571. Like Razorblade Pie: S.R.O. (Feat. Sarah Griffith)

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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 S.R.O. and the guest is Sarah Griffith. Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Sarah Griffith: https://twitter.com/sk_griffith 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	Hello everyone out in not radio land, this is Michael Swam bringing you another
0:29.9	installment of like razor blade pie a bite size book club about the short speculative
0:35.3	fiction of Harlan Ellison my favorite writer of all time and I'm here with I mean on our
0:41.7	own network you know from shooting threes you know or from cast and the curious you know
0:46.9	her as the voice of the best podcast intro theme we or any other operation will ever have
0:54.2	exactly Sarah Griffith people folks well hello thank you for having me this was such a delight
1:01.8	to read oh I'm so glad I know you know most whenever we do an episode most generally the homework
1:10.4	is to watch a movie but that's something people largely do anyway not everyone reads short stories
1:15.9	these days yeah always wary but I try to assign ones that take like what did it take you like
1:22.4	25 minutes to read it's very short right oh yeah no no it's the perfect short story sitting
1:30.6	yeah exactly yes and that's what he did he does very like campfire length stories that you could
1:35.6	actually that's a good way to describe it yeah for sure um so let's see before we dive in I don't
1:42.6	have any introductory or preparatory notes but basically that's just the PSA saying that I do think
1:47.4	you'll get more out of this show if you actually read along more so then like I don't know I don't
1:53.2	know if this is weird but I can totally listen to movie podcasts about movies I've never seen if I
1:57.0	like the people yeah but I do think it's weird if you're listening to this and you haven't spent
2:02.7	the half an hour it took to read that's that's generous that's a half hour if um you're like
2:10.2	thinking from scratch if you've seen the movie nope um a lot of the descriptors you can kind of
2:16.5	fill in some of those blanks so you don't even have to think that's what I was thinking it was
2:20.6	kind of like my reference of what I was building you know when you read something and you're putting
2:24.5	it together in your imagination you copy paste I was like oh like this is like yeah yeah um
2:33.1	yeah and that's what I well that's stupid everyone says that but that's what I love about
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