English professor Cameron Wilson joins the show to discuss the importance of good literature in pursuit of a deeper faith.

TRANSCRIPT

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Everyone welcome to Jessup Think. I'm your host Mark Moore and your co-host Rex Gurney. And Rex on the show today. We are so grateful to have Dr. Cameron Wilson, the chair of our English department here at Jessup.

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You know, sometimes we have people from as far away as Australia but this time, he's actually just down the hall from me.

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just had to walk over from the offices and we're recording today's show in our brand new fishbowl studio on Jessup, campus fishbowl, which is now the home of Jessup Think. So hope you enjoy the show. And as we are enjoying our new studio

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Well, Cameron, it is great to finally have you on the show. So Rex, I'm so excited to have the Cameron Wilson

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We've been trying to get Cameron on the show for years, but he has just refused every time some people are just terrified of the microphone. But their cameras too big for the mic. Oh, that could be that could be too especially someone who celebrated his camera.

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And I know there's there's no cameras in here so people aren't able to see like my actual physical stature. how intimidating a physical presence I am to people. So Right.

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Yeah, it just have to come through your voice right through your voice,

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but stentorian is the Armani suit that I'm wearing. Yeah, I didn't know this was just going to be audio. But

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so is the part you dress that

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part. I don't know if our if our audience knows. But for a number of years when camera first started working here, the head of the department always referred to Cameron with an adjective in front of his name. And she would always say, young cameras, young camera and young camera on camera. And then the young dropped away after a while.

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Yeah, yeah. Once I had kids, and the bags underneath the eyes started appearing and

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just just wait till the gray starts coming in, then you get this, sir, can I help you, sir? I'm like, appreciate that. But like, I wouldn't have gotten that.

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Or they insist you take the SR minuette. at Wendy's, which happened the first year I we moved up here from San Jose, I was like, only 55. And, and I was like arguing with the person. You know, it's like, I'm only 55. How can I like have this senior menu and she just refused to let me go. So it's like, whatever.

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Hey, if I'm getting a discount, take it. Yeah, I'll do a senior

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menu. My discount. My parents used to get frustrated with me because we go out to dinner, and I'd be 1415 years old, and I get offered the children's menu. And I'd be trying to correct like the waiter and my parents be like, be quiet. Yes. Quiet. You can get the food for a lot less expensive. And there might be some at least look at it. And so I don't know, I feel like yeah, I'll probably get that on the tail end as well. You know, get the senior discount alone may

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take you longer to get the senior Yeah, you might actually argue that, hey, I do deserve a senior discount. That's where it'll get you. Right? You'll be living it up like, Hey, I look so young. But you won't get those discounts. People who look more seasoned. Right? Right. excited to have you on the show to talk about one of my one of my loves. And I know with Rex as well. We're background in it, but literature. Yeah. How, how literature kind of shapes the way we see the world and how it enhances our faith. We do want to note here at the beginning that we are recording this in a new space. Sorry, I just called the fishbowl so a new podcast studio. That will be the home of Jessup think

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very cool. And it's I think appropriate that in our initiating the fishbowl with the first podcast here that there are three English majors in the room right now. Yes, only one of whom is teaching English here it will reve