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00:00:00   come see the Cassidy and comfortable and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/0">TS</a>]

00:00:01   many other podcasts at the now hear this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1">TS</a>]

00:00:04   festival in anaheim california October [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4">TS</a>]

00:00:06   28 through 30th do now here is this best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/6">TS</a>]

00:00:10   dot-com [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/10">TS</a>]

00:00:13   the in time purple known 316 September [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/13">TS</a>]

00:00:18   2016 welcome back everybody to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/18">TS</a>]

00:00:25   uncomfortable i'm your host Jason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/25">TS</a>]

00:00:27   stellar here for another edition of our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/27">TS</a>]

00:00:29   book club we're gonna be talking about i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/29">TS</a>]

00:00:31   would say a classic book or at least a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/31">TS</a>]

00:00:34   book that is not a current release it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/34">TS</a>]

00:00:36   a book from 1996 which means we are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/36">TS</a>]

00:00:39   celebrating its 20th anniversary which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/39">TS</a>]

00:00:42   kind of hard to believe the book that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/42">TS</a>]

00:00:44   really love when i read the first time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/44">TS</a>]

00:00:45   and i re-read it for this podcast it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/45">TS</a>]

00:00:48   the sparrow a science fiction novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/48">TS</a>]

00:00:50   don't let anybody tell you otherwise a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/50">TS</a>]

00:00:52   science fiction novel by Mary Doria [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/52">TS</a>]

00:00:55   wrestle joining me to talk about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/55">TS</a>]

00:00:57   sparrow are the following Erica and sign [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/57">TS</a>]

00:01:00   hello hello and shannon sudderth hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/60">TS</a>]

00:01:03   laughing keys and mr. book club himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/63">TS</a>]

00:01:07   hi guess who's coming multi hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/67">TS</a>]

00:01:11   so the sparrow some of us have read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/71">TS</a>]

00:01:13   before I believe Shannon and scott and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/73">TS</a>]

00:01:16   have read it before but that Erica it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/76">TS</a>]

00:01:18   was new to you is that right i had never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/78">TS</a>]

00:01:21   even heard of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/81">TS</a>]

00:01:21   well for you so in that new why did you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/81">TS</a>]

00:01:24   agree to be on this podcast that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/84">TS</a>]

00:01:26   thing i want to know i don't know and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/86">TS</a>]

00:01:30   saw i saw your your erica has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/90">TS</a>]

00:01:32   tweeting and posting our slack about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/92">TS</a>]

00:01:35   experience of reading this book to which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/95">TS</a>]

00:01:37   i guess i would say thank you for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/97">TS</a>]

00:01:38   showing up and for reading to the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/98">TS</a>]

00:01:41   mmm i got all the way through all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/101">TS</a>]

00:01:45   way through got to the end that America [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/105">TS</a>]

00:01:47   if you if you abide by the if you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/107">TS</a>]

00:01:49   nothing nice to say say nothing at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/109">TS</a>]

00:01:51   you're going to be very quiet very musky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/111">TS</a>]

00:01:53   sure i'm not gonna be that quiet reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/113">TS</a>]

00:01:58   it again I realize all the reasons why i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/118">TS</a>]

00:02:00   love this book and I also realized and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/120">TS</a>]

00:02:02   got to look out for all in detail all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/122">TS</a>]

00:02:04   the things that i have a problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/124">TS</a>]

00:02:05   about this book and that was good it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/125">TS</a>]

00:02:07   it was enjoyable to revisit it after i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/127">TS</a>]

00:02:09   don't think i read in 1996 but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/129">TS</a>]

00:02:11   probably read it not too long after a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/131">TS</a>]

00:02:13   year or two after so it's been almost 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/133">TS</a>]

00:02:15   years since i read this book the sparrow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/135">TS</a>]

00:02:17   is the first novel by Mary Doria wrestle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/137">TS</a>]

00:02:19   she has written many books since she is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/139">TS</a>]

00:02:21   not really a science fiction writer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/141">TS</a>]

00:02:23   although her first two books for science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/143">TS</a>]

00:02:25   fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/145">TS</a>]

00:02:26   she's written a whole bunch of other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/146">TS</a>]

00:02:27   stuff in a bunch of different different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/147">TS</a>]

00:02:29   genres she definitely has a focus on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/149">TS</a>]

00:02:32   she's got a lot of Catholicism happening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/152">TS</a>]

00:02:34   and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/154">TS</a>]

00:02:35   a lot of her novels this book is about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/155">TS</a>]

00:02:40   first-contact situation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/160">TS</a>]

00:02:43   it basically is the SETI program that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/163">TS</a>]

00:02:45   they are Arecibo radio Observatory in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/165">TS</a>]

00:02:48   Puerto Rico picks up radio broadcasts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/168">TS</a>]

00:02:50   very much if you see the movie contact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/170">TS</a>]

00:02:52   you get the idea what's going on here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/172">TS</a>]

00:02:54   and then what happens next is that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/174">TS</a>]

00:02:56   Jesuits basically by an asteroid on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/176">TS</a>]

00:03:00   cheap and fly it to this tile for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/180">TS</a>]

00:03:03   Centauri where they have picked up these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/183">TS</a>]

00:03:05   signals in order to make a first contact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/185">TS</a>]

00:03:07   with the aliens there and they arrive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/187">TS</a>]

00:03:09   before anyone else and our main [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/189">TS</a>]

00:03:10   characters are the members of that crew [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/190">TS</a>]

00:03:12   the story is told in two different time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/192">TS</a>]

00:03:15   lines in 2020 or thereabouts-- 2015 to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/195">TS</a>]

00:03:19   2020 when they are headed out they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/199">TS</a>]

00:03:22   discovered the signal and they're headed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/202">TS</a>]

00:03:23   out to Alpha Centauri and in 2060 in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/203">TS</a>]

00:03:26   aftermath of the mission when the sole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/206">TS</a>]

00:03:30   survivor of the mission and we don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/210">TS</a>]

00:03:32   really know quite what that means when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/212">TS</a>]

00:03:34   this starts the the kind of disgraced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/214">TS</a>]

00:03:36   sole survivor has returned to Earth and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/216">TS</a>]

00:03:39   as being interrogated by the leader of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/219">TS</a>]

00:03:41   the Jesuits about this terrible mission [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/221">TS</a>]

00:03:45   that has happened that has almost ruined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/225">TS</a>]

00:03:47   the society of jesus and and so it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/227">TS</a>]

00:03:49   very interesting premise for a novel and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/229">TS</a>]

00:03:53   their yes there are a lot of aliens and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/233">TS</a>]

00:03:55   stuff in it too which is why despite the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/235">TS</a>]

00:03:57   fact that some people said well it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/237">TS</a>]

00:03:59   really science fiction at the time she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/239">TS</a>]

00:04:01   was going to be 17 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/241">TS</a>]

00:04:02   yeah because literary aspirations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/242">TS</a>]

00:04:04   science fiction doesn't grapple with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/244">TS</a>]

00:04:06   large issues of faith and and society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/246">TS</a>]

00:04:10   and thinks he actually it does it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/250">TS</a>]

00:04:11   science fiction and it's got aliens in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/251">TS</a>]

00:04:13   it to prove it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/253">TS</a>]

00:04:14   so that's that's the sparrow it is it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/254">TS</a>]

00:04:17   at its core story about about Emilio [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/257">TS</a>]

00:04:21   sandoz a Jesuit priest who is the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/261">TS</a>]

00:04:24   survivor and how he got on this mission [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/264">TS</a>]

00:04:27   to go to this of this planet and meet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/267">TS</a>]

00:04:30   these aliens and what happened and what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/270">TS</a>]

00:04:32   happened when he got back home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/272">TS</a>]

00:04:34   so that's a yes that's the sparrow it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/274">TS</a>]

00:04:37   got a lot of interesting issues about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/277">TS</a>]

00:04:38   about faith about society about how we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/278">TS</a>]

00:04:41   interpret them the meaning of life about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/281">TS</a>]

00:04:44   other other people and other beings and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/284">TS</a>]

00:04:47   there's a whole lot here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/287">TS</a>]

00:04:49   so I don't know maybe we should start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/289">TS</a>]

00:04:52   with some initial impressions about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/292">TS</a>]

00:04:54   book i'm gonna i'm gonna hold off in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/294">TS</a>]

00:04:55   America because she just read it and i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/295">TS</a>]

00:04:58   going to start with sort of like how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/298">TS</a>]

00:05:01   this book lived in your memory and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/301">TS</a>]

00:05:04   your experience of rereading it so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/304">TS</a>]

00:05:05   Shannon how about you and you you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/305">TS</a>]

00:05:08   this a while ago and then reread it for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/308">TS</a>]

00:05:09   this podcast is that right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/309">TS</a>]

00:05:11   that is right i went through a period in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/311">TS</a>]

00:05:15   the early audis of trying to make myself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/315">TS</a>]

00:05:18   read more science fiction and less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/318">TS</a>]

00:05:20   fantasy because i'm @hardwick fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/320">TS</a>]

00:05:22   girl but we were I was the literary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/322">TS</a>]

00:05:27   chair for a local khan and our guest was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/327">TS</a>]

00:05:29   vernor vinge Eve and I had never read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/329">TS</a>]

00:05:31   anything by him so I made myself read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/331">TS</a>]

00:05:34   one of his more recent books before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/334">TS</a>]

00:05:35   meeting him and working with him on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/335">TS</a>]

00:05:38   con and i decided i really need to fix [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/338">TS</a>]

00:05:41   this and kept going and looking for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/341">TS</a>]

00:05:43   various things and the sparrow happened [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/343">TS</a>]

00:05:45   to be one of them i'm not sure but now i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/345">TS</a>]

00:05:48   don't remember exactly what it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/348">TS</a>]

00:05:50   whether it was word of mouth from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/350">TS</a>]

00:05:52   friends or just seeing it on a shelf [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/352">TS</a>]

00:05:54   something of that maybe say you know I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/354">TS</a>]

00:05:57   wonder what this is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/357">TS</a>]

00:05:59   but in that period of reading syfy this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/359">TS</a>]

00:06:02   is honestly only one of two pieces the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/362">TS</a>]

00:06:06   other one being the red mars trilogy by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/366">TS</a>]

00:06:08   Kim Stanley Robinson that I remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/368">TS</a>]

00:06:10   reading and at the time truly being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/370">TS</a>]

00:06:13   blown away by on because it had this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/373">TS</a>]

00:06:17   combination of explaining the science in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/377">TS</a>]

00:06:21   a way that 1i could understand but to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/381">TS</a>]

00:06:25   did not feel spelled out or dumped down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/385">TS</a>]

00:06:27   and number two as you said dealing with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/387">TS</a>]

00:06:30   these huge philosophical spiritual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/390">TS</a>]

00:06:34   forces of nature you know all these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/394">TS</a>]

00:06:36   different things anthropological things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/396">TS</a>]

00:06:38   dealing with them in intricate ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/398">TS</a>]

00:06:40   without pulling punches and three the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/400">TS</a>]

00:06:43   thing that struck me most of all was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/403">TS</a>]

00:06:44   characters this this band of people that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/404">TS</a>]

00:06:47   were pulled together to uh to go on this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/407">TS</a>]

00:06:50   trip just totally grabbed me their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/410">TS</a>]

00:06:54   interactions their dialogue of Russell I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/414">TS</a>]

00:06:58   think has a at least in this book a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/418">TS</a>]

00:07:00   really strong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/420">TS</a>]

00:07:02   sense of character and is able to bring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/422">TS</a>]

00:07:04   them out and make them live off the page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/424">TS</a>]

00:07:06   in a way I wasn't seeing another science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/426">TS</a>]

00:07:08   fiction books which is of course why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/428">TS</a>]

00:07:10   some people choose to call it not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/430">TS</a>]

00:07:12   science fiction but as you said it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/432">TS</a>]

00:07:14   totally is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/434">TS</a>]

00:07:14   it's classic science fiction i think i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/434">TS</a>]

00:07:17   think the interviewing 20 years famous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/437">TS</a>]

00:07:19   library and Nancy Pearl has I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/439">TS</a>]

00:07:21   if she's officially recant your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/441">TS</a>]

00:07:22   statement about the sparrow but she has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/442">TS</a>]

00:07:24   come out as a proponent of science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/444">TS</a>]

00:07:26   fiction it seems like she's backed off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/446">TS</a>]

00:07:28   on her original review of the Spirit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/448">TS</a>]

00:07:29   which is that it was too good to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/449">TS</a>]

00:07:30   science fiction which is shameful but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/450">TS</a>]

00:07:34   that was 20 years ago and people can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/454">TS</a>]

00:07:35   grow and change Scott what's your memory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/455">TS</a>]

00:07:37   of the sparrow and and when did you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/457">TS</a>]

00:07:40   it and what do you think at the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/460">TS</a>]

00:07:42   well i believe i read it when it first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/462">TS</a>]

00:07:44   came out and it hit me for a number of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/464">TS</a>]

00:07:48   reasons AI think it's just a fantastic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/468">TS</a>]

00:07:50   book but i also was raised Roman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/470">TS</a>]

00:07:53   Catholic so it had that layer and i also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/473">TS</a>]

00:07:56   went to a Jesuit High School so I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/476">TS</a>]

00:08:00   very familiar with the society of jesus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/480">TS</a>]

00:08:02   and Jesuits in general and in fact it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/482">TS</a>]

00:08:06   the Jets who I have to thank for making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/486">TS</a>]

00:08:09   me an atheist because whatever that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/489">TS</a>]

00:08:11   something something everyone is they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/491">TS</a>]

00:08:13   teach you critical thinking and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/493">TS</a>]

00:08:15   throughout my four years of high school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/495">TS</a>]

00:08:16   and when i first went to high school I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/496">TS</a>]

00:08:18   was pretty sure I was going to become a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/498">TS</a>]

00:08:21   priest and by the time I left high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/501">TS</a>]

00:08:24   school I was pretty sure that there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/504">TS</a>]

00:08:26   no God so all right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/506">TS</a>]

00:08:29   it was my legs Jesuits Thank You Jesuits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/509">TS</a>]

00:08:31   it was because of the Jesuits they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/511">TS</a>]

00:08:33   taught me critical thinking and I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/513">TS</a>]

00:08:35   telling this story to one of my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/515">TS</a>]

00:08:36   co-workers the other day and she said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/516">TS</a>]

00:08:39   well the gesture was actually might not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/519">TS</a>]

00:08:40   be so upset about that because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/520">TS</a>]

00:08:42   would be happy that you at least applied [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/522">TS</a>]

00:08:44   critical thinking through the process [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/524">TS</a>]

00:08:45   and i said well i think they still can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/525">TS</a>]

00:08:48   believe in god that's kind of one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/528">TS</a>]

00:08:49   their central today out soho even happy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/529">TS</a>]

00:08:51   maybe someone has been going to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/531">TS</a>]

00:08:53   alcohol but so the stars align in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/533">TS</a>]

00:08:57   book because a it the biggest thing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/537">TS</a>]

00:09:00   dealing with his faith right and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/540">TS</a>]

00:09:01   your you how you deal with it how you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/541">TS</a>]

00:09:04   you know there are many priests in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/544">TS</a>]

00:09:06   book and they all have different ways of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/546">TS</a>]

00:09:08   expressing their faith [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/548">TS</a>]

00:09:10   and I enjoy that many of them you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/550">TS</a>]

00:09:12   you always hear the story of how you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/552">TS</a>]

00:09:16   know God speaks to you and then you take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/556">TS</a>]

00:09:19   up a vocation and certainly that happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/559">TS</a>]

00:09:21   but the characters in this book was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/561">TS</a>]

00:09:24   basically say well i'm not insane i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/564">TS</a>]

00:09:27   don't hear voices i am just not this the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/567">TS</a>]

00:09:30   way I express my faith is through my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/570">TS</a>]

00:09:32   actions and that's how I you know honor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/572">TS</a>]

00:09:35   god I've never actually talked to God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/575">TS</a>]

00:09:37   but you know with the main character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/577">TS</a>]

00:09:40   goes through a journey where he kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/580">TS</a>]

00:09:42   you know he believes in god please never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/582">TS</a>]

00:09:44   had a bad experience with God and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/584">TS</a>]

00:09:47   he kind of he thinks he does right and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/587">TS</a>]

00:09:49   it sends him off to this and then of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/589">TS</a>]

00:09:52   course the end it may not turn out so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/592">TS</a>]

00:09:54   well for him but yeah that that's one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/594">TS</a>]

00:09:57   the challenges that Santos basis is he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/597">TS</a>]

00:09:59   he feels finally that he's had his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/599">TS</a>]

00:10:01   moment of understanding of what His [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/601">TS</a>]

00:10:03   purposes and what God wants him to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/603">TS</a>]

00:10:05   and terrible things happen after that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/605">TS</a>]

00:10:10   a boot the thing i didn't remember i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/610">TS</a>]

00:10:12   remember one central terrible thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/612">TS</a>]

00:10:15   happens to him or to actually but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/615">TS</a>]

00:10:18   didn't remember all of the terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/618">TS</a>]

00:10:19   things that happen through so as i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/619">TS</a>]

00:10:21   reading it as like this gracious me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/621">TS</a>]

00:10:23   lot of bad things happened to this man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/623">TS</a>]

00:10:24   and everyone who goes to the planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/624">TS</a>]

00:10:26   uh-huh and it just also reinforce the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/626">TS</a>]

00:10:29   idea in that I like novels in which the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/629">TS</a>]

00:10:32   main character suffer literally which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/632">TS</a>]

00:10:36   which I don't tend to like I said you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/636">TS</a>]

00:10:38   know my my memory of the book was that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/638">TS</a>]

00:10:40   you know that it was powerful that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/640">TS</a>]

00:10:43   was you know I i grabbed onto it because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/643">TS</a>]

00:10:46   it was science science fiction yes you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/646">TS</a>]

00:10:48   know but I could hold up a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/648">TS</a>]

00:10:49   science-fiction book to all my friends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/649">TS</a>]

00:10:50   and say this is worth reading arm but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/650">TS</a>]

00:10:54   you like Scott I did had general [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/654">TS</a>]

00:10:58   generalities of things that had happened [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/658">TS</a>]

00:11:00   I had I'd somewhat forgotten the dual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/660">TS</a>]

00:11:05   timelines structure that it was there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/665">TS</a>]

00:11:07   all the way through and not just like at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/667">TS</a>]

00:11:09   the beginning and towards the end and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/669">TS</a>]

00:11:12   took me a while to get back into reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/672">TS</a>]

00:11:14   this because as things started [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/674">TS</a>]

00:11:16   developing I'm just like oh yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/676">TS</a>]

00:11:19   remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/679">TS</a>]

00:11:19   oh no oh man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/679">TS</a>]

00:11:21   but it when they hit to the point that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/681">TS</a>]

00:11:24   you described where um where a jimmy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/684">TS</a>]

00:11:28   Quinn discovers the music that there is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/688">TS</a>]

00:11:31   an actual comprehensible message in what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/691">TS</a>]

00:11:34   he thought was just some random blip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/694">TS</a>]

00:11:36   from SETI and things start getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/696">TS</a>]

00:11:39   together of the people started all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/699">TS</a>]

00:11:42   different characters start interacting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/702">TS</a>]

00:11:43   they start you know what essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/703">TS</a>]

00:11:45   it's like you know yeah let's let's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/705">TS</a>]

00:11:47   be in a band together to build a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/707">TS</a>]

00:11:48   spaceship there is a bit goofy how they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/708">TS</a>]

00:11:51   do it but the enthusiasm that got me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/711">TS</a>]

00:11:53   back into it which made remembering some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/713">TS</a>]

00:11:57   of the things that happen along the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/717">TS</a>]

00:11:59   even harder and I'd forgotten just how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/719">TS</a>]

00:12:01   powerful those last scenes are when the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/721">TS</a>]

00:12:03   final revelations happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/723">TS</a>]

00:12:06   let's go to Erica erica your newbie you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/726">TS</a>]

00:12:09   read this is the first time I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/729">TS</a>]

00:12:10   think you know what you're getting into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/730">TS</a>]

00:12:11   before we go into some specifics here i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/731">TS</a>]

00:12:15   would like to hear your overview of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/735">TS</a>]

00:12:17   of your experience with this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/737">TS</a>]

00:12:19   well I did going completely cold i offer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/739">TS</a>]

00:12:21   it's so rare that I get to go into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/741">TS</a>]

00:12:24   movie or a book or anything without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/744">TS</a>]

00:12:26   knowing anything about it so I'm always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/746">TS</a>]

00:12:27   excited when that happens I can just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/747">TS</a>]

00:12:29   into something completely cold and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/749">TS</a>]

00:12:32   think this is one of those times where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/752">TS</a>]

00:12:33   complete it just backfired because had I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/753">TS</a>]

00:12:36   known what this book was about going in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/756">TS</a>]

00:12:38   i would have realized that this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/758">TS</a>]

00:12:40   book that is like in capital letters not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/760">TS</a>]

00:12:42   for Erica ah for yeah I have a you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/762">TS</a>]

00:12:47   up maybe I'm like the opposite of Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/767">TS</a>]

00:12:50   here my my personal relationship with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/770">TS</a>]

00:12:52   the with church stuff is is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/772">TS</a>]

00:12:54   complicated in such a way that it very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/774">TS</a>]

00:12:57   much turns me off anytime that it isn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/777">TS</a>]

00:12:59   it in in a book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/779">TS</a>]

00:13:00   so while I will when I will agree with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/780">TS</a>]

00:13:02   with all of the non emotional reactions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/782">TS</a>]

00:13:05   you guys had to this book it is very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/785">TS</a>]

00:13:07   well written it is very well crafted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/787">TS</a>]

00:13:08   this is a good book capital g capital be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/788">TS</a>]

00:13:11   good book but it is just so not the kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/791">TS</a>]

00:13:16   of thing that I enjoy that I i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/796">TS</a>]

00:13:20   know why i kept pushing through it with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/800">TS</a>]

00:13:22   this infinite this had been an episode 4 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/802">TS</a>]

00:13:24   of like award reading or or even when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/804">TS</a>]

00:13:28   we're we're doing two or three books or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/808">TS</a>]

00:13:29   something like that I probably would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/809">TS</a>]

00:13:31   have just stopped reading and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/811">TS</a>]

00:13:33   and not finished it and that now that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/813">TS</a>]

00:13:35   have gotten all the way to the end of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/815">TS</a>]

00:13:37   the book I i think that that would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/817">TS</a>]

00:13:39   been better huh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/819">TS</a>]

00:13:40   for me I can't argue with any of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/820">TS</a>]

00:13:42   stuff that you guys have have said about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/822">TS</a>]

00:13:44   its its quality it just yes it is it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/824">TS</a>]

00:13:48   very philosophical and that is so not my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/828">TS</a>]

00:13:50   kind of another kind of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/830">TS</a>]

00:13:52   yeah and I think that's one of the keys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/832">TS</a>]

00:13:53   in that it delves into all these issues [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/833">TS</a>]

00:13:56   of spirituality and you know like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/836">TS</a>]

00:13:59   Erica I'm not got you an agnostic the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/839">TS</a>]

00:14:02   fairest thing to say as far as my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/842">TS</a>]

00:14:04   spirituality but this particular book at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/844">TS</a>]

00:14:07   least not once do i as the reader feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/847">TS</a>]

00:14:11   like I'm being preached at and I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/851">TS</a>]

00:14:12   that is a marvelous marvelous thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/852">TS</a>]

00:14:15   Russell manages to do to make this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/855">TS</a>]

00:14:18   a huge search thru spirituality how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/858">TS</a>]

00:14:22   people arrive at their spirituality what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/862">TS</a>]

00:14:25   happens when their spirituality seems to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/865">TS</a>]

00:14:27   fail them and yet I as a reader not once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/867">TS</a>]

00:14:31   felt like I was being told you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/871">TS</a>]

00:14:33   believe anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/873">TS</a>]

00:14:34   yes I i should point out that that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/874">TS</a>]

00:14:37   absolutely not you know that that's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/877">TS</a>]

00:14:39   my complaint I i agree with that she did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/879">TS</a>]

00:14:41   a wonderful job of sort of walking that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/881">TS</a>]

00:14:43   line of I mean you guys mentioned her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/883">TS</a>]

00:14:45   characters and and you're right these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/885">TS</a>]

00:14:47   are very well realized characters they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/887">TS</a>]

00:14:49   all have inner lives two to one degree [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/889">TS</a>]

00:14:51   or another so I felt like I knew who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/891">TS</a>]

00:14:53   these people were so the the examination [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/893">TS</a>]

00:14:56   of the spirituality is very much carried [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/896">TS</a>]

00:14:58   out from the perspective of each one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/898">TS</a>]

00:15:00   these characters and I did not feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/900">TS</a>]

00:15:02   there was a view that I was supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/902">TS</a>]

00:15:04   be associating with more than any of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/904">TS</a>]

00:15:07   rest so that was that was a very nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/907">TS</a>]

00:15:08   thing it didn't make any more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/908">TS</a>]

00:15:11   comfortable for me reading it but at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/911">TS</a>]

00:15:12   least I didn't feel like I was being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/912">TS</a>]

00:15:13   preached to you know one of things then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/913">TS</a>]

00:15:15   forgive me for this guy because i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/915">TS</a>]

00:15:16   going to hear a little bit away from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/916">TS</a>]

00:15:18   Star Trek here but as we have to host of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/918">TS</a>]

00:15:21   the audio guide about 15 hear that one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/921">TS</a>]

00:15:23   of the things always appreciate about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/923">TS</a>]

00:15:24   the TV show Babylon 5 was similarly the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/924">TS</a>]

00:15:27   fact that it took religion seriously and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/927">TS</a>]

00:15:29   that was a show written by an atheist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/929">TS</a>]

00:15:30   but the fact was that he felt like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/930">TS</a>]

00:15:33   know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/933">TS</a>]

00:15:35   in the future in a few hundred years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/935">TS</a>]

00:15:36   we're gonna suddenly not have religion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/936">TS</a>]

00:15:38   that's been with us for thousands of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/938">TS</a>]

00:15:40   years probably going to be important to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/940">TS</a>]

00:15:42   humanity for a very very long time if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/942">TS</a>]

00:15:44   not forever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/944">TS</a>]

00:15:45   the existence of humanity so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/945">TS</a>]

00:15:47   I mention that because as somebody who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/947">TS</a>]

00:15:49   is not a believer in pretty much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/949">TS</a>]

00:15:50   anything that's me i love seeing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/950">TS</a>]

00:15:54   portrayals of people struggling with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/954">TS</a>]

00:15:57   their faith and wondering about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/957">TS</a>]

00:15:59   nature of God and in a science fictional [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/959">TS</a>]

00:16:01   can't context I i think it's great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/961">TS</a>]

00:16:03   because i do think this is one of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/963">TS</a>]

00:16:05   fundamental things about being a human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/965">TS</a>]

00:16:07   being and that's one of the reasons that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/967">TS</a>]

00:16:09   i actually really like this book is even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/969">TS</a>]

00:16:11   as and not a particularly religious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/971">TS</a>]

00:16:13   person I recognize the importance of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/973">TS</a>]

00:16:18   spirituality in a search for meaning in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/978">TS</a>]

00:16:20   people and and these characters are all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/980">TS</a>]

00:16:22   experiencing it and they're all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/982">TS</a>]

00:16:23   experiencing it from different areas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/983">TS</a>]

00:16:26   which is fascinating to me the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/986">TS</a>]

00:16:27   you've got our main character is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/987">TS</a>]

00:16:29   priest who basically has never kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/989">TS</a>]

00:16:33   never believed in god and feels really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/993">TS</a>]

00:16:36   bad about that which is fascinating to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/996">TS</a>]

00:16:39   me and and the idea that he has this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/999">TS</a>]

00:16:41   moment of clarity and feels that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1001">TS</a>]

00:16:43   finally has his meeting and then things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1003">TS</a>]

00:16:46   go horribly wrong on this planet I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1006">TS</a>]

00:16:48   that the the the the title of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1008">TS</a>]

00:16:50   the sparrow is very specifically from a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1010">TS</a>]

00:16:53   passage in the Bible about how even when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1013">TS</a>]

00:16:55   a single sparrow falls dead God is aware [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1015">TS</a>]

00:16:58   of it that the idea here that bad things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1018">TS</a>]

00:17:01   happen in the world to and God is aware [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1021">TS</a>]

00:17:03   of that too well that I guess Amelia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1023">TS</a>]

00:17:06   sent this is the sparrow kind of e a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1026">TS</a>]

00:17:09   terrible things happen to him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1029">TS</a>]

00:17:11   I so so I I that aspect of it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1031">TS</a>]

00:17:15   fascinating to be also i am a sucker for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1035">TS</a>]

00:17:17   first contact stories and this has that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1037">TS</a>]

00:17:20   it isn't you know like we said with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1040">TS</a>]

00:17:23   station eleven episode the you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1043">TS</a>]

00:17:25   still bear with me on this one Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1045">TS</a>]

00:17:28   station level was a book that a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1048">TS</a>]

00:17:31   people didn't like because on our book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1051">TS</a>]

00:17:33   club because it is not very good at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1053">TS</a>]

00:17:35   science fiction showing an apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1055">TS</a>]

00:17:37   here i would say the sparrow similarly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1057">TS</a>]

00:17:39   if you're somebody good is going to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1059">TS</a>]

00:17:40   caught up in the science of this you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1060">TS</a>]

00:17:42   know there's a lot of hand waving that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1062">TS</a>]

00:17:43   goes on about how they get to another to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1063">TS</a>]

00:17:46   another solar system right like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1066">TS</a>]

00:17:48   they don't describe oh we invented a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1068">TS</a>]

00:17:50   drive that will take us there at half [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1070">TS</a>]

00:17:52   speed of light or where they just kinda [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1072">TS</a>]

00:17:54   she can you wave your hands and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1074">TS</a>]

00:17:56   fine that's not her strong suit no it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1076">TS</a>]

00:17:58   not the Anthropology side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1078">TS</a>]

00:18:00   anthropologie side is her strong suit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1080">TS</a>]

00:18:02   and that shines through you have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1082">TS</a>]

00:18:04   squint at the science you have to end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1084">TS</a>]

00:18:06   and for me it's okay because because the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1086">TS</a>]

00:18:08   culture when it was she when they get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1088">TS</a>]

00:18:10   the planet red-hot it is it is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1090">TS</a>]

00:18:13   interesting that it's fine and it's also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1093">TS</a>]

00:18:16   I my point is like with a station eleven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1096">TS</a>]

00:18:19   you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1099">TS</a>]

00:18:21   the details aren't the point here it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1101">TS</a>]

00:18:22   actually more kind of like the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1102">TS</a>]

00:18:24   result this is allegorical for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1104">TS</a>]

00:18:27   presence of the Jesuits in the new world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1107">TS</a>]

00:18:29   essentially this is what would be a new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1109">TS</a>]

00:18:33   new world for the Jesuits to have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1113">TS</a>]

00:18:36   have a first contact with and so it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1116">TS</a>]

00:18:39   it's an alien planet instead and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1119">TS</a>]

00:18:42   what she's really trying to do here in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1122">TS</a>]

00:18:43   fact i'm kind of impressed that she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1123">TS</a>]

00:18:45   tries as hard as she does to make a kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1125">TS</a>]

00:18:47   of hold together in terms of the science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1127">TS</a>]

00:18:49   right because she could have completely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1129">TS</a>]

00:18:51   just punted and been like and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1131">TS</a>]

00:18:53   were on the other planet and instead she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1133">TS</a>]

00:18:55   tries to go through recibo and getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1135">TS</a>]

00:18:58   the signals and all of that in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1138">TS</a>]

00:18:59   its and it's very exciting and I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1139">TS</a>]

00:19:01   appreciate that because in the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1141">TS</a>]

00:19:02   yes is it kind of ridiculous that six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1142">TS</a>]

00:19:04   people who were all together in Puerto [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1144">TS</a>]

00:19:08   Rico when the signal was made are part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1148">TS</a>]

00:19:10   of a nine person or a person crew that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1150">TS</a>]

00:19:13   is the first prefers people to go to an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1153">TS</a>]

00:19:15   alien planet where where where alien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1155">TS</a>]

00:19:17   life has been discovered for the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1157">TS</a>]

00:19:18   time before any governments or Space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1158">TS</a>]

00:19:21   Agency's seems kind of ridiculous to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1161">TS</a>]

00:19:23   but you know what that's the story she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1163">TS</a>]

00:19:25   wants to tell and we kind of go with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1165">TS</a>]

00:19:27   and I I mean I didn't it is ridiculous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1167">TS</a>]

00:19:30   but i did also kind of buy into it a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1170">TS</a>]

00:19:32   little bit because the the church [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1172">TS</a>]

00:19:34   doesn't have this you know the rules and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1174">TS</a>]

00:19:38   regulations that i would imagine the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1178">TS</a>]

00:19:39   government would have to follow so they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1179">TS</a>]

00:19:41   can sounds like okay let's buy an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1181">TS</a>]

00:19:42   asteroid and let's go and that's what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1182">TS</a>]

00:19:45   they do and you know he convinces them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1185">TS</a>]

00:19:47   that we we should do this we have you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1187">TS</a>]

00:19:50   know priceless artwork that we can sell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1190">TS</a>]

00:19:51   on the download and get us a suite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1191">TS</a>]

00:19:54   asteroid and we can go off and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1194">TS</a>]

00:19:58   we happen to have the people we need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1198">TS</a>]

00:20:00   make this a reality add a couple more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1200">TS</a>]

00:20:01   priests and add a couple priest instant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1201">TS</a>]

00:20:06   to just add Jesuits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1206">TS</a>]

00:20:09   yep the spirituality aspect of it is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1209">TS</a>]

00:20:13   the biggest thing that turned me off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1213">TS</a>]

00:20:14   about it but I think even if somehow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1214">TS</a>]

00:20:16   this book were able to exist without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1216">TS</a>]

00:20:17   that which certainly I long as possible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1217">TS</a>]

00:20:20   but even if I had I still don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1220">TS</a>]

00:20:22   that it would have been something that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1222">TS</a>]

00:20:23   truly appealed to me because unlike [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1223">TS</a>]

00:20:25   scott once again I am NOT a person who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1225">TS</a>]

00:20:27   really digs it when the the main [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1227">TS</a>]

00:20:29   characters in books suffer a lot like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1229">TS</a>]

00:20:31   don't mind some of it because you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1231">TS</a>]

00:20:32   sometimes you need that for a good story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1232">TS</a>]

00:20:34   but I mean there's there's so few hours [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1234">TS</a>]

00:20:38   in the day that I get to read that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1238">TS</a>]

00:20:39   tend to like my escapism to be a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1239">TS</a>]

00:20:41   bit more escapee and and have something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1241">TS</a>]

00:20:44   a little little bit lighter to to deal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1244">TS</a>]

00:20:47   with and also the man to sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1247">TS</a>]

00:20:49   back-and-forth flipping is is a thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1249">TS</a>]

00:20:53   that sometimes i like and sometimes I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1253">TS</a>]

00:20:54   don't in this case it you find out at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1254">TS</a>]

00:20:58   the very very very beginning that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1258">TS</a>]

00:20:59   everything goes horribly wrong and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1259">TS</a>]

00:21:01   just it's a journey of discovery to find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1261">TS</a>]

00:21:03   out how things went wrong so that just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1263">TS</a>]

00:21:06   had me kind of you know the clenched [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1266">TS</a>]

00:21:09   heart all the way through like what is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1269">TS</a>]

00:21:11   going to happen I know something is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1271">TS</a>]

00:21:12   going to be awful and I like i would i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1272">TS</a>]

00:21:14   would rather know hit the outset that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1274">TS</a>]

00:21:16   it's gonna end very badly then have it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1276">TS</a>]

00:21:18   seemed like everything's gonna be fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1278">TS</a>]

00:21:20   and then it ends terribly so I guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1280">TS</a>]

00:21:23   this is this is a little bit better than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1283">TS</a>]

00:21:24   that but but still i just spent the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1284">TS</a>]

00:21:27   whole thing with a feeling of great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1287">TS</a>]

00:21:29   dread yeah I was kind of surprised that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1289">TS</a>]

00:21:31   i managed to sort of lose that dread [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1291">TS</a>]

00:21:33   somewhat once the the 2019 once the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1293">TS</a>]

00:21:38   current day quote unquote a timeline [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1298">TS</a>]

00:21:41   started kicking together I was kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1301">TS</a>]

00:21:44   surprised that I think the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1304">TS</a>]

00:21:45   you know we're strong enough and having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1305">TS</a>]

00:21:48   so much fun with each other that it that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1308">TS</a>]

00:21:50   drew me back in on just like it did the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1310">TS</a>]

00:21:53   first time I mean you know that i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1313">TS</a>]

00:21:55   read when i read this book the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1315">TS</a>]

00:21:56   time like you said it tells you right at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1316">TS</a>]

00:21:58   the beginning things really went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1318">TS</a>]

00:22:00   downhill and yet the first time around i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1320">TS</a>]

00:22:03   managed to forget a lot of that until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1323">TS</a>]

00:22:05   the last third of the book when it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1325">TS</a>]

00:22:07   started really going downhill and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1327">TS</a>]

00:22:09   gathering speed on and it almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1329">TS</a>]

00:22:12   happened to me again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1332">TS</a>]

00:22:13   Yesi whereas i was just i felt like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1333">TS</a>]

00:22:16   was such work reading this book that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1336">TS</a>]

00:22:19   got toward the end and you know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1339">TS</a>]

00:22:21   some things that have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1341">TS</a>]

00:22:22   and some things hadn't happened yet and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1342">TS</a>]

00:22:23   i was just finding myself going ok I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1343">TS</a>]

00:22:25   actually you know I've learned to maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1345">TS</a>]

00:22:27   not like so much but at least appreciate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1347">TS</a>]

00:22:28   some of these characters because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1348">TS</a>]

00:22:30   were very well written but I literally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1350">TS</a>]

00:22:31   found myself thinking oh my god just die [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1351">TS</a>]

00:22:34   already look like regular people like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1354">TS</a>]

00:22:37   like you but I know something Bad's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1357">TS</a>]

00:22:39   gonna happen to you so can we please [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1359">TS</a>]

00:22:40   just get it over with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1360">TS</a>]

00:22:41   just and I did I think the structure to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1361">TS</a>]

00:22:44   your point Erica makes it all the more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1364">TS</a>]

00:22:46   worse because you know at the beginning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1366">TS</a>]

00:22:48   that you first meet sandoz and he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1368">TS</a>]

00:22:52   broken character and then you flipped [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1372">TS</a>]

00:22:54   back to the past and he's like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1374">TS</a>]

00:22:56   bubbly guy that everybody likes it he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1376">TS</a>]

00:22:57   making jokes is helping everybody at you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1377">TS</a>]

00:23:00   just like oh now i'm just gonna watch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1380">TS</a>]

00:23:02   this person basically have the worst [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1382">TS</a>]

00:23:04   several years of his life and then come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1384">TS</a>]

00:23:07   back and continue to downward trend so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1387">TS</a>]

00:23:10   it's not not gonna be a great pleasure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1390">TS</a>]

00:23:12   ride this episode of the incomparable is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1392">TS</a>]

00:23:14   brought to you by Casper asleep brand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1394">TS</a>]

00:23:17   that created one perfect mattress sold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1397">TS</a>]

00:23:20   directly to consumers like me I sleep on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1400">TS</a>]

00:23:23   one of days [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1403">TS</a>]

00:23:23   it eliminates Commission driven and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1403">TS</a>]

00:23:25   inflated prices [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1405">TS</a>]

00:23:27   it's an award-winning sleep surface that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1407">TS</a>]

00:23:29   was developed in-house it has a sleek [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1409">TS</a>]

00:23:32   design and it's delivered in a small box [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1412">TS</a>]

00:23:35   so small that you will say how did they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1415">TS</a>]

00:23:37   do that the answer is vacuum technology [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1417">TS</a>]

00:23:40   I think something like that involves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1420">TS</a>]

00:23:42   sucking all the air out and it fits in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1422">TS</a>]

00:23:45   box and then you open it and push it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1425">TS</a>]

00:23:47   expands back to its normal size addition [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1427">TS</a>]

00:23:50   to that that mattress though that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1430">TS</a>]

00:23:51   Casper's famous for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1431">TS</a>]

00:23:52   they also offer an adaptive pillow which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1432">TS</a>]

00:23:55   I have as well and soft breathable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1435">TS</a>]

00:23:58   sheets I've got those two boy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1438">TS</a>]

00:24:01   yeah it's all good stuff it really is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1441">TS</a>]

00:24:03   in-house team of engineers a Casper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1443">TS</a>]

00:24:05   spent thousands of hours developing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1445">TS</a>]

00:24:07   mattress it's got spring latex and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1447">TS</a>]

00:24:09   support of memory foams and creating a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1449">TS</a>]

00:24:11   sleep surface it's got just the right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1451">TS</a>]

00:24:13   sink just the right balance and it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1453">TS</a>]

00:24:15   breathable design so it's sleep school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1455">TS</a>]

00:24:17   to help you regulate your temperature [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1457">TS</a>]

00:24:18   through the night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1458">TS</a>]

00:24:20   mattresses often cost a lot of money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1460">TS</a>]

00:24:22   well over fifteen hundred dollars casper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1462">TS</a>]

00:24:24   mattresses started 504 twin 754 full 850 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1464">TS</a>]

00:24:29   Queen up to 9 50 for a king buying a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1469">TS</a>]

00:24:31   Casper mattress completely risk-free if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1471">TS</a>]

00:24:34   you've got yourself while these casper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1474">TS</a>]

00:24:35   mattresses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1475">TS</a>]

00:24:35   sound good but you know what I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1475">TS</a>]

00:24:37   want to buy a mattress on the internet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1477">TS</a>]

00:24:38   that would be crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1478">TS</a>]

00:24:39   don't worry about it Casper has free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1479">TS</a>]

00:24:41   delivery and free returns with a hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1481">TS</a>]

00:24:43   knight home trouble sleeping for three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1483">TS</a>]

00:24:45   months and if you decide at any point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1485">TS</a>]

00:24:46   you don't like it like Casper know they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1486">TS</a>]

00:24:49   will take it away and give you your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1489">TS</a>]

00:24:50   money back it is that simple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1490">TS</a>]

00:24:53   so obsessively Matt engineering mattress [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1493">TS</a>]

00:24:55   shockingly fair price a great feel free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1495">TS</a>]

00:24:59   shipping and returns to the US and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1499">TS</a>]

00:25:01   canada try for a hundred Knights [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1501">TS</a>]

00:25:03   risk-free you don't love it they will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1503">TS</a>]

00:25:05   take it away and you have lost nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1505">TS</a>]

00:25:07   made in America it is Casper it is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1507">TS</a>]

00:25:10   great sleep surface try it out now you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1510">TS</a>]

00:25:13   get fifty dollars toward any mattress [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1513">TS</a>]

00:25:15   purchase if you go to Casper calm / [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1515">TS</a>]

00:25:17   smell and use offer code smell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1517">TS</a>]

00:25:20   terms and conditions apply thank you to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1520">TS</a>]

00:25:22   Casper for sponsoring the incomparable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1522">TS</a>]

00:25:24   so I'm gonna free everybody here I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1524">TS</a>]

00:25:27   you shouldn't be listening if you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1527">TS</a>]

00:25:28   read the book but if you have are still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1528">TS</a>]

00:25:31   listening we're gonna fire off a cry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1531">TS</a>]

00:25:32   sort of a friendly spoiler horn right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1532">TS</a>]

00:25:35   there just to make it clear before we go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1535">TS</a>]

00:25:37   even deeper down in to the sparrow and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1537">TS</a>]

00:25:40   if you like what you've heard from me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1540">TS</a>]

00:25:41   and Shannon and Scott maybe you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1541">TS</a>]

00:25:43   read it and if you like what you heard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1543">TS</a>]

00:25:44   America don't really hear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1544">TS</a>]

00:25:50   it's beautiful music I feel like some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1550">TS</a>]

00:25:55   these episodes the spoiler horn is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1555">TS</a>]

00:25:57   implied for the whole thing because why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1557">TS</a>]

00:26:00   but yes I feel like we haven't like dug [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1560">TS</a>]

00:26:02   down into some of the worst of it which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1562">TS</a>]

00:26:03   I'm gonna do right now because I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1563">TS</a>]

00:26:06   when we talk about the two time frames [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1566">TS</a>]

00:26:08   right um i think it's interesting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1568">TS</a>]

00:26:11   that you could argue that this is trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1571">TS</a>]

00:26:14   to cushion the blow a little bit but of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1574">TS</a>]

00:26:17   course i think also it's the structure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1577">TS</a>]

00:26:18   is that she kind of wants the descent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1578">TS</a>]

00:26:20   into darkness and the kind of like an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1580">TS</a>]

00:26:22   ascent into finding a reason to live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1582">TS</a>]

00:26:25   happen in parallel I mean I think that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1585">TS</a>]

00:26:27   what she's trying to do here it does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1587">TS</a>]

00:26:28   give you the descent from the beginning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1588">TS</a>]

00:26:30   when you're watching all these people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1590">TS</a>]

00:26:31   who are very excited about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1591">TS</a>]

00:26:32   first-contact situation and going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1592">TS</a>]

00:26:34   this planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1594">TS</a>]

00:26:35   you already know that something horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1595">TS</a>]

00:26:37   is going to happen and so that color's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1597">TS</a>]

00:26:40   your judgment of it which it's it's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1600">TS</a>]

00:26:42   interesting choice I gotta say from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1602">TS</a>]

00:26:45   perspective of 20 years later one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1605">TS</a>]

00:26:47   things about this book that did not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1607">TS</a>]

00:26:49   impress me at all is one of the conceits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1609">TS</a>]

00:26:52   here is that sandoz is returned by this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1612">TS</a>]

00:26:55   second the second mission 2 rakaat he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1615">TS</a>]

00:26:59   he is found in a dungeon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1619">TS</a>]

00:27:02   this is what happens he's found in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1622">TS</a>]

00:27:04   dungeon as the sex slave of an alien and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1624">TS</a>]

00:27:07   they in all of his other and he and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1627">TS</a>]

00:27:10   seen killing an alien as they find him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1630">TS</a>]

00:27:12   and then they put him on his asteroid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1632">TS</a>]

00:27:15   ship and send it back to earth and radio [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1635">TS</a>]

00:27:18   back so it reaches them much before the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1638">TS</a>]

00:27:20   the ship does that about this terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1640">TS</a>]

00:27:22   you know state that they found him in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1642">TS</a>]

00:27:24   and from the perspective of 2016 reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1644">TS</a>]

00:27:27   this I could not buy for a moment that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1647">TS</a>]

00:27:32   the discovery of him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1652">TS</a>]

00:27:34   everybody refers to him in the in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1654">TS</a>]

00:27:35   present timeline when he's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1655">TS</a>]

00:27:37   disgraced and disfigured because he said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1657">TS</a>]

00:27:39   this horrible operation down his hands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1659">TS</a>]

00:27:41   by these aliens as a prostitute and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1661">TS</a>]

00:27:44   everybody just assumes like okay first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1664">TS</a>]

00:27:47   off let's let's break this down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1667">TS</a>]

00:27:48   first off that he was a prostitute when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1668">TS</a>]

00:27:51   they find him in a sex dungeon being a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1671">TS</a>]

00:27:53   you know for for these aliens literally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1673">TS</a>]

00:27:56   naked and bloody yeah nobody thinks one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1676">TS</a>]

00:27:59   nobody thinks that perhaps another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1679">TS</a>]

00:28:01   possibility was that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1681">TS</a>]

00:28:03   was forced into this and to when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1683">TS</a>]

00:28:06   call him a prostitute they assume it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1686">TS</a>]

00:28:09   means that he was a willing and joyous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1689">TS</a>]

00:28:12   prostitute which is also i think not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1692">TS</a>]

00:28:15   something that you should assume and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1695">TS</a>]

00:28:18   it in reading this it this time I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1698">TS</a>]

00:28:20   like I i didn't i didn't buy that whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1700">TS</a>]

00:28:23   part of it makes everybody on earth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1703">TS</a>]

00:28:25   essentially in the end in a later time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1705">TS</a>]

00:28:28   frame seemed kinda like a dummy that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1708">TS</a>]

00:28:30   because she wants this revelatory moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1710">TS</a>]

00:28:32   when he says no i wasn't doing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1712">TS</a>]

00:28:35   because I enjoyed being raped by aliens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:38   it was raped and and they're like what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1718">TS</a>]

00:28:40   it was rape I had no idea it's like yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:42   you should've picked that up like when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1722">TS</a>]

00:28:44   they radioed it back you should have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1724">TS</a>]

00:28:46   figured that out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:47   mmm yes yeah that was that was my other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1727">TS</a>]

00:28:49   big problem which I didn't know if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1729">TS</a>]

00:28:51   were in spoiler horn territory so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1731">TS</a>]

00:28:52   couldn't say that made me actually angry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1732">TS</a>]

00:28:54   at this book because it's just I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1734">TS</a>]

00:28:56   really the where we start out is in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1736">TS</a>]

00:28:59   the 2060 sort of present day and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1739">TS</a>]

00:29:02   whole framework of this book is based on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1742">TS</a>]

00:29:04   the slow kind of on unveiling of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1744">TS</a>]

00:29:08   this character has gone through and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1748">TS</a>]

00:29:10   why he's he's so shamed and and and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1750">TS</a>]

00:29:14   is it I mean it just it nerf the rest of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1754">TS</a>]

00:29:16   the Baltimore me to a really large [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:17   degree [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1757">TS</a>]

00:29:18   yeah and I didn't feel that way 20 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1758">TS</a>]

00:29:20   ago but I I'm more aware of stuff like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1760">TS</a>]

00:29:22   that now where I and and knowing what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1762">TS</a>]

00:29:24   happens in the book and now i'm judging [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1764">TS</a>]

00:29:25   it on the reread based on what I already [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1765">TS</a>]

00:29:28   know what's going to happen i thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1768">TS</a>]

00:29:29   it's completely impossible to me that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1769">TS</a>]

00:29:31   nobody would think that at any point I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1771">TS</a>]

00:29:34   mean yeah I grant that there was a radio [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1774">TS</a>]

00:29:36   report from some people who had a skewed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1776">TS</a>]

00:29:38   view of it and then he's silent because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1778">TS</a>]

00:29:40   he's just kind of like coming back and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:41   he's completely comatose essentially and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1781">TS</a>]

00:29:44   he won't talk to people so they don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1784">TS</a>]

00:29:45   know his part that nobody in the 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1785">TS</a>]

00:29:48   intervening years has not considered as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1788">TS</a>]

00:29:51   a serious possibility that he is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1791">TS</a>]

00:29:54   victim of a horrible crime and yet i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1794">TS</a>]

00:29:57   think because Russell wants us to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1797">TS</a>]

00:30:00   that revelatory moment and I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1800">TS</a>]

00:30:01   thinking as I was reading like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1801">TS</a>]

00:30:03   the way to tell this story is probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:06   to have him just be found in prison and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1806">TS</a>]

00:30:09   have them not understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1809">TS</a>]

00:30:13   just how awful his conditions were and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1813">TS</a>]

00:30:15   then at the end of the book him having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1815">TS</a>]

00:30:17   realized no actually they kept me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:19   frizzled those last 10 months that i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1819">TS</a>]

00:30:21   on that planet as a sex slave and raped [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1821">TS</a>]

00:30:24   me repeatedly and have everybody be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1824">TS</a>]

00:30:25   horrified when he admits that this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:28   part this terrible thing that happened [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1828">TS</a>]

00:30:29   to him but instead everybody knows and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1829">TS</a>]

00:30:32   they assume it's his fault and there and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1832">TS</a>]

00:30:34   they're blaming the victim because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1834">TS</a>]

00:30:36   was wearing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1836">TS</a>]

00:30:37   he was wearing a jeweled collar don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1837">TS</a>]

00:30:38   you know I'm part of it is that um I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1838">TS</a>]

00:30:41   think in this is a Russell doing some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1841">TS</a>]

00:30:44   criticism possibly of how quick human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1844">TS</a>]

00:30:48   how quick it is in human nature is to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1848">TS</a>]

00:30:50   look for the scapegoat we don't get a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1850">TS</a>]

00:30:52   huge amount of detail but the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1852">TS</a>]

00:30:55   the the Jesuits you know since this was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1855">TS</a>]

00:30:59   a private enterprise essentially just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1859">TS</a>]

00:31:00   sort of you know snuck you know their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1860">TS</a>]

00:31:02   team often into the asteroid before the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1862">TS</a>]

00:31:04   United Nations or anybody else was even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1864">TS</a>]

00:31:06   aware that somebody was actually going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1866">TS</a>]

00:31:08   to try that the arm try to contact this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1868">TS</a>]

00:31:12   planet a lot of people it was public [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1872">TS</a>]

00:31:14   that the contact has been made but um [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1874">TS</a>]

00:31:18   but no nobody official no government [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1878">TS</a>]

00:31:21   tried to do anything about it as quickly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1881">TS</a>]

00:31:23   as the Jesuits did on and then for it to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1883">TS</a>]

00:31:25   go so completely pear-shaped and buried [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1885">TS</a>]

00:31:28   all the transmissions right so it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1888">TS</a>]

00:31:30   nobody knows that's been a media [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1890">TS</a>]

00:31:32   blackout the scandal as a result when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1892">TS</a>]

00:31:35   the UN committee when the UN [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1895">TS</a>]

00:31:37   representatives are as part of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1897">TS</a>]

00:31:39   second group get there you know they yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:42   they jump to the wrong conclusion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1902">TS</a>]

00:31:45   extremely stupidly arm but they are also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1905">TS</a>]

00:31:48   looking at the entire rest of the crew [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1908">TS</a>]

00:31:51   is dead and the planet that they came to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1911">TS</a>]

00:31:55   visit which apparently when they arrived [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1915">TS</a>]

00:31:57   was in this nice peaceful planet and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1917">TS</a>]

00:31:59   everything's hunky-dory is now going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1919">TS</a>]

00:32:02   through a civil war you know then that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1922">TS</a>]

00:32:06   and the UN is either looking they're all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1926">TS</a>]

00:32:08   looking for somebody to blame at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1928">TS</a>]

00:32:09   moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1929">TS</a>]

00:32:09   sandoz is the only one to blame so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1929">TS</a>]

00:32:11   they've got this tunnel vision and jump [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1931">TS</a>]

00:32:14   and like jumping to conclusions i agree [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1934">TS</a>]

00:32:15   if this book was written today I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1935">TS</a>]

00:32:18   think Russell would have had every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1938">TS</a>]

00:32:21   single character more or less believing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1941">TS</a>]

00:32:24   the original story somebody would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1944">TS</a>]

00:32:26   question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1946">TS</a>]

00:32:26   didn't but this was 1996 and gender [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1946">TS</a>]

00:32:31   issues and so forth have advanced since [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1951">TS</a>]

00:32:33   then also and in the books defense guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1953">TS</a>]

00:32:37   I didn't say that i do think that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1957">TS</a>]

00:32:40   took so long for him in first time for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1960">TS</a>]

00:32:43   him to travel back and the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1963">TS</a>]

00:32:45   information that they had you know why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1965">TS</a>]

00:32:47   wouldn't they trust the word of these un [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1967">TS</a>]

00:32:49   advisor people because they probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:51   didn't give super great details about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1971">TS</a>]

00:32:53   the fact that he was naked and dirty and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1973">TS</a>]

00:32:55   bloody and you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1975">TS</a>]

00:32:57   non-responsive physically after they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1977">TS</a>]

00:33:00   after they release him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1980">TS</a>]

00:33:01   yeah the first thing they saw him do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1981">TS</a>]

00:33:02   when they go into that cell of the alien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1982">TS</a>]

00:33:06   girl who as a very young child [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1986">TS</a>]

00:33:09   sandoz had managed to make first contact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1989">TS</a>]

00:33:11   whether his talent is linguistics and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1991">TS</a>]

00:33:14   he's able to soak in and create and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1994">TS</a>]

00:33:15   figure out languages very quickly on so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/1995">TS</a>]

00:33:20   the idea that this was a an alien that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2000">TS</a>]

00:33:23   knew who he was and it sounded like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2003">TS</a>]

00:33:26   they were supposed to be at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2006">TS</a>]

00:33:29   friendly but sandoz attacks the second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2009">TS</a>]

00:33:33   the seller's opened we learn that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2013">TS</a>]

00:33:35   sort of psych himself up into I'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2015">TS</a>]

00:33:36   to end this one way or the other I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2016">TS</a>]

00:33:37   getting out or I'm dying and it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2017">TS</a>]

00:33:40   horrible bad luck that the first person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2020">TS</a>]

00:33:43   through the door is this young alien [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2023">TS</a>]

00:33:45   girl and the first thing those you when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2025">TS</a>]

00:33:47   people see is him run into her smack or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2027">TS</a>]

00:33:50   so hard into the wall that she breaks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2030">TS</a>]

00:33:52   her skull or her ribcage and kills her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2032">TS</a>]

00:33:55   rights and so is that so the the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2035">TS</a>]

00:33:58   is that these guys have basically grown [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2038">TS</a>]

00:34:00   up live most of their lives knowing they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2040">TS</a>]

00:34:03   think what the deal is with this guy so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2043">TS</a>]

00:34:06   I mean it's it is a pretty ingrained [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2046">TS</a>]

00:34:10   idea of what had happened to him so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2050">TS</a>]

00:34:13   mean I still don't completely by it but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2053">TS</a>]

00:34:15   at least at least you know if they they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2055">TS</a>]

00:34:17   had an awful long time to have believed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2057">TS</a>]

00:34:19   this thing so that that meeting this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2059">TS</a>]

00:34:22   weird guy is probably not going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2062">TS</a>]

00:34:23   completely jar that out of their minds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2063">TS</a>]

00:34:26   yeah I yeah I just feel like from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2066">TS</a>]

00:34:29   perspective of 20 years later I'm like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2069">TS</a>]

00:34:30   oh it's it could have been tweaked a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2070">TS</a>]

00:34:32   little bit and been much more kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2072">TS</a>]

00:34:34   believable to me then that it actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2074">TS</a>]

00:34:36   is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2076">TS</a>]

00:34:37   let's say I mean we should let's talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2077">TS</a>]

00:34:38   about the food [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2078">TS</a>]

00:34:40   there's so much here I the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:43   are really interesting we we we meet we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2083">TS</a>]

00:34:48   meet another another Jesuit who is we we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2088">TS</a>]

00:34:53   find out right before he dies it's very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:55   much a i'm going to download all my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2095">TS</a>]

00:34:57   final information before I die [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2097">TS</a>]

00:34:59   who is his mentor that he's actually a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2099">TS</a>]

00:35:01   gay priests and because and I think what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2101">TS</a>]

00:35:06   honestly one of the reasons that the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2106">TS</a>]

00:35:08   rape is part of the story of Santos is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2108">TS</a>]

00:35:10   because she wants to us to think about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2110">TS</a>]

00:35:14   and we we do for the whole book think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2114">TS</a>]

00:35:18   about thousands of celibacy here because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2118">TS</a>]

00:35:20   of course and O's falls in love and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2120">TS</a>]

00:35:23   basically pushes the woman who falls in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2123">TS</a>]

00:35:26   love with away because he has you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2126">TS</a>]

00:35:29   he he's now kind of high on his final [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2129">TS</a>]

00:35:32   hit you know it's sudden contact with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:34   what he believes is his destiny guided [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2134">TS</a>]

00:35:36   by god I'm so that that's part of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2136">TS</a>]

00:35:38   theme there but that's an interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:39   character he's a Texan we've got the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2139">TS</a>]

00:35:42   uh it's a Jewish artificial artificial [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2142">TS</a>]

00:35:47   intelligence experts who makes her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2147">TS</a>]

00:35:49   living she's a vulture she makes her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2149">TS</a>]

00:35:50   living basically scripting people's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2150">TS</a>]

00:35:52   brains like into computer code so that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2152">TS</a>]

00:35:56   they can be a little jobs can be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2156">TS</a>]

00:35:57   eliminated but he falls in love with her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2157">TS</a>]

00:36:01   and I thought it was interesting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2161">TS</a>]

00:36:02   the her character is a oh well not owned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2162">TS</a>]

00:36:07   but yeah surfing right for most of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2167">TS</a>]

00:36:09   book in this guy who pays deals and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2169">TS</a>]

00:36:13   basically pietrzyk people futures right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2173">TS</a>]

00:36:15   he pays for he identifies a talented [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2175">TS</a>]

00:36:18   poor children and put them through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2178">TS</a>]

00:36:20   school and you know identifies their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2180">TS</a>]

00:36:22   their talent and then they basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2182">TS</a>]

00:36:24   have to work off all of the money he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2184">TS</a>]

00:36:26   invested in them so they contract them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:28   out and she is one of those people and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2188">TS</a>]

00:36:31   just thought that was something that did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2191">TS</a>]

00:36:33   not seem that far-fetched to actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2193">TS</a>]

00:36:35   happening now today his which made me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2195">TS</a>]

00:36:37   depressed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2197">TS</a>]

00:36:38   yeah that was a bit so the whole Sophia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2198">TS</a>]

00:36:40   mendez story is like a little like other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2200">TS</a>]

00:36:43   science-fiction novel that she could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2203">TS</a>]

00:36:44   have written because that that that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2204">TS</a>]

00:36:46   idea there also you know she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2206">TS</a>]

00:36:48   extrapolating 20 years ahead in her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2208">TS</a>]

00:36:50   future there is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2210">TS</a>]

00:36:53   it's actually not too far off of what is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:56   happened in Syria happens in this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2216">TS</a>]

00:36:59   in turkey where there are right up there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2219">TS</a>]

00:37:02   terrorists and a war a civil war and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2222">TS</a>]

00:37:05   end up with she's basically her parents [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2225">TS</a>]

00:37:07   are killed and she is she is sold off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2227">TS</a>]

00:37:12   into prostitution first and then becomes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2232">TS</a>]

00:37:14   an indentured slave and a highly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2234">TS</a>]

00:37:19   educated professional at that point but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2239">TS</a>]

00:37:21   she still got the fact that she wears [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2241">TS</a>]

00:37:23   this like bracelet that is her symbol of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2243">TS</a>]

00:37:26   being owned until she can pay off her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2246">TS</a>]

00:37:29   debt and it's a it's a whole interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2249">TS</a>]

00:37:31   idea that is kind of just tossed off as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2251">TS</a>]

00:37:34   a a side aspect of this plot but another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2254">TS</a>]

00:37:37   thing to felt like a whole very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2257">TS</a>]

00:37:39   interesting science fictional premise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2259">TS</a>]

00:37:40   what about the UH I mean that if anybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2260">TS</a>]

00:37:43   have any other characters that they want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2263">TS</a>]

00:37:44   to talk about and we can we get we get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2264">TS</a>]

00:37:46   Jimmy Quinn who is your stock uh he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2266">TS</a>]

00:37:49   just a big science nerd who discovers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2269">TS</a>]

00:37:51   aliens you know as you do you dig [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2271">TS</a>]

00:37:54   literally like I'm feet 7 yeah he's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2274">TS</a>]

00:37:57   777 and a half foot er um I like all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2277">TS</a>]

00:38:01   aliens think so clearly he's your mother [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2281">TS</a>]

00:38:04   and you should be carrying our house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2284">TS</a>]

00:38:06   install yeah i'll come back to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2286">TS</a>]

00:38:08   later but yeah the fact that they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2288">TS</a>]

00:38:10   judging each other's races the humans [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2290">TS</a>]

00:38:13   and the the Runa is the first group of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2293">TS</a>]

00:38:16   aliens they meet on this planet and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2296">TS</a>]

00:38:18   they're judging gender by size and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2298">TS</a>]

00:38:21   figure out much later just how scrambled [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2301">TS</a>]

00:38:24   everything has gotten that apparently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2304">TS</a>]

00:38:25   you know Emilio's studies in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2305">TS</a>]

00:38:27   language he made the same assumptions as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2307">TS</a>]

00:38:30   far as which gender is being declined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2310">TS</a>]

00:38:32   with which noun and finding out that yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2312">TS</a>]

00:38:36   they all assume that big seven-foot-tall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2316">TS</a>]

00:38:38   Jimmy was the mom because he was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2318">TS</a>]

00:38:39   biggest you know if it had been just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2319">TS</a>]

00:38:42   just sighs that was the gender thing i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2322">TS</a>]

00:38:45   would have I would have found it amusing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2325">TS</a>]

00:38:46   and interesting but no this is another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2326">TS</a>]

00:38:49   this is another sign that this book was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2329">TS</a>]

00:38:51   written 20 years ago because it was and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2331">TS</a>]

00:38:53   the anthropologist also makes note of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2333">TS</a>]

00:38:56   the fact that it wasn't just the size [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2336">TS</a>]

00:38:58   but it was also the moral duties that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2338">TS</a>]

00:39:01   very happened and you know who is taking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2341">TS</a>]

00:39:03   care of the children and and being sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2343">TS</a>]

00:39:05   of more maternal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2345">TS</a>]

00:39:06   that sort of thing and I when he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2346">TS</a>]

00:39:08   going out of business in the bigger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2348">TS</a>]

00:39:09   world yeah that's true but it's not flip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2349">TS</a>]

00:39:12   with rona isn't that wasn't that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2352">TS</a>]

00:39:14   point there is everybody's making gender [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2354">TS</a>]

00:39:15   gender assumptions and it's the opposite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2355">TS</a>]

00:39:18   right but she was she was just saying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2358">TS</a>]

00:39:19   that that humans still have a certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2359">TS</a>]

00:39:23   gender assumptions which is the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2363">TS</a>]

00:39:25   that was problematic for me at this at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2365">TS</a>]

00:39:27   this point it's 2020 now milan i did i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2367">TS</a>]

00:39:29   did laugh at the point where the book is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2369">TS</a>]

00:39:31   taking place in what is now our present [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2371">TS</a>]

00:39:33   day and that was although although she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2373">TS</a>]

00:39:35   didn't get tablets right shit these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2375">TS</a>]

00:39:36   people are using tablets a lot like all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2376">TS</a>]

00:39:38   right that's pretty good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2378">TS</a>]

00:39:39   yep it's pretty good job and Jimmy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2379">TS</a>]

00:39:42   Jimmy's a home computer gets hacked into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2382">TS</a>]

00:39:45   by some teenagers that students write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2385">TS</a>]

00:39:47   something about that right yeah they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2387">TS</a>]

00:39:50   so there's some some paper at one point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2390">TS</a>]

00:39:51   that I was like nope that's probably not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2391">TS</a>]

00:39:53   right but I thought you did okay with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2393">TS</a>]

00:39:56   that as far as characters i love the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2396">TS</a>]

00:39:59   Edwardses oh yeah I love the it's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2399">TS</a>]

00:40:02   it's a couple that you know you would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2402">TS</a>]

00:40:03   not automatically assume to be the type [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2403">TS</a>]

00:40:07   of people to go on this mission they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2407">TS</a>]

00:40:10   in their sixties they essentially have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2410">TS</a>]

00:40:13   retired and are doing volunteer / [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2413">TS</a>]

00:40:16   mission work in Puerto Rico that they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2416">TS</a>]

00:40:20   a hoot and a half [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2420">TS</a>]

00:40:21   just the way the conversations between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2421">TS</a>]

00:40:23   them the way that they quit back and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2423">TS</a>]

00:40:25   forth and with their friends is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2425">TS</a>]

00:40:27   delightful but the that these are not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2427">TS</a>]

00:40:30   your standard um hero's journey go off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2430">TS</a>]

00:40:34   and quest type two kinds of people which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2434">TS</a>]

00:40:36   i think is great i think yeah that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2436">TS</a>]

00:40:38   one of the things I like to the best i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2438">TS</a>]

00:40:39   think and the most because you get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2439">TS</a>]

00:40:41   see a lot of her inner life as compared [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2441">TS</a>]

00:40:44   with George most of his inner life is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2444">TS</a>]

00:40:45   shown through and over but i just-i I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2445">TS</a>]

00:40:49   liked her as a character i liked the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2449">TS</a>]

00:40:51   that she reacted to other people and to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2451">TS</a>]

00:40:54   think she was thinking and I just you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2454">TS</a>]

00:40:56   right that the hoot and a half thing I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2456">TS</a>]

00:40:58   wanted them to be my friends I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2458">TS</a>]

00:41:00   go i wanted to go to their house and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2460">TS</a>]

00:41:02   many of them are these girls parties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2462">TS</a>]

00:41:03   because she just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2463">TS</a>]

00:41:04   yeah she sounded like the greatest host [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2464">TS</a>]

00:41:06   in the world yeah it's a fun you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2466">TS</a>]

00:41:09   these characters meet sandoz earlier on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2469">TS</a>]

00:41:11   and then he basically says you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:13   come to Puerto Rico and they're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2473">TS</a>]

00:41:14   yeah let's do it and they're there are a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2474">TS</a>]

00:41:16   lot of fun and this is that's one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2476">TS</a>]

00:41:18   things about this that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2478">TS</a>]

00:41:19   about this like let's let's buy an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2479">TS</a>]

00:41:22   asteroid not tell anybody that I kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2482">TS</a>]

00:41:24   like is that you know when else are you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2484">TS</a>]

00:41:26   going to see a story about a bunch of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2486">TS</a>]

00:41:28   friends deciding that they're gonna be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2488">TS</a>]

00:41:30   the ones to send a spaceship for a first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2490">TS</a>]

00:41:32   contact with aliens it's like that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2492">TS</a>]

00:41:35   not gonna happen right and yet that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2495">TS</a>]

00:41:37   the purpose of this tour including the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2497">TS</a>]

00:41:39   retired husband and wife who are the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2499">TS</a>]

00:41:41   last people that you would normally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2501">TS</a>]

00:41:42   expect to see in a first-contact space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2502">TS</a>]

00:41:44   mission but they go and of course which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2504">TS</a>]

00:41:47   is where you really need you really need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2507">TS</a>]

00:41:49   the God aspect of it there because that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2509">TS</a>]

00:41:51   does actually make it work without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2511">TS</a>]

00:41:53   feeling hand-wavy because you can just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2513">TS</a>]

00:41:54   be like okay you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2514">TS</a>]

00:41:55   Yeah right right although the what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2515">TS</a>]

00:41:57   interesting about the the couple is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2517">TS</a>]

00:41:59   the the wife who's the doctor is um is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2519">TS</a>]

00:42:03   basically completely lapsed Catholic and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2523">TS</a>]

00:42:06   although she may potentially change your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2526">TS</a>]

00:42:09   tune when they get to the alien planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2529">TS</a>]

00:42:10   you know she's she's among a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2530">TS</a>]

00:42:14   people who are believers she is not one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2534">TS</a>]

00:42:16   and it's a very interesting kind of kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2536">TS</a>]

00:42:18   of combination that they have their it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2538">TS</a>]

00:42:19   a good yeah those are really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2539">TS</a>]

00:42:20   characters the dialogue is really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2540">TS</a>]

00:42:22   with those characters I felt like a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2542">TS</a>]

00:42:23   of these characters really jump off the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:25   page not only sandoz but the the couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2545">TS</a>]

00:42:26   and Sophia mendez and the the Texan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2546">TS</a>]

00:42:30   priests to who is a mentor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2550">TS</a>]

00:42:33   these are all characters that this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2553">TS</a>]

00:42:34   one of those books where i can actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2554">TS</a>]

00:42:35   like I i start to cast people and staged [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2555">TS</a>]

00:42:38   scenes and higher their voices talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2558">TS</a>]

00:42:41   because the characters are so strong and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2561">TS</a>]

00:42:46   and memorable I let's talk about aliens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2566">TS</a>]

00:42:50   how about that no okay Scott you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2570">TS</a>]

00:42:53   stick limes so we get direct we get 2 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2573">TS</a>]

00:42:55   rakaat day they take a hollowed-out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2575">TS</a>]

00:42:58   remaining asteroid and they threw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2578">TS</a>]

00:43:00   magical undescribed of engine AI program [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2580">TS</a>]

00:43:06   is slightly physics you can accelerate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2586">TS</a>]

00:43:08   and how they do that we don't know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2588">TS</a>]

00:43:11   then they decelerate and then they get 2 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2591">TS</a>]

00:43:12   rakaat and you know it it's fine and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2592">TS</a>]

00:43:17   they meet it and i really like i said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2597">TS</a>]

00:43:21   i'm a sucker for first contact up i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2601">TS</a>]

00:43:22   really like first off they land kinda [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2602">TS</a>]

00:43:24   like far away from everything and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2604">TS</a>]

00:43:26   they're just sort of like basking in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2606">TS</a>]

00:43:29   you know in the in being off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2609">TS</a>]

00:43:33   the asteroid 41 and in this new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2613">TS</a>]

00:43:34   ecosystem of all alien stuff that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2614">TS</a>]

00:43:36   don't know anything about and they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2616">TS</a>]

00:43:38   to like eat little bit of food to see if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2618">TS</a>]

00:43:40   the current it's poisonous or not which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2620">TS</a>]

00:43:41   I kind of enjoyed all of that and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2621">TS</a>]

00:43:43   they do all of that and somebody dies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2623">TS</a>]

00:43:45   actually which land they don't know why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2625">TS</a>]

00:43:47   which I also really kind of like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2627">TS</a>]

00:43:49   this is when you're getting to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2629">TS</a>]

00:43:50   Jesuits coming to the new world right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2630">TS</a>]

00:43:52   which is there are far from home that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2632">TS</a>]

00:43:54   their that they're not going to just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2634">TS</a>]

00:43:55   subsist on their rations they are trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2635">TS</a>]

00:43:58   to figure this out some of the people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2638">TS</a>]

00:43:59   aren't going to make it and and there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2639">TS</a>]

00:44:01   not gonna be a clear reason why and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2641">TS</a>]

00:44:04   they finally meet the the aliens on this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2644">TS</a>]

00:44:07   planet or at least they think of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2647">TS</a>]

00:44:09   aliens on this planet which are the Runa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2649">TS</a>]

00:44:11   I'm and they and they have this question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2651">TS</a>]

00:44:13   of like they get some stuff confused but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2653">TS</a>]

00:44:16   because Santos is there because he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2656">TS</a>]

00:44:17   brilliant translator and they they spend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2657">TS</a>]

00:44:20   some time trying to figure out who these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2660">TS</a>]

00:44:22   people are and and and how their culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2662">TS</a>]

00:44:25   works and I loved all of this stuff and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2665">TS</a>]

00:44:27   it goes i was i was happy I was afraid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2667">TS</a>]

00:44:30   that this was going to go on for like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2670">TS</a>]

00:44:31   one chapter and then be done and and my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2671">TS</a>]

00:44:35   memory of it is so warm that I wanted to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2675">TS</a>]

00:44:38   go on longer and in the book actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2678">TS</a>]

00:44:39   goes on a very long time that they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2679">TS</a>]

00:44:41   that this whole portion is but i really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2681">TS</a>]

00:44:43   enjoyed the whole first contact with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2683">TS</a>]

00:44:44   value with Runa I'd read that as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2684">TS</a>]

00:44:47   but i do think there's they they spend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2687">TS</a>]

00:44:49   like a year in this little village and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2689">TS</a>]

00:44:50   they never liked feet ask about the city [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2690">TS</a>]

00:44:53   and try to get more information I found [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2693">TS</a>]

00:44:56   an odd but i did--like i enjoyed reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2696">TS</a>]

00:45:00   about it but I was like if i was there i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2700">TS</a>]

00:45:02   might you know go check out the city or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2702">TS</a>]

00:45:04   something I don't know it seems very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2704">TS</a>]

00:45:06   tempting but maybe they're so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2706">TS</a>]

00:45:08   overwhelmed with the the novelty like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2708">TS</a>]

00:45:11   everything is new on this alien planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2711">TS</a>]

00:45:12   obviously they're writing scholarly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2712">TS</a>]

00:45:14   papers about the you know they're taking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2714">TS</a>]

00:45:16   it slow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2716">TS</a>]

00:45:17   yeah i think part of it is being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2717">TS</a>]

00:45:18   cautious and I'd I'm under the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2718">TS</a>]

00:45:20   impression that at least among [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2720">TS</a>]

00:45:22   themselves some of the characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2722">TS</a>]

00:45:24   saying you know we really need to you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2724">TS</a>]

00:45:26   know try and you know try and find the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2726">TS</a>]

00:45:28   people who are the singers because the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2728">TS</a>]

00:45:29   whole reason they've come to this planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2729">TS</a>]

00:45:30   is the music that the city picked up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:34   this particular population they don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2734">TS</a>]

00:45:37   music no they don't do it but i can see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2737">TS</a>]

00:45:41   i think maybe it does stretch on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2741">TS</a>]

00:45:43   little bit farther than it could that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2743">TS</a>]

00:45:45   might need to but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2745">TS</a>]

00:45:46   there's always seems to be something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2746">TS</a>]

00:45:47   else to do something else to take care [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2747">TS</a>]

00:45:49   of before trying to go on to the next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2749">TS</a>]

00:45:51   thing ya i have I'm of two minds about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2751">TS</a>]

00:45:53   this because on the one hand like I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2753">TS</a>]

00:45:56   it from a logical perspective it does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2756">TS</a>]

00:45:59   make sense to to sort of take your time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2759">TS</a>]

00:46:01   and do it methodically accept these are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2761">TS</a>]

00:46:04   people that immediately decided to jump [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2764">TS</a>]

00:46:06   in an asteroid and go to another planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2766">TS</a>]

00:46:09   so I don't feel like that that argument [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2769">TS</a>]

00:46:12   that great with impulse control that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2772">TS</a>]

00:46:14   argument doesn't quite work however on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2774">TS</a>]

00:46:16   the other side the reason that they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2776">TS</a>]

00:46:18   able to jump into an asteroid so quickly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2778">TS</a>]

00:46:20   is because they're Jesuits and it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2780">TS</a>]

00:46:22   God's plan you know that this everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2782">TS</a>]

00:46:24   seemed to and they didn't talk in detail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2784">TS</a>]

00:46:26   about all of the stuff that had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2786">TS</a>]

00:46:28   miraculously happen in order for it to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2788">TS</a>]

00:46:29   fall into place but you know from and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2789">TS</a>]

00:46:31   musing musings that they make it very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2791">TS</a>]

00:46:33   clear that that everything sort of came [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2793">TS</a>]

00:46:36   together perfectly at the last minute in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2796">TS</a>]

00:46:38   a way that did seem like it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2798">TS</a>]

00:46:40   miraculous so it made it very easy for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2800">TS</a>]

00:46:43   the the higher-ups in the in the Jesuits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2803">TS</a>]

00:46:45   to to say yes you know this is this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2805">TS</a>]

00:46:48   meant to be and I believe that there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2808">TS</a>]

00:46:51   were a couple of nods to that in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2811">TS</a>]

00:46:53   like you know Jimmy really did want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2813">TS</a>]

00:46:54   get out there and go in the city but for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2814">TS</a>]

00:46:58   one reason or another it seems like they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2818">TS</a>]

00:47:01   should stay there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2821">TS</a>]

00:47:02   you know the whole God's plan again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2822">TS</a>]

00:47:04   amelia was leaning that way right and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2824">TS</a>]

00:47:06   also um Russell does take care the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2826">TS</a>]

00:47:10   first member of the crew to die of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2830">TS</a>]

00:47:12   appears to be natural causes they try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2832">TS</a>]

00:47:14   you know that and the doctor tries to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2834">TS</a>]

00:47:16   an autopsy and with essentially field [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2836">TS</a>]

00:47:18   conditions and can't figure it out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2838">TS</a>]

00:47:20   that was the music expert right so like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2840">TS</a>]

00:47:22   the biggest driving force in the party [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2842">TS</a>]

00:47:25   is removed very early on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2845">TS</a>]

00:47:27   yep yeah the other thing that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2847">TS</a>]

00:47:29   brilliant that's like I said this is up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2849">TS</a>]

00:47:32   it makes it so clear that Russell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2852">TS</a>]

00:47:34   strength is anthropology because she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2854">TS</a>]

00:47:36   throws in the gender mix-up at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2856">TS</a>]

00:47:39   beginning and you know it it turns out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2859">TS</a>]

00:47:41   to be fairly harmless they just have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2861">TS</a>]

00:47:43   reassess what they had assumed and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:45   rework some of their papers but you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2865">TS</a>]

00:47:48   to make such a monumental [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2868">TS</a>]

00:47:49   misunderstanding of of the gender of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:53   these peak of the of the Runa arm and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2873">TS</a>]

00:47:56   then take something as simple as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2876">TS</a>]

00:47:59   you know we really need to grow our own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2879">TS</a>]

00:48:01   food you know we yes we can eat a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2881">TS</a>]

00:48:03   the stuff on this planet but you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2883">TS</a>]

00:48:05   would help if we had our own and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2885">TS</a>]

00:48:07   know just something simple as a plant a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2887">TS</a>]

00:48:10   garden in this village and and start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2890">TS</a>]

00:48:12   eating the stuff there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2892">TS</a>]

00:48:13   turns out to have catastrophic effects [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2893">TS</a>]

00:48:16   on the biosphere because we learn that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2896">TS</a>]

00:48:19   there's a second alien race that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2899">TS</a>]

00:48:21   essentially you have a predator and prey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:25   situation that has evolved into this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2905">TS</a>]

00:48:28   entire set of the job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2908">TS</a>]

00:48:31   the Jaffa Jaffa yeah this is what I want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2911">TS</a>]

00:48:35   when I tell you have the Jon a one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2915">TS</a>]

00:48:37   the things that's interesting here is is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2917">TS</a>]

00:48:39   yes Shannon this day the innocence of we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2919">TS</a>]

00:48:43   need to grow a garden is the thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2923">TS</a>]

00:48:46   essentially destroys this planet at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2926">TS</a>]

00:48:48   least as it was before they got there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2928">TS</a>]

00:48:50   which is is a an amazing kind of moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2930">TS</a>]

00:48:53   where it unravels gradually and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2933">TS</a>]

00:48:56   realize what's going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2936">TS</a>]

00:48:58   so you mentioned that we should say it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2938">TS</a>]

00:48:59   so there it turns out that this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2939">TS</a>]

00:49:00   planet with two races and the reason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2940">TS</a>]

00:49:02   that the Runa seem kind of dasol is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:05   they have evolved from prey animals and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2945">TS</a>]

00:49:09   there's another species that has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2949">TS</a>]

00:49:11   involved evolved as their predators and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2951">TS</a>]

00:49:14   they look similar because that was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2954">TS</a>]

00:49:17   hunting method used by the historical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2957">TS</a>]

00:49:20   predators but the Janata have three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2960">TS</a>]

00:49:23   claws instead of sort of five very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2963">TS</a>]

00:49:26   dexterous fingers and when we meet one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2966">TS</a>]

00:49:30   of them and it almost kills sandoz when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2970">TS</a>]

00:49:32   we do we discovered that this planet is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2972">TS</a>]

00:49:35   far more complicated than they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2975">TS</a>]

00:49:37   really anticipated and i like i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2977">TS</a>]

00:49:40   when they're like with the with the Runa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2980">TS</a>]

00:49:42   because I feel like yeah they're they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2982">TS</a>]

00:49:45   they're so overwhelmed with meeting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2985">TS</a>]

00:49:47   these people that they would they want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2987">TS</a>]

00:49:48   to kind of take it slow and i think i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2988">TS</a>]

00:49:50   can buy that but at that moment when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2990">TS</a>]

00:49:52   they meet the jaw nada is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2992">TS</a>]

00:49:53   revelatory moments like oh this is much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2993">TS</a>]

00:49:56   more alien than we really expected and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2996">TS</a>]

00:49:59   we finally we'll go to the city with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/2999">TS</a>]

00:50:03   them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3003">TS</a>]

00:50:04   it turns out that again Russell used the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3004">TS</a>]

00:50:07   the traditional kind of predator prey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3007">TS</a>]

00:50:09   population balance which is something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3009">TS</a>]

00:50:11   that's like three or four [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3011">TS</a>]

00:50:13   scent of the population of this planet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3013">TS</a>]

00:50:15   is the jhana ahh because that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3015">TS</a>]

00:50:17   generally the percentage of the ratio [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3017">TS</a>]

00:50:20   between predators and prey and and when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3020">TS</a>]

00:50:23   you put it when you layer that on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3023">TS</a>]

00:50:25   sentient creatures and this was a moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3025">TS</a>]

00:50:27   that I really liked you realize that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3027">TS</a>]

00:50:29   what you've constructed is a ruling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3029">TS</a>]

00:50:31   class a very small ruling class and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3031">TS</a>]

00:50:35   very large essentially slave or surf [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3035">TS</a>]

00:50:38   class and that's actually the culture of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3038">TS</a>]

00:50:42   ricotta and and not just a slave class [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3042">TS</a>]

00:50:45   but they're still pray they still needs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3045">TS</a>]

00:50:49   to us its candidate to us it feels like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3049">TS</a>]

00:50:51   cannibalism because you've got to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3051">TS</a>]

00:50:53   sentient you know races and one of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3053">TS</a>]

00:50:55   is eating the other but yeah we finally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3055">TS</a>]

00:50:58   learned that that's one of the reasons [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3058">TS</a>]

00:51:00   that the population control is so rigid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3060">TS</a>]

00:51:03   the rihanna the Runa are not allowed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3063">TS</a>]

00:51:05   breed are unless they earn it by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3065">TS</a>]

00:51:08   gathering uh apparently perfume scent is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3068">TS</a>]

00:51:11   massively a massive part of this culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3071">TS</a>]

00:51:14   and uh the Runa gather of the flowers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3074">TS</a>]

00:51:18   and the plants needed to create these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3078">TS</a>]

00:51:20   perfumes and create these sense and if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3080">TS</a>]

00:51:22   they do a good enough job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3082">TS</a>]

00:51:23   hey they get the right to have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3083">TS</a>]

00:51:25   generation kids that are better on bread [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3085">TS</a>]

00:51:27   with butter chosen by John auto because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3087">TS</a>]

00:51:31   they're all the breeding them like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3091">TS</a>]

00:51:32   humans would breed dogs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3092">TS</a>]

00:51:34   yes yes exactly Jonna auto themselves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3094">TS</a>]

00:51:37   are also under population control [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:39   because they can't have too many of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3099">TS</a>]

00:51:40   because they need to keep the balance of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:42   the prey and the predator and so when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3102">TS</a>]

00:51:45   when she introduces a super pirate right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3105">TS</a>]

00:51:49   he's a third yeah he's the third so we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3109">TS</a>]

00:51:51   meet him before he meets the humans and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3111">TS</a>]

00:51:55   so we get we find out he's a third he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3115">TS</a>]

00:51:56   can't have he can start his own family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3116">TS</a>]

00:51:58   he really wants to he's really good at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3118">TS</a>]

00:52:01   you know finding trends and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3121">TS</a>]

00:52:03   cashing in on it so it's supremely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3123">TS</a>]

00:52:05   wealthy but he's cool finder he has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3125">TS</a>]

00:52:08   cool he is it a friend spotter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3128">TS</a>]

00:52:10   super-wealthy is very successful but he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3130">TS</a>]

00:52:14   doesn't get any respect and he really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3134">TS</a>]

00:52:16   wants to start his own family and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3136">TS</a>]

00:52:18   only way you can do that is if you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3138">TS</a>]

00:52:20   one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3140">TS</a>]

00:52:22   what's the the dead head guys name [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3142">TS</a>]

00:52:24   registrar I think oh yeah the rest are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3144">TS</a>]

00:52:26   yeah that's the title [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3146">TS</a>]

00:52:28   yeah you have to you don't impress him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3148">TS</a>]

00:52:30   or do something worthy of being able to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3150">TS</a>]

00:52:32   found your own family and so we know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3152">TS</a>]

00:52:34   that's his motive and so when he meets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3154">TS</a>]

00:52:36   the humans we know a boy this is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:38   going to turn out well but they don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3158">TS</a>]

00:52:39   know that obviously and spoiler alert it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3159">TS</a>]

00:52:42   doesn't know me he does he uses them for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3162">TS</a>]

00:52:44   his own he takes his time yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3164">TS</a>]

00:52:47   that's right he uses he uses them but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3167">TS</a>]

00:52:50   in the beginning using them is not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3170">TS</a>]

00:52:52   particularly terrible but there comes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3172">TS</a>]

00:52:54   moment where he basically has to sell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3174">TS</a>]

00:52:55   them out and does and without you know a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3175">TS</a>]

00:52:58   moment's hesitation without any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3178">TS</a>]

00:53:00   compulsion yeah because he's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3180">TS</a>]

00:53:01   whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3181">TS</a>]

00:53:02   yeah I got what I wanted to get whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3182">TS</a>]

00:53:04   I mean at that point she had been told [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3184">TS</a>]

00:53:06   he had made it would what seems like an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3186">TS</a>]

00:53:09   actual emotional connection with a and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3189">TS</a>]

00:53:11   but she dies much earlier on and by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3191">TS</a>]

00:53:14   time that soup re-release actually sells [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3194">TS</a>]

00:53:16   them out the only person left at that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3196">TS</a>]

00:53:19   point is Emilio whom he didn't really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3199">TS</a>]

00:53:21   care for to start with so I don't feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3201">TS</a>]

00:53:23   like I don't feel like he's necessarily [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3203">TS</a>]

00:53:25   you know it's throwing over some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3205">TS</a>]

00:53:27   convictions that he had because the fan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3207">TS</a>]

00:53:29   would have still been alive it might [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3209">TS</a>]

00:53:30   have been a different story true it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3210">TS</a>]

00:53:31   true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3211">TS</a>]

00:53:32   well in fact support you could argue is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3212">TS</a>]

00:53:34   is a be the thing that the NOC but he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3214">TS</a>]

00:53:36   got a with the other Janata is that he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3216">TS</a>]

00:53:38   so much he gets along so well with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3218">TS</a>]

00:53:41   Runa and if you think if you think about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3221">TS</a>]

00:53:43   that any human context right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3223">TS</a>]

00:53:45   he is a member of a ruling class whose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3225">TS</a>]

00:53:47   greatest skill is dealing with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3227">TS</a>]

00:53:48   subjugated class and that is not good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3228">TS</a>]

00:53:50   right even if it makes him a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3230">TS</a>]

00:53:52   businessman it means he is going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3232">TS</a>]

00:53:54   never be able to access high society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3234">TS</a>]

00:53:57   because of that because he's his is all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3237">TS</a>]

00:53:58   of his skills are in dealing with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3238">TS</a>]

00:54:00   lower class of of people in this case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:03   the Runa and so when he meets and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3243">TS</a>]

00:54:07   really really kind of bonds with her i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3247">TS</a>]

00:54:10   believe that bond because I feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3250">TS</a>]

00:54:12   that's what he's good at is meeting with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3252">TS</a>]

00:54:15   other kinds of people he's kind of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3255">TS</a>]

00:54:17   the anthropologist of the jama oughtta [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3257">TS</a>]

00:54:20   but the problem is the only way he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3260">TS</a>]

00:54:23   gonna be able to further his line is to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3263">TS</a>]

00:54:25   be appointed as the head of a new family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3265">TS</a>]

00:54:27   which means he's got his success thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3267">TS</a>]

00:54:30   in the background and and you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3270">TS</a>]

00:54:32   eyes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3272">TS</a>]

00:54:34   off screen which I have a problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3274">TS</a>]

00:54:36   and and in the end he just goes another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3276">TS</a>]

00:54:39   direction but I think that's a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3279">TS</a>]

00:54:40   interesting character because although [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3280">TS</a>]

00:54:42   he portrays them at the end I think I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3282">TS</a>]

00:54:46   like that character because he's kinda [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3286">TS</a>]

00:54:48   portrayed as being an outcast from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:50   jaw nada he's more like us than the rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3290">TS</a>]

00:54:52   of them are which i think is one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3292">TS</a>]

00:54:54   problems with them under estimating the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3294">TS</a>]

00:54:56   Janata as as a people is that the party [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3296">TS</a>]

00:54:59   and the wrong model for what they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3299">TS</a>]

00:55:02   because he's the weird he's a weirdo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3302">TS</a>]

00:55:04   definitely is a weird he's gone native [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3304">TS</a>]

00:55:06   essentially with the with Runa and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3306">TS</a>]

00:55:09   and now with the humans and you know do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3309">TS</a>]

00:55:12   not think that the rest of the people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3312">TS</a>]

00:55:13   are like him because they are really not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3313">TS</a>]

00:55:15   like him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3315">TS</a>]

00:55:16   yes they're their encounters with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3316">TS</a>]

00:55:18   rest of Janata aren't the the free-range [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3318">TS</a>]

00:55:20   Jonathan ahead with City Jedi are not so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3320">TS</a>]

00:55:24   good no right no we are either because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3324">TS</a>]

00:55:27   they're the roving bands who are still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3327">TS</a>]

00:55:29   sort of just acting as predators [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3329">TS</a>]

00:55:31   I feel like I was like their loan motors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3331">TS</a>]

00:55:34   and they just go in and poach and sadly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3334">TS</a>]

00:55:36   they poach some humans they do so let me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3336">TS</a>]

00:55:39   let me so one of my remember 20 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3339">TS</a>]

00:55:43   ago ish when I read this book that I did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3343">TS</a>]

00:55:45   it my biggest complaint about it is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3345">TS</a>]

00:55:47   i felt like and i'm going to describe it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3347">TS</a>]

00:55:49   the way that I described it back then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3349">TS</a>]

00:55:50   which is I felt like at some point she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3350">TS</a>]

00:55:52   realized she needed to finish the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3352">TS</a>]

00:55:54   and what who and what was a meandering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3354">TS</a>]

00:55:59   leisurely walk through dialogue and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3359">TS</a>]

00:56:04   aggressions and descriptions rapidly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:08   becomes a plot output to get to the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3368">TS</a>]

00:56:10   yeah i buy it so this time this time i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3370">TS</a>]

00:56:13   watched for it and the fact is every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3373">TS</a>]

00:56:15   chapter alternates between the two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3375">TS</a>]

00:56:17   timelines until the last two chapters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3377">TS</a>]

00:56:19   and last two chapters are both in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:21   present-day the later timeline and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3381">TS</a>]

00:56:24   describe everything that happened on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3384">TS</a>]

00:56:26   planet in very short terms at a any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3386">TS</a>]

00:56:31   completely different style than the rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3391">TS</a>]

00:56:33   of the book and it still frustrates me I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3393">TS</a>]

00:56:35   was wondering if I would be proven wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3395">TS</a>]

00:56:37   and rereading it and instead I was going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3397">TS</a>]

00:56:39   to vindicate its like I do feel driven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3399">TS</a>]

00:56:41   right I do feel like she ran out of time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3401">TS</a>]

00:56:43   or ran out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3403">TS</a>]

00:56:43   the of energy and she wanted to finish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3403">TS</a>]

00:56:45   but I also i don't know whether this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3405">TS</a>]

00:56:48   true or not but I also feel like maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3408">TS</a>]

00:56:49   she was a little cowardly about her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3409">TS</a>]

00:56:52   killing her characters because we don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3412">TS</a>]

00:56:54   see and DW get killed on screen and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3414">TS</a>]

00:56:57   don't see the massacre that is the final [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3417">TS</a>]

00:57:01   destruction of this mission to the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3421">TS</a>]

00:57:04   thing that they've been leading up to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3424">TS</a>]

00:57:06   where everything goes wrong it's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3426">TS</a>]

00:57:08   incredibly dramatic thing and it is told [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3428">TS</a>]

00:57:11   in this perfunctory flashback fashion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3431">TS</a>]

00:57:14   where we never really get to see it at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3434">TS</a>]

00:57:16   anything like the level of everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3436">TS</a>]

00:57:19   else we've seen up to that point and its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3439">TS</a>]

00:57:20   really frustrating it's made a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:22   more frustrating by the fact that in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3442">TS</a>]

00:57:24   sequel to this book which i also read 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3444">TS</a>]

00:57:27   or 15 15 years ago and was disappointing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3447">TS</a>]

00:57:30   i have to say it turns out that perhaps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3450">TS</a>]

00:57:33   one of the reasons that she did this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3453">TS</a>]

00:57:35   because she was cheating and she wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3455">TS</a>]

00:57:37   to lie about exactly who died in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3457">TS</a>]

00:57:39   massacre which is also frustrating but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3459">TS</a>]

00:57:42   anyway right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3462">TS</a>]

00:57:43   my point is my point is though that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3463">TS</a>]

00:57:46   can't it seems to me as as a reader and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3466">TS</a>]

00:57:49   maybe even as an editor you can't be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3469">TS</a>]

00:57:51   going like 20 miles an hour taking in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3471">TS</a>]

00:57:54   all the sights and then when you get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3474">TS</a>]

00:57:56   the key point in the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3476">TS</a>]

00:57:58   floor it and that's what happens at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3478">TS</a>]

00:58:00   end of this book i agree because I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3480">TS</a>]

00:58:02   I've been my school is starting again so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3482">TS</a>]

00:58:06   you know I've been busy and rushed and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3486">TS</a>]

00:58:08   trying to read as best I could and here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3488">TS</a>]

00:58:12   i was i still have like 60 pages of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3492">TS</a>]

00:58:14   book left to go at nine o'clock this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3494">TS</a>]

00:58:17   evening and we started recording at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3497">TS</a>]

00:58:19   ten-thirty my time and I'm thinking like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3499">TS</a>]

00:58:20   I don't know that i'll finish but i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3500">TS</a>]

00:58:22   going to try um yeah i was able to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3502">TS</a>]

00:58:25   through 60 pages in like 45 minutes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3505">TS</a>]

00:58:28   because it is so much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3508">TS</a>]

00:58:30   boom boom boom report report report yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3510">TS</a>]

00:58:32   yeah it's not it's not your imagination [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3512">TS</a>]

00:58:34   i can i can come up with the reason i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3514">TS</a>]

00:58:37   don't know if it's a good reason or not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3517">TS</a>]

00:58:40   but i'll try to explain it so i think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3520">TS</a>]

00:58:42   could mirror one could argue sandoz [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3522">TS</a>]

00:58:46   journey at the beginning of the book is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3526">TS</a>]

00:58:48   reticent he does want to talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3528">TS</a>]

00:58:49   anything he's thinking about remembering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3529">TS</a>]

00:58:51   the good times on the planet right and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3531">TS</a>]

00:58:53   then as we're getting through there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3533">TS</a>]

00:58:54   that revelatory moments where they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3534">TS</a>]

00:58:56   figure out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3536">TS</a>]

00:58:57   you were in a prostitute you were being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3537">TS</a>]

00:58:58   gang-raped and he you know he admits it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3538">TS</a>]

00:59:01   and it wasn't his fault he finally kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3541">TS</a>]

00:59:03   of says you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:04   ok wasn't my fault it wasn't anything I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3544">TS</a>]

00:59:06   could do I was raped and then you cut [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3546">TS</a>]

00:59:10   there's that there's a pivotal moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3550">TS</a>]

00:59:11   for him and he suddenly just starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:14   talking about what happens and reveals [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3554">TS</a>]

00:59:16   all these details and that's the last 60 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3556">TS</a>]

00:59:18   pages of the book now I don't know if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3558">TS</a>]

00:59:19   that's a good reason but that if i had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3559">TS</a>]

00:59:21   to write a paper explain the structure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3561">TS</a>]

00:59:23   of the book that sure what I would write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3563">TS</a>]

00:59:24   about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3564">TS</a>]

00:59:25   yes i think is not that bad headcanon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3565">TS</a>]

00:59:28   Scott but yeah there's a lot of great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3568">TS</a>]

00:59:32   stuff in that that village i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3572">TS</a>]

00:59:33   particularly like where they start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3573">TS</a>]

00:59:34   farming because they need to to you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3574">TS</a>]

00:59:37   grow their own food and the arena [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3577">TS</a>]

00:59:39   obviously pay attention although you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3579">TS</a>]

00:59:41   know that this point we don't think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3581">TS</a>]

00:59:42   the ruins are all that right but it just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3582">TS</a>]

00:59:45   turns out that they are they are as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3585">TS</a>]

00:59:46   bright as the regular people they just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3586">TS</a>]

00:59:48   have you know that they're aliens so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3588">TS</a>]

00:59:50   they do things differently and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3590">TS</a>]

00:59:52   notice that the farming and so they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3592">TS</a>]

00:59:54   like gee why do we keep trudging so far [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3594">TS</a>]

00:59:57   away to get our food when we can grow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3597">TS</a>]

00:59:59   some food here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3599">TS</a>]

00:59:59   some food here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3599">TS</a>]

01:00:00   and they start doing it and then of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:01   course that least horrible things i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3601">TS</a>]

01:00:03   should point out horrible beatings and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3603">TS</a>]

01:00:05   civil war and what they have done is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3605">TS</a>]

01:00:08   also this incredible to put in Star Trek [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3608">TS</a>]

01:00:10   terms violation of the prime directive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3610">TS</a>]

01:00:12   where the presence it turns out all as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3612">TS</a>]

01:00:15   careful as they sort of were being they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3615">TS</a>]

01:00:17   ruin this society because they the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3617">TS</a>]

01:00:21   room and begin to plant gardens and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3621">TS</a>]

01:00:23   they have an overpopulation and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3623">TS</a>]

01:00:25   means the general artist and out squads [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3625">TS</a>]

01:00:26   to kill them and there's a moment where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3626">TS</a>]

01:00:28   one of the human says there are more of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3628">TS</a>]

01:00:31   of of us than there are of you and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3631">TS</a>]

01:00:34   that's like oh no because the entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:37   power power structure is based on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3637">TS</a>]

01:00:39   fact that these predators I have to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3639">TS</a>]

01:00:43   put the fear in the prey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3643">TS</a>]

01:00:45   yeah and and the room to start chanting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3645">TS</a>]

01:00:46   that writes when the gentleman's this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3646">TS</a>]

01:00:48   squad is there and the gentle kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3648">TS</a>]

01:00:51   freaked out it just said ok we're going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3651">TS</a>]

01:00:52   to kill you all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3652">TS</a>]

01:00:53   there's the first massacre yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3653">TS</a>]

01:00:56   starts the Civil which its powerful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3656">TS</a>]

01:00:57   right because it is that moment of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3657">TS</a>]

01:00:59   this is actually being held in balance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3659">TS</a>]

01:01:02   by this consensual hallucination that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3662">TS</a>]

01:01:05   the predators and prey who have evolved [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3665">TS</a>]

01:01:08   together in the society has evolved [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3668">TS</a>]

01:01:09   together are in these roles and these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3669">TS</a>]

01:01:12   people from another planet come in and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3672">TS</a>]

01:01:14   say hey you realize there's way more of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3674">TS</a>]

01:01:17   you than them you could take them and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3677">TS</a>]

01:01:18   it's like home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3678">TS</a>]

01:01:19   well yeah okay that's it forget it like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3679">TS</a>]

01:01:22   they totally screw up this society and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3682">TS</a>]

01:01:25   really appreciated that there could have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3685">TS</a>]

01:01:27   been more of that too I feel like if she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3687">TS</a>]

01:01:30   had taken those last two chapters and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3690">TS</a>]

01:01:32   just let them go at the pace of the rest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3692">TS</a>]

01:01:35   of the book it would have been a perfect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3695">TS</a>]

01:01:37   book for my taste but instead it's sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3697">TS</a>]

01:01:41   of like somebody was given to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3701">TS</a>]

01:01:42   wrap-up sign maybe her agent maybe her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3702">TS</a>]

01:01:44   publisher was like you need to turn in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3704">TS</a>]

01:01:46   the manuscript right and I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3706">TS</a>]

01:01:49   it's it's it's dramatic but I love a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3709">TS</a>]

01:01:52   about this book i was happy to read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3712">TS</a>]

01:01:54   the characters are indelible the the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3714">TS</a>]

01:01:57   the alien culture is interesting the yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3717">TS</a>]

01:02:01   the how they get there in the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3721">TS</a>]

01:02:03   it's eight people in an asteroid from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3723">TS</a>]

01:02:05   the society of jesus that make first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3725">TS</a>]

01:02:07   contact this kind of kind of ludicrous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3727">TS</a>]

01:02:09   and in one way but it's the story she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3729">TS</a>]

01:02:11   wants to tell because she wants to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3731">TS</a>]

01:02:13   a Jesuit mission out to a new world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3733">TS</a>]

01:02:14   having a a experience meeting people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3734">TS</a>]

01:02:18   that they've never met before and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3738">TS</a>]

01:02:20   the purpose of the book so that's what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3740">TS</a>]

01:02:22   she does and there's so many somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3742">TS</a>]

01:02:24   moments in this book that works so well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3744">TS</a>]

01:02:26   but the problem is that they work so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3746">TS</a>]

01:02:28   well because they are gut-wrenching yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3748">TS</a>]

01:02:30   and I the one that sticks out to be is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3750">TS</a>]

01:02:33   so after the slaughter the Janata patrol [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3753">TS</a>]

01:02:36   cakes sandoz and the other another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3756">TS</a>]

01:02:41   priest Robicheaux that the survivors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3761">TS</a>]

01:02:43   yes that they're the two survivors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3763">TS</a>]

01:02:44   they're gonna take it back to the city [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3764">TS</a>]

01:02:46   but before they do that they are going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3766">TS</a>]

01:02:48   to talk them through the the ruin of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3768">TS</a>]

01:02:51   villages that they're gonna go kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3771">TS</a>]

01:02:52   people in because of the gardens that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3772">TS</a>]

01:02:54   they have planted and it turns out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3774">TS</a>]

01:02:56   that's on the road they eat the babies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3776">TS</a>]

01:03:00   of the Runa and they offer the food to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3780">TS</a>]

01:03:03   the two humans and the the one priest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3783">TS</a>]

01:03:07   refuses to eat it and he dies and centos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3787">TS</a>]

01:03:11   it does eat it because he wants to live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3791">TS</a>]

01:03:13   and let you know in the the 26 t-storm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3793">TS</a>]

01:03:17   one of the characters asks and what was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3797">TS</a>]

01:03:19   there something that you ate that mark [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3799">TS</a>]

01:03:21   didn't that maybe that explains his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:22   death and you don't know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3802">TS</a>]

01:03:24   significance of that line until you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3804">TS</a>]

01:03:27   the flashback and you're like oh man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3807">TS</a>]

01:03:29   yep this book well I mean Shannon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3809">TS</a>]

01:03:32   America know that I am I am drawn to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3812">TS</a>]

01:03:34   those uh those darker episodes of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3814">TS</a>]

01:03:37   Babylon 5 on their podcast there that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3817">TS</a>]

01:03:39   part of the appeal of this book to me is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3819">TS</a>]

01:03:41   that it it does it go so horribly wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3821">TS</a>]

01:03:43   and you feel for these characters and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3823">TS</a>]

01:03:45   although i don't enjoy how wrong is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:47   going to sound like I'm looking on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3827">TS</a>]

01:03:48   with glee [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3828">TS</a>]

01:03:49   I appreciate the fact that that story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3829">TS</a>]

01:03:51   has made me feel so horrible for these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3831">TS</a>]

01:03:54   characters that I like about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3834">TS</a>]

01:03:55   terrible situation that they're put in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3835">TS</a>]

01:03:57   and it's just it's so yeah it's so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3837">TS</a>]

01:04:00   amazing that that's part of look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3840">TS</a>]

01:04:03   sandoz this is all about his kind of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3843">TS</a>]

01:04:06   life of his soul and the disposition of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3846">TS</a>]

01:04:09   his soul and he thinks that he is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3849">TS</a>]

01:04:11   failure as a priest and then he finally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3851">TS</a>]

01:04:13   finds his calling and then the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3853">TS</a>]

01:04:16   thing goes so horribly wrong that in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3856">TS</a>]

01:04:20   end you know all of these terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3860">TS</a>]

01:04:22   things happen to him that and and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3862">TS</a>]

01:04:25   the culmination of the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3865">TS</a>]

01:04:27   really is that you're left with this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3867">TS</a>]

01:04:28   question of force and O's can you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3868">TS</a>]

01:04:30   forgive himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3870">TS</a>]

01:04:31   can anybody forgive him and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3871">TS</a>]

01:04:33   overarching question which is can he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3873">TS</a>]

01:04:35   believe in God anymore after being being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3875">TS</a>]

01:04:39   shown the possibility and then having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3879">TS</a>]

01:04:43   all of it taken away and i do mean all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3883">TS</a>]

01:04:46   because a yeah they're reading this the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3886">TS</a>]

01:04:49   second time around it it it hit me again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3889">TS</a>]

01:04:52   just help had just Russell's pretty much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3892">TS</a>]

01:04:55   just taking the knife and just turning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3895">TS</a>]

01:04:57   it like a corkscrew because you've got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3897">TS</a>]

01:05:00   um you know that you've got the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3900">TS</a>]

01:05:02   issue of sandoz essentially being sold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3902">TS</a>]

01:05:05   into this up into this into this leaders [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3905">TS</a>]

01:05:09   brothel as you know as an attraction as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3909">TS</a>]

01:05:13   you know an unusual exotic uh a partner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3913">TS</a>]

01:05:17   for people to rape you've got the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3917">TS</a>]

01:05:20   that he misunderstands what sapori asks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3920">TS</a>]

01:05:25   of him he safari actually asks him but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3925">TS</a>]

01:05:27   you know I want to take you into my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3927">TS</a>]

01:05:29   house I want to make you my dependent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3929">TS</a>]

01:05:30   and uses a word that sandoz does not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3930">TS</a>]

01:05:33   parse the pieces of until later and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3933">TS</a>]

01:05:36   leads to the mutilation of their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3936">TS</a>]

01:05:38   missions where basically yet try to like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3938">TS</a>]

01:05:40   cut out between the bones of hand so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3940">TS</a>]

01:05:42   he's got it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3942">TS</a>]

01:05:43   the two priests have these like claws [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3943">TS</a>]

01:05:45   and as you said because the other priest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3945">TS</a>]

01:05:48   has been refusing to eat the the Runa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3948">TS</a>]

01:05:52   corpses them he dies but you know of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3952">TS</a>]

01:05:55   operation but sandoz lives through that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3955">TS</a>]

01:05:57   and then he finally gets to a one point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3957">TS</a>]

01:06:00   where he thinks he's finally met the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3960">TS</a>]

01:06:03   singer the person who has been producing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3963">TS</a>]

01:06:05   this music and it's like okay it's what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3965">TS</a>]

01:06:07   brought me all of this is worth all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3967">TS</a>]

01:06:09   one thinks the guy's a prophet he thinks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3969">TS</a>]

01:06:11   you know that he's been you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3971">TS</a>]

01:06:12   praising god and he finds out know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3972">TS</a>]

01:06:15   guys music is basically about orgasms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3975">TS</a>]

01:06:18   and pornography and it's like how much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3978">TS</a>]

01:06:22   worse can you make his rape and his rape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3982">TS</a>]

01:06:24   victims of which sandoz is now one I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3984">TS</a>]

01:06:26   mean that that is how horrible this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3986">TS</a>]

01:06:28   thing gets is but the sender's they find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3988">TS</a>]

01:06:30   this beautiful music from across the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3990">TS</a>]

01:06:32   universe and they go to find it and in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3992">TS</a>]

01:06:35   the end Santos finds the beautiful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3995">TS</a>]

01:06:37   singer and he is a race [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3997">TS</a>]

01:06:39   fist who rapes him and the songs turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/3999">TS</a>]

01:06:42   out to be about the rapes that he does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4002">TS</a>]

01:06:44   it is as horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4004">TS</a>]

01:06:45   I mean it's horrible like that is it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4005">TS</a>]

01:06:49   so horrible it is so good and then it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4009">TS</a>]

01:06:51   comical there's there are many chapters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4011">TS</a>]

01:06:54   were ascending was talking about you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4014">TS</a>]

01:06:56   know his vow of chastity and if it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4016">TS</a>]

01:06:58   worth it and it's tricky to introduce ya [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4018">TS</a>]

01:07:00   decide who makes a very conscious effort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4020">TS</a>]

01:07:02   at decision know it that oath is sacred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4022">TS</a>]

01:07:05   to me and i cannot even though i am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4025">TS</a>]

01:07:07   stranded on this planet and there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4027">TS</a>]

01:07:09   woman who loves me and I love her and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4029">TS</a>]

01:07:12   and Sophia clearly love that each other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4032">TS</a>]

01:07:14   yeah yeah I'm not going to do it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4034">TS</a>]

01:07:17   then you know it just makes it all worse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4037">TS</a>]

01:07:19   yeah and the the fact that it's a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4039">TS</a>]

01:07:21   end you know he's he's really left with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4041">TS</a>]

01:07:23   a choice which we don't get to see him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4043">TS</a>]

01:07:24   make but Santos has to decide okay so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4044">TS</a>]

01:07:27   was this really all you know is there no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4047">TS</a>]

01:07:30   God and this was all my fault all these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4050">TS</a>]

01:07:32   horrible things happen just because i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4052">TS</a>]

01:07:34   made this mistake and set it all in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4054">TS</a>]

01:07:36   motion or is there really a god and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4056">TS</a>]

01:07:40   actually God's fault that all of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4060">TS</a>]

01:07:42   LOL awful stuff happened to me and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4062">TS</a>]

01:07:44   wanted and yeah like so so what what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4064">TS</a>]

01:07:46   what too horrible things to have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4066">TS</a>]

01:07:48   choose between sick you do really come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4068">TS</a>]

01:07:50   to an understanding of of why he is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4070">TS</a>]

01:07:53   messed up all the way through the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4073">TS</a>]

01:07:55   but yeah I was halfway through he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4075">TS</a>]

01:07:57   having the same kind of discussion with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4077">TS</a>]

01:07:58   an who is throwing that exact question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4078">TS</a>]

01:08:01   in his face you know if you know all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4081">TS</a>]

01:08:03   these you know why is it why do we thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4083">TS</a>]

01:08:05   god for the good things and then blame [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4085">TS</a>]

01:08:06   ourselves to blame the doctor or blame [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4086">TS</a>]

01:08:09   you know driver whoever has a rant about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4089">TS</a>]

01:08:11   that whole thing that she and little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4091">TS</a>]

01:08:14   basically says yes and 0 says you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4094">TS</a>]

01:08:16   what if you want to blame God go for it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4096">TS</a>]

01:08:18   you know at least believing in God again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4098">TS</a>]

01:08:20   but yeah go for it if that's what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4100">TS</a>]

01:08:22   need do it and you know rest we get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4102">TS</a>]

01:08:25   the end of the book and he's facing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4105">TS</a>]

01:08:27   same choice only now there's nobody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4107">TS</a>]

01:08:29   because he's surrounded by other Jesuit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4109">TS</a>]

01:08:31   priests who are trying to get to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4111">TS</a>]

01:08:33   bottom of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4113">TS</a>]

01:08:33   there is no one around there who has the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4113">TS</a>]

01:08:35   guts to tell him if that's what you need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4115">TS</a>]

01:08:37   to go for it i do think in terms of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4117">TS</a>]

01:08:41   thinking about 20 years later and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4121">TS</a>]

01:08:43   reading at twenty years later the one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4123">TS</a>]

01:08:44   the things that this book does i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4124">TS</a>]

01:08:45   quite well is portray a person who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4125">TS</a>]

01:08:51   suffering from a horrendous case of post [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4131">TS</a>]

01:08:53   traumatic stress disorder that Santos is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4133">TS</a>]

01:08:56   a broken destroyed man in the in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4136">TS</a>]

01:09:00   2060 timeframe and over the course of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4140">TS</a>]

01:09:03   the book you see them the people the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4143">TS</a>]

01:09:05   Jesuits trying to find a way anyway that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4145">TS</a>]

01:09:09   some of them want to get information out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4149">TS</a>]

01:09:11   of them and some of them just want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4151">TS</a>]

01:09:12   help him like move along and progress [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4152">TS</a>]

01:09:14   because he's clearly utterly destroyed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4154">TS</a>]

01:09:17   he is a destroyed person and over the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4157">TS</a>]

01:09:19   course of the book he does get better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4159">TS</a>]

01:09:21   and it is slow and painful and he has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4161">TS</a>]

01:09:24   lot of stuff to work through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4164">TS</a>]

01:09:25   and I really this time through i really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4165">TS</a>]

01:09:28   appreciated that part of it that I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4168">TS</a>]

01:09:29   I didn't twenty years ago about how he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4169">TS</a>]

01:09:32   has to come to terms with this awful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4172">TS</a>]

01:09:36   thing that happened to him and he he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4176">TS</a>]

01:09:38   he's sick and bed he throws up he has to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4178">TS</a>]

01:09:41   take PS horrible headaches all of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4181">TS</a>]

01:09:43   stuff and I thought that was really well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4183">TS</a>]

01:09:46   handled about his progression and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4186">TS</a>]

01:09:48   for the longest time he doesn't say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4188">TS</a>]

01:09:50   anything about the braces they've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4190">TS</a>]

01:09:51   created to help his hands that the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4191">TS</a>]

01:09:53   that they hurt because he feels like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4193">TS</a>]

01:09:54   deserves that she deserves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4194">TS</a>]

01:09:56   we'll finally one of the other priests [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4196">TS</a>]

01:09:58   realize you know look we can do better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4198">TS</a>]

01:09:59   than that an amazing moment where he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4199">TS</a>]

01:10:00   finally finally complains about how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4200">TS</a>]

01:10:02   painful they are they realize how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4202">TS</a>]

01:10:03   painful they are and they immediately [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4203">TS</a>]

01:10:05   sent for somebody and like within six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4205">TS</a>]

01:10:07   months he has brand new ones that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4207">TS</a>]

01:10:08   much better and then don't cause him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4208">TS</a>]

01:10:10   pain and that are more functional but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4210">TS</a>]

01:10:12   for for a long time he doesn't talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4212">TS</a>]

01:10:13   about it because he figures like yeah it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4213">TS</a>]

01:10:15   hurts a fine i deserve it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4215">TS</a>]

01:10:18   yeah I guess life is pain yeah one thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4218">TS</a>]

01:10:21   that I will say on that side of things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4221">TS</a>]

01:10:24   that did not work for me was we had all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4224">TS</a>]

01:10:27   these characters in you know in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4227">TS</a>]

01:10:29   asteroid known rakaat who are very full [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:31   of life and and I just I had trouble [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4231">TS</a>]

01:10:34   telling the priest apart i would I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4234">TS</a>]

01:10:36   forgetting a bunch of gray men in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4236">TS</a>]

01:10:39   priestly outfits in italy in 2060 right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4239">TS</a>]

01:10:43   yeah there's a guy isn't bad priest and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:45   the priest from Cleveland and yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4245">TS</a>]

01:10:50   maybe because it's the second time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4250">TS</a>]

01:10:52   around I i had a little easier time with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4252">TS</a>]

01:10:54   that certainly with the one who was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4254">TS</a>]

01:10:57   antagonistic almost the entire way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4257">TS</a>]

01:10:59   through the book versus the one or two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4259">TS</a>]

01:11:01   that you know are brought because either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4261">TS</a>]

01:11:04   they are skilled in psychology or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4264">TS</a>]

01:11:06   caring to try and get back to help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4266">TS</a>]

01:11:09   because you know they bring in one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4269">TS</a>]

01:11:11   priest that became a priest because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4271">TS</a>]

01:11:13   knew amelia was a child and Emilio as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4273">TS</a>]

01:11:15   priest was a role model for this guy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4275">TS</a>]

01:11:18   then there's of course the the one who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4278">TS</a>]

01:11:19   was apparently married a stockbroker and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4279">TS</a>]

01:11:21   then you know he has a car crash the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4281">TS</a>]

01:11:23   wife dies and he decides to become a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:25   priest and he took he's been like cannot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4285">TS</a>]

01:11:27   keep track of like that brother Edward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4287">TS</a>]

01:11:29   and yeah and we're just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4289">TS</a>]

01:11:30   interchangeable for me i can see damage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4290">TS</a>]

01:11:33   characterization brother Edward now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4293">TS</a>]

01:11:37   you're right they're sort of sober uh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4297">TS</a>]

01:11:39   figures who are kind of battling with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4299">TS</a>]

01:11:41   their own politics about this and I i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4301">TS</a>]

01:11:43   not sure we needed mean they have a a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4303">TS</a>]

01:11:45   Inquisitor kind of figure who is the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4305">TS</a>]

01:11:49   the guy who's the the ketamine priest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4309">TS</a>]

01:11:51   who doesn't believe him and that was not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4311">TS</a>]

01:11:53   that was like my least part of the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4313">TS</a>]

01:11:55   thing was the the the guy who's like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4315">TS</a>]

01:11:57   doesn't believe anything and it goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4317">TS</a>]

01:11:59   back to the fact that I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4319">TS</a>]

01:12:00   ridiculous that they just assumed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4320">TS</a>]

01:12:02   terrible behavior on centos is pardoned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4322">TS</a>]

01:12:05   and had no even consideration that there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4325">TS</a>]

01:12:07   were other stories to tell here but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4327">TS</a>]

01:12:09   agree a hundred percent that the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4329">TS</a>]

01:12:11   vibrancy of ricotta and that and and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4331">TS</a>]

01:12:15   whole mission there is really contrasts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4335">TS</a>]

01:12:18   with this kind of emptiness maybe you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4338">TS</a>]

01:12:20   know some of that is because because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4340">TS</a>]

01:12:22   Santos is so broken but you're right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4342">TS</a>]

01:12:24   those characters are not particularly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4344">TS</a>]

01:12:26   notable I like the time-dilation thing I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4346">TS</a>]

01:12:31   mean that is one of the science things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4351">TS</a>]

01:12:32   that she used to great effect the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4352">TS</a>]

01:12:34   that although Santos only only you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4354">TS</a>]

01:12:37   is a way for a couple of years in terms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4357">TS</a>]

01:12:38   of his time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4358">TS</a>]

01:12:39   yeah 40 years passes 22 get there in 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4359">TS</a>]

01:12:42   back because they're there they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4362">TS</a>]

01:12:44   traveling at half the speed of light [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4364">TS</a>]

01:12:45   essentially for the voyage agent I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4365">TS</a>]

01:12:47   thought that was good use of actual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4367">TS</a>]

01:12:49   science and made the plot made the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4369">TS</a>]

01:12:52   that he's coming back to a world he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4372">TS</a>]

01:12:54   never somebody points out at one point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4374">TS</a>]

01:12:55   very late in the book you've never asked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4375">TS</a>]

01:12:56   what happened in the time that you work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4376">TS</a>]

01:12:58   on and he says something like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4378">TS</a>]

01:13:01   I've seen too much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4381">TS</a>]

01:13:03   I don't care anymore her just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4383">TS</a>]

01:13:05   amazing but it's a good use of that site [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4385">TS</a>]

01:13:07   second rope and and the one thing we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4387">TS</a>]

01:13:10   didn't mention as they send him like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4390">TS</a>]

01:13:12   UN people find them and they send them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4392">TS</a>]

01:13:13   back by himself on ya like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4393">TS</a>]

01:13:17   definitely should not read through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4397">TS</a>]

01:13:19   it's just like I think can anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4399">TS</a>]

01:13:22   worse happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4402">TS</a>]

01:13:23   he's gone through a whole this thing and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4403">TS</a>]

01:13:24   now he has to spend months and months [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4404">TS</a>]

01:13:26   and months alone with his hands like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4406">TS</a>]

01:13:28   infected and nearly dying on the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4408">TS</a>]

01:13:31   yeah to get back to an inquisition [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4411">TS</a>]

01:13:33   basically yeah people are very angry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4413">TS</a>]

01:13:35   with him and a world that thinks he's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4415">TS</a>]

01:13:37   awful awful person and I like the moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4417">TS</a>]

01:13:40   where you know they've been sending all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4420">TS</a>]

01:13:41   these scholarly papers to our thoughts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4421">TS</a>]

01:13:44   heartbreakingly at at least you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4424">TS</a>]

01:13:46   publicly you know my work is living [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4426">TS</a>]

01:13:48   through my published scholarly papers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4428">TS</a>]

01:13:50   and they're like what we didn't publish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4430">TS</a>]

01:13:51   the decomposed that's not terrible like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4431">TS</a>]

01:13:54   they learn they learned everything about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4434">TS</a>]

01:13:55   these alien languages and they sent back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4435">TS</a>]

01:13:57   all these papers that's what they spent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4437">TS</a>]

01:13:58   their you're doing is writing up all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4438">TS</a>]

01:14:00   these things not just the languages i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4440">TS</a>]

01:14:01   mean they were sending back stuff on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4441">TS</a>]

01:14:03   everything they were experts in yeah and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4443">TS</a>]

01:14:06   if they buried the the Jesuits buried [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4446">TS</a>]

01:14:08   the whole thing it's just it's it yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4448">TS</a>]

01:14:10   so heartbreaking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4450">TS</a>]

01:14:12   oh well this is this is a this is a a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4452">TS</a>]

01:14:16   first-contact experience that went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4456">TS</a>]

01:14:18   really really wrong and yeah interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4458">TS</a>]

01:14:21   story to tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4461">TS</a>]

01:14:23   interesting story but memorable enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4463">TS</a>]

01:14:24   that that I've been talking about it for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4464">TS</a>]

01:14:26   the last 20 years and I know that when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4466">TS</a>]

01:14:27   mentioned it to other people who've read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4467">TS</a>]

01:14:29   it they're like oh yeah right including [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4469">TS</a>]

01:14:31   Shannon and Scott's oh yeah and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4471">TS</a>]

01:14:34   should be so enthusiastically we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4474">TS</a>]

01:14:35   hoodwinked Erica in 20 my batting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4475">TS</a>]

01:14:41   average for these book club episodes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4481">TS</a>]

01:14:42   pretty low sorry sorry about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4482">TS</a>]

01:14:45   this one yeah yeah I i I'd like to tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4485">TS</a>]

01:14:48   you I i would have warned you off if I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4488">TS</a>]

01:14:49   thought you wouldn't like this one but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4489">TS</a>]

01:14:51   i don't think i would have done that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4491">TS</a>]

01:14:54   because I I think so highly of it so I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4494">TS</a>]

01:14:56   sorry didn't mean had read eight any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4496">TS</a>]

01:14:58   description of it whatsoever would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4498">TS</a>]

01:15:00   known if known you noticed it was simply [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4500">TS</a>]

01:15:02   that i went in cold and then just stuck [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4502">TS</a>]

01:15:04   with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4504">TS</a>]

01:15:05   yeah and i was explaining this book to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4505">TS</a>]

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01:15:09   you should read this is a really great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4509">TS</a>]

01:15:10   book but i had read in 20 years and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4510">TS</a>]

01:15:12   I reread it and then I thought maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4512">TS</a>]

01:15:13   risa it shouldn't read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4513">TS</a>]

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01:15:19   like Scott and you know many people like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4519">TS</a>]

01:15:22   this book but through maybe not you and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4522">TS</a>]

01:15:24   Eric many people admire this book i mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4524">TS</a>]

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01:15:30   having read through the second time I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4530">TS</a>]

01:15:32   admire this book i love some of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4532">TS</a>]

01:15:34   characters i love a lot of it but it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4534">TS</a>]

01:15:39   a powerful read this for good or ill its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4539">TS</a>]

01:15:44   power them migrate it won many awards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4544">TS</a>]

01:15:46   when it was released yes and I i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4546">TS</a>]

01:15:50   it's very I think it's very well done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4550">TS</a>]

01:15:51   although again I feel like the contrast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4551">TS</a>]

01:15:53   between the whole book in the last two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4553">TS</a>]

01:15:55   chapters is striking was like oh okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4555">TS</a>]

01:15:59   we're not doing that anymore but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4559">TS</a>]

01:16:00   stuff that the detail is is kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4560">TS</a>]

01:16:02   amazing and the characters in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4562">TS</a>]

01:16:04   dialogue and it's all and she does some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4564">TS</a>]

01:16:07   pretty good prognostication a few parts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4567">TS</a>]

01:16:09   in terms of what life is going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4569">TS</a>]

01:16:11   like just about to say that you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4571">TS</a>]

01:16:13   2016 in this book is not too far off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4573">TS</a>]

01:16:16   not so bad in theory a television [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4576">TS</a>]

01:16:19   adaptation is coming from a sec that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4579">TS</a>]

01:16:23   what they say although that would that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4583">TS</a>]

01:16:24   was a that was a 2014 announcement so it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4584">TS</a>]

01:16:27   may be in turn around just like the Brad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4587">TS</a>]

01:16:29   Pitt optioning of it in 2006 although i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4589">TS</a>]

01:16:33   think it would make much more sense as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4593">TS</a>]

01:16:35   leg we say about so many books that we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4595">TS</a>]

01:16:38   read much more sense as a a TV limited [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4598">TS</a>]

01:16:42   series where you could get you need the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4602">TS</a>]

01:16:44   length you need you need that length to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4604">TS</a>]

01:16:46   tell this this kind of story because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4606">TS</a>]

01:16:48   means to build up so that the downfall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4608">TS</a>]

01:16:51   is even more horrifying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4611">TS</a>]

01:16:53   yeah well said yeah maybe that's right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4613">TS</a>]

01:16:57   the basic structure of the story so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4617">TS</a>]

01:16:59   know it's a tragedy tragedy for sure i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4619">TS</a>]

01:17:01   mean this is this is a guy spends his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4621">TS</a>]

01:17:04   entire life looking for evidence of God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4624">TS</a>]

01:17:05   and God finally starts to show it to him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4625">TS</a>]

01:17:08   and goes yonk never liked you much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4628">TS</a>]

01:17:12   that's right that's well that's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4632">TS</a>]

01:17:15   in terms of the Bible right there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4635">TS</a>]

01:17:17   those there are their stories not to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4637">TS</a>]

01:17:19   take it back to job but you know stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4639">TS</a>]

01:17:21   of people who was like well part of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4641">TS</a>]

01:17:23   test is maybe it's terrible for you and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4643">TS</a>]

01:17:26   you still have to believe in me and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4646">TS</a>]

01:17:27   that's just how that's the definition of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4647">TS</a>]

01:17:29   faith right you keep believing even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4649">TS</a>]

01:17:30   though it is difficult and that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4650">TS</a>]

01:17:33   other amazing thing about this book for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4653">TS</a>]

01:17:35   me is that you know there'd whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4655">TS</a>]

01:17:37   your opinions of religion are like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4657">TS</a>]

01:17:39   Jesuits in history actually did this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4659">TS</a>]

01:17:43   kind of thing they did lessons on a boat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4663">TS</a>]

01:17:45   and they cross the ocean they didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4665">TS</a>]

01:17:47   know where they were going just to see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4667">TS</a>]

01:17:49   what was out there and to hopefully you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4669">TS</a>]

01:17:51   know turns people into followers of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4671">TS</a>]

01:17:53   Christ but mostly enlist for the change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4673">TS</a>]

01:17:56   what's the expanding knowledge was also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4676">TS</a>]

01:17:59   a big part of it and that's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4679">TS</a>]

01:18:01   crazy to me and a lot of them yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4681">TS</a>]

01:18:03   a lot of them would would end up dying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4683">TS</a>]

01:18:06   horribly and not return as they would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4686">TS</a>]

01:18:08   die or or having much like in this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4688">TS</a>]

01:18:11   horrible things happen to them and yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4691">TS</a>]

01:18:13   they they go back they recuperate and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4693">TS</a>]

01:18:15   then they go back to the same places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4695">TS</a>]

01:18:16   where these horrible things have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4696">TS</a>]

01:18:17   happened to them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4697">TS</a>]

01:18:18   yeah guess what horrible things happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4698">TS</a>]

01:18:20   to the mechanic yep yep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4700">TS</a>]

01:18:22   yeah yeah absolutely it's a yeah it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4702">TS</a>]

01:18:26   it's a thought-provoking book it's one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4706">TS</a>]

01:18:28   that I that I really appreciate I I my I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4708">TS</a>]

01:18:31   think you could also something we didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4711">TS</a>]

01:18:32   even talk on too much as if you believe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4712">TS</a>]

01:18:35   this as these as these Jesuits do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4715">TS</a>]

01:18:38   there knowing God by visiting God's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4718">TS</a>]

01:18:43   other children that's another horror of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4723">TS</a>]

01:18:46   this book right the fact that this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4726">TS</a>]

01:18:47   on this world this small group of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4727">TS</a>]

01:18:50   creatures is preying upon this larger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4730">TS</a>]

01:18:53   group of creatures it in a way that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4733">TS</a>]

01:18:55   fundamentally you would say a evil set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4735">TS</a>]

01:18:59   up an evil organization here and so that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4739">TS</a>]

01:19:02   I that kind of calls into question like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4742">TS</a>]

01:19:05   it's not just why do bad things happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4745">TS</a>]

01:19:06   to the humans on this world but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4746">TS</a>]

01:19:08   like why is this world awful to in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4748">TS</a>]

01:19:12   different way than ours so now there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4752">TS</a>]

01:19:14   so much here if you like to be doing if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4754">TS</a>]

01:19:17   you want to be sad and depressed and see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4757">TS</a>]

01:19:19   horrible things happen anyway [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4759">TS</a>]

01:19:20   check it out its parent told in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4760">TS</a>]

01:19:23   beautiful way and it is it is i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4763">TS</a>]

01:19:26   everybody now who has listened to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4766">TS</a>]

01:19:27   is a very good idea if they should read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4767">TS</a>]

01:19:30   it or not I think Erica you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4770">TS</a>]

01:19:34   listen to this podcast before you read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4774">TS</a>]

01:19:36   this book and find your TARDIS if only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4776">TS</a>]

01:19:39   will set it back in time before we go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4779">TS</a>]

01:19:42   I'm going to very quickly ask if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4782">TS</a>]

01:19:43   anything else that you've read recently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4783">TS</a>]

01:19:45   that you would like to mention to our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4785">TS</a>]

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01:19:49   that we do Scott anything that you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4789">TS</a>]

01:19:52   read recently that's been very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4792">TS</a>]

01:19:53   interesting too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4793">TS</a>]

01:19:55   yes i have a spin spending some time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4795">TS</a>]

01:19:59   reading some historical fiction which i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4799">TS</a>]

01:20:01   will skip over but there are two scifi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4801">TS</a>]

01:20:03   books that I've read as of late that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4803">TS</a>]

01:20:05   enjoyed one is called dark matter by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4805">TS</a>]

01:20:08   Blake croch he wrote some TV series that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4808">TS</a>]

01:20:13   i never watched wayward Pines i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4813">TS</a>]

01:20:14   yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4814">TS</a>]

01:20:15   yeah I or he wrote the books that it but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4815">TS</a>]

01:20:18   based on whatever this book dark matter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4818">TS</a>]

01:20:21   is about this physicist who basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4821">TS</a>]

01:20:24   figures out a way of traveling through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4824">TS</a>]

01:20:27   the multiverse and unintended [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4827">TS</a>]

01:20:30   consequences happen it's interesting i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4830">TS</a>]

01:20:32   read it in two days [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4832">TS</a>]

01:20:34   it's a an easy read and it is once you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4834">TS</a>]

01:20:37   figure out oh it's a multiverse thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4837">TS</a>]

01:20:39   you think you know how it's going to end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4839">TS</a>]

01:20:41   but it doesn't end the way you think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4841">TS</a>]

01:20:42   does which is always good and another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4842">TS</a>]

01:20:46   kind of more sci-fi in space book that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4846">TS</a>]

01:20:50   read was dark run by Mike Brooks which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4850">TS</a>]

01:20:53   is the first in a series which I didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4853">TS</a>]

01:20:54   know when i started reading that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4854">TS</a>]

01:20:56   always annoying but it's fun another fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4856">TS</a>]

01:21:00   quick syfy read that i enjoyed and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4860">TS</a>]

01:21:02   before you start reading it you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4862">TS</a>]

01:21:04   realize it's the first in a series at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4864">TS</a>]

01:21:06   some darkness there you got dark dark I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4866">TS</a>]

01:21:09   don't like alphabetically by title [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4869">TS</a>]

01:21:11   yeah I i'm just going through all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4871">TS</a>]

01:21:13   dark books now Erica something i'm under [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4873">TS</a>]

01:21:15   anything you're reading that you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4875">TS</a>]

01:21:17   mention uh well i did recently read a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4877">TS</a>]

01:21:20   book called damaged goods which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4880">TS</a>]

01:21:22   Russell T Davis's first foray into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4882">TS</a>]

01:21:25   world of dr. Kalam which I wasn't a huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4885">TS</a>]

01:21:28   fan of it if you're interested in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4888">TS</a>]

01:21:29   one very did an episode on that i'll say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4889">TS</a>]

01:21:32   I liked it better than the sparrow are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4892">TS</a>]

01:21:33   ok [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4893">TS</a>]

01:21:34   huh I also more for fun and actual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4894">TS</a>]

01:21:39   recommendation i finally got around to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4899">TS</a>]

01:21:41   reading the fourth and final book of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4901">TS</a>]

01:21:44   magic ex libris series by jesse hines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4904">TS</a>]

01:21:47   called revisionary and it was aight i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4907">TS</a>]

01:21:50   put it off because they did not want hit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4910">TS</a>]

01:21:52   series to be done and i knew when i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4912">TS</a>]

01:21:53   finish this last book which was the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4913">TS</a>]

01:21:55   book that I wasn't gonna have anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4915">TS</a>]

01:21:57   but i finally got around to doing it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4917">TS</a>]

01:21:59   I i think that he he wrapped it up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4919">TS</a>]

01:22:01   nicely somewhere in one of the books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4921">TS</a>]

01:22:04   before this the world comes to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4924">TS</a>]

01:22:06   realization that there is actually magic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4926">TS</a>]

01:22:09   up there and I think that he does a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4929">TS</a>]

01:22:11   job of thinking through the possible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4931">TS</a>]

01:22:14   ramifications of what would happen if if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4934">TS</a>]

01:22:16   that were the case and you had magic on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4936">TS</a>]

01:22:18   one side and technology and the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4938">TS</a>]

01:22:20   side and then you know the horribleness [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4940">TS</a>]

01:22:22   of people in politicians and all that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4942">TS</a>]

01:22:24   kind of stuff and and the books overall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4944">TS</a>]

01:22:26   kind of light and fun but he sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4946">TS</a>]

01:22:29   doesn't pull punches with with what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4949">TS</a>]

01:22:31   would happen if it's like that it goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4951">TS</a>]

01:22:33   to some dark places as well but still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4953">TS</a>]

01:22:35   still manages to be escaping enough for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4955">TS</a>]

01:22:38   me to do quite like it and and last I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4958">TS</a>]

01:22:41   have been proofreading the next issue of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/4961">TS</a>]

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01:26:36   [Music] [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbPz7lA/5196">TS</a>]