The Troublemaker
Imagined Life
Audible
4.8 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You’re driven by an inherent sense of right and wrong. A force so strong you can’t help but challenge every inconsistency, every injustice around you. You see yourself on the front lines of the fight against injustice; others just see you as obnoxious.
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| 0:07.0 | A listener note. This episode contains adult language. |
| 0:18.0 | Imagine. You and a couple of friends are standing at the base of the blue water bridge on the American side of the Canadian border. |
| 0:26.0 | You grab your binoculars and look up at the bridge 15 stories in the air, surveying the checkpoint set both ends. |
| 0:33.0 | They don't look inviting. |
| 0:35.0 | The guys are getting cold feet. You listen to them squabble. Maybe we can just swim to Canada. |
| 0:41.0 | Fuck you, Jacko! You know I can't swim. Fine! Let's get in the car and say we're visiting my cousin. |
| 0:47.0 | I can speak Canadian. What if they pull out their guns and start shooting? |
| 0:50.0 | Your friends are spewing nonsense. You try to be the reasonable one. |
| 0:55.0 | Why would they shoot us Ralph? Just then your notebook tumbles to the ground from the pocket of your bomber jacket. |
| 1:03.0 | Jacko picks it up and giggles. What's this? Your diary? Give me that. |
| 1:09.0 | You try and grab the notebook back. Jacko flips through pages and pages of crosses drawn in meat rows. |
| 1:17.0 | 188 pages to be exact. |
| 1:21.0 | What the hell? This is creepy, man. I was wondering what it'd look like if I drew one cross for every grave of a resulter who died in Vietnam. |
| 1:32.0 | How many are there? 50,000? Damn. That's heavy. |
| 1:39.0 | Yes. Yes, it is heavy. It's 1971 and the Vietnam War is in its sixth year. |
| 1:48.0 | Just this week, the ninth boy from your high school returned home from war in a flag draped box. |
| 1:55.0 | The ninth! |
| 1:58.0 | You grab your notebook back from Jacko. Come on, guys. We came here for a reason. |
| 2:05.0 | Let's get back in the car and just drive over the bridge. |
| 2:10.0 | To you, this war is wrong. |
| 2:14.0 | Bombing civilian villages is unconscionable. You are not going to end up under one of those crosses for a war you don't believe in. |
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