George Saunders
👤 Speaker
2018
total appearances
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
I'm going to fight all four of you at once.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
The risky thing—none of them showed up.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
That's why we were so in demand.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
One thing I had, for some reason, I had, how would you say it?
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
I had connections both high and low.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
So I knew a lot of tough kids and a lot of druggy kids.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And so I just put out feelers among a few of those.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And they go, oh, yeah, we know who it is.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And it turned out that it was these four kids.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Because it had been a plot that people knew about.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Yeah, and it wasn't directed at me.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
But, of course, I took it that way.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And so – but for me, I think about it as kind of the hubris that I had to, first of all, to take it so personally and to have my ego so easily hurt.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And then to think I was going to go out like a vigilante and –