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The Luckiest Guy in the World

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A chance return to an all-time favorite song (The Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits) got Bill thinking about the extraordinary life he has led… which got him thinking about the extraordinary life ALL of us have led, here in a Land of Wonder and an Age of Everyday Miracles. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, I was driving into work this morning to record our weekly right angles, and it occurred to me, you know what, Bill?

0:04.2

You very likely are the luckiest guy in the world. And if you're listening to the show, chances are pretty good that you're the luckiest guy or gal in the world, too.

0:11.7

Hi, everybody, I'm Bill Wittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and gentlemen, here's how this story did its meandering pathway here. Before we recorded the show today, we record these on Tuesday mornings, Scott had sent

0:22.6

out a video of what he said was a very unorthodox recording of the Sultons of Swing by Dyer

0:28.9

Straits, which is one of my all-time favorite songs ever. And as you can see from this little

0:33.9

clip here without the music, because we don't want the violation, the copyright violation,

0:37.4

it was an interesting way to sing Sultan of Swing because nobody, nobody, nothing

0:41.7

screams like rock and roll, acts God, like a couple of Orthodox Jews playing a Sultan's

0:47.1

swing out on the sidewalk. However, I like listening to the song so much that it got me thinking,

0:52.9

well, I want to hear Salton's of Swing again, so I played Sultons of Swing.

0:55.5

And I said, that is superb music.

0:57.1

And it took me back to when I was in college in 1981, 879, actually, when every single room in the entire dormitory was just blasting out Sultons of Swing.

1:06.6

And I thought, I grew up in a time of amazing music. I grew up in a time when I didn't have to have social media because it hadn't existed yet.

1:13.8

But I grew up in a time when I could have social media, but I wasn't dependent on it.

1:17.2

I grew up in a time before we had the answers to things like what does Pluto look like or what does Saturn look like.

1:23.0

But I got to live long enough to see what these things actually do look like. I realized that growing

1:27.5

up in America at the time I grew up in makes me the luckiest guy in the world. I mean, when you

1:32.9

think about the unlikeliness of it, just the sheer mathematical unlikeliness of it, and I'm not

1:38.8

talking about my life, folks, I'm talking about our lives, all of our lives together, if you're

1:42.7

watching this. It's enough to almost lives, all of our lives together, if you're watching this.

1:47.0

It's enough to almost knock you off your feet.

1:56.0

Steve, just for the sake of the obvious, this is the first generation, we are, the first generation in history, to never be hungry, never be cold, and never to be in pain for anything longer than

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