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The Dead Authors Podcast

Chapter 8: Aesop, featuring Mark McConville

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

Arts, Conan, Andy, Snl, Machine, Tompkins, 826, Daly, Maya, Books, Time, Tompkast, Travel, Ucb, Mcsweeneys, Rudolph, Superego, Comedy

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 8: Do you have friends who insist upon doing "voices" for their idiotic dogs? Well, you can blame the original animal anthropomorphizer, Aesop (Mark McConville). Join H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) as he delves into the mind behind so many lazy grasshoppers and eating dirorederd foxes. Have you ever wondered just what the true pronunciation of "Aesop" is? After listening to this, you will continue to do so!

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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. Hello out there in podcast. Welles.

0:28.0

Hello out there in podcast land, which in the future is an actual place by the way, perhaps best known as the five-time recipient of National Geographic most over-aturated Amusement Park Award.

0:34.0

It is I, H.G. Wells, bidding you, welcome to Chapter 8 of the Dead Authors Podcast,

0:39.0

with our special guest, ESOP.

0:41.0

In the wake of my conversation with the ancient Grecian

0:44.2

fableist, to whom I find myself unshakably tempted to refer to as Mr. SOP, I have been beset

0:50.9

with ruminations on the subject of morals and morality and ever since the

0:55.1

New York Times replaced the original author of the ethicist column with that new person, I've

1:01.0

got nowhere to turn when it comes to these questions of basic social codes of conduct.

1:06.4

And before you wag suggest I hop in the time machine and track down the late Anne Landers,

1:11.2

I'll thank you to remember that this is the Dead Authors Podcast, not the Dead

1:15.6

Syndicated Agony Arts Podcast, though I reserve the right to explore that territory should

1:20.7

our pool of guests ever run dry.

1:22.7

At any rate, dear listener, permit me to posit the following hypothetical scenario for your consideration.

1:28.5

Suppose you had a neighbor, let's call him Lionel Klawworth of 24 Ivy Church Road, Folkston, Kent, CT 21-R-L, England.

1:38.0

And let us further suppose that you had loan this hypothetical neighbor, Your Rake.

1:42.9

With Autumn in the south of England being what it is, we can all agree that this was no

1:46.8

small gesture.

1:47.8

Now let us further speculate that this gentleman, the hypothetical Mr. Klaeworth, not only refused to return the rake,

1:55.4

but denied that he'd ever even borrowed it.

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