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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

YAH! YAH! YAH! by JACK LONDON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.51.2K 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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