The Paperboy - Classic

Spooked

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ray Christian hated being a paperboy. Bad pay, hard route, rude customers. But there was one customer in particular who was different from the rest, and Ray didn’t quite know why.

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0:00.0	What of your very first boss never shows up?
0:07.0	Listen to Spoot.
0:09.0	Stay tuned. Things have changed since I was a kid.
0:28.1	In so many ways.
0:30.1	And I'm not even old yet, but things have changed.
0:33.3	See, I grew up on a farm.
0:36.1	We had goats and chickens and cows, horses.
0:39.3	We grew corn, beans, blueberries.
0:43.1	And yes, farms are run by farmers.
0:46.8	This is true.
0:48.3	But when a calf is sick at the middle of the night
0:52.8	and needs to be next to a warmer when possums have gotten me. When a calf is sick at the middle of the night.
0:56.1	It needs to be next to a warmer.
0:59.2	When possums have gotten into the chicken feed.
1:04.0	When the vet needs help trying to birth the foal, it always happens.
1:08.1	It always, always happens at 2 o'clock in the morning.
1:13.8	And who goes out to the barn at two in the morning?
1:15.0	Probably not the farmer.
1:18.1	The farmer's got to get up at six.
1:21.0	The farmer's got stuff to do.
1:29.6	So no, it's not the farmer walking out to that dark slate gray barn through the two o'clock in the morning gloom.
1:30.6	No, it is not the farmer hoping desperately to get that generator running so at least, at
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