Neil Gaiman, Morbidity, & Sparta | (Ep. 190)
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode offers a smorgasbord: Nate has never finished a Neil Gaiman book. Brian tells him why.
They also discuss:
- Sparta, Lycurgus, and delicacies.
- Feminine vs Masculine glory.
- Stoics vs Epicenes.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.1 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:07.3 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.6 | $1.90. |
| 0:13.1 | Are we? |
| 0:13.7 | Okay. |
| 0:14.2 | There we are. |
| 0:14.7 | 190. |
| 0:15.5 | 190. |
| 0:16.3 | And, man, there's a couple different directions to go, I think. |
| 0:19.8 | But the main one I just had is what's going on with our dear leader. |
| 0:25.9 | Epstein, Ukraine. |
| 0:28.3 | Perhaps I just thought I was more. |
| 0:29.8 | I mean, Ukraine makes sense. |
| 0:33.3 | Is there story tools to take from this, or is this just me at wandering about current events? |
| 0:38.9 | I mean, we could just blow through these and move on to a story topic. But everything he does is |
| 0:44.2 | always positioning and always positioning for a deal. So what's going on with Epstein? I have no idea. |
| 0:50.9 | That seems bizarre to me, but I don't, I can't see all the cards. I don't see all the cards in his hand. I see him playing a hand, and I see it looking like it's not going well. But I don't know if it's not going well or not. I don't know what game is playing. So I don't know who's getting blackmailed. I don't know which trade agreement is being affected by this. I don't know which table he's at in terms of poker. |
| 1:13.9 | When he said that Vladimir talks nice, he talks real nice and then he just bombs everybody. |
| 1:21.2 | He's realized that the real difficult, when Vladimir called him and offered to help with Iran, and he said, |
| 1:30.1 | I told him, I don't need any help with Iran. |
| 1:31.4 | I need help with you. |
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