Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of important emerging ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet.

On the Think Again podcast, we revisit these ideas in new ways.

Our producers surprised me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Thinks archives.

Ideas we didn't necessarily come here prepared to discuss.

Today, I'm very, very excited to be speaking with Anne Rice. She's the author

of over 30 novels. Her first interview with The Vampire was published in 1976 and has gone on to

become one of the best-selling novels of all time. Her latest book, Prince Lestat and the realms of

Atlantis, continues the story of the vampire Lestat, started all the way back then in interview with the vampire,

while also reaching back millennia to a mysterious vanished empire, the lost realms of Atlantis,

a past that is inextricably linked to the fate of Lestat and the vampire kingdom he rules.

Welcome to think again, Anne. Oh, I'm glad to be with you. Thank you.

Yeah, I'm so glad to have you here.

So, first of all, I'm sure you get asked about vampires constantly,

and that's sort of par for the course.

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