The Roughhouse

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A man washes up on shore in Sitka, Alaska and finds himself in the middle of an underground boxing show. It’s a place where you might duke it out with the bartender, the locals, or your own troubled past.

This episode contains violence and strong language. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

Thank you, Jaed “The Stone” Coffin, for sharing your story with us! For more about Jaed’s story, check out his memoir Roughhouse Friday.

Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Doug Stuart, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 26

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0:00.0	Goodness.
0:30.0	Okay, so I grew up not much of a fighter guy.
0:35.0	Overfully, the hostility is going to be the kind of book type of guy, but if they make
0:40.4	you do something often enough, you get better.
0:44.1	And growing up, as the only black kid in rural Michigan, I get plenty of practice.
0:50.0	And the first rule that you learn about street fighting.
0:52.2	Not talking about boxing, you know, Medicaid, 520, that stuff.
0:56.1	The first rule is never, never fight a twin, never under any circumstances.
1:03.0	Why?
1:04.0	Because they grow up with their own personal sparring partner from the womb.
1:09.6	That's why.
1:10.6	Forget 10,000 hours of practice, they have a whole lifetime.
1:14.1	And if you do manage to somehow, some way to beat up a twin brother, 90% of the time,
1:21.2	do you know who's standing right there?
1:24.6	The other twin brother.
1:26.4	So now you've got to pull two miracles.
1:28.1	No, no, avoid.
1:30.7	The second thing you learn is that 90% of the time, whoever throws the first punch, wins,
1:38.0	right?
1:39.3	So when you know the fight is coming, when there's absolutely no way to avoid it, when the
1:45.8	evil bully is telling you to meet him down by the cascade farm at such and such a time,
1:51.1	no, for what?
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