Now is not the time to faith in a plan that has been decades in the making.

This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 537 for the week of November 18th,

2012.

I am the 2024-Luxury Ford Orb, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Burning Truth,

Severity Bunding.

A cream for that is coming.

Mother's superior, Tara Ariano.

Give me a snack.

And Betty in the Jesuits.

Philip Macyak.

I, for one, welcome our new thinking machine overlords.

Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.

Joining us, he's the TV critic at the New Republic and the author of Avidly Reads Screen Time. You've heard

him with us before. Welcome back, Philippe Aesia. Welcome back, Philip. We're thrilled to have

you here for questionably named, just kidding, only questionable to me, Dune Prophecy, in which

10,148 years before the birth of Paula Trades, Valiah Harkinen, Emily Watson, is the Reverend Mother Superior of an academy that teaches girls how to be truth-sayers. How did Valiah rise to that position after the Harkinin were branded traders and banished after the machine war?

Don't worry about it.

Valia and her sister Tula, Olivia Williams, have spent the past 30 years trying to arrange

marital matches that will produce leaders their order can control, like the one that's

imminent between young adult Inez, Sarah Sophie Boussinina, House Carino and nine-year-old Pruitt

of House Rikaze. But then along comes soldier Desmond Hart, Travis Fimmel, whose face

off with a worm has left him with uncanny powers and who has his own plan for the

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