00:00:14 ◼ ► welcome back to the uncomfortable I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/14">TS</a>]
00:00:17 ◼ ► Jason smell your host we are convening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/17">TS</a>]
00:00:19 ◼ ► another edition of the uncomfortable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/19">TS</a>]
00:00:21 ◼ ► book club and yet again i believe this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/21">TS</a>]
00:00:24 ◼ ► is our fourth thousand-page long book in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/24">TS</a>]
00:00:31 ◼ ► fortunately our next book is stephen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/31">TS</a>]
00:00:34 ◼ ► assassination in time travel which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/34">TS</a>]
00:00:36 ◼ ► like 20 pages right also a thousand-page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/36">TS</a>]
00:00:43 ◼ ► today we are going to talk about ream d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/43">TS</a>]
00:00:49 ◼ ► by the way we checked Neal Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/49">TS</a>]
00:00:53 ◼ ► md it's really be its readme misspelled [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/53">TS</a>]
00:00:56 ◼ ► as Reedy by chinese hackers but we'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/56">TS</a>]
00:01:00 ◼ ► get to that Neal Stephenson's Ruby came [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/60">TS</a>]
00:01:03 ◼ ► out in September and we've all read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/63">TS</a>]
00:01:07 ◼ ► took us that long if you didn't read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/67">TS</a>]
00:01:09 ◼ ► don't why you want this podcast and if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/69">TS</a>]
00:01:11 ◼ ► you don't want to know what happens in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/71">TS</a>]
00:01:13 ◼ ► please don't listen to this podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/73">TS</a>]
00:01:14 ◼ ► because we're going to tell you what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/74">TS</a>]
00:01:15 ◼ ► happens we're going to talk about what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/75">TS</a>]
00:01:17 ◼ ► happens in the book so joining me to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/77">TS</a>]
00:01:20 ◼ ► talk about what happens in the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/80">TS</a>]
00:01:21 ◼ ► which is the purpose of a book club just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/81">TS</a>]
00:01:24 ◼ ► getting out there are serenity Caldwell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/84">TS</a>]
00:01:28 ◼ ► hello hi Jason it's just a check you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/88">TS</a>]
00:01:31 ◼ ► I have indeed read the book the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/91">TS</a>]
00:01:33 ◼ ► book the entire book right to be a week [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/93">TS</a>]
00:01:35 ◼ ► maybe we can have that show off haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/95">TS</a>]
00:01:39 ◼ ► well no it's okay i'm taking like two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/99">TS</a>]
00:01:41 ◼ ► months to finish cryptonomicon so all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/101">TS</a>]
00:01:44 ◼ ► right well actually never ends you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/104">TS</a>]
00:01:45 ◼ ► that book just keeps going goes yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/105">TS</a>]
00:01:47 ◼ ► it's really a lot into the first page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/107">TS</a>]
00:01:49 ◼ ► and it's I think I'm glad other voice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/109">TS</a>]
00:01:52 ◼ ► you just heard his kind fleischmann hi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/112">TS</a>]
00:01:53 ◼ ► Glenn did you read the local oh I read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/113">TS</a>]
00:01:58 ◼ ► I like it that's that's that things are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/118">TS</a>]
00:02:01 ◼ ► dan borin it also joins us Daniel I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/121">TS</a>]
00:02:04 ◼ ► assume you read the whole book this time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/124">TS</a>]
00:02:06 ◼ ► i read the book the whole book and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/126">TS</a>]
00:02:08 ◼ ► nothing but the book it Oh Mike so help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/128">TS</a>]
00:02:10 ◼ ► me God and Scott McNulty hello Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/130">TS</a>]
00:02:13 ◼ ► know you always read the book I didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/133">TS</a>]
00:02:17 ◼ ► read the book this time and I hope that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/137">TS</a>]
00:02:21 ◼ ► looking forward to read it it's about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/141">TS</a>]
00:02:30 ◼ ► I guess we should start by talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/150">TS</a>]
00:02:32 ◼ ► how this is a you know Neal Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/152">TS</a>]
00:02:37 ◼ ► is an interesting author he's written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/157">TS</a>]
00:02:39 ◼ ► some cyberpunk kind of stuff like snow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/159">TS</a>]
00:02:42 ◼ ► crash he wrote a very very sci-fi novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/162">TS</a>]
00:02:47 ◼ ► his last time out which was an M he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/167">TS</a>]
00:02:51 ◼ ► done action like in a zodiac which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/171">TS</a>]
00:02:58 ◼ ► historical kind of you know with a with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/178">TS</a>]
00:03:02 ◼ ► a sci-fi flavor but historical fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/182">TS</a>]
00:03:04 ◼ ► with a baroque cycle so he's he's been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/184">TS</a>]
00:03:08 ◼ ► all over the place and yet despite that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/188">TS</a>]
00:03:12 ◼ ► I was surprised at the content of reem d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/192">TS</a>]
00:03:14 ◼ ► because it starts out feeling like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/194">TS</a>]
00:03:17 ◼ ► going to be your sort of standard neal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/197">TS</a>]
00:03:21 ◼ ► stephenson even though it's set in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/201">TS</a>]
00:03:23 ◼ ► cryptonomicon well now he's yeah so yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/203">TS</a>]
00:03:26 ◼ ► mostly it's obviously an economic on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/206">TS</a>]
00:03:29 ◼ ► maybe some of those other thrillers that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/209">TS</a>]
00:03:30 ◼ ► he sort of pseudonymous Lee wrote right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/210">TS</a>]
00:03:32 ◼ ► right but um it's so but it more or less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/212">TS</a>]
00:03:35 ◼ ► still it's like you know it starts out a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/215">TS</a>]
00:03:37 ◼ ► little bit like a almost like the cory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/217">TS</a>]
00:03:41 ◼ ► doctorow book about for the wind after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/221">TS</a>]
00:03:44 ◼ ► the wind right which is about about gold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/224">TS</a>]
00:03:46 ◼ ► farmers in a in a massively multiplayer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/226">TS</a>]
00:03:49 ◼ ► game right you have the two of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/229">TS</a>]
00:03:50 ◼ ► apparently had some conversation where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/230">TS</a>]
00:03:52 ◼ ► Cory said Cory was assessment for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/232">TS</a>]
00:03:57 ◼ ► reading about gold farming and they both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/237">TS</a>]
00:03:59 ◼ ► cackle door something so you're going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/239">TS</a>]
00:04:00 ◼ ► round up i think reading their books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/240">TS</a>]
00:04:02 ◼ ► nearly simultaneously independent so my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/242">TS</a>]
00:04:07 ◼ ► Stephenson discovered what cory doctorow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/247">TS</a>]
00:04:09 ◼ ► is writing about 500 pages in and said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/249">TS</a>]
00:04:12 ◼ ► oh well then let's change what my book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/252">TS</a>]
00:04:15 ◼ ► is about let's take a sharp left turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/255">TS</a>]
00:04:18 ◼ ► listen I i want to make a point at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/258">TS</a>]
00:04:20 ◼ ► outset that because what you're going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/260">TS</a>]
00:04:21 ◼ ► through about genre is i think i got 300 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/261">TS</a>]
00:04:26 ◼ ► actually understood that there was going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/266">TS</a>]
00:04:28 ◼ ► to be no contra factual hypothetical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/268">TS</a>]
00:04:32 ◼ ► particles or anything else and sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/272">TS</a>]
00:04:34 ◼ ► the science fictional elements yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/274">TS</a>]
00:04:36 ◼ ► really it had because it has all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/276">TS</a>]
00:04:37 ◼ ► tropes and feels of that terrain and is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/277">TS</a>]
00:04:40 ◼ ► extrapolation of the the most massively [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/280">TS</a>]
00:04:43 ◼ ► multiplayer online game culture rain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/283">TS</a>]
00:04:45 ◼ ► which is the which is the invented more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/285">TS</a>]
00:04:48 ◼ ► or less arco invented by by Richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/288">TS</a>]
00:04:52 ◼ ► characters in the book it's not World of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/292">TS</a>]
00:04:55 ◼ ► Warcraft right but it is like it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/295">TS</a>]
00:04:57 ◼ ► it's sort of the it's played a sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/297">TS</a>]
00:05:00 ◼ ► the next evolution of that so there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/300">TS</a>]
00:05:02 ◼ ► little bit of speculation in there but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/302">TS</a>]
00:05:04 ◼ ► really it's it's our world although with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/304">TS</a>]
00:05:07 ◼ ► Stevenson's traditional attention to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/307">TS</a>]
00:05:08 ◼ ► detail that extrapolation is i would say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/308">TS</a>]
00:05:11 ◼ ► hell of a lot better than ernest cline [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/311">TS</a>]
00:05:13 ◼ ► xin in ready player one in terms of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/313">TS</a>]
00:05:16 ◼ ► the Oasis is versus terrain is much you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/316">TS</a>]
00:05:18 ◼ ► know i think is much more grounded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/318">TS</a>]
00:05:20 ◼ ► there's a good hundred pages devoted to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/320">TS</a>]
00:05:22 ◼ ► exactly what the terrain of the world is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/322">TS</a>]
00:05:31 ◼ ► there's so much here because there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/331">TS</a>]
00:05:32 ◼ ► thousand pages and that's why this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/332">TS</a>]
00:05:34 ◼ ► podcast will last for a thousand hours [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/334">TS</a>]
00:05:35 ◼ ► or maybe not but but I want to go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/335">TS</a>]
00:05:39 ◼ ► to so there isn't one is right it is i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/339">TS</a>]
00:05:42 ◼ ► was surprised on the one hand that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/342">TS</a>]
00:05:44 ◼ ► there's nothing you know counterfactual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/344">TS</a>]
00:05:46 ◼ ► there's nothing that seems like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/346">TS</a>]
00:05:49 ◼ ► couldn't happen today which i think is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/349">TS</a>]
00:05:51 ◼ ► interesting and then and then despite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/351">TS</a>]
00:05:53 ◼ ► Stephenson having all these different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/353">TS</a>]
00:05:55 ◼ ► genres that he's played in i was really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/355">TS</a>]
00:05:57 ◼ ► surprised at the turn he took because we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/357">TS</a>]
00:06:00 ◼ ► end up in the last half of this book in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/360">TS</a>]
00:06:02 ◼ ► basically an action movie which is its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/362">TS</a>]
00:06:06 ◼ ► well I think it's well done but it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/366">TS</a>]
00:06:09 ◼ ► funny because it's not what I expect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/369">TS</a>]
00:06:10 ◼ ► from Neil Stephens now I don't know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/370">TS</a>]
00:06:12 ◼ ► I expected I guess I expected something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/372">TS</a>]
00:06:14 ◼ ► less common and maybe a a weirder you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/374">TS</a>]
00:06:19 ◼ ► know less common kind of genre instead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/379">TS</a>]
00:06:21 ◼ ► of like guys with guns fighting other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/381">TS</a>]
00:06:24 ◼ ► guys with guns but that's what we got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/384">TS</a>]
00:06:28 ◼ ► I was surprised that certain most of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/388">TS</a>]
00:06:30 ◼ ► neal stephenson's books he's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/390">TS</a>]
00:06:31 ◼ ► famous for going on tangents that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/391">TS</a>]
00:06:33 ◼ ► enjoyable to read but you really lasts a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/393">TS</a>]
00:06:36 ◼ ► couple hundred pages and yeah like I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/396">TS</a>]
00:06:37 ◼ ► not sure what's going on in this book he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/397">TS</a>]
00:06:39 ◼ ► seems to have decided at one point okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/399">TS</a>]
00:06:42 ◼ ► i'm going to get rid of everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/402">TS</a>]
00:06:43 ◼ ► extraneous it's going to be all plot for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/403">TS</a>]
00:06:46 ◼ ► 400 pages and as I am I going to like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/406">TS</a>]
00:06:50 ◼ ► put that in your pipe and smoke it but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/410">TS</a>]
00:06:52 ◼ ► what I found really interesting along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/412">TS</a>]
00:06:53 ◼ ► those lines is also that like you start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/413">TS</a>]
00:06:56 ◼ ► out not only do you start thinking the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/416">TS</a>]
00:06:57 ◼ ► plots going in one direction but there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/417">TS</a>]
00:06:59 ◼ ► are certain characters that you start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/419">TS</a>]
00:07:00 ◼ ► out thinking okay this gets pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/420">TS</a>]
00:07:02 ◼ ► important and then you know some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/422">TS</a>]
00:07:04 ◼ ► those characters don't make it all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/424">TS</a>]
00:07:06 ◼ ► way through the book but like so like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/426">TS</a>]
00:07:10 ◼ ► oh he was pegged for death let's be fair [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/430">TS</a>]
00:07:13 ◼ ► yeah but on the flip side there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/433">TS</a>]
00:07:14 ◼ ► other characters you think are totally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/434">TS</a>]
00:07:16 ◼ ► like extraneous right like I mean like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/436">TS</a>]
00:07:19 ◼ ► yes it's so cool officer or I love III [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/439">TS</a>]
00:07:22 ◼ ► thought even I thought even Abdallah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/442">TS</a>]
00:07:23 ◼ ► Jones of course who is sort of caught [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/443">TS</a>]
00:07:26 ◼ ► topless in this random you know we'll go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/446">TS</a>]
00:07:29 ◼ ► through the plot i'm sure a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/449">TS</a>]
00:07:30 ◼ ► he's sort of seems like a threat like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/450">TS</a>]
00:07:31 ◼ ► random character to encounter like he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/451">TS</a>]
00:07:34 ◼ ► there is a plot device right and then he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/454">TS</a>]
00:07:35 ◼ ► turns into this hugely important major [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/455">TS</a>]
00:07:38 ◼ ► character throughout the rest of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/458">TS</a>]
00:07:39 ◼ ► book it's like a relay race though is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/459">TS</a>]
00:07:41 ◼ ► like they're running this isn't this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/461">TS</a>]
00:07:44 ◼ ► characters are running running and only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/464">TS</a>]
00:07:46 ◼ ► a few of them like zula for instance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/466">TS</a>]
00:07:48 ◼ ► makes the way all the way through it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/468">TS</a>]
00:07:55 ◼ ► Abdullah becomes that takes up that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/475">TS</a>]
00:07:57 ◼ ► missing character position you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/477">TS</a>]
00:07:59 ◼ ► really ok here we go well now we got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/479">TS</a>]
00:08:00 ◼ ► zulu natal Ivanovic sort of starts off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/480">TS</a>]
00:08:03 ◼ ► as being kind of important and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/483">TS</a>]
00:08:08 ◼ ► marlin and I do know your name to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/488">TS</a>]
00:08:10 ◼ ► who said something about characters who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/490">TS</a>]
00:08:11 ◼ ► are so significant and then is willing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/491">TS</a>]
00:08:14 ◼ ► to to murder their darlings you know he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/494">TS</a>]
00:08:16 ◼ ► sets up these from Yvonne is a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/496">TS</a>]
00:08:17 ◼ ► character and gets crazier and crazier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/497">TS</a>]
00:08:19 ◼ ► and then he is called and maybe it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/499">TS</a>]
00:08:21 ◼ ► whole new bill he exits on a high note [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/501">TS</a>]
00:08:23 ◼ ► you don't want to be mean you can't get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/503">TS</a>]
00:08:26 ◼ ► any crazier than that certain level of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/506">TS</a>]
00:08:29 ◼ ► what I really like about ream d is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/509">TS</a>]
00:08:31 ◼ ► actually I can't compare it to lost in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/511">TS</a>]
00:08:34 ◼ ► way except it's lost except everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/514">TS</a>]
00:08:36 ◼ ► comes together at the end but makes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/516">TS</a>]
00:08:38 ◼ ► lot of sense because you have these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/518">TS</a>]
00:08:42 ◼ ► characters backstory you get a character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/522">TS</a>]
00:08:44 ◼ ► Olivia that's introduced to the middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/524">TS</a>]
00:08:46 ◼ ► of the book for you know you're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/526">TS</a>]
00:08:47 ◼ ► okay where did she come from she is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/527">TS</a>]
00:08:50 ◼ ► been mentioned at all previous to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/530">TS</a>]
00:08:51 ◼ ► and you just have to be patient and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/531">TS</a>]
00:08:53 ◼ ► trust that she's going to get woven into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/533">TS</a>]
00:08:55 ◼ ► the story appropriately and she does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/535">TS</a>]
00:08:57 ◼ ► that I think happens with most of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/537">TS</a>]
00:09:00 ◼ ► oh yeah then you end up with you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/540">TS</a>]
00:09:03 ◼ ► who's sort of you know comes up like 710 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/543">TS</a>]
00:09:06 ◼ ► yeah i would order the characters that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/546">TS</a>]
00:09:08 ◼ ► are introduced later in the book are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/548">TS</a>]
00:09:09 ◼ ► better than only all but a handful of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/549">TS</a>]
00:09:11 ◼ ► ones that you meet near the outset like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/551">TS</a>]
00:09:15 ◼ ► interesting by and the and the uh you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/555">TS</a>]
00:09:19 ◼ ► know the military man I mean they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/559">TS</a>]
00:09:20 ◼ ► they're good kind of archetypes to yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/560">TS</a>]
00:09:22 ◼ ► well i mean but i loved for example i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/562">TS</a>]
00:09:24 ◼ ► love the duality in the this whole thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/564">TS</a>]
00:09:26 ◼ ► sort of starts off the beginning and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/566">TS</a>]
00:09:27 ◼ ► kinda gets under woman between the two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/567">TS</a>]
00:09:29 ◼ ► writers Donald and Devin you know I'm so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/569">TS</a>]
00:09:33 ◼ ► that part it is but it makes know if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/573">TS</a>]
00:09:37 ◼ ► they're really like you kept expecting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/577">TS</a>]
00:09:41 ◼ ► wait a second i just realized i think he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/581">TS</a>]
00:09:42 ◼ ► did something to us since we've only had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/582">TS</a>]
00:09:44 ◼ ► the opportunity in our lives and may [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/584">TS</a>]
00:09:45 ◼ ► never have a chance to read this entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/585">TS</a>]
00:09:46 ◼ ► book again because we have jobs and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/586">TS</a>]
00:09:48 ◼ ► things it's possible that if you go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/588">TS</a>]
00:09:51 ◼ ► and read the book closely that the two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/591">TS</a>]
00:09:53 ◼ ► riders approach to fiction is actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/593">TS</a>]
00:09:55 ◼ ► mirror two elements the book as you said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/595">TS</a>]
00:09:57 ◼ ► that I realized oh he might be playing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/597">TS</a>]
00:09:59 ◼ ► with us and the two writers are actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/599">TS</a>]
00:10:01 ◼ ► contending through the plot of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/601">TS</a>]
00:10:02 ◼ ► some things that are implausible and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/602">TS</a>]
00:10:04 ◼ ► follow one path and something follow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/604">TS</a>]
00:10:05 ◼ ► another it's possible but now we have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/605">TS</a>]
00:10:08 ◼ ► read the book a couple more times so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/608">TS</a>]
00:10:09 ◼ ► mean that's an interesting reading of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/609">TS</a>]
00:10:10 ◼ ► i think that somebody could go back and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/610">TS</a>]
00:10:12 ◼ ► no I mean but I i think there is a yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/612">TS</a>]
00:10:15 ◼ ► there's an interesting reason there with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/615">TS</a>]
00:10:16 ◼ ► the tensions of like you know sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/616">TS</a>]
00:10:18 ◼ ► popcorn me plot vs I think that's more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/618">TS</a>]
00:10:19 ◼ ► ground date and those are sort of two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/619">TS</a>]
00:10:21 ◼ ► things that are clearly a war with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/621">TS</a>]
00:10:23 ◼ ► Stevenson himself in this book that's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/623">TS</a>]
00:10:24 ◼ ► good catch going honda that's very very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/624">TS</a>]
00:10:27 ◼ ► good because you've got you've got just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/627">TS</a>]
00:10:33 ◼ ► completely just arrogant a Cambridge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/633">TS</a>]
00:10:38 ◼ ► dawn who is writes a I guess limited [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/638">TS</a>]
00:10:42 ◼ ► amount of fantasy but it's incredibly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/642">TS</a>]
00:10:44 ◼ ► impeccably researched and Tolkien right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/644">TS</a>]
00:10:47 ◼ ► yeah and then you've got for catalytic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/647">TS</a>]
00:10:50 ◼ ► or don't just look brings them out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/650">TS</a>]
00:10:53 ◼ ► he's a fantasy not and it it is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/653">TS</a>]
00:10:55 ◼ ► internally consistent and he just cranks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/655">TS</a>]
00:10:57 ◼ ► out book and george george RR martin of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/657">TS</a>]
00:11:00 ◼ ► course no 26 year I meri teri about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/660">TS</a>]
00:11:05 ◼ ► quantity alright i'm sorry you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/665">TS</a>]
00:11:07 ◼ ► the quantity and the sort of all right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/667">TS</a>]
00:11:09 ◼ ► yeah you got this very easy he's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/669">TS</a>]
00:11:11 ◼ ► here after speed notice george RR martin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/671">TS</a>]
00:11:14 ◼ ► has more consistency know he is a he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/674">TS</a>]
00:11:16 ◼ ► to see novelist like a like a 1 terry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/676">TS</a>]
00:11:19 ◼ ► brooks or uh honorary salvatori ok there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/679">TS</a>]
00:11:23 ◼ ► you know I mean the guy is like the guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/683">TS</a>]
00:11:24 ◼ ► who write like the D&D books right like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/684">TS</a>]
00:11:26 ◼ ► the novelization of all that and just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/686">TS</a>]
00:11:28 ◼ ► crank those suckers out the level above [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/688">TS</a>]
00:11:30 ◼ ► admit he's making real money so that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/690">TS</a>]
00:11:31 ◼ ► part of making real money but he's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/691">TS</a>]
00:11:33 ◼ ► necessarily be putting your great i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/693">TS</a>]
00:11:36 ◼ ► not sure he's not being real money until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/696">TS</a>]
00:11:38 ◼ ► he until Easter with to raising its your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/698">TS</a>]
00:11:41 ◼ ► right right yeah he's making it up in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/701">TS</a>]
00:11:45 ◼ ► popularizing the the all the ideas that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/705">TS</a>]
00:11:49 ◼ ► the the dawn has he's the one who kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/709">TS</a>]
00:11:52 ◼ ► of popularizers that makes it accessible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/712">TS</a>]
00:11:54 ◼ ► and it is it is a part of the success so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/714">TS</a>]
00:11:57 ◼ ► we're going to take Glenn's idea about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/717">TS</a>]
00:11:59 ◼ ► these two warring parts of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/719">TS</a>]
00:12:02 ◼ ► maybe it's an evil neal stephenson's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/722">TS</a>]
00:12:04 ◼ ► mind it's also interesting because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/724">TS</a>]
00:12:06 ◼ ► because the offer all of the highfalutin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/726">TS</a>]
00:12:09 ◼ ► this of the dawn the fact is it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/729">TS</a>]
00:12:12 ◼ ► it's the other guy who makes it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/732">TS</a>]
00:12:15 ◼ ► successful even though he breaks some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/735">TS</a>]
00:12:17 ◼ ► the things that are in and and was back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/737">TS</a>]
00:12:21 ◼ ► in right he has to come back in and fit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/741">TS</a>]
00:12:23 ◼ ► everything in the end right one there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/743">TS</a>]
00:12:24 ◼ ► the Apostle pakka lips which has thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/744">TS</a>]
00:12:26 ◼ ► you for what is to come forward green [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/746">TS</a>]
00:12:30 ◼ ► that entire section of the book where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/750">TS</a>]
00:12:32 ◼ ► they're just like know all of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/752">TS</a>]
00:12:33 ◼ ► words have no adequate molecule meetings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/753">TS</a>]
00:12:36 ◼ ► and they often be rewritten and anywhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/756">TS</a>]
00:12:38 ◼ ► that's your hundred-page digression [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/758">TS</a>]
00:12:40 ◼ ► although it does serve as a plot purpose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/760">TS</a>]
00:12:43 ◼ ► because the idea is that there's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/763">TS</a>]
00:12:48 ◼ ► yeah of the different colors yeah I want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/768">TS</a>]
00:12:51 ◼ ► to come back to that we get the point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/771">TS</a>]
00:12:52 ◼ ► the plot because i have some issues with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/772">TS</a>]
00:12:53 ◼ ► it but well it's it's a fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/773">TS</a>]
00:12:56 ◼ ► it's a fascinating digression now but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/776">TS</a>]
00:12:58 ◼ ► it's also somewhat the catalyst for for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/778">TS</a>]
00:13:01 ◼ ► a lot of this true enemy and mirrors yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/781">TS</a>]
00:13:04 ◼ ► so structurally eat how this so there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/784">TS</a>]
00:13:10 ◼ ► let us let us sum up so the plot here is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/790">TS</a>]
00:13:13 ◼ ► actually a very simple plot right is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/793">TS</a>]
00:13:16 ◼ ► there's of itself it's a story of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/796">TS</a>]
00:13:18 ◼ ► family and some people in it and in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/798">TS</a>]
00:13:20 ◼ ► end the family comes back there is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/800">TS</a>]
00:13:22 ◼ ► overarching thing about the fourth rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/802">TS</a>]
00:13:24 ◼ ► family I really might open actually i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/804">TS</a>]
00:13:26 ◼ ► love i have that it starts i love that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/806">TS</a>]
00:13:30 ◼ ► we're thanksgiving and it's this guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/810">TS</a>]
00:13:33 ◼ ► who's like kind of on the outs with his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/813">TS</a>]
00:13:35 ◼ ► family and you don't know why and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/815">TS</a>]
00:13:36 ◼ ► turns out it's because he left home and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/816">TS</a>]
00:13:38 ◼ ► became successful but but in a sort of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/818">TS</a>]
00:13:42 ◼ ► questionable way it and you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/822">TS</a>]
00:13:45 ◼ ► just it's fascinating and then there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/825">TS</a>]
00:13:46 ◼ ► the his niece who is also kind of an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/826">TS</a>]
00:13:48 ◼ ► outsider and the texture of that like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/828">TS</a>]
00:13:51 ◼ ► the mud out because they're out in in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/831">TS</a>]
00:13:53 ◼ ► like Missouri right and now it's a Iowa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/833">TS</a>]
00:13:56 ◼ ► Iowa alright so there in the Midwest and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/836">TS</a>]
00:13:58 ◼ ► it's and it's cold and it's muddy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/838">TS</a>]
00:14:00 ◼ ► they're shooting at cans and bottles and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/840">TS</a>]
00:14:02 ◼ ► stuff after a while the Thanksgiving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/842">TS</a>]
00:14:05 ◼ ► dessert is being served or something and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/845">TS</a>]
00:14:08 ◼ ► it's just I love the texture of it and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/848">TS</a>]
00:14:10 ◼ ► thought you know what this is not what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/850">TS</a>]
00:14:12 ◼ ► expected from you'll see even somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/852">TS</a>]
00:14:15 ◼ ► enjoyed that part of it well so that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/855">TS</a>]
00:14:18 ◼ ► story so he's I mean so here's the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/858">TS</a>]
00:14:20 ◼ ► the very bare-bones one which is that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/860">TS</a>]
00:14:22 ◼ ► and another follow developed a world of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/862">TS</a>]
00:14:24 ◼ ► warcraft like game he winds up hiring is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/864">TS</a>]
00:14:27 ◼ ► nice after meeting her at this gathering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/867">TS</a>]
00:14:28 ◼ ► she has a boyfriend who's kind of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/868">TS</a>]
00:14:30 ◼ ► slightly asperger e idiot and needs to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/870">TS</a>]
00:14:33 ◼ ► raise some money fast because he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/873">TS</a>]
00:14:35 ◼ ► overextended the real estate market gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/875">TS</a>]
00:14:37 ◼ ► hooked up with Russian mafia a virus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/877">TS</a>]
00:14:39 ◼ ► infects machine destroy some of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/879">TS</a>]
00:14:40 ◼ ► Russian mafias information and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/880">TS</a>]
00:14:43 ◼ ► wind up in this worldwide trip is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/883">TS</a>]
00:14:47 ◼ ► because this crazy russian guy this sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/887">TS</a>]
00:14:50 ◼ ► of mafioso wants to looks like his house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/890">TS</a>]
00:14:54 ◼ ► he wants to track down the author of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/894">TS</a>]
00:14:56 ◼ ► virus whose he decides to personally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/896">TS</a>]
00:14:57 ◼ ► blame for all these ills they wind up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/897">TS</a>]
00:15:00 ◼ ► that's how the whole first arc of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/900">TS</a>]
00:15:01 ◼ ► story is getting to China figuring this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/901">TS</a>]
00:15:03 ◼ ► out tracking down the people who wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/903">TS</a>]
00:15:05 ◼ ► the rim d virus which infected the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/905">TS</a>]
00:15:07 ◼ ► Russian systems unintentionally and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/907">TS</a>]
00:15:09 ◼ ► lot of other people stuff they get there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/909">TS</a>]
00:15:11 ◼ ► then you hand off to the next part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/911">TS</a>]
00:15:12 ◼ ► because they go in expecting to kill all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/912">TS</a>]
00:15:14 ◼ ► these room d virus writers these hackers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/914">TS</a>]
00:15:17 ◼ ► or Stewart holding data free ransom and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/917">TS</a>]
00:15:20 ◼ ► instead they run into a muslim terrorism [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/920">TS</a>]
00:15:24 ◼ ► commercial City they wanted firing up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/924">TS</a>]
00:15:27 ◼ ► firing on that apartment full of Muslims [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/927">TS</a>]
00:15:30 ◼ ► and Islamic terrorists who are planning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/930">TS</a>]
00:15:33 ◼ ► to blow stuff up and then you get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/933">TS</a>]
00:15:39 ◼ ► there's a programmer her boyfriends kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/939">TS</a>]
00:15:43 ◼ ► to Abdullah Jones and then takes the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/943">TS</a>]
00:15:45 ◼ ► ball any runs where he goes he goes it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/945">TS</a>]
00:15:47 ◼ ► goes and they wound up traveling again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/947">TS</a>]
00:15:49 ◼ ► you know a large distances gets them out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/949">TS</a>]
00:15:52 ◼ ► of China eventually into Canada where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/952">TS</a>]
00:15:55 ◼ ► through a large series of adventures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/955">TS</a>]
00:15:56 ◼ ► they finally wind up crossing the border [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/956">TS</a>]
00:15:59 ◼ ► through an area that Richard fourth rass [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/959">TS</a>]
00:16:01 ◼ ► when he was a drug runner before you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/961">TS</a>]
00:16:03 ◼ ► started the video game company had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/963">TS</a>]
00:16:04 ◼ ► figured that was a way to avoid were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/964">TS</a>]
00:16:06 ◼ ► controlled by going through old mines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/966">TS</a>]
00:16:07 ◼ ► and meanwhile a British spy who's going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/967">TS</a>]
00:16:10 ◼ ► to involve the China tracks and they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/970">TS</a>]
00:16:12 ◼ ► Richard tracks them down and Richards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/972">TS</a>]
00:16:14 ◼ ► family the rest of them wind up being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/974">TS</a>]
00:16:18 ◼ ► fundamentalist living on the other side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/978">TS</a>]
00:16:19 ◼ ► of this mining tunnel where it comes out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/979">TS</a>]
00:16:26 ◼ ► killing people across Canada joining [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/986">TS</a>]
00:16:28 ◼ ► together crossing into America and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/988">TS</a>]
00:16:30 ◼ ► hitting the salt of the earth religious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/990">TS</a>]
00:16:34 ◼ ► showdown what you think that's pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/994">TS</a>]
00:16:38 ◼ ► that's pretty good friend to sort of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/998">TS</a>]
00:16:39 ◼ ► main skills and apply its think there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/999">TS</a>]
00:16:41 ◼ ► two sides of the first is like we learn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1001">TS</a>]
00:16:43 ◼ ► all about the video game we learn all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1003">TS</a>]
00:16:44 ◼ ► about the culture and whatever and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1004">TS</a>]
00:16:46 ◼ ► they're on their way to try and always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1006">TS</a>]
00:16:47 ◼ ► trying to stop in the second half is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1007">TS</a>]
00:16:48 ◼ ► essentially you know Muslim extremists [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1008">TS</a>]
00:16:52 ◼ ► on the run terminating in this sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1012">TS</a>]
00:16:54 ◼ ► run across the border yet no that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1014">TS</a>]
00:16:57 ◼ ► that's exactly it you've got you've got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1017">TS</a>]
00:16:58 ◼ ► half the book which is setting up the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1018">TS</a>]
00:17:00 ◼ ► the you know multiplayer universe and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1020">TS</a>]
00:17:04 ◼ ► the gold farmers in China and trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1024">TS</a>]
00:17:07 ◼ ► figure all that out and then the second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1027">TS</a>]
00:17:09 ◼ ► half is largely this action story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1029">TS</a>]
00:17:13 ◼ ► involving the terrorists in canada and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1033">TS</a>]
00:17:16 ◼ ► crossing the border and all of that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1036">TS</a>]
00:17:18 ◼ ► turns out you need to know almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1038">TS</a>]
00:17:19 ◼ ► nothing about the entire video game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1039">TS</a>]
00:17:20 ◼ ► backstory in order to understand the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1040">TS</a>]
00:17:22 ◼ ► second half of the book that pretty much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1042">TS</a>]
00:17:24 ◼ ► disappears after back-to-back yeah right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1044">TS</a>]
00:17:26 ◼ ► it becomes a communications tool later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1046">TS</a>]
00:17:28 ◼ ► as opposed to a plot point Walton and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1048">TS</a>]
00:17:30 ◼ ► not to mention you know hundreds of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1050">TS</a>]
00:17:31 ◼ ► pages there and there's literally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1051">TS</a>]
00:17:33 ◼ ► hundreds of pages where Richard who sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1053">TS</a>]
00:17:34 ◼ ► of his setup as the main character in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1054">TS</a>]
00:17:36 ◼ ► the first you know hundred pages just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1056">TS</a>]
00:17:38 ◼ ► not there's no 40 years he goes away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1058">TS</a>]
00:17:40 ◼ ► yeah by the book might be about him and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1060">TS</a>]
00:17:42 ◼ ► I kept waiting for him to come back I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1062">TS</a>]
00:17:43 ◼ ► like that word where we're going to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1063">TS</a>]
00:17:48 ◼ ► character has their section it's amazing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1068">TS</a>]
00:17:50 ◼ ► what kind of a head-fake an author can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1070">TS</a>]
00:17:57 ◼ ► we start at the very beginning of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1077">TS</a>]
00:17:59 ◼ ► book with Richard fourth rest and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1079">TS</a>]
00:18:02 ◼ ► by the end of that chapter zula and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1082">TS</a>]
00:18:04 ◼ ► Peter have pulled up and he's befriend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1084">TS</a>]
00:18:06 ◼ ► befriended them a little better said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1086">TS</a>]
00:18:07 ◼ ► hello to them and and and i think they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1087">TS</a>]
00:18:09 ◼ ► go somewhere and it's funny because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1089">TS</a>]
00:18:16 ◼ ► you could probably you would probably go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1096">TS</a>]
00:18:18 ◼ ► in assuming that zula is the main [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1098">TS</a>]
00:18:20 ◼ ► character but he gives you this head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1100">TS</a>]
00:18:24 ◼ ► fake where he says no no this is richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1104">TS</a>]
00:18:26 ◼ ► fourth-fastest that is the is the main [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1106">TS</a>]
00:18:28 ◼ ► character here and he's not do list the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1108">TS</a>]
00:18:30 ◼ ► main characters her book is this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1110">TS</a>]
00:18:31 ◼ ► really soon but absolutely Richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1111">TS</a>]
00:18:33 ◼ ► bookends it is facilitating plot element [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1113">TS</a>]
00:18:35 ◼ ► but it's and she's a great i think she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1115">TS</a>]
00:18:37 ◼ ► a great character I mean she does things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1117">TS</a>]
00:18:39 ◼ ► that are extreme but not unrealistic you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1119">TS</a>]
00:18:42 ◼ ► can say I can't believe that aerotrain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1122">TS</a>]
00:18:44 ◼ ► refugee adopting America's our parents [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1124">TS</a>]
00:18:47 ◼ ► adopted parents killed gone through all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1127">TS</a>]
00:18:48 ◼ ► this managed to get her in on and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1128">TS</a>]
00:18:50 ◼ ► whip-smart you can see her being that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1130">TS</a>]
00:18:52 ◼ ► resourceful it's not like you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1132">TS</a>]
00:18:54 ◼ ► girl her or something it's like it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1134">TS</a>]
00:18:56 ◼ ► real so i'm sticking up for Mythbusters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1136">TS</a>]
00:18:58 ◼ ► are it's it's things that somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1138">TS</a>]
00:19:00 ◼ ► pushed to extremist with capabilities [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1140">TS</a>]
00:19:02 ◼ ► would do she just sort of just low-tech [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1142">TS</a>]
00:19:04 ◼ ► smart things right and she gets a couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1144">TS</a>]
00:19:08 ◼ ► realizes when there's an opportunity and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1148">TS</a>]
00:19:10 ◼ ► knows when attenuates for it yeah well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1150">TS</a>]
00:19:12 ◼ ► you have that nice section when they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1152">TS</a>]
00:19:16 ◼ ► they've this is at the point where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1156">TS</a>]
00:19:18 ◼ ► they've been locked to two chains and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1158">TS</a>]
00:19:21 ◼ ► the broth Russian mafia is going to to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1161">TS</a>]
00:19:25 ◼ ► go kill the Chinese hackers and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1165">TS</a>]
00:19:27 ◼ ► she's trapped with two other hackers who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1167">TS</a>]
00:19:29 ◼ ► instantly take out lock-picking tools or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1169">TS</a>]
00:19:31 ◼ ► I guess she she gives great yeah she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1171">TS</a>]
00:19:33 ◼ ► gives him her Bobby their hair pins and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1173">TS</a>]
00:19:35 ◼ ► they instantly start lock kicking but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1175">TS</a>]
00:19:37 ◼ ► you notice she not being a hacker is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1177">TS</a>]
00:19:40 ◼ ► well versed in the art of lock-picking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1180">TS</a>]
00:19:43 ◼ ► practicing so she actually has to wait [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1183">TS</a>]
00:19:45 ◼ ► for them it's just a nice touch it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1185">TS</a>]
00:19:47 ◼ ► like no not all three characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1187">TS</a>]
00:19:49 ◼ ► expert lock Pickers it's just the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1189">TS</a>]
00:19:51 ◼ ► as a hobby certain people pick up right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1191">TS</a>]
00:19:53 ◼ ► well but the to the fact that she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1193">TS</a>]
00:19:55 ◼ ► smart and does things like I mean the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1195">TS</a>]
00:19:57 ◼ ► one that got me was when she's locked in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1197">TS</a>]
00:20:00 ◼ ► the bathroom of the i rise in China and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1200">TS</a>]
00:20:02 ◼ ► she writes the long note and sticks it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1202">TS</a>]
00:20:03 ◼ ► in the drainpipe just thinking like hail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1203">TS</a>]
00:20:05 ◼ ► mary hey maybe somebody will find this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1205">TS</a>]
00:20:07 ◼ ► and I kind of felt like you know reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1207">TS</a>]
00:20:10 ◼ ► reading in thinking and it sounds like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1210">TS</a>]
00:20:13 ◼ ► that's just kind of a throwaway plot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1213">TS</a>]
00:20:14 ◼ ► point and maybe someone will find it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1214">TS</a>]
00:20:16 ◼ ► like way way down the road or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1216">TS</a>]
00:20:18 ◼ ► and then I sort of forgot about it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1218">TS</a>]
00:20:20 ◼ ► then came back and actually made it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1220">TS</a>]
00:20:22 ◼ ► actually turns out to be important [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1222">TS</a>]
00:20:24 ◼ ► i also got to say I think this book is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1224">TS</a>]
00:20:26 ◼ ► also Sokolov's as well like he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1226">TS</a>]
00:20:29 ◼ ► strong second player he cums in you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1229">TS</a>]
00:20:31 ◼ ► think at some of these Russian heavies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1231">TS</a>]
00:20:33 ◼ ► me totally stereotypical and he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1233">TS</a>]
00:20:36 ◼ ► remarkably resourceful he's addy is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1236">TS</a>]
00:20:38 ◼ ► somehow a decent man even though his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1238">TS</a>]
00:20:41 ◼ ► former Spetsnaz not even though he kills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1241">TS</a>]
00:20:44 ◼ ► he has the keys the kind of guy that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1244">TS</a>]
00:20:46 ◼ ► always in books of this sort he has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1246">TS</a>]
00:20:48 ◼ ► kind of honor a co-designer whole yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1248">TS</a>]
00:20:51 ◼ ► something's obviously with the soul [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1251">TS</a>]
00:20:53 ◼ ► yeah it's not exactly pretty goal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1253">TS</a>]
00:20:55 ◼ ► because he's doing things that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1255">TS</a>]
00:20:56 ◼ ► logical and sensible his big problem he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1256">TS</a>]
00:20:58 ◼ ► doesn't kill people out of anger he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1258">TS</a>]
00:20:59 ◼ ► kills them out of necessity to protect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1259">TS</a>]
00:21:01 ◼ ► the client or protect himself and to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1261">TS</a>]
00:21:03 ◼ ► further the mission and he's and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1263">TS</a>]
00:21:05 ◼ ► dynamic with ivana right where he's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1265">TS</a>]
00:21:07 ◼ ► slowly certifying this guy pretty sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1267">TS</a>]
00:21:10 ◼ ► that he's actually going crazy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1270">TS</a>]
00:21:12 ◼ ► trying to like figure out how do we get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1272">TS</a>]
00:21:14 ◼ ► out of this situation because there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1274">TS</a>]
00:21:15 ◼ ► the people above on of we're going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1275">TS</a>]
00:21:17 ◼ ► really pissed off when they find out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1277">TS</a>]
00:21:20 ◼ ► how are we going to get out of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1280">TS</a>]
00:21:21 ◼ ► saves from three days of the Condor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1281">TS</a>]
00:21:22 ◼ ► moment in there where Sokolov's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1282">TS</a>]
00:21:24 ◼ ► well they want me to go out to this ship [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1284">TS</a>]
00:21:26 ◼ ► but this is not always goes they tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1286">TS</a>]
00:21:28 ◼ ► you to go to the ship something goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1288">TS</a>]
00:21:31 ◼ ► she never know she never knows no Olivia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1291">TS</a>]
00:21:33 ◼ ► never knows what happened to me somethin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1293">TS</a>]
00:21:36 ◼ ► went wrong it's like I'm not going to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1296">TS</a>]
00:21:37 ◼ ► the thing they tell me to do I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1297">TS</a>]
00:21:40 ◼ ► there is no way he was gonna die he he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1300">TS</a>]
00:21:43 ◼ ► yeah I know yeah the one hand you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1303">TS</a>]
00:21:45 ◼ ► he's like oh he's too clever for that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1305">TS</a>]
00:21:46 ◼ ► but on the other hand you like I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1306">TS</a>]
00:21:48 ◼ ► people died in this book right and so it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1308">TS</a>]
00:21:49 ◼ ► would have been out of the question for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1309">TS</a>]
00:21:51 ◼ ► him to be like well he served his plot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1311">TS</a>]
00:21:53 ◼ ► purpose you know maybe he's gonna bite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1313">TS</a>]
00:21:56 ◼ ► it here he doesn't mean that's nice no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1316">TS</a>]
00:21:58 ◼ ► but it's nice to have that tension right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1318">TS</a>]
00:21:59 ◼ ► like there's too many too many like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1319">TS</a>]
00:22:01 ◼ ► action movies where it's like what this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1321">TS</a>]
00:22:02 ◼ ► is the hero he can't die obviously right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1322">TS</a>]
00:22:05 ◼ ► you know he's the protagonist we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1325">TS</a>]
00:22:06 ◼ ► going to see him through all the way to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1326">TS</a>]
00:22:07 ◼ ► the end but whenever you know an author [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1327">TS</a>]
00:22:11 ◼ ► characters as we've seen several times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1331">TS</a>]
00:22:13 ◼ ► earlier in the book you you get a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1333">TS</a>]
00:22:15 ◼ ► worried for the characters that you kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1335">TS</a>]
00:22:16 ◼ ► of like right because you're not sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1336">TS</a>]
00:22:18 ◼ ► they did easily they could kill them off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1338">TS</a>]
00:22:21 ◼ ► I can't believe nobody has mentioned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1341">TS</a>]
00:22:24 ◼ ► gore yeah I said I don't like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1344">TS</a>]
00:22:26 ◼ ► pronouncement drunk or the Hungarian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1346">TS</a>]
00:22:29 ◼ ► Hungarian hacker rather lovely villa to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1349">TS</a>]
00:22:32 ◼ ► love Lord kilgorn he's loved Lord I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1352">TS</a>]
00:22:35 ◼ ► all the secondary characters in this in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1355">TS</a>]
00:22:38 ◼ ► this wonderful look well I and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1358">TS</a>]
00:22:41 ◼ ► chocolate is another good example of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1361">TS</a>]
00:22:42 ◼ ► somebody who's like kind of seems like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1362">TS</a>]
00:22:44 ◼ ► well as he comes in with the bad guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1364">TS</a>]
00:22:46 ◼ ► maybe he's important maybe not and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1366">TS</a>]
00:22:48 ◼ ► turns out to be another very major [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1368">TS</a>]
00:22:49 ◼ ► character and i love i love the Triad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1369">TS</a>]
00:22:51 ◼ ► that he force with he forms with you she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1371">TS</a>]
00:22:54 ◼ ► and Marlon right like you know where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1374">TS</a>]
00:22:56 ◼ ► they're on the ship and they're likely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1376">TS</a>]
00:22:57 ◼ ► candidate the engineer and yeah i love i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1377">TS</a>]
00:23:00 ◼ ► love that sort of unlikely pairing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1380">TS</a>]
00:23:04 ◼ ► pragmatic you notice that in this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1384">TS</a>]
00:23:07 ◼ ► Abdullah Jones and and it off but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1387">TS</a>]
00:23:10 ◼ ► everybody else is like okay problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1390">TS</a>]
00:23:13 ◼ ► happening how do I get out tonight huh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1393">TS</a>]
00:23:15 ◼ ► well you know moose and squirrel have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1395">TS</a>]
00:23:17 ◼ ► chosen scroll a bomb final logo want the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1397">TS</a>]
00:23:22 ◼ ► I jumped through a window Abdul Jones [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1402">TS</a>]
00:23:24 ◼ ► may be insane because he's a terrorist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1404">TS</a>]
00:23:26 ◼ ► but he is very practical as well right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1406">TS</a>]
00:23:28 ◼ ► here lyrics talking like he's one more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1408">TS</a>]
00:23:31 ◼ ► very smartly pregnant in fact he is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1411">TS</a>]
00:23:33 ◼ ► business like that one of the things I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1413">TS</a>]
00:23:36 ◼ ► really enjoyed about his scenes where he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1416">TS</a>]
00:23:38 ◼ ► gathers the various the various guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1418">TS</a>]
00:23:40 ◼ ► first company's initial crew and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1420">TS</a>]
00:23:42 ◼ ► he's got the ones who are sort of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1422">TS</a>]
00:23:45 ◼ ► together like well I BTW if if they ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1425">TS</a>]
00:23:48 ◼ ► call me I'm in Canada but if they ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1428">TS</a>]
00:23:50 ◼ ► call me for a job I'm there knowing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1430">TS</a>]
00:23:52 ◼ ► nobody's ever called him and then he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1432">TS</a>]
00:23:54 ◼ ► calls them into like oh okay all right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1434">TS</a>]
00:23:57 ◼ ► for the garage haha he's he's but he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1437">TS</a>]
00:24:00 ◼ ► kind of like sociopathically charming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1440">TS</a>]
00:24:04 ◼ ► professional and what strikes me is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1444">TS</a>]
00:24:05 ◼ ► some of the people he's working with or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1445">TS</a>]
00:24:07 ◼ ► not and you can sense a he he hates them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1447">TS</a>]
00:24:10 ◼ ► right just like they don't I got to use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1450">TS</a>]
00:24:13 ◼ ► the ladies like you got your lucky its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1453">TS</a>]
00:24:14 ◼ ► hard to find good help right I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1454">TS</a>]
00:24:16 ◼ ► know there's like Rapids B&C players [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1456">TS</a>]
00:24:18 ◼ ► he's got the razor was killed with a CD [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1458">TS</a>]
00:24:20 ◼ ► by the way but he's got right he's going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1460">TS</a>]
00:24:23 ◼ ► to make sure she's got yellow shirts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1463">TS</a>]
00:24:25 ◼ ► well I also likes I can't remember who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1465">TS</a>]
00:24:27 ◼ ► describes him as this I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1467">TS</a>]
00:24:28 ◼ ► either a either Sheamus or Olivia but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1468">TS</a>]
00:24:32 ◼ ► someone points out that he's not likely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1472">TS</a>]
00:24:37 ◼ ► he thinks he's too thinks he's too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1477">TS</a>]
00:24:39 ◼ ► valuable right you keep saying he'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1479">TS</a>]
00:24:41 ◼ ► wait for them the right moment but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1481">TS</a>]
00:24:43 ◼ ► never the right moment you get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1483">TS</a>]
00:24:45 ◼ ► impression he's kind of maybe kind of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1485">TS</a>]
00:24:47 ◼ ► coward like it in deep inside and sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1487">TS</a>]
00:24:49 ◼ ► of like thinks he's really smart but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1489">TS</a>]
00:24:51 ◼ ► he's also kind of untouchable and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1491">TS</a>]
00:24:54 ◼ ► he sort of slowly sees his plans all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1494">TS</a>]
00:24:56 ◼ ► fall apart even though they're very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1496">TS</a>]
00:24:57 ◼ ► carefully laid and he's devoted all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1497">TS</a>]
00:24:59 ◼ ► these time to the men in one monkey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1499">TS</a>]
00:25:01 ◼ ► wrench in the plan and everything goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1501">TS</a>]
00:25:03 ◼ ► to hell yeah you know what i would say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1503">TS</a>]
00:25:05 ◼ ► there's other arc of the story which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1505">TS</a>]
00:25:07 ◼ ► that I think what I think one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1507">TS</a>]
00:25:08 ◼ ► things that I'm he's playing with his he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1508">TS</a>]
00:25:10 ◼ ► creates these remarkable like I would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1510">TS</a>]
00:25:12 ◼ ► argue in the past that used to have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1512">TS</a>]
00:25:15 ◼ ► Stephenson book and everyone else sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1515">TS</a>]
00:25:16 ◼ ► of window dressing and it's everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1516">TS</a>]
00:25:18 ◼ ► in the service of the plot and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1518">TS</a>]
00:25:20 ◼ ► there's a lot of movie mannequins around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1520">TS</a>]
00:25:22 ◼ ► in this he's developed only a few really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1522">TS</a>]
00:25:25 ◼ ► good simultaneous plots and a whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1525">TS</a>]
00:25:27 ◼ ► bunch of really great characters and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1527">TS</a>]
00:25:30 ◼ ► sort of moves them all around the board [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1530">TS</a>]
00:25:31 ◼ ► so sometimes you have things like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1531">TS</a>]
00:25:33 ◼ ► video game being predominant and your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1533">TS</a>]
00:25:35 ◼ ► focus on very plot e sorts of things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1535">TS</a>]
00:25:37 ◼ ► understand the way of the world he's got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1537">TS</a>]
00:25:39 ◼ ► this whole thing going on we're trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1539">TS</a>]
00:25:40 ◼ ► to the wharf realignment on the side and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1540">TS</a>]
00:25:42 ◼ ► then you've got all the stuff where it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1542">TS</a>]
00:25:44 ◼ ► very strongly character-driven like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1544">TS</a>]
00:25:46 ◼ ► is not how you would imagine someone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1546">TS</a>]
00:25:47 ◼ ► would write the scene but this is how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1547">TS</a>]
00:25:49 ◼ ► would probably play out like Azula and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1549">TS</a>]
00:25:51 ◼ ► Abdullah stuff where she actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1551">TS</a>]
00:25:53 ◼ ► respects her because she's on her AGame [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1553">TS</a>]
00:25:55 ◼ ► right she's somebody who if she were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1555">TS</a>]
00:25:59 ◼ ► inside he'd be absolutely pleased to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1559">TS</a>]
00:26:01 ◼ ► have you know working with him so one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1561">TS</a>]
00:26:04 ◼ ► the things that are this that did remind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1564">TS</a>]
00:26:08 ◼ ► me of other neal stephenson stuff you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1568">TS</a>]
00:26:09 ◼ ► mentioned the boat there are there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1569">TS</a>]
00:26:11 ◼ ► segments one of things i always liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1571">TS</a>]
00:26:13 ◼ ► about him and especially the baroque [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1573">TS</a>]
00:26:14 ◼ ► cycle is there there are segments of of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1574">TS</a>]
00:26:17 ◼ ► the books he writes that he willfully [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1577">TS</a>]
00:26:19 ◼ ► commits to and that they they take on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1579">TS</a>]
00:26:22 ◼ ► life of their own and they're not that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1582">TS</a>]
00:26:25 ◼ ► important to book and he could just move [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1585">TS</a>]
00:26:26 ◼ ► things along and say you know suffice it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1586">TS</a>]
00:26:29 ◼ ► to say they were on a boat and a boat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1589">TS</a>]
00:26:31 ◼ ► scene struck me as that it's like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1591">TS</a>]
00:26:34 ◼ ► suddenly we're in a totally different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1594">TS</a>]
00:26:35 ◼ ► book which is there are people and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1595">TS</a>]
00:26:37 ◼ ► they're stuck in a boat and they have no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1597">TS</a>]
00:26:38 ◼ ► gas and they're drifting in the South [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1598">TS</a>]
00:26:40 ◼ ► China Sea and that none of them know how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1600">TS</a>]
00:26:42 ◼ ► to be on a boat and they don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1602">TS</a>]
00:26:44 ◼ ► and that was great and it's so you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1604">TS</a>]
00:26:48 ◼ ► again that's like a whole very well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1608">TS</a>]
00:26:50 ◼ ► first off it's practically life of pi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1610">TS</a>]
00:26:52 ◼ ► but it's it's there you know and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1612">TS</a>]
00:26:55 ◼ ► commits to it and and those characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1615">TS</a>]
00:26:56 ◼ ► and we've invested in you know that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1616">TS</a>]
00:26:59 ◼ ► doesn't get that shirt ripped and I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1619">TS</a>]
00:27:01 ◼ ► I felt like that when they when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1621">TS</a>]
00:27:02 ◼ ► crash-land the jet in in canada in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1622">TS</a>]
00:27:05 ◼ ► snowy back reina de yeah and they had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1625">TS</a>]
00:27:08 ◼ ► and they find a you know like I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1628">TS</a>]
00:27:09 ◼ ► disused you know shut down like mining [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1629">TS</a>]
00:27:13 ◼ ► camp and they're there for a while and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1633">TS</a>]
00:27:16 ◼ ► then they been and then the guys come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1636">TS</a>]
00:27:18 ◼ ► back and they've killed some people and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1638">TS</a>]
00:27:19 ◼ ► stolen there's there there's smoke truck [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1639">TS</a>]
00:27:22 ◼ ► or whatever and then they use that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1642">TS</a>]
00:27:24 ◼ ► was fully committed to in a way that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1644">TS</a>]
00:27:27 ◼ ► really like how he can kind of take the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1647">TS</a>]
00:27:29 ◼ ► set pieces and compartmentalize them and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1649">TS</a>]
00:27:31 ◼ ► and really commit to them so that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1651">TS</a>]
00:27:34 ◼ ► get engrossed and and it's really you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1654">TS</a>]
00:27:36 ◼ ► know i said this about a few authors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1656">TS</a>]
00:27:39 ◼ ► that i really like it feels like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1659">TS</a>]
00:27:40 ◼ ► could be a whole books worth of an idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1660">TS</a>]
00:27:42 ◼ ► and he just tosses it off as you know a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1662">TS</a>]
00:27:45 ◼ ► couple hundred pages inside this or a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1665">TS</a>]
00:27:47 ◼ ► hundred pages inside this thousand-page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1667">TS</a>]
00:27:50 ◼ ► well that's the same thing with the with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1670">TS</a>]
00:27:51 ◼ ► the word realignment I mean ready player [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1671">TS</a>]
00:27:53 ◼ ► one you know would have fit neatly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1673">TS</a>]
00:27:55 ◼ ► inside a few chapters of this book in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1675">TS</a>]
00:28:01 ◼ ► yeah yeah ready player one through five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1681">TS</a>]
00:28:04 ◼ ► importantly that's the thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1684">TS</a>]
00:28:06 ◼ ► strikes me about Stephenson having read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1686">TS</a>]
00:28:07 ◼ ► 2.55 of his novels I is oriental decimal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1687">TS</a>]
00:28:13 ◼ ► places well i know well as iphone pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1693">TS</a>]
00:28:16 ◼ ► but it's interesting because a lot of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1696">TS</a>]
00:28:19 ◼ ► lot of the time when i was reading this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1699">TS</a>]
00:28:21 ◼ ► book and then we're not was also reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1701">TS</a>]
00:28:22 ◼ ► snow crash and now cryptonomicon it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1702">TS</a>]
00:28:25 ◼ ► feels like if he had wanted to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1705">TS</a>]
00:28:28 ◼ ► could very easily been a george RR [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1708">TS</a>]
00:28:29 ◼ ► martin let's write five or six books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1709">TS</a>]
00:28:31 ◼ ► about this topic but Stephenson phone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1711">TS</a>]
00:28:34 ◼ ► seems to find a way to craft a coherent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1714">TS</a>]
00:28:37 ◼ ► narrative over the course of one book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1717">TS</a>]
00:28:39 ◼ ► that doesn't necessarily feel like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1719">TS</a>]
00:28:40 ◼ ► should be chopping it up into segments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1720">TS</a>]
00:28:43 ◼ ► which I find interesting is a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1723">TS</a>]
00:28:47 ◼ ► mechanisms running I think that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1727">TS</a>]
00:28:49 ◼ ► thing is he's a he's an incredible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1729">TS</a>]
00:28:50 ◼ ► watchmaker in his worst books the hot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1730">TS</a>]
00:28:53 ◼ ► springs go out of control and destroy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1733">TS</a>]
00:28:55 ◼ ► the inside your kind of left with like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1735">TS</a>]
00:28:57 ◼ ► like the end of cryptonomicon i will not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1737">TS</a>]
00:28:59 ◼ ► spoil it for you ready I'm left going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1739">TS</a>]
00:29:01 ◼ ► like there were a lot of plots and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1741">TS</a>]
00:29:03 ◼ ► all unraveled at the end I never felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1743">TS</a>]
00:29:05 ◼ ► like a Stephenson's worse problems while [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1745">TS</a>]
00:29:07 ◼ ► he was bad attending yeah always been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1747">TS</a>]
00:29:10 ◼ ► he's all like he's gotten he's gotten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1750">TS</a>]
00:29:12 ◼ ► better i mean i think i think baroque [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1752">TS</a>]
00:29:14 ◼ ► cycle through an M through 3d he's shown [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1754">TS</a>]
00:29:18 ◼ ► progress in each of those I was not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1758">TS</a>]
00:29:20 ◼ ► horribly disappointed at the end of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1760">TS</a>]
00:29:22 ◼ ► is like it's what i would say obviously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1762">TS</a>]
00:29:24 ◼ ► it was like 40 disappointed culminates [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1764">TS</a>]
00:29:26 ◼ ► in a huge climactic fight right like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1766">TS</a>]
00:29:28 ◼ ► know just exactly what you expect to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1768">TS</a>]
00:29:30 ◼ ► a nice little day newmont at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1770">TS</a>]
00:29:31 ◼ ► where it sort of wraps up what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1771">TS</a>]
00:29:33 ◼ ► to the characters in case you're curious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1773">TS</a>]
00:29:34 ◼ ► that's right and and that's that like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1774">TS</a>]
00:29:36 ◼ ► you know he's I think you know knowing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1776">TS</a>]
00:29:38 ◼ ► when to stop has always been his problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1778">TS</a>]
00:29:41 ◼ ► and I think either he's got a you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1781">TS</a>]
00:29:42 ◼ ► an editor who's like hey Neal you got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1782">TS</a>]
00:29:44 ◼ ► plenty here this is good wrap it up or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1784">TS</a>]
00:29:46 ◼ ► he's just sort of figured out like oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1786">TS</a>]
00:29:48 ◼ ► yeah I've come to the end here I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1788">TS</a>]
00:29:52 ◼ ► ridiculous amount of plot and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1792">TS</a>]
00:29:54 ◼ ► ridiculous amount of characters kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1794">TS</a>]
00:29:56 ◼ ► came together at the end because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1796">TS</a>]
00:29:58 ◼ ► really you have them coming from all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1798">TS</a>]
00:29:59 ◼ ► angles you even have Marlon yuxia you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1799">TS</a>]
00:30:02 ◼ ► have them winding up in the same place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1802">TS</a>]
00:30:04 ◼ ► in Iowa it's just impressive how how he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1804">TS</a>]
00:30:08 ◼ ► makes the travels and the fact that like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1808">TS</a>]
00:30:10 ◼ ► through this entire book I had no clue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1810">TS</a>]
00:30:15 ◼ ► couldn't even fathom it I assumed like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1815">TS</a>]
00:30:17 ◼ ► with the terrorists all right they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1817">TS</a>]
00:30:19 ◼ ► going to get to Canada and maybe the US [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1819">TS</a>]
00:30:20 ◼ ► but the rest of the characters no idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1820">TS</a>]
00:30:24 ◼ ► well he you find that later again if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1824">TS</a>]
00:30:26 ◼ ► if i have the gumption someday to read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1826">TS</a>]
00:30:28 ◼ ► this book i have read and then I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1828">TS</a>]
00:30:30 ◼ ► two or three times and there are lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1830">TS</a>]
00:30:32 ◼ ► breadcrumb see plants when officers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1832">TS</a>]
00:30:35 ◼ ► realized this like going back and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1835">TS</a>]
00:30:37 ◼ ► looking a little bit like oh yeah you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1837">TS</a>]
00:30:38 ◼ ► know back there in the first scene he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1838">TS</a>]
00:30:40 ◼ ► planting the seed you know yeah he was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1840">TS</a>]
00:30:41 ◼ ► of Richard was a drug runner he figured [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1841">TS</a>]
00:30:44 ◼ ► out this great way to get through the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1844">TS</a>]
00:30:45 ◼ ► border without having to build its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1845">TS</a>]
00:30:46 ◼ ► tunnels and so you know over that period [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1846">TS</a>]
00:30:49 ◼ ► of time it's like you realize oh that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1849">TS</a>]
00:30:51 ◼ ► where his brother settle to sort of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1851">TS</a>]
00:30:52 ◼ ► black black black sheep of the family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1852">TS</a>]
00:30:54 ◼ ► the one is really far out there and as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1854">TS</a>]
00:30:58 ◼ ► converging all of these crumbs to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1858">TS</a>]
00:31:00 ◼ ► resort in the north side of this tunnel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1860">TS</a>]
00:31:05 ◼ ► fundamentalist on the south side and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1865">TS</a>]
00:31:07 ◼ ► can sort of feel it all sort of coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1867">TS</a>]
00:31:09 ◼ ► together and it's going to all pass [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1869">TS</a>]
00:31:10 ◼ ► do that through that tunnel one way or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1870">TS</a>]
00:31:12 ◼ ► the other looks like a GPS right you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1872">TS</a>]
00:31:14 ◼ ► know point and you've no point being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1874">TS</a>]
00:31:16 ◼ ► that you have no idea what route it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1876">TS</a>]
00:31:17 ◼ ► actually going to take so here's my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1877">TS</a>]
00:31:20 ◼ ► here's my highfalutin analysis of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1880">TS</a>]
00:31:23 ◼ ► which is I was struck by how much of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1883">TS</a>]
00:31:31 ◼ ► culturally out of place it in in a in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1891">TS</a>]
00:31:38 ◼ ► foreign culture or out of alignment with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1898">TS</a>]
00:31:41 ◼ ► their culture and i'll just run off a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1901">TS</a>]
00:31:45 ◼ ► realignment which is all about people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1905">TS</a>]
00:31:46 ◼ ► forming cultures and drawing lines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1906">TS</a>]
00:31:48 ◼ ► between themselves that that actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1908">TS</a>]
00:31:50 ◼ ► comes out of this universe built by d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1910">TS</a>]
00:31:55 ◼ ► squared which is then a lived-in by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1915">TS</a>]
00:31:59 ◼ ► Skeletor who does not really have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1919">TS</a>]
00:32:01 ◼ ► same he doesn't really match it but on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1921">TS</a>]
00:32:05 ◼ ► personal level you get zula who is a an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1925">TS</a>]
00:32:09 ◼ ► African child adopted by white people in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1929">TS</a>]
00:32:12 ◼ ► in America you've got Abdullah Jones who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1932">TS</a>]
00:32:17 ◼ ► is a I believe in african descent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1937">TS</a>]
00:32:21 ◼ ► Welshman who converts to Islam and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1941">TS</a>]
00:32:25 ◼ ► becomes a jihadist you've got Olivia who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1945">TS</a>]
00:32:29 ◼ ► is an Englishwoman of Chinese descent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1949">TS</a>]
00:32:32 ◼ ► which allows her to be turned into an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1952">TS</a>]
00:32:34 ◼ ► operative for mi6 in Asia even though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1954">TS</a>]
00:32:38 ◼ ► she's very English you've got Richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1958">TS</a>]
00:32:41 ◼ ► and Richards brothers who are both sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1961">TS</a>]
00:32:45 ◼ ► of like disaffected from culture the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1965">TS</a>]
00:32:48 ◼ ► brothers are totally cut off from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1968">TS</a>]
00:32:50 ◼ ► american society basically living in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1970">TS</a>]
00:32:52 ◼ ► this homestead Richard is cut off from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1972">TS</a>]
00:32:54 ◼ ► his family you know you've got it goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1974">TS</a>]
00:32:58 ◼ ► on and on the these where where so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1978">TS</a>]
00:33:00 ◼ ► people and so many situations in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1980">TS</a>]
00:33:02 ◼ ► book are about people who are not i mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1982">TS</a>]
00:33:07 ◼ ► on one level it's just they're not quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1987">TS</a>]
00:33:08 ◼ ► what you'd expect they're not quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1988">TS</a>]
00:33:11 ◼ ► they don't fit the mold but I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1991">TS</a>]
00:33:12 ◼ ► that's purposeful that that a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1992">TS</a>]
00:33:17 ◼ ► somebody who is that what you show is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/1997">TS</a>]
00:33:20 ◼ ► from another part of China and has and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2000">TS</a>]
00:33:24 ◼ ► really different from where she ends up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2004">TS</a>]
00:33:27 ◼ ► everybody in this book is a round peg [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2007">TS</a>]
00:33:30 ◼ ► strut that stuck in a square hole you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2010">TS</a>]
00:33:33 ◼ ► and you get this with be scared Scotty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2013">TS</a>]
00:33:35 ◼ ► squared and skeletor you already sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2015">TS</a>]
00:33:36 ◼ ► mentioned d squared C squared the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2016">TS</a>]
00:33:38 ◼ ► land and well and nobody's going to tag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2018">TS</a>]
00:33:41 ◼ ► d squared is never as d square never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2021">TS</a>]
00:33:43 ◼ ► play the video game and your is getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2023">TS</a>]
00:33:45 ◼ ► dragged and totally invested in there to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2025">TS</a>]
00:33:49 ◼ ► skeletor doesn't know this highfalutin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2029">TS</a>]
00:33:51 ◼ ► literary work because he's a whole pack [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2031">TS</a>]
00:33:54 ◼ ► and he gets dragged into this thing with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2034">TS</a>]
00:33:56 ◼ ► arguments about apostrophes right right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2036">TS</a>]
00:33:58 ◼ ► but anyway I think I think it's good you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2038">TS</a>]
00:34:00 ◼ ► know I think Stephenson is that that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2040">TS</a>]
00:34:03 ◼ ► certainly an undercurrent here is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2043">TS</a>]
00:34:04 ◼ ► the these are all about people who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2044">TS</a>]
00:34:07 ◼ ► in who are not sort of what you'd expect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2047">TS</a>]
00:34:09 ◼ ► in the role that therein and a and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2049">TS</a>]
00:34:14 ◼ ► love that I i think that i think that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2054">TS</a>]
00:34:16 ◼ ► great but I i think it's got to be the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2056">TS</a>]
00:34:18 ◼ ► most obvious examples being sulla and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2058">TS</a>]
00:34:20 ◼ ► Abdallah Jones who are not if they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2060">TS</a>]
00:34:25 ◼ ► not from where they're from and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2065">TS</a>]
00:34:27 ◼ ► some says something about that's part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2067">TS</a>]
00:34:30 ◼ ► their character and I think that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2070">TS</a>]
00:34:32 ◼ ► I mean but in database root for writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2072">TS</a>]
00:34:34 ◼ ► it creates tension right because they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2074">TS</a>]
00:34:36 ◼ ► different from all the people around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2076">TS</a>]
00:34:37 ◼ ► them and that creates conflict and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2077">TS</a>]
00:34:39 ◼ ► that's what drives the plot forward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2079">TS</a>]
00:34:40 ◼ ► everybody's in that situation in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2080">TS</a>]
00:34:41 ◼ ► book that's why I think it's more than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2081">TS</a>]
00:34:43 ◼ ► just him structuring it for conflict i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2083">TS</a>]
00:34:45 ◼ ► think that he's he's trying to do this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2085">TS</a>]
00:34:48 ◼ ► on purpose to have it this this book is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2088">TS</a>]
00:34:50 ◼ ► in some way I think about being somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2090">TS</a>]
00:34:53 ◼ ► who's out of place right down to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2093">TS</a>]
00:34:55 ◼ ► fact of somebody who doesn't understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2095">TS</a>]
00:34:56 ◼ ► an MMO can't really understand what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2096">TS</a>]
00:34:59 ◼ ► going on inside the MMO because they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2099">TS</a>]
00:35:00 ◼ ► not they don't fit in the culture it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2100">TS</a>]
00:35:03 ◼ ► all a cultural misfit even though even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2103">TS</a>]
00:35:05 ◼ ► though the Russian even Ivana is kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2105">TS</a>]
00:35:09 ◼ ► like broken he his bosses don't you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2109">TS</a>]
00:35:12 ◼ ► he's not behaving properly he doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2112">TS</a>]
00:35:14 ◼ ► fit in anymore and sokoloff doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2114">TS</a>]
00:35:16 ◼ ► really fit anymore because he's got this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2116">TS</a>]
00:35:18 ◼ ► job but he doesn't really clearly he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2118">TS</a>]
00:35:20 ◼ ► doesn't really fit what they're asking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2120">TS</a>]
00:35:21 ◼ ► him to do which is it goes on and on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2121">TS</a>]
00:35:23 ◼ ► and it i just kept being fascinated by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2123">TS</a>]
00:35:25 ◼ ► finding that every single person views [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2125">TS</a>]
00:35:27 ◼ ► themselves as being like disaffected [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2127">TS</a>]
00:35:29 ◼ ► from the the job they're in or the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2129">TS</a>]
00:35:31 ◼ ► culture there in or they're different in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2131">TS</a>]
00:35:33 ◼ ► some way you know and i I just I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2133">TS</a>]
00:35:36 ◼ ► that was that's my that's my take on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2136">TS</a>]
00:35:39 ◼ ► I don't like to talk about some of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2139">TS</a>]
00:35:41 ◼ ► characters we didn't like or like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2141">TS</a>]
00:35:45 ◼ ► know there are some characters that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2145">TS</a>]
00:35:46 ◼ ► disposable like Peter I think Peter the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2146">TS</a>]
00:35:49 ◼ ► boyfriend as my boyfriend is great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2149">TS</a>]
00:35:50 ◼ ► because he's sort of unlikable when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2150">TS</a>]
00:35:52 ◼ ► meet him and you figure well you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2152">TS</a>]
00:35:55 ◼ ► we're gonna learn to understand why we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2155">TS</a>]
00:35:56 ◼ ► should like him it's like no he's kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2156">TS</a>]
00:35:58 ◼ ► of a jerk he makes really bad decisions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2158">TS</a>]
00:36:01 ◼ ► and they get worse and worse and finally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2161">TS</a>]
00:36:03 ◼ ► he when he's killed i gotta say i love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2163">TS</a>]
00:36:09 ◼ ► indifferently at times a gentleman and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2169">TS</a>]
00:36:11 ◼ ► he thinks doula is worthy of respect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2171">TS</a>]
00:36:12 ◼ ► because of how she comports herself and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2172">TS</a>]
00:36:14 ◼ ► her intelligence and he even off despite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2174">TS</a>]
00:36:17 ◼ ► being in this situation where he's crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2177">TS</a>]
00:36:19 ◼ ► and he's lost all this money from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2179">TS</a>]
00:36:20 ◼ ► consortium he represents that is chasing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2180">TS</a>]
00:36:23 ◼ ► to China he still trying to defend that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2183">TS</a>]
00:36:27 ◼ ► not because Peter did something wrong or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2187">TS</a>]
00:36:29 ◼ ► croston he's killed because Yvonne up is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2189">TS</a>]
00:36:36 ◼ ► downstairs to die and Peter should be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2196">TS</a>]
00:36:39 ◼ ► why does Peter steal the credit cards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2199">TS</a>]
00:36:42 ◼ ► that gets him in this also he's got he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2202">TS</a>]
00:36:43 ◼ ► behind it's a mortgage thing days under [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2203">TS</a>]
00:36:46 ◼ ► these underwater he's underwater and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2206">TS</a>]
00:36:48 ◼ ► he's worried he's gonna lose his loft [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2208">TS</a>]
00:36:49 ◼ ► and by extension that means that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2209">TS</a>]
00:36:50 ◼ ► can't run the thing is doing its like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2210">TS</a>]
00:36:52 ◼ ► it's it's not that well defined but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2212">TS</a>]
00:36:54 ◼ ► think it's sort of supposed to be this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2214">TS</a>]
00:36:56 ◼ ► well you haven't had a very casual thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2216">TS</a>]
00:36:58 ◼ ► instead of borrowing money from people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2218">TS</a>]
00:37:01 ◼ ► filing for bankruptcy is like when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2221">TS</a>]
00:37:02 ◼ ► used to do this I know how to do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2222">TS</a>]
00:37:04 ◼ ► I'm going to do one last haul my last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2224">TS</a>]
00:37:07 ◼ ► job that I retire and causes everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2227">TS</a>]
00:37:10 ◼ ► yeah a sort of blend you do blend is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2230">TS</a>]
00:37:12 ◼ ► other thing is the thing that set this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2232">TS</a>]
00:37:13 ◼ ► all in motion of course is Peter on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2233">TS</a>]
00:37:14 ◼ ► one hand then Richard who completely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2234">TS</a>]
00:37:16 ◼ ► essentially innocently spreads rindy the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2236">TS</a>]
00:37:19 ◼ ► virus so that it it triggers this event [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2239">TS</a>]
00:37:22 ◼ ► Peters callousness the casualness of can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2242">TS</a>]
00:37:24 ◼ ► you give me a USB stick he hands in one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2244">TS</a>]
00:37:26 ◼ ► and then that's where everything goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2246">TS</a>]
00:37:28 ◼ ► right don't forget don't forget Wallace [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2248">TS</a>]
00:37:31 ◼ ► in there to write the match has been lit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2251">TS</a>]
00:37:32 ◼ ► a fleeting character who and yet we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2252">TS</a>]
00:37:35 ◼ ► got that chain right Wallace gives way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2255">TS</a>]
00:37:37 ◼ ► to Avon of gives way to Jones you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2257">TS</a>]
00:37:40 ◼ ► and sort of you know everything goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2260">TS</a>]
00:37:43 ◼ ► I like Wallace though as as briefly as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2263">TS</a>]
00:37:46 ◼ ► we see him as well as long as you last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2266">TS</a>]
00:37:48 ◼ ► yeah yeah I was surprised that the ex [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2268">TS</a>]
00:37:50 ◼ ► we killed by the mob the monster who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2270">TS</a>]
00:37:52 ◼ ► also the gamer I do kind of enjoy that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2272">TS</a>]
00:37:54 ◼ ► enjoy that there is a rent like i enjoy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2274">TS</a>]
00:37:55 ◼ ► that sort of bizarreness that bed comes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2275">TS</a>]
00:37:58 ◼ ► with this fact that like you know at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2278">TS</a>]
00:37:59 ◼ ► view hand-waving oh it's a game it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2279">TS</a>]
00:38:01 ◼ ► really popular more popular in World of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2281">TS</a>]
00:38:02 ◼ ► Warcraft and the people that we see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2282">TS</a>]
00:38:04 ◼ ► playing it include the bookkeeper for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2284">TS</a>]
00:38:07 ◼ ► the mob basically we get the name is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2287">TS</a>]
00:38:11 ◼ ► Kelly realize it shames yeah the CIA [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2291">TS</a>]
00:38:13 ◼ ► operative I was thinking even just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2293">TS</a>]
00:38:14 ◼ ► throwaway character that Richard sees in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2294">TS</a>]
00:38:16 ◼ ► the diner and he looks over he's like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2296">TS</a>]
00:38:18 ◼ ► coffee shop out visiting Skeletor right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2298">TS</a>]
00:38:20 ◼ ► and there's a guy playing t rain and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2300">TS</a>]
00:38:22 ◼ ► he calls up you know his buddy at the at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2302">TS</a>]
00:38:25 ◼ ► the office and says oh yeah how many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2305">TS</a>]
00:38:26 ◼ ► people are logged on from this diner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2306">TS</a>]
00:38:28 ◼ ► whatever like we got the impression that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2308">TS</a>]
00:38:29 ◼ ► there's people out there in the middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2309">TS</a>]
00:38:32 ◼ ► visiting this guy who are playing this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2312">TS</a>]
00:38:34 ◼ ► game this game is huge i can we talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2314">TS</a>]
00:38:36 ◼ ► let's talk about the word realign middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2316">TS</a>]
00:38:37 ◼ ► because I think that's an extremely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2317">TS</a>]
00:38:39 ◼ ► interesting development in here which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2319">TS</a>]
00:38:42 ◼ ► to say basically they end up so like any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2322">TS</a>]
00:38:46 ◼ ► you know game of this sort of a sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2326">TS</a>]
00:38:48 ◼ ► you know promulgated on the idea that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2328">TS</a>]
00:38:49 ◼ ► we've got good we got your characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2329">TS</a>]
00:38:52 ◼ ► and evil characters whether it's by A&E [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2332">TS</a>]
00:38:53 ◼ ► or something like warcraft you can be on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2333">TS</a>]
00:38:55 ◼ ► the enzyme and all the sudden you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2335">TS</a>]
00:38:57 ◼ ► there is this sort of interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2337">TS</a>]
00:38:58 ◼ ► realization that it doesn't really make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2338">TS</a>]
00:38:59 ◼ ► sense because the people who are quote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2339">TS</a>]
00:39:01 ◼ ► unquote evil aren't doing anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2341">TS</a>]
00:39:04 ◼ ► particular different from the people at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2344">TS</a>]
00:39:06 ◼ ► work photon quote good so it's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2346">TS</a>]
00:39:08 ◼ ► arbitrary distinction actually says the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2348">TS</a>]
00:39:10 ◼ ► same coin but they need it right because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2350">TS</a>]
00:39:12 ◼ ► it makes the tension it makes the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2352">TS</a>]
00:39:14 ◼ ► conflict in the game and so this war of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2354">TS</a>]
00:39:17 ◼ ► realignment is shifting from instead of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2357">TS</a>]
00:39:21 ◼ ► it's about something very different and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2361">TS</a>]
00:39:23 ◼ ► I think you know without sort of delving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2363">TS</a>]
00:39:24 ◼ ► directly into it i think it's about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2364">TS</a>]
00:39:26 ◼ ► taste right now that's what it kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2366">TS</a>]
00:39:28 ◼ ► comes down and it emerges from it it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2368">TS</a>]
00:39:31 ◼ ► emerges from the game it's not intended [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2371">TS</a>]
00:39:33 ◼ ► by the game and it emerges from the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2373">TS</a>]
00:39:35 ◼ ► that the game is being played by human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2375">TS</a>]
00:39:40 ◼ ► different worldviews that go way beyond [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2380">TS</a>]
00:39:43 ◼ ► picking when you set up the game well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2383">TS</a>]
00:39:45 ◼ ► i'm going to be evil because I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2385">TS</a>]
00:39:46 ◼ ► be one of those cool characters that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2386">TS</a>]
00:39:49 ◼ ► well I think it kind of reflects on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2389">TS</a>]
00:39:50 ◼ ► game itself because when you think about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2390">TS</a>]
00:39:52 ◼ ► the the reason why terrain was created [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2392">TS</a>]
00:39:54 ◼ ► in the first place is Richard basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2394">TS</a>]
00:39:56 ◼ ► says well you know why was popular and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2396">TS</a>]
00:39:59 ◼ ► that's great but this basically gives us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2399">TS</a>]
00:40:03 ◼ ► these chinese gold farmers and make gold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2403">TS</a>]
00:40:05 ◼ ► farming an actual legitimate profession [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2405">TS</a>]
00:40:07 ◼ ► see already you have that where the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2407">TS</a>]
00:40:10 ◼ ► Americans are playing the game for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2410">TS</a>]
00:40:12 ◼ ► completely different reason than the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2412">TS</a>]
00:40:15 ◼ ► rest of the cut the rest of the world so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2415">TS</a>]
00:40:17 ◼ ► you already have that imbalance and to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2417">TS</a>]
00:40:19 ◼ ► bring in even more well you have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2419">TS</a>]
00:40:21 ◼ ► people who want to play the game as d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2421">TS</a>]
00:40:24 ◼ ► squared envisioned it you know with you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2424">TS</a>]
00:40:26 ◼ ► know with all old costuming and correct [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2426">TS</a>]
00:40:30 ◼ ► colors and things like that and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2430">TS</a>]
00:40:31 ◼ ► have and and and this is a real tension [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2431">TS</a>]
00:40:33 ◼ ► with a lot of online games where it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2433">TS</a>]
00:40:35 ◼ ► like there's the people who want to play [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2435">TS</a>]
00:40:36 ◼ ► for the like the role-playing story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2436">TS</a>]
00:40:38 ◼ ► elements and then there are the people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2438">TS</a>]
00:40:40 ◼ ► that were there to play you know a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2440">TS</a>]
00:40:41 ◼ ► hack-and-slash game and don't care [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2441">TS</a>]
00:40:43 ◼ ► really except the stories just there as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2443">TS</a>]
00:40:45 ◼ ► a crutch right you know the world is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2445">TS</a>]
00:40:47 ◼ ► there's a crunch and then there's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2447">TS</a>]
00:40:48 ◼ ► other people who are just really into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2448">TS</a>]
00:40:49 ◼ ► everything that's that's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2449">TS</a>]
00:40:51 ◼ ► created by that world and and that's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2451">TS</a>]
00:40:55 ◼ ► distinction in you know a lot of games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2455">TS</a>]
00:40:57 ◼ ► that exists today and so it's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2457">TS</a>]
00:40:59 ◼ ► fascinating to see that taking on like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2459">TS</a>]
00:41:02 ◼ ► factions and I mean I don't know is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2462">TS</a>]
00:41:04 ◼ ► there is there an implicit sort of class [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2464">TS</a>]
00:41:09 ◼ ► given the representations that we get of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2469">TS</a>]
00:41:11 ◼ ► like Donald and Devin you know as the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2471">TS</a>]
00:41:16 ◼ ► oh it certainly seems like adequately oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2476">TS</a>]
00:41:18 ◼ ► one of them lives in a castle and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2478">TS</a>]
00:41:21 ◼ ► yeah good point it's an excellent like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2481">TS</a>]
00:41:26 ◼ ► infrastructures in their own ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2486">TS</a>]
00:41:28 ◼ ► well and they're both kind of jackasses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2488">TS</a>]
00:41:30 ◼ ► right i remember reading a remembering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2490">TS</a>]
00:41:31 ◼ ► lord of the rings and then sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2491">TS</a>]
00:41:33 ◼ ► Shannara and you know if I refined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2493">TS</a>]
00:41:36 ◼ ► childhood recollections right so there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2496">TS</a>]
00:41:38 ◼ ► different kinds of things like sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2498">TS</a>]
00:41:39 ◼ ► Shinar like yeah there was a mythos i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2499">TS</a>]
00:41:40 ◼ ► think i got develop more but it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2500">TS</a>]
00:41:44 ◼ ► it was much more of a hack them up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2504">TS</a>]
00:41:45 ◼ ► Vision Quest you know broad strokes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2505">TS</a>]
00:41:47 ◼ ► thing versus you know for like a book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2507">TS</a>]
00:41:49 ◼ ► created in order to enshrine languages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2509">TS</a>]
00:41:52 ◼ ► with a grammar that a cut cambridge dawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2512">TS</a>]
00:41:54 ◼ ► had developed and attracts different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2514">TS</a>]
00:41:56 ◼ ► people some people want first-person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2516">TS</a>]
00:41:57 ◼ ► shooters that they just kill lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2517">TS</a>]
00:42:00 ◼ ► stuff and I mean penny arcade the comic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2520">TS</a>]
00:42:02 ◼ ► is constantly full of basically that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2522">TS</a>]
00:42:04 ◼ ► tension between this is a really subtle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2524">TS</a>]
00:42:06 ◼ ► game and look we have these scrolls and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2526">TS</a>]
00:42:10 ◼ ► and that's I think that's a constant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2530">TS</a>]
00:42:12 ◼ ► tension between the sophistication of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2532">TS</a>]
00:42:15 ◼ ► some aspects of game design and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2535">TS</a>]
00:42:18 ◼ ► desire to be highfalutin you know here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2538">TS</a>]
00:42:19 ◼ ► a virtual environment which we could do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2539">TS</a>]
00:42:21 ◼ ► anything so why we just shooting people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2541">TS</a>]
00:42:22 ◼ ► but it's like the constant arguments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2542">TS</a>]
00:42:24 ◼ ► that we get over whether or not video [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2544">TS</a>]
00:42:25 ◼ ► games are art right you know Roger Ebert [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2545">TS</a>]
00:42:29 ◼ ► i know has delved into that pool and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2549">TS</a>]
00:42:31 ◼ ► variety of other people as well but is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2551">TS</a>]
00:42:33 ◼ ► that idea is it is there some sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2553">TS</a>]
00:42:35 ◼ ► higher can it can it reach a higher [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2555">TS</a>]
00:42:37 ◼ ► realm or is it just about killing people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2557">TS</a>]
00:42:39 ◼ ► or is there are inherent in the idea of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2559">TS</a>]
00:42:42 ◼ ► something even if it's just about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2562">TS</a>]
00:42:43 ◼ ► killing people like you know that again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2563">TS</a>]
00:42:45 ◼ ► this could be a whole book and yet it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2565">TS</a>]
00:42:47 ◼ ► sort of ends up being falls by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2567">TS</a>]
00:42:49 ◼ ► wayside as Randy progresses i have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2569">TS</a>]
00:42:52 ◼ ► say that I one thing i like about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2572">TS</a>]
00:42:54 ◼ ► novelties i'm assuming because of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2574">TS</a>]
00:42:56 ◼ ► way Neal Stephenson works that I learned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2576">TS</a>]
00:42:58 ◼ ► a lot this was a day after school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2578">TS</a>]
00:43:00 ◼ ► special about the Russian mob and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2580">TS</a>]
00:43:02 ◼ ► chinese people living in different parts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2582">TS</a>]
00:43:05 ◼ ► of the country and British Columbia's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2585">TS</a>]
00:43:07 ◼ ► byways and highways you know what he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2587">TS</a>]
00:43:09 ◼ ► writing long features for wired like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2589">TS</a>]
00:43:11 ◼ ► believe he traveled around the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2591">TS</a>]
00:43:15 ◼ ► fiber-optic and where it was being built [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2595">TS</a>]
00:43:16 ◼ ► in weird places like the middle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2596">TS</a>]
00:43:18 ◼ ► indonesian jungles and and another time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2598">TS</a>]
00:43:21 ◼ ► we followed container ships you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2601">TS</a>]
00:43:23 ◼ ► like what it was the unit of container [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2603">TS</a>]
00:43:24 ◼ ► and how its developed and where they go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2604">TS</a>]
00:43:26 ◼ ► and I feel like this is kind of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2606">TS</a>]
00:43:28 ◼ ► equivalent equivalent of that but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2608">TS</a>]
00:43:30 ◼ ► the he went the the the detail is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2610">TS</a>]
00:43:34 ◼ ► I don't believe he made it up everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2614">TS</a>]
00:43:36 ◼ ► here played massively multiplayer games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2616">TS</a>]
00:43:39 ◼ ► before and not massively I'm not that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2619">TS</a>]
00:43:43 ◼ ► heavily now I mean I played games that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2623">TS</a>]
00:43:45 ◼ ► have that multiplayer element the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2625">TS</a>]
00:43:48 ◼ ► serve you know like an MMORPG minus the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2628">TS</a>]
00:43:50 ◼ ► first and that's not what you say I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2630">TS</a>]
00:43:53 ◼ ► played World of Warcraft once or twice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2633">TS</a>]
00:43:55 ◼ ► alright wow I I'm i love you i have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2635">TS</a>]
00:43:59 ◼ ► little bit i played in the beta of world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2639">TS</a>]
00:44:01 ◼ ► of warcraft which I realizes now since [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2641">TS</a>]
00:44:03 ◼ ► that was when my son was in utero that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2643">TS</a>]
00:44:05 ◼ ► like seven years ago now that their 7th [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2645">TS</a>]
00:44:08 ◼ ► anniversary i believe Josh my wife [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2648">TS</a>]
00:44:10 ◼ ► played that much more than me actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2650">TS</a>]
00:44:12 ◼ ► and then and then she had a baby and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2652">TS</a>]
00:44:14 ◼ ► then there were two children and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2654">TS</a>]
00:44:15 ◼ ► was that for World of Warcraft but sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2655">TS</a>]
00:44:17 ◼ ► of a lot more time we did play at some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2657">TS</a>]
00:44:19 ◼ ► and and and that gave me enough of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2659">TS</a>]
00:44:21 ◼ ► perspective on it I think 22 to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2661">TS</a>]
00:44:24 ◼ ► it's about but I wonder what that would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2664">TS</a>]
00:44:26 ◼ ► be does this book make as much sense do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2666">TS</a>]
00:44:29 ◼ ► you feel if you've never really played [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2669">TS</a>]
00:44:31 ◼ ► those games do you feel as if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2671">TS</a>]
00:44:33 ◼ ► understand what they're about by reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2673">TS</a>]
00:44:35 ◼ ► this doesn't have that kind of tour you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2675">TS</a>]
00:44:37 ◼ ► know I'd feel speaking as someone who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2677">TS</a>]
00:44:39 ◼ ► never played an actual MMO but has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2679">TS</a>]
00:44:42 ◼ ► played a lot of other games i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2682">TS</a>]
00:44:44 ◼ ► there's stuff that translates even in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2684">TS</a>]
00:44:47 ◼ ► that two other you know from other sorts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2687">TS</a>]
00:44:49 ◼ ► of gaming or for other interactions with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2689">TS</a>]
00:44:51 ◼ ► people it there are very recognizable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2691">TS</a>]
00:44:54 ◼ ► ideas in here and it's not a huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2694">TS</a>]
00:44:56 ◼ ► stretch in you you know especially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2696">TS</a>]
00:44:57 ◼ ► someone who's universe kind of in gaming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2697">TS</a>]
00:44:59 ◼ ► culture like I'm familiar enough with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2699">TS</a>]
00:45:01 ◼ ► the tropes and thing and an element so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2701">TS</a>]
00:45:03 ◼ ► that make up an MMO to sort of recognize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2703">TS</a>]
00:45:06 ◼ ► them here and it seems pretty clear you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2706">TS</a>]
00:45:07 ◼ ► know that this is a pretty accurate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2707">TS</a>]
00:45:09 ◼ ► description of what goes on and it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2709">TS</a>]
00:45:13 ◼ ► hard to extrapolate you know the kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2713">TS</a>]
00:45:15 ◼ ► people that you're going to run into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2715">TS</a>]
00:45:16 ◼ ► people like you know the trolls right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2716">TS</a>]
00:45:18 ◼ ► who are there to just sort of do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2718">TS</a>]
00:45:21 ◼ ► know cause havoc to a certain extent and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2721">TS</a>]
00:45:24 ◼ ► and proper rivers understand right yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2724">TS</a>]
00:45:26 ◼ ► the griefers and you know all that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2726">TS</a>]
00:45:28 ◼ ► mean that's really interesting and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2728">TS</a>]
00:45:29 ◼ ► think I think what's fascinating to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2729">TS</a>]
00:45:34 ◼ ► described is the sort of key that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2734">TS</a>]
00:45:36 ◼ ► Richard hooks into in coming up with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2736">TS</a>]
00:45:39 ◼ ► which is let's take gold farming and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2739">TS</a>]
00:45:42 ◼ ► legitimize it and and build our game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2742">TS</a>]
00:45:45 ◼ ► around it right and not only do that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2745">TS</a>]
00:45:48 ◼ ► like you know basically in order to make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2748">TS</a>]
00:45:54 ◼ ► structures that we deal with in real [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2754">TS</a>]
00:45:55 ◼ ► life if you had to farm gold what makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2755">TS</a>]
00:45:58 ◼ ► sense i mean it's if you if you're going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2758">TS</a>]
00:46:00 ◼ ► to produce that kind of a game you need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2760">TS</a>]
00:46:02 ◼ ► that kind of a structure to back it up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2762">TS</a>]
00:46:04 ◼ ► you can't just randomly put gold there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2764">TS</a>]
00:46:06 ◼ ► because somebody is going to figure out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2766">TS</a>]
00:46:08 ◼ ► the algorithms and Exploited right but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2768">TS</a>]
00:46:11 ◼ ► you wouldn't have to explain that in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2771">TS</a>]
00:46:12 ◼ ► book write and say like all the others [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2772">TS</a>]
00:46:13 ◼ ► golden shows up with you get into how it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2773">TS</a>]
00:46:18 ◼ ► I've never done an important either so i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2778">TS</a>]
00:46:20 ◼ ► have no idea how they play but I didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2780">TS</a>]
00:46:22 ◼ ► environment but i have to say i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2782">TS</a>]
00:46:24 ◼ ► again Stephenson is accuracy the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2784">TS</a>]
00:46:27 ◼ ► that technical details were accurate was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2787">TS</a>]
00:46:29 ◼ ► awesome especially after reading ready [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2789">TS</a>]
00:46:31 ◼ ► player one with impossible you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2791">TS</a>]
00:46:34 ◼ ► whatever crash yes and it's it borders [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2794">TS</a>]
00:46:36 ◼ ► on precondition I i like um one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2796">TS</a>]
00:46:40 ◼ ► things that always struck me about about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2800">TS</a>]
00:46:42 ◼ ► world of warcraft is the do you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2802">TS</a>]
00:46:44 ◼ ► where your character died is unlike him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2804">TS</a>]
00:46:48 ◼ ► character dies and they're dead and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2808">TS</a>]
00:46:51 ◼ ► yeah that would really haha umm you go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2811">TS</a>]
00:46:54 ◼ ► into like a limbo state and you go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2814">TS</a>]
00:46:56 ◼ ► to where you were uh you know the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2816">TS</a>]
00:46:59 ◼ ► yeah you gotta go to run as a ghost and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2819">TS</a>]
00:47:04 ◼ ► basically a time penalty when you die [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2824">TS</a>]
00:47:06 ◼ ► and so I love how you know it's got its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2826">TS</a>]
00:47:10 ◼ ► got a death mechanism and it's got an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2830">TS</a>]
00:47:12 ◼ ► idol mechanism where Richard when he has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2832">TS</a>]
00:47:14 ◼ ► taken a viewers when ya when he richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2834">TS</a>]
00:47:17 ◼ ► has taken by abdullah Jones and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2837">TS</a>]
00:47:19 ◼ ► dragged it basically across the border [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2839">TS</a>]
00:47:22 ◼ ► you know the last thing we see is his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2842">TS</a>]
00:47:25 ◼ ► character which is the basically the god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2845">TS</a>]
00:47:27 ◼ ► of terrain is it just auto walking back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2847">TS</a>]
00:47:30 ◼ ► jogging back to his home i love that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2850">TS</a>]
00:47:34 ◼ ► yeah I i want to read my my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2854">TS</a>]
00:47:38 ◼ ► little passage from this book which i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2858">TS</a>]
00:47:41 ◼ ► think you may be fine surprised about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2861">TS</a>]
00:47:43 ◼ ► what part of this book it's from but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2863">TS</a>]
00:47:45 ◼ ► just made me laugh and it's so absurd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2865">TS</a>]
00:47:47 ◼ ► and it's it describing so so donald d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2867">TS</a>]
00:47:51 ◼ ► squared the the highfalutin cambridge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2871">TS</a>]
00:47:55 ◼ ► Don who has his castle on the Isle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2875">TS</a>]
00:47:58 ◼ ► Man's he it says surrounded himself with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2878">TS</a>]
00:48:02 ◼ ► toadies who are basically Society for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2882">TS</a>]
00:48:05 ◼ ► Creative Anachronism type people and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2885">TS</a>]
00:48:09 ◼ ► high-tech company he's living in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2889">TS</a>]
00:48:11 ◼ ► castle that is trying to be immaculate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2891">TS</a>]
00:48:13 ◼ ► immaculately medieval so what happens if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2893">TS</a>]
00:48:16 ◼ ► you want to contact him and and they've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2896">TS</a>]
00:48:19 ◼ ► worked it out and this is my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2899">TS</a>]
00:48:20 ◼ ► passage which was like this so the email [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2900">TS</a>]
00:48:23 ◼ ► pipeline network like this down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2903">TS</a>]
00:48:25 ◼ ► Douglas the primary city of the Isle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2905">TS</a>]
00:48:28 ◼ ► medievalists who dwelled in a flat there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2908">TS</a>]
00:48:30 ◼ ► i happen to rather like tampons would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2910">TS</a>]
00:48:32 ◼ ► read these squares email as it came in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2912">TS</a>]
00:48:34 ◼ ► filter out the junk and print out a hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2914">TS</a>]
00:48:36 ◼ ► copy of anything that seemed important [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2916">TS</a>]
00:48:38 ◼ ► and zip it up in a waterproof messenger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2918">TS</a>]
00:48:40 ◼ ► bag when it came time to walk her dog [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2920">TS</a>]
00:48:42 ◼ ► she would stroll at the waterfront [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2922">TS</a>]
00:48:43 ◼ ► promenade until she reached the wii [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2923">TS</a>]
00:48:45 ◼ ► elephant train station its northern end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2925">TS</a>]
00:48:48 ◼ ► the bag to the station nation with later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2928">TS</a>]
00:48:50 ◼ ► handed over to the conductor of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2930">TS</a>]
00:48:51 ◼ ► narrow-gauge electrical train that wound [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2931">TS</a>]
00:48:53 ◼ ► its way from there up to the interior of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2933">TS</a>]
00:48:54 ◼ ► the island at a certain point along the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2934">TS</a>]
00:48:56 ◼ ► line it would be tossed out onto the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2936">TS</a>]
00:48:58 ◼ ► sighting and later picked up by d [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2938">TS</a>]
00:48:59 ◼ ► squared is gamekeeper who would carry it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2939">TS</a>]
00:49:01 ◼ ► up the hill and place its contents on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2941">TS</a>]
00:49:03 ◼ ► the desk of the in-house troubadour who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2943">TS</a>]
00:49:05 ◼ ► had translated into medieval on sea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2945">TS</a>]
00:49:07 ◼ ► chicken and then sing and or recited to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2947">TS</a>]
00:49:10 ◼ ► d squared at mealtime the lord of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2950">TS</a>]
00:49:12 ◼ ► manor within dictate a response that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2952">TS</a>]
00:49:14 ◼ ► would follow the reverse route back down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2954">TS</a>]
00:49:16 ◼ ► the hill to the girlfriends laptop and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2956">TS</a>]
00:49:19 ◼ ► oh wow it's a wonderful guy that might [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2959">TS</a>]
00:49:23 ◼ ► have been the most unrealistic part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2963">TS</a>]
00:49:25 ◼ ► the entire but I don't know some people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2965">TS</a>]
00:49:27 ◼ ► actually it's correct their lives to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2967">TS</a>]
00:49:29 ◼ ► more like that larry ellison is built [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2969">TS</a>]
00:49:31 ◼ ► some kind of Japanese reconstruction on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2971">TS</a>]
00:49:32 ◼ ► top of a little pop in woodside so yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2972">TS</a>]
00:49:35 ◼ ► in order to get an email to larry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2975">TS</a>]
00:49:36 ◼ ► ellison like me to send in just a few [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2976">TS</a>]
00:49:39 ◼ ► actions you actually have to assassinate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2979">TS</a>]
00:49:40 ◼ ► three people to send email larry ellison [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2980">TS</a>]
00:49:42 ◼ ► it's pretty takes a big toll so be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2982">TS</a>]
00:49:44 ◼ ► careful as I realize that's ridiculous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2984">TS</a>]
00:49:46 ◼ ► but I mean there are lots of directors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2986">TS</a>]
00:49:48 ◼ ► great it's like great detail but that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2988">TS</a>]
00:49:50 ◼ ► it so he's created his own kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2990">TS</a>]
00:49:52 ◼ ► physical tr8 right space created this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2992">TS</a>]
00:49:53 ◼ ► this replica of an age that never really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2993">TS</a>]
00:49:58 ◼ ► why go into the internet when you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2998">TS</a>]
00:49:59 ◼ ► just buy a castle exactly but I love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/2999">TS</a>]
00:50:02 ◼ ► that when they need he goes into the you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3002">TS</a>]
00:50:04 ◼ ► know into T rain he doesn't have shoes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3004">TS</a>]
00:50:06 ◼ ► right but he doesn't need to buy them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3006">TS</a>]
00:50:10 ◼ ► because they cost of these like I waste [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3010">TS</a>]
00:50:11 ◼ ► money on shoes I don't you choose here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3011">TS</a>]
00:50:13 ◼ ► and that's fascinating know that I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3013">TS</a>]
00:50:14 ◼ ► that's an interesting point right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3014">TS</a>]
00:50:16 ◼ ► because the you this is this guy who who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3016">TS</a>]
00:50:18 ◼ ► who insists upon you know authenticity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3018">TS</a>]
00:50:21 ◼ ► right very similar to do like he wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3021">TS</a>]
00:50:24 ◼ ► to look real and yet when he goes into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3024">TS</a>]
00:50:27 ◼ ► the game it's I don't want to waste [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3027">TS</a>]
00:50:28 ◼ ► money on shoes he has very little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3028">TS</a>]
00:50:31 ◼ ► respect for the game at first right but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3031">TS</a>]
00:50:33 ◼ ► it right and that's fascinating because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3033">TS</a>]
00:50:35 ◼ ► it's a divergence and not you know he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3035">TS</a>]
00:50:38 ◼ ► a snob right like that's essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3038">TS</a>]
00:50:39 ◼ ► what he is he looks down on all of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3039">TS</a>]
00:50:42 ◼ ► and so it's funny though that he forsake [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3042">TS</a>]
00:50:44 ◼ ► his own principles to a certain extent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3044">TS</a>]
00:50:46 ◼ ► once he gets immersed in that world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3046">TS</a>]
00:50:48 ◼ ► what's interesting to me there is he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3048">TS</a>]
00:50:50 ◼ ► completely snobbish about the game until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3050">TS</a>]
00:50:53 ◼ ► Richard basically is like hey look you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3053">TS</a>]
00:50:56 ◼ ► can earn money here you can pay for all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3056">TS</a>]
00:51:01 ◼ ► I'm putting in your castle and you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3061">TS</a>]
00:51:03 ◼ ► help us build a world your knowledge of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3063">TS</a>]
00:51:09 ◼ ► right i mean but that essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3069">TS</a>]
00:51:10 ◼ ► undermines to a certain extent right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3070">TS</a>]
00:51:12 ◼ ► like because this whole thing is you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3072">TS</a>]
00:51:13 ◼ ► know he didn't last and / yeah exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3073">TS</a>]
00:51:16 ◼ ► exactly mr. I mean that six-shot you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3076">TS</a>]
00:51:18 ◼ ► sell out and make money but go right so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3078">TS</a>]
00:51:21 ◼ ► we're back to that and so he's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3081">TS</a>]
00:51:22 ◼ ► saying that the taste is kind of a low [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3082">TS</a>]
00:51:24 ◼ ► in the end right you know like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3084">TS</a>]
00:51:26 ◼ ► doesn't you know he doesn't necessarily [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3086">TS</a>]
00:51:30 ◼ ► well you know and if he's he's a Don [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3090">TS</a>]
00:51:32 ◼ ► who's running a food made money ready [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3092">TS</a>]
00:51:34 ◼ ► fantasy novels who's already sold out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3094">TS</a>]
00:51:36 ◼ ► right I really didn't see it that way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3096">TS</a>]
00:51:39 ◼ ► he you know he think he like Tolkien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3099">TS</a>]
00:51:40 ◼ ► he's come up with the language and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3100">TS</a>]
00:51:42 ◼ ► know the whole society and culture you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3102">TS</a>]
00:51:44 ◼ ► know he's kind of like you kind of pic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3104">TS</a>]
00:51:46 ◼ ► from is that guy who desperately wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3106">TS</a>]
00:51:48 ◼ ► to be you know respected academically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3108">TS</a>]
00:51:50 ◼ ► but even though he really secretly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3110">TS</a>]
00:51:51 ◼ ► wanted to write all this like trashy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3111">TS</a>]
00:51:53 ◼ ► fantasy so I want to talk about the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3113">TS</a>]
00:51:56 ◼ ► of the book because it does end in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3116">TS</a>]
00:51:59 ◼ ► hail of bullets and uh I don't read a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3119">TS</a>]
00:52:03 ◼ ► lot of books that end with this much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3123">TS</a>]
00:52:06 ◼ ► gunplay and there's like a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3126">TS</a>]
00:52:07 ◼ ► detailed I I thought it was strange that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3127">TS</a>]
00:52:10 ◼ ► he was thinking uh experts on ammunition [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3130">TS</a>]
00:52:17 ◼ ► acknowledgments but no no it i see why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3137">TS</a>]
00:52:20 ◼ ► because it's incredibly detailed in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3140">TS</a>]
00:52:25 ◼ ► and I just wanted to know what you guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3145">TS</a>]
00:52:27 ◼ ► thought about the action sequence at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3147">TS</a>]
00:52:29 ◼ ► end we've gotta chase we have a couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3149">TS</a>]
00:52:30 ◼ ► different groups coming through the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3150">TS</a>]
00:52:31 ◼ ► mountains there's a helicopter that gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3151">TS</a>]
00:52:34 ◼ ► shot down by a guy and then somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3154">TS</a>]
00:52:37 ◼ ► blow something up but then there's our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3157">TS</a>]
00:52:39 ◼ ► should go to your booby traps in tunnels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3159">TS</a>]
00:52:42 ◼ ► and there's a UH exchange of gunfire on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3162">TS</a>]
00:52:45 ◼ ► a hillside or around like a guy was on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3165">TS</a>]
00:52:49 ◼ ► yeah and then and then there's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3169">TS</a>]
00:52:51 ◼ ► there's that you know the shack and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3171">TS</a>]
00:52:52 ◼ ► the houses in the settlement and their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3172">TS</a>]
00:52:54 ◼ ► the terrorists coming down from through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3174">TS</a>]
00:52:58 ◼ ► the air coming through the tunnel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3178">TS</a>]
00:52:59 ◼ ► another the other terrorists were coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3179">TS</a>]
00:53:01 ◼ ► up the street into the neighborhood and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3181">TS</a>]
00:53:04 ◼ ► I mean he has so many pieces and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3184">TS</a>]
00:53:08 ◼ ► messy and but it's it is exciting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3188">TS</a>]
00:53:11 ◼ ► um you know it's not what i expected i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3191">TS</a>]
00:53:15 ◼ ► just wondering what you guys thought of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3195">TS</a>]
00:53:16 ◼ ► that the the end because the ending [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3196">TS</a>]
00:53:18 ◼ ► drops all pretense of being about you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3198">TS</a>]
00:53:20 ◼ ► know p whatever we've said this book is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3200">TS</a>]
00:53:22 ◼ ► about it and in many ways it just comes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3202">TS</a>]
00:53:25 ◼ ► down to people with guns getting in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3205">TS</a>]
00:53:27 ◼ ► right position so that they can shoot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3207">TS</a>]
00:53:28 ◼ ► other people try mean I I've little I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3208">TS</a>]
00:53:32 ◼ ► read a lot of tom clancy I've heard a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3212">TS</a>]
00:53:34 ◼ ► few I've read a few tom clancy's and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3214">TS</a>]
00:53:37 ◼ ► there are some tom clancy's that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3217">TS</a>]
00:53:38 ◼ ► kind of you know the kind of read like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3218">TS</a>]
00:53:40 ◼ ► this it and you know it it's very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3220">TS</a>]
00:53:43 ◼ ► reminiscent of that and yet somehow I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3223">TS</a>]
00:53:45 ◼ ► you know maybe I maybe I just maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3225">TS</a>]
00:53:47 ◼ ► myself and caught within that war of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3227">TS</a>]
00:53:49 ◼ ► taste and and wanted to be better than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3229">TS</a>]
00:53:52 ◼ ► that but I mean it is gripped write the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3232">TS</a>]
00:53:56 ◼ ► unit's gripping it's page-turning and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3236">TS</a>]
00:53:57 ◼ ► think you know he does a very good job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3237">TS</a>]
00:53:59 ◼ ► of sort of not only making it just about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3239">TS</a>]
00:54:02 ◼ ► what the hail of gunfire but also you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3242">TS</a>]
00:54:04 ◼ ► know we do have some some relationship [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3244">TS</a>]
00:54:05 ◼ ► stuff going on in these last few pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3245">TS</a>]
00:54:09 ◼ ► thinking he's basically you know he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3249">TS</a>]
00:54:12 ◼ ► he's just happy that you know he got the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3252">TS</a>]
00:54:14 ◼ ► Sula back and happy that she'll survive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3254">TS</a>]
00:54:17 ◼ ► you know if he doesn't make it out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3257">TS</a>]
00:54:19 ◼ ► we get you know a number of other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3259">TS</a>]
00:54:21 ◼ ► characters who just sort of are working [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3261">TS</a>]
00:54:23 ◼ ► towards some other goal and we get there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3263">TS</a>]
00:54:25 ◼ ► their relationships and interactions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3265">TS</a>]
00:54:26 ◼ ► with some of the other characters and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3266">TS</a>]
00:54:28 ◼ ► i was surprised in the end that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3268">TS</a>]
00:54:30 ◼ ► thought more of the characters that we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3270">TS</a>]
00:54:31 ◼ ► liked we're going to bite it and in fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3271">TS</a>]
00:54:33 ◼ ► the only one who really the old we lose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3273">TS</a>]
00:54:35 ◼ ► to right and they're both kind of minor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3275">TS</a>]
00:54:37 ◼ ► characters I mean not in there you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3277">TS</a>]
00:54:40 ◼ ► importance but in their screen time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3280">TS</a>]
00:54:43 ◼ ► yeah well i was i was kind of I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3283">TS</a>]
00:54:46 ◼ ► he did such a great job i was far more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3286">TS</a>]
00:54:47 ◼ ► interested i should say in the kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3287">TS</a>]
00:54:49 ◼ ► the t-brain aspect of this because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3289">TS</a>]
00:54:52 ◼ ► thought it was so interesting and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3292">TS</a>]
00:54:53 ◼ ► original and I was kind of disappointed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3293">TS</a>]
00:54:55 ◼ ► when it i could it was there is a clear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3295">TS</a>]
00:54:57 ◼ ► shift into ok now it's just going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3297">TS</a>]
00:55:01 ◼ ► I mean it's a well-written thriller but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3301">TS</a>]
00:55:03 ◼ ► I was hoping I thought the book could be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3303">TS</a>]
00:55:07 ◼ ► it was good but I wanted to be like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3307">TS</a>]
00:55:09 ◼ ► amazing and I just kind of thought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3309">TS</a>]
00:55:14 ◼ ► well that was that was my feeling when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3314">TS</a>]
00:55:16 ◼ ► they made the turn is that I started to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3316">TS</a>]
00:55:17 ◼ ► think I wonder if this really is him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3317">TS</a>]
00:55:19 ◼ ► realizing that cory doctorow did a whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3319">TS</a>]
00:55:25 ◼ ► an MMO it you know in China and i also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3325">TS</a>]
00:55:29 ◼ ► well i should point out you having for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3329">TS</a>]
00:55:31 ◼ ► the win which I don't like to think I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3331">TS</a>]
00:55:32 ◼ ► don't think there was a minority opinion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3332">TS</a>]
00:55:34 ◼ ► at the time or only one also read it for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3334">TS</a>]
00:55:37 ◼ ► the wind has you know Chinese American [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3337">TS</a>]
00:55:40 ◼ ► people and other strange nationalities [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3340">TS</a>]
00:55:42 ◼ ► spring the globe and conspiracies and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3342">TS</a>]
00:55:44 ◼ ► mafioso and things being kicked down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3344">TS</a>]
00:55:47 ◼ ► people being killed unexpectedly in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3347">TS</a>]
00:55:48 ◼ ► middle of the book it's a big shaggy dog [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3348">TS</a>]
00:55:50 ◼ ► story to a very different kind of want a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3350">TS</a>]
00:55:52 ◼ ► lot more political than this because I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3352">TS</a>]
00:55:55 ◼ ► not sure there's a only the moral of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3355">TS</a>]
00:55:56 ◼ ► this story is there don't live it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3356">TS</a>]
00:56:00 ◼ ► don't be a terrorist on the left one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3360">TS</a>]
00:56:02 ◼ ► killed exactly don't be late again vs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3362">TS</a>]
00:56:05 ◼ ► you vs well I mean I did the family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3365">TS</a>]
00:56:07 ◼ ► themes are august i think our are part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3367">TS</a>]
00:56:10 ◼ ► of it that that you've got not just the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3370">TS</a>]
00:56:13 ◼ ► family and the fourth rest family that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3373">TS</a>]
00:56:16 ◼ ► have a lot of differences but in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3376">TS</a>]
00:56:18 ◼ ► you know I know it's hokey but they that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3378">TS</a>]
00:56:21 ◼ ► that is one of the messages here is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3381">TS</a>]
00:56:23 ◼ ► people pull together and they may have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3383">TS</a>]
00:56:25 ◼ ► some differences but in the end you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3385">TS</a>]
00:56:27 ◼ ► the you stick with the people who matter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3387">TS</a>]
00:56:29 ◼ ► to you and you see these different oddly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3389">TS</a>]
00:56:31 ◼ ► paired people come together and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3391">TS</a>]
00:56:34 ◼ ► that's sort of a theme of it but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3394">TS</a>]
00:56:35 ◼ ► not exactly something kind of deep an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3395">TS</a>]
00:56:38 ◼ ► earth-shattering you know the other one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3398">TS</a>]
00:56:40 ◼ ► is that everyone wants to belong to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3400">TS</a>]
00:56:41 ◼ ► something right so right all those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3401">TS</a>]
00:56:43 ◼ ► outsiders exactly all the characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3403">TS</a>]
00:56:45 ◼ ► looking for some connection which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3405">TS</a>]
00:56:48 ◼ ► also kind of cliche but you know it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3408">TS</a>]
00:56:50 ◼ ► theme in lots of stuff and and we do end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3410">TS</a>]
00:56:53 ◼ ► up with a lot of them paired off at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3413">TS</a>]
00:56:54 ◼ ► end right which I thought was a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3414">TS</a>]
00:56:57 ◼ ► little it turned into a little bit until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3417">TS</a>]
00:56:59 ◼ ► I guess Shakespearean combinational [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3419">TS</a>]
00:57:02 ◼ ► yeah everybody's getting married at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3422">TS</a>]
00:57:04 ◼ ► end except for except for Richard a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3424">TS</a>]
00:57:05 ◼ ► of love story hiding inches thousand off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3425">TS</a>]
00:57:08 ◼ ► there is but not i mean not one that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3428">TS</a>]
00:57:12 ◼ ► no it's mostly gen hey we're all I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3432">TS</a>]
00:57:14 ◼ ► it's like okay so Olivia who i love i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3434">TS</a>]
00:57:18 ◼ ► character one of the funny things about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3438">TS</a>]
00:57:20 ◼ ► Olivia's when she said on her mission [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3440">TS</a>]
00:57:22 ◼ ► she specifically told basically please [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3442">TS</a>]
00:57:24 ◼ ► don't have sex with anybody which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3444">TS</a>]
00:57:26 ◼ ► like hey wow that's what I'm just a lady [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3446">TS</a>]
00:57:29 ◼ ► is she makes equipment like James Bond [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3449">TS</a>]
00:57:31 ◼ ► gets to you and how come I don't ya at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3451">TS</a>]
00:57:33 ◼ ► what I mean she's the most i like their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3453">TS</a>]
00:57:35 ◼ ► relationship the best out of all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3455">TS</a>]
00:57:38 ◼ ► that has a substitute go through all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3458">TS</a>]
00:57:40 ◼ ► that and then and then there are the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3460">TS</a>]
00:57:42 ◼ ► island right they swim to the Taiwanese [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3462">TS</a>]
00:57:44 ◼ ► island and and they you know well we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3464">TS</a>]
00:57:48 ◼ ► tired and you know we got to spend the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3468">TS</a>]
00:57:51 ◼ ► alright and that's adding one of one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3471">TS</a>]
00:57:54 ◼ ► the things that my friends used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3474">TS</a>]
00:57:56 ◼ ► criticize Stephenson about in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3476">TS</a>]
00:57:57 ◼ ► earlier books is starring in gratuitous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3477">TS</a>]
00:57:59 ◼ ► sex scenes all the time which i think is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3479">TS</a>]
00:58:02 ◼ ► cryptonomicon and in Snow Crash to a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3482">TS</a>]
00:58:05 ◼ ► certain extent like it's just like out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3485">TS</a>]
00:58:08 ◼ ► yeah it's probably the sexy in here like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3488">TS</a>]
00:58:10 ◼ ► it doesn't it's kind of weird like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3490">TS</a>]
00:58:12 ◼ ► it makes sense into a certain degree in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3492">TS</a>]
00:58:14 ◼ ► the in the illogical plot but you also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3494">TS</a>]
00:58:18 ◼ ► sokoloff i felt i was earned right i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3498">TS</a>]
00:58:21 ◼ ► relationship with anybody I mean like as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3501">TS</a>]
00:58:26 ◼ ► fascination with her like it's a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3506">TS</a>]
00:58:30 ◼ ► yes on it's sort of like you know he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3510">TS</a>]
00:58:32 ◼ ► sees it's like love at first sight right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3512">TS</a>]
00:58:34 ◼ ► and I mean I like too much better when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3514">TS</a>]
00:58:36 ◼ ► he was the foil to Peter and like Peters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3516">TS</a>]
00:58:39 ◼ ► a jerk and doesn't really care about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3519">TS</a>]
00:58:42 ◼ ► anything but soooo does and stronger was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3522">TS</a>]
00:58:43 ◼ ► like hey you know like i'm kind of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3523">TS</a>]
00:58:46 ◼ ► gentleman you know at least be polite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3526">TS</a>]
00:58:47 ◼ ► but like the fact that he then goes all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3527">TS</a>]
00:58:50 ◼ ► the way across you know around the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3530">TS</a>]
00:58:52 ◼ ► to track her down is a little bit thin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3532">TS</a>]
00:58:58 ◼ ► Stephenson he wanted to get some people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3538">TS</a>]
00:59:00 ◼ ► together he wanted to be about love in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3540">TS</a>]
00:59:02 ◼ ► love conquers all people and there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3542">TS</a>]
00:59:07 ◼ ► love conquers all but not as much as I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3547">TS</a>]
00:59:12 ◼ ► I i do like Abdullah Jones is excellent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3552">TS</a>]
00:59:15 ◼ ► a in a by nearly by animal that he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3555">TS</a>]
00:59:19 ◼ ► like you know it's an ok it's a cougar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3559">TS</a>]
00:59:21 ◼ ► at Penn or whatever he says it is what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3561">TS</a>]
00:59:23 ◼ ► it is it's a it's a it's a cougar to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3563">TS</a>]
00:59:26 ◼ ► mount like what does he say says it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3566">TS</a>]
00:59:29 ◼ ► yeah it's just a big cat but it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3569">TS</a>]
00:59:32 ◼ ► of course because nobody in there and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3572">TS</a>]
00:59:34 ◼ ► then Richard I mean that's the great you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3574">TS</a>]
00:59:35 ◼ ► know loop there as you open with people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3575">TS</a>]
00:59:37 ◼ ► shooting guns for the hell shooting gone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3577">TS</a>]
00:59:39 ◼ ► to the beginning and the end with him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3579">TS</a>]
00:59:41 ◼ ► you know shooting doing the thing you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3581">TS</a>]
00:59:43 ◼ ► have to do which is to shoot Jones & [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3583">TS</a>]
00:59:45 ◼ ► Jones finally being flummoxed after that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3585">TS</a>]
00:59:48 ◼ ► many thousands of miles and thousands of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3588">TS</a>]
00:59:51 ◼ ► there's nothing operatic or anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3591">TS</a>]
00:59:53 ◼ ► about that that death which actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3593">TS</a>]
00:59:54 ◼ ► kind of appreciate it is that in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3594">TS</a>]
00:59:56 ◼ ► which is finally got a shot and he takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3596">TS</a>]
01:00:00 ◼ ► and that's it I was wondering I mean did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3600">TS</a>]
01:00:02 ◼ ► you guys find yourself wondering who was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3602">TS</a>]
01:00:04 ◼ ► gonna get to do it you know like because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3604">TS</a>]
01:00:06 ◼ ► i'm certain poetic justice right you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3606">TS</a>]
01:00:08 ◼ ► kind of expect Zullo more but at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3608">TS</a>]
01:00:10 ◼ ► same time you're kind of relieved that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3610">TS</a>]
01:00:12 ◼ ► she doesn't have to be you know have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3612">TS</a>]
01:00:15 ◼ ► that sort of burden or what have you or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3615">TS</a>]
01:00:16 ◼ ► you know have to you know kill somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3616">TS</a>]
01:00:19 ◼ ► face like that or something but I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3619">TS</a>]
01:00:21 ◼ ► know it's interesting I kept wondering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3621">TS</a>]
01:00:23 ◼ ► who was going to turn out to be 0 was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3623">TS</a>]
01:00:25 ◼ ► gonna turn out to be Sheamus was you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3625">TS</a>]
01:00:26 ◼ ► know Sokolov I don't know after they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3626">TS</a>]
01:00:29 ◼ ► bash in Richards brothers skull with his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3629">TS</a>]
01:00:32 ◼ ► own prosthetic leg I feel like Richard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3632">TS</a>]
01:00:34 ◼ ► kind of gets the honor there right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3634">TS</a>]
01:00:37 ◼ ► why makers you know basically to design [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3637">TS</a>]
01:00:40 ◼ ► shoot up his best friend and get him to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3640">TS</a>]
01:00:42 ◼ ► blow himself alright that was spread out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3642">TS</a>]
01:00:45 ◼ ► that was badass and I do I like cat i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3645">TS</a>]
01:00:48 ◼ ► like i like his little digression at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3648">TS</a>]
01:00:50 ◼ ► motorcycle and he gets the corn stock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3650">TS</a>]
01:00:54 ◼ ► oh yeah terribly terribly grows it you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3654">TS</a>]
01:00:57 ◼ ► kind of forget about times before he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3657">TS</a>]
01:00:58 ◼ ► goes away for like 700 pages then he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3658">TS</a>]
01:01:00 ◼ ► comes back and he's like that so so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3660">TS</a>]
01:01:04 ◼ ► wrapping up what are we what do we think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3664">TS</a>]
01:01:08 ◼ ► what you know in the grand scheme of of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3668">TS</a>]
01:01:12 ◼ ► neal stephenson and his books and also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3672">TS</a>]
01:01:15 ◼ ► just sort of that's as its own thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3675">TS</a>]
01:01:17 ◼ ► what's the verdict on windy always buy a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3677">TS</a>]
01:01:21 ◼ ► kilogram of tea from a short Chinese one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3681">TS</a>]
01:01:24 ◼ ► wearing bright luminous i gotta-i gotta [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3684">TS</a>]
01:01:27 ◼ ► fortunate said that the other day we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3687">TS</a>]
01:01:31 ◼ ► I I mean depends on your definition of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3691">TS</a>]
01:01:34 ◼ ► art out and she ever go home again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3694">TS</a>]
01:01:36 ◼ ► oh that's good question know what so uh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3696">TS</a>]
01:01:39 ◼ ► so what's the verdict ran what do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3699">TS</a>]
01:01:41 ◼ ► think I quite liked it is again having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3701">TS</a>]
01:01:44 ◼ ► only read to stevens and books i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3704">TS</a>]
01:01:46 ◼ ► started with no crash and then i read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3706">TS</a>]
01:01:48 ◼ ► this one so far my my records pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3708">TS</a>]
01:01:51 ◼ ► good of course i'm still halfway through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3711">TS</a>]
01:01:52 ◼ ► cryptonomicon so anything there but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3712">TS</a>]
01:01:54 ◼ ► really a quite light my kryptonite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3714">TS</a>]
01:01:57 ◼ ► economy is Krypton is worth weather for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3717">TS</a>]
01:01:59 ◼ ► the journey if not the if not the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3719">TS</a>]
01:02:01 ◼ ► destination so Scott what did you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3721">TS</a>]
01:02:03 ◼ ► of this book I have conflicted feelings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3723">TS</a>]
01:02:07 ◼ ► about this book after you I ready player [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3727">TS</a>]
01:02:10 ◼ ► one either before or after this and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3730">TS</a>]
01:02:13 ◼ ► like 14 million times better than ready [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3733">TS</a>]
01:02:16 ◼ ► player one haha there's there's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3736">TS</a>]
01:02:18 ◼ ► comparison love uu x 0 scat well its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3738">TS</a>]
01:02:21 ◼ ► trip which ready player one it's so it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3741">TS</a>]
01:02:24 ◼ ► may I don't think he would hate that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3744">TS</a>]
01:02:26 ◼ ► book that much I didn't like it but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3746">TS</a>]
01:02:27 ◼ ► was stunned level of hate and yeah it a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3747">TS</a>]
01:02:31 ◼ ► set where we did a whole pie Kassai we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3751">TS</a>]
01:02:33 ◼ ► don't need I didn't like it i just got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3753">TS</a>]
01:02:36 ◼ ► so if every remind very successful i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3756">TS</a>]
01:02:39 ◼ ► thought it was a fun book but I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3759">TS</a>]
01:02:40 ◼ ► thought I have to admit that he kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3760">TS</a>]
01:02:43 ◼ ► missed an opportunity to write like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3763">TS</a>]
01:02:45 ◼ ► great book and i know i read some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3765">TS</a>]
01:02:47 ◼ ► interviews with him after reading the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3767">TS</a>]
01:02:49 ◼ ► book because I was like this book is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3769">TS</a>]
01:02:51 ◼ ► anything like what I expected and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3771">TS</a>]
01:02:53 ◼ ► just wanted to write a thriller and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3773">TS</a>]
01:02:55 ◼ ► he wrote a thriller have you know check [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3775">TS</a>]
01:02:58 ◼ ► you succeeded neal stephenson yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3778">TS</a>]
01:03:05 ◼ ► I quite liked it as well you know our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3785">TS</a>]
01:03:07 ◼ ► colleague John syracuse I asked me the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3787">TS</a>]
01:03:10 ◼ ► should I read this and I SAT there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3790">TS</a>]
01:03:13 ◼ ► thinking about it for a while trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3793">TS</a>]
01:03:15 ◼ ► figure out how to answer that question i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3795">TS</a>]
01:03:18 ◼ ► mean i think i recommended to I a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3798">TS</a>]
01:03:21 ◼ ► people including I think I told him in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3801">TS</a>]
01:03:23 ◼ ► the end I think he should read it i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3803">TS</a>]
01:03:25 ◼ ► not sure if you like it or not but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3805">TS</a>]
01:03:27 ◼ ► think it's a good book and you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3807">TS</a>]
01:03:31 ◼ ► like Scott says a kind of it goes into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3811">TS</a>]
01:03:32 ◼ ► their a direction obviously that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3812">TS</a>]
01:03:34 ◼ ► don't expect a lot and in such is not it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3814">TS</a>]
01:03:37 ◼ ► is very unexpected but unexpected book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3817">TS</a>]
01:03:40 ◼ ► for neal stephenson but then again all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3820">TS</a>]
01:03:41 ◼ ► of neal stephenson books are kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3821">TS</a>]
01:03:43 ◼ ► unexpected this guy's reading like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3823">TS</a>]
01:03:44 ◼ ► like a huge epic about like the Mongols [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3824">TS</a>]
01:03:48 ◼ ► among other things so but in the end of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3828">TS</a>]
01:03:51 ◼ ► the day I i really like it i had some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3831">TS</a>]
01:03:53 ◼ ► minor quibbles and flaws but in it grips [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3833">TS</a>]
01:03:56 ◼ ► and it keeps you going right like I kept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3836">TS</a>]
01:03:58 ◼ ► wanting to read the next page and in if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3838">TS</a>]
01:03:59 ◼ ► you know sort of some it down to that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3839">TS</a>]
01:04:01 ◼ ► think that's a that's pretty successful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3841">TS</a>]
01:04:03 ◼ ► giving you know reader to turn the page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3843">TS</a>]
01:04:05 ◼ ► to want to turn the page is a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3845">TS</a>]
01:04:06 ◼ ► so that's the magic trick d laundry on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3846">TS</a>]
01:04:09 ◼ ► your part of a writer and he had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3849">TS</a>]
01:04:10 ◼ ► accomplish that a thousand time so I'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3850">TS</a>]
01:04:15 ◼ ► I think this is one of my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3855">TS</a>]
01:04:17 ◼ ► students and novels and I actually quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3857">TS</a>]
01:04:19 ◼ ► you know I I like NM i read if you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3859">TS</a>]
01:04:23 ◼ ► that you have to establish base camps at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3863">TS</a>]
01:04:26 ◼ ► be supplied with you because it's a long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3866">TS</a>]
01:04:28 ◼ ► trip to the top and then you have to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3868">TS</a>]
01:04:30 ◼ ► down the other side that's right then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3870">TS</a>]
01:04:32 ◼ ► you have to climb down with the quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3872">TS</a>]
01:04:33 ◼ ► literally actually go and you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3873">TS</a>]
01:04:35 ◼ ► together with old down the Avatar I look [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3875">TS</a>]
01:04:37 ◼ ► to the east but the but I've been all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3877">TS</a>]
01:04:40 ◼ ► worth it I thought he did a terrific job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3880">TS</a>]
01:04:42 ◼ ► in integrating like keeping the stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3882">TS</a>]
01:04:45 ◼ ► that that we like about his work without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3885">TS</a>]
01:04:48 ◼ ► pandering to us you know it doing his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3888">TS</a>]
01:04:51 ◼ ► sort of oh I don't know it's a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3891">TS</a>]
01:04:53 ◼ ► Moby Dick is kind of like that's gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3893">TS</a>]
01:04:57 ◼ ► I bet your partner gonna start cleaning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3897">TS</a>]
01:04:58 ◼ ► tag urban television in that you know he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3898">TS</a>]
01:05:02 ◼ ► likes to be heard that villain and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3902">TS</a>]
01:05:03 ◼ ► middle of you know fighting away i'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3903">TS</a>]
01:05:05 ◼ ► have 500 pages on your abstract whale [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3905">TS</a>]
01:05:07 ◼ ► oil but he and he said he submerges that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3907">TS</a>]
01:05:11 ◼ ► desire just like a whale here and made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3911">TS</a>]
01:05:14 ◼ ► it much more riveting story and i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3914">TS</a>]
01:05:16 ◼ ► i like that i was surprised I was sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3916">TS</a>]
01:05:18 ◼ ► of like okay wow this is different and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3918">TS</a>]
01:05:20 ◼ ► then just raced through it read it like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3920">TS</a>]
01:05:22 ◼ ► I'll compare this to Great Bear a few [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3922">TS</a>]
01:05:24 ◼ ► years ago that is a sci-fi author by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3924">TS</a>]
01:05:26 ◼ ► trade I think now not really consider [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3926">TS</a>]
01:05:29 ◼ ► Quantico that was sort of about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3929">TS</a>]
01:05:31 ◼ ► American racks anthrax attacks and had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3931">TS</a>]
01:05:33 ◼ ► plausible scenario about coming created [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3933">TS</a>]
01:05:35 ◼ ► somewhere and there was no mysterious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3935">TS</a>]
01:05:37 ◼ ► man traveling around the country and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3937">TS</a>]
01:05:39 ◼ ► weird attacks in Islamic extremists or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3939">TS</a>]
01:05:42 ◼ ► Jewish extremist something in this case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3942">TS</a>]
01:05:44 ◼ ► perhaps and and so forth and I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3944">TS</a>]
01:05:46 ◼ ► think I don't feel like that pulled it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3946">TS</a>]
01:05:48 ◼ ► off like he just couldn't make a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3948">TS</a>]
01:05:50 ◼ ► story without having supernatural [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3950">TS</a>]
01:05:51 ◼ ► ridiculous elements it was he was rooted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3951">TS</a>]
01:05:54 ◼ ► in the real and he couldn't make that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3954">TS</a>]
01:05:55 ◼ ► transition give up the things that made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3955">TS</a>]
01:06:00 ◼ ► Stephenson I think you know he tries to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3960">TS</a>]
01:06:02 ◼ ► tell a good story in this time he really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3962">TS</a>]
01:06:04 ◼ ► did it just it just moves along there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3964">TS</a>]
01:06:05 ◼ ► a point where I'm just devouring the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3965">TS</a>]
01:06:07 ◼ ► book as fast as I can which I i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3967">TS</a>]
01:06:10 ◼ ► recall ever having done with anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3970">TS</a>]
01:06:12 ◼ ► but maybe we start crashing zodiac are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3972">TS</a>]
01:06:14 ◼ ► more like that snow crash is less dense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3974">TS</a>]
01:06:16 ◼ ► but there are a lot shorter and shorter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3976">TS</a>]
01:06:18 ◼ ► you still crossed over too many times or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3978">TS</a>]
01:06:20 ◼ ► it's just you know I think I mean like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3980">TS</a>]
01:06:23 ◼ ► his weakest book i think almost the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3983">TS</a>]
01:06:24 ◼ ► diamond age which I feel like I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3984">TS</a>]
01:06:26 ◼ ► know what you like that there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3986">TS</a>]
01:06:28 ◼ ► great stuff in it that's my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3988">TS</a>]
01:06:30 ◼ ► ways lots of my favorite of his yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3990">TS</a>]
01:06:32 ◼ ► Scott nice you're wrong down with me to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3992">TS</a>]
01:06:36 ◼ ► Stephenson fight club episode clearly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3996">TS</a>]
01:06:38 ◼ ► but diamond a job that was full of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/3998">TS</a>]
01:06:40 ◼ ► clever stuff but I don't feel like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4000">TS</a>]
01:06:42 ◼ ► come together and there's a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4002">TS</a>]
01:06:43 ◼ ► extraneous things lots of sort of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4003">TS</a>]
01:06:45 ◼ ► know weird cultural ideas the end up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4005">TS</a>]
01:06:46 ◼ ► throwing a blender and then make us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4006">TS</a>]
01:06:48 ◼ ► believe was real but I great stuff at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4008">TS</a>]
01:06:50 ◼ ► this I felt held together as a real as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4010">TS</a>]
01:06:52 ◼ ► an interesting work without without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4012">TS</a>]
01:06:53 ◼ ► going too far astray from his core [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4013">TS</a>]
01:06:56 ◼ ► liking this thing we like about him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4016">TS</a>]
01:07:02 ◼ ► oh thank you for asking Scott your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4022">TS</a>]
01:07:04 ◼ ► mobile uh I liked it but i want i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4024">TS</a>]
01:07:10 ◼ ► some caveats III I like that it has an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4030">TS</a>]
01:07:14 ◼ ► even though the ending is really the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4034">TS</a>]
01:07:15 ◼ ► ratcheting of the plot machinery Neal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4035">TS</a>]
01:07:19 ◼ ► Stephenson has a real problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4039">TS</a>]
01:07:21 ◼ ► endings and I like his i love his work i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4041">TS</a>]
01:07:23 ◼ ► really do it's so inventive i love his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4043">TS</a>]
01:07:26 ◼ ► digression sometimes the digression of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4046">TS</a>]
01:07:29 ◼ ► they're just so delightfully strange and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4049">TS</a>]
01:07:31 ◼ ► fully realized but his hands like Snow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4051">TS</a>]
01:07:34 ◼ ► Crash such a great book and in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4054">TS</a>]
01:07:36 ◼ ► is just a disaster it he doesn't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4056">TS</a>]
01:07:38 ◼ ► what to do and and I feel that way in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4058">TS</a>]
01:07:40 ◼ ► lot of his books and sometimes I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4060">TS</a>]
01:07:42 ◼ ► like the length of his books because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4062">TS</a>]
01:07:43 ◼ ► can't figure out how to end it so he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4063">TS</a>]
01:07:45 ◼ ► just keeps writing hoping that you'll be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4065">TS</a>]
01:07:48 ◼ ► struck down and they'll say well it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4068">TS</a>]
01:07:50 ◼ ► unfinished but here it is and so so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4070">TS</a>]
01:07:53 ◼ ► like that this book has an ending and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4073">TS</a>]
01:07:56 ◼ ► don't mind that it ends and in a giant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4076">TS</a>]
01:07:59 ◼ ► hail of gunfire I what I'd say is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4079">TS</a>]
01:08:02 ◼ ► it's a strange conglomeration of a book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4082">TS</a>]
01:08:04 ◼ ► at as as interesting and and strange as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4084">TS</a>]
01:08:08 ◼ ► it is that the book takes a left turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4088">TS</a>]
01:08:09 ◼ ► when sulla decides to send them to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4089">TS</a>]
01:08:11 ◼ ► wrong apartment in China because that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4091">TS</a>]
01:08:14 ◼ ► really what this is she says go to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4094">TS</a>]
01:08:15 ◼ ► third floor instead of the second floor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4095">TS</a>]
01:08:17 ◼ ► or whatever fifth floor into the sixth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4097">TS</a>]
01:08:20 ◼ ► floor might what I would say is i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4100">TS</a>]
01:08:24 ◼ ► this book would have been better if the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4104">TS</a>]
01:08:27 ◼ ► stories were more integrated and there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4107">TS</a>]
01:08:30 ◼ ► wasn't a left turn and so what what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4110">TS</a>]
01:08:34 ◼ ► ended up getting was when you get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4114">TS</a>]
01:08:38 ◼ ► that climax with the guns that there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4118">TS</a>]
01:08:41 ◼ ► also something happening in terrain and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4121">TS</a>]
01:08:49 ◼ ► and it's part of a bigger story and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4129">TS</a>]
01:08:52 ◼ ► where I felt let down with I just felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4132">TS</a>]
01:08:55 ◼ ► let down that he was dropping large [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4135">TS</a>]
01:08:58 ◼ ► elements and that you know it was it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4138">TS</a>]
01:09:03 ◼ ► messier than i thought i would like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4143">TS</a>]
01:09:05 ◼ ► feel like I don't have a problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4145">TS</a>]
01:09:06 ◼ ► what he did but I feel like it was kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4146">TS</a>]
01:09:08 ◼ ► of too big of a change for him to solve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4148">TS</a>]
01:09:11 ◼ ► so he just went ahead with the left turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4151">TS</a>]
01:09:14 ◼ ► and my sort he throws are in ballast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4154">TS</a>]
01:09:17 ◼ ► overboard in order to you know to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4157">TS</a>]
01:09:19 ◼ ► achieve or or something like that and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4159">TS</a>]
01:09:20 ◼ ► let all the air out of the balloon to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4160">TS</a>]
01:09:22 ◼ ► land the plot or something right well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4162">TS</a>]
01:09:23 ◼ ► right yeah it's something sure those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4163">TS</a>]
01:09:26 ◼ ► little words was a template so you just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4166">TS</a>]
01:09:30 ◼ ► throwing all those metaphors out that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4170">TS</a>]
01:09:32 ◼ ► until I hit enjoy the chase for the up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4172">TS</a>]
01:09:34 ◼ ► with what you know you know what I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4174">TS</a>]
01:09:35 ◼ ► it's sort of like what I what I wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4175">TS</a>]
01:09:37 ◼ ► to have at the end was was the action [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4177">TS</a>]
01:09:40 ◼ ► integrated a little bit more with some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4180">TS</a>]
01:09:43 ◼ ► extrapolation stuff no I i totally agree [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4183">TS</a>]
01:09:45 ◼ ► with you because the video game at some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4185">TS</a>]
01:09:47 ◼ ► point you're like wait a minute they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4187">TS</a>]
01:09:48 ◼ ► sort of this brushed off that whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4188">TS</a>]
01:09:50 ◼ ► thing that we've been talking about for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4190">TS</a>]
01:09:51 ◼ ► inner pages in passing here and there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4191">TS</a>]
01:09:53 ◼ ► that's been connective tissue suddenly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4193">TS</a>]
01:09:55 ◼ ► it's completely unimportant compared to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4195">TS</a>]
01:09:57 ◼ ► you know the local police department [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4197">TS</a>]
01:09:59 ◼ ► flying in a helicopter which could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4199">TS</a>]
01:10:00 ◼ ► suddenly shot down by the air-to-ground [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4200">TS</a>]
01:10:02 ◼ ► missile yeah yeah so so I liked it right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4202">TS</a>]
01:10:05 ◼ ► that was my that so that would be my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4205">TS</a>]
01:10:07 ◼ ► take those I wish it was more integrated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4207">TS</a>]
01:10:09 ◼ ► together instead of it just being a left [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4209">TS</a>]
01:10:11 ◼ ► turn because as clever as that left left [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4211">TS</a>]
01:10:13 ◼ ► turn twist is in a way cuz you're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4213">TS</a>]
01:10:15 ◼ ► whoa I'm surprised it goes for the rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4215">TS</a>]
01:10:17 ◼ ► of the book and it ends up not seeming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4217">TS</a>]
01:10:19 ◼ ► so much as a clever authorial decision [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4219">TS</a>]
01:10:22 ◼ ► as it does that he regretted the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4222">TS</a>]
01:10:24 ◼ ► he was writing and decided to write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4224">TS</a>]
01:10:26 ◼ ► something different and at so i love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4226">TS</a>]
01:10:28 ◼ ► that that he wrote it he's learning how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4228">TS</a>]
01:10:31 ◼ ► I wish that it had been more of a whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4231">TS</a>]
01:10:34 ◼ ► work instead of feeling like a book that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4234">TS</a>]
01:10:36 ◼ ► he started and thought better of and bed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4236">TS</a>]
01:10:38 ◼ ► wrote something else and then sold the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4238">TS</a>]
01:10:40 ◼ ► whole thing to us that's what I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4240">TS</a>]
01:10:43 ◼ ► Scott thank you for asking will you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4243">TS</a>]
01:10:46 ◼ ► no i agree with you that I'm under [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4246">TS</a>]
01:10:49 ◼ ► surprised how much we all like book i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4249">TS</a>]
01:10:50 ◼ ► was i was thinking that I might be the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4250">TS</a>]
01:10:52 ◼ ► odd one out or one of the other ones out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4252">TS</a>]
01:10:53 ◼ ► and that the parts of it like as much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4253">TS</a>]
01:10:56 ◼ ► but I was great read and I'm glad we for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4256">TS</a>]
01:10:58 ◼ ► once we were all like his style and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4258">TS</a>]
01:11:01 ◼ ► inventiveness and his intelligence [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4261">TS</a>]
01:11:03 ◼ ► it's gets let him get away with a lot I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4263">TS</a>]
01:11:06 ◼ ► yes this is truly respected respect the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4266">TS</a>]
01:11:10 ◼ ► fact that respects as a reader that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4270">TS</a>]
01:11:12 ◼ ► thinks we're actually going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4272">TS</a>]
01:11:12 ◼ ► interesting stuff he has to tell us and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4272">TS</a>]
01:11:14 ◼ ► not up to walk us you know take us by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4274">TS</a>]
01:11:17 ◼ ► yeah yeah and so and so that's why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4277">TS</a>]
01:11:19 ◼ ► i'll buy you know I need nail Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4279">TS</a>]
01:11:22 ◼ ► anything because you know he's a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4282">TS</a>]
01:11:24 ◼ ► writer with lots of good ideas and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4284">TS</a>]
01:11:25 ◼ ► smarts and and writes about things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4285">TS</a>]
01:11:30 ◼ ► and even though he's got his faults be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4290">TS</a>]
01:11:32 ◼ ► it's worth taking a chance when he when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4292">TS</a>]
01:11:35 ◼ ► he does something new and so yes even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4295">TS</a>]
01:11:37 ◼ ► though it's it's it's flawed and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4297">TS</a>]
01:11:38 ◼ ► not what i would recommend to somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4298">TS</a>]
01:11:40 ◼ ► who wants to read first Neal Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4300">TS</a>]
01:11:42 ◼ ► i would probably recommend snow crash or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4302">TS</a>]
01:11:44 ◼ ► the diamond age or cryptonomicon or or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4304">TS</a>]
01:11:47 ◼ ► zodiac which is actually in some ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4307">TS</a>]
01:11:50 ◼ ► more the mode book its most like this in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4310">TS</a>]
01:11:53 ◼ ► that there's a lot of action but it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4313">TS</a>]
01:11:58 ◼ ► exactly and that's where it gets back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4318">TS</a>]
01:12:00 ◼ ► my complaints about this is that i feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4320">TS</a>]
01:12:02 ◼ ► it's almost I don't feel it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4322">TS</a>]
01:12:03 ◼ ► bait-and-switch I feel it was him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4323">TS</a>]
01:12:05 ◼ ► thinking he was going to write one story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4325">TS</a>]
01:12:06 ◼ ► and then deciding to write another but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4326">TS</a>]
01:12:09 ◼ ► in the end perhaps he should have gone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4329">TS</a>]
01:12:10 ◼ ► back and done more work to to spackle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4330">TS</a>]
01:12:13 ◼ ► that over i mean i think anything to a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4333">TS</a>]
01:12:15 ◼ ► certain extent as I was saying about you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4335">TS</a>]
01:12:18 ◼ ► know cryptonomicon I think it's true for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4338">TS</a>]
01:12:20 ◼ ► a lot of his books that the you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4340">TS</a>]
01:12:21 ◼ ► reward and reading them is in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4341">TS</a>]
01:12:23 ◼ ► reading of them not necessarily in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4343">TS</a>]
01:12:25 ◼ ► you know where where it ends up and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4345">TS</a>]
01:12:27 ◼ ► think we know we agreed about that with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4347">TS</a>]
01:12:29 ◼ ► cryptonomicon I think that's true with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4349">TS</a>]
01:12:31 ◼ ► the baroque cycle as well which is to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4351">TS</a>]
01:12:33 ◼ ► say not that book doesn't have you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4353">TS</a>]
01:12:37 ◼ ► serviceable ending but the the interest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4357">TS</a>]
01:12:40 ◼ ► in that series comes from all the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4360">TS</a>]
01:12:41 ◼ ► that you encounter along the way right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4361">TS</a>]
01:12:45 ◼ ► digressions as you were saying and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4365">TS</a>]
01:12:47 ◼ ► interested in detail he gets in all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4367">TS</a>]
01:12:50 ◼ ► fascinating to us the readers things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4370">TS</a>]
01:12:52 ◼ ► that you wouldn't think for fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4372">TS</a>]
01:12:54 ◼ ► you know the economic development of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4374">TS</a>]
01:12:57 ◼ ► know Europe right right in the 16th [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4377">TS</a>]
01:13:00 ◼ ► century it's like wow that had that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4380">TS</a>]
01:13:02 ◼ ► sounds boring as hell what I feel as if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4382">TS</a>]
01:13:05 ◼ ► we've come to the end of our book club [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4385">TS</a>]
01:13:07 ◼ ► did everybody enjoy the tea and the and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4387">TS</a>]
01:13:09 ◼ ► a little lemon cookies missing just got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4389">TS</a>]
01:13:16 ◼ ► skype scones enjoyed the complaint was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4396">TS</a>]
01:13:20 ◼ ► yes everybody take your complimentary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4400">TS</a>]
01:13:23 ◼ ► ammunition as you leave I'll take two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4403">TS</a>]
01:13:29 ◼ ► it's through and and somebody here gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4409">TS</a>]
01:13:33 ◼ ► a claim or no on the claim under your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4413">TS</a>]
01:13:42 ◼ ► oh well I let's say thank you Jason for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4422">TS</a>]
01:13:44 ◼ ► inspiring me to Rita this very long book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4424">TS</a>]
01:13:46 ◼ ► which I would have done this soon and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4426">TS</a>]
01:13:48 ◼ ► would not enjoy this much otherwise so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4428">TS</a>]
01:13:50 ◼ ► a while why you're very welcome i'm i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4430">TS</a>]
01:13:53 ◼ ► happy to inspire you to read long books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4433">TS</a>]
01:13:55 ◼ ► it it's very sad what I'm the only one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4435">TS</a>]
01:13:57 ◼ ► who has to read these thousand page long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4437">TS</a>]
01:13:59 ◼ ► book so I like I like a bit of that will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4439">TS</a>]
01:14:02 ◼ ► do it too yes but my kingdom for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4442">TS</a>]
01:14:05 ◼ ► 300-page book for pete's sake these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4445">TS</a>]
01:14:07 ◼ ► thousand-page books are going to kill me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4447">TS</a>]
01:14:09 ◼ ► so until next time on the incomparable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4449">TS</a>]
01:14:13 ◼ ► I'm Jason still and i would like to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4453">TS</a>]
01:14:15 ◼ ► thank my guests here around our little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4455">TS</a>]
01:14:17 ◼ ► table they're finishing your tea and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4457">TS</a>]
01:14:20 ◼ ► scones right now serenity called well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4460">TS</a>]
01:14:22 ◼ ► thank you thank you Jason Scott McNulty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4462">TS</a>]
01:14:27 ◼ ► o earth tones forever earth tones [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4467">TS</a>]
01:14:30 ◼ ► forever nice glad and Fleischmann thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4470">TS</a>]
01:14:32 ◼ ► you for being here and reading this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4472">TS</a>]
01:14:33 ◼ ► thousand-page book with me thank you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4473">TS</a>]
01:14:35 ◼ ► very much and Dan Morgan thanks as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4475">TS</a>]
01:14:41 ◼ ► you're so lucky to have been invited let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4481">TS</a>]
01:14:46 ◼ ► until next time on the incomparable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4486">TS</a>]
01:14:48 ◼ ► thanks to all of you for listening to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4488">TS</a>]
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01:15:12 ◼ ► that snaps out of it doesn't be ok [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4512">TS</a>]
01:15:14 ◼ ► because it's okay well that's enough of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4514">TS</a>]
01:15:17 ◼ ► your silliness now get-get yes ma'am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4517">TS</a>]
01:15:19 ◼ ► that now and alright alright alright [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMaZjgX8/4519">TS</a>]