but I don't remember what it is.

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Speaker 2: On the opening page, the book's editor makes a bold

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Speaker 2: I am aware of. The author, Arthur Inman, was obsessed

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Speaker 2: with winning some sort of fame or immortality, but he

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Speaker 2: really had no way to do it. As he himself wrote,

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Speaker 2: the only way for him to win fame, perhaps even immortality,

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Speaker 2: would be to write a diary unlike any ever written.

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Speaker 2: if not hundreds, of diaries from Augustine to Rousseau to whatever,

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Speaker 2: Samuel peeps right, who had famous diaries that are fascinating

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Speaker 2: Adding to the challenge, Inmann had practically nothing to write about,

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Speaker 3: by Commerson writes, joy, Wow, he spent his whole life

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Speaker 2: Yet, Inman wrote some seventeen million words and filled one

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Speaker 2: That's roughly twenty five times as long as the Bible.

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Speaker 2: He devoted forty years to this project from nineteen nineteen,

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Speaker 2: Well, sitting in the room again, same dark room I

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Speaker 2: day before you ever wonder about getting your tit and

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Speaker 2: a ringer? Ill, I bought myself a ringer, And as

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Speaker 1: Cat. I thought I had more leverage.

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Speaker 3: I was squatting down to get a good firm footing.

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Speaker 1: And well, he'll never guess what happened next.

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Speaker 2: Back to the actual diary, here's where it gets crazy.

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Speaker 2: So here's the twist that actually got him the immortality

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Speaker 2: in a way that he was looking for. He took

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Speaker 2: tell him the wildest and most intimate details of their lives.

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Speaker 2: The end result was a diary with more than one

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Speaker 2: thousand characters' striving with one another to provide the most compelling, uncensored,

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Speaker 3: That is fascinating. There needs to be an abridged version.

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Speaker 2: Of this, though, oh yes, please, yes, please, Abridging it

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Speaker 2: would take thirty years. That crowd sourced approach turned the

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Speaker 2: Inmand journals into a compendium of confessions unlike anything ever

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Speaker 1: To be sure, so he.

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Speaker 2: because a lot of these people he talked to were

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Speaker 3: What by by any definition, outo.

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Speaker 2: And he'd say, you know, he'd have him spill their

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Speaker 3: And if they said, yeah, kind of, you know, that's

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Speaker 2: Frank Man inn't them. But by any definition, he was

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Speaker 2: as editor Daniel Aaron admits that this disturbed individual's massive

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Speaker 3: That's super interesting. They gotta have ai A bridget, because

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Speaker 2: Or you'd have to hire a team of twenty five

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Speaker 3: He often closed the diaries with the send off, I.

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Speaker 1: Wish I were dead. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yet he also saw himself in a heroic light, dreaming

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Speaker 3: You well, see you tomorrow, wish I was dead.

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Speaker 2: His talkers were extraordinarily trusting in handed Perhaps the darkened

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Speaker 2: These folks simply needed the cash, and Edmand was the

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Speaker 2: only person paying for their secrets. Sometimes Inman's talkers showed

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Speaker 2: he would immediately start probing. Here is his account of

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Speaker 2: I asked her how old she was, how long she'd

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Speaker 1: And so on?

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Speaker 3: Most of her answers I believed some I didn't. Let's see,

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Speaker 3: So is this available anywhere? Is it online or anything?

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Speaker 1: That is a good question I can dig into that.

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Speaker 2: I don't recall seeing that I read the article, but

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Speaker 1: He writes.

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Speaker 2: I doubt that inmund Diary could still be published by

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Speaker 2: Harvard University Press nowadays. There's just too much in its pages.

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Speaker 2: In its pages rather to upset dismay, shock, and appall.

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Speaker 2: And if you aren't offended by Inman's dealings with his talkers,

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Speaker 2: you will inevitably invariably find his opinions on politics, society, religion, race,

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Speaker 2: and a host of other matters reprehensible in whole.

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Speaker 1: Or in part. Well, let me make it clear.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Uh. If you're the kind of person who needs a

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Speaker 3: Wow, Well, the guy I would read this sort of

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Speaker 3: thing for that sort of stuff, that's what you're looking for,

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Speaker 3: and he says.

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Speaker 3: It's just absolutely I'm valuable. So I'm looking at h Amazon,

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Speaker 3: number one bookseller in the world, The Inman Diary of

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Speaker 3: Public and Private Conficient Confession by Arthur C. Inman. There

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Speaker 3: all are volumes you can buy The Inmand Diary of

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Speaker 3: Public and Private Confession. Yeah, it's split into two pieces.

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Speaker 3: It looks like from a darkened room, the Inmand Diary.

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Speaker 1: Huh. I'll have to look into this more.

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Speaker 3: But it's got to be way, way way abridged obviously.

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Speaker 2: Right, which is good. But they mentioned he mentions. Inman's

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Speaker 2: talkers didn't seem very interested in self censorship, and many

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Speaker 2: clearly savored the opportunity to tell their raw stories without

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Speaker 2: fear of consequences or judgment. They're a strange assortment. But

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Speaker 2: nineteen thirties, or on a single page you encounter a

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Speaker 2: first hand account of pimping, prostitution, bootlegging, bribing, drug addiction, homosexuality, rape,

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Speaker 2: even glimmerings of a philosophy of life. The appearance of

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Speaker 2: a skilled musician who tickle the ivories is just an extra.

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Speaker 2: Do you doubt me? Here's an extract from the testimony

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Speaker 1: It's a whole page.

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Speaker 3: That's truly interesting. I'm uh, you know, maybe I heard

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Speaker 3: but I'm surprised I didn't know about this, and I'm

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Speaker 3: going to look into it. The volumes that are available, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I see one here from ninety six.

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Speaker 4: It's a bridge down to It's down to five hundred

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Speaker 3: God taste doable, Wow, seven million words or whatever reason

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Speaker 2: Hit me with a link that link if you would, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I could replicate your search, but why all right,

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Speaker 2: let me just hit you with one paragraph. I guess

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Speaker 2: from the nineteen thirties. I was making seventeen dollars. This

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Speaker 2: is the piano player. I was making seventeen dollars a week.

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Speaker 2: I hired a room. One day, I decided to find

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Speaker 2: out what women was all about. I knew where the

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Speaker 2: red light district was. He it's a black guy, and

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Speaker 2: he like writes it in the dialect, so I'll just

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Speaker 2: read what's in front of me. I knew where the

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Speaker 2: red light district was, so I went there. I got

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Speaker 2: myself a Southern girl. She showed me what it was

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Speaker 2: all about. I took to it like a fish to

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Speaker 2: water me too.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: She was a country girl to come to New York to

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Speaker 2: make a success. She'd hit the bumps and landed up

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Speaker 2: a prostitute. She was twenty three. She tried waking for

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Speaker 2: a boss, but didn't like it none, so it was

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Speaker 2: on her own. She was a nice baby. She took

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Speaker 2: dope and wanted me to, but I told her no, dice.

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Speaker 2: She didn't make me pay. Three other prostitutes I had

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Speaker 2: did though. Then there was a stenographer. It wasn't a

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Speaker 2: matter of sex with her. I just liked her. Oh yes,

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Speaker 2: there was a housemaid in the Bronx. She didn't cost

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Speaker 2: me nothing. As a matter of fact, I borrowed money

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Speaker 2: from her and never paid it back.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Then he gets into all the rest of it. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit you with one more bit. I became

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Speaker 2: more and more of an inebriate. One night, a taxi

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Speaker 2: hit me. Then I got to see in things. I

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Speaker 2: saw a street car running off the tracks and heading

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Speaker 2: straight for me. I guess I screamed. A cop grabbed me.

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Speaker 2: I socked him.

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Speaker 1: He socked me.

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Speaker 3: Then he takes me to the psycho pathic ward at

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Speaker 3: Bellevue Hospital.

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Speaker 1: What a place.

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Speaker 2: I was there for two weeks. They gave me ether

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Speaker 2: and alcohol to cure me. You'd never seen such a

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Speaker 2: place as them. Two wards. Drunks sprawling on the floor

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Speaker 2: on mattresses, drunks trembling and seeing things and having dts

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Speaker 2: and losing up their guts. Guards beating up drunks. Insane

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Speaker 2: men and straight jackets and insane men out of straight jackets,

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Speaker 2: and moaning and hollering and shouting. Honestly, mister mmon, it

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Speaker 2: was the first time in my life that I had

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Speaker 2: ever given thought to my fellow creatures as individuals. Hitherto

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Speaker 2: I had just lived, done no thinking whatsoever. It was

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Speaker 2: also the first time I had ever given my thought

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Speaker 2: to my future.

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Speaker 1: Jeez, I did some thinking.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Wow, the inmund Diaries.

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Speaker 3: I'll check it out.

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Speaker 5: Check it out to tell the story of my dad

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Speaker 5: squatting over a campfire and there were some high pitched

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Speaker 5: yells and well, anyway.

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Speaker 3: It's a good story, well short but compelling.

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Speaker 5: No, no, I'm not going to tell the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it. What a cliffhanger is?

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Speaker 1: What the hell