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This American Life

796: What Lies Beneath

This American Life

This American Life

Society & Culture, News, Politics, Arts

4.688.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

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0:00.0

Okay, before you can understand how Bob's sister became the talk of the third grade and

0:05.2

the big day that that led to, the people still remember.

0:07.6

And he to explain first that Bob's sister is a drawing.

0:12.5

The teacher in this third grade class, Mr. Roblow, spotted it one day while teaching math.

0:17.3

He saw one of the students in Tonyo working on a picture.

0:21.0

I went over to him and said, put the picture away.

0:23.8

I probably did that two or three times.

0:25.8

And then the fourth time I went over and I just took the picture and said, pay attention

0:29.9

at his math class.

0:30.9

And I put on my desk, he came up right before recess and I was like, can I have my picture

0:35.9

back?

0:36.9

And I was like, what is this picture of anyways?

0:37.9

And he said, it's Bob's sister.

0:38.9

And I thought, who's Bob's sister?

0:42.2

Turns out Bob's sister is a minion on which I don't even think Bob's sister exists in

0:48.7

the minion world.

0:49.7

You're saying the minion is like from the movie Despicable May.

0:52.6

Yes, exactly.

0:53.6

And he just invented like a sister character for Bob?

0:56.8

Yeah, apparently.

0:58.8

Mr. Bob taped the drawing to the bookshelf behind his desk near a photo of a wolf that

1:03.5

was already there.

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