Lester Ryan Clark
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109 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard Oct 2024
Lester Ryan Clark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That hurts more than just not having that there or showing two people that like sharing a Pepsi in a hospital waiting room after being beaten by the police. Like that would make me identify with Pepsi a little bit more because at least it's putting things in perspective.
It's just words you're saying.
When was one of the last times you caught yourself being impatient and caught yourself meaning like you had a, oh, I'm doing this, like what I'm talking about, more of like a Vipassana. Vipassana. Vipassana. Vipassana. I tried to write it down.
Okay. Vipassana reaction. Do you know? Do you remember?
I love that. And because I learned that maybe your patience would have been running a little bit low or your kindness like this, I started the process of getting ready to record 45 minutes before you showed up because, of course, my mic didn't work and I couldn't open the computer and the volume was down. I started that process last night so I could be ready for you.
So I'm just curious that I'm still alive.
It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, how the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, how the floor receives the bottom of shoes. Or toes, how soles of feet know where they're supposed to be.
I've been thinking about the patience of ordinary things, how clothes wait respectfully in closets, and soap dries quietly in the dish, and towels drink the wet from the skin of the back, and the lovely repetition of stares. And what is more generous than a window? The End
pete live laugh love tom live laugh love pete that's gonna be our uh and and unto you it'll always be like uh yes yes uh live laugh love wine o'clock um pete i want to tell you a tale that i've told before i've told you oh good but the kids love repetition oh okay all right as far as i can remember not on any podcast and there's a chance i told it on this podcast
because we stopped writing down on coda all the things we talked about we stopped doing that a long time ago and that was a mistake huge mistake okay yeah so you may remember as the story is going along that it sounds familiar but i want to tell it in a different light are you intrigued oh yeah okay uh yes and harrowed well i was going to say this story can be best described in one word
Harrowing, Pete. Harrowing. Actually, for once, that's actually not true. What could have been harrowing was rendered relatively harrowless, if that's a word, by the two topics we're discussing today, kindness and patience, and the new word that I just learned, vapapasana. What is it? Vapapasana? That's too many. Vipasana. Vipasana. Vipasana. Vipasana. It's Vipasana. Okay, let's dive in. Yeah.
Let me begin by setting the scene. I'm going to move this over here. For this hero-ish tale, we are going all the way back to November 27th
2023 pete to put this bygone era in perspective the number one song on the billboard charts was cruel summer by taylor swift and the number one movie in the country was the hunger games colon the ballad of songbirds and snakes and for me that's still in the dollar theaters 100 this was not very long ago I just wanted to say colon Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
As for me, on that day, I received a call. Did I answer the call? No. What am I, a sociopath? I didn't recognize the number, so I immediately sent it to voicemail. And I listened to it later that day, and there was a pleasant but bored-sounding man who said they were calling from the LADWP. That's the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. They keep the lights on and the water afloat.
He said that they had noticed that my bill was, quote, a little higher than normal. this cycle, and that if I wanted any helpful hints on how to reduce my electrical usage, I should call them. I was like, well, that's nice of them, I thought. I wonder how much higher it could have been. So I hopped online to check.
Pete, as you know, and our avid listeners know, I live in a one-bedroom apartment with my dog, and I pay my water electric bill every two months. Is that how you do it? Is it every month or every two months? I don't know if that's universal. That's how they do it.
Every two months. And my average bill is around $180. I don't honestly know if that's a lot or a little. It goes up in the summer because the San Fernando Valley is built on the sun, but it's usually about $180. And so I got that nice call message from that nice call man, and it was going a little bit over. I was guessing what? Maybe 250, 260? Sure.
That's just under six times more than my average bill. And that guy called to see if I wanted any tips. This is not where you get. What was his tip going to be?
Like, sir, have you tried unplugging eight of the nine refrigerators you just bought? Like, I couldn't understand what tip. Like don't use all 300 of the electric blankets you just got from Amazon. So obviously the meter reader guy read the meter wrong or she, my apologies, the meter reader person read the meter wrong. And so I called customer service and I wait on hold for 48 minutes, Pete.
And I know I'm in the right. And I know this is all annoying and I'm getting a little bit annoyed and And I'm waiting and I'm waiting. And the hold music I remember is somehow insanely loud. Like I turned my phone down, but it's piped in so loud there's distortion. It's like... So it's really hard.
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