Ep 446 – Listener Essay: “Choose for Yourself” by Ricky

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When your friends all say they KNOW something is true and you’re not really sure, but they expect you to say you KNOW it too, what do you do? Today’s listener essay comes from Ricky. He titled it “Nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself” which we processed through our very own Urim and Thummim to get “Choose for Yourself.” This is #5 of 14 essays in the February 2018 Listener Essay Contest on Infants on Thrones

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0:00.0	Meanwhile, another listener essay arrives at Infants on Thrones via email, but very loudly.
0:17.0	What do you want? We have been granted permission our wives one.
0:27.0	Pass in peace.
0:31.0	Listen to essay, time is here again.
0:37.0	An audition will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday the past in the fluffy rehearsal room bring your own. Thank you. Thank you. Next please.
0:55.0	Next please.
0:56.0	Over here, it's convenient for you.
0:58.0	Carry on.
1:00.0	Over here.
1:01.0	Are you pretty, huh?
1:02.0	Next please. Get one of those for your trousers. Is this listener essay contest
1:10.8	essay essay
1:10.0	is really just a way to informally audition and screen potential
1:16.4	new voices for the future of infants on Thrones to find other talented, creative, motivated people who want to talk about the things
1:24.7	that you listeners want to hear about but that most of the infants are growing
1:28.7	pretty tired of talking about ourselves?
1:31.1	Well it could be but let me tell you what I absolutely love about this essay contest so far.
1:38.2	I get to read the survey responses from the listeners to the authors of these essays. I get to see
1:45.2	how the bravery and talent and creativity of these authors is touching the lives
1:50.6	of these listeners and I get to share that with the authors once
1:54.3	this contest is over. Now I can't tell you how amazing and inspiring that is for me
2:00.5	to see and how excited it makes me about this whole essay contest thing.
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