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The Incomparable Mothership

42: 42

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Do you know where your towel is? Are you a hoopy frood? Have you just consumed your fifth Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster? We have. And you’d better catch up. In honor of our 42nd podcast and the recent Towel Day, The Incomparable celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams. We feature our special guest, Yoz Grahame, who worked for Adams’ The Digital Village, the producers of Web sites such as h2g2.com (a precursor to Wikipedia of sorts).

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0:00.0

The Incomparable Podcast, number 42, May 2011.

0:15.3

Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast. I'm Glenn Fleischman hosting this week in for Jason Snell, who is also here.

0:23.2

Hello.

0:24.1

We're talking this week.

0:25.0

This is episode 42.

0:26.9

And for the one person in a million who could possibly be listening to this podcast,

0:32.1

we hope to have a million listeners someday, who does not know what 42 is, It's all about Douglas Adams. This is the Douglas

0:38.8

Adams podcast, maybe the first in a series of Divisible by 42 podcasts that we do over our

0:44.6

lifetimes about Douglas Adams. It was recently Towel Day, a day established to celebrate his

0:49.8

life and career. And in that honor, and because it's's episode 42 we have a cast of characters drawn

0:55.9

from across the spectrum of well not that much of a spectrum i guess but it is across something

1:02.1

welcome jason snell the unusual host of the incomparable i will be on the red end of the

1:08.1

spectrum tonight the red you're the red end steve lutz from an undisclosed location talking on an iPad.

1:13.6

Hello, Steve.

1:14.6

I was just thinking how much Douglas Adams probably would have enjoyed knowing that I'm sitting

1:19.0

in a hotel on a wireless device that's sitting in my lap, playing his interactive fiction

1:24.9

and podcasting while on the Lou.

1:28.6

He's multitasking.

1:30.0

And Greg Nouse.

1:31.0

Hey.

1:31.3

Hi, Glenn.

1:33.0

That's Nouse with a K.

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