Chapter 33: Rod Serling, featuring John Ross Bowie

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 33: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Twilight Zone creator Rode Serling (John Ross Bowie) to the podcast. OR DOES HE? (He does.)

Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

For more information: http://826national.org/chapters/

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended as entertainment for grown-ups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18.
0:08.6	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel
0:14.6	Mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of
0:19.5	the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells, though exactly why I remain humble is a bit of a mystery to me.
0:35.7	I've created a literary genre, travelled through time, and my podcast was recently described by the chaps off the iTunes
0:41.6	store as not merely new new but also noteworthy.
0:45.0	Let's see you try to remain humble with that much gold-clogging your curriculum vitae.
0:50.0	But we're not here to talk about me for some reason. My guest for this chapter of the
0:54.1	podcast is Rod Serling, their great American tail-spinner, a true master no matter the medium,
0:59.9	be it a stage play, a television script, or a good old-fashioned short story.
1:04.4	Mr. Serling was blessed with a greater gift for the twist than anyone this side of Chubby Checker,
1:09.5	and to a lesser extent, the fat boys.
1:11.9	My time journey to collect Mr. Sirling started out like any
1:15.2	other, but as I ran down my pre-flight checklist, I couldn't shake the feeling that this voyage
1:20.4	would have an ending that I would never see coming. Or would I
1:25.0	I, I didn't see coming.
1:26.0	Dear listener, you will be most shocked to hear that I didn't.
1:29.0	See it not coming or didn't I?
1:33.0	As the time machine jolted to life and apart of the space-time continual,
1:37.0	something for the briefest of seconds caught the very corner of my eye.
1:41.0	It was a form of some kind, nestled snugly beneath the machine's armrest.
1:45.6	I paid it no mind, and attempted to settle in and enjoy the trip. But there it was again!
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