376: Terrifying Fear of Clouds

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Beloved (yet creepy?) children’s author Roald Dahl is in our spotlight this week, as we talk about some of our favorite books by Dahl, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “James and the Giant Peach”, “Danny, the Champion of the World”, and “Matilda.” We also discuss film adaptations and all the uncomfortable bits that have been cut out of new editions of Dahl over the years. Look for the golden ticket inside this podcast!

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 376, October 2017.
0:11.8	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
0:13.6	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.9	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about a little bit unusual topic, but I think
0:18.6	it's a really good one.
0:19.3	We're going to be talking about an author of primarily children's books, and I'm going to say it up front, books that I grew up with
0:26.1	and loved. And who better to join me to talk about books from youth than the host of the
0:34.4	sophomore-lis lit podcast on this very network john mccoy hello hello you know james's
0:39.9	parents were dead and gone in 35 seconds flat but we're stuck here talking about raw doll well that's right
0:45.3	it's roll doll james and the giant peach is my favorite book of childhood in fact i will say i am
0:50.6	holding the book uh given to me in in August of 1975 by my aunt. And I still have it. And it was my
1:00.4	absolute favorite book as a child. And of course, many other interesting books written by
1:04.5	Roald Dahl that we're going to talk about. It's not just me and John, though. Monty
1:07.4	Ashley is here. Hello. Hello, Jason. And Brian Hamilton is also here. Hi, I'm excited to be here on podcast and do a Skype with you. Wait, strike that, reverse it. The, um, I should have introduced you as bump went Monty and bump went Brian, but that's how they kill off the ants and James and the Giant Peach. Anyway, thank you for not
1:28.0	killing us off this early in the podcast. I was, I was describing some of the things that I love
1:33.9	about James and the Giant Peach to my kids who I read that book to when they were younger.
1:40.0	And they looked at me really funny when I said, I actually delight and have delighted my entire life in the fact that the mean ants of James Trotter are horribly killed in the beginning of James and the Giant Peach.
1:55.0	But I love it. I love that they're squashed to death by the giant peach as it rolls out of their garden.
2:00.6	Just as I am truly horrified by the depiction of as it rolls out of their garden, just as I am truly
2:01.9	horrified by the depiction of James' parents as being eaten by an angry rhino in the road.
2:07.9	Because that image never left my head when I was a kid.
2:10.5	You know, 35 seconds is actually kind of a long time if you're being killed by a rhino, I would
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