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The Blindboy Podcast

The Poitín Maker

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

Arts, Philosophy, Art, Fiction, Factual, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

I read my short story, The Poitín Maker and discuss the connection between the Eifel tower, Paul Cezzane, Dr.Dre and Ernest Hemingway

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0:00.0

Play some bendy tennis, you gilded Emmets. Welcome to the Blind Boye podcast.

0:06.0

We've got a lot of new listeners this week.

0:08.0

We've got many new listeners because this the Guardian. So welcome to all the brand new listeners this week. And what I always say to

0:24.8

new listeners is go back and listen to an earlier podcast. Some people even start from the

0:30.4

beginning to familiarize yourself with the lore of this

0:33.2

podcast it's absolutely freezing in Ireland right now it's minus four degrees

0:38.8

across all of the country we're in the middle of a cold snap, but it is quite beautiful because it's a dry cold.

0:47.4

There's no ice, there's no moisture in the air. It's what I'd describe as powdery it's that powdery frosty coldness the

0:56.9

sky is incredibly clear it's in HD almost and the fine layer of frost across all the grass and the plants and the trees

1:08.0

keeps everything unnaturally still nettles are drooping and crippled but frost. It's the perfect weather for a morning walk.

1:19.5

And you don't have to worry about ice because it's too dry there's no fucking ice so I'd like to do

1:24.2

something very special for this week's podcast I'd like to read you out a short

1:28.8

story probably I think this is my favorite short story from my no book, Topography of I Barnica.

1:37.0

It's a story called the Put-Gene Maker.

1:40.0

I think it's my favorite story in the book because it took me the longest to write.

1:44.8

It took about three or four months to write because I poured over every single detail

1:50.5

and I did massive amounts of research to create the world that I wanted to create with this story

1:56.5

and it was a pleasure to live in that world while I was writing it. I do get asked frequently

2:01.5

why I write books of short stories and why I haven't written a novel.

2:05.0

I enjoy writing short stories, a collection of short stories, because it's a bit like making an album.

2:12.0

If you make an album full of songs, each song has a different tone.

2:17.0

You can have a reggae song, if you like, or a country song.

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