The Land of Beginning Again
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sitting in for Thom Hartmann, guest-host Jefferson Smith starts with a poem by Louisa Fletcher and asks listeners to share how they managed conversations during the holiday weekend. The topic of artificial intelligence returns and Jeff attempts to create a robot generated poem with input from the callers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to me for free right now, and that's awesome because more and more things |
| 0:04.1 | aren't free right now. I mean, think about all the things you're paying for daily, monthly yearly. |
| 0:08.8 | Well, here's something that won't add to that list, the free iHeartRadio app, podcasts, |
| 0:13.8 | streaming music, digital radio. All free, it's the future of audio and unlike almost everything |
| 0:19.2 | else in your life right now, except maybe air, it doesn't cost a dollar. So take advantage of this, |
| 0:24.5 | listen to everything you love on the iHeartRadio app for free. |
| 0:28.2 | This is the Tom Harbin program. I wish there were some wonderful place |
| 0:49.6 | called the land of beginning again. We're all our mistakes and all our heart aches, |
| 0:54.8 | all our poor selfish griefs could be dropped, like a shabby old code at the door, |
| 1:00.3 | never put on again. I wish we could come on at all unaware, like the hunter finds a lost trail, |
| 1:08.1 | and I wish the one whom our blindness had done, the greatest injustice of all, could be at the gate |
| 1:15.5 | like the old friend that waits. We would find the things he intended to do, but forgot and |
| 1:22.0 | remembered too late. Little praises unspoken, little promises broken, and all of the thousand and |
| 1:27.6 | one little duties neglected that might have perfected, the days of one less fortunate. It wouldn't |
| 1:33.0 | be possible not to be kind in the land of beginning again, and the ones we misjudged and the ones we |
| 1:38.2 | grudged, their moments of victory here, would find the grasp of our loving hand class, more than |
| 1:44.4 | penitent lips could explain. For what had been hardest, we'd know it'd been best, and what it seemed |
| 1:50.3 | lost would be gained. For there isn't a sting that would not take wing when we faced it and laughed |
| 1:56.0 | it away. And I think the laughter is more than we're after in the land of beginning again. |
| 2:03.4 | The land of beginning again by Louise Fletcher at Tarkington. |
| 2:09.0 | So I wish there were some place called the land of beginning again where all of our mistakes, |
| 2:13.5 | all of our heart aches, all of our poor selfish griefs could be dropped. Do you have anything you |
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