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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 458 - The Pool

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Patton Oswalt is back to talk Michael Shea in the summer party classic The Pool!

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Podcraft.com.

0:02.0

Okay, ready? The pool, I'm ready.

0:07.0

The pool, I'm ready.

0:08.0

The pool.

0:10.0

The job site was beautiful in this early morning sun.

0:13.5

Darryl's crew was up in the hills of Marin, working behind an upscale development.

0:17.5

The grassy slopes blaze in the slanting light, great stately oak trees perched here and there on the rolling terrain.

0:24.8

Scattered multitude that bestrode the slopes like gnarly titan surfers perched on a golden tsunami.

0:31.2

But down in this pit for a swimming pool, Darryl, carrying 50 years and

0:35.1

wielding a 40-pound air hammer with a dirt chisel, was feeling he'd irrevocably

0:39.5

run his life into the ground. That was the opening of the pool by Michael Shea, just your typical fun in the sun kind of

0:47.2

tale, except with some amorphous otherworldly monsters and we're going to talk about it here

0:50.8

on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

0:52.4

I'm Chad Fyfer. And I'm Chris Lanky. We here on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast. I'm Chad Fyfer.

0:53.2

And I'm Chris Lanky. We're here at H.P.Podcraft.com and Patreon.

0:56.6

Once again, we are joined by a special guest.

0:58.4

Yes, he's the host of the podcast, He Said She said, Shee Said,

1:01.6

as well as its spin-off, a roll in the Shay, and Murder Shay wrote, ladies and

1:06.1

gentlemen, Patton-Ozwald.

1:07.1

Hi, everybody, and thank you to all my other listeners that have joined me here today.

1:13.8

It was the backdoor pilot and it worked out.

1:15.6

Yeah, it really was.

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