Chapter 7: P.G. Wodehouse, featuring Brian Stack

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 20 March 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Chapter 7: Jeeves & Wooster creator P.G. Wodehouse (Brian Stack) visits with H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) and it's not long before things get disturbing (in the most British way possible). There is a surprising amount of talk about donkeys. No matter how much talk of donkeys you were expecting, there is more than that.

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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. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welles.
0:30.0	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, H.G. Wells here, your host for another installment of the Dead Authors podcast. Ah, I can hear some of you already.
0:32.0	How on earth did Wells know I was listening? Ah, I can hear some of you already.
0:33.0	How on earth did Wells know I was listening to this in the afternoon?
0:37.2	He must have travelled forward in time to observe my behavior.
0:41.2	Well of course I didn't.
0:42.4	Have you taken leave of your senses? The time machine is the single
0:46.1	greatest scientific tool in recorded history. If I'm going to use it for podcast, audience
0:51.5	research, I might as well hang my wet laundry on the blasted
0:55.4	thing as if it were a generously upholstered Bowflex machine. No I merely
1:00.4	selected that afternoon greeting at random knowing that I had a decent chance of blowing at least one third of your minds.
1:07.5	And for the other two-thirds of you listening in the morning or evening who are upset at being left out of my little parlor trick, I cheerfully invite you to go cry about it.
1:16.0	And speaking of frustrated tears, it's no secret that Hollywood has struggled for years in its attempts to accurately depict time travel.
1:24.4	And as one who is, himself, a noted chronological excursionist, I can tell you that their efforts
1:29.7	have been so spectacularly misguided, they could well be classified as Jules Vernian.
1:35.4	Harsh words I know, but honestly, traversing the swirling vastness of time and space in a sports
1:41.6	car, a telephone kiosk, a hot tub for pity's sake.
1:46.4	Now I assure you dear listener on the topic of that film there is no bigger fan than I of John Cusack and the cameo from beloved 1980s cinema
1:55.7	mainstay William Zabka was nothing short of a feast for the senses but I
2:00.4	simply cannot endorse the science as well as the fiction of that film.
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