Ron Reads Boring Books
Are you tired? You will be. Because I will read to you a boring book and it will be worse than you doing nothing. This podcast is not intended to entertain you. It is intended to bore you. The length of each podcast will vary so you cannot plan your listening easily. Some reads will be short. Some will be excruciatingly long. There will be no intro or outro music. The only sound is my voice and other random sounds as they happen. I change my voice as I read the dialog. Also, I have a southern accent and do not read well. Thank you for listening.
Ron Reads Boring Books
The Gods Help Those Who Help Themselves
Ron delivers another intentionally boring reading of Aesop's "Hercules and the Wagoner," a classic fable about self-reliance and the importance of taking action before seeking divine intervention.
• A wagoner gets his cart stuck in deep mud and immediately prays to Hercules for help
• Instead of rescuing him, Hercules tells the wagoner to get up and put his shoulder to the wheel
• The fable concludes with the famous moral: "The gods help them that help themselves"
• Ron maintains his trademark monotone delivery throughout the short reading
• The episode clocks in at under three minutes, perfect for a quick dose of ancient wisdom
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Hello, are you tired? You will be. This is Ron Reads Boring Books and we're about to read Aesop's Fables again. We're going to read Hercules and the Wagoner. Let's start now. You've been waiting. The wait is over. Here it is. Here it is. A wagoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank halfway into the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels. So the wagoner threw down his whip and knelt down and prayed to Hercules the Strong. Oh Hercules, help me in this, my hour of distress, quoth he. But Hercules appeared to him and said Tut man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel. The gods help them that help themselves. This has been another extremely boring fable of Aesop, hercules and the Wagoner. We'd appreciate a subscription from you a like, a subscribe, a rating, a review. Thank you.