The Incomparable

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00:00:25 ◼   ► the incomparable number 239 mar 2015 [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► welcome back to be uncomfortable I am [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► Jason L so this is not I hope trend but [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► our second in about five weeks of of [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► tributes to people who have recently [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► passed away [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► terry pratchett the great writer sir [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► terry pratchett passed away recently and [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► we've convened a group of people who [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► have read a bunch of terry pratchett [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► stuff to talk about it i'm not actually [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► one of those people so i'm going to fade [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► into the background after introducing to [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► you these fine members of our panel [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► we're going to talk in this episode Lisa [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► Schmeisser is out there hi lisa is great [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► to be here Monty ashley is their [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► haimanti hi Jason [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► you should read terry pratchett I should [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► read more vibrant I've read somebody [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► should read more [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► I i look forward to hearing you tell me [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► what episodes or what episodes what [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► books i should read dan more'n hello [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► nice to be here wish it was under better [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► circumstances [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► yeah absolutely and Steve let's say [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► Jason glad to be here wish it was like [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► Dan you know a happier time I wish these [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► guys would stop dying [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► yeah it out make it to make yeah exactly [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► enough already with the tribute episodes [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► ok yes I suppose we could do aunty [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► tribute episode that's your dad [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► oh yeah she so Lisa Monty you guys had [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► some ideas about what the the subjects [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► should be night [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► what where where where you guys want to [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► get started i think actually Monty had a [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► really good one that I remember which is [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► pratchett is an example of why you [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► shouldn't start with his earliest work [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► and go chronologically you should find [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► another starting point and I've and true [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► although some of us do that anyway just [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► because you're obsessive compulsive and [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► we felt we need to do or because we [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► actually like red him as he updated in [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► real time because i got to practice in [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► the eighties of all things so yeah so [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► did I yeah i just i checked my copy of [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► the colour of magic and it is a first [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► edition [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► although it's a first-edition us [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► paperback which probably doesn't count [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► for anything [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► mhm but it was printed in the US before [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► even the light fantastic so yeah I [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► started right at the beginning [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► yeah I did do although i think I someone [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► so like I got that is a library book I [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► remember [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► reading it at camp and over somebody [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► gave it to me I mean my mom might like [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► based on a recommendation from someone [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► else in my family I couldn't say who [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► recommended me but i think i read that [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► as I got 10 year olds or something [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► yes somebody in high school loaned me [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► knowing that I was a hitchhiker's fan [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► just you know showed up one day with a [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► copy of I think it's a first edition [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► hardcover of the light fantastic which [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► he he loaned me and which I still [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► actually have so Chris Hayes if you're [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► out there i got you both haha what's [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► probably worth a lot more right now I [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► think that's how a lot of us got into it [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► is somebody sees you reading douglas [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► adams and they go if you like wacky [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► british authors here here is the next [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► one your list because that's the [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► concessionaire at the pool i worked out [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► in the summer of like 99 was like I [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► think you'll really enjoy these and [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► handed me the first two but sadly I [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► never actually read that copy of the [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► book i started in on it realized it was [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► the second you know in in that [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► particular book starts in the middle of [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► the action where I think everything's [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► ruined is plummeting to earth with his [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► chest and I thought I guess I should [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► probably read the first book and then I [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► just never quite got around to finding [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► it and tell much much later just a few [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► years ago and and felt as I mentioned [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► that I had to start at the beginning [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► which you know was was a little bit of [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► rust letting but I have no memory of why [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► I got the colour of magic or why I liked [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► it so much because I've reread it [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► several times since then and it's [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► basically just three unconnected [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► pastiche is stuck together [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► what is startling if you read the first [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► the first two especially in the new go [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► and you read right in the middle after [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► he's introduced the watch and done some [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► serious world-building and it's hard to [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► believe that they come from the same [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► mind almost like the first two books are [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► almost as if they're rough drafts and [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► they feel almost reactionary like they [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► were written reaction too high-minded [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► British fantasy and then for me the [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► turning point actually was equal rights [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► where he introduces s Karina and Granny [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► Weatherwax and you and it's still very [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► wizard centric but it broadens the world [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► a little bit that's only the third book [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► so he did not like what yeah it's fair [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► to say that those verse two books i [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► think are much more permanent or parody [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► than serious books and then at some [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► point he as you said [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► this book because it's vignettes and [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► because it's just like you know straight [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► up parody without much story it all [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► behind it actually reads more like some [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► episodic submissions to dragon magazine [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► or something [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► it's really interesting to go back and [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► read the book he wrote before the colour [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► of magic strata we asked Ron to the 10 [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► years world and explains one of the [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► jokes in the book that he didn't put the [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► punchline in which is the reason there's [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► a bar called the broken drum it can't be [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► beat [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► haha of course is that why they [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► destroyed the broken drum [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► well the broken drum gets burned down in [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► the colour of magic editor-in-chief [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► every time you go to have more apart [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► from that on if the mehndi drum which he [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► also never explains yeah well you have [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► to explain it they built it after they [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► burned it down [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► it's been to know oh yeah that's that [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► but one of the things I've found when i [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► try to explain this world to people who [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► are who are not hardcore fantasy people [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► is is you don't have to read them in [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► order and you can actually kind of read [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► them in somatic groups and you still get [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► a fairly rich experience and to me [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► that's really gratifying because having [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► slot my way through a lot of sequential [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► series where if you happen to find book [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► number four in the library but you have [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► 13 and you're like ah it's gratifying to [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► say look you don't have to sweat just [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► start with guards guards and then read [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► about the city watch will start with [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► which or start with them [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► Weird Sisters and you can rejoin through [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► the witches or you can read one of the [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► stand-alones like pyramids or moving [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► pictures to see how you like the tone of [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► Discworld and then jump in and I [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► appreciated how he had what we're [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► basically like four or five distinct [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► groups of characters that he kind of had [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► moving in tandem and sometimes they [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► interact or sometimes they mentioned [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► each other but it doesn't all tie in and [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► this way you can kind of pick and choose [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► your your-your-your discworld experience [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► if you're so inclined [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► it's not really a giant wheel at I'm [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► style 30 book series most Americans are [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► standalone yeah or as Lisa said thematic [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► you know in terms of there are [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► characters they get followed so like I [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► mean I started reading while all the [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► rincewind books because as a you know [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► teenagers prejean or whatever that [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► really tickled my fan [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► see because I just on the whole area so [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► that point but you know like and I never [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► really got into the I never really got [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► into the witches as much in the act like [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► that's one of the things like sort of [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► favor I'd save that because you know as [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► I think I said on Twitter when I heard [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► that he passed away was you know I saved [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► some terry pratchett books knowing that [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► at some point there would be no more [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► Terry Pratchett books but i have also [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► been like sort of you know slightly [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► introduced to some of those characters [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► via the Tiffany aching books too because [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► they play person that as well so it's [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► they all everything is connected in this [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► world universe but it's not like it as [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► you're saying it's not like I a you know [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► 30 series but 30 book series where you [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► have to like start at the beginning and [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► read all the way through to the end and [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► one of the things I like in the sounds [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► mean but I like that a lot of the [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► characters don't like each other like [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► boys find liquid it just does not does [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► not care for vines and the feeling is [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► more than mutual cut it in and I [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► appreciate that because although i do [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► like the watch books a lot effort i sort [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► of feel like vines gets a tad very [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► suited towards the end of it and I don't [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► and I don't and I want to stress I don't [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► mind because I do like the books but [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► after awhile I was like okay exactly how [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► many times can you make him the Duke of [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► something or promote him higher and [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► people tell me what a great copy is and [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► he's managed to solve the equivalent of [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► stray from the Middle East and he's [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► managed to help emancipate a country [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► that wasn't the that was in the throes [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► of the equivalent of the Taliban and now [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► he's managed to stop slavery and human [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► trafficking and and like that can only [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► happen so many times and it's nice one [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► other characters like yeah he's kind of [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► he's kind of a jerk but that's really [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► interesting to watch happen because at [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► the beginning of the Nights Watch [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► volumes is drunk [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► the city is a mistress finds a [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► protagonist but it really felt to me [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► like carrot was wear anything focus of [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► thing yes [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► yeah he's not only so there's only so [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► far you can go with that character [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► because they both fall into the same you [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► know eventual thing of their kind of [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► their paladin's right like there's a [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► lawful goodness about them that you [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► can't necessarily like carrot has [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► nowhere to go because he already starts [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► is like the you know Gio shucks like [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► perfectly good guys so it's not as [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► though he has a lot of room to grow [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► things actually yeah it does his life is [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► in jeopardy from the right with the [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► running joke is that everybody knows he [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► supposed to be the rightful king of [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► Lanka more pork and he hasn't [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► so interested he's now I just rather be [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► a cop and have my world girlfriend and [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► both times that is it just once or is it [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► twice because oh because there is some [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► the moment the gun where and Dragon King [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► of Arms the vampire who keeps the [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► breeding books like they tried to pull [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► the conspiracy that put carried on the [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► throne he's genuinely confused as to why [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► anybody would want to do that when [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► things are working so well and I i like [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► that they said okay we've got it Terry [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► Pratchett took this this fantasy [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► convention that is so so threadbare is [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► to practically be mesh and which is oh [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► it's that the family prince who comes [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► back to reclaim his legacy and in this [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► case the family prints came back fell in [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► love with the city and was like I can [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► best serve the city by serving under [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► somebody who really loves this city and [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► and boom that's it [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► if he's working under the biggest and [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► it's never clear that he's aware that [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► he's you know the once and future king [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► or whatever because I've never gotten [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► the impression that he picked that up [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► there are Winx right at the end of a [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► couple of books were carried shows that [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► he's not as naive as he writes yeah now [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► he's just straightforward and people [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► confuse that for naivete yes and and i [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► like that they basically made him you [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► press press the button comes the plot [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► device and I like that's how he's used I [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► the you know of course I could I could [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► find criticisms because you can't write [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► however many books he wrote without [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► saying he falls on some hackney trips [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► and so on and so forth but most the time [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► i think what i really liked is as the [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► books progress through this series he [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► practiced became simultaneously angrier [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► about the cupidity of human nature and [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► more enamored and hopeful about when we [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► managed to overcome our human nature and [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► and push people towards progress a [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► little bit at a time [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► yeah I think that's why my favorite [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► protagonists of is are the most cynical [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► ones [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► yeah like he's got hundreds of [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► characters but he drifts towards vibes [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► and Granny Weatherwax people who can say [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► really mean things [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► yeah let me take a break to tell you [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► about mail route route is a service that [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► lives in the cloud and it's like i'm [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► going to use a sports metaphor [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► now sorry people who hate sports it's a [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► great defensive player in a sporting [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► event like think of an american football [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► contest where you've got a cornerback [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► who is roving around and when the ball [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► gets there trying to go to the receiver [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► and he leaps in front of it and grabs [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► the ball that's what mail route does to [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► spam and viruses and email bounces and [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► other junk that you don't want in your [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► inbox it lives in the cloud and that [TS]

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00:12:52 ◼   ► out i love watching that to see how the [TS]

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00:13:29 ◼   ► thank you so much to mail route for [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► filtering my email and keeping the junk [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► out of it and for sponsoring the [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► uncomfortable I i am an unabashed the [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► which the but which books are always my [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► favorites just because I well I like [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► health how complex it he gives every one [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► of the characters their dignity [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► vinagrette because I'm Oh magnet at the [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► end of lords and ladies is so good [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► yeah well things isn't lords and ladies [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► really is magnets because there's that [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► whole long passage about how Granny [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► Weatherwax maybe a better witch but [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► magnet has a scientific mind she's a [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► better doctor and I appreciated that he [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► took the time to put that in there and [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► and all that and what I really like is [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► all the Granny Weatherwax is the cynic [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► it's Nanny yahoo has the measure of [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► humanity and he lets her he gives her a [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► lot of space to run with it a couple of [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► books to ya [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► manny has to clean up granny's messages [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► a couple of times [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► yeah the masquerade especially oh my god [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► I love that book [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► mostly because it's just a pastiche on [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► the phantom of the opera but when the [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► two of them hit the city and a nanny ogg [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► has figured out in like less than 24 [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► hours exactly how it works out and [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► Granny Weatherwax how oh how did you do [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► that and she's all my arnav said this in [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► our camps have had in our travels at the [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► office but I'd love i love those books [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► and I like when Granny Weatherwax can be [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► cruel and one of my favorite passages is [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► also lords and ladies when she and [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► mightily oats are traveling together and [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► they have to burn the book of armed and [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► they basically have a long talk about [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► what it means to believe in something [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► and she's like you know if I actually [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► believed in a religion i wouldn't just [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► run around I would be making other [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► people believe in to invite all the [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► answers like I'm I'm so grateful you're [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► here you would be terrifying if your [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► belief and it was nice it was a great [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► exchange some you know because she comes [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► up against sheet she beats herself [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► against the anvil of somebody else's [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► personality and everybody's always [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► interested in watching the sparks fly [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► one thing i think is great about [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► practice that although he's writing in [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► fantasy which is a kind of gutter genre [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► and he's writing comedic fantasy which [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► is even worse than that and he has no [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► fear about writing a book like small [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► gods which is all about religion and [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► believe ya know that's my favorite [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► principal you can couch a lot of stuff [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► in that in the fantasy tropes right by [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► sort of making it alien and being like [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► oh yes this is some other world that i'm [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► talking about but he does such as I mean [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► he any runs the the gamut from you know [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► you talk about religion to he talks [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► about Hollywood right in moving pictures [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► you know all these [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► he sorta can go like the satire angle of [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► it really doesn't shy away from too many [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► targets was like entertainment he died [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► and then you know things like a goin [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► postal the truth making money sort of [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► taking on the institution's i and III [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► agree with you I think because of the [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► the fantasy really frees them up to be [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► able to say pretty much anything you [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► want and that because the world gets so [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► detailed and so you know flush with all [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► these characters and institutions it [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► really does become sort of a weird [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► mirror of our own world and I don't [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► think I think you'd be hard-pressed to [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► come up with another like another writer [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► who creates such an elaborate throw [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► simulacrum when you think about he moved [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► from like the Middle Ages up to [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► Victorian era England over the course of [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► the books because when when these books [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► started I mean they were drinking that [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► then I forget their drinking water out [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► of wells with Newton them and he's [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► pointed out that the timeline is [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► deliberately messy with Shakespeare's [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► old globe right next to a giant parisien [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► Opera House [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► yeah for centuries apart when the the [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► internet heading across the disk [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► yeah and to the other as well yeah yeah [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► yeahs minutes of the whole point really [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► of sci-fi and to a lesser extent fantasy [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► is to be able to get away with you know [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► modern social commentary and couch it in [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► you know whatever universe you're [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► working within and you can get away with [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► a lot more that way and especially if [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► you're doing comedy and and I think he [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► he uses that ability to really great [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► effect i mean some of these you [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► mentioned small gods Lisa which actually [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► is is my favorite as well I actually [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► find that a terribly moving book and [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► yeah I is Bob feel like the last 10 [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► pages happen [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► yes I mean that the characters and the [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► way they deal with each other and the [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► way they deal with their faith or lack [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► thereof is is really good stuff even if [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► you're not you know particularly [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► religious person and I definitely am NOT [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► you know he he he really kind of can [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► move you through that through through [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► the background of of the fantasy [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► universities built i said this on [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► twitter too but over the process of [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► leaving the Catholic Church which I had [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► been raised in since childhood [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► and I left and I left it was literally [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► like the ugliest breakup I've ever been [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► in my life and the two books that [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► actually helped me frame my thinking and [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► save my sanity to some extent were lamb [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► by christopher moore who is a wonderful [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► another wonderful offer to read if you [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► want comic fantasy that also has some [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► sliced social commentary in there and [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► then small gods by terry pratchett and I [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► read and reread both of those books and [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► they really helped me get my head on [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► straight as to why I was doing what I [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► was doing and where I wanted to end up [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► and I think that's another endorsement [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► president is you know when you do come [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► from heavily religious background you [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► choose to leave it having a book like [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► small gods was a really helpful really [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► helpful framework for figuring out what [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► my own ideas were independent of what [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► I've been taught well now I brought down [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► the podcast trying to look up a book [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► titles i can't remember that it's [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► killing me which one what what kind of [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► question is that if I knew that the one [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► about Skylar described book unseen only [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► once and Cena tensile yeah that was the [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► one that I think was one of the later [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► ones that I read and I mean after he [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► announced that he had was you know [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► and i read that i still remember [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► laughing out loud and portions of that [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► and thinking like man you know if you [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► you can find people who are half as good [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► as over as a writer is Terry pressure [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► you don't have a whole slackers like [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► that is very impressive [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► oh god I'll i also love the Wizards [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► because they're just so freaking chaotic [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► and yet the the eight solid pastiche in [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► common satire in academia right like you [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► know there's that whole it since the [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► beginning the wizard I mean I think [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► that's why I liked the Richmond books [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► early on is that that whole culture of [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► all especially thinking sorcery they [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► become sort of more involved in it it [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► was a whole like the Dean and the [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► bursary and all these people all the [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► arguing and their stupid petty [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► discussion and hire students and his [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► ways in like a computer later on his [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► machine thinking machine or something [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► ahead controlled by bx right right yeah [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► whatever one of the things I like about [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► small gods which is just a brilliant [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► novel is that it's not just about [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► religion but actually even to an atheist [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► helps explain religion and I liken it to [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► unseen academicals which among other [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► things explains why people like [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► sports and it lets you see that it's [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► part of the shared experience of [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► everybody cheering for the same thing [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► and I think it's a mark of a really good [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► writer that he can tackle both sports [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► and religion with equal yet with that he [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► can honor them equally and explain not [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► really explain them both but help you [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► understand both and also i love the end [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► of the day i love the end of many of his [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► novels but ya wanna time the moment and [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► unseen academicals where the or [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► character is being booed by the entire [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► stadium except forward and everybody's [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► quiet he says come on if you think [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► you're hard enough [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► yes and everybody just cheers him [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► because they all said that's the right [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► thing to say [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► yeah fresh it was great at moments like [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► yeah i know i mean i think i think [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► you're totally right that he does such [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► an e there are a lot of books that could [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► and I you know sometimes in some cases [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► put douglas adams since this category [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► that could just be a string together of [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► a lot of jokes but his books actually [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► work as books even you know they are [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► funny but they they tell a complete [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► story and is generally a story that you [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► know make sense as well plotted and all [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► that it's not like you know he'll go a [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► long way for a joke but he won't derail [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► necessarily the entire story for a joke [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► and I think that's to my mind that's [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► what makes him so successful is that his [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► books are are funny but they're also [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► perfectly good books just to sit down [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► and read and the plots make sense the [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► characters are wonderfully drawn with [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► the exception of a few obvious periods [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► like his you know is his first couple of [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► books and then the sequence of books [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► where his whole conception behind the [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► novel was basically what happens if we [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► drop a gun in a discworld ok how about [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► movies [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► nobody get our sure yeah I like soul [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► music a lot its almost regulated moving [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► picture i think that's probably the best [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► of the three there is one line in moving [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► pictures i say a lot which is when [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► they've invented popcorn because of [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► course yes bank gradient huh yeah if you [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► put butter and salt on it tastes sort of [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► like salty butter [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► I say that all the time which is what [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► people want to begin with populations to [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► be well and I really likes so me [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► dick in particular because i really like [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► death and you can't talk in ironically [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► enough you know I think that that's my [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► he's probably my favorite character in [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► all of Discworld I you know and with [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► perhaps maybe the the caveat that the [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► death of rats is actually amazing but [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► only difference is a squeak it not gay [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► people love the library and he doesn't [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► say much [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► the librarian is great as well because [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► we please don't turn people call monkey [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► Luke Luke I death is such a fascinating [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► character runs through so many of these [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► books because of course everybody does [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► eventually I think he's one of the few [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► characters in every single mothers [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► always a death cameo in every book [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► yes starting with colour of magic [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► sometimes I feel she warned in but it's [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► there but I mean again is universal [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► right and but his character of death has [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► drawn is someone who is just a kind of [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► like doing a job and it's kind of like [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► this is my thing I mean you and you get [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► your death centric novels to like Reaper [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► man and more and soul music and so I [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► think having him there in you know to [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► sort of string all these things together [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► and also to just be sort of he's the [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► he's the immovable unstoppable force [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► right and and the great equalizer so I [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► think he's he is among my favorite of [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► all of the characters him and veterinary [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► if I'm having an ear vines experience he [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► is that one book too and i also enjoy [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► when he and the witches up but when [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► Granny Weatherwax gives them a [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► chiropractic adjustment but yea Reaper [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► man was i think the first book that [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► actually like hit me between the eyes [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► emotionally that's why I think that's my [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► favorite [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► yeah and then later when i read [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► hogfather I do tend to read around the [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► holidays when he asked Susan you know [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► what you have a kiss for your granddad [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► and that for some reason like og support [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► this poor anthropomorphic [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► personification of death [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► all he wants is all he wants is his [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► granddaughter to give my kids because he [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► misses having kids and it's it's just [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► it's it's inaudibly touching you know [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► and and Susan still hell is also one of [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► my [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► favorites and I think it's because in [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► fantasy it's comparatively rare to have [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► female characters who are not there as [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► as means to help the male characters [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► develop their character more or as [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► rewards or as props and one of the [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► things pratchett had such an eight [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► respect for all of his characters that [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► he developed you you never got the sense [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► that there was any princess who existed [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► solely because there was a prince who [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► needs to have a girlfriend after a while [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► or there was never an evil queen he was [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► evil simply for the sake of of giving [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► people something to do it was always [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► there was always something a little bit [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► deeper you know even with characters [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► like warbles who still haunts my [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► nightmares and and the auditors which [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► are also frankly horrific i was trying [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► to remember if if Reaper man has one of [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► my favorite footnotes and of course [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► footnotes a big terry pratchett think [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► but I think it's the one about is that [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► the one where they he talks about [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► anti-crime we're just involves like [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► leaving things places and people went [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► shopping carts in like random place its [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► haha but I just a Terry branches Matt [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► like the footage this man turned [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► footnotes into an art I think probably [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► before David Foster Wallace skin home [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► intruder and and with different i do [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► when to stop [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah yeah but anyway they were [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► always I i just always remember looking [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► for the footnotes especially the younger [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► reader and just being so excited when I [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► realized the page had a footnote because [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► i love that they were so often they were [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► little stories in and of themselves and [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► just fascinating little like you know [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► like a joke he couldn't quite fit into [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► the main text but decided like this is [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► still pretty funny and deserves to go in [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► there i must admit i eventually got to [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► the point probably about book 20 where I [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► would hit a footnote and go I really i [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► gotta go down to the bottom of the page [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► again it's a little bit harder with that [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► with when you're reading on kindle [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► because depending on what can apply yeah [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► and it I can completely reset your place [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► in the book and it's a pain in the neck [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► to go back and forth cuz most the time [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► all of the footnotes with the very end [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► of the book and so depending on if [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► you're reading kindle for ipad or kindle [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► for your kindle or kindle on the phone [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► or kindle on your laptop [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► you're either stuck back and try to [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► remember where you were or it's a couple [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► extra clicks and it's it's a lot [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► it's a lot less enjoyable to read the [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► footnotes electronically than it is on [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► the pain the books that i still haven't [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► printed definitely definitely start [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► practice a perfect argument for pop-up [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► footnotes [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► yeah I don't remember what book it was [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► but there was some pratchett book where [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► there's a footnote at the bottom of the [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► page and I read the whole page i didn't [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► see the asterisk so I went back up and [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► read the page again I didn't see it and [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► I went word by word and I didn't see it [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► that turned out it was on the next page [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► because of a printing error was [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► infuriating [TS]

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00:27:43 ◼   ► one of our sponsors a financial related [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► sponsor which means I get to read a [TS]

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00:28:56 ◼   ► investing in securities involves risks [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► and there's the possibility of losing [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► money [TS]

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00:29:01 ◼   ► future results please visit well front [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► com to read their full disclosure and [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► thank you too well front for letting me [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► speak in hushed disclaimer tones and for [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► sponsoring me uncomfortable [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► I think we spent a lot of time talking [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► to be honest discworld is the one of the [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► most familiar with and there's also a [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► good omens with no game and that I've [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► read a few times and it's that it's my [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► one tiny bit of nerd fancred because i [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► do have a copy [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► signed by both pratchett game and i also [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► have a copy signed by both freshmen game [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► there we go that's not that cool anymore [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► is it now there's two yeah i got is only [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► signed by Neil Gaiman because the one [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► time I went to see a practice signing I [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► didn't bring it i don't know why [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► oh the colour of magic and whatever was [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► new it remains my favorite story that [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► when i went to see I i think i'm trying [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► to remember i think it would I want to [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► see Terry Pratchett first and in in [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► cambridge and I have signed the book and [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► I mentioned o Neil Gaiman is gonna be [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► here in a week or 2 i'm going to see him [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► do you have any messages i should pass a [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► lot and terry pratchett looks at me and [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► thinks he goes tell him the color blue [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► and so I way I of course I told neil [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► gaiman oh yes I solitary practical weeks [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► ago he said to tell you the color blue [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► is like we just like sending each other [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► random messages through fans sometimes [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► we just tell them to save random things [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► yeah i just thought that was so [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► delightful yeah oh well it's funny [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► because when you read good omens and the [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► first time I read it three hours ago how [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► nice these two people these people wrote [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► a book together i don't i wonder how [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► they did that and then on my way and I [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► was finishing up the Sandman run at the [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► time because Sandman was published like [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► 89 296 and good omen came out 95 and so [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► I finished the same man run and then I [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► went back and reread it and there are a [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► lot of really nasty anti-human horrible [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► cold around the hard parts of of that [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► comic book series and after having read [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► like a about 10 more pratchett books and [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► having read consider more game and like [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► the next time I went through and read [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► good omens I'm like okay that's a given [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► passage that's a crypto-fascist I said [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► given passage that's and it's turned out [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► that's basically how they wrote as they [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► they would just take turns like and one [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► person who cranked out 10 pages they did [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► send it on to the person and they just [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► kind of naturally divvied up how things [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► were got written and you can tell who [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► was responsible for what parts just [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► based on you know what what stuff gets [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► flown in [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► is it angry and yet warm and humanists [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► and it's pratchett is it horrifying and [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► scar that it sends game the best part [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► about that is they talk about that [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► because people ask about it like signing [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► stuff and they because they wrote it so [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► early [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► they were they were sending floppy disks [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► to each other in the males because it [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► was the only way to do it because they [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► wrote it like the eighties and so like [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► Terry and Terry was still living in [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► Australia so they be sent fluffy it's [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► like a halfway across the world so great [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► and it got a the fact that it got done [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► is to me like amazing feet hip just [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► based on the amount of work that had to [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► go into that that was actually kind of [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► the problem with small are not small [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► gods a good moment for me was that I [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► couldn't I could see that there were two [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► different writers kind of feuding with [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► each other in the text and I couldn't [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► really square the 2 and and you know I I [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► wanted more of the pratchett side and I [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► was kind of annoyed that the game inside [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► kept popping in and trying to specifics [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► I think I'm ready young enough it didn't [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► bother me as much but i haven't reread [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► in awhile [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► yeah he said it sounded like you were [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► about to introduce the subject of [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► entirely other precious books which i [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► wanna i want to say i haven't read any [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► so this is basically if you guys have [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► read the the bromeliads or any of the [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► others i would love to hear about it [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► the wee free men or any of that stuff [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► the wii for all the wee free men or [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► disrupt this world [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► yeah it is discworld i don't i will say [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► those are amazing on the children's [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► books effects but they're wired books [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► there why it looks butts and [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► surprisingly you know as many ye books [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► are they have a state very adult strange [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► to them especially the later ones as [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► Tiffany starts approaching teenager [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► Tiffany aching books to a lot of little [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► little schoolgirls yeah i know that my [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► cousin who is a child's librarian is [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► also beyond those and shiny she loves [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► all the terry pratchett books by natural [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► recommend that well and I actually I [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► quite enjoy those they're really where [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► they're really great and you haven't [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► lived until you've teen scene to like my [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► cousin's kids at the time I think we're [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► maybe I don't know in still 14 so 10 or [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► seven or something like that and they [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► would go around the house what what we [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► like to do lads drink in and what else [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► fight in and what else steel in and what [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► else [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► drinking and fighting and stealing mr. [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► you have the macbook feegle huh [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► but I just in there in there [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► entertaining and those books are fun [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► especially I think winter Smith and I [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► shall wear midnight which start to get [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► into the more adult themes are really [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► really beautiful books and I think great [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► for kids of that you know especially [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► young women of that age I think because [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► she's she is such a great protagonist [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► like like Lisa was saying about you know [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► he doesn't do sort of throwaway female [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► characters especially in his later books [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► they all have very and you know they're [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► very well developed and they have [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► interesting stories and Tiffany in [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► particular i think is just such a [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► fantastic character [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► yeah i like the supporting which is so [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► too because they give a lot of know [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► there's the one who's a pig which that's [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► all she specializes in our pigs and [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► she's the first one of the other [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► boyfriend and they can't figure out onto [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► like always a hog farmer got it you know [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► that but I'm whipping through the [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► nondescript books strata is like a [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► serious discworld it's also very much [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► aight first book the bromeliad is so [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► great it makes me cry several times it's [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► about tiny people who live initially in [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► a giant department store and then they [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► find out there's another whole world out [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► there and it goes through three books of [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► them expanding their world and it's just [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► great i love it so much then there's the [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► Johnny Maxwell books which have at least [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► one of them has been made into a movie [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► that i was watching some of the other [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► day that's a johnny and the bomb johnny [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► and the dead and only you can save [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► mankind [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► they're fun they did not make me cry so [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► that is a plan is and then just recently [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► he started doing non discworld books [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► again which I thought was great I had [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► forgotten my nation nation is a [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► fantastic but all we have nation's great [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► i'm really glad that that was not [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► discworld because it shows that he could [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► do other stuff still when I was just [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► that was also just a lovely book it was [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► real and well-written and I really [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► enjoyed it and I had to kind of came out [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► of nowhere but i thought was fantastic i [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► had no idea he had so many other nobody [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► other types of books out there [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► yeah i'm excited now if only I actually [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► read [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► he just recently did a hard sci-fi book [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► the long earth and its sequel I can't [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► remember the long utopia I've got them [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► both waiting on my kindle or rather I've [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► got one pre-order the other was waiting [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► on my kindle family and I hadn't gotten [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► around to reading them Dodger which was [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► the other one which is sort of a net a [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► Dickens yeah that's I was not crazy [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► about dr. and I did not finish it [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► it is the only project book I haven't [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► finished it's basically him indulging [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► his taste for research about Victorian [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► England which he loves to do huh [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► but it's essentially fanfic about the [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► artful dodger [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► oh yeah i'm just looking at Wikipedia [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► page right now it's like down there is [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► so much stuff that I just have a [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► narrative is evil is the discworld stuff [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► which is actually kind of delightful [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► because one of the reasons I'm i was [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► very sad about his passing was and it [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► wasn't because sir terry was dead [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► because remember he was also really [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► vocal advocate for its dark grey to die [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► and you could tell that this was [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► actually the great tragedy of his life [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► was that he was losing the into that he [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► was losing the interior of his cellphone [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► and so hurry he's free from that burden [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► and that tragedy and and and that's [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► something to rejoice over what made me [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► sad was thinking I'm never going to meet [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► my favorite characters again [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► yeah you know I was kinda I was kind of [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► grieving the loss of not knowing who you [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► know how the witches of like we're gonna [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► shake out when Granny Weatherwax didn't [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► evitable die or what happened when she [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► finally did meet death and go with him [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► or you'll never find out if young-sam [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► vines grows up to go into the watcher if [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► he does something completely different [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► which you know is a question of his head [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► and so I was really sad about that but [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► on the other hand there's all these [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► practice books i haven't read and so now [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► i'm super excited about having an [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► opportunity to add to add more people as [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► it were to to my internal pratchett [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► society and he can't possibly have a lot [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► of works toward us it suggested there [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► are a couple others that there's a [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► Tiffany aching book coming out in 2015 i [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► think at some point that he finished [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► over the summer of 2014 and I think [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► that's the only one I know of [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► yeah and so I'm and beyond that I mean [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► he's also [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► you know he did some work with like [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► illustrated books i have a copy [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► somewhere hard huh cover of the the last [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► hero i love that world [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► yeah great I there's also like a slip of [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► the keyboard which I've got right here [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► because officially collected nonfiction [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► and it's mostly things he wrote for a [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► convention books [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► yeah one of those for one of the first [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► books about my daughter was worse my cal [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► it's not bad and i'm getting almost [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► every night at the same time for you to [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► really thank you know I have a redditor [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► yet because her worms where's my cow is [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► actually connected buddy for years and [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► years and years but I think now that [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► she's older and we can discuss the [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► pictures more we'll probably start [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► putting that in heavy rotation you know [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► there's a big difference between putting [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► it on the shelf and actually really into [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► the kid i'm interested in actually [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► introducing my kids to these books but [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► there they the kind of the word play [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► that and and the British and so that [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► always kind of impenetrable at their age [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► but eventually when the time is right I [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► will see them with with something i'm [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► not sure what yet but are you just gonna [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► catch you leave it out on the bottom [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► shelf ins and hope that they pick it up [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► or even gonna mention that will never [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► work i'll never pick it up along the way [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► and do what they want tell them you are [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► not allowed to read this [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► everyone whatever you do don't yeah I [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► think that's it whatever you do don't [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► read it but if I can come up with a [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► decent elevator pitch [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► I can usually convince my daughter at [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► least ya something sounds vaguely [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► intriguing to her she'll give it a go at [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► the very least but I think it's gonna [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► have to wait a while until she can [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► really appreciate it [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► yeah this is actually something I was [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► giving some thought to is throughout [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► elementary school and beyond i did a lot [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► of sneak reading where I would just kind [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► of casually pull books out of my [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► mother's sack of library books or i [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► would find whatever they were reading my [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► parents are reading and hide in the [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► closet read it which is how i got ahold [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► of the Godfather in third grade but but [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► the point is my parents left books [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► around the house a lot like like we had [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► a huge bookshelves the living room and I [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► was thinking about this and I was like I [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► have a lot of books on my kindle I have [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► no idea how my kids going to sneak read [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► stuff that's explicitly tied to one [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► device [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► mm you got to leave Kindles spread [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► around the house in fact [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► we only one only one book on any of them [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► yeah i was lucky that I didn't have to [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► sneak books we had a official rule in my [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► house that if a book is on a bookcase [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► it's public property and anyone to read [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► no i took the godfather of my father's [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► nightstands that should tell you [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► everything in the book to help me god [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► you're lucky that's what you came out [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► with ya [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► Oh could have been a lot of hours one of [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► the books i remember reading was Allan [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► Sherman you know the novelty song guy [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► who did [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► hello muddah hello faddah and he wrote a [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► book called the rape of the AP e for [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► American pure American Puritan ethic and [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► it's just a semi comedic history of the [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► sexual revolution my goodness I wow yeah [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► so I want to know what age it would you [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► read that I don't remember I got to I [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► got to port noise complaint at a very [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► early stage should explain a lot [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► I tried partners complaint after reading [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► it being mentioned in a Woody Allen [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► short story reminds me we also had a [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► copy of everything you ever wanted to [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► know about sex but were afraid to ask [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► laying around the house and uh huh went [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► back to that one a few times that was it [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► that was actually a joke gift to my [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► sister but it was no joke to me brother [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► so I really just gonna leave stacks [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► approach it lying around the house for [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► people trip over is that is that were to [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► try and bring this family like this back [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► onto topic I don't have kids but I've [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► effectively done that already [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► yeah well there you go on to your home [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► but I think I still just trying to [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► convince more friends of mine to read [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► terry pratchett because I feel like a [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► lot of them were not is into like [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► especially I think as a kid I definitely [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► like tried because a lot of my friends [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► were were also nerds and read a lot of [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► fantasy and I you know like Douglas [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► Adams and all that stuff so I i tried to [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► sort of spread them around with with [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► mixed results but my family in [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► particular like several of my cousins I [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► mean we were texting when we found out [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► that he had died [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► you're all there are lots of sad emoji [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► let's put it that way and so you know my [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► particular my cousins library and she's [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► just she I think Terry Pratchett maybe [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► her favorite author at least tied with [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► if not before Charles taken so i think [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► that's that's pretty good pretty good [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► right there [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► yeah that's good company that's great [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► yeah well to that and we should probably [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► go into detail on what we think would be [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► good entry points for people who might [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► be listening you know and trying to get [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► into discworld or some other pratchett [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► because it's a pretty sizable body of [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► work that you're going out there so yeah [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► I i think there's I mean there are [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► certainly some plot lines that go [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► throughout them i do as we said at the [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► beginning I don't think you have to [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► start in any like chronologically I [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► don't think really makes any sense i [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► think going in sort of the the the the [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► mini arcs you know I think are good [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► places I think I mean it seems to me [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► guards guards guys got away pretty good [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► entry point that's kind of the one that [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► I always start people on [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► yeah I've had some good success with [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► that I've had people go on from guards [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► guards and continue with other book an [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► or if you wanted to try you can always [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► try Weird Sisters and then which is [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► abroad and then masquerade [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► that skips over lords and ladies wigs [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► that you're ready the 1i I start people [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► with lords and ladies [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► oh god the scene where nanny ogg faces [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► off against current in the Hornet God [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► and he's like he's like your regard [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► would make it about aps cry and envy and [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► i just love your right but there's the [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► four witches books not 34 there's the [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► you do a cluster the witches books are [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► you do a cluster of the guards book [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► starting with guards guards and there's [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► men-at-arms feet of clay [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► yeah the reason I go guards guards [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► generally because it's the first in the [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► city watch series so you don't remember [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► a lot of background knowledge on the [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► characters x is kind of a bastard who [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► kind of makes good which is it is a [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► plotline that everybody loves and it's [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► it's also it doesn't require a lot of [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► Discworld background either its yeah [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► right in the fantasy tropes and stuff [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► like that i mean i just to my mind I [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► think the thing I always remember from [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► that is it's a million-to-one shot but [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► it just might work and also doesn't [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► romanticize dragons which is a nice way [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► to define people's concerns about [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► fantasy because they're like oh crisis [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► people riding unicorns and talking to [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► dragons like know the dragons are awful [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► fit or they explode one of the other [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► things i mean i think if you're starting [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► younger readers i honestly would say the [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► Tiffany aching books i think are a good [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► entry point because they're you know [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► they are targeted younger readers but [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► there they are firmly rooted in [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► discworld as well so you know I think [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► that that's a that's a pretty good place [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► to start if you're he was trying to [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► start the young folks let's take a break [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► so i can tell you about the [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► sponsor you heard at the top of the show [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► Squarespace you may have heard of them [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► let me explain about Squarespace it used [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► to be really hard to build websites you [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► needed to have design skills and coding [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► skills you need to use a whole bunch of [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► different tools you need to find a [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► webhost there were a lot of things you [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► needed to do now you know what you need [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► to do you square space that's it you can [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► use Squarespace to make building [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► beautiful websites easy and if you're [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► new to squarespace you should check it [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► you've never seen it before only heard [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► about it you really owe it to yourself [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► to give it a try [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► there's a free trial available and you [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► don't even have to put in your credit [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► card so if you're wondering what all the [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► hubbub is about about Squarespace and [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► you're thinking to yourself well surely [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► there's a catch [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► shortly Squarespace can't make building [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► websites that easy but a can and you can [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► try it out without even giving your [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► credit card and you will see what [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► Squarespace has to offer [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► Squarespace seven their new version has [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► a whole bunch of great new features [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► including a partnership with getting [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► images buying licensed images so that [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► you have the rights to use beautiful [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► images on your website beautiful [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► photography is complicated but not with [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► squarespace you have access to 40 [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► million high-quality getty images and [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► you can just use any of them for ten [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► dollars an image there are 15 new [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► templates integration with Google Apps [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► if your organization uses google apps [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► you can integrate them into your domain [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► and a whole lot more go to score [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► space.com / 7 spelled out se ven to [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► learn a lot more and then of course [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► there's the basic features of [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► Squarespace beautiful design responsive [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► design so it looks great on mobile and [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► it looks great on computers twenty four [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► seven support and it's all for eight [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► dollars a month and if you buy a whole [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► year up front you get a free domain [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► thrown in with the deal so start that [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► free trial today and when you sign up [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► with squarespace use offer code smell [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► that will let them know we sent you and [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► you'll get ten percent off your first [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► purchase that's promo code smell [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► thank you to squarespace for sponsoring [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► the incomparable Squarespace start here [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► go anywhere so yeah we've given people [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► 33 plausible entry points and i actually [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► like actually like goin postal as an [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► entry point as well now that's a good [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► one too [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► I don't know how you guys feel about the [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► moist stories but i think that's a good [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► its kind of self-contained doesn't [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► require a lot of background [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► and and again moist is it is you know an [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► irredeemable character who manages to [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► redeem himself through sheer audacity [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► which I think people tend to like I also [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► thought that going postal TV special if [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► I don't think they also seen it was [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► actually pretty good [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► oh you know another one you could [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► actually start people on would be [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► hogfather no yeah just because you don't [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► need a whole lot of background they give [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► you plenty of it and it does such a [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► great job of cheerfully puncturing like [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► the mary poppins myth at the same time [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► that it talks about the importance of [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► belief and it sends a sense of the [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► sentiment about the holidays and it is [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► very self-contained to feel like you [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► really need to understand the character [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► of death already though to properly on [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► that book I mean they might they might [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► enjoy it but I don't think they would [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► enjoy it as much as if they had already [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► seen death in action in previous books a [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► mortise more it's pretty good yeah mark [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► is only the fourth book so there's not a [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► lot of backstory to fight through and [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► it's lots of death [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► yeah-huh grades but that is great now i [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► just say you're sorry i meant lots of [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► death of the lowercase T that's just [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► remember what I have a recollection of [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► teeth feeling somewhat unsatisfied with [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► more if I felt like the end was kind of [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► weak but well it's not as great as hyper [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► man but I don't want to jump people [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► straight to reprogram yeah reprimanding [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► hard one to jump in on just like I [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► dearly love I dearly love as I mentioned [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► small gods but i don't think i would try [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► to introduce people to that because i [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► think i would probably prefer that they [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► go for one that has you know future [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► tales in that particular sub arc so that [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► they have somewhere to go immediately [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► afterwards I i recommend small gods to [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► people who are resolute anti fantasy [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► snobs to say no no this is just a great [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► way to talk about you know religion the [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► context of fantasy and here's how it's [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► done well as a seat haha but I'm glad [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► we've recommended everything but the [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► Richmond books 20 i really like the [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► ridgewood works actually those are my [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► favorite III I remember as a kid having [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► read the original to and then just [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► waiting and being like I remember as a [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► teenager being so dissatisfied like oh [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► another Terry pressure book but this was [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► not about the Wizards I don't like this [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► and then when you finally got when it [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► was Eric yeah Eric resource really great [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► was rinsing but he's the sorceries I [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► mean the colour of magic light fantastic [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► and sorcery were the first three books i [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► read [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► and sorcery I think even as a kid I [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► could tell sorcery was a different type [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► of book than the first two [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► it's a little bit more serious it's [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► always just not quite as like gagging [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► minute type thing although i will say [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► that of my life i do think the luggage [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► is one of my favorite constructions in [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► the terry pratchett universe because [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► it's just great and indestructible [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► so yeah I i enjoy that one and i think [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► you know some of the later ones not as [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► good i think rincewind is kind of a he's [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► a hard character you get behind because [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► such a resolute coward [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► that's what I really love the last [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► continent where like he meets this is [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► what is basically his alternate life [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► we're already so is is hailed as a god [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► among fellow wizards and life would be [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► peachy further if you just stayed there [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► and he can't and I i just really that [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► was one rides I've only read it [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► um I've read i think one and a half [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► times because the two flower stuff at [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► the end is an unspeakably sad I have a [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► vague recollection to that I was just [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► excited that we were going back to rich [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► wind out of nowhere but because they say [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► i just started with the original book so [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► in the back of my head I still feel like [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► rincewind is the star of the discworld [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► but ya know even though he's clearly not [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► oh wait now I'm so you know I just [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► realized next mr. interesting times just [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► the one I've only read like oh I've only [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► been able to skim after reading it the [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► one time because that's its hard working [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► and then and then the book about [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► scholarly is it's the last continent is [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► is both funny but like I really come on [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► Prince whenever that's it oh I have a [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► question because this this came up again [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► at a party went to this afternoon [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► pure bits where do you guys stand on [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► pyramids dump-down actually if not have [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► not read pyramids [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► that's one of the few i've never stand [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► alones I'm red I don't have a strong [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► recollection of that but I remember [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► thinking it was pretty good but then I [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► read it on my honeymoon in Fiji so mad [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► that could help i thought it was working [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► way too hard to say here's a real-world [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► thing i'm going to put into my fantasy [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► world and see how it works i was now [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► we're just getting started Monty [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► fit those are usually my least favorite [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► I like moist a lot but I'm not that [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► interested in the mechanics of i'm going [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► to introduce a financial system into the [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► discworld watch me do economics didn't [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► that pyramids just felt like that to me [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► I was not really into it at all feel [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► like we would be remiss if we end this [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► podcast without mentioning gasps bowed [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► who is probably my favorite character [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► haha oh yeah but also gasps boat so did [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► you like the ending of the book or gas [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► board runs away from the loving family [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► and was like now [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► oh yeah i forgot he appeared in that [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► many books too I remember him from the [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► truth mean like but yeah yeah I always [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► enjoy and I forget which book it is and [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► it's a totally throw a line where the [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► pot prostitutes of ankh-morpork RR [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► renegotiating the street the street [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► negotiable affection and for some reason [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► the quick the corporate euphemism just [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► by I can't remember I can't remember the [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► book but the corporation's just stuck [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► with me and it actually comes up again [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► later when that because I think they're [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► also called the guild of seamstresses at [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► some point too because when Agnes it [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► comes from longer to make her fortune in [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► ankh-morpork sheet she figures she can [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► take some for embroidery down there and [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► then she doesn't know that is not what [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► they do they put to embroidery they [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► don't so see that's one of the jokes [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► that's based on the real world is based [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► on Seattle yeah let's settle was founded [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► there are a lot of prostitutes because [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► this was a city where people would stop [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► off on their way to the alaskan gold [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► rush and they're adjusting the shocking [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► number of seamstresses in this city [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► he also mentioned the Seattle the [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► tunnels to yeah and he took that [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► shocking number of seamstresses thing [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► and elaborated it so that there would i [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► think it was his joke where there was a [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► census there were 50,000 seamstresses [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► and one sewing needle there's a there's [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► an excellent wikipedia page by the way [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► of our guild of ankh-morpork which is [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► quite long [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► it's strangely enough but I was gonna [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► say bye I you know I think one of the [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► things i do love the most about a carrot [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► is all the the secondary characters so I [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► was thinking of for example cup cut my [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► own throat a blur [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► yeah was one of my favorite like random [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► characters who appears all the time and [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► uh I think veterinary pretty in [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► particular who is among my very very [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► favorite characters because he is so [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► good he's just written so well and his [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► relationship with vines in particular [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► it's just always fascinating to watch [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► and he's you know he's sort of evil but [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► not really evil i'm rereading colour of [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► magic right now and its really [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► disconcerting to see a patrician in [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► there that I don't think is veterinary [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► yes [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► yeah i think it's implied at some point [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► that it's not yeah well there was a [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► discussion on health and prep this is [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► from the annotated patch of pilot and [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► not just remembering it there's a [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► discussion Cratchit in nineteen nineties [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► two or three about whether this was the [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► same character and terry pratchett [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► posted have to say yeah that's the same [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► character and people argued with him [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► saying that the same character you know [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► you just wrote it and Terry offered a [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► compromise which is the early patrician [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► is the same character but written by a [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► worse author that is terry pratchett a [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► nutshell [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► well in AI i will say that my one issue [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► with it is in the in the TV adaptation [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► of colour of magic [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► Jeremy Irons plays the patrician and [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► it's he doesn't take I don't know maybe [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► it's just me being upset because does [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► not match my my person my you know [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► internal image of veterinary but he [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► comes across as like he makes him look [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► strangely offended or something it's [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► just really weird strange delivery and [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► then whoever it is that they get to play [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► man goin postal is actually much better [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► and does like the sort of slightly [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► sinister but generally well-meaning [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► style yeah much better there there's [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► something I think the patrician will be [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► with a lower my favorite recurring [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► character just because I I like how he's [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► always just very casually sitting on [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► circumstances that he knows and nobody [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► else knows you know when he when it [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► turns out he's locked in a cell and he [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► organizes the rats snakes and scorpions [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► into warring factions and advises them [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► on how to and how do warfare against [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► each other [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► oh and i realized that raising steam is [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► not a favorite described for some of you [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► but when it turns out he's actually been [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► shoveling coal on the scene changes [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► again just to get a feel for it turns [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► out the veterinary in the goin postal [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► adaptation was played by Charles dance [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► you may remember when Lana yes that's [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► apparently according to terry pratchett [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► his choice to play them was alan rickman [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► who of course would have been amazing i [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► love the patrician I one-man one-vote [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► one-man one-vote he's the end of the [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► vote and I enjoyed that he had he throws [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► mines in a scorpion fit with with it [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► with the legend and blazing reading [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► learn the words I yeah I like that but I [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► hate I may read these books too much i [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► hate the very next line of that book [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► which is because mine for silent but [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► deadly to his mood [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► oh come on Terry what is then they're [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► not all going to be winners Monty amount [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► of time looking at 14 year old who knows [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► that he could he who's like I could be [TS]