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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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A problem at the border, a fat man in a shiny suit, and all the thirty-five cent draft you can drink. It’s a fine place to begin, even if you don’t know where you’re headed.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Mike Rowe. This is episode 198 of the way I heard it. It's called Where Do I Begin? |
0:09.0 | Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a love can be? |
0:15.0 | Yes, I learned last week that I'm allowed to sing on the podcast, a copy-written material, but ever so briefly. |
0:23.0 | Oh my God, the letters, the money that was spent with lawyers just trying to figure out simple little copyright questions. |
0:33.0 | I don't want to bore you with a bunch of complaining, but man, what an ongoing adventure. |
0:38.0 | The things I learn doing this podcast. You can fill a book with them, which of course is what I did. |
0:47.0 | Today's episode features another conversation with Chuck, the producer of this year podcast, and it concerns itself with a story that Chuck wrote for the podcast a couple years ago called Fame and Infamy. |
1:00.0 | It was a fine story, but I rewrote it as my hubris demands and for various other reasons that will soon be made clear. |
1:09.0 | I can change the title to O Brother, and I omitted the inciting incident around which the entire tale was originally based. |
1:19.0 | Chuck's where is he forgives me for rewriting him, which is nice. |
1:23.0 | Also, a full disclosure, this is a political story inspired by today's headlines, specifically headlines concerning our southern border. |
1:33.0 | So trigger warning for those of you who believe borders don't matter. I'm very sorry, but they do. They matter a lot. |
1:42.0 | That's followed by a continuation of last week's story about the audition that started it all with another audition story that mattered a whole lot more than I thought it did at the time. |
1:51.0 | Just one more reason why it's hard to know precisely where to begin. |
1:57.0 | Where do I begin? Even when you know exactly where you're headed. It's episode number 198, and it all starts right now. |
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