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Mr. Jones Goes to Washington

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Art Jones wants your vote.


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0:00.0

All right, poem about Vietnam. I wrote several poems. This one particular I think is very

0:15.0

germane to the whole issue of what's going on with our armed forces right now. They're fighting for a cause that my

0:27.8

judgment is just absolutely a criminal waste of lives and money. But here's the poem. Yellow with

0:37.4

three stripes of red. How many are now dead so that you can fly as high as my old glory? You live only

0:49.4

because others have died. And because you live your only half alive. What a pity. What a waste. The fight for a flag

1:00.6

is ugly as you. A yellow field with three red stripes in the middle.

1:07.6

You're listening to love and radio. I'm Nick Venerkulk. Today's episode Mr. Jones goes to

1:20.2

Washington featuring art Jones.

1:22.5

I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do with my life. I went through a whole series of jobs and I

1:39.4

couldn't settle down on one particular thing. I worked for Fidel Lake Corporation working in the

1:48.0

Polar Cheese Division. The Polar Cheese had come down this big shoot into a big drum with a

1:57.5

plastic bag there to catch all the cheese. When it got to 250 pounds I'd have to put a lid on it

2:03.9

and roll it off onto a pallet. Nice that. This is no kind of job at all. You know, plus I couldn't stand

2:12.8

to smell the Polar Cheese. They put me in the Comic Corn Division. That was even worse. Then they put me

2:20.0

in the Perifin Division where my job was to reach inside hot ovens and take out long sticks of

2:26.4

Perifin. The four-arms were getting burned all of them time and had to do it with a certain period of time.

2:32.3

This form of come to long to be. He told me that I was holding up the thing. I wasn't fast enough

2:41.0

blah blah blah. So we got a big argument and I slugged them. I punched them. Yeah. When I walked out

2:50.1

the damn door, walked down the block to the Army Recording Depot there and decided to help with it. I just

2:57.0

signed up for the Army. So I went from basic training, went to Fort Orte California. I was there for a few days,

3:06.0

called up my father. I told him I said, hey, Dad, I said, the longer I stay here, the less chance I have of,

3:13.5

you know, going to Vietnam because there's sending guys to Germany. From California, they're flying

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