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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ten Minute Storyteller. That's me Bill Simpson,

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Speaker 1: your host, narrator and author. We hear at the ten

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Speaker 1: minute Storyteller endeavor to entertain you with tall tales or

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Speaker 1: rendered swiftly and with the utmost empathy. We pledge to

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Speaker 1: pack as much entertainment, emotion, and exploration into the human

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Speaker 1: condition as ten minutes will permit. Mini novels on steroids.

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Speaker 1: This week we meet the Last Supermodel. As a kid,

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Speaker 1: because of her looks, she was used and abused, deceived

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Speaker 1: and exploited. They used her to hawk perfume in blue jeens,

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Speaker 1: underwear and dreams. But she was tough, resilient, ambitious. She

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Speaker 1: channeled that abuse and exploitation to build her own company,

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Speaker 1: to make millions, to beat them at their own game.

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Speaker 1: But at what price? The Last Supermodel? The old Goat

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Speaker 1: has coin? Oh yeah, the old goat has coin? Oh God?

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Speaker 1: Does she ever stocks bonds, real estate, gold, even a

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Speaker 1: bunch of bitcoin she bought on a whim when the

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Speaker 1: crypto could be had for a song. Tens of millions,

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Speaker 1: for sure, hundreds of millions, maybe even a billion or more.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows for sure, certainly not any of her children

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Speaker 1: or grandchildren. They can only speculate, which they do, and

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Speaker 1: have done at great length for years and years decades.

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Speaker 1: It is the Old Goats coin the number one topic

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Speaker 1: of conversation when any two or more of her progeny

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Speaker 1: wind up in the same room. How much coin does

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Speaker 1: she have? What's she going to do with it? Who

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Speaker 1: is going to get it? Why the hell doesn't she

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Speaker 1: give some of it away? Many of the old Goats

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Speaker 1: sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters can grow quite

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Speaker 1: heated during these speculations. They can call her a wide

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Speaker 1: variety of derogatory names, refer to her not only as

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Speaker 1: the old goat, but also as the old scarecrow, the

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Speaker 1: ancient bitch, the hoarder, the miser the miserable, old wretch.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't care. She's hurt at all over the years,

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Speaker 1: through the grape vine, through a hole in the wall,

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Speaker 1: from a daughter trying to curry favor, from a grandson

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Speaker 1: who's never been able to keep his trap shut. All

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Speaker 1: of it just tickles her. Funny bone, makes her guffaw, slap,

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Speaker 1: her skinny arthritic knee. Just look at her. She can't

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Speaker 1: weigh eighty five pounds, but back in the sixties. She

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Speaker 1: was like the very first super skinny supermodel. Before she

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Speaker 1: came along, the models were more buxom, more rounded, more

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Speaker 1: Marilyn monroeish. She was built like a boy, no boobs,

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Speaker 1: no hips, no ass. But oh that beguiling, belligerent smile. Halston,

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Speaker 1: Remember Halston. He put her in a fragrance ad dressed

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Speaker 1: her up as a boy with a page boy haircut.

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Speaker 1: She got the job because she was willing to put

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Speaker 1: out for the art director, a bearded clod who came

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Speaker 1: in seconds under the photo of her standing on a

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Speaker 1: deserted beach, her expression haughty and defiant. It read in

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Speaker 1: gold letters, Halston, the fragrance for everyone, and the a

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Speaker 1: sexual revolution was born. She posed in skinny jeans and

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Speaker 1: kissing boys and later girls. She posed buck ass, naked,

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Speaker 1: her neck and right ankle. She was hawking then for Pucci,

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Speaker 1: but nobody remembers what he was selling. She was still

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Speaker 1: just a kid, just seventeen. Her father ran the show,

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Speaker 1: signed the contracts, kept most of the dough for himself,

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Speaker 1: looked the other way when the doors closed and locked.

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Speaker 1: She was used and abused, deceived and exploited, But she

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Speaker 1: was smart, savvy, had a head for business. She finally

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Speaker 1: save her nipples and her pubic hair. Those she kept

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Speaker 1: in reserve. The real money came later when she started

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Speaker 1: her own house, her own labels, hired the best designers,

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Speaker 1: churned out gowns, dresses, shoes, hats, suits, jewelry, fragrances. In

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Speaker 1: her early thirties she married her CFO, a quiet, undemonstrative

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Speaker 1: gentleman closer to fifty than forty. In seven years, they

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Speaker 1: had five children, and except on the day she gave birth,

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Speaker 1: she never never missed a day of work. Now in

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Speaker 1: her eighties, she still goes to work every day, Every

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Speaker 1: every single day she goes to work. No, she doesn't

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Speaker 1: go early. She's never been an early bird. She likes

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Speaker 1: to sleep late, lie in bed, read the papers, have sex,

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Speaker 1: at least back in the day. Too old for sex

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Speaker 1: now a dried up old prune. Still she does two

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Speaker 1: or three times a week, put her stable of vibrators

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Speaker 1: and dildos to good use. Why shouldn't I give myself

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Speaker 1: a little tickle? Oh God? She had lovers before and

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Speaker 1: during and after marriage, a thousand one night stands in

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Speaker 1: New York, Rome, Paris, Istanbul, Marrakesh, only the finest looking boys,

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Speaker 1: with smooth skin and long muscles. She taught them all

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Speaker 1: a thing or two about a lady's needs and desires.

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Speaker 1: She took what she desired and didn't give a damn

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Speaker 1: for giving. She had lady lovers as well, long leggy

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Speaker 1: fashion models in Hollywood starlets. She found them mostly needy, poudy,

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Speaker 1: and impossible to please. Minaseetoi was tried, but quickly abandoned.

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Speaker 1: She preferred to be the center of attention, the star attraction.

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Speaker 1: She drank martinis, smoked grass, snorted coke, popped pills to

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Speaker 1: make her happy, sad, fiery, stardonic. She told every man

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Speaker 1: who crossed her path that she was smarter, bolder, and

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Speaker 1: had far bigger balls than they could ever even imagine.

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Speaker 1: They laughed but trembled. They all secretly wanted so badly

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Speaker 1: to fuck her, subdue her, suppress her. But those days

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Speaker 1: were over. Silly little boys, she called them in big, violent,

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Speaker 1: aggressive man bodies. In a long and rambling interview, she

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Speaker 1: told Rolling Stone, the vast majority of women make me sick.

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Speaker 1: Nothing but cry babies, whiners, martyrs, victims. Get off your

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Speaker 1: asses and take what's yours. You have what they want,

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Speaker 1: what they desire, what they need, what they covet. So

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Speaker 1: use it for Christ's sakes, to your advantage. Sure, God

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Speaker 1: gave man more muscle, but he, or maybe she gave

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Speaker 1: woman the minge, the muff, the kiddie, the bean, the twat,

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Speaker 1: the pussy. The most valuable hole on earth, she gave

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Speaker 1: it to women. Maybe in the whole crazy universe it

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Speaker 1: is the most valuable hole. So use the damn thing

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Speaker 1: to get what you want, ladies, to achieve greatness and

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Speaker 1: of course independance. She caught a lot of grief for

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Speaker 1: the interview, mostly for men. But business boom to kaboom.

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Speaker 1: The money rolled in like water over Niagara. The women

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Speaker 1: of America, of Europe, of Brazil and Argandina wanted what

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Speaker 1: she had. The swanky, sexy dresses, the mini skirts and

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Speaker 1: the low cut blouses, the guts, the gall the balls,

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Speaker 1: the panache, and now well now the kiddies wanted the money.

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Speaker 1: That is the moolah the batjack. She's held onto it

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Speaker 1: in their view long enough time to spread it around

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Speaker 1: to share the bounty. She disagrees. She finds them a

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Speaker 1: bunch of flunkies, lackeys, toadies, fucking sinka fats. She gave

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Speaker 1: them jobs, stock options, health insurance, retirement packages. What more

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Speaker 1: do they want? They live, all nineteen of them, high

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Speaker 1: on the higher than most, but they want to live

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Speaker 1: even higher. They think, because of the biological connection, that

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Speaker 1: her dough should be their dough. So tonight, tonight, the

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Speaker 1: Old Goat has a little surprise for them. She's invited

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Speaker 1: them all to dinner at her palatial estate, going to

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Speaker 1: serve them the finest wines and steaks, treat them the

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Speaker 1: way they think they deserve to be treated. She's also

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Speaker 1: invited several members of the press, important personas with clout,

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Speaker 1: editorial writers, anchor women pundits with big mouths to help

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Speaker 1: her spread the word. So after the tasty meal, everyone

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Speaker 1: at least mildly soused, she taps her wine glass with

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Speaker 1: a spoon and asks for quiet. I have an announcement,

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Speaker 1: she says, about the money, my money, my dirty greenback's milute,

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Speaker 1: my legal tender they wait. No one draws a breath,

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Speaker 1: pin drop quiet in that snazzy, over decorated dining room.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving it all away, she announces. I'm giving it

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Speaker 1: all away, every nickel, every red dime, every stock and

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Speaker 1: every bond, every ounce of gold, every property, the Tuscan

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Speaker 1: Villa and the bel Air Mansion, the Fifth Avenue penthouse

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Speaker 1: and the Bahamian beach house, all of it, all of

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Speaker 1: it to anyone here who can tell me the key

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Speaker 1: to happiness. A collective gasp, and then the first stab. Family. No,

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Speaker 1: you idiot friends, God know you silly sap. Meaningful relationships,

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Speaker 1: don't be ridiculous money. Then it must be the money.

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Speaker 1: Is it the money? Power? It must be the power. Pride,

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Speaker 1: you stupid fools, shouts the old goat. Pride, dignity, self worth,

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Speaker 1: self respect, self esteem, all the rest of it bullshit.

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Speaker 1: Exhilarated now, she begins to cough. A moment later she

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Speaker 1: grabs the arm of her chair, and then a moment later,

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Speaker 1: her frail chest. She gasps for air, Her eyes roll

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Speaker 1: back on her head. She falls off her chair and

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Speaker 1: hits the extraordinarily expensive four hundred year old hand knodded

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Speaker 1: Persian carpet with a dull thud. Hey, thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to this original audio presentation of the Last Supermodel, narrated,

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Speaker 1: of course by the author. If you enjoy today's story,

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Speaker 1: please take a few seconds to rate, review, and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, and then go to Thomas William Simpson

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Speaker 1: dot com for additional information about the author and to

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Speaker 1: view his extensive canon. The Ten Minute Storyteller is produced

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Speaker 1: by Andrew Pleglici and Josh Colotney and as part of

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Speaker 1: the Elvis Duran Podcast Network in partnership with iHeart Productions.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, this is Bill Simpson, your ten Minute Storyteller,