Second Cup: The joy of killing time
Before Breakfast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready. |
| 0:01.0 | Jack and Miles from your favorite podcast, The Daily Zeitgeist, are having a super fun event at State Farm Park in I Heartland. |
| 0:07.4 | They're going to chat about Generation Gaps, looking at all the differences between young people today. |
| 0:11.6 | So don't miss this special event starting Thursday, |
| 0:14.0 | November 9th at 7 p.m. eastern at State Farm Park |
| 0:16.9 | and I Heartland in Fortnite, available all weekend long. |
| 0:20.0 | Be sure to say hi to Jake from State Farm on the big screen. |
| 0:23.0 | Beat his high score and park core and snap a selfie at the selfie booth. |
| 0:26.3 | Visit iHeartRadio.com slash iHeartland to start playing today. Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:42.0 | This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's |
| 0:46.2 | tip is to rediscover some old-fashioned forms of fun. Many of these were |
| 0:51.0 | deliberately about filling time, or some might say, killing time. |
| 0:56.0 | Modern sorts often feel we don't have time for such things. |
| 0:59.0 | But over the past few weeks, well, we've learned otherwise. The circumstances aren't ideal, but the |
| 1:05.6 | good news is that on the other side of the world's lockdown to slow the spread of the |
| 1:10.1 | coronavirus, we'll have expanded our repertoire of fun. |
| 1:14.0 | If you've read much literature written before the advent of radio and |
| 1:18.4 | television you've probably noticed something. Authors such as Charles Dickens or Jane Austin or Herman Melville |
| 1:25.4 | wrote stories in a slightly less economical fashion than modern authors. The plots take |
| 1:31.0 | longer. The sentences are more involved, but honestly, why not? They weren't |
| 1:36.8 | competing with cable. People didn't have other things to do to fill the hours after dinner and before bed. So length wasn't a downside in the way |
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