Ep 546 – Listener Essay “Millstone” by Eric
Infants on Thrones
Glenn Ostlund
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is it's infants on thrones. |
| 0:03.4 | Listener Esser. |
| 0:07.0 | Listener Essie. Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and this is our November 2018 |
| 0:21.7 | listener essay contest where you the listeners get to say what |
| 0:26.5 | you want to say how you want to say it where you want to say it and it is more |
| 0:31.2 | than a privilege that that wear gets to be here. |
| 0:34.0 | That we get to host these on infants on thrones where so many of us are all infants sitting on different kinds of thrones, right? |
| 0:41.0 | Today's essay comes from Eric and his title |
| 0:45.4 | Millstone. And after you listen, please go to our website and vote for it and |
| 0:51.7 | provide the author some personal feedback. |
| 0:54.5 | Winners will be announced in early December. |
| 0:57.0 | First place gets $200, second place $100 and third place $50. All right, ready, set. |
| 1:05.0 | All right, go ahead. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi there, this is Eric Herman and I wrote this song Millstone |
| 1:10.0 | after reading some of the stories on Protect LDS Children. |
| 1:13.2 | And that's probably all I need to say, but I feel like I should add that this song is not |
| 1:19.1 | my personal experience. |
| 1:21.8 | But I do write and perform music for kids and sometimes songs about kids are part of that and this was something important to try to talk about. |
| 1:29.0 | Now this song is definitely not for kids. It's very dark, you'll see. |
| 1:35.1 | For me, the challenge wasn't trying to tell a story from a kid's perspective in a way that wasn't too obvious. |
| 1:41.4 | I don't think kids are obvious a lot of times with something like this. |
| 1:44.8 | You know they draw a picture of a monster and you have to figure out what does that |
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