Episode #136 – Edison’s Conquest Ep 1 – Serviss is Selling

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Support the podcast on Patreon and get every episode a week early and other fun stuff! Our first reading of Garrett P. Serviss’ Edison’s Conquest of Mars is a real cracker jack, a tip-top lally-cooler! Truly, an enjoyable book if for nothing more than the action movie quipping of Professor Sylvanus P. Thompson. All the … Continue reading "Episode #136 – Edison’s Conquest Ep 1 – Serviss is Selling"

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the first 372 pages book of 2023.
0:14.5	The future.
0:15.5	We are finally in the future, Mike.
0:17.9	Welcome back to the first.
0:20.8	Is that what you said? back to the first.
0:22.3	Is that what you said?
0:23.4	Back to the first?
0:26.4	You said, welcome back to the first episode.
0:28.4	The first episode of 2023.
0:30.7	Welcome back to the first. You thought you said the first episode of the book.
0:33.2	Of the first.
0:34.1	It's not even this.
0:35.0	We recorded one of these a couple weeks ago.
0:37.9	But I was just, I'm trying to be one of those people who's hypercritical of everything.
0:41.5	That sounds good, yeah. This is the revenge for our pronunciation thing the other night.
0:45.6	Yeah, yeah. But I was just so caught up in the, in the thrill of living in the future, you know?
0:52.6	It's true. New dates to write on your checks because this book that we're currently reading,
0:57.9	Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Service is just full of futuristic ideas and concepts and space cars and such things that,
1:11.6	but it's all the future of the past,
1:12.9	so it's quite entertaining.
1:15.0	Yeah, even,
1:16.5	I was shocked that even back then,
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