5 • 625 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this episode, Ray reflects on the elements of a story, and in a conversation with Tiffany, gives an example of a story he is contemplating.
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0:00.0 | What's Ray saying? |
0:07.0 | What's Ray saying? |
0:13.0 | Hi, this is Ray, the source of all black knowledge. |
0:17.0 | Right now we're busy working on new episodes of the show. |
0:20.0 | So while you're waiting for the next season on what's Ray saying to drop, Right now we're busy working on new episodes of the show. |
0:24.0 | So while you're waiting for the next season of what's Ray saying to drop, |
0:30.1 | here's a little something I've been ruminating about on the topic of missing an element of a story. |
0:34.0 | So what is it when one element of a story is missing? |
0:37.8 | I mean from the three basic elements, a beginning, a middle, and an end. |
0:45.3 | What do you call it? A bad story or something else? I call it a conversation. When you're in a conversation, occasionally the person that you're communicating with may know one or more elements |
0:50.3 | of the story already, and they just need you to fill them in on the missing parts. |
0:59.8 | And there are so many interesting dialogues I've had with people that could simply be called just an exchange of information. There's a story I've been competent, Platen, trying to tell for |
1:05.5 | quite some time that falls into that category, and it kind of goes like this. When I was stationed in Korea, we used to catch a bus, a military bus, |
1:14.6 | that took us from our base camp to one of the larger base camps near one of the larger village. |
1:19.6 | So, me and two other friends, we went down to the bus stop and it's got a big shed over it, |
1:25.6 | and we were waiting for the bus. |
1:33.4 | But when the bus pulled up, all three of us noticed that it was a guy on the bus sleeping by his window. |
1:35.5 | And the guy woke up and he looked out the window and we all noticed, or at least we |
1:42.7 | were all thinking the same thing. |
1:44.6 | And that was that this guy, he looked just like me. |
1:50.6 | And we just looked at each other. |
1:53.0 | And the guy woke up and he looked out at us and we looked at each other and we didn't move. |
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