Hermits!

Strange Familiars

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alison interviews Timothy about his new book, I Have Never Minded the Loneliness: Hermits and Their Stories. We discuss the book, hermits and their pets, John Smith, John Stink, the Hermit Queen of Happy Hollow, the Giant Hermit of the Adirondacks, the Old Leather Man, and more. Timothy reads the stories of hermits Left-Handed Charley, who was caught in a lie by Theodore Roosevelt, and Truman “Commodore” Downs, who claimed the planet Mars as his birthplace.

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0:00.0	They claim the war IHCROND They claim that our eyes were just to be treated a slight different
0:26.6	but they are. We talk to see things about the world. Welcome to Strange Familiar.
0:58.4	How you doing tonight, Allison?
1:00.2	I'm doing well. I'm going to move my microphone back in its proper position.
1:03.8	Oh, yeah.
1:04.7	Get a crick in my neck.
1:06.2	Avian was here. He messed up your positioning.
1:10.6	Makes sense. He messed up your positioning. Makes sense.
1:13.4	He recorded the patron episode with...
1:15.6	Did he see ears in these headphones?
1:19.3	Yeah, I guess so. Why?
1:21.5	I don't know why I get the communal headphones.
1:26.1	Yours are always your headphones and mine are always the guest.
1:30.1	Well, I'm always sitting here in front of the board controlling things.
1:33.3	And now I feel like my ears are itchy.
1:37.4	I'm just joking.
1:39.2	Well, Alson, it's a hermit show tonight.
1:42.2	What are the odds?
1:43.5	Not just any hermit show. It's a hermit show about what are the odds not just any hermit show it's a hermit show about my book
1:46.6	i've never minded the loneliness how did you even book the time like how did you get in like for the
1:53.7	right the right week well i paid people oh okay this book is your fault by the way what do What do you mean? It's my fault.
2:01.4	You started all this hermit nonsense by buying me that first postcard of William Woodruff.
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