A Word on Words; 0755; William Price Fox

he's program building into the world of books and there are dealing with another man mr jon seaton collar urban centers once again welcome to saving our guest is of a man who poses as humorous and a small imposes humorist he writes is won india's one william price fox welcome to were aware of that job for getting back and the book is so the chitlin strut chipman strut end of the mandibles of a magical thing but so that's a yeah that's a strange if not funny way of saying that is a book of love of essays some taken from real life some obviously a fertile and creative and funny man in the bill fox there are times when now when you're telling a true

story when i think he put me off an advance where nine no it's pure fiction but there is an element of truth and let me begin with the with the not the chickens drug will come back to the chicken which is the first to be as similar let's go to chinese baker because this is one of the most outrageous indictments collegiate football has ever been written and the history of all literature and i've learned that you have absolutely have put down college football i mean imagine a coach who who employs as his nose guard a beast of beasts of the jungle an eighty five year old and it's too but of course they have that that screws

while modern student one athletes they have ideas for motel is in the room so he gets a big nice pears and gray and they get in their way where does that sort of as a song where you know it would take us on the phone is the second show we'll use it was we played on the end goal line stand and as a bright lights to end the doorstep a good memorable than a few dragons and this sub sub in an epic goal against him outstanding number of factual be a poison services and as i felt awkward about a look at it like this something from outer space dr in the eighties and our whole thing cameron was run as a business a chinese baby jacob economy has a deal called recruiting heartland

he sits it's like no car parts and so important thousand mother he get football players and football coaches i n e and that i'm in the year but it misses a national enquirer reporter so talk about a sleazy level to begin with you know say as we can operate there were talking about some philosophical approach and no he says show matt ryan works to meet but also you get in lima las vegas let's take good sleazy reporter leslie easy publication the night and pour them he was a big fall attorney baker and it found that the chinese is bad and it goes back to the gravesite and at the gravesite is that there's nothing in the gray an inverse fall a gravestone and johnny make fun and also he played for the buyer at all the gray stone is that what that he played for the bit

he's a source tells it was nothing nothing in that great run again and sure enough they'll the call when it's full of reader's digest condensed books that leads into two of his odyssey in which he chases down the real and still having journeyed by global cause he was called plan i guess though then has been relegated forever relegated audience the devil way too to those in march we imprison so so then let's talk about chinese in the end they and online louisiana puerto rican i'm assuming you take an early all as an absolutely and chinese tells you actively fights and out of the cell known security prison in florida and charles colson wayne he's letting all manner of food everything any hesitate in the backyard he also has is recruiting heartland joshua works he says the mere college the gases

columbia harvard princeton and a real call to nominate someone bought things that alliance and he says arkansas penn state and he says ok the plugs him and so do you need any of personnel yes we need white that this coach minister combination mustn't mustn't be a drop top they are homosexual want to live on campus to make a thousand dollars plus radio rights religious riots no right men can make a hundred thousand dollars and he says there's no main man is a square back in west texas it was quarter million dollars one in twenty thousand dollars a year in what's a waiver on is this is going to that led coalition it was a waiver was the city's course those records and has grown little records that isn't as background the festival's for your best known as miami

brett that presses four pounds he's been all state taxes score back three years he then one woman play three years mississippi junior college three years canadian pro football will finish high school next year so yes says this gives no kid is twenty six s kam week witty manner that long of season we turn loose in again and knee injuries shoulder separation baseball player last kind of the job is as a madrigal out the overriding metaphor there but then you know what you'd done you've taken your own personal experience and your own personal views on the i suspect that your view of greek debt likes is added so that that's not but that exaggerated the metaphor is so

is so it's not done that farm you know your view of the real life you want houston right now the images that we've recorded seven seven foot six is and be the warriors speak life but they won't play because little willie uniform it won't play in the scale of the line and killed think it's another beautiful are also in sweat sex wizard and names and names some like three people lack a lightening up in but us allies you were making other goes on the field at ko says it is no longer a game it's a matter of you know you did now joel it's a big issue in our oceans or that but this was a common thing you know i put everything i played basketball baseball football or windows good short fest moment i was there some i simply want to come and become a coral and about the exploitation of people we were in

las vegas coach that are gaining in twelve years ago she graduated two ballplayers speaking it's a professional thing i should pay him money keep him off campus you know get away from the conway admits it on football charge admission were the norm customs like rome and lyons are the best to the northwestern you know that record at fat straight losses right princeton new with double teams but just to say the map out loaf of bible every band interest of the boat anything baseball football when you also get into celebrity golf mayo the area alone and little essay on on the golf and and you you weren't i take it that there is a celebrity golf tournament every year ordeal in your on

your man wearing your goal bed so you go back as a celebrity and of course the thing there is a couple of young female groupies on the new mickey newbury and they made up their minds that they were just in a much less leverage after the rally i guess low class one time and i had a great great weekend but the best the best the best part of the story had to do with the year after tournament entertain them which got long and boring and there's a great line in there about five feet we're clearing out the back of the room go on the bar one and was the alarm was that that that the start when the autoharp and with a long long road

there's palm of these volunteers while and the next dam next week he's going to the words of james fenimore cooper and the lion and was people in the back want to the bar quickly go from one of these there is a real you know there is a sort of irreverent their religious they now that runs through all these young and there is one in which recording oral roberts in his tent days is saying now in the us alone hamburger man quote messiah not i'm not even jesus is put your hands on the television set radio and on our your comments at any electrical appliance that's my about olivia pope and a bow that detainees says michael thought that last but they see a moon was baseball fan in a bar talk

with vetted had a call way back any also claimed he'd broken or roberts i said oral roberts came attorney hamilton are matt he would walk over in a very close to home you i'm in that matt was easel copper wires near total bad about it if that thing is that knew or had talent we didn't get you worry about the idea led book is a is is is one story after another focused mainly on its own culture so in food and so the payments are music of the film renoir renee you know i know i have love i don't have the drive in movies all over the country a hamburger joint but the drive in movie people you talk to an aneurysm and

hero in the in the in the hamburger in even the inventor of the original big joy aegean those people are it seems to me a little boy as a man wants only lived out silently loves us our place in the news you'd be uniquely seller was at war you that your readership might resent those jobs and religion which is a very serious subject a lovely er africa and it both ways and i think underneath all that they know i'm kidding and underneath that came a no summum religious amenable even something's going on out there i stumble even pete el stuff in jonestown crowd moonies people often those are very big destructive forces that screw things up i think fundamentals fundamentalist tend to get very much other hand it gets only

fall so i'm a battle really worry about too much minimal of a lawsuit right now is coming so by the first baptist church of comedy because it was a potent and turn a building down and the minister said that laura told him the building would fall and build a church there and i asked a purse a painting for the lord's tapes because they got very very down there we see sue them and now they're suing us mint lost the building but as a redneck and funny level top of it but underneath that you know all the same bag now on this is no real problem with what about the beach leah at all like it to the grand ole opry in nome that run around through a new opera l'enfant work mode of our gifts it's like six flags or anywhere health care issue had some i said some i said it's a great line

says of the country music or can't sweat ain't nothin rounds new place is so cool i'm laid back now at the air conditioning and all that wrong there's no real intensity like me always to send out big would change diapers or not them about mao in a motel and drank beer and bingo the sleep induction come and the new place is mostly convention crowds and i come from you know cleveland it's a long way away they get here they're tired the middle will be there may come in big groups the gang get a beer it's a whole different thing that does that and is that tightness from ryman auditorium i think the very last part that that a madrigal is seo is insane which you're sitting down from a at the ole opry the old normal

there is that then and colorful depictions of plants grow together on night when it was all coach of the uptight and place was on fire when they lose wants to them and that's sounds though i've gotten started yet a crowd that was there all of fate that night and some you'll never see again i think that the new upper limb i don't believe maybe but about it are just too big for the unknown the firefighters going to get right up and finally on a chilly return touch a lesser thing to be much more close and do you think the distance alien been here course of the former senator's what will cop was that that they're able to work without working office where am i come from work to get to the army like

go you got a barbecue in trouble legally anxious nervous intensity and sweating i think we have to put out i think i mean what you're comfortable and you just do something left handed his comely back but the law center's back you that as i get tested lots of arabia when you're that comfortable and let's go to construct in the first women with every woman yeah every year last fifteen they sell itself for signs of yellow haired man which at the end of it you say that you quote somebody saying that they're better discussing lynda gratton have a committee says he says what is the what is a jam is its chairman is better discussed in this graph and infamous and who will be the chicken and that's it you take a man and tie him to a pope for seven days and seven nights

feeding and reading or only one if they use movies bondage he will manage it you're not like it when you really really like that but it's in trouble operational it smells like the end of the world or yes indeed it down when it might be the end of it and i have some a lesson some some pluses lord it all stand it is that we get is do you ever get mccarter an air conditioner we know that was a funny say now but yet there isn't great that you know i think there's no outside in a mighty one area on a high note of this like girl you know pour scans but they do have a residual get him to find closure and say their soft

concert home of minutes at the end of several of them that i can wake up to sixty thousand left ear one mold growth in the population that's it you're on your own your story about what story that story ends in a while that i think it's the cheapest route they're a real or is dancing and jack elam that the west that question that question a great dancer soulful a jump out carnegie emily year road just dance to the radio musicals are about to lose revenue going on now scott credit it down there the media there is a real question though of where some of these these ideas come from that piece on the drive in theater you really want and interviewed there was to be a drought in as georgia grandin

side right because that thirty three are due out as a bellhop them on a grill cook and now sold that love things tony a ballplayer would limit as well read jenny's baker now you're in our forgotten for it to take it send me the lovers in the back row in so heartfelt though not on the back and we're dealing with it would've left leg back row for them back roads of that growth for their hands up and as lawyer says it's a morbid but to play black leader for half hour no one would notice that some great retailer because i'm i was summoned for a moment nora ephron the score nothing and eleven's rita point doing half hour a lively when the damn thing that the gunman's so it got because racial work on that some thought and saw me said this really interesting than the drive in

audiences only audience in the world expert express their opinion at the moment when a ceo sonoma your home in ingmar bergman movie newcomer spinnaker you have a button on it the bitch to drive any sign flashing lights and counting woodward illinois and then i guess the message quietly to play next to sort of immediate feedback or something i'm someone i'm a cultural phenomenon the great is the walton is without doubt on the road yep that's one is most olympic scoring most have shown a lawyer now guess that they liked the driving eleven driving a smoke and amanda jump in a bomb that legacy and image of has that quality of that you know is the racial redneck logos me and that that must be it and no one really had run an operative serves marketing

data points to sound great good alchemy now like that dude your mind jet johnson and great gatsby and great gatsby bailey gatsby was an absolute like not three but nothing nothing that they want action will be with them on top of a lot of races no explosions you can do it if you watch tv and you will not see a show without soul explosion today getting there was no car races there's no explosions that there's no rates nothing nothing and a very informal more bellicose talk and you know one was an asperger's city is yet so jonathan fader you do not have a fellini or berman retrospective what's that what's happening to work do you are in your list of this is this book is an oddly i mean you don't find short story is our essays now in books in the old days

you have an awful lot of folks who come out of the collection was near i don't want to write a collection of short works and thirty and then come out for a member of a while back someone in just to go for him was very hot there and he put out a book of offers nothing on his previous book of it typically in the list of official afforded nothing at this book it and on the less of a very funny color of the very funny cover that should attract some attention but it but it but it's amazing that you know what happened to the short short essay well but the city's not running on sony posted harbor so magazines that they could be good it get paid not my live on post folded in colliers folded across all what the hollywood star

running you know mary tyler moore stuff in lawyers all know there's no market for short stories a new yorker a few small things at seoul's tenenbaum house written so i'm no market there no one's really writing for that's a problem this book came out of new york i would sell all the us can i get the street to be in trouble it may force a normal collection of cds track of my last book didn't sell all because it was on the organ donor literary guild a book a month club a whistle or flower store conglomerate oh no no a big profit center i am i find it didn't go through occasionally occasionally op ed columnist jonathan book almost all i think by that pretty wreckage as gideon russell blake girl sometimes it goes very good or college it is as he cares and he was one of the studio to bring you back in the way for years but you don't vote but but outside journalism it's very tough to find

so you're really living our idea what amounts to an academic writers' colony and james dickey's their viewers and to provide teacher could make a living at being the stuff of news clip i enjoy doing and its main thing i could be structured books with hollywood matt about making good living and live up there but i'd rather his teacher i stephanie would you want would you want or your children to study under you our question for some days does complicate what college come into bringing levi's fox writes about the chickens for a teaching job or in college what degree in medieval history of mines actually a lot operative critic with his deficits a good minimal a mechanic back and say how to make it better i think that's changed whether they're quite well do do de elefante

yeah they're and even used to really enjoy yeah another very successful get published now associate with me happy and i love in a world that that track these nice fringe crazy people and lithium heads people who are drug problems in big problems was in a mixed but that means it because there's another crazy and as waitresses afar we should back someone as a psychiatric clinic and oceanographic work and i guarantee the army money given those folks off the streets and they think i'm going to know is that burger king is interviews the quad so and running her own burger king johnny what the summit was a pronouncing it they cannot walk was sold i guess at some song redneck or they can up with says the new one the curved this city just everybody preserve you know in some eyes have to be there the chronicle and i think and that's

inevitably going to find its way in to drop out until next elliott and lauderdale and as lines down there that and someone's gotta do it even though there's little big money and i put a song in a piece for tv guide cup months ago he you know it was had tennessee ernie talk a while and then the chorus songs for tomorrow in colombia by a woman telling her husband that marriage is all over in this the time was i got no sympathy for you if you come on you're closer in a sack on the back porch in the refrain goes i've gone until the children knew or did because of even had a funeral for your side of the great latino etcetera that's it's a great set and a map that lived on the bronx not on making it out of ceramic flowers and an active duty bound

to summarize that do that where you know i love doing it a lot they kick out of it but it's not the economic thing at the dawn of the pilot of a man well i think the only soccer and joe armstrong and other madrigals as ben our guest on the word and words featuring jon seaton of this program was produced in the studios of wbez and television nashville tennessee fb