Speaker 1: It's Tuesday night. I am traveling delivering newspapers. Every Tuesday
Speaker 1: night and every Friday night. We have to deliver the newspapers.
Speaker 1: I've talked about the robust stops that we have to make,
Speaker 1: how far we have to travel to deliver these newspapers,
Speaker 1: and it's a long trek, of course, but it is
Speaker 1: something that is enjoyable. And as you hear me pass
Speaker 1: by cars and do that, I've thought it might be
Speaker 1: fun to record instead of a morning coffee, a late
Speaker 1: night coffee this time because I'm trying to finish the
Speaker 1: delivery stops. There's so much stuff that you see when
Speaker 1: you're out here. It could be just seeing different wildlife
Speaker 1: on the sides of the road, or maybe it's see
Speaker 1: an oddity or two. Every now and then you also
Speaker 1: will come across. But we have affectionately termed the night people.
Speaker 1: Tonight I saw three or four strange night people. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you know you have to be on your guard, maybe
Speaker 1: rip the pistol that you're riding around with while you're
Speaker 1: out delivering, But all in all, it's a peaceful trick
Speaker 1: where you a lot of times put on music, put
Speaker 1: on a podcast. Tonight I listened to the Chicago Cubs
Speaker 1: baseball game. I'm really enjoying these tracks. For a while,
Speaker 1: myself and Josh Guru Nichols were doing the deliveries together,
Speaker 1: but we've since broken it up. And since we've broken
Speaker 1: up the delivery schedule, we get done a lot quicker.
Speaker 1: But I still felt like it might be fun for
Speaker 1: a change too, instead of doing the regular morning coffee.
Speaker 1: Just talk about writing down these back roads Mississippi, writing
Speaker 1: down Mississippi highways, because that's the trick. When I was younger,
Speaker 1: we used to enjoy what we would call joy rides.
Speaker 1: We jump in a car and we just go great tunes.
Speaker 1: No said destination. That was the basic rules that made
Speaker 1: up the quintessential road trip. I have said destinations on
Speaker 1: this but it doesn't make it any less of a
Speaker 1: road trip. It's enjoyable the fact that I am able
Speaker 1: to have some time alone with my thoughts. This job
Speaker 1: has been so rewarding. I mean, some of the things
Speaker 1: that I've gotten to cover, some of the things I've
Speaker 1: gotten to see and do again. I'm enjoying this job,
Speaker 1: and this is part of the job, is delivering these papers.
Speaker 1: Some of my friends, they think it must be rough
Speaker 1: and yes, if we are successful and at some point
Speaker 1: Jim can bring on somebody else deliver the papers, I
Speaker 1: will gladly hand it off because I do very much
Speaker 1: enjoy sleep. But at the same time, they'll be there'll
Speaker 1: be something I miss when that day comes, which again
Speaker 1: I don't believe it's anywhere close to where that's going
Speaker 1: to happen. But it is a peaceful break from everyday life,
Speaker 1: and it got me to thinking maybe everyone else needs
Speaker 1: a peaceful break from everyday life. Former editor in Chief
Speaker 1: Mark Thornton, before he left, he told me that once
Speaker 1: I got into this delivery job part of the job,
Speaker 1: that I might find myself enjoying it because the solitude
Speaker 1: can be very freeing, it can be very nice and relaxing.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't wrong. It's a nice little diversion from
Speaker 1: the chaos that can be everyday life, especially everyday life
Speaker 1: in a newsroom. I'm blessed to be working with probably
Speaker 1: the best news team around, because I believe Josh and
Speaker 1: Kevin or two of the best reporters around. And of
Speaker 1: course we've got mrph watching over us and helping edit
Speaker 1: stuff and keep us on track. But Josh and Kevin lindsay.
Speaker 1: They're really helping me find my groove again after twenty
Speaker 1: years twenty pl us of years really away from any
Speaker 1: type of newspaper work. But my goodness, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been very rewarding. I've gotten to go to the baths,
Speaker 1: I've gotten to go to multiple ball games, crash sites.
Speaker 1: It's just a rewarding job at the moment, and this
Speaker 1: late night trek to deliver newspapers just part of it.
Speaker 1: And it's part of it that again might not be
Speaker 1: the most glamorous part of the job, but it is
Speaker 1: very much a part of the job, and it is
Speaker 1: very much something that I find myself enjoying more than
Speaker 1: I thought I would. So again, when you pick up
Speaker 1: your copy of the Laurel Leader Call, when it comes
Speaker 1: to you in your mailbox where you go to the
Speaker 1: curb store and purchase it, understand that the news team
Speaker 1: is actually playing a vital role in making sure that
Speaker 1: that ends up in your mailbox 'or at a store
Speaker 1: where you can go purchase it. These newspapers don't just
Speaker 1: magically arrive, and if you see a night person out,
Speaker 1: you know that we've probably already observed them once or
Speaker 1: twice and of course, I also pray that we don't
Speaker 1: find those deer that love to skirt the fringe of
Speaker 1: the roads, because we are hopeful that they never find
Speaker 1: the front of our vehicles, because that is a distinct
Speaker 1: possibility every time you go out on a Missipi Highway
Speaker 1: or a missip back road. I'm going to keep this
Speaker 1: one brief, but this has been late night Coffee and
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and we're a part of
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