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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Shane Gillis talked about reading Rousseau's 'Reveries of a Solitary Walker' and was impressed with the author's life story, particularly his self-exile and later success as a writer. He also found the book's focus on solitude and personal reflections engaging.
the russo the this is just his book about like the things he came up with while walking towards like the end of his life and uh i didn't know anything about this dude like what he was it was just one...
— Episode: Ep 331- Stolen Valor
Episode: Ep 331- Stolen Valor
Shane Gillis talked about reading Rousseau's 'Reveries of a Solitary Walker' and was impressed with the author's life story, particularly his self-exile and later success as a writer. He also found the book's focus on solitude and personal reflections engaging.
the russo the this is just his book about like the things he came up with while walking towards like the end of his life and uh i didn't know anything about this dude like what he was it was just one of those names here people say like oh russo yeah blizz actually gave me the book because i gave him a book and he traded me one and dude i didn't know this dude kind of fucking ruled dude i've read it like they
and apparently he was just like so first of all he was born and his mom immediately died which is just like legend shit legend in the making obviously his mom died like right after and then his dad when he was 10 his dad got into an argument and self-exiled you know what self-exile is yeah i figured it out you i didn't i didn't know i heard i was like okay you just you angrily make a point to tell everyone you're leaving the country and then you leave and it's like you're not in exile you're like i'm leaving i'm so pissed off
his dad got in a fight that it got him so angry that he just left self-exiled and kind of just left his son so he was like i'm out of here so young russo was like fuck he had to find a master so he like apprenticed under a bunch of people and
but he ended up he just wanted to be a music composer and you know he would he would like he would just like compose music and do teach music and do stuff like that but he started he just like well fuck it let me like write a book he wrote a book smash hit dude sensational really but he say but secretly and he would say he hated right he hated books and he hated writers he's like writers are fucking dorks he's like they're liars they're they're uh you know they're all about themselves they don't care about what they're writing he's like i only wrote because i had a burning message for the world he's like it disgusted me to sit and idly spend my time writing these words down he's like all my contemporaries are just writing anything to get published
dude he came out and it's like he came up people he was hot dude everyone knew him as jean jacques and france he was like people like dude he's the man so he became intensely successful and just convinced himself everyone was his enemy and just became a recluse and just fucking was like fuck you guys dude i'm fucking out here because people were like yeah like i guess they had kind of beef with some of his writings and he became too radical of a figure so france actually kicked him out and he was just like dude i have so many fucking enemies