Sean Carroll
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26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 4d ago
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.
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I'm your host, Sean Carroll.
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I'm not sure whether I've ever told this particular story on the podcast before, but a few years ago, I was playing poker in Las Vegas.
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And one of the things about playing poker is it can be a social game.
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You know, it's fine if everyone at the table is just...
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playing quietly, that's okay.
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Sometimes there are drunk slash obnoxious people.
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That makes it less fun.
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But the best is when you get a gregarious bunch of at least some people who want to sort of laugh and joke and have a good time while they're trying to win each other's money.
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In this particular case, there was a guy sitting across from me with a thick British accent, and he was a very working-class looking guy.
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You know, he was like middle-aged, heavyset, bald head, and very voluble.
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You know, he was cracking jokes, making everyone laugh, and it was a good time.
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He was a good person to have at the table.
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At one point, someone asked him what he did for a living, and he said that he was a writer.
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And I immediately, I don't know why, but immediately I wanted to joke, what kind of writing do you do?
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Poetry?
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Because he just seemed so down to earth and working class that poetry seemed like the last thing that he would be writing.
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Someone else happily did ask him, what kind of writing do you do?
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And he said, poetry.
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He's a professional poet.
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