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We Can Be Weirdos

#71 Mainly Mortal Engines: Phillip Reeve and the Darkness of Dartmoor

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first NON-explicit episode of We Can Be Weirdos featuring the Bananas list and a chat with author of the Mortal Engines series, Phillip Reeve.

Check out his new book, a prequel to the Mortal Engines series, Thunder City - https://philipreeve.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Some people worry that being a Royal Navy reservist won't fit into their everyday life.

0:06.0

True, you might miss having a lazy lion every weekend.

0:10.7

And organizing your wardrobe.

0:13.7

But when you're in a rib doing 38 knots, out on the big blue, we're pretty sure you'll get over it.

0:21.5

Royal Navy Reserves.

0:23.0

Don't do the every day, every day.

0:27.0

Search Royal Navy Reserves, Birmingham.

0:32.1

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:35.7

I live now on Dartmoor, which is quite a kind of a spooky part of the world.

0:39.3

And if you're out there after dark to you today from Perth, Australia.

1:13.4

So I'm currently on the no such thing as a fish tour. It's going amazingly well. We did

1:18.4

Adelaide already. We did Perth last night. We're going to get a plane over to Brisbane today.

1:23.4

And it's been wicked. There's so many things I've enjoyed catching up on. I've been buying all of the

1:27.9

latest books from comedians and other writers that I love here. I've got one sitting next to me right now.

1:32.9

New book by John Saffron. John Saffron is a sort of John Ronson, Louis Theroux type character from Australia,

1:40.5

and he does some really outrageous things. And his latest book is called Squat.

1:46.4

And basically the concept of this is after he discovered that Kanye West was praising Hitler,

1:52.4

he went over to America to find out what was going on.

1:55.5

Couldn't get in touch with Kanye,

1:57.4

but ends up hanging out near an abandoned mansion of his in Los Angeles and makes his way in

2:04.5

and squats in it for a week. And so the book is a sort of diary of his week of squatting in Kanye's

2:10.7

mansion, but also the rest of the journeys that he made going around America just to find out

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