Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 41: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) does not interview Dr. Seuss (Hal Lublin) on a box, proving that eating rancid breakfasts isn't the only the thing that doesn't happen on boxes.

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 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.
0:37.1	G. Welles. G. G. Welles, greetings of that. It is I, H.G. Wells, sliding down your virtual chimney with a brimming sackful of Chapter 41 of the Dead Authors Podcast. My guest for this installment is the beloved children's book author and illustrator
0:41.8	Dr. Seuss, whose very name is synonymous with Christmas,
0:45.7	though perhaps not quite as synonymous as it is with chaper-wearing felines, oddly coloured
0:50.4	breakfast meals, and elephants possessed of unrivaled
0:54.0	auditory capacity. We'll hear from the good doctor soon enough but first to show my
0:58.8	appreciation for your continued patronage and downloadery over the past year, I decided to go shopping for your Christmas present in the future.
1:08.0	To commemorate the birth of our Lord 2014 years ago, I hopped forward in time another 2014 years to bring you news of how all
1:17.8	your favorite Christmas traditions are holding up. I am pleased to report that humankind still exists. Though there was an alarming
1:26.6	global population drop resulting from a worldwide trend of chaps in high-waisted trousers falling in love with the sultry, gravely voices associated
1:36.6	with their operating systems. Scientists are still unsure whether the reduced birth rates
1:41.9	owed more to the operating system's lack of reproductive organs
1:45.3	or the constrictive nature of the aforementioned trousers.
1:48.8	With fewer human beings around to muck things up, the planet's temperature has ceased its precipitous rise.
1:55.7	Only now it's so bloody cold all year round, the Irving Berlin Classic Line, I'm dreaming
2:00.8	of a white Christmas is only ever sung with the most bitterest of sarcasms.
2:05.9	Let's see what else has changed. Candy canes have been replaced by candy wheelchairs.
2:10.8	TBS's 24 hours of a Christmas Story marathon now runs for a solid week, and
2:16.4	due to the dangerously low numbers of people left on the planet, the UN have mandated that
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