The Road Not Taken: REDUX - Part One

The Devil Within

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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🎙️ THE DEVIL WITHIN The Road Not Taken: REDUX Part One of Two — In Support of the MGM+ Original Series “Let the Devil In” In this REDUX edition of The Devil Within, host Branden Morgan revisits one of the most haunting chapters in the Tommy Sullivan story — The Road Not Taken. This time, we take a deeper look at Robert Frost’s famous poem and how its quiet meditation on choice and consequence mirrors Tommy’s descent into darkness. What begins as literary analysis soon opens into a meditation on fate — the roads we choose and the ones that seem to choose us. But this episode also widens the lens. Branden traces the real-world shadows behind Frost’s metaphor — through the Mafia’s violent history in North Jersey, a landscape where the mob once turned quiet woodlands into burial grounds. The same woods where, decades later, the legend of Clinton Road would take root. The Road Not Taken: REDUX connects the poetry of Frost to the brutality of the underworld — and to the final, irreversible turn Tommy Sullivan made that winter night. A choice between curiosity and caution… faith and fear… light and shadow. A choice that could have led him anywhere — except home. 🕯️ In This Episode • A literary and psychological breakdown of The Road Not Taken • How organized crime shaped North Jersey’s hidden history of violence • The parallels between Robert Frost’s symbolism and Tommy Sullivan’s fate • A preview of next week’s conclusion — when the poem becomes prophecy 💼 Support Our Sponsors 🐾 Ollie — Because your dog deserves better than “dog food.” Take the quiz and try human-grade meals at www.ollie.com/ides for 60% off your first box. 💰 Monarch Money — Smart, simple budgeting tools built for real people. Use code IDES at www.monarchmoney.com (https://www.monarchmoney.com/) for 50% off your first year. 🖤 Quince — Luxury without the markup. Go to https://www.quince.com/devilwithin for free shipping and 365-day returns. 🌿 MOOD — For the days when you need to take the edge off your demons. Visit www.mood.com/devilwithin for 20% off your first order with code DEVILWITHIN. 📱 Mint Mobile — Premium wireless for people who hate overpaying. Go to www.mintmobile.com and use promo code DEVILWITHIN for unlimited talk and text for just $15 a month. 📣 Follow the Darkness • The Devil Within → @thedevilwithinpod (https://www.instagram.com/thedevilwithinpod) • The Ides of April → @idesofaprilpod (https://www.instagram.com/idesofaprilpod) • Taboo Treasures → @taboo_treasures (https://www.instagram.com/taboo_treasures) • Criminal Mischief → @criminalmischiefpod (https://www.instagram.com/criminalmischiefpod) • For network updates: www.eviocreative.com (https://www.eviocreative.com/) | [email protected] 🔥 The Devil Within — Because every choice takes you somewhere. Some roads just never let you come back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:02.0	Welcome back to the Devil Within.
0:15.0	This is another episode of our continuing re-release of season one in support of the mGM plus docu series let the devil in so we're up to
0:25.0	episode six another robert frost banger the road not taken let's jump in okay a lot of times in this
0:34.1	podcast you hear me say no really this is my favorite poem. Okay.
0:42.2	This could be probably my all-time favorite Robert Frost poem.
0:44.0	I know I said that about stopping by Woods.
0:46.4	I'll probably say it about other things later on.
0:48.1	But right now, it's this one.
0:48.4	Okay.
0:50.6	And there's a specific reason for it.
0:57.2	Very rarely do you get an artist, a writer, a poet that leaves a little note and says, hey, this is what I meant with this. This is what I was going for with this. And it's not that
1:02.4	Frost exactly did that, but he left some breadcrumbs when it comes to this poem. Okay. In the traditional
1:09.7	reading, in the traditional understanding of the poem, it's about a traveler
1:13.8	who is walking through the woods and comes to a fork in the road and doesn't know where
1:19.1	he is or where he's going, it has to make a decision.
1:22.6	Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler
1:27.4	so long I stood
1:28.6	so he puts you right there here I am I'm in the woods I'm walking along huh which way am I
1:35.9	going to go and then he waxes very poetic about looking at each one just exactly the same then
1:42.6	took the other just as fair okay says those, then took the other just as fair.
1:44.2	Okay, says those words, then took the other just as fair.
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