Welcome to this IDSG bonus episode about the Kurt Vonnegut novel Mother Knight

and the film adaptation from the late 90s.

Just a quick warning, we are going to spoil the shit out of the story.

So if you haven't read it, please go and do that before you listen.

What? Pardon me? for you listen.

What?

Pardon me?

I asked if you spoke German.

Oh, no, no, I'm afraid not.

Okay, and welcome back to another,

trying to think of a funny way of mangling the title, I don't speak German, but I should have prepared, and I didn't. So it's just I don't speak German this time. Yon-O-Ale-A-Laban. Ah, there you go. And you heard his voice. It's the Daniel Harper. Daniel Harper. How you did, live? The one and only, although not, but, you know, the one and only that ever gets to be on this podcast.

Doing all right.

Making it,

enjoyed a very good book over the last couple of days. So, yeah, that's always, nice. It's always a nice when it's a good thing and not a bad thing that we've been subjecting ourselves to, granted, I subject myself to plenty of bad things, but also one good thing this week, or more than one good thing, but this is definitely one good thing.

That's right. very good thing because we're talking in this episode about, and we're doing another Vonnegut episode. We've already done an episode, a bonus episode, quite a way back now, I think, where we talked about... Two, three years ago, at least, yeah. Yeah, that sounds right. Well, we talked about the Kurt Vonnegut book, Sauter House 5, his most famous book, I would say, arguably, and the movie adaptation thereof. And we're kind of, we're kind of doing a sequel to that. And this time we're talking about book and movie Vonnegut again, but it's Mother Knight this time.

Yes.

So just maybe to run over this again, Daniel, your history with Kurt Vonnegut.

Vonnegut is an author I discovered because I was a big science fiction fan, so I was reading a lot of the like Asimov,ov, Heinlein Clark stuff, like, throughout my childhood. And Vonnegut always got kind of, like, mentioned, if you read, like, their biographical material, particularly Asimov, would talk about how, you know, he could sell to, like, the cheap, you know, the cheap papers. But Vonnegut could write, like, a similar story as Asimov tells it and get it published in like Playboy.

Get it in the in the slick papers that's, you know, where you get 10 times as much per word to get charged for it.

So I, um, to be paid for it. So I always knew, um, as a name, um, from my childhood. And I know in my, uh, in my, like, the last year, I mean, the last year or two of high school, I managed to find a bunch of his books in the library.

And so I just not really knowing a whole lot about them.

And I've read some of the short stories.

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