401: He Uses His Powers For Evil

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

His reputation precedes him. Harlan Ellison is probably one of the best writers of the last century, but he may be more famous (or infamous) for his irascibility, his lawsuits, and his reputed bad behavior. In this episode, six people (two of whom are Ellison novices) read six of his most lauded short stories and discuss the man and his words.

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0:00.0	What do you get when you support the incomparable in addition to the warm feeling in your heart
0:05.0	that you're supporting some of your favorite podcasts? Well, we give you a lot of stuff, is the answer,
0:11.0	a whole lot of stuff, including just for this year, an entire season of Total Party Kill set in a
0:17.1	post-apocalyptic wasteland way before it gets released to regular people. A special three-hour
0:22.3	long Star Trek adventure of role-playing featuring a whole bunch of people you know playing a
0:28.9	Star Trek adventure with Scott McNulty as the game master. The Glenning Show of Glenning about
0:33.7	Glenn with Tony Sindelar, a special of lots of different podcasts, and commentary tracks,
0:40.4	like this one, which will be posting soon.
0:42.3	Oh, man, the Java, Java Mobile is dead.
0:46.3	Oh, Java barbecue.
0:47.5	Last points.
0:48.4	Too accurate.
0:50.5	You're not letting you read on the screen.
0:52.9	You say blast points, but I don't see blast points.
0:54.8	It's just, it's all charred.
0:56.4	All the imperial stormtroopers could be this precise.
1:00.4	Talk about an unreliable narrator.
1:02.6	He's gone crazy from being in the desert for so long.
1:05.1	He's a crazy old wizard.
1:06.0	Wizard's just a crazy old man, Jason.
1:07.6	Well, unless he means precise, as in they actually hit the Jawa's mystery machine.
1:11.8	I like how long it takes Luke to run here at this shot.
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