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
A Snake in Your Bosom
This podcast challenges categorization as a sleep aid, positioning itself instead as a space for practicing boredom together through Aesop's fables. Ron reads "The Woodman and the Serpent," a tale about kindness betrayed and the nature of wickedness.
• Clarification that this podcast is not designed to help listeners fall asleep
• Exploration of the difference between boredom and sleep as mental states
• Reading of Aesop's "The Woodman and the Serpent" fable
• Discussion of the moral "no gratitude from the wicked"
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Hello. Are you tired? You will be. You'll be very tired. I'm about to read another fable from Aesop. Who knows, I may read another one after this.
Speaker 1:This podcast is not for you to fall asleep. I don't know why they keep categorizing my podcast and grouping it with other podcasts that are created to help you rest peacefully. I don't want that. You don't want that. How can you be tired if you're sleeping? How can you be bored and be asleep at the same time? That is our purpose. We're practicing boredom together. Let's enjoy this time.
Speaker 1:The title is the Woodman and the Serpent Serpent. One wintry day, a woodman was tramping home from his work when he saw something black lying in the snow. When he came closer he saw it was a serpent, to all appearance dead, but he took it up and put it in his bosom to warm while he hurried home. As soon as he got indoors, he put the serpent down on the hearth before the fire. The children watched it and saw it slowly come to life again. Then one of them stooped down to stroke it. But the serpent raised its head and put out its fangs and was about to sting the child to death. So the woodman seized his axe and, with one stroke cut the serpent in two. Ah, said he, no gratitude from the wicked. Hit that subscribe button. Click on that fifth star. Say your words of gratitude, because there is none from the wicked, thank you.