134: Obligatory Cannibalism

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2013

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Load your shotgun and gather your platonic apocalypse friends around you! It’s time for us to discuss two books about the end of the world, Peter Heller’s “The Dog Stars” and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” Do names matter when the world has ended? We also revisit John Siracusa’s doomsday plans (a moat is involved), Lex offers a depressing death plan, Jason extolls the virtue of dirty apocalypses, and Scott laughs it up from his apartment full of canned food.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 134, April 2013.
0:10.0	We're back with another edition of The Incomparable.
0:14.0	I'm Jason Snell, your host, and this is an edition of our book club.
0:17.0	Joining me today to talk about books that will depress you because they're about the end of the world,
0:21.2	the apocalypse, sadness, and airplanes are Scott McNulty.
0:25.6	Hi, Scott.
0:26.7	But there's a dog.
0:28.0	There's also a dog.
0:29.9	We should fire off the spoiler horn before we say what happens to the dog.
0:36.4	Lex Friedman is also here. Hi, Lex.
0:39.0	Yeah, there's a dog, but there's also a baby on a spit. So let's not get too optimistic.
0:44.4	That's not, that's in a different book, though, isn't it?
0:46.7	Yeah, okay. But I'm just saying, as a collective, these two books are really depressing.
0:50.1	One book has a dog and one book has a... Well, that sounds like they're very different books. One book has a dog.
0:54.5	One book has a baby on the spit.
0:55.9	That's very, very different.
0:57.7	But they're not that different.
0:58.8	Well, okay, maybe they are.
1:00.9	Also joining me is John Syracusa.
1:03.8	Hi, John.
1:04.3	Why would books about the end of the world depress you?
1:07.3	I don't see that as a given.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Snell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Snell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.