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And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. Hello all and welcome to Chapter 3. Welles.

Hello all and welcome to Chapter 13 of the Dead Authors podcast.

I am your host, the noted author and time traveler, H.G. Wells, and my guests for this edition of the

podcast of Fairy Tale Virtuosi, The Brothers Grimm.

Now, before allowing you to listen to those two Tonic Maniacs, I'd like to take

this opportunity to address one of my greatest pet peeves, and no, it's not the phrase

pet peeves.

Though I have always found that expression greating since, as a lad growing up in Bromley,

I had a gerbil whom I lovingly christened

peeves only to be repeatedly perplexed throughout my adolescence whenever someone else

would seemingly claim ownership of him in the course of casual conversation. No, in this case I speak of that

most tedious annual tradition, the year-in-review lists that befowl our periodicals,

televisions, and smarts smartphones each December's end.

I mean honestly, not only are these lists littered with trifles from Gangnam style to the

latest hassle hoffery, they also focus solely on things that just happened within the last 12 months.

Are our modern attention spans really so short?

I say, are our modern attention spans? spans really so short?

I say, are our modern attention spans really so short?

Oh, I do beg your pardon.

I took your silence to mean that you weren't paying attention, but of course the nature of

podcast technology

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