Man Without a Country (1 of 3)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live out the rest of his days in a hot air balloon. In part one we hear the story of what happened when he fought the “three strikes you are out forever” law and lost. Plus Howard Zinn on the myth of American Exceptionalism.

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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| 1:31.0 | This installment is called Man Without a Country, Part 1. I'm going to be. Oh, I'm heading northeast on Highway 101. The sun has already gone down. I passed over the |
| 2:29.5 | town of Ware, New Hampshire, and total darkness. |
| 2:34.3 | Tomorrow morning, when the sun comes up, |
| 2:36.6 | I'll be over Maine. |
| 2:40.5 | Earlier this evening, a carload of yolkels kept pace below me. |
| 2:45.0 | They honked and screamed for almost 40 miles. |
| 2:48.0 | They hung out the windows of their vehicle and gave me the finger. |
| 2:52.0 | One of them kept gesturing to the American flag on his t-shirt. |
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