On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while searching for positivity amid the readily available gloom and doom.
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Show notes:
“09 Baseline Wage” by Sean Tobin can be found at https://youtu.be/ocWy__pub0k?si=Soq_iAu62bIRZxHC
Here are the opening lyrics to the song “Before the Deluge” by Jackson Browne, as retrieved at https://genius.com/Jackson-browne-before-the-deluge-lyrics
Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other’s hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge
Concerning Seeing Eye Dog training: https://www.guidedogs.com/about-guide-dogs-for-the-blind/dog-departments/guide-dog-training
That moment in the Laurel & Hardy movie “The Flying Deuces” wherein Ollie laments having been rejected by the love of his life and Stanley, sympathizing, eats his friend’s gift chocolates, go to https://youtu.be/vuFxgvZbu2k?t=690.
In “Othello,” the speech in which the words “Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage” can be found — Mal recited this full speech with their friend and classmate Kristin in a high school Shakespeare club setting — is in Act 4, Scene 3:
(Emilia to Desdemona):
Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would
store the world they played for.
But I do think it is their husbands’ faults
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite;
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
If memory serves, Mal was also able to recite Puck’s farewell speech at the end of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends
Good stuff. Or, as it were: Cowabunga!