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
When Power Preys on Innocence
In this final installment of Aesop's fables, we present "The Wolf and the Lamb," a timeless tale about power, false accusations, and the arbitrary nature of tyranny. The story culminates with the profound dying words of the lamb: "Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
• A wolf spots a lamb drinking from a spring downstream and decides to make it his supper
• The wolf falsely accuses the lamb of muddying his drinking water
• When the lamb points out this is impossible since water flows downstream, the wolf claims the lamb insulted him a year ago
• The lamb explains this couldn't be true as it's only six months old
• Undeterred, the wolf declares "If it was not you, it was your father" before attacking
• Before dying, the lamb delivers the moral: "Any excuse will serve a tyrant"
• This is the 14th and final Aesop's fable in our series
Hello, are you tired? You will be, because this is the 14th fable of Aesop and the last for a long time. I can't take anymore. Just ignore that sound you just heard. It didn't happen. Forget and enjoy the wolf. Wolf and the lamb. Once upon a time, a wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside side. When looking up, what should he see? But a lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down, there's my supper, thought he.
Speaker 2:If only I can find some excuse to seize it.
Speaker 1:Then he called out to the lamb how dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking? Nay, master nay said lamb lamb, bican, lamb bican, lambicon, lambicon.
Speaker 2:If the water be muddied up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me. Well then, said the wolf why did you call me bad names this time last year? That cannot be said the lamb. I am only six months old, I don't care, snarled the wolf. If it was not you, it was your father.
Speaker 1:And with that he rushed upon the poor lamb and ate her all up, but before she died she gasped out.
Speaker 2:Any excuse will serve a tyrant this has been Ron Reeds.
Speaker 1:Of course you know that. Thank you, goodbye.