Chapter 24: Plato, featuring Jason Mantzoukas

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chapter 24: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) coaxes Plato (Jason Mantzoukas) out of his cave only to find that the philosopher behaves like a person just coaxed out of a cave.

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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. Hello all and welcome to chapter. Welles.
0:27.0	Hello all and welcome to chapter 24 of the Dead Authors podcast. I'm your host, H.G. Wells, and in this recording I am joined by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
0:33.8	In addition to his many academic and philosophical accomplishments, you may well ask,
0:38.4	did he also invent the colourful children's modeling compound Play Doe? Well, you'll just have to keep listening to find out.
0:45.9	Whether we wasted our time and the audiences by addressing such an idiotic question.
0:51.2	Now that we've dispensed with that bit of foolishness, let's get down to the proverbial brass tacks.
0:56.0	This reading series end its accompanying podcast to which you have subscribed, left a glowing review of on iTunes,
1:02.0	and badge it all your friends and loved ones to do likewise
1:04.8	is a true labor of love for me. But to be quite honest, it's putting me in the bloody poorhouse.
1:10.8	There are expenses like you wouldn't believe!
1:13.8	Research on our guests, lodging and board while they're in present day Los Angeles.
1:18.6	Not to mention what it cost to evade the world's governments and secret police forces who want nothing more than to confiscate
1:24.6	my beloved time machine and pick it apart like that extraterrestrial chap from a while back whose initials
1:30.4	escape me at the moment.
1:32.1	As you know, all proceeds from our show go to
1:34.5	benefit 826 LA and a worthier cause you shan't find. But that doesn't mean old
1:39.5	H.G. Shouldn't be able to skim a few bob off the top does it I know what you're going to say
1:44.0	launch a kick starter and who could blame me if I did just think an entire website
1:49.9	that exists for the sole purpose of helping major celebrities and cultural figures fund their
1:54.8	grotesque vanity projects.
1:56.8	Well, I'm sorry, but my basic sense of morality and human decency forbids it.
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