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It's Tuesday July 22, 2014 from Slate It's the Gist, I'm Mike Pesca. You know about this

guy Bill Hillman, he was the one who wrote a book, How Not to Be Gord By a Bull, and then

wouldn't you know it? You won the Idaho State Lottery. No, we got Gord By a Bull! That

is how dramatic sentence structure works, people. Anyway, El Goro is capitalizing on his

newfound fame, and by fame, I mean being the answer to the question, Hey, you hear about

the idiot? Which idiot? The guy who got Gord By a Bull. He's the idiot who found the least

efficient way to install a new pocket ever. But there he was in the Washington Post writing

a first person essay, I got Gord in Pamplona, but I will run with the bulls again. To

which the bulls reacted, bring it on, brother.

News outlets picked up the story, it was a classic American can do stupid things over

and over again story. But he is getting far in front of the story, unlike with say the

bull. You know, he's he's grabbing the tiger by the tail, he's grabbing the kangaroo by

the pouch. I can't really think of another animal related metaphor for season the opportunity.

But just the other day we get this email from consortium booksellers, so they're independent

publishers. They try to promote books. It's very hard for an author to get attention. And

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