Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

Lore Party Media

Arts, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Abu and Leo bring their Dune obsession through the alchemist's portal to Ted Chiang's incredible short story collection, Exhalation, examining the common themes in Ted's writing along side Frank's. You be good. We love you. This episode contains SPOILERS through God Emperor of Dune, and of course, for the nine stories featured in Exhalation. Get ad-free episodes and bonus content: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/GomJabbar Say thank you with a tip: http://buymeacoffee.com/gomjabbar Watch video versions of select episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@loreparty Get yourself some custom-designed Dune swag: https://www.gomjabbarshop.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the show, our nanny told us not to press that predictor button, but we didn't listen.
0:05.7	So now, dear listener, you get to hear our parouselves talk about exhalation by Ted Chang instead of Dune.
0:13.1	What?
0:13.6	I know, it's okay. It's okay. Don't worry.
0:16.0	They're still going to be allowed to Dune talk because the truth is every version of ourselves in every parallel reality is going
0:22.7	to be obsessed with Dune. That's just a constant. Yeah. Global weather patterns had no effect
0:27.9	on how obsessed with Dune we were. Yeah. Butterfly effect, get out of here. We still love
0:32.2	Dune. I went backward 20 years and then I told myself, get fucking interested in Dune.
0:36.9	That's great. Went forward 20 years and then I told myself, get fucking interested in dude. That's great.
0:40.4	Went forward 20 years.
0:41.8	Also obsessed with dude.
0:43.0	It's crazy.
0:45.2	The past is immutable.
0:46.6	You can never change it.
0:47.6	I'm immutably obsessed with you.
0:59.5	Welcome to Gomja Bar, your guide to the iconic world of Dune.
1:04.2	We'll be exploring the themes, philosophies, and characters found in the sandy depths of this vast universe from Frank Herbert's groundbreaking novels to the adaptations on film and TV.
1:10.6	My name is Leo. And my name is Aboot. Oh, and today on the show, we are not exactly talking about Dune, but Abu, we're always talking about Dune. Right. That's our thing. That's what we're into. Even when we're not talking about Dune, it's about Dune. Just think about it. Just think about it. That's how I get away with it with my close family and friends. They go, what do you want to talk about? I'm like Dune, but we're going to talk about something else to talk about Dune. Exactly. Right. It's always a metaphor. Today, we're talking about the book Exhalation by Ted Chang. And anybody who's read the book knows this is an excellent collection of short stories.
1:49.4	And realistically, the reason we're talking about it is because we are right now between
1:53.1	Heretics of Dune, our book club, and we are basically killing time until we kick off our
1:59.0	chapter house book club.
2:02.7	That's right. And so in this kind of interim what do we do the idea was floated by our patrons that we talk about ted chang so here we are
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