Chapter 34: Roald Dahl, featuring Ben Schwartz

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

Arts, Comedy, Books

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author Roald Dahl (Ben Schwartz) to the podcast. The audience makes some rather disturbing discoveries about Mr. Dahl over the course of the interview. As does Mr. Dahl.

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.

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended as entertainment for grownups and to spread awareness of 826LA,
0:04.9	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,
0:13.4	including the time travel mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California.
0:17.5	And now, the host of the Dead Authors podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:22.8	Hello, dear listeners, and welcome in to Chapter 34 of the Dead Authors podcast.
0:28.7	I am, as always, your gracious host, H.G. Wells. You know, from time to time, people ask me if
0:35.1	the H&G in my name actually stand for host and gracious,
0:39.3	and nothing pleases me more than dispensing a lethally withering gaze upon these dim bulbs
0:44.5	before going cheerily about my business. If this is the first time you're hearing the dead
0:49.4	authors podcast, you are unforgivably late, we're 34 chapters in already, and you're just now downloading.
0:57.1	I suppose you also show up on Mickleness when you've been invited for Christmas supper.
1:01.6	You know, whether I'm here in present-day Los Angeles or visiting the third moon of Graslarks in the year
1:06.9	40,065, I am simply appalled by people's sheer lack of manners.
1:12.6	Though, in fairness, you could hardly call grasslarks dwellers people.
1:16.9	I suppose half crab, half zebra creatures might be a more apt description.
1:21.6	Yes, I am simply appalled by the lack of manners displayed by not only people, but also half crab, half zebra creatures.
1:30.3	Oh dear. Now I'm afraid I've truly confused any newcomers, which I simply hate to do, no matter how hideously rude they've been.
1:38.3	Permit me to backtrack a tad and explain that in addition to being a world-renowned author and intellect, I also
1:44.3	own an operator time machine. I even wrote a book about it. A book called the Time Machine.
1:50.7	Admittedly, that title seems a shade on the nose to the modern ear, but at the time, nobody
1:55.8	had ever heard of or even imagined such a thing. If I had made the title any less purely
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