Chapter 50: L. Frank Baum, featuring Chris Tallman

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Chapter 50: In this final installment of the free monthly podcast, H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes author/showman loud person L. Frank Baum (Chris Tallman) to the Dead Authors stage. I've a feeling we're not in iTunes anymore!

DEAD AUTHORS SHALL RETURN

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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.
0:25.0	G. Wells. G. Welles. G. Welles, my dear friends and loyal listeners.
0:29.0	This is H.G. Wells speaking, and I regret to inform you that at long last we have arrived at
0:35.3	chapter 50 of the dead authors podcast indeed the inevitable culmination of the
0:41.1	monthly installments of my much beloved by some literary
0:45.0	interview series. From now on if you wish to enjoy the work of long deceased writers
0:50.2	you'll have to watch Nick at Night or Turner Classic movies, assuming that either of those channels
0:55.6	have held tighter to their mission statements than American Movie Classics or the Independent
1:00.5	Film Channel. Yes, in the words of one of the most overrated authors to ever kick the bucket,
1:07.0	this is the end beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend, the end.
1:13.2	Mmm, powerful stuff.
1:16.2	Did you know that friend and end consistently rhyme even twice in a row?
1:21.7	But let us not languish in despair. We've had a right jolly time with this endeavor,
1:26.7	and this last chapter is as sterling an example of jolliness as you're likely to find anywhere in the
1:31.5	podosphere.
1:32.6	My guest for Chapter 50 is the American writer and master showman L. Frank Baum.
1:37.2	And for those of you curious about the delay in the release of this installment, I can now reveal
1:41.1	that Mr Baum insisted we wait until well after NBC's televised
1:45.1	stage production of the whiz in order to squeeze every last drop of publicity and
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