Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin, featuring Scott Aukerman

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

🗓️ 6 December 2011

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Chapter 4: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author, inventor, diplomat and party animal Benjamin Franklin (Scott Aukerman) to the Dead Authors stage for an oft-sprited, oft-absurd, and oft-off-kilter discussion about God knows what. It must be heard to be believed, and even after hearing it you should still check three sources. Ambassador Franklin is a bit of a libertine when it comes to naughty words, so plug your ears up, you bunch of nuns! (Sorry, It's infectious!)

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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.
0:08.6	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. Welcome to the Dead Authors. Welles.
0:26.0	Welcome to the Dead Authors Podcast. I am your host, legendary author and time traveler H.G. Wells.
0:31.0	I wish you good morning.
0:32.0	Possibly it is morning for you as you are hearing these words, but I'm the time
0:36.6	traveler here, not you, and I stand by my salutation. I primarily make use of the time machine in a professional capacity transporting famous authors to 21st century America.
0:48.0	But the vessel also offers many an opportunity for good old-fashioned recreation and why not I've earned it you try
0:56.7	spending your waking hours thinking up alien invasions mad geneticists and
1:01.1	invisible men and see if you don't need a break now and again.
1:05.4	It does get a bit tiresome, this science fiction genre I've created, but I learned an important
1:11.0	lesson from the disastrous sales and critical drubbing of my rightly forgotten young adult novel, Millicent Havishaw is spoken to by a boy.
1:19.5	You've got to give the people what they want.
1:22.0	At any rate, I decided to treat myself to a time
1:25.6	cation, terribly sorry, but there's really no other word to describe it, to New York City in the early 1970s.
1:32.4	After a day of sightseeing, I sought respite in a local pub, as one does.
1:37.0	I noticed immediately that I was surrounded by hippies and counterculture types, but the establishment was not without its charm, so I pulled
1:46.2	up a stool and ordered a lager from the barman.
1:48.7	Well, it wasn't long before I fell into conversation with a fellow on the adjacent stool, a pleasant enough chap who introduced himself as Jim.
1:57.5	He told me that he was a struggling musician, and as a fellow grappler with the muse I was quick to commiserate.
2:03.7	We got to talking and as one beer became two, then three, and four,
2:08.4	I must confess I let it slip about the time machine.
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