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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 393 — Brandi Wells

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Brandi Wells is the guest. Her latest novel, This Boring Apocalypse, is available now from Civil Coping Mechanisms.  Brandi moved to LA recently to get her PhD. She's going to be a doctor of literature. She's a shy Southern girl originally from Georgia and spent time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which she loved, and which she misses, and we talk about that. She is also very much into body dismemberment—I don't mean to say that she wants to dismember anyone, or be dismembered herself. She's just fascinated with the body and with the alteration and desecration of the body, and with the body generally. We talk about that, too. What else? She used to hula hoop a lot. Not in a hippie way. In a circus way. And she grew up going to a Pentecostal church where people spoke in tongues and writhed on the ground, electrified by the power of The Lord. All of this and more in today's episode. In the monologue, I talk about the shutting down of LAUSD schools due to an unspecific terrorism threat, and about the fear in the air, and my outrage over all of the recent violence and America's stupid gun laws, and the chaos and horrors of the Middle East, and so on, and so on. All of it.  I attempt to get it off my chest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody.

0:03.5

This is Brad Listy.

0:04.5

Before we get started, I wanted to offer up a couple of last minute holiday gift ideas.

0:08.9

Is that all right?

0:09.6

Do you mind if I offer up some last minute holiday gift ideas?

0:12.9

Do you have a book nerd in your life?

0:14.2

Do you have an aspiring author in your life?

0:15.9

Do you have somebody in your life who loves podcasts?

0:18.8

Do you have somebody in your life who likes to listen to two complete strangers, have a

0:22.7

conversation?

0:23.6

If so, my first gift idea could potentially be appealing.

0:27.8

That would be a subscription to other people premium.

0:30.1

It costs less than $10 for a year subscription.

0:33.5

It's a great stocking stuffer.

0:34.8

It's a nice gesture.

0:35.9

It's a gift that keeps on giving.

0:37.4

When you give somebody a subscription to other People Premium, you give them access to all of the episodes of this program.

0:43.7

Almost 400 episodes and counting.

0:45.7

That's a lot of listening all year long.

0:49.1

It's a terrific gift.

0:50.3

Other People Premium.

0:51.1

For more information, go to Other People's official website.

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