Cut Your Losses

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Three stories about falling short, and having to move on anyway.

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0:00.0	Podcast
0:03.0	Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous,
0:06.0	intellectually ravenous podcast
0:08.0	from the editors of the believer magazine.
0:10.0	Part of poetry is learning how to speak.
0:13.5	Chilly Billy, Chilly Billy.
0:15.8	I am also a horse.
0:17.2	I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.
0:22.4	The right reading for this is the whether I'm even really alive.
0:22.5	The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
0:25.0	I'm the organism on KCRW.com
0:28.0	or wherever you download podcasts.
0:30.6	From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.
0:38.0	Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries.
0:46.0	Today on the program, we all know the Rags to Riches story, the Rocky story, set your goal,
0:51.4	believe in yourself, work hard, and the golden ring will be within your grasp.
0:56.2	It's an archetype of books, films, and sports, but real life just doesn't usually work that way.
1:02.3	The big break happens to someone else, your dream stays a dream, and the movie doesn't end.
1:08.2	Today on Unfictional, cut your losses, three stories about falling short and having to move on anyway, as we all do.
1:16.4	Beginning with the story of Ariel Beck, she was an amateur MMA fighter, and when the opportunity
1:21.7	came to enter her first pro bout she took it.
1:25.0	From KCRW.com it's unfiction.
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