ONE SPLIT SECOND takes place in 1995 and revolves around Russell Baker, a black conservative radio talk show personality | dG1fc2lqb0U3N0g2ZTQ
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00:00So you want to move to New York? Ben was on the phone to New York looking to pick
00:06up a new radio show. Interested in us? Excellent. Are you serious? Ben just got
00:11the word today and I'm checking you out to celebrate. Let's go. It's like God
00:16gives each of us a life and then says okay let's see what you can do with it.
00:21You'll have a better opportunity to practice your law. I'll have a national
00:25platform for my ideas. And a house in a better neighborhood, right? Of course. You
00:30know, Eileen, now I can finally start to make a difference. But when I look around
00:34me I don't see the industrious people Bastiat describes. Something is
00:39definitely wrong.
00:48Life is painful. Does that pain change reality? I'm thinking screw doing the
00:55right thing. It's not gonna bring Eileen back. Is life nothing more than the
01:01accumulation of our experiences? You gotta stop torturing yourself like this.
01:05I mean we're all trapped in this this thing called life, you know? Or are there
01:12permanent truths which give our lives meaning? Maybe life doesn't mean anything
01:18after all. The same crap, different day and then you lose it.
01:25And you die.
01:55Mr. Russell Baker? Yes, this is he. This is Miss Helms calling from the
02:02Department of Children's Services. Why haven't you come down to pick up your
02:06son? Your son? Russ, you are starting to sound like a soap opera.