Wherein the narrator finally revisits and posts a conversation with historian, New Yorker staff writer, and Harvard professor Louis Menand about his latest book THE FREE WORLD: ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR. The narrator explains why this is the most mind-widening and -altering book he read in 2021...and then goes on to explain why it took six months for him to work up the courage to post it.

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Wherein the narrator wishes you well, remembers his late grandfather, and talks about ROCKY as a metaphor on how to die well.

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Wherein the narrator is lied to, about something totally innocuous, and decides to make it into a huge thing.

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Wherein the narrator talks about two of his favorite storytellers, James Ellroy and Ridley Scott, and how they inspire him to get better at embarrassing himself.

Wherein the narrator ponders a thing about one of his colleagues, looking at the guy's behavior through the lens of something an artist said on the GaryVee podcast, with other detours along the theme of insecurity--including an old porno, a radio broadcast, Timothy Chalamet's frustrating beauty, and that old viral video of the lizard doing LSD in a closet.

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Wherein the narrator dreads going to the laundromat and just complains about it for ten minutes.

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Wherein the narrator offers, to listeners interested, a letter in the mail and then talks about an ethically questionable thing that he did, and gets around to topics like Flannery O'Connor, the phallic properties of a cashew, the Kennedy assassination, an answer to the question of What's Your Favorite Snack and a breakdown of one of his larger personality flaws.

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Wherein the narrator offers listeners a package in the mail, if they just send their mailing address to thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com, and also talks about a six-hour intelligence test he once took, a man in a thong who dances near his apartment, and the roach phobia that complicates his life.

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Today's episode is a twenty-minute rambling intro to a fifteen-minute sample of the Patreon Exclusive episodes of the podcast. The intro covers a few things that've happened lately at the bar where I work, it's about six times longer than it was supposed to be, and then the rest of it is about vegetarianism and other ramblesome things -- basically this whole episode is a commercial for the Patreon, where you can get more riffy, personal, exclusive episodes.

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Wherein the narrator inadvertently creates a problem by requesting more bread.

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