Chapter 25: Shel Silverstein, featuring Mark McConville

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 25: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) gets an earful from Shel Silverstein (Mark McConville) about trees.

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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. Wells. G. Good listeners and welcome Welles.
0:23.0	Greetings good listeners and welcome once again to the dead authors podcast.
0:28.0	As always it is I, H.G. Wells, here with another installment of your favorite deceit literary figure interview-based form of digital audio
0:35.7	entertainment. My guess this chapter is the delightfully silly and probably only partially insane,
0:41.4	Shell Silverstein.
0:43.0	I must tell you, and you'll soon enough here for yourself,
0:46.0	Mr Silverstein's antics during our interview left me a bit rattled and desperately in need
0:50.9	of some sort of ordinary activity to bring me back to my senses.
0:55.1	So off I went to Target!
0:58.5	Come now, don't act so shocked.
1:00.3	Of course I sharp at Target.
1:02.3	We all sharp at Target. Yes, it is well within my abilities as a
1:06.8	traveler of time and space to pop cross the pond to Harrons at Debenhams, a Fenwick of Bond Street,
1:12.2	or even to
1:12.8	the Klaeworths, which you lot won't find out about until late in the
1:15.6	43rd century. Hard to meet Klaewarth for all the latest fashions in the
1:19.7	day-to-day scuba apparel that becomes necessary for human survival in the not too distant future.
1:25.3	But enough of that hum drum, let's get back to Target.
1:28.4	There I was enjoying a churro and a fountain cola, navigating my gay red trolley toward the sporting goods.
1:35.0	I'm a fiend for londarts don't you know when something in the 99 cent bin caught my eye.
1:41.0	It was a stack of the Bally time machine!
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