Chapter 47: Mark Twain

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

Arts, Comedy, Books

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Chapter 47: Special guest-host CARL SAGAN (Matt Gourley) welcomes American treasure MARK TWAIN (Paul F. Tompkins) to the Dead Authors stage for an evening of steamboats, satire and science!

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 826 LA, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18.
0:08.7	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California.
0:18.2	And now, the host of the Dead Authors podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:23.7	Hello all and welcome to Chapter 47 of the Dead Authors podcast. I am your host, H.G. Wells.
0:31.0	And yet, I am also not your host. How can such a thing be, you ask? As well you might. And in fact, you did. All shall be
0:40.5	explained in good time, dear listener, in good time. Well, that's been a good bit of time,
0:46.6	hasn't it? Permit me to elucidate. I have, of course, been the host of the dead authors'
0:51.2	podcast for lo these many chapters, not to mention the odd appendix,
0:54.8	addendum, shopping mall appearance or what have you, but my time in this position is rapidly
0:59.3	coming to a close. As you may know, Chapter 50 will be the final installment of this podcast in its
1:05.4	current monthly incarnation. And not unlike the original King of Late Night, the great John Carson, in the twilight of his hosting career, I've come down with a rather serious case of, I don't much feel like doing this tonight.
1:19.1	But fear not, devoted listener. First time listener, you can fear a bit. That's the price of pay for being a late adopter.
1:24.8	The rest of you, fear not! As the Mighty Carson selected only
1:28.6	the most skillful substitutes to take his place behind the desk, so too have I plucked a guest
1:33.7	host worthy of the padded velvet brocade seat of the time machine. I am pleased to announce
1:38.9	that none other than noted astrophysicist and friend of the show, Dr. Carl Sagan will serve as Master of Ceremonies for
1:45.7	Chapter 47, and he has selected as his guest, the great American author and humorist Mr. Mark Twain.
1:52.2	You'll find that you're in ever so good hands with Dr. Sagan as your host, but a brief word
1:56.8	of warning, though he may spin some wild tale to explain my absence from the stage,
2:01.7	he mustn't be taken in. Dr. Sagan is a noted prankster with a wicked sense of humor.
2:07.1	In astronomical circles, he is widely considered to be nothing short of a turtle-necked
2:11.0	George Clooney. I assure you that I spent my hiatus traversing distant lands and planes of existence, searching high and
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