Chapter 35: Oscar Wilde, featuring Jon Daly

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

Arts, Conan, Andy, Snl, Machine, Tompkins, 826, Daly, Maya, Books, Time, Tompkast, Travel, Ucb, Mcsweeneys, Rudolph, Superego, Comedy

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author Oscar Wilde (Jon Daly) to the podcast. Prepare yourself for many mots, a great deal of them bon!

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.
0:08.5	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel
0:14.4	Mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of the
0:19.5	Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. G. Wells.
0:23.0	G. Well, G. G. Welles, and welcome to another installment of the Dead Authors Podcast.
0:29.0	I'm your host, H.G. Wells, and I'm delighted to inform you that the interview you're about
0:34.5	to hear, with none other than the playwright and wit Oscar Wilde, was recorded live in front of a lovely
0:40.3	and appreciative audience at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon.
0:45.2	As you may have gleam from cable television, Portland is home to all manner of feminist bookstore
0:50.2	owners and bohemian bed and breakfast proprietors. But did you know that the Rose City
0:55.2	has also produced its share of notable authors? Everyone from Beverly Cleary to Chuck Palanuk, and let's face it, that's
1:02.1	quite a spectrum, once called Portland home not to mention Ursula K
1:06.6	Leguin well known for her work in the genre of science fiction which I invented and with a fiction.
1:13.0	Which I invented.
1:14.0	And with a roster of luminaries like that, it was the proverbial no-brainer to record an installment of our series in the dear old PDX.
1:22.0	And now for a bit of bad news. series in the dear old PDX.
1:22.6	And now for a bit of bad news.
1:24.7	In an effort to make this podcast more popular and relatable, one of my producers has
1:29.8	insisted that I take a page from Entertainment Tonight's book.
1:34.1	When I pointed out that in fact Entertainment Tonight was a television program and not a book at all,
1:39.2	that Self-Sane producer did a dreadful pantomime of receiving an important call on his mobile and ran out of the room.
1:46.1	Coward. Not Noel. Standard. At any rate, I'm afraid I haven't a choice.
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