Letters From The Earth, Letter 7: Noah And His Family Get Hooked!

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the Earth by Mark Twain. Letter 7. Noah and his
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family get hooked. Good morning, Star, and welcome to another
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episode of The Devil's Details, a show where we dig up, decipher, dissect,
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and deconstruct the many forms of the devil. One of
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my names is Lester Ryan Clark.
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And I sometimes go by Kenan Dias.
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And we're just two lost souls hitchhiking down the highway
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to hell. Only lately this highway has become flooded, and
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we've hitched a ride on this ark. We've got to
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be real sneaky, though, because we're not actually allowed to
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be on here.
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I just saw a Renaissance painting as we were doing research,
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and And I thought it was of people hanging onto
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the side of the ark in the middle of the ocean.
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And I was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. But
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it was actually of mermaids visiting them. Oh. So I
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don't know which one is weirder.
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Well, I mean, yeah, you know.
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Well, because I was like, why are these, okay, I
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get why these people are hanging off the side. That's great.
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Why are they naked? No, no, no, they're mermaids. Mermaids.
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Got it, got it.
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Got it.
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Yeah, I love the Venn diagram that is like the
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old mythological creatures and modern Christianity just kind of like,
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melding and creating, you know, these weird instances in history
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and art and stuff like that.
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Right. I just posted this in the doc if you
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want to look at this.
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Oh my god, you're right.
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I just noticed this. So yeah, so I was like, yeah,
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they're trying to get on the ark, but no, no,
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they're mermaids visiting.
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Yeah.
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But look who they got with them at the bottom.
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I just noticed this.
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Is that a mer-dog?
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It's our little mer-dog.
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Aww. It's a little mer-pup, guys.
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I've never seen a mer-pup. Aww.
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That is so adorable. There are no mer-cats because those
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are all in Africa.
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That's right. Eden bugs. Yes. Eden grubs. Eden grubs.
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And they're all played by Nathan Lane. And I love
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in this painting, the cat is just like on the
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side of the ark and it's just like, I don't
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give a fuck. I'm a cat.
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Yeah, just hanging off on the rail. Yeah, he could
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fall into the ocean at any time.
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And it's like... Nah, they can take care of themselves.
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Yeah.
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Ah, it's lovely.
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Lovely. All right.
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This is a little merp up.
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I've never even conceived of such a thing. No.
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But yeah, folks, that's where we are in this thing.
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We are seabound, I guess.
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Seaworthy?
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No, seaworthy is the thing that makes you able to
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be on the sea.
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Right, seaworthy. Sure. But we are on the sea.
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And this is letter seven. and Satan is relating the
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tale of Noah and his ark back to Michael and Gabriel.
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And he begins, Noah and his family were saved, if
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that could be called an advantage. I throw in the
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if for the reason that there has never been an
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intelligent person of the age of 60 who would consent
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to live his life over again, his or anyone else's.
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The family were saved, yes, but they were not comfortable,
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for they were full of microbes. full to the eyebrows,
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fat with them, obese with them, distended like balloons. It
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was a disagreeable condition, but it could not be helped,
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because enough microbes had to be saved to supply the
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future races of men with desolating diseases. And there were
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but eight persons on board to serve as hotels for them.
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The microbes were by far the most important part of
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the Ark's cargo, and the part the Creator was most
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anxious about and most infatuated with. They had to have
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good nourishment and pleasant accommodations. There were typhoid germs and
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cholera germs and hydrophobia germs and lockjaw germs and consumption
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germs and black plague germs and some hundreds of other aristocrats,
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especially precious creations, golden bearers of God's love to man,
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blessed gifts of the infatuated father to his children, all
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of which had to be sumptuously housed and richly entertained.
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These were located in the choicest places the interiors of
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the family could furnish, in the lungs, in the heart,
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in the brain, in the kidneys, in the blood, in
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the guts particularly. The great intestine was the favorite resort.
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There they gathered by countless billions and worked and fed
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and squirmed and sang hymns of praise and thanksgiving. And
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at night, when it was quiet, you could hear the
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soft murmur of it. The large intestine was in fact
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their heaven. They stuffed it solid. They made it as
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rigid as a coil of gas pipe. They took pride
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in this. Their principal hymn made gratified reference to it. Constipation,
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oh constipation, the joyful sound proclaim. Till man's remotest entrail
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shall praise its maker's name.
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Okay.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and
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say that Twain is the very first person to account
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for all of the microbiology on the ark.
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Now, that is so funny. All the diseases that had
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to be saved, because, yeah, like, again, this is from
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the previous chapters, but God is saving all of these
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things for the future, and he must have, he killed
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all the wickedness out of man, but he must have
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made room on the ark for disease, right?
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Because otherwise we wouldn't have disease today.
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We wouldn't have disease, right? Now that we understand what
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Noah didn't understand, which is that disease comes from germs, right?
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Yeah.
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But then he goes even further and has them, like,
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praising God for their saving, and giving them little churches.
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So we are hotels, which he says, for the diseases,
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but we also are- Noah and his family, yeah. Yeah,
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we're cathedrals for the diseases, which is so funny.
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And singing hymns of praise within our.
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Bowels, right? Actually, I don't know if you know this,
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and I think this freaks people out, but that's part
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of what I'm trying to talk about is like- There
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are animals that live in your hair, you know, like
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your eyelashes. You're aware of that.
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Okay, sorry at home if this is how you're discovering it. Yeah.
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Which I think is cool and cute. Like, I think
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you have to be taught or you have to like
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approach it from the standpoint that they're there to help you.
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They literally are your friends. They're eating all the dead
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skin in there. And like, I could totally see why
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that creeps people out. But I've also, what helped me
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with seeing like electron microscopes like, footage of them, and
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it just looks, when you're at that close, it just
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looks like a little bear in a cave, you know?
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Yes, yes. They're cute little, they're cute little, oh, like,
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they're even called some, oh, no, I'm thinking of a tardigrade,
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that's not the same thing.
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Oh, yeah, the water bear, yeah. They're even smaller, right,
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so I think mites, our eyelash mites might have tardigrades
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on them. Water bears, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, like, I don't know, like,
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it's something that's so... That we're so unaware of that
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I'm fine with it.
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It's the same, like when I eat steak, I don't,
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you know, it's so far removed from the animal. I'm
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just like, meh, you know.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, you can't feel the mites
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in your eyelash holes or anything like that. And they
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are your buddies. They are helping you.
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And I imagine you would feel it if they were, like, gone.
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Oh, that's true. Yeah, you'd get all sorts of weird, yeah, weird.
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Diseases and stuff like that.
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Yeah, too much eyelash... trash. Yeah, that's true.
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Yeah, your eyelashes would probably hurt and get infected and
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stuff like that.
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That's a really good point, yes. They are our buddies.
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Yeah, yeah. It's the, I mean, what do they say? Like,
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you know, when you're eating yogurt, you're eating, like, a
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good bacteria. Right? There was a, yeah, my favorite stand-up comedian,
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Dara O'Brien, what did he say? He's like, what happens
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if you pour Dettol into a Yakult? Which I didn't
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know what either of those were. I think that's a soap.
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It's like a European soap or disinfectant that's supposed to
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kill like 99% of germs. And Yakult is a brand
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of yogurt.
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So now it makes sense with the European culture provided.
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But he's like, is there just one good bacteria at
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the bottom just saying, thank you for saving me? Yeah.
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Singing praises to the Lord as we have here.
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But yeah. So I mean, yeah. Good bacteria. We've got
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in abundance and they're just like all over. I don't know.
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In that same way, I was fascinated by that jellyfish,
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the Portuguese man o' war, which apparently isn't one jellyfish.
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It's like a colony. It's like it's like a universe
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of like a whole bunch of different animals kind of
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like all living simultaneously together.
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You know, and you think of that, it's like, well,
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how could like because we see it as like one animal,
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but it's not right. And it's like, oh, well, that's
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what we are. We got our little eyelash bugs and
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we got our little intestine bugs.
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Oh, right. We, our bodies are colonies for these other
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billions of microbes on us. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
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The majority of the cells in your body aren't human cells.
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They're other cells, other little buggies.
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And they're nice and they're our friends.
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Yeah. Right. And they sing our praises. Yeah, the atheist
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ones nowadays, yeah, sing our praises. Right. The way we
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would talk about Mother Earth and protecting Mother Earth. Mother
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Lester and Mother Kenan. Yeah.
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And they go to little Kenan and Lester art galleries
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and they throw paint on the priceless artifacts to try
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to protest the pollution of Lester and Kenan.
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Right. Right.
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And some of the microbes are like, well, that's a,
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you know, that's going a little bit too far. You
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didn't need to do that. It's like, you know.
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I see their point though. Yeah. Because Lester warming is
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the great crisis of their time. It is.
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Yes. And we need to do something about it. But
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I mean, you know, that was the Mona Lester.
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So constipation, oh, constipation. Right.
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And he gives it a hymn specifically. Like they are
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singing little religious hymns in there. Yeah.
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Right. And he continues, he says, the discomforts furnished by
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the Ark were many and various. The family had to
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live right in the presence of the multitudinous animals and
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breathe the distressing stench they make and be deafened by
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and be deafened day and night with the thundercrash of
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noise their roarings and screechings produced. And in addition to
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these intolerable discomforts, it was a peculiarly. Jesus. It was
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a peculiar peculiarly. It was a peculiarly. Was that correct?
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No. Okay.
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It was a.
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Very. What? It was very.
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I know.
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It was a very.
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But I have to read it. I have to be
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loyal to the text. It was a peculiarly. It was
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a peculiarly. Jesus Christ. Microbes, help me out. Tongue microbes.
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It was a peculiarly. Peculiarly.
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Peculiarly.
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Peculiarly. It was a peculiarly trying place for the ladies.
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He goes to great extents to talk about how much
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God loves the flies and the pests and the microbes.
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Yeah. It was like 68,000 different species of them or
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something that we had before. Yeah. Just flies. Not even
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the worms we're talking about here. Yeah. The buggies. Yeah.
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All right. Here's a Twainism for our next paragraph. By
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and by.
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Very. Yeah.
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The other animals would be distributed here and there about
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the earth. Scattered.
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The tigers to India, the lions and the elephants to
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the vacant desert and the secret places of the jungle,
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the birds to the boundless regions of empty space, the
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insects to one or another climate, according to nature and requirement.
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But the fly, he is of no nationality. All the
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climates are his home. All the globe is his province.
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All creatures that breathe are his prey. And unto them all,
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he is a scourge and a hell. To man, he
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is a divine ambassador, a minister, plenipotentiary, plenipotentiary yeah.
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Let me look it up okay.
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A minister plenipotentiary okay i said it now what does
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it mean.
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understand what he's saying here so uh this is from
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miriam webster um it is of or invested with full
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power like a diplomat.
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Okay so so So he says he's a divine ambassador.
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So like the highest of high ambassadors, diplomats. All right.
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Great.
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Of God.
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Yeah. So this is the fly. The fly is the
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highest ambassador, diplomat, minister of the creator. Right.
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The creators. And as Twain says, the creator's special representative.
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He infests him in his cradle, clings in bunches to
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his gummy eyelids, buzzes and bites and harries him, robbing
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him of his sleep and his weary mother of her
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strength in those long vigils which she devotes to protecting
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her child from this pest's persecutions. The fly harries the
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sick man in his home, in the hospital, even on
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his deathbed at his last gasp. Pastures him at his meals.
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previously hunts up patients suffering from loathsome and deadly diseases,
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wades in their sores, goms its legs with a million
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death-dealing germs, then comes to that healthy man's table and
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wipes these things off on the butter and discharges a
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bowel load of typhoid germs and excrement on his batter cakes.
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The housefly wrecks more human constitutions and destroys more human
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lives than all God's multitude of misery messengers and death
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agents put together. Damn, Twain!
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Okay, so that's why they are the great ambassador, because
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he's saying that God's main purpose is to.
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Deal death and suffering.
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Deal death and suffering. Yeah, all the things that man
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is befallen with. Yeah. That's God.
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Yeah. So it sounds like he has made the fly
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in his image, according to this religion.
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Right, that's a good point, right. Yeah.
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So then Satan mentions Noah's oldest son, Shem. Shem was
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full of hookworms. It is wonderful, the thorough and comprehensive
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study which the Creator devoted to the great work of
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making man miserable. I have said he devised a special
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affliction agent for each and every detail of man's structure,
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overlooking not a single one. And I said the truth.
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Many poor people have to go barefoot. Because they cannot
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afford shoes, the Creator saw his opportunity. I will remark
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in passing that he always has his eye on the poor.
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Nine-tenths of his disease inventions were intended for the poor.
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And they get them. The well-to-do get only what is
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left over. Do not suspect me of speaking unheedfully, for
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it is not so. The vast bulk of the Creator's
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affliction inventions are specially designed for the persecution of the poor.
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You could guess this by the fact that one of
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the pulpit's finest and commonest names for the Creator is
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the Friend of the Poor. Under no circumstances does the
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pulpit ever pay the Creator a compliment that has a
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vestige of truth in it. The poor's most implacable and
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unwearying enemy is their Father in Heaven. The poor's only
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real friend is their fellow man. He is sorry for them,
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he pities them, and he shows it by his deeds—
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He does much to relieve their distresses, and in every case,
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their father in heaven gets the credit of it. Hmm. Whew.
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I mean, we are getting... Like, Twain is finally getting...
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Say what you want to say, Twain!
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He said a couple times so far in the other
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letters that God does not answer prayers and will not
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answer prayers, and that's interesting enough. Even that, you know,
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is shocking, even to me as an atheist, right? For
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someone to say that. But then to say that basically the...
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primary interaction that people have with god is through disease
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and death there's some logic there um yeah but he's
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saying in quite a quite a mean terrible way.
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And and he gives special attention to the poor and downtrodden.
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Right right right right and then um this is this
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is so mean and the way he says tongue-in-cheekedly right
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like they get 90 or whatever and then the 10
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percent is, is left over for the rich, like totally
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just inverting how we would normally describe it. Like the
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rich get 90% of the land or 90% of the money.
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And then whatever's left over is spilled over to the rest.
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And he converts it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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And of course, like, you know, we, from, from Twain's
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other works, we know him to be a, a kindhearted
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person who, who desires justice. Like this is, this is
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him being bitter and sarcastic. Um, and, and, and, and
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taking a jab at the way religious people try to
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explain away, um, all the atrocities of the world, who's like, oh,
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God has a plan and God's love and da-da-da-da, right?
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Right, and even the men who give other men sucker,
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like the ones who, okay, there's a huge disaster, and then, oh,
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I've taken you in or I've given you money, and
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they say, oh, thank God for that, rather than, you know,
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thank humans.
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Right, oh, thank you for that.
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Right, thank you for that.
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Right, right. And the whole, just like, you know, it's
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like priests saying, it's like, well, God loves everyone. And
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so here's Twain's Satan saying, oh, yeah, yeah, he loves everyone.
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He loves everyone so much that he gave us hookworms
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and microbes and all of this stuff, yeah. And he
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especially loves the poor. So we see what you're doing, Dwayne.
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But even today, it's a little bit like you kind
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of smile and you laugh, but you're also like, oh, God,
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that's so real. Yeah.
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You're not supposed to say that, even in 2026. Even
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atheists are like, oh, geez, Dwayne.
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But yeah. But he continues. He says, just so with diseases. Hmm.
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The first thing the delighted pulpit does is to advertise
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it as God's work and invite the people to get
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down on their knees and pour out their thanks to
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him for it. And the pulpit says with admiring emotion,
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let tyrants understand that the eye that never sleeps is
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upon them. And let them remember that the Lord our
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God will not always be patient, but will loose the
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whirlwinds of his wrath upon them in his appointed day.
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They forget to mention that he is the slowest mover
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in the universe. that his eye that never sleeps might
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as well, since it takes it a century to see
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what the other eye would see in a week. That
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in all history, there is not an instance where he
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thought of a noble deed first, but always thought of
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it just a little after somebody else had the thought
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of it and done it. He arrives then and annexes
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the dividend. So all of the good will and good
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ideas of God were actually thought by man first, and
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God takes the credit.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I think that rings true to me about, say,
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punishing the wicked, which, again, he's not quite saying this,
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but in Noah's time, like, okay, we're going to drown
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all these children who are not wicked, but it's because
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their forefathers are wicked, and that's how slow God is
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to react to these things.
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Yeah, yeah. Have you heard of the orphan crushing machine?
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Oh, should we invest? Get it on the ground floor?
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No. No.
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What is the Orphan Crushing Machine?
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Okay, so this is a, it's a thought, I don't
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know if you call it a thought experiment or just
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maybe an idiom or whatever. But it's– people bring it
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up whenever they– whenever you have one of those, like,
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feel-good stories about a kid who– paid for their cancer
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treatment by you know by selling lemonade or by you
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know doing you know or like it's like oh we
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you know um um i i i've been making this
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art and uh and and through this i've been able
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to raise awareness and and little timmy gets you know
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is able to uh get his treatment or or whatever
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or um you know we we we raised enough money
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uh by doing this quaint little thing So that so
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that little Timmy beat cancer because, you know, he was
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able to afford the treatment and beat cancer.
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Right.
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Or or we did, you know, like like this, this
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quirky little funny Internet meme. And it was enough to
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raise money to get mosquito nets for, you know, the
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people down in that one country who were being plagued
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by mosquitoes. And all they literally needed was. mosquito nets
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to save billions of lives. And isn't that great? And
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look at this meme and stuff like that.
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Michael's wife was dying of a disease and he was
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out of sick days and his co-workers pulled their sick
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days together and gave them to him.
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Yes, that's exactly it, right? And these stories get so
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many likes and so many shares and so many reposts
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and all of that all over the internet. And nobody
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ever Nobody in the comments says anything like, hey, isn't
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it kind of fucked up that.
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We have to do that.
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In order for kids to get cancer treatment? Isn't it
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kind of fucked up that we don't just pay for
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the fucking mosquito nets? And, you know, and like they're
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comparing it to it's like, isn't it great that Timmy
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was was given a reprieve from the orphan crushing machine?
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Isn't that great? And it's like, why don't we dismantle
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the orphan crushing machine? Let's get rid of that.
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But what about the shareholders? What about my investment?
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What about the flies and the microbes? Yeah, but every
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time I see one of those things, I'm happy for
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the individual and their family. I'm like, great. Thank God.
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But then here's Twain saying, why are we thanking God?
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Let's fix the fucking problem. And not just be like, Oh,
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if you pray to God enough, then little Timmy will
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randomly be chosen not to get crushed in the orphan
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crushing machine.
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Right, right. This celebrity died and she left her children
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in terrible debt. And so we do a GoFundMe and
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we give the children money. And yeah, why do we
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allow that to happen to begin with? Yeah. Yeah. Why
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don't we just fix it so that child actors don't
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grow up into poverty and leave their children with nothing? Yeah.
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This little girl was going to school every day and
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she didn't have enough money for lunch because her family
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didn't have enough money for lunch. And so, oh, isn't
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it sweet? Isn't it cute? All of her classmates, you know,
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pitched in together and they made her, you know, like
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a feast for her birthday.
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Great. Awesome.
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How about she be able to eat for free every
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fucking day?
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Right.
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And every kid be able to eat for free every
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fucking day. But, oh, let's share this story all over.
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The place, right? Right. And there's like no good moment
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to be the wet blanket and be like.
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No.
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Yeah.
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Because then you're the asshole for bringing everybody down by
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pointing out that, hey, there's still an orphan crushing machine.
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Right. I like that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So dismantle the machine, folks. Anyway. But yeah. Twain says,
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Satan says, Very well. Six thousand years ago, Shem was
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full of hookworms, microscopic in size, invisible to the unaided eye.
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All of the creator's specially deadly disease producers are invisible.
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It is an ingenious idea. For thousands of years, it
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kept man from getting at the roots of his maladies
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and defeated his attempts to master them. It is only
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very recently that science has succeeded in exposing some of
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these treacheries. So I like that. So this is Twain's
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time peeking in, saying it's like very recently have we
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discovered germ theory.
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Mm-hmm.
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Well, I mean, comparatively recently. Right. I think by Twain's time. Yeah.
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In the Bible, it's just wickedness, I suppose. Right. Yeah.
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That's the solution.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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The very latest of these blessed triumphs of science is
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the discovery and identification of the ambuscaded assassin, which goes
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by the name of the hookworm. Its special prey is
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the barefooted poor. It lies in wait in warm regions
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and sandy places and digs its way into their unprotected feet.
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The hookworm was discovered two or three years ago by
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a physician who had been patiently studying its victims for
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a long time. The disease induced by the hookworm had
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been doing its evil work here and there in the
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earth ever since Shem landed on Ararat, but it was
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never suspected to be a disease at all. The people
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who had it were merely supposed to be lazy and
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were therefore despised and made fun of when they should
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have been pitied. The hookworm is a peculiarly... God damn it, Twain.
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The hookworm is a peculiarly... That was it. Peculiarly? Peculiar...
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It's a what-a-way. It's a what-a-way.
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The hookworm. You just have to, you did it once earlier,
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so you just have to copy and paste it for
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the whole episode.
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Yes. The hookworm is a peculiarly sneaking and underhanded invention
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and has done its surreptitious work unmolested for ages. But
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that physician and his helpers will exterminate it now. God
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is back of this. He has been thinking about it
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for 6,000 years and making up his mind. The idea
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of exterminating the hookworm was his. He came very near
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doing it before Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles did. But he
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is in time to get the credit of it. He
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always is.
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So, yes, God will get the credit for the eradication
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of the hookworm because God, it's all of God's plan.
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But it must have been God's plan that it was
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ruinous for everybody for, you know, the entirety of mankind.
515
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And this is what Twain is pointing out. Right.
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So, hookworm, I listened to a podcast called Stuff You
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Should Know, which is really great. It's a general interest podcast.
518
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And one of their episodes, they're based in Atlanta. And
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they they pointed out how a lot of the southern
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stereotypes we have, just as Twain is talking about, about laziness,
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like both with like poor whites and then poor blacks
522
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in the south with laziness might have had to do
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with their hookworm epidemic. Oh, yeah. So that was, you know,
524
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so nowadays, you know, people don't go around in, you know,
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in the country without shoes, but. That might have been
526
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a big part of it, like thinking about, oh, everybody
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just talks slow and is, like, lazy and, you know,
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seems slow-witted. And it was, you know, a couple of
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generations of, yeah, hookworm.
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Oh, God.
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Mm-hmm.
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I am looking at pictures of it now, which I— folks,
533
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which I do not recommend. You can literally see it, like,
534
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just a long red string underneath the skin of the foot.
535
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Right.
536
00:26:39.609 --> 00:26:42.069
It's, oh, God, it looks like it hurts. Ah, my
537
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feet are hurting right now just looking at it. Yeah.
538
00:26:44.009 --> 00:26:46.740
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's from walking around in kind of muddy,
539
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muddy situations. So, like, you know, dirt roads that, when
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it's wet enough, become muddy. And that's your only way
541
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to and from, you know, your place to the town,
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you know, to the shop, to even the doctor's office,
543
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and you can get hookworm everywhere. Yeah.
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And I'm sure, I mean, like, yeah, when there were slaves,
545
00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:09.599
they were afflicted with this and accused of being, quote-unquote, lazy. Right.
546
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Yeah. Oh, God. God. And so it's associated with the South, and,
547
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you know... So they were pointing this out because they're
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from Atlanta, and they're like, you know, Atlanta is a
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great metropolis of, you know, it's just as sophisticated as
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Philadelphia or wherever. But, yeah, but that, like, generations later,
551
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they're still living with that stereotype. And, yeah, and then
552
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when it's racialized, obviously, like you're saying, it's even more pernicious. Oh, God.
553
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Eesh. Eesh.
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Okay.
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00:27:30.849 --> 00:27:32.680
Well, there we go. Hookworms, folks.
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So Twain would be familiar with that stereotype, obviously.
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He would be very familiar.
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Missouri, right.
559
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Mm-hmm. Yeah. Ay-yi-yi.
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Okay.
561
00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:43.039
So. He continues, he says, it is going to cost
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a million dollars. He was probably just in the act
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of contributing that sum when a man pushed in ahead
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of him, as usual, Mr. Rockefeller.
565
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So God was about to give that money, and he
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00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:57.589
didn't have to because Rockefeller did. God was patting his
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pants pockets going, oh, it must be around here somewhere.
568
00:28:03.130 --> 00:28:03.630
My wallet.
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Let there be my wallet.
570
00:28:08.349 --> 00:28:09.430
No, not that fast, not that fast.
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Yes.
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God comes back from the bathroom after dinner as Rockefeller's
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paying the... No!
574
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Oh.
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No, not again.
576
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You got it the last time. Yes, and the time
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before that. And because he can see all and know all,
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00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:27.880
he knew exactly how long to wait in the bathroom.
579
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Oh, yes, yes.
580
00:28:30.809 --> 00:28:35.630
Oh, jeez. I tell you, him and Philippe Lebel.
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Right, Philippe Lebel. Yep, yep, yep.
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But yeah, as usual, Mr. Rockefeller, he furnishes the million,
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but the credit will go elsewhere, as usual. This morning's
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journal tells us something about the hookworm's operations. Okay, this
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is what Twain understood about the hookworm. The hookworm parasites
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often so lower the vitality of those who are affected
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as to retard their physical and mental development, render them
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more susceptible to other diseases, make labor less efficient, and,
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in the sections where the malady is most prevalent— greatly
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increased the death rate from consumption, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and malaria.
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It has been shown that the lowered vitality of multitudes
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long attributed to malaria and climate and seriously affecting economic
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development is in fact due in some districts to this parasite.
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The disease is by no means confined to any one class.
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It takes its toll of suffering and death from the
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highly intelligent and well-to-do as well as from the less fortunate.
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It is a conservative estimate that two millions of our
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people are affected by this parasite. The disease is more
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common and more serious in children of school age. than
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in other persons. Widespread and serious as the infection is,
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there is still a most encouraging outlook. This disease can
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be easily recognized, readily and effectively treated, and by simple
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and proper sanitary precautions successfully prevented. And then brackets, with
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God's help. The poor children are under the eye, capital E,
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that never sleeps, you see. They have had that ill
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luck in all the ages. They and the Lord's poor,
607
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as the sarcastic phrase goes, have never been able to
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get away from that eye's attentions. Yes, the poor, the humble,
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the ignorant, they are the ones that catch it. Take
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the sleeping sickness of Africa. This atrocious cruelty has for
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its victims a race of, as Twain puts it, ignorant
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and unoffending blacks, whom God placed in a remote wilderness
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and bent his parental eye upon them, the one that
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never sleeps when there is a chance to breed sorrow
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for somebody. He arranged for these people before the flood.
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The chosen agent was a fly, related to the Titsi.
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The Titsi is a fly, which has command of the
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Zambezi country, and stings cattle and horses to death, thus
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rendering that region uninhabitable by man. The Titsi's awful relative
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deposits a microbe which produces the sleeping sickness, ham, that's
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Noah's other son, Ham, was full of these microbes. And
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when the voyage was over, he discharged them in Africa.
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And the havoc began, never to find amelioration until 6,000
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years should go by, and science should pry into the
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mystery and hunt out the cause of the disease. The
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pious nations are now thanking God and praising him for
627
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coming to the rescue of his poor, as Dwayne puts it, blacks.
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The pulpit says the praise is due to him. He
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is surely a curious being. He commits a fearful crime,
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00:31:24.930 --> 00:31:28.170
continues that crime unbroken for 6,000 years, and is then
631
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entitled to praise because he suggests to somebody else to
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modify its severities. He is called patient, and he certainly
633
00:31:34.990 --> 00:31:37.109
must be patient, or he would have sunk the pulpit
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in perdition ages ago for the ghastly compliments it pays him.
635
00:31:40.710 --> 00:31:44.099
Science has this to say about the sleeping sickness, otherwise called, oh,
636
00:31:44.970 --> 00:31:46.230
I didn't know it was called that back in the day.
637
00:31:46.849 --> 00:31:50.450
According to Twain, the N-word lethargy.
638
00:31:50.710 --> 00:31:51.910
Well, one of the N-words.
639
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One of the N-words.
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00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:53.059
The lesser N-word.
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00:31:54.609 --> 00:31:57.329
If there is such a thing. And then the next
642
00:31:57.410 --> 00:31:59.890
bit is in italics for me. Is it that way
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for you?
644
00:32:00.410 --> 00:32:00.609
Yes.
645
00:32:01.009 --> 00:32:01.569
Okay, so this is.
646
00:32:02.009 --> 00:32:03.890
Like he's quoting, but I don't know if we have
647
00:32:03.930 --> 00:32:04.769
what he's actually quoting.
648
00:32:04.829 --> 00:32:08.529
Yeah. It looks like a medical book or something like that. Okay,
649
00:32:08.569 --> 00:32:11.809
so this is Twain quoting Satan, quoting a medical book,
650
00:32:11.990 --> 00:32:15.410
I think. Quote, It is characterized by periods of sleep
651
00:32:15.470 --> 00:32:18.460
recurring at intervals. The disease lasts from four months to
652
00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:21.039
four years and is always fatal. The victim appears at
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first languid, weak, pallid, and stupid. His eyelids become puffy.
654
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An eruption appears on his skin. He falls asleep while talking, eating,
655
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or working. As the disease progresses, he is fed with
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difficulty and becomes much emaciated. The failure of nutrition and
657
00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:39.230
the appearance of bed sores are followed by convulsions and death.
658
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.740
Some patients become insane. And then this is Satan again.
659
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It is he whom church and people call our father
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in heaven who has invented the fly and sent him
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to inflict this dreary long misery and melancholy and wretchedness
662
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:54.599
and decay of body and mind upon a poor... Twain
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00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:57.380
says savage, who has done the great criminal no harm.
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The great criminal being capitalized, GC. Calling God a great criminal.
665
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.640
Yeah, yeah.
666
00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:05.839
There isn't a man in the world who doesn't pity
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00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:08.619
the poor black sufferer. And there isn't a man that
668
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.940
wouldn't make him whole if he could. To find the
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00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:13.279
one person who has no pity for him, you must
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00:33:13.339 --> 00:33:16.720
go to heaven. To find the one person who is
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able to heal him and couldn't be persuaded to do it,
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00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:21.420
you must go to the same place. There is only
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one father cruel enough to afflict his child with that
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terrible disease. Only one. Not all the eternities can produce
675
00:33:27.869 --> 00:33:31.349
another one. Do you like reproachful, poetical indignations warmly expressed?
676
00:33:31.569 --> 00:33:33.339
Here is one, hot from the heart of a slave.
677
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:36.539
Yeah, and this means slave just as humankind in general,
678
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.319
not an African slave or someone from Africa here.
679
00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:40.880
Right, who was abducted and enslaved.
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00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.740
Right, so they're all, yeah, all of humanity is a
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slave to this great criminal.
682
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.750
Yes, yeah. And then this particular one is Scottish poet
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00:33:49.869 --> 00:33:55.390
Robert Burns. And he says, man's inhumanity to man makes
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countless thousands mourn. So Twain's Satan has quoted.
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This guy.
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And he continues. He says, I will tell you a
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pleasant tale which has in it a touch of pathos.
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A man got religion and asked the priest what he
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must do to be worthy of his new state. The
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priest said, imitate our father in heaven. Learn to be
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like him. The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly
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and understandingly, and then, with prayers for heavenly guidance, instituted
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00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.980
his imitations. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs, and
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00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:27.639
she broke her back and became a paralytic for life.
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He betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper
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00:34:30.739 --> 00:34:32.550
who robbed him of his all and landed him in
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the almshouse. What is a sharper?
698
00:34:35.110 --> 00:34:36.469
Um, I don't know.
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00:34:36.670 --> 00:34:39.130
A person who cheats and swindles others. Ah, like a
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00:34:39.150 --> 00:34:39.449
con man.
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I see.
702
00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:42.320
Okay, so betrayed his brother into the hands of a conman,
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a sharper, who robbed him of his all and landed
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him in the almshouse. He inoculated one son with hookworms,
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another with a sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea. He furnished
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one daughter with scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens, deaf, dumb,
707
00:34:55.019 --> 00:34:58.179
and blind for life. And after helping a rascal seduce
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the remaining one, he closed his doors against her and
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she died in a brothel cursing him. Then he reported
710
00:35:03.769 --> 00:35:06.110
to the priest, who said that that was no way
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00:35:06.150 --> 00:35:08.369
to imitate his father in heaven. The convert asked wherein
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00:35:08.409 --> 00:35:10.619
he had failed. But the priest changed the subject and
713
00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:12.320
inquired what kind of weather he was having up his way.
714
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.150
Everybody talks about heavenly weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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00:35:16.380 --> 00:35:16.840
Yeah.
716
00:35:17.530 --> 00:35:17.780
Okay.
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So I feel like I've heard this anecdote before. Is
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Twain the first one to have a guy go to
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a priest and say, like, hey, what should I do
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to be a good person? And the priest says, be
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more like God. And then he goes and does terrible,
722
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horrible things. And the priest is like, what are you doing?
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It's like, I'm being more like God, according to the Bible.
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I've heard this, I've heard this anecdote before, but do
725
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you think this is, it sounds like you haven't.
726
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No, no, no. That was new to me.
727
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:51.800
I wonder if this is the first instance of it.
728
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Okay. So what did we, what did we think
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of this letter?
731
00:35:56.659 --> 00:36:00.000
It's a pretty surprising branch off of the Noah story, right?
732
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To then go into the nature of disease and, and, um,
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and the nature of, uh, suffering and God's relation to man. It's,
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it's really interesting. It's, Because, again, like how short the
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Noah's Ark story is and now to use this as
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this jumping off point is very interesting and, you know,
737
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very shocking where he takes it.
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Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, this is posthumously published. I
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almost want to assume that he planned to maybe cover
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the whole Bible. and maybe there were other, you know,
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places that he could, you know, that he could talk about, right. The, the,
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the cruelties of racism and the, and, um, uh, the
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way that, um, uh, the poor are treated and everything
744
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like that. But, but maybe not, maybe, I mean, you know,
745
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:41.760
maybe we're going to get to the end of this
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thing and realize like, oh, that was the perfect place to, to,
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to put it was here.
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00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:50.190
Um, yeah. And again, it's like such a unambiguously, uh,
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you know, cut black and white story, Noah's Ark, right?
750
00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:55.530
Everything that God does is great. God saves humanity.
751
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From the orphan crushing machine.
752
00:36:58.750 --> 00:37:01.710
Right. That is very interesting. And yeah, I'm constantly surprised
753
00:37:01.750 --> 00:37:05.309
how in this whole Twain season we're doing, how able
754
00:37:05.349 --> 00:37:06.030
he is to shock me.
755
00:37:06.630 --> 00:37:06.829
Yeah.
756
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Yeah.
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00:37:08.150 --> 00:37:12.030
It is, like, it is not at all like, like,
758
00:37:13.230 --> 00:37:16.650
like the Twain I knew, right? But, but I guess that's,
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00:37:16.849 --> 00:37:22.110
that's partially why these works are so special and it like,
760
00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:26.750
you see a soft spot for, for humanity and a, a,
761
00:37:27.030 --> 00:37:29.929
a wish that, that things were better and that suffering
762
00:37:29.969 --> 00:37:33.260
was less and, and that, that people were less racist
763
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:34.699
and more kind to each other and everything like that.
764
00:37:34.739 --> 00:37:37.000
You see that in his writings, but it's, it is
765
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.280
the writings of, of somebody who has lost so many
766
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:41.860
people and who is, is about to die himself. And
767
00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:46.710
he's just like, it's fucking Christianity, man. Like, like the hell,
768
00:37:46.889 --> 00:37:47.090
you know?
769
00:37:47.110 --> 00:37:47.670
Mm-hmm.
770
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:51.679
Or at least people's constructed Christianity.
771
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.099
Right. Or sure, as people are comforting him through all
772
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:57.139
of his losses and potentially comforting him through his potential death.
773
00:37:57.989 --> 00:37:58.949
Oh, yeah. Right?
774
00:37:59.010 --> 00:37:59.590
Of course. Of course.
775
00:37:59.650 --> 00:38:02.369
Every single time he loses a loved one, they're going
776
00:38:02.389 --> 00:38:03.929
to be like, God works in mysterious ways.
777
00:38:04.110 --> 00:38:04.230
Right.
778
00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:06.769
And like, oh, God has a plan. And so, of course,
779
00:38:06.809 --> 00:38:08.750
that stuff is going to go into his writings. He's like, oh, yeah,
780
00:38:08.769 --> 00:38:09.780
this is God's plan.
781
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:12.159
Wow. Yeah.
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Well, stick with us, folks. We've got some more letters
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