Alone Together
This is Love
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, at Dandy Randy 9.92, we saw you trolling Toyota's All-Electric BZ yesterday. |
| 0:05.6 | Come try it out. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the BZ? |
| 0:08.8 | Maybe I was wrong. |
| 0:10.1 | One Drive can change your mind in the all-electric BZ. |
| 0:13.4 | Toyota, let's go places. |
| 0:17.1 | Who was Morris Bailey? |
| 0:19.6 | So, Morris Bailey was a young man who grew up in the town of Derby, |
| 0:25.2 | which is a town right in the middle of England, about as far from the sea as you can get. |
| 0:31.0 | He was a fairly lonely child, I think. |
| 0:33.5 | He was unwell as a child, had to spend a lot of time on his own in his bedroom. |
| 0:37.7 | And he grew up to be quite a kind of awkward, quite a lonely young man. |
| 0:43.9 | Sophie Elmerst is a writer and journalist. |
| 0:47.5 | In 1962, when Morris was in his late 20s, he lived alone in an apartment, |
| 0:53.0 | in the middle of the town where he'd grown up and worked |
| 0:55.8 | at a printing press. And he would spend his weekends trying to escape the city. He would go hiking, |
| 1:00.7 | he would fly these small planes, and he would sail when he could, but he didn't have a lot of money, |
| 1:05.8 | so sailing is an expensive hobby, so he couldn't do that very much. But he did a lot of these pursuits alone, |
| 1:12.2 | essentially. He wasn't a man of many friends. You know, he would go to the gym where he knew a |
| 1:18.0 | couple of people, but it was a fairly limited, straightened life, I guess. One day in the gym, |
| 1:25.7 | Morris met one of his acquaintances who said, |
| 1:27.7 | oh, you know what, I can't go to this car rally that I'm supposed to be doing on the weekend. |
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