Chapter 49: Albert Camus, featuring Steve Agee

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chapter 49: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Albert Camus (Steve Agee) to the Dead Authirs stage for an evening of... oh, what's the POINT.

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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
0:14.5	mart with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of
0:19.6	the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:26.0	Hello all and welcome to Chapter 49 of the Dead Authors Podcast.
0:30.0	I am your host, H.G. Wells, and my guest for this installment is the author, journalist, philosopher, and Algerian Albert Camu.
0:39.0	Over the course of his illustrious career, Camu earned a Nobel Prize and with the publication of his essay, The Myth of Sissophis,
0:46.4	the enmity of Lispers the world over.
0:49.2	As you might expect, Monsieur Camu and I had a rather weighty discussion, which you'll hear in just a tick, and so the second I returned him to his rightful place in the time stream, I felt the urgent need to blow out the old cobwebs and kick out the proverbial jams.
1:04.0	After all, even without a doer anarchist riding shotgun in your time machine,
1:08.3	things in the dead author business can often tend toward the morbid. Now you're probably wondering what does a literary
1:15.2	Titan and master of time travel like H-U-Ls do to blow off steam? I suspect I spend my
1:21.2	leisure hours much the way you do.
1:23.2	Writing classic works of fiction, chasing Jack the Ripper, playing a version of myself on an
1:28.2	old episode of Doctor Who, you know, hobbies.
1:31.9	But thanks to a recent stroke of genius
1:34.1	I've found a way to collect a few pounds in my copious spare hours.
1:38.0	I am pleased to announce that I will be making the time machine
1:41.0	available as part of a new ride sharing program, a sort of
1:45.4	inter-dimensional Uber if you will. Simply download the app to your smartphone,
1:50.0	enter where and when you'd like to go along with your credit card information and I'll appear before you tickety-boo!
1:59.0	Uh, hello again, Wells here, please to announce the cancellation of the Time Machine Ride Sharing Program.
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