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There are people in this world who live like the rules were written for somebody else. Guy Fried is one of those people.
He survived boarding schools. He was at Idlewild South when Idlewild South was the place to be. He was at the Byron Pop Festival when half of Georgia showed up and the other half wished they had. He rode horses to fallout shelters at the height of the Cold War, when everybody thought the world might actually end and some people apparently decided the best response to that was to saddle up.
He kept a lion. He jumped cars on a motorcycle inside the Macon Coliseum. He ran with Evel Knievel. And one day he decided he was going to become a professional rodeo cowboy — having never ridden in a rodeo in his life.
He became one anyway.
But none of that is actually what this conversation is about. It’s about a man who loved his people fiercely, who was shaped by a father and mother who poured everything into him, and who one day had to face losing that. And he’ll tell you about it straight — no performance, no self-pity. Just the truth, the way a man tells it when he’s lived enough to know the difference between a story and the thing that actually happened.
I’m Brad Evans. This is Mostly Harmless. And this my conversation with Guy Fried
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