Chapter 20: Ayn Rand, featuring John Hodgman

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 20 June 2013

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Chapter 20: Live from the 2013 San Francisco Sketchfest! H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the rather chatty Ayn Rand (John Hodgman) or an evening of H.G. Wells listening to Ayn Rand.

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0:00.0	This Podcast is intended as Entertainment for Grownups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18. For a full schedule of 826 LA's events and programs, including the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, visit 826.org.
0:16.4	And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. G. Wreetings Podvotays and welcome to Chapter 20 of the Dead Authors Podcast with
0:27.8	myself your host H.G. Wells and my guest the author, philosopher, and notorious fashionista,
0:33.9	Ein Rand.
0:35.1	At the risk of sounding immodest, I dare say it's a thoroughly well-conducted
0:38.8	interview, and I'm certain you'll enjoy listening to Ms Rand
0:41.6	nearly as much as she does.
0:44.0	Keen-eared listeners might also detect that my panel with the author of Atlas Shrugged was
0:48.8	recorded somewhere other than our traditional venue, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Los Angeles.
0:54.8	Due to an unfortunate scheduling mishap, the theatre was not available for any of the dates
0:59.4	I've requested for my Tet-Tet-Tet with Ms Rand, having been previously booked solid by a local Bible camp.
1:05.6	I was flummox to be sure, but ultimately I grasped the nettle and sought out another stage.
1:11.2	The Eureka Theater in San Francisco proved to be an exceedingly
1:14.8	gracious host despite the management's failure to make mention of the comedy
1:18.9	festival that coincided with our visit. One look though at the sea of plaid button-up shirts and the thick-rimmed spectacles in our audience and the proverbial cat was out of the carry-all.
1:30.0	Despite the congestion caused by comedy fans stopping in the middle of the sidewalk every few feet to wrestle with a pair of skinny jeans
1:36.9	A smooth and errant mustache whisker back into place my visit to San Francisco went down a treat.
1:43.2	It even put me in mind of an adventure I had some years ago,
1:46.5	where I travelled to the city by the bay in pursuit of a doctor friend
1:49.8	who had used my time machine, without permission I hastened to add
1:53.4	to flee a spot of bother with Scotland Yard
1:56.2	for you see this friend turned out to be none other than the infamous serial
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