Jack London

And I still remember the book.

I was reading Jack London's Call of the Wild.

And that was the type of book that Ron liked because he'd been a merchant marine in his life.

He traveled all over the world.

And he loved to tell travel stories.

So when he was unable to tell travel stories, those of us who were working with him, caring for him, we said, well, let's read the stories we know he liked.

And so I was reading this Jack London called The Wild.

I remember I was, we were in the, I did a ride and it was this, you know, story across, you know, whatever, up in Alaska or something.

And I still remember the book.

I was reading Jack London's Call of the Wild.

And that was the type of book that Ron liked because he'd been a merchant marine in his life.

He traveled all over the world.

And he loved to tell travel stories.

So when he was unable to tell travel stories, those of us who were working with him, caring for him, we said, well, let's read the stories we know he liked.

And so I was reading this Jack London called The Wild.

I remember I was, we were in the, I did a ride and it was this, you know, story across, you know, whatever, up in Alaska or something.

It was their first season.

I got cast in an adaptation of the novel Martin Eden by Jack London.

It's a story about a young man who dreams of becoming an author.

It's in the early 20th century in California.

I don't think we really, we just kind of go for it.

Hey guys, what's up?

Yeah, today we're talking about Upton Sinclair, the guy.

This is in the 90s, I think, still.

He said, we got to verify.

yeah he would learn

yeah these two guys one was a labor commissioner and the other is a social worker we're supposed to be showing up at the meat factories for surprise inspections but word got out that they were going to be doing these surprise inspections so the um meat guys like the owners of these factories had their employees working pretty much all day like 24 hours for weeks to try to like get things cleaned up just past the inspection when these inspectors came in they were still like instantly disgusted this did not help at all they're like what the

oh my god you know what's funny just slight note as a person who works in a factory is whenever we have inspections we also know when they are i mean there there might be some that we don't know about but it'll be like oh this company this big company that you self-rise for they're coming next week to inspect all your shit so then it's like okay everyone clean clean really well because they're gonna be here next week and that seems like cheating

I'm delighted to have you reading along April.

Michael says, reminds me of something I read in one of Jack London's books, either call of the wild or white Fang.

A guy was surrounded by starving wolves with his fire that was keeping them away about to die.

He suddenly realized the miracle of his body and how his fingers worked was so elegant.

looking down on what was once a great city, while coming slowly to meet you, a hand stretched out in greeting to you is a beautiful girl whose very existence may be the cause of your death.

So listen next week when Escape brings you Jack London's classic novel, The Scarlet Plague.

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