142: OCCASIONALLY--Halloween

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's All Hallow's Eve! So what better way to mark the occasion than with an episode of OCCASIONALLY. Mike pays homage to the macabre musings of the great Edgar Allan Poe by reciting perhaps his most famous story. Light a candle, pour a beverage, and let the Victorian goosebumps wash over you. Prepare yourself for the insidious beating of... The Tell Tale Heart

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0:00.0	This is the way I heard it.
0:01.0	Hey, there it's Mike Rowan.
0:06.2	This is not the way I heard it.
0:08.7	This is occasionally.
0:10.0	And the occasion is Halloween.
0:12.4	And I thought it might be fun to commemorate this occasion with a ghost story.
0:17.5	Seems like every day nowadays is national something or other day.
0:21.2	I don't know if this is going to be an ongoing thing, but because it's Halloween and because
0:25.2	I love Edgar Allan Poe, I thought it might be fun to share one of his better
0:29.9	known tales with you guys.
0:32.5	It's called the Telltale Heart.
0:34.0	I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with it.
0:36.8	If you're not, and if you're not familiar with Poe, well, he was unexampled.
0:43.5	Difficult life.
0:44.5	Guy was born in Boston back in 1809.
0:47.8	His parents were actors.
0:49.0	They both died.
0:50.4	Before he was two, he grew up in Virginia with foster parents, moved to my hometown in
0:57.3	Baltimore and got busy writing.
1:00.4	His biography is amazing.
1:03.6	Nobody can quite pin the guy down.
1:05.0	A lot of scholars agree.
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