[Book Club] The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, Session FOUR, ft. Jay Dyer

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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A pulp fiction classic that became a national phenomenon! Still, there is so much more that meets the eye to this one, and with return co-host, Jay Dyer, along for the ride, we hit new depths with the analysis! Feel free to read and contribute to The Godfather's official threads: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/kuvcc88c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/56twtksk Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/bdhb7vc8 Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/y3nt2whw Final Session: https://tinyurl.com/4j28m7x3 If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

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0:00.0	You're going to be here. The The Yes, and here we are.
0:56.0	Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here for what is going to be,
1:00.0	no, that's not what doing there,
1:02.0	what is going to be the fourth session of five for Mario Puzos the
1:06.9	Godfather and joining me as always for this this cereal is Jay dire
1:12.4	how you feeling?
1:14.0	I'm feeling great. I do have to sadly say that I don't think I'll be there for the last one because I'll be in Italy.
1:21.0	Oh, well hey listen that's well at least you're going to go there with a good primer.
1:25.0	Exactly. I was just how fortuitous or providential the topic was, you know, coming up with this two-week trip that I'll be over there so.
1:33.4	So what's your what's your itinerary just loosely what's your itinerary are you going to be in
1:37.5	Sicily at all? I think we do go to Sicily at one point we're going to
1:42.3	ten different locations. So it's kind of planned out. I have a friend, I have multiple friends from the area and they've kind of planned out a bunch of different things for us throughout the whole trip.
1:54.6	So 10 different cities, I mean the big ones, you know, Rome, Florence, Naples, I forget all the locations, but 10 different places in about two weeks.
2:08.8	Well that's going to be fantastic.
2:10.1	And you know, I guess to tie this into the book, I mean, there is a few interesting things,
2:17.2	really interesting things. I love this particular section that we read here because
2:21.6	not only does Mario Puzo as a writer check in with a few
2:26.4	characters in just a really really great illuminating way I loved I loved I loved everybody's arc and how everything is being developing with the individual
2:37.0	characters will get into that. But especially getting, finally, as we were saying last week week the fact that we haven't seen
2:44.8	Michael that we've actually seen Michael take you know disappear from the book and
2:50.5	then here he is showing up right at the beginning of I think believe book book five and we get a lay of the land in Sicily to see what the
2:59.7	countryside the beauty of the countryside is being set up against how the government and the
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