YAH! YAH! YAH! by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch, |
| 0:04.4 | you'd build a different kind of bank. |
| 0:06.5 | One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots, |
| 0:11.5 | doesn't invest in fossil fuels, charges no extra fees for spending abroad, |
| 0:16.1 | and definitely doesn't close before you finish work. |
| 0:18.6 | You'd build tools to help manage bills, teach kids good money habits, and give interest on personal and joint accounts. |
| 0:25.9 | So what would that look like? |
| 0:27.8 | Starling Bank, the Bank Built for You. you. The Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 1:04.0 | This is your host John Hagdorn. |
| 1:06.0 | Today, a Jack London story from his book, South Sea Tales, |
| 1:10.0 | called Yaa Yaa Yaa. |
| 1:12.5 | And now our story. |
| 1:14.6 | He was a whiskey guzzling's goshman, and he downed his whiskey neat, |
| 1:18.3 | beginning with his first tot punch willy at six in the morning, |
| 1:21.2 | and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day |
| 1:24.2 | till bedtime which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the 24 and for the remaining |
| 1:31.0 | 19 hours he was quietly and decently drunk. |
| 1:35.0 | During the eight weeks I spent with him on Ulong et al, |
| 1:38.0 | I never saw him draw a sober breath. |
| 1:40.0 | In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up. |
| 1:44.0 | It was the most beautiful and orderly perennial drunk I have ever observed. |
| 1:49.0 | Macalester was his name. |
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