Ray's High School Hello Trauma and the Journeyman Defense

• 45:36Ray claims strangers saying hello to him in high school upset him and he didn't like it.
• 46:17Ray describes himself as a journeyman who keeps his head down and likes to do the work.
• 46:28Tim attacks Ray's journeyman defense, pointing out he wouldn't take a journey to sentence number two after someone said hello.
• 47:12Tim tells Ray not to come claim he's terrified of attention and then exaggerate minor inconveniences.
• 47:31Tim argues Ray's problems—people stopping him at airports—are nothing compared to actual suffering like leprosy and necrotizing fasciitis.
• 47:58Ray tells Tim about a good-looking guy at a barbecue who interrogated him while he was trying to eat hog meat about his success.
• 48:42Tim suggests Ray should have asked the guy if he could eat his weed edible instead.
• 49:02Ray's friend Ben told him that a tall good-looking guy with no friends is always the guy's fault, not everyone else's.
• 49:14Tim wants to defend a podcast episode he loves, though he admits it's tougher now that he knows the guest Russ Baker better.
• 50:01Tim brings up James McMurtry's quote about Barbara Bush knowing how to hate and his song about William Jennings Bryan preaching every night.

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