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
One Good Plan Beats a Hundred
Ron stumbles through an introduction before reading Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Cat," a tale about a boastful fox with numerous escape plans and a practical cat with just one reliable strategy.
• Fox boasts about having "a hundred ways of escaping enemies"
• Cat admits to having only one escape strategy
• When hounds approach, the cat immediately climbs a tree to safety
• Fox gets caught while contemplating his many options
• Moral: "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon"
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Speaker 1:We're reading another fable by Aesop, and this one is the Fox and the Cat. Let's begin, shall we? A fox was boasting to a cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies. I have a whole bag of tricks, he said, which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies. I have a whole bag of tricks, he said, which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies. I only have one, said the cat. Well, I can generally manage with that.
Speaker 1:Just at that moment, they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming toward them, and the cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs. This is my plan, said the cat. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? The fox thought first of one way, then another, and while he was debating, the hounds came nearer and nearer and at last the fox, in his confusion, was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsman. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said Better one safe way than a hundred, on which you cannot reckon. This has been the Fox and the Cat, a fable by Aesop. Please, like this podcast. Like it. Like it enough to subscribe and to rate it very highly and to leave a comment. That is so wonderful that all the other podcasters will pull out their hair.