介绍： 【如影随行】大鱼

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节目文本：
1.
• There are some fish that c...

介绍： 【如影随行】大鱼

【云村福利】请微信搜索“友邻优课”公众号，在7月8日前，回复“网易云”三个字，会收到云村专属评论页面，请大家留下对我们电台节目的走心评论。我们将选取10个最佳评论，送出价值 99 元的友邻优课与网易云音乐独家打造的【听歌学英文】课程。欢迎大家踊跃参与哟！

节目文本：
1.
• There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they're faster or stronger than other fish. They're just touched by something extra. One such fish was The Beast. And by the time I was born he was already a legend. He'd passed up more $ 100 lures than any fish in Alabama. Some said that fish was the ghost of a thief…. who'd drowned in that river 60 years before. Others claimed he was a dinosaur left over from the "Cruaceous" Period. I didn't put any stock into such speculation or superstition. All I knew was I'd been trying to catch that fish… ...since I was a boy no bigger than you. And on the day you were born… Well, that was the day I finally caught him. Now, I'd tried everything on it: Worms, lures, peanut butter, peanut butter and cheese. But on that day I had a revelation: If that fish was Henry Walls' ghost, then the usual bait wasn't gonna work. I was gonna have to use something he truly desired.
• Your finger?
• Gold. Now, I tied my ring onto the strongest line they made… strong enough to hold up a bridge, they said, if only for a few minutes. And then I cast . The Beast jumped up and grabbed it before it even hit the water. And just as fast, he snapped clean through that line. Well, you can see my predicament. My wedding ring, the symbol of fidelity to my wife… soon to be mother of my child...
• Make him stop.
• …was now lost in the gut of an uncatchable fish.

2.
• What, a father's not allowed to talk about his son?
• I'm a footnote in that story, Dad… the context for your great adventure, which never happened, incidentally. You were selling novelty products in Wichita when I was born.
• Come on, Will. Everyone loves that story!
• They don't. I don't love that story. Not anymore. Not after a thousand times! I know every punch line, Dad. I can tell them as well as you can! For one night, one night in your entire life… the universe did not revolve around Edward Bloom. How can you not understand that?
• I'm sorry to embarrass you.
• You're embarrassing yourself, Dad. You just don't see it.
• After that night, I didn't speak to my father again for three years.

3.
• Dad, I have no idea who you are… because you've never told me a single fact.
• I've told you a thousand facts, Will. That's what I do, I tell stories!
• You tell... lies, Dad. You tell amusing lies. Stories are what you tell a 5-year-old at bedtime. They're not elaborate mythologies that you maintain… when your son is 10 and 15 and 20 and 30. And I believed you. I believed your stories so much longer than I should have. Then when I realized everything you said was impossible… I felt like a fool to have trusted you. You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Just as charming and just as fake.

4.
• Your father ever tell you about the day you were born?
• Yeah, a thousand times. He caught an uncatchable fish.
• Not that. The real story. He ever tell you that?
• No.
• Well, your mother came in about 3 in the afternoon. Her neighbor drove her, on account of your father was away on business… in Wichita. You were born a week early, but there were no complications. It was a perfect delivery. Your father was sorry not to be there. But it wasn't the custom then for men to be in the room for deliveries… so I can't see how it would've been much different had he been there. And that's the real story of how you were born. Not very exciting, is it? And I suppose if I had to choose between the true version… and an elaborate one involving a fish and a wedding ring… I might choose the fancy version.

5.
• Dad, I have no idea who you are… because you've never told me a single fact.
• I've told you a thousand facts, Will. That's what I do, I tell stories!
• You tell... lies, Dad. You tell amusing lies. Stories are what you tell a 5-year-old at bedtime. They're not elaborate mythologies that you maintain… when your son is 10 and 15 and 20 and 30. And I believed you. I believed your stories so much longer than I should have. Then when I realized everything you said was impossible… I felt like a fool to have trusted you. You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Just as charming and just as fake.

6.
• Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why it's funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly it's new. You remember why you loved it in the first place.
• So he said he'll fight the giant who was 15 feet tall!
• No way!
• Dad! That's right, isn't it?
• Pretty much.
• See? So he was a giant.
That was my father's final joke, I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal.