HBM070: The Way The Blood Flows
Here Be Monsters
Here Be Monsters Podcast
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“I used to think you were brilliant” Evan Williamson’s dad wrote to him in a letter. Evan was in treatment for chemical dependency at the time. His father asked if they could meet in Alaska to continue a family tradition of fathers and sons who fished together.
The Alaskan waters were teeming, and two spent entire days ending lives together. Evan’s dad, amid all the death, explained that he too was dying.
The Way The Blood Flows a short story written and read by Evan Williamson, who currently makes videos and music with his wife Sidra as they travel the world. Their series is called Sid and Evan Leave America. You can follow them on YouTube and Facebook.
Music: The Black Spot
Jeff Emtman produced this episode with help from Bethany Denton and Nick White.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:09.0 | It's come a little bit closer to me here. |
| 0:10.0 | Say a tongue twister. |
| 0:15.0 | tongue twister. |
| 0:17.0 | A tongue twister. Ha ha. |
| 0:20.0 | Chaytech. The way the blood flows. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay, so last episode was long and complicated. |
| 0:31.0 | This episode is short and also complicated. It's a story from an old friend of |
| 0:36.0 | mine who's a writer and he was in treatment for chemical dependency when he got a letter |
| 0:40.9 | from his dad. And so this story, the one you're about to hear, |
| 0:44.0 | is about what happened after that, |
| 0:46.0 | after he got that letter. |
| 0:48.0 | It's about fishing and family, |
| 0:50.0 | and disease, |
| 0:51.0 | and about a thousand other things both big and small. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a little bit different from what we normally err, |
| 0:57.0 | but I think you're going to like it. |
| 0:59.0 | Stay tuned. Here be monsters, the podcast about |
| 1:14.6 | perfectly combed hair with a backbone. |
| 1:17.6 | The podcast about the unknown. |
| 1:30.0 | Cool. Okay. Can you just say your name in the name of this piece? |
| 1:36.4 | My name is Evan Williamson and this is the way the blood flows. |
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