471. Like Razorblade Pie: The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World (Feat. Katy Stoll)

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🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This show goes over the short stories of Michael’s favorite speculative fiction author and notable curmudgeon Harlan Ellison. Each episode Michael pairs (read: forces a friend to read) a short story with a guest that it “applies especially to.” This episode it’s the short story “The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World” and the guest is Katy Stoll. Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Katy Stoll: https://twitter.com/katystoll Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the very first episode of like razor blade pie.
0:25.9	My name is Michael Swame, I'll be your intrepid host and I wanted to open up with a little
0:30.7	spiel about why I'm doing this show, what I hope to get out of it because I realize
0:34.6	it's an odd choice we usually cover movies, comic books, pop culture, and although speculative
0:41.3	fiction is my favorite form of short fiction, it's not really in the zeitgeist as much as
0:48.2	maybe superheroes are, for example, but I have always said and I've said on this network
0:54.0	several times, sometimes I feel like I should have been born in the, well, 30s, so I'd be coming
0:59.6	of age in the 50s and 60s when there was this entire medium that was completely killed by television,
1:06.0	which were short fiction published in magazines and you could make your entire living doing that,
1:11.9	and especially a specially ripe area was speculative fiction or sci-fi. I call it speculative fiction
1:20.9	because Harlan Ellison about whom this podcast is hated the term sci-fi and we'll get into that
1:27.1	a little bit and find out why, but growing up I was obsessed with short science fiction stories.
1:35.3	I liked that you could knock them out in a single sitting. I think it's part of the reason I've
1:40.0	become so obsessed with film because a lot of people compare films to novels, but if you're going
1:45.2	to be honest, the length of a novel like that narrative experience much more akin to a series
1:51.2	because it goes so long whereas a short story, that's a bit, you read it in about two hours and so
1:57.0	I've always compared the experience of watching a film to the experience of reading a short story
2:02.5	and the short story is a very special form to me and of all the great practitioners of class
2:08.8	speculative fiction shorts. I think the very best of the best is a guy named Harlan Ellison.
2:15.6	Now, if you haven't heard of Harlan, by all accounts he was a small, awkward, angry man
2:22.0	that most people did not enjoy being around or talking to, but his fiction is just pure
2:29.7	unmitigated imagination. He was highly experimental. He ended up writing for TV shows. He ended up
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