And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome the oral presentations

podcast this is episode 71 it's called TRBOC and I'm coming off a month's vacation and I'm not going to lie it was great it had a I had a wonderful time I went to the ER twice yes I did do that I went to the emergency room

It's still great still I can't even be meant didn't

die had the cough up blood twice that's all they didn't get it the first time you know that's

what happened there anyway I don't want to go into it. That's what we're talking about.

There's a public episode. We want to stay on topic. I'll probably talk about, I'll have like a Saturday

morning overtime on Patreon this week, along with a second episode about an actual topic.

But what we're talking about right now is the Red Badge of Courage.

It's a 126 page book.

It's regarded as the first great modern war novel ever written by an American. It was written by a

dude named Stephen Crane and it was published in 1895. Now Stephen Crane was like a

24 year old dude when he wrote it he was like a 24 year old dude when he wrote it. He was like a we he was a young man not a veteran.

Now when the book came out all the Civil War vets who were still alive 1895 you still had a lot of Civil War vets

kicking around who's looking to read something new book came out they go read it the veterans

couldn't believe that they were like who where did did this guy serve at? He had to have...

There's no way you can capture this as accurately as has been done in these 126 pages

unless this guy was on a battlefield somewhere, I don't

believe it. The book came out and when it came out, H.G. Wells, who was very

popular at the time. Uh, is quoted as saying,

it deserves an orgy of praise.

And after H.G. Wells gave it the nod,

it blew young Stephen Crane up.

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