He never went rogue again.
But you know what's interesting about what you're saying right now is just, like, the kids in Ms. Jefferson's class are going to be pissed at you because they don't have the privilege they used to have, right?
He does have a lot of fears in his daily life-- taking too much of someone's time, not being able to order at Shake Shack when there's a line behind him. And you can't tell me that you don't remember. And as you just saw, that word still is like very hard for me to say. Like, oh, that.
His dad was really strict. So he can still make little sounds with his teeth and tongue and lips, but not his voice.And talking to him on Skype, the same thing would happen as when he was on stage. Yeah, I mean, definitely. And that made him think about the story differently. You have to open up your mind and either to take the decision to make an extra coin or probably to listen to the company and go home empty-handed. That's about it. The sentence begins, "The Black feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw once wrote," and then a quote. And I was like-- I was like-- I noted the stress. And then I-- and then I would start saying Sean, because sometimes the "sh" sound is easy. Tone had been working his ass off for weeks, and all he had was six bucks, which was a tiny fraction of what MP had. But he had her once a day for math, so he got to earn Jefferson bucks too.
At the end of the week, you could cash your Jefferson bucks in at the Jefferson Market, a little store Ms. Jefferson set up at her desk. I like to think of it like it's something that we share. No matter how many times a day you saw her, you could only earn money during the hour of math class. So in that way he was simultaneously adhering to the rules and breaking them at the same time. And I cancel. And I didn't realize that until now, that I think that was the primary fear. Occasionally, someone gets on stage in between acts and tells everybody to keep it short. I became acutely aware of that while editing our conversation. But sometimes, Jerome's vocal chords get stuck in the middle between being at rest and touching. Their face will-- will move in certain ways, which I do sometimes. And then hearing like, oh, I made $11 today. But he got justice. House always wins.But then as they all stood around discussing this, one of the drivers told Benjamen about a kind of a workaround they had up their sleeve-- a cheat code.
We'll call her Natasha.
But like, to not get caught, I have to give this bitch hush money.So I think I gave her my whole left pocket, if I'm not mistaken, because it was already split in half. So imagine a soaring, cavernous sanctuary with a podium on the altar up front.Mostly, the marathon is set up as a kind of churn.
I'm not going to take another Uber. You go with the estimate, which means Uber will not get the commission. But you see it worked for others. His recent work-- Jerome Ellis, composer and musician, but he didn't have an instrument with him or even anything to read off of. I know it should be, but it's not. It's This American Life. So now it was a kind of catch-all phrase for paying any sort of driver under the table. I've tried to be more chivalrous. So you start to see the eyeballs come at you like, oh, man, too many people know. Listen to This American Life episodes free, on demand. His neighbor, who we're calling MP, told him, that's not the teacher you want. And I'm like, oh my god. And so I split that in half, and then I stuffed my pockets.
I'm Sean Cole.
I first encountered this law in a book about strange laws from around the world. There are more than 150 people on the program. As soon as it happened-- like breaks to me, it doesn't capture what I wanted to capture. Right, it's up to you at that point. To learn more about Jerome Ellis and his many projects, visit jeromeellis.com. But the one thing neither of us could figure out is, what are we supposed to learn from Natasha? Yeah, because I often look up.