What on Earth Became of Ambrose Bierce?
Decoding The Unknown
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 1:01.5 | Today, what on earth became of Ambrose Beas? |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to change that title for YouTube because I have no idea who Ambrose Bess is. |
| 1:08.6 | And I don't think people would care because they don't know who he is. Would they? Do people know Ambrose? I feel like Ambrose Beers I've heard of, but it might just be because of Ambrosia. Like weird custody thing. Anyway, the name Ambrose, the format of the show, if you're new here, Danny's written it. I'm going to read it. Never read it before. Obviously, otherwise I'd know who Ambrose Beers was. |
| 1:28.2 | Let's jump in. |
| 1:34.2 | The name Ambrose Beers may not be as widely remembered as some of his 19th century literary peers, |
| 1:39.1 | such as Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, or Rudyard Kipling, indeed. |
| 1:43.0 | No, all of those. |
| 1:44.6 | Maybe this was partly because the American writer was a hard man to pin down. He was a war hero with a bullet lodged behind his ear. Jesus Christ, why not take them out? I guess they actually don't, they don't often remove bullets, right, unless they have to. Jesus Christ, I went for an MRI the other day. And I've got a plate in my shoulder |
| 2:02.5 | from a bicycle accident. And I was like going in there and they're like, you don't have any metal |
| 2:08.2 | on you, do you? And I'm like, no, I don't have any metal. And they're like, nothing at all. Like, |
| 2:13.2 | rethink very carefully. And I'm like, nope, all gone. Oh, I do have this giant metal plate in my |
| 2:19.7 | shoulder which could be ripped out and they're like, oh, that's fine. And they leave me in and they put me down to the MRI? I'm like, you're sure about the giant metal thing in my shoulder, right? And they're like, yeah, it's titanium because it's a medical implant. And I'm like, okay, And I'm still in that I'm seeing it's like firing up and it's like, |
| 2:34.6 | and I'm like, okay, we're good. |
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