I Better Start Writing This Down

When I was a kid, my father showed me a card trick.

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What they wanted — was a Trump.

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I feel like I owe all of you—well, some of you—an apology.

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I’ll finish this and we’ll just have a quiet year. We’ll hunker down with our jobs and our apartment. The days will run right. We’ll have a quiet year.

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Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. However, one title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy, that is not available on Audible, is:

“Whitney” by Joe Stracci

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The lights are on—and then eventually, they are more on.

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Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy

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You will not be laid to rest in the depths of the Washington State Convention Center.

You will, however, feel like dying there.

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Consider supporting the show at patreon.com/ibetterstart.

Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk

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Food is one of the strongest carriers of memory, of tradition.

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Consider supporting the show at patreon.com/ibetterstart.

Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

“Food: A Love Story” by Jim Gaffigan

To download “Food: A Love Story” for free, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart.

The New York Times Magazine article that I mentioned is called “Memories of Meals Past.” It was published on October 30th, 2015.

I’m about to flog my mother’s cooking.

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Find out more information about I Better Start Writing This Down at ibetterstart.net.

Consider supporting the show at patreon.com/ibetterstart.

Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

“Food: A Love Story” by Jim Gaffigan

To download “Food: A Love Story” for free, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart.

The New York Times Magazine article that I mentioned at the beginning of the show is called “Memories of Meals Past.” It was published on October 30th, 2015.

The epigraph is from a New York Times piece by Jacques Pépin called “Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories.” It was published on December 8th, 2015.

Thirty years ago, an initial Christmas that lives on only as a wooden ornament, a popular children’s television show character cradling the appropriate numeral, a red ribbon, a slow, steady cursive on the back: 1984.

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Find out more information about I Better Start Writing This Down at ibetterstart.net.

Consider supporting the show at patreon.com/ibetterstart.

Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

“Holidays on Ice” by David Sedaris

To download “Holidays on Ice” for free, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart.

For such a fastidious person, my mother couldn't keep a computer digitally clean to save her life.

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Find out more information about I Better Start Writing This Down at ibetterstart.net.

Consider supporting the show at patreon.com/ibetterstart.

Read this episode’s script (as well as the entire IBSWTD archive) at medium.com/@ibetterstart.

I Better Start Writing This Down is sponsored by Audible. For a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart. Audible has over 150,000 titles to choose from. One title that I think IBSWTD listeners would enjoy is:

“The Cartel” by Don Winslow

To download “The Cartel” for free, go to audibletrial.com/ibetterstart.