Chapter 36: Ralph Ellison, featuring DeMorge Brown

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

🗓️ 30 July 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes novelist, critic, and scholar Ralph Ellison (DeMorge Brown) to the podcast. For you completists, this episode contains appearances by all the authors of novels entitled The Invisible Man.

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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 Mart, with locations in Echo Park
0:16.4	and Mar Vista, California. And now, the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:30.0	Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Chapter 36 of the Dead Authors Podcast. I am your host, H.G. Wells, and my guest for this chapter is the American scholar and novelist Ralph Ellison.
0:37.0	Professor Ellison's is an intellect so robust that he created an invisible man you could actually see.
0:43.6	And this without the chab wearing so much as a pair of welding goggles or a bloody great
0:47.4	wild of sport bandages atop the shoulders of his smoking jacket.
0:51.8	Fascinating stuff. You know dear listener, despite my many, many, many achievements,
0:57.5	I'm really not so different from you except for the achievements. Every now and again, even I feel the need to cast off the shackles of the achievements. Every now and again even I feel the need to cast off the shackles of the life of the mind
1:06.2	and see how the other 99.9% live. Would it astonish you to learn that from time to time I even partake in it lives it should be lives 99.9%
1:17.4	lives would it astonish you to learn that from time to time I even partake in a good old-fashioned bit of
1:23.8	telly or as the young people call it the surfing of channels. Well it's true and
1:29.7	most of what I see is absolute Tosh, including Tosh.
1:34.0	Fusion's got a few good programs, but the rest is utter drivel.
1:37.6	Just the other day, I came across a show that purported to rank the ten most haunted locations in the world?
1:43.5	I mean, honestly, are we still so obsessed with spooks and spectres?
1:48.1	Have not her minds developed beyond the point of old wives, tales, and Superstition.
1:53.0	What's that?
1:54.0	I'm being told now that they haven't, and it doesn't surprise me a bit,
1:58.0	which is why I endeavor to visit these ten allegedly ghostly locales and debunk them all with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned scientific investigation.
2:08.0	Didn't take long, even without benefit of the fanciful gear developed by Meza Spengler and Stance.
2:14.2	That's right, there were of course perfectly rational explanations for each of the phenomena
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