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Within the Wires

Season 8, Cassette 4: You Make Your Own Opportunity!

Within the Wires

Night Vale Presents

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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"I want you to unlearn all that you know about opportunity." # The voice of Tony Tollinger is Joey Rizzolo, joeyrizzolo.com Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Within the Wires T-Shirts & Posters, Episode transcripts Support this show on Patreon Logo by Rob Wilson Part of the Night Vale Presents network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings again to future visionary leader.

0:06.2

Brian.

0:07.2

You have made great strides in this course and the greatest stride of all was pulling the trigger, catching the wave, making a choice.

0:18.7

Today's session is about opportunity.

0:22.4

What is that word?

0:24.4

Opportunity.

0:26.4

Opportunity.

0:27.1

Opportunity.

0:28.1

Opportunity.

0:30.1

It's a strange word when you say it over and over like that and we do say it over and over don't be We hear people talk about opportunity so much that it starts to feel like an empty word. We take it for granted. We

0:54.6

missplace its meaning. Opportunity is knocking. What on earth could that mean?

1:01.5

This right here is a golden opportunity. Is a silver opportunity something

1:05.3

available to us? What about platinum? You ought to jump at the opportunity. Is the

1:10.8

opportunity moving quickly? Is it running? Speeding away like a train?

1:16.0

My favorite is the window of opportunity. This suggests that opportunity is a fixed plane, closed mostly, but every now and then the window opens and

1:24.9

now is our chance to climb through it. Visualize yourself crawling out a window.

1:31.2

Brian.

1:33.0

It's unbecoming, is it not?

1:36.0

Opportunity is a legend, a myth.

1:39.0

We are told time and time again that it is an ethereal visitor that only makes itself known to us when it is convenient for it, and that we must seize it, grab it like a loose chicken.

1:51.0

But I want you to unlearn all that you know about opportunity, Brian. I want you to think of it as a game of bingo.

1:59.0

You certainly played this simple game before, a spinning vat of numbered balls drawn one at a time,

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