Ask Rip #38
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What do you like about Mark Twain and what's your favorite to look like? |
| 0:14.0 | Mark Wayne? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I like Mark Twain because Mark Twain was a very interesting writer. |
| 0:23.6 | Mark Twain could write dialect better than any other person that's ever written in the English language. |
| 0:31.6 | I mean, you guys read Huckleberry Finn, right? |
| 0:36.6 | Anybody read Huckleberry Finn as a child needs to go back and read it as an adult. |
| 0:41.3 | It's a completely different book as an adult. |
| 0:44.3 | Completely different book. |
| 0:46.3 | And that's an amazing, amazing work really is. |
| 0:52.3 | That's the finest. That's the best novel any American |
| 0:56.0 | writers ever written through this. I don't know of anyone better than that. I don't |
| 1:00.7 | even know if anybody would claim they're better than that. Yeah, he was he was, |
| 1:05.5 | it was just astonishing at so many levels. You've read it, I'm assuming, right? You read it |
| 1:13.5 | recently or? Read it again. Read it again. You won't believe it. It's just |
| 1:21.5 | you'll you'll be a, what you'll say to yourself is this is the same book I |
| 1:26.7 | read when I was in sixth grade. |
| 1:30.3 | With the experience you've got now, you'll read it again, you'll see that this man was |
| 1:36.3 | astonishing. |
| 1:38.3 | You guys are probably close enough if you just want to tilt it to. |
| 1:45.0 | What would you see as the greatest challenge for the middle-aged individual |
| 1:50.0 | and do you do to the Texas method? |
| 1:52.0 | Not doing it. |
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