The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The History of Literature presents some content from another Podglomerate podcast, Storybound. In this episode from Storybound's first season, author Mitchell S. Jackson reads from his memoir, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, with sound design and original music composed by Zane featuring Stephanie Strange. STORYBOUND is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. In each episode, listeners will be treated to their favorite authors and writers reading some of their most impactful stories, designed with powerful and immersive sound environments. Brought to you by Lit Hub Radio and The Podglomerate. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to a special storytelling edition of The History of Literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast.
0:23.0	I'm so glad you're
0:25.0	a bah-hah-hmm.
0:27.0	Okay, here we go.
0:32.0	Welcome to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here today. My goodness, life is good, isn't it?
0:39.0	When it's not being absolutely horrendous, that is, little cracks of sunshine.
0:46.2	Not that they really reach me here in the Jack Wilson studio, the pandemic and the quarantine
0:52.3	are taking their toll they're getting to me, but we will survive. We will survive. Science will pull us through. That seems like such a basic thing. But here we are, science. We're all waiting for science to help us out. A vaccine. Please, dear Lord, deliver us a vaccine.
1:13.3	Now, I have a lot of confidence in science and scientists.
1:18.3	I think our vaccine will arrive, our salvation. We have to do our part until then, but the day will come people when the scientists will save us. They've done it before. They perform miracles. Here's an example to give you some hope. Just
1:36.1	one little example of science. Scientists have determined what a mummy sounds like.
1:41.6	Did you hear about this? They took a mummy, a preserved mummy, and they used
1:45.9	3D modeling to reconstruct the throat and vocal cords and voila. the mummy speaks.
1:55.0	So I'm going to bring you a snippet of this now.
1:57.0	It was covered on the news, but you might have missed it.
2:00.0	So here's a news report talking about this miracle of modern science.
2:07.0	With their moans, groans, and groans, and screams,
2:20.0	Hollywood's mummies have always given us chills.
2:24.0	But this week, researchers in England let us hear what a real mummy sounds like.
2:32.0	Eh. That's the voice of Nessie a moon, an Egyptian
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