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🗓️ 13 January 2014
⏱️ 111 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to Harmony Town, and Durmeltz. |
0:25.7 | No doubt in profits, Harmony Town is not in session once again. |
0:32.7 | Let's welcome to the stage the mayor of Harmony Town. |
0:39.7 | It's ridiculous, that song. It's called Little Willie. No offense. I don't have |
1:07.5 | anything you wanted to talk about tonight, but we got a mysterious package delivered to us in the green room. |
1:12.5 | Really? It appears to be a self-published book by a man named Daniel Quinn called Beyond Civilization. Humanity's next great adventure. |
1:26.5 | You're all wondering, do I simply have to wrap something in brown paper and send it to the green room in order to have you focus your episode on it? |
1:38.5 | Read the first couple of sentences. |
1:42.5 | I actually want to read what caught my eye on the back. It says, |
1:48.5 | In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. |
1:55.5 | We have to assume Daniel Quinn wrote this. |
2:03.5 | But that doesn't matter. Everyone comes to do a point in their life with it. |
2:08.5 | Is it possible to think the unthinkable? |
2:11.5 | We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle. |
2:18.5 | You're laughing at that because it's specific, but it's true. That's what hooks me in. |
2:25.5 | We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes. |
2:34.5 | But we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live. |
2:40.5 | And the one we have is it, no matter what. |
2:44.5 | So the supposition of the book is that you're a pig headed asshole. |
2:52.5 | But no, I mean, it looks sort of like a... |
2:56.5 | I feel like there's only one way to build a bicycle. |
3:00.5 | Certainly two tires have to be involved, or you've verged into tricycle territory. |
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