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00:00:00   the incontrovertible number 267 October [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/0">TS</a>]

00:00:10   welcome back everybody to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/10">TS</a>]

00:00:12   incomparable i'm your host Jason L we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/12">TS</a>]

00:00:13   are reconvening our book club this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/13">TS</a>]

00:00:16   episode we're going to be talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/16">TS</a>]

00:00:18   two books one by paolo bacigalupi it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/18">TS</a>]

00:00:23   called the water knife and another final [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/23">TS</a>]

00:00:26   Stephenson which is called seven Eve's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/26">TS</a>]

00:00:28   these are authors we've talked about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/28">TS</a>]

00:00:30   before in previous episodes you can look [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/30">TS</a>]

00:00:32   at poor in the show notes perhaps if i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/32">TS</a>]

00:00:34   not too lazy to talk about these two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/34">TS</a>]

00:00:36   novels of the of a science-fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/36">TS</a>]

00:00:38   nature i have four human beings who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/38">TS</a>]

00:00:43   not robots that we know Lisa Schmeisser [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/43">TS</a>]

00:00:46   not a robot hi Lisa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/46">TS</a>]

00:00:48   hi how are you I'm doing fine and I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/48">TS</a>]

00:00:50   doing fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/50">TS</a>]

00:00:51   David jail or probably not a mandroid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/51">TS</a>]

00:00:54   possibly possibly that's awesome [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/54">TS</a>]

00:00:57   serenity Caldwell good dad good to hear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/57">TS</a>]

00:01:00   your voice your human voice yes I am NOT [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/60">TS</a>]

00:01:03   a robot more than I don't believe you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/63">TS</a>]

00:01:06   and the the most of all of the creatures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/66">TS</a>]

00:01:09   I've met in my travels his is the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/69">TS</a>]

00:01:11   human it is Scott McNulty hello hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/71">TS</a>]

00:01:16   thanks i got your Star Trek reference in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/76">TS</a>]

00:01:21   there i hope you can appreciate that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/81">TS</a>]

00:01:23   yes I was gonna do the robot voice but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/83">TS</a>]

00:01:25   then rendered it and I was like well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/85">TS</a>]

00:01:26   don't need to do it now it's always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/86">TS</a>]

00:01:29   being left both of these books are about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/89">TS</a>]

00:01:30   robots nope they're not at all not even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/90">TS</a>]

00:01:32   a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/92">TS</a>]

00:01:33   they're not even there are a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/93">TS</a>]

00:01:36   robot 30 well there are main room bar or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/96">TS</a>]

00:01:38   not they're not like sent you not think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/98">TS</a>]

00:01:41   yeah then I me Ryan Lee Johnston [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/101">TS</a>]

00:01:44   syracuse would probably say that they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/104">TS</a>]

00:01:46   not robots that is a different podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/106">TS</a>]

00:01:49   all right we should start with the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/109">TS</a>]

00:01:51   knife i think i would like to start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/111">TS</a>]

00:01:53   there and then and then we will whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/113">TS</a>]

00:01:55   time we have left will be devoted to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/115">TS</a>]

00:01:56   eighty thousand pages of the latest you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/116">TS</a>]

00:01:58   know steve is a novel is certain is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/118">TS</a>]

00:02:01   first third so the water knife is a is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/121">TS</a>]

00:02:06   shorter book than 70 use i'm told that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/126">TS</a>]

00:02:09   the hard lately is about 370 pages long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/129">TS</a>]

00:02:11   I right yeah Kendall Paul bacigalupi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/131">TS</a>]

00:02:14   we've talked about him before he wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/134">TS</a>]

00:02:15   the windup girl which I thought was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/135">TS</a>]

00:02:17   really excellent he wrote a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/137">TS</a>]

00:02:19   really good albeit depressing why a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/139">TS</a>]

00:02:21   novel that we talked about Scott and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/141">TS</a>]

00:02:23   think maybe we talked about those we did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/143">TS</a>]

00:02:26   the agency together on an episode and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/146">TS</a>]

00:02:29   now I had I had to miss an episode that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/149">TS</a>]

00:02:30   was traveling I was so bummed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/150">TS</a>]

00:02:32   yeah so should bring her in the ground [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/152">TS</a>]

00:02:33   cities both III really highly recommend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/153">TS</a>]

00:02:35   ship breaker and and John cities is just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/155">TS</a>]

00:02:38   more depressing but also good just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/158">TS</a>]

00:02:40   depressing very good so yeah so I'm as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/160">TS</a>]

00:02:42   somebody who is a resident of california [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/162">TS</a>]

00:02:44   i can tell you especially the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/164">TS</a>]

00:02:46   knife for portrays a future in which the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/166">TS</a>]

00:02:50   desert southwest of the United States is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/170">TS</a>]

00:02:52   a horribly short on water water has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/172">TS</a>]

00:02:56   become incredibly valuable and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/176">TS</a>]

00:02:58   essentially the US government has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/178">TS</a>]

00:03:00   abdicated a lot of their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/180">TS</a>]

00:03:01   responsibilities over the border [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/181">TS</a>]

00:03:03   disputes between the various powers in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/183">TS</a>]

00:03:06   the region that there is a there there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/186">TS</a>]

00:03:08   you know there still is a US government [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/188">TS</a>]

00:03:10   and all of that but they're kind of not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/190">TS</a>]

00:03:12   going to get involved in nevada and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/192">TS</a>]

00:03:14   california and arizona and and other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/194">TS</a>]

00:03:17   parts of the Southwest squabbling over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/197">TS</a>]

00:03:20   who gets the water rights and who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/200">TS</a>]

00:03:23   water and who is going with and what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/203">TS</a>]

00:03:24   cities are going to essentially shut [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/204">TS</a>]

00:03:26   down and crumble into dust because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/206">TS</a>]

00:03:28   don't have enough water and that is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/208">TS</a>]

00:03:30   that is the the backdrop for the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/210">TS</a>]

00:03:33   knife power but you're loopy is notable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/213">TS</a>]

00:03:34   for writing about about econ ecology and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/214">TS</a>]

00:03:38   Atmospheric stuff and and climate change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/218">TS</a>]

00:03:41   and stuff like that it's a UH the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/221">TS</a>]

00:03:44   what-is-it the windup girl takes place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/224">TS</a>]

00:03:47   in a in a mostly drowned Southeast Asia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/227">TS</a>]

00:03:51   with some dykes and stuff and it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/231">TS</a>]

00:03:54   similar kind of situation in the in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/234">TS</a>]

00:03:57   those two why a book set in a in a kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/237">TS</a>]

00:04:00   of post sealevel rise dystopia this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/240">TS</a>]

00:04:03   different world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/243">TS</a>]

00:04:04   it's not about sea level rise here but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/244">TS</a>]

00:04:07   it is still about climate change i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/247">TS</a>]

00:04:08   heard people refer to this as Clive I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/248">TS</a>]

00:04:10   which I do not like do not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/250">TS</a>]

00:04:13   let's let's never say that again i just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/253">TS</a>]

00:04:15   i'm putting it out there and then we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/255">TS</a>]

00:04:17   going to be to death and it will never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/257">TS</a>]

00:04:19   escape so and I assume this backdrop is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/259">TS</a>]

00:04:22   a story about a guy who is working for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/262">TS</a>]

00:04:25   the head of the water agency in Las [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/265">TS</a>]

00:04:27   Vegas he is the titular water knife [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/267">TS</a>]

00:04:30   he's basically a thug an assassin in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/270">TS</a>]

00:04:33   employ of the water agency and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/273">TS</a>]

00:04:36   there's also a plucky reporter named [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/276">TS</a>]

00:04:38   Lucy Monroe who who has sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/278">TS</a>]

00:04:42   accidentally found herself in phoenix as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/282">TS</a>]

00:04:44   its in its death throes and and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/284">TS</a>]

00:04:47   they they may meet along with uh refugee [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/287">TS</a>]

00:04:50   from Texas because Texas is basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/290">TS</a>]

00:04:52   following entirely apart [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/292">TS</a>]

00:04:54   Maria and and they fight crime know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/294">TS</a>]

00:04:56   doesn't happen but this is the this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/296">TS</a>]

00:05:00   this is your story it is the water knife [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/300">TS</a>]

00:05:02   it's all about the terrible things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/302">TS</a>]

00:05:05   happen in phoenix arizona AZ it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/305">TS</a>]

00:05:07   basically falling apart because it has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/307">TS</a>]

00:05:09   no water that's my summary of the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/309">TS</a>]

00:05:12   knife what people think of this one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/312">TS</a>]

00:05:15   Lisa you're a resident of California [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/315">TS</a>]

00:05:17   yeah I don't know if this happened for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/317">TS</a>]

00:05:19   anybody else but the first time you got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/319">TS</a>]

00:05:21   up to wash your hands get a drink of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/321">TS</a>]

00:05:22   water while reading after reading this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/322">TS</a>]

00:05:24   book did you think to yourself my god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/324">TS</a>]

00:05:26   what a miracle that we can just turn on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/326">TS</a>]

00:05:27   the tap and the water comes out I should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/327">TS</a>]

00:05:28   have a bowl under the under my want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/328">TS</a>]

00:05:31   Molly wash my hands and then use that to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/331">TS</a>]

00:05:32   water this plant which is what we do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/332">TS</a>]

00:05:35   actually being a cat a fellow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/335">TS</a>]

00:05:36   Californian we all the again as jason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/336">TS</a>]

00:05:41   has said we're both in California it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/341">TS</a>]

00:05:43   suffering a huge you know once and 500 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/343">TS</a>]

00:05:45   every years type of drought and so in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/345">TS</a>]

00:05:49   house we already do the thing where we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/349">TS</a>]

00:05:51   use every bit of water we have and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/351">TS</a>]

00:05:53   I've got a great water system now for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/353">TS</a>]

00:05:54   watering the plants blah blah blah but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/354">TS</a>]

00:05:57   what I when I read this I kept thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/357">TS</a>]

00:05:59   well we should send copies of this to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/359">TS</a>]

00:06:02   you know people and people are utilities [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/362">TS</a>]

00:06:04   and policymakers because one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/364">TS</a>]

00:06:06   things i thought one thing that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/366">TS</a>]

00:06:08   phenomenal because i read this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/368">TS</a>]

00:06:09   back-to-back with seven Eve's and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/369">TS</a>]

00:06:11   there's a part in seven teams where the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/371">TS</a>]

00:06:13   neil degrasse tyson character who will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/373">TS</a>]

00:06:14   get to later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/374">TS</a>]

00:06:15   is all well you know one thing is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/375">TS</a>]

00:06:18   tragedy but when entire planet goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/378">TS</a>]

00:06:20   kablooey you just you can't you can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/380">TS</a>]

00:06:23   get a your you can't wrap your brain on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/383">TS</a>]

00:06:24   the scope and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/384">TS</a>]

00:06:25   in this case like them the genius of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/385">TS</a>]

00:06:27   water knife is the closer look because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/387">TS</a>]

00:06:30   you do have Maria who's this teenager [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/390">TS</a>]

00:06:32   refugee from California eventually from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/392">TS</a>]

00:06:35   Texas who over the course the entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/395">TS</a>]

00:06:36   novel she typifies what happens to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/396">TS</a>]

00:06:40   people who become refugees and are in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/400">TS</a>]

00:06:42   and are driven to rely on themselves far [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/402">TS</a>]

00:06:44   before they have to and what I really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/404">TS</a>]

00:06:48   loved about the book was the way it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/408">TS</a>]

00:06:50   shows how Lucy gets too close to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/410">TS</a>]

00:06:53   story and in doing so becomes utterly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/413">TS</a>]

00:06:56   unable to understand and see what would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/416">TS</a>]

00:06:58   drive somebody like Maria because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/418">TS</a>]

00:07:00   have a climactic confrontation the very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/420">TS</a>]

00:07:02   end I loved on Hell's quasi Redemption [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/422">TS</a>]

00:07:06   arc and the reason is a quasi Redemption [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/426">TS</a>]

00:07:09   arc is because he's going to hop in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/429">TS</a>]

00:07:10   helicopter and go back to Catherine case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/430">TS</a>]

00:07:12   who's the the headwater agency in Las [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/432">TS</a>]

00:07:15   Vegas yeah i mean of the queen of las [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/435">TS</a>]

00:07:17   vegas NV yeah I mean she was briefly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/437">TS</a>]

00:07:19   trying to kill him when she thought he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/439">TS</a>]

00:07:20   was betraying her but like now that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/440">TS</a>]

00:07:21   they've worked out that understanding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/441">TS</a>]

00:07:23   he's gonna talk he's going to toss Maria [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/443">TS</a>]

00:07:24   and this helicopter and the last thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/444">TS</a>]

00:07:26   he says to her in the book is Catherine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/446">TS</a>]

00:07:28   cases going to love you and I felt like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/448">TS</a>]

00:07:30   that book was saying right there okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/450">TS</a>]

00:07:31   she's gonna be a water knife interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/451">TS</a>]

00:07:33   to be great at it because she's looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/453">TS</a>]

00:07:34   at the world in a way that almost nobody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/454">TS</a>]

00:07:37   else can she doesn't remember a priest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/457">TS</a>]

00:07:38   shortage time and that kinda reminds me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/458">TS</a>]

00:07:41   of the Emily st. John mandals station [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/461">TS</a>]

00:07:43   eleven when they're talking about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/463">TS</a>]

00:07:46   before and the after and one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/466">TS</a>]

00:07:47   observations that one of the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/467">TS</a>]

00:07:49   makes is if you were a child you really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/469">TS</a>]

00:07:51   don't remember what if you were a child [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/471">TS</a>]

00:07:52   in the world you know depopulated you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/472">TS</a>]

00:07:54   really don't remember electricity or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/474">TS</a>]

00:07:56   medicine or anything like that so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/476">TS</a>]

00:07:57   don't miss it too much and Maria's case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/477">TS</a>]

00:08:00   she's very young she really doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/480">TS</a>]

00:08:01   remember life before like she has these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/481">TS</a>]

00:08:03   big impressions of all the stuff that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/483">TS</a>]

00:08:05   she no longer has but she's like no this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/485">TS</a>]

00:08:08   is the world and she talks a lot about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/488">TS</a>]

00:08:10   old eyes looking at the world and old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/490">TS</a>]

00:08:11   eyes where this is the way the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/491">TS</a>]

00:08:12   used to be we can get back to versus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/492">TS</a>]

00:08:14   looking at the world as it is now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/494">TS</a>]

00:08:16   what i thought was the same thing i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/496">TS</a>]

00:08:19   thought at the end of the drowned cities [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/499">TS</a>]

00:08:21   which was you know the drowsies explain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/501">TS</a>]

00:08:23   how people become child soldiers in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/503">TS</a>]

00:08:25   effect these are the circumstances that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/505">TS</a>]

00:08:26   lead to this is what happens this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/506">TS</a>]

00:08:28   human cost of the way the world is today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/508">TS</a>]

00:08:30   and you know this book is the same thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/510">TS</a>]

00:08:32   whether water and it was saying this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/512">TS</a>]

00:08:33   the this is the human cost of the kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/513">TS</a>]

00:08:35   of consumption patterns we have going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/515">TS</a>]

00:08:37   this is what are you guys going to pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/517">TS</a>]

00:08:39   this so i thought it was an intensely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/519">TS</a>]

00:08:40   moral intensely gripping read i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/520">TS</a>]

00:08:43   highlighted a buttload of passages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/523">TS</a>]

00:08:44   because he's got a vivid and economical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/524">TS</a>]

00:08:46   way of describing the complete collapse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/526">TS</a>]

00:08:48   of civilization [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/528">TS</a>]

00:08:50   no one of my favorite one of my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/530">TS</a>]

00:08:53   phrases was the odd mix of broken Souls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/533">TS</a>]

00:08:56   bleeding hearts and predators who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/536">TS</a>]

00:08:57   occupied the shattered places of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/537">TS</a>]

00:08:59   world and that that one sentence is just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/539">TS</a>]

00:09:04   so elegant and so economical and says so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/544">TS</a>]

00:09:07   much and it's just the pros in this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/547">TS</a>]

00:09:10   is excellent in addition to the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/550">TS</a>]

00:09:11   and i really love and appreciate when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/551">TS</a>]

00:09:13   you can find something where the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/553">TS</a>]

00:09:16   and the method of delivery are both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/556">TS</a>]

00:09:17   beautiful i'm going to go next to our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/557">TS</a>]

00:09:20   native a native Californian I believe a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/560">TS</a>]

00:09:23   serenity what do you think of this one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/563">TS</a>]

00:09:26   gosh at this book made me think a lot I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/566">TS</a>]

00:09:30   in well it's funny because this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/570">TS</a>]

00:09:33   came at a time where I i was talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/573">TS</a>]

00:09:37   with my boyfriend at the time were like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/577">TS</a>]

00:09:39   well do we want to live in the northeast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/579">TS</a>]

00:09:41   forever and maybe I want to move club [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/581">TS</a>]

00:09:44   back closer to my parents and we were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/584">TS</a>]

00:09:46   talking like maybe austin and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/586">TS</a>]

00:09:49   really nice i'm like yes work of fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/589">TS</a>]

00:09:55   but there's definitely there's a lot in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/595">TS</a>]

00:09:57   this book to make you think because it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/597">TS</a>]

00:10:00   not it's not necessarily yes this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/600">TS</a>]

00:10:02   happening tomorrow but it's definitely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/602">TS</a>]

00:10:04   this is a version of a future that could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/604">TS</a>]

00:10:06   potentially happen and yes water rates [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/606">TS</a>]

00:10:09   are thing which is something that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/609">TS</a>]

00:10:10   didn't actually realize until after the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/610">TS</a>]

00:10:12   book i went kind of diggin being like is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/612">TS</a>]

00:10:14   this actually yeah he says just the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/614">TS</a>]

00:10:19   for me again I i love all of how do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/619">TS</a>]

00:10:24   see that his lesson about you loopy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/624">TS</a>]

00:10:26   bacigalupi i love all of Paolo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/626">TS</a>]

00:10:28   Bacigalupi stuff I think so you must not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/628">TS</a>]

00:10:30   have read the doubt factor even haha no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/630">TS</a>]

00:10:33   sorry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/633">TS</a>]

00:10:34   I the jacket factory the data factory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/634">TS</a>]

00:10:37   was clearly turned out quickly and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/637">TS</a>]

00:10:39   not bad book but I I feel like somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/639">TS</a>]

00:10:42   whispered in his ear this sort of book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/642">TS</a>]

00:10:43   could sell well yeah we talked about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/643">TS</a>]

00:10:46   that I want to come out and I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/646">TS</a>]

00:10:47   everything else he's done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/647">TS</a>]

00:10:49   yes I alright so I'm yeah i love i love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/649">TS</a>]

00:10:52   his climate change-related science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/652">TS</a>]

00:10:54   fiction and i'm going to use the long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/654">TS</a>]

00:10:55   version of that because the short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/655">TS</a>]

00:10:57   acronym is terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/657">TS</a>]

00:10:59   I really Lisa in that I his prose is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/659">TS</a>]

00:11:03   chilling but i know in a way that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/663">TS</a>]

00:11:05   doesn't make you feel completely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/665">TS</a>]

00:11:07   discouraged about the the fate of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/667">TS</a>]

00:11:09   world or the potential fate of the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/669">TS</a>]

00:11:11   but it definitely it gets in your brain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/671">TS</a>]

00:11:13   and you think about these things long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/673">TS</a>]

00:11:15   after you've closed the book i mean i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/675">TS</a>]

00:11:17   read that but I read it it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/677">TS</a>]

00:11:18   page-turner you know I I probably run it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/678">TS</a>]

00:11:20   straight through and 48 hours maybe less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/680">TS</a>]

00:11:22   but it yet but the certain phrases and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/682">TS</a>]

00:11:28   imagery stuck with me a long time after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/688">TS</a>]

00:11:30   the the hyenas the oh yeah oh my gosh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/690">TS</a>]

00:11:35   yes oh the all of the all of the games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/695">TS</a>]

00:11:38   just it's such a well it's such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/698">TS</a>]

00:11:41   well-built version of apocalypse because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/701">TS</a>]

00:11:45   it doesn't because it's so close to our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/705">TS</a>]

00:11:47   reality that it doesn't feel so removed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/707">TS</a>]

00:11:50   that we can't identify with it and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/710">TS</a>]

00:11:52   you can it's it's it's just it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/712">TS</a>]

00:11:56   turning the knob just one setting over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/716">TS</a>]

00:11:58   so you look at everything and you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/718">TS</a>]

00:12:00   like yeah I recognize I recognize this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   but without necessarily being too close [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/722">TS</a>]

00:12:06   to home or too far away from home that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/726">TS</a>]

00:12:09   you become desensitized I there's a no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/729">TS</a>]

00:12:12   no it's it's a very special balance that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/732">TS</a>]

00:12:15   he's that he's kind of struck and I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/735">TS</a>]

00:12:17   really enjoy you know the the plus side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/737">TS</a>]

00:12:22   I and i love the world-building i love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/742">TS</a>]

00:12:24   the stuff we get about the ecology is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/744">TS</a>]

00:12:25   the essentially the living buildings and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/745">TS</a>]

00:12:29   how those sort of come into play in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/749">TS</a>]

00:12:31   story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/751">TS</a>]

00:12:32   anybody who's played simcity will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/752">TS</a>]

00:12:34   recognize arcologies from if you baby [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/754">TS</a>]

00:12:37   simcity 2000 if you built if you last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/757">TS</a>]

00:12:39   long enough they launched into space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/759">TS</a>]

00:12:41   oh yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/761">TS</a>]

00:12:42   you know that that was something that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/762">TS</a>]

00:12:44   was that start percolating through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/764">TS</a>]

00:12:46   architecture movements back in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/766">TS</a>]

00:12:47   sixties and seven days self-contained [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/767">TS</a>]

00:12:49   yes there's actually a structure in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/769">TS</a>]

00:12:52   southwest call dark asante which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/772">TS</a>]

00:12:54   meant to be a self-contained ecosystem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/774">TS</a>]

00:12:58   the idea was that good architecture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/778">TS</a>]

00:12:59   combined with ecology could create these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/779">TS</a>]

00:13:01   oasis in the desert and Marcus aunties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/781">TS</a>]

00:13:03   an experiment that's been going on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/783">TS</a>]

00:13:04   southwestern sometime [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/784">TS</a>]

00:13:06   David you live near a river but I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/786">TS</a>]

00:13:09   gonna have to well you're not about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/789">TS</a>]

00:13:10   water knife [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/790">TS</a>]

00:13:11   well i was gonna say all of the you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/791">TS</a>]

00:13:13   thinking about the water being a miracle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/793">TS</a>]

00:13:16   as it comes out of these little faucets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/796">TS</a>]

00:13:18   all over my house I I thought of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/798">TS</a>]

00:13:20   the last time i went to california and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/800">TS</a>]

00:13:21   when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/801">TS</a>]

00:13:22   oh this is what it's like out here and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/802">TS</a>]

00:13:28   I've been much more conscious let's and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/808">TS</a>]

00:13:29   taking home even though quote-unquote I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/809">TS</a>]

00:13:32   don't have to be and so reading this was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/812">TS</a>]

00:13:36   yeah i mean i'll go along and say that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/816">TS</a>]

00:13:41   have also liked everything he's written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/821">TS</a>]

00:13:43   i like the doubt factory for what it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/823">TS</a>]

00:13:45   it's not high heart this is high art [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/825">TS</a>]

00:13:49   this is I'm not usually a big fan of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/829">TS</a>]

00:13:51   message fiction and and you know you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/831">TS</a>]

00:13:54   know let's let's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/834">TS</a>]

00:13:55   except for Star Trek i guess but one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/835">TS</a>]

00:13:59   thing i love about his work is that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/839">TS</a>]

00:14:02   does stick with me and it's just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/842">TS</a>]

00:14:05   really really well written and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/845">TS</a>]

00:14:07   well-plotted story every time out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/847">TS</a>]

00:14:10   it's a mystery said I mean I think the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/850">TS</a>]

00:14:12   one of the things that even in Star Trek [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/852">TS</a>]

00:14:14   you could say is that you need to have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/854">TS</a>]

00:14:16   good story a good plot that goes along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/856">TS</a>]

00:14:17   with your message and a day that could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/857">TS</a>]

00:14:20   you could say that was the sugar coating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/860">TS</a>]

00:14:21   sometimes what what bacigalupi is doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/861">TS</a>]

00:14:23   here is you know he's telling he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/863">TS</a>]

00:14:25   telling a an action adventure story in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/865">TS</a>]

00:14:28   this world where he which allows him to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/868">TS</a>]

00:14:32   tell us about it let's imagine a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/872">TS</a>]

00:14:35   Southwest with these crippling water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/875">TS</a>]

00:14:38   deficiencies and what the politics would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/878">TS</a>]

00:14:41   be in what the social ramifications [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/881">TS</a>]

00:14:43   would be that's but you know then I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/883">TS</a>]

00:14:46   going to tell a story about this guy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/886">TS</a>]

00:14:49   and these two women and what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/889">TS</a>]

00:14:51   with them and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/891">TS</a>]

00:14:52   and there's you know and there's action [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/892">TS</a>]

00:14:54   there is and there's adventure and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/894">TS</a>]

00:14:56   there's excitement and there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/896">TS</a>]

00:14:57   crazy sci-fi kind of things in there but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/897">TS</a>]

00:15:00   you know but that's it's you know it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/900">TS</a>]

00:15:03   i think well done in the sense that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/903">TS</a>]

00:15:05   the the I the message isn't it is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/905">TS</a>]

00:15:08   plot but it isn't the plot it's more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/908">TS</a>]

00:15:09   than that if it was just a message was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/909">TS</a>]

00:15:11   just discreet about the environment I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/911">TS</a>]

00:15:13   think it wouldn't be that it wouldn't be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/913">TS</a>]

00:15:15   as successful as it is not to tip my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/915">TS</a>]

00:15:17   hand for later but i really i really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/917">TS</a>]

00:15:20   like the the clothes look I don't I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/920">TS</a>]

00:15:23   don't necessarily like the let's see the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/923">TS</a>]

00:15:26   entire you know everything that's going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/926">TS</a>]

00:15:28   on everywhere all over the world hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/928">TS</a>]

00:15:29   hard to get a lot of perspective when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/929">TS</a>]

00:15:31   you're looking at it from that viewpoint [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/931">TS</a>]

00:15:32   and and you don't need it and this this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/932">TS</a>]

00:15:34   is proof that you don't need all of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/934">TS</a>]

00:15:36   to have an effective story and to end to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/936">TS</a>]

00:15:38   get your points across to get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/938">TS</a>]

00:15:41   message that you're trying to sell you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/941">TS</a>]

00:15:44   can you can just do it really nicely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/944">TS</a>]

00:15:46   covered entities in Philadelphia he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/946">TS</a>]

00:15:49   just pouring buckets of water onto the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/949">TS</a>]

00:15:50   street for fun doing that right now like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/950">TS</a>]

00:15:53   about other is set up and i just turned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/953">TS</a>]

00:15:56   on the faucet and throw it out the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/956">TS</a>]

00:15:57   window [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/957">TS</a>]

00:15:57   yeah this book has reaffirmed that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/957">TS</a>]

00:16:00   should stay on the east coast because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/960">TS</a>]

00:16:01   you have plentiful water is usually rain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/961">TS</a>]

00:16:04   in oregon right that there's only in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/964">TS</a>]

00:16:06   fact the scene where they call vancouver [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/966">TS</a>]

00:16:08   and they're like its winning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/968">TS</a>]

00:16:10   what is that yes that being said its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/970">TS</a>]

00:16:13   problems an earthquake land you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/973">TS</a>]

00:16:15   some ministers maybe we also don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/975">TS</a>]

00:16:17   earthquakes over here at the East Coast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/977">TS</a>]

00:16:19   generally of course we'll have one and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/979">TS</a>]

00:16:21   then everyone will die but yeah but to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/981">TS</a>]

00:16:24   philly sports fans i'm really not sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/984">TS</a>]

00:16:25   that's a true that hurricane hurricane [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/985">TS</a>]

00:16:27   only missed you by a little bit so we do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/987">TS</a>]

00:16:29   have her needs we sometimes have too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/989">TS</a>]

00:16:31   much water that is very game learn to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/991">TS</a>]

00:16:32   not mess with us also Eagles fans I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/992">TS</a>]

00:16:35   like we can't again about that danger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/995">TS</a>]

00:16:36   index Friedman so so Scott what do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/996">TS</a>]

00:16:40   think of the water i liked it i read it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1000">TS</a>]

00:16:44   very quickly so that's always a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1004">TS</a>]

00:16:46   sign [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1006">TS</a>]

00:16:46   yeah I enjoyed the fact that it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1006">TS</a>]

00:16:48   shorter than 70 you soon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1008">TS</a>]

00:16:50   american press that you although it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1010">TS</a>]

00:16:53   not surprising considering both authors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1013">TS</a>]

00:16:54   I liked all talking about comparing and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1014">TS</a>]

00:16:57   contrasting i like how real the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1017">TS</a>]

00:17:00   knife felt and plausible and how there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1020">TS</a>]

00:17:03   was so many striking scenes of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1023">TS</a>]

00:17:06   completely different people experiencing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1026">TS</a>]

00:17:10   the same kind of a horrific ecological [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1030">TS</a>]

00:17:14   breakdown in so many like the people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1034">TS</a>]

00:17:15   live in these arcologies it doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1035">TS</a>]

00:17:17   matter because they have a fountain and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1037">TS</a>]

00:17:18   a river and everything's lovely inside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1038">TS</a>]

00:17:21   their little self-contained world but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1041">TS</a>]

00:17:23   then you go outside and there are people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1043">TS</a>]

00:17:24   lining up at a public spigot that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1044">TS</a>]

00:17:27   have to pay you no money to get their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1047">TS</a>]

00:17:30   water and the prices fluctuate based on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1050">TS</a>]

00:17:33   the market [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1053">TS</a>]

00:17:33   yeah there's a scene where now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1053">TS</a>]

00:17:35   malfunctions in advance oh it over Vince [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1055">TS</a>]

00:17:37   water and like one of the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1057">TS</a>]

00:17:38   feels like she struck it rich because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1058">TS</a>]

00:17:40   she's going to be able to resell this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1060">TS</a>]

00:17:42   water for right Marshall fingers out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1062">TS</a>]

00:17:45   that because it's based on the market so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1065">TS</a>]

00:17:46   there's at 1.22 yeah i was down there is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1066">TS</a>]

00:17:49   nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1069">TS</a>]

00:17:50   and so you can quickly she fills up a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1070">TS</a>]

00:17:52   lots of jugs and of course in in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1072">TS</a>]

00:17:55   book that is a great boon for her but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1075">TS</a>]

00:17:58   immediately it turns into a horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1078">TS</a>]

00:17:59   thing because nobody could be happy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1079">TS</a>]

00:18:02   well have you ever seen the wire it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1082">TS</a>]

00:18:04   pretty much like watching the kids and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1084">TS</a>]

00:18:05   season four of the white attempt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1085">TS</a>]

00:18:07   together terrible situation I mean yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1087">TS</a>]

00:18:09   it'sit's uh yeah it was Ursa know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1089">TS</a>]

00:18:13   that what I enjoyed is I really liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1093">TS</a>]

00:18:15   what he did to Lucy over the course of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1095">TS</a>]

00:18:17   the book that's our our reporter yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1097">TS</a>]

00:18:20   loosies reporter character and there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1100">TS</a>]

00:18:23   character who appears very briefly and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1103">TS</a>]

00:18:24   kick starts things off where he tells [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1104">TS</a>]

00:18:26   Lucy that her problem is she thinks too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1106">TS</a>]

00:18:27   small and at the end of the book when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1107">TS</a>]

00:18:31   she gets what is essentially the maltese [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1111">TS</a>]

00:18:33   falcon of the book the thing everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1113">TS</a>]

00:18:35   has been looking for i think everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1115">TS</a>]

00:18:36   has been pulling to kill him to die for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1116">TS</a>]

00:18:38   and she gets it she's like with this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1118">TS</a>]

00:18:40   Phoenix can you know control its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1120">TS</a>]

00:18:42   destiny and like she's all I'm going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1122">TS</a>]

00:18:45   make sure that Felix isn't hired by this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1125">TS</a>]

00:18:46   and she says this in front of somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1126">TS</a>]

00:18:49   who has lost parts of her body her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1129">TS</a>]

00:18:51   parent and her best friend to the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1131">TS</a>]

00:18:53   Phoenix is now and I thought oh my god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1133">TS</a>]

00:18:56   Lucy you really do like anything it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1136">TS</a>]

00:18:58   not Lucy thinking small in that case she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1138">TS</a>]

00:19:00   was thinking too big that she missed the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1140">TS</a>]

00:19:01   key details which is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1141">TS</a>]

00:19:03   there are probably people in Phoenix who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1143">TS</a>]

00:19:04   don't want it to succeed who wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1144">TS</a>]

00:19:07   desperately to get out of there and will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1147">TS</a>]

00:19:08   do anything to get up there in Lucy lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1148">TS</a>]

00:19:11   sight of that she was she was chasing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1151">TS</a>]

00:19:12   after the power structures and she kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1152">TS</a>]

00:19:14   of it was ok to document the desperation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1154">TS</a>]

00:19:16   but I don't think she really realized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1156">TS</a>]

00:19:18   the lengths people would go to to avoid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1158">TS</a>]

00:19:22   prolonging the pain you mentioned the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1162">TS</a>]

00:19:24   MacGuffin here and I it may seem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1164">TS</a>]

00:19:26   ridiculous to people that essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1166">TS</a>]

00:19:29   what they're talking about and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1169">TS</a>]

00:19:30   thing that everybody's fighting and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1170">TS</a>]

00:19:32   dying over is a document about water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1172">TS</a>]

00:19:35   rights from 100 a long time ago and like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1175">TS</a>]

00:19:39   who had the first water rights to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1179">TS</a>]

00:19:40   various watersheds and rivers and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1180">TS</a>]

00:19:43   may seem ridiculous like will really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1183">TS</a>]

00:19:45   when you've got all these states and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1185">TS</a>]

00:19:46   their national guards and they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1186">TS</a>]

00:19:47   fighting each other and they're blowing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1187">TS</a>]

00:19:48   up pumping stations and things like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1188">TS</a>]

00:19:50   what is some quaint old document going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1190">TS</a>]

00:19:52   to mean except if you look at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1192">TS</a>]

00:19:55   headlines of the mandatory water cuts in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1195">TS</a>]

00:19:57   California right now they're actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1197">TS</a>]

00:20:00   the age of the water claims is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1200">TS</a>]

00:20:04   determining factor in whether your farms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1204">TS</a>]

00:20:06   get water or not so this is absolutely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1206">TS</a>]

00:20:08   real as ridiculous as it sounds I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1208">TS</a>]

00:20:11   it is that ridiculous and yet it is also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1211">TS</a>]

00:20:13   accurate so I thought that was a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1213">TS</a>]

00:20:15   touch there that as fact there have been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1215">TS</a>]

00:20:18   reporters who have been documenting the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1218">TS</a>]

00:20:20   Colorado for like the last 15 to 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1220">TS</a>]

00:20:21   years and taking a look at who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1221">TS</a>]

00:20:24   claims where because this is a very real [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1224">TS</a>]

00:20:27   thing if you were to cut off the kelp [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1227">TS</a>]

00:20:29   that Colorado's water supply [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1229">TS</a>]

00:20:31   well above Arizona Utah and Nevada they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1231">TS</a>]

00:20:35   be host and so right now who can draw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1235">TS</a>]

00:20:37   water from calif from the Colorado is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1237">TS</a>]

00:20:39   really from political process and when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1239">TS</a>]

00:20:41   Arizona starting large-scale spinach [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1241">TS</a>]

00:20:43   farming they actually tapped into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1243">TS</a>]

00:20:45   Colorado to do that and that's about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1245">TS</a>]

00:20:46   whole political flurry it's a Mike Davis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1246">TS</a>]

00:20:50   wrote a book called city of course which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1250">TS</a>]

00:20:51   is about Los Angeles and how you know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1251">TS</a>]

00:20:55   the reason it grew is because they stole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1255">TS</a>]

00:20:57   of water rights which you know you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1257">TS</a>]

00:20:58   learn more about actually much chinatown [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1258">TS</a>]

00:21:00   and they talk about how water is life or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1260">TS</a>]

00:21:06   death to the American Southwest and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1266">TS</a>]

00:21:08   there are a lot of people who have a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1268">TS</a>]

00:21:10   at stake in making sure that it flows in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1270">TS</a>]

00:21:12   ways that are deeply unnatural for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1272">TS</a>]

00:21:13   region [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1273">TS</a>]

00:21:15   and I I I loved in this book how he had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1275">TS</a>]

00:21:18   clearly done his homework on how the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1278">TS</a>]

00:21:21   battles are fought you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1281">TS</a>]

00:21:22   bit by bit with ranchers and farmers and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1282">TS</a>]

00:21:25   and where the money flows and how it get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1285">TS</a>]

00:21:27   started it's just such a whole research [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1287">TS</a>]

00:21:30   book also we talking about um about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1290">TS</a>]

00:21:33   being an apocalyptic it is in a way but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1293">TS</a>]

00:21:35   if this is a small apocalypse in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1295">TS</a>]

00:21:37   sense that it's an apocalypse of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1297">TS</a>]

00:21:38   region and in fact one of the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1298">TS</a>]

00:21:40   that he goes to some pains to show is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1300">TS</a>]

00:21:43   that this is a world of haves and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1303">TS</a>]

00:21:45   have-nots and people in the United [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1305">TS</a>]

00:21:47   States miss something I think power [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1307">TS</a>]

00:21:48   budget hope he does a lot and does very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1308">TS</a>]

00:21:49   well is is a make you understand how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1309">TS</a>]

00:21:53   people in other parts of the world and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1313">TS</a>]

00:21:54   other situations feel by turning the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1314">TS</a>]

00:21:57   tables on on Americans and display and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1317">TS</a>]

00:22:00   showing them in that position because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1320">TS</a>]

00:22:01   you have that this is what you know this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1321">TS</a>]

00:22:03   is what they go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1323">TS</a>]

00:22:04   imagine what it would be like if you did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1324">TS</a>]

00:22:06   this exactly so in this case what we see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1326">TS</a>]

00:22:08   is not only do we see the rain in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1328">TS</a>]

00:22:09   Vancouver and we hear about you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1329">TS</a>]

00:22:11   things within back east and all that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1331">TS</a>]

00:22:13   lurking the whole time and we very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1333">TS</a>]

00:22:16   rarely see any instance of it other than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1336">TS</a>]

00:22:18   like people referencing it is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1338">TS</a>]

00:22:20   monster in the room which is California [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1340">TS</a>]

00:22:24   and the implication a California will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1344">TS</a>]

00:22:26   always get what it wants its got the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1346">TS</a>]

00:22:28   people it's got the power it will suck [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1348">TS</a>]

00:22:31   you dry if it wants to and everybody in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1351">TS</a>]

00:22:33   this story is scrambling around the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1353">TS</a>]

00:22:36   edges trying not to anger California and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1356">TS</a>]

00:22:38   trying to get enough to survive without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1358">TS</a>]

00:22:40   drawing you know California's I and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1360">TS</a>]

00:22:42   found that fascinating to that this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1362">TS</a>]

00:22:44   isn't this isn't a you know a story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1364">TS</a>]

00:22:47   about the The you know how California [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1367">TS</a>]

00:22:49   steals everybody's water when there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1369">TS</a>]

00:22:51   drought this is a story of all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1371">TS</a>]

00:22:52   people whose water got stolen but and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1372">TS</a>]

00:22:54   how they survive which i think is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1374">TS</a>]

00:22:56   really nice touch the California is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1376">TS</a>]

00:22:57   this super scary like the Soviet Union [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1377">TS</a>]

00:23:00   and in a spy story in said in the cold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1380">TS</a>]

00:23:03   war where it's like it's just it's out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1383">TS</a>]

00:23:05   there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1385">TS</a>]

00:23:05   Hallie's are ya they are you you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1385">TS</a>]

00:23:07   the calories are gonna come and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1387">TS</a>]

00:23:09   it's all the jig is up man it's over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1389">TS</a>]

00:23:10   then I think that's a fascinating little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1390">TS</a>]

00:23:14   touch too and it's funny brought up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1394">TS</a>]

00:23:16   China tent is the first thing I wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1396">TS</a>]

00:23:17   to do as soon as they finish was gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1397">TS</a>]

00:23:19   watch chinatown [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1399">TS</a>]

00:23:20   because it's been you know 15 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1400">TS</a>]

00:23:21   since i saw it 20 years since i thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1401">TS</a>]

00:23:23   i was thinking because you talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1403">TS</a>]

00:23:25   you Jason you alluded to the gap between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1405">TS</a>]

00:23:26   the rich and the poor and one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1406">TS</a>]

00:23:28   things i like about the way mr. B i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1408">TS</a>]

00:23:33   just going to one of the things i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1413">TS</a>]

00:23:36   when mr. B rights is he makes it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1416">TS</a>]

00:23:39   abundantly clear that the technology and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1419">TS</a>]

00:23:41   the g was advances like the arcologies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1421">TS</a>]

00:23:43   have all been developed and designed in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1423">TS</a>]

00:23:46   the service of the from of the elite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1426">TS</a>]

00:23:49   economy and it reminds me a lot of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1429">TS</a>]

00:23:51   stuff that you seen william gibson novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1431">TS</a>]

00:23:53   except here there's more of an angry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1433">TS</a>]

00:23:55   activists heart whereas and william [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1435">TS</a>]

00:23:57   gibson novels like he can go off for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1437">TS</a>]

00:23:59   paragraph about somebody's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1439">TS</a>]

00:24:00   super-fantastic flannel shirt and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1440">TS</a>]

00:24:02   fountain pen they're using and then it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1442">TS</a>]

00:24:04   like a woman doing jujitsu but here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1444">TS</a>]

00:24:06   instead it's a little eyes fetishized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1446">TS</a>]

00:24:09   and it's definitely more comment on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1449">TS</a>]

00:24:11   wealth is a lot less fetishize and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1451">TS</a>]

00:24:13   are aware of the human cost you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1453">TS</a>]

00:24:15   especially when you've got these these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1455">TS</a>]

00:24:17   these dudes who are supposed to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1457">TS</a>]

00:24:19   looking for aquifers not finding LOL [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1459">TS</a>]

00:24:21   hookers on the company tab and and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1461">TS</a>]

00:24:23   working that way so it's I like his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1463">TS</a>]

00:24:27   books because i like the angry beating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1467">TS</a>]

00:24:28   heart of them will they feel real [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1468">TS</a>]

00:24:30   yeah they don't they don't feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1470">TS</a>]

00:24:32   again they don't feel like some fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1472">TS</a>]

00:24:34   world where we're so far removed it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1474">TS</a>]

00:24:36   like oh that's nice post boxes like Mad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1476">TS</a>]

00:24:38   Max feels like a fantasy world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1478">TS</a>]

00:24:40   yeah it's just like it's so far removed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1480">TS</a>]

00:24:42   from reality that you're like all right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1482">TS</a>]

00:24:44   this is most part how would how would we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1484">TS</a>]

00:24:46   get to that point where it's very clear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1486">TS</a>]

00:24:47   how we get to this point so it did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1487">TS</a>]

00:24:50   everybody had everybody read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1490">TS</a>]

00:24:52   tamarisk unter which is one of his short [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1492">TS</a>]

00:24:54   stories and pump 6i have yeah I cannot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1494">TS</a>]

00:24:57   oh yeah that's a good coat on that's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1497">TS</a>]

00:24:59   good choice for collection pump six is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1499">TS</a>]

00:25:00   an excellent pump six and other stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1500">TS</a>]

00:25:02   is an excellent collection all all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1502">TS</a>]

00:25:05   ecosystem and climate change-related I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1505">TS</a>]

00:25:08   believe but that the tamarisk countries [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1508">TS</a>]

00:25:11   i believe the short story that kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1511">TS</a>]

00:25:12   spurred this this book into action which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1512">TS</a>]

00:25:16   follows basically a a so-called tamarisk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1516">TS</a>]

00:25:19   hunter who basically goes down the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1519">TS</a>]

00:25:21   Colorado striking down tamarisk weeds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1521">TS</a>]

00:25:24   that are sucking the water dried and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1524">TS</a>]

00:25:28   his interactions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1528">TS</a>]

00:25:29   and his his view or how he sees people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1529">TS</a>]

00:25:33   basically being policed on the wall on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1533">TS</a>]

00:25:35   the Colorado and that that in itself was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1535">TS</a>]

00:25:38   such an interesting snapshot of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1538">TS</a>]

00:25:42   potential life and then I forget a year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1542">TS</a>]

00:25:45   or two later in the LA Times there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1545">TS</a>]

00:25:48   something very very similarly mentioning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1548">TS</a>]

00:25:51   you know tamarisks sucking down Colorado [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1551">TS</a>]

00:25:54   etc and it was just I don't know I feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1554">TS</a>]

00:25:56   like he has such a good he has such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1556">TS</a>]

00:25:59   good eye tap on the sort of the beating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1559">TS</a>]

00:26:03   heart of like what what is vital in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1563">TS</a>]

00:26:05   certain areas and the like the ability [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1565">TS</a>]

00:26:09   to just draw out what might be most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1569">TS</a>]

00:26:10   negatively interesting without not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1570">TS</a>]

00:26:12   necessarily saying like this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1572">TS</a>]

00:26:14   future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1574">TS</a>]

00:26:15   everything is doomed but if this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1575">TS</a>]

00:26:17   worst way that this future could go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1577">TS</a>]

00:26:19   let's dive in deep and look at these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1579">TS</a>]

00:26:22   three people and explode their lives [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1582">TS</a>]

00:26:25   basically let's make all of the bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1585">TS</a>]

00:26:26   things happen and see how humanity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1586">TS</a>]

00:26:28   reacts which is fascinating so i will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1588">TS</a>]

00:26:31   say I another way that this book reminds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1591">TS</a>]

00:26:33   me of william gibson is that after i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1593">TS</a>]

00:26:37   read it i thought i really love the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1597">TS</a>]

00:26:39   world and i really loved the writing and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1599">TS</a>]

00:26:42   as for the plot it is not anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1602">TS</a>]

00:26:46   special like to me I felt like like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1606">TS</a>]

00:26:49   Gibson and I love Gibson but Gibson's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1609">TS</a>]

00:26:51   plots are pulp crying plots mostly and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1611">TS</a>]

00:26:55   this you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1615">TS</a>]

00:26:57   yes such they stopped a little better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1617">TS</a>]

00:26:58   something that's exactly and and I want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1618">TS</a>]

00:27:00   and what about with budget loopy I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1620">TS</a>]

00:27:03   never really felt that way before but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1623">TS</a>]

00:27:05   with this book I felt that way I felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1625">TS</a>]

00:27:07   like the setting was so rich but like in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1627">TS</a>]

00:27:10   the windup girl the setting is is rich [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1630">TS</a>]

00:27:12   but it's also bizarre and in and drowned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1632">TS</a>]

00:27:14   cities i think is setting is as rich and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1634">TS</a>]

00:27:16   it's also super weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1636">TS</a>]

00:27:18   in some ways water knife I felt like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1638">TS</a>]

00:27:20   setting was good and then the plot is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1640">TS</a>]

00:27:23   kind of it is a MacGuffin plot it is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1643">TS</a>]

00:27:26   thug you know and some mysterious like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1646">TS</a>]

00:27:29   people get assassinated and there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1649">TS</a>]

00:27:31   the reporter who's on the trail and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1651">TS</a>]

00:27:33   there's the the the poor refugee who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1653">TS</a>]

00:27:36   put in these terrible situations and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1656">TS</a>]

00:27:37   it's not bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1657">TS</a>]

00:27:39   but they did I just wanted to say it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1659">TS</a>]

00:27:41   that struck me and I think that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1661">TS</a>]

00:27:42   reason that I didn't like it as much as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1662">TS</a>]

00:27:43   some of his other work is not because of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1663">TS</a>]

00:27:45   all the things we've been talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1665">TS</a>]

00:27:46   that because I felt like the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1666">TS</a>]

00:27:49   itself when I got done with it was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1669">TS</a>]

00:27:51   that part of it yeah you know it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1671">TS</a>]

00:27:53   like I've seen that story that's like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1673">TS</a>]

00:27:55   you know it came off of the plot machine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1675">TS</a>]

00:27:58   I almost like it that what I like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1678">TS</a>]

00:28:01   almost enjoy the fact that it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1681">TS</a>]

00:28:03   basically an archetypal story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1683">TS</a>]

00:28:05   I'm shoved into these extraordinary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1685">TS</a>]

00:28:07   circumstances because it a little for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1687">TS</a>]

00:28:10   at least what I really enjoyed about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1690">TS</a>]

00:28:12   water knife worthy the small moments in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1692">TS</a>]

00:28:15   there and the the very real humanization [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1695">TS</a>]

00:28:18   of these characters whereas the their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1698">TS</a>]

00:28:20   overall arcs may have been fairly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1700">TS</a>]

00:28:21   predictable but the brief it like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1701">TS</a>]

00:28:24   individual scenes in the way that these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1704">TS</a>]

00:28:26   characters interacted were very very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1706">TS</a>]

00:28:29   interesting on I don't yeah I it is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1709">TS</a>]

00:28:33   less about the little moments for me in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1713">TS</a>]

00:28:35   this book which I i'm gonna bet you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:36   you're you're totally valid and that yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1716">TS</a>]

00:28:38   it's much more of an archetypal story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1718">TS</a>]

00:28:40   than his other works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:41   yeah I mean to me it's sort of like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1721">TS</a>]

00:28:44   lets you focus on the message and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1724">TS</a>]

00:28:46   character moments and it's the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:47   thing with Chinatown where he wanted to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1727">TS</a>]

00:28:50   tell the story about the water rights [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1730">TS</a>]

00:28:52   and he came up with this home the war [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1732">TS</a>]

00:28:54   storyline to fit into and so that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1734">TS</a>]

00:28:57   sort of the spoonful of sugar for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1737">TS</a>]

00:28:58   everyone to get the story of the water [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1738">TS</a>]

00:29:00   right thing and I think that I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1740">TS</a>]

00:29:02   that was I almost want to say it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1742">TS</a>]

00:29:04   very intentional thing here I'd I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1744">TS</a>]

00:29:07   that might have been in his brain going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1747">TS</a>]

00:29:09   hey you know I could take that and put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1749">TS</a>]

00:29:11   it into a science-fiction setting with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1751">TS</a>]

00:29:12   these thriller element but he actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1752">TS</a>]

00:29:15   calls it out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1755">TS</a>]

00:29:16   he calls it out because they talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:17   all the stuff that Lucy reported on and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1757">TS</a>]

00:29:20   got pills for and they point out that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1760">TS</a>]

00:29:22   her most her most dogged and tenacious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1762">TS</a>]

00:29:24   reporting that puts all this together [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1764">TS</a>]

00:29:25   was released trafficked work but that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1765">TS</a>]

00:29:28   not like they make that comment like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1768">TS</a>]

00:29:30   makes that commentary on the state [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1770">TS</a>]

00:29:31   journalism with what gets eyeballs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1771">TS</a>]

00:29:33   versus what gets what should get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1773">TS</a>]

00:29:34   attention when when they talk about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1774">TS</a>]

00:29:36   most respectable and the best work that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1776">TS</a>]

00:29:38   Lucy did was was unraveling who was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1778">TS</a>]

00:29:40   responsible for drawing out phoenix and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:42   nobody saw those stories so it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1782">TS</a>]

00:29:44   the subtext is text at least one chapter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1784">TS</a>]

00:29:46   there's one other thing i want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1786">TS</a>]

00:29:47   mention here which is just a funny thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1787">TS</a>]

00:29:49   that happened a week or two ago Elon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1789">TS</a>]

00:29:52   Musk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1792">TS</a>]

00:29:52   made the the comment about how if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1792">TS</a>]

00:29:56   there's an apocalypse of some sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1796">TS</a>]

00:29:58   there's no place you want to be other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1798">TS</a>]

00:29:59   than a test love because in the test lab [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1799">TS</a>]

00:30:01   there's like super air filters and stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1801">TS</a>]

00:30:03   like that and that made me laugh because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:05   because there is a there are several [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1805">TS</a>]

00:30:06   chapters here where we're on how the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1806">TS</a>]

00:30:08   last guys is a is driving around in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1808">TS</a>]

00:30:11   Tesla and he's got the he goes through a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1811">TS</a>]

00:30:14   dust storm and he's got the filters on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1814">TS</a>]

00:30:16   and all of that and you know that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1816">TS</a>]

00:30:19   think it's a nice touch because it it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1819">TS</a>]

00:30:21   says it says futuristic while also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1821">TS</a>]

00:30:23   saying not that far in the future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1823">TS</a>]

00:30:25   because it's a test lights recognizable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:27   and that's kind of funny but then Elon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1827">TS</a>]

00:30:29   Musk comes out and says basically yup [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1829">TS</a>]

00:30:31   you wanna you know if there's something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1831">TS</a>]

00:30:33   bad in the air just getting your test [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1833">TS</a>]

00:30:34   lights really good for that we just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1834">TS</a>]

00:30:36   again great i don't have one of those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1836">TS</a>]

00:30:39   are your audience Ilan consider your own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1839">TS</a>]

00:30:42   yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1842">TS</a>]

00:30:43   Scott you have anything more to say you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1843">TS</a>]

00:30:45   can you been characteristically quiet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1845">TS</a>]

00:30:48   well I don't want to disappoint my fans [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1848">TS</a>]

00:30:50   by actually talking as though made as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1850">TS</a>]

00:30:54   quiet as possible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1854">TS</a>]

00:30:56   well I thought the the book was fairly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1856">TS</a>]

00:30:58   straightforward i enjoyed it i didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1858">TS</a>]

00:31:00   think it was high arch as David said but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1860">TS</a>]

00:31:02   I thought it was a fine novel I wouldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1862">TS</a>]

00:31:05   read it again because I don't read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1865">TS</a>]

00:31:06   things but uh huh i certainly would read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1866">TS</a>]

00:31:10   another book by paolo bacigalupi but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1870">TS</a>]

00:31:12   apparently not the depth factor don't do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1872">TS</a>]

00:31:13   that one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1873">TS</a>]

00:31:14   no I i would say it's kind of in between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1874">TS</a>]

00:31:16   being the it's not a polemic and it it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1876">TS</a>]

00:31:21   not like super high art either it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1881">TS</a>]

00:31:23   summer it's it it's in between it is it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1883">TS</a>]

00:31:25   is it's got a message and it's got a fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1885">TS</a>]

00:31:27   story and weld them together fairly well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1887">TS</a>]

00:31:29   I didn't react to it like I did when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1889">TS</a>]

00:31:31   read the windup girl which was wow this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1891">TS</a>]

00:31:33   is amazing i'm going to vote for this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1893">TS</a>]

00:31:34   for the hugo award for best novel which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1894">TS</a>]

00:31:36   I did and it tied for that so it won [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1896">TS</a>]

00:31:39   thanks to me I pointed this out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:41   Paolo Bacigalupi give me a call my votes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1901">TS</a>]

00:31:46   that made the difference anyway if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1906">TS</a>]

00:31:48   had to reread only one Paolo Bacigalupi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1908">TS</a>]

00:31:50   book i think the window grill is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1910">TS</a>]

00:31:51   clear choice unless you're a teenager in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1911">TS</a>]

00:31:53   which case it is a ship breaker [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1913">TS</a>]

00:31:56   yeah yeah yeahs less depressing in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1916">TS</a>]

00:31:59   drowned cities [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1919">TS</a>]

00:32:00   yeah yeah but you know it comes first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:02   chronologically in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1922">TS</a>]

00:32:03   your thoughts here are anything more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1923">TS</a>]

00:32:05   about the water knife before we move on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1925">TS</a>]

00:32:06   to seven Eve's everybody should get all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1926">TS</a>]

00:32:09   right it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1929">TS</a>]

00:32:10   yeah it's fun it's hard it's hard not to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1930">TS</a>]

00:32:12   think about Syrian refugees and he said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1932">TS</a>]

00:32:13   way but yeah it is well set your again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1933">TS</a>]

00:32:15   this is the business the thing in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1935">TS</a>]

00:32:17   drowned cities that he does that he does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1937">TS</a>]

00:32:19   again here is there is nothing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1939">TS</a>]

00:32:21   makes a stronger point for the plight of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1941">TS</a>]

00:32:23   other people in the world who are in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1943">TS</a>]

00:32:25   terrible situations then reading a story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1945">TS</a>]

00:32:28   where you are the people who are in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1948">TS</a>]

00:32:30   situation he does that very well and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1950">TS</a>]

00:32:32   it's very last thing the crisis yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1952">TS</a>]

00:32:34   alright so we'll move on to seven Eve's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1954">TS</a>]

00:32:40   final Stephenson similar symbols of 800 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1960">TS</a>]

00:32:43   minutes long and internet to the length [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1963">TS</a>]

00:32:45   of this seven Eve's is longer in then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1965">TS</a>]

00:32:49   the water knife in that it's 880 pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:52   long which for Neal Stephenson is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1972">TS</a>]

00:32:54   moderately long book it's in novella [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1974">TS</a>]

00:32:58   yeah that's as with many long neal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1978">TS</a>]

00:33:01   stephenson books there's a really great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1981">TS</a>]

00:33:03   400-page novel in here that is correct [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1983">TS</a>]

00:33:07   so hard Dave day 3 one's Dave once joked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1987">TS</a>]

00:33:12   about tom clancy that that it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1992">TS</a>]

00:33:13   basically like you know 400 pages of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1993">TS</a>]

00:33:15   submarine porn and you know 50 pages of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1995">TS</a>]

00:33:18   actual of actual story and i have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/1998">TS</a>]

00:33:21   admit that a lot of this book felt that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2001">TS</a>]

00:33:24   way to be too when I thought well if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2004">TS</a>]

00:33:25   I've ever trapped aboard a space station [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2005">TS</a>]

00:33:27   and I need to learn how to dhaka module [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2007">TS</a>]

00:33:29   in such a way so as I don't below set of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2009">TS</a>]

00:33:31   orbit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2011">TS</a>]

00:33:32   i am now fully equipped to do so it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2012">TS</a>]

00:33:35   really be like that space station that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2015">TS</a>]

00:33:37   way so i agree with you and we'll come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2017">TS</a>]

00:33:38   back to that but first i will at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2018">TS</a>]

00:33:40   say what the seventies is seven Eve's is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2020">TS</a>]

00:33:42   a novel in which a mysterious agent that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2022">TS</a>]

00:33:45   is never really describe blows up the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2025">TS</a>]

00:33:47   moon and the moon slowly is coming apart [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2027">TS</a>]

00:33:49   and they and scientists realized that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2029">TS</a>]

00:33:51   this isn't just like it's a bummer i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2031">TS</a>]

00:33:53   like the moon it was it was pretty in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2033">TS</a>]

00:33:54   the sky that the man at the moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2034">TS</a>]

00:33:57   debris is going to fall at similar to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2037">TS</a>]

00:34:00   other apocalypse books that we've read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2040">TS</a>]

00:34:02   perhaps the last policeman is down there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2042">TS</a>]

00:34:04   while this is all going on in a year to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2044">TS</a>]

00:34:08   basically it's going to be what's called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2048">TS</a>]

00:34:10   the white sky which is when all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2050">TS</a>]

00:34:11   debris is going to basically re-enter or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2051">TS</a>]

00:34:14   interests orbit and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2054">TS</a>]

00:34:16   and the earth is gonna catch on fire and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2056">TS</a>]

00:34:19   it's going to be uninhabitable for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2059">TS</a>]

00:34:20   hundreds of years and I it's the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2060">TS</a>]

00:34:24   of the people on the International Space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2064">TS</a>]

00:34:27   Station and its successor modules and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2067">TS</a>]

00:34:31   how they try to figure out how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2071">TS</a>]

00:34:33   survive and keep the human race alive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2073">TS</a>]

00:34:34   even when the earth is going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2074">TS</a>]

00:34:36   boiled and that is the premise of 70 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2076">TS</a>]

00:34:40   years it spends most of its time in in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:43   outer space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2083">TS</a>]

00:34:44   however and we'll get to this there is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2084">TS</a>]

00:34:46   that there is a a a point at which the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2086">TS</a>]

00:34:49   book shifts and then I I've described [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2089">TS</a>]

00:34:53   this to several people as being a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:54   trilogy in one book because it's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2094">TS</a>]

00:34:58   like that there's kind of the what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2098">TS</a>]

00:35:00   happens before humanity is boiled [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2100">TS</a>]

00:35:03   there's the we're working in space after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2103">TS</a>]

00:35:05   the earth has boiled in order to try to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2105">TS</a>]

00:35:07   keep everything together and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2107">TS</a>]

00:35:09   there's the third part which again will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2109">TS</a>]

00:35:10   get to so that 70 was it is widescreen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2110">TS</a>]

00:35:13   there's a lot going on and to lisa's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2113">TS</a>]

00:35:15   point2 just come to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2115">TS</a>]

00:35:17   yes Neal Stephenson is a very good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2117">TS</a>]

00:35:19   writer and he's very good at making his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2119">TS</a>]

00:35:21   digressions interesting which every time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2121">TS</a>]

00:35:23   he would get me and I'd be like five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2123">TS</a>]

00:35:25   pages and be like damn it Neal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2125">TS</a>]

00:35:26   Stephenson you made this interesting how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2126">TS</a>]

00:35:28   did you do that because this has nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2128">TS</a>]

00:35:30   to do with anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2130">TS</a>]

00:35:31   and why am I reading this you're just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2131">TS</a>]

00:35:32   showing your work but well here's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:35   thing but then in this book and I i I'd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2135">TS</a>]

00:35:38   say more than in other books of his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:40   there were times where I felt like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2140">TS</a>]

00:35:42   was literally just putting things in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2142">TS</a>]

00:35:44   because he had done the work and those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2144">TS</a>]

00:35:46   were painful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:47   where was like you know I mean you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2147">TS</a>]

00:35:49   either he did himself or he hired [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2149">TS</a>]

00:35:51   somebody to do the or orbital mechanics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2151">TS</a>]

00:35:52   or to come up with the how the rocket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2152">TS</a>]

00:35:55   needs to fire in order to go in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2155">TS</a>]

00:35:57   orbit out of the Lagrange point we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2157">TS</a>]

00:35:59   got a lot about Lagrange points and get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2159">TS</a>]

00:36:01   to the comment that we're going to bring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2161">TS</a>]

00:36:03   back and all of that and that was you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2163">TS</a>]

00:36:05   know those are the bad kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2165">TS</a>]

00:36:06   digressions I can support you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2166">TS</a>]

00:36:08   what's really funny to me is that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2168">TS</a>]

00:36:10   actually found the digressions in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2170">TS</a>]

00:36:11   book far less annoying than readii his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2171">TS</a>]

00:36:14   previous novel of although i think what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2174">TS</a>]

00:36:17   I honest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2177">TS</a>]

00:36:17   well do you fuck do you find orbital [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2177">TS</a>]

00:36:19   orbital mechanics more interesting than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2179">TS</a>]

00:36:21   the mechanics of guns [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2181">TS</a>]

00:36:22   yeah with like I'm going to say that my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2182">TS</a>]

00:36:25   image garden space probably biases b2b [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2185">TS</a>]

00:36:29   like i don't i know nothing about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2189">TS</a>]

00:36:30   orbital mechanics and i do not have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2190">TS</a>]

00:36:32   math to make have orbital mechanics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2192">TS</a>]

00:36:34   makes sense but the digressions although [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2194">TS</a>]

00:36:37   again towards third part got a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2197">TS</a>]

00:36:39   crazy in the first two parts i actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2199">TS</a>]

00:36:42   didn't mind it because it was very much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2202">TS</a>]

00:36:44   like yeah I want to know how we're gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2204">TS</a>]

00:36:46   solve this problem this impossible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2206">TS</a>]

00:36:48   problem that is impossible to solve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2208">TS</a>]

00:36:50   yeah I want to know about the crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2210">TS</a>]

00:36:51   lottery process for sending people up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2211">TS</a>]

00:36:53   from every country and going to visit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:56   some obscure i forget what I think Asian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2216">TS</a>]

00:37:00   country that they go and visit is it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2220">TS</a>]

00:37:03   bhutan yeah baton sorry I'm when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2223">TS</a>]

00:37:07   know they're picking the visual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2227">TS</a>]

00:37:08   distributes for the Hunger Games I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2228">TS</a>]

00:37:10   yeah but rain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2230">TS</a>]

00:37:12   yeah volunteer yeah but no I'm engine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2232">TS</a>]

00:37:17   you this is two very good halves and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2237">TS</a>]

00:37:21   then a third part i wait [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2241">TS</a>]

00:37:24   oh very good have so that I liked her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2244">TS</a>]

00:37:27   better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:27   look man again well she had an accident [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:30   so book axis 4.0 the trillions what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2250">TS</a>]

00:37:34   you're saying there's two weeks the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2254">TS</a>]

00:37:35   trilogy seriously I don't see it as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2255">TS</a>]

00:37:38   trilogy I see it as one really long book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2258">TS</a>]

00:37:41   and then a weird epilogue that just goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2261">TS</a>]

00:37:43   on a weird a novel way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2263">TS</a>]

00:37:45   epilogue not even novelist enough fella [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2265">TS</a>]

00:37:48   it's just weird and I think that's why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2268">TS</a>]

00:37:50   I'm gonna run come back and tell dave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2270">TS</a>]

00:37:53   and reminders kinda like everyday get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2273">TS</a>]

00:37:55   know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2275">TS</a>]

00:37:55   and ya know if it so so what we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2275">TS</a>]

00:37:58   talking about it again if if you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2278">TS</a>]

00:38:00   want to be well don't listen to podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2280">TS</a>]

00:38:02   with my god what are you doing I'm i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2282">TS</a>]

00:38:04   haven't read all 880 pages yet what is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2284">TS</a>]

00:38:06   good as I'm as i'm reading seven Eve's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2286">TS</a>]

00:38:09   I'm thinking to myself there is no way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2289">TS</a>]

00:38:13   that Neal Stephenson is not going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2293">TS</a>]

00:38:15   able to write 5,000 years later there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2295">TS</a>]

00:38:19   no way you've set up this thing where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2299">TS</a>]

00:38:21   they're going to wait five thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2301">TS</a>]

00:38:22   years in order to find out if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2302">TS</a>]

00:38:24   anybody left alive on earth no writer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2304">TS</a>]

00:38:26   gets going to set that up and not be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2306">TS</a>]

00:38:27   able to pull the trigger and paying off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2307">TS</a>]

00:38:29   so I was well prepared for that moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2309">TS</a>]

00:38:31   and then there was and i'm like 'i up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2311">TS</a>]

00:38:34   and then we enter the the final phase of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2314">TS</a>]

00:38:38   the book which is a wholly different set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2318">TS</a>]

00:38:40   of characters but descended from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2320">TS</a>]

00:38:42   characters we know and they have crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2322">TS</a>]

00:38:44   adventures on a repop gradually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2324">TS</a>]

00:38:47   repopulating the earth with its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2327">TS</a>]

00:38:49   showing the research of like how do we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2329">TS</a>]

00:38:51   get the ring to be there in the city is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2331">TS</a>]

00:38:52   in moving explain how that works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2332">TS</a>]

00:38:54   any thoughts about that part of the bow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2334">TS</a>]

00:38:56   madness the part of the last third that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2336">TS</a>]

00:38:59   I like all the crazy giant machines what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2339">TS</a>]

00:39:02   annoyed me and this is a spoiler is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2342">TS</a>]

00:39:04   people actually survived on the earth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2344">TS</a>]

00:39:07   and it crazily it's the people that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2347">TS</a>]

00:39:10   on the earth before that we're talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2350">TS</a>]

00:39:11   to the people on the face that survived [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2351">TS</a>]

00:39:13   what oh my gosh you're not completely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2353">TS</a>]

00:39:15   Telegraph for the whole book I mean it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2355">TS</a>]

00:39:17   was like telling IMA submarine we are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2357">TS</a>]

00:39:20   going deeper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2360">TS</a>]

00:39:21   I can't tell you anymore it's a secret [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2361">TS</a>]

00:39:23   Shh but we are going deeper and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2363">TS</a>]

00:39:25   well it's my selfie we are going in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2365">TS</a>]

00:39:27   caves we will close the door in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2367">TS</a>]

00:39:29   caves look for us later and then do they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2369">TS</a>]

00:39:32   meet the the descendants of the cave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2372">TS</a>]

00:39:35   people and the submarine people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2375">TS</a>]

00:39:36   yeah yes ok so you know what it's it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2376">TS</a>]

00:39:41   crazy escape of science fiction and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2381">TS</a>]

00:39:43   don't you know whatever my the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2383">TS</a>]

00:39:46   biggest tragedy for me and get mega [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2386">TS</a>]

00:39:48   spoiler is that our cave friends are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2388">TS</a>]

00:39:51   theoretically descended from Dinah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2391">TS</a>]

00:39:54   character in the story her father who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2394">TS</a>]

00:39:58   have been basically introduced to and in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2398">TS</a>]

00:40:00   fact one of the motion most emotional [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2400">TS</a>]

00:40:02   parts at least for me of a book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2402">TS</a>]

00:40:05   and yeah the the more sources whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2405">TS</a>]

00:40:07   when they're just saying when they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2407">TS</a>]

00:40:09   saying yeah cute security of my god i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2409">TS</a>]

00:40:11   was i was doing on that but she sent me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2411">TS</a>]

00:40:14   a little more code messages to her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2414">TS</a>]

00:40:15   father from the space station and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2415">TS</a>]

00:40:18   earth is slowly accepting fire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2418">TS</a>]

00:40:20   yeah exactly and that was such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2420">TS</a>]

00:40:22   wonderful moment and they build up Rufus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2422">TS</a>]

00:40:24   to be this wonderful human-like very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2424">TS</a>]

00:40:28   human essence of like old world humanity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2428">TS</a>]

00:40:31   and then 5,000 years later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2431">TS</a>]

00:40:34   yeah his descendants are all the worst [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2434">TS</a>]

00:40:36   of old-world humanity and assholes and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2436">TS</a>]

00:40:38   probably rape their children and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2438">TS</a>]

00:40:41   know do horrible things to their young [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2441">TS</a>]

00:40:42   women and men people after the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2442">TS</a>]

00:40:44   encyclopedia [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2444">TS</a>]

00:40:44   it was just it it felt so like such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2444">TS</a>]

00:40:48   betrayal of that of that character and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2448">TS</a>]

00:40:51   that family relationship and what I had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2451">TS</a>]

00:40:53   pictured of that family relationship for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2453">TS</a>]

00:40:55   the first thousand pages of the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2455">TS</a>]

00:40:58   that I that I almost stopped reading at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2458">TS</a>]

00:41:00   that point because i was just like no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2460">TS</a>]

00:41:02   this is you know what I don't care that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2462">TS</a>]

00:41:04   you're going to bring the bring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2464">TS</a>]

00:41:05   descendants back fine whatever it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2465">TS</a>]

00:41:07   it's fantasy but to to ruin that carrot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2467">TS</a>]

00:41:11   I don't know it felt like it felt like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:12   ruining that that arc it felt like no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2472">TS</a>]

00:41:16   sorry if you go into a cave the bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2476">TS</a>]

00:41:18   people when the end although he did try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2478">TS</a>]

00:41:21   to explain or mansplain depending on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2481">TS</a>]

00:41:24   your Christmas did try to explain away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2484">TS</a>]

00:41:26   by saying listen when you're in a cave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2486">TS</a>]

00:41:27   with limited resources you have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2487">TS</a>]

00:41:29   become fanatical about reproduction and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2489">TS</a>]

00:41:31   the only way to do that is to establish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2491">TS</a>]

00:41:32   a totalitarian regime and treat people's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2492">TS</a>]

00:41:35   fertility like a community like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2495">TS</a>]

00:41:36   communal resource and I thought to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2496">TS</a>]

00:41:39   myself that is one way of doing it yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2499">TS</a>]

00:41:42   but you don't like serenity I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2502">TS</a>]

00:41:45   it's disappointing that humanity on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2505">TS</a>]

00:41:48   grounds on the ground find you seem to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2508">TS</a>]

00:41:51   devolve to to this the stark patriarchal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2511">TS</a>]

00:41:54   tribalism where was his first ask [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2514">TS</a>]

00:41:56   questions later I found myself wishing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2516">TS</a>]

00:41:58   that perhaps instead of like touching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2518">TS</a>]

00:42:01   down in Alaska [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2521">TS</a>]

00:42:02   Oh quelle coincidence deines descendants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2522">TS</a>]

00:42:06   like it would have been interesting to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2526">TS</a>]

00:42:08   see if some other miners in other parts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2528">TS</a>]

00:42:10   of the world that are famous for their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2530">TS</a>]

00:42:11   mining industries would have had the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2531">TS</a>]

00:42:12   same idea and then you would have been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2532">TS</a>]

00:42:14   dealing with people who didn't have that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2534">TS</a>]

00:42:16   cultural and genetic connect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2536">TS</a>]

00:42:17   action because a lot what I thought so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2537">TS</a>]

00:42:21   really just like a lot of part 34 a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2541">TS</a>]

00:42:23   of reasons but one of the things I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:24   thought was fascinating was how they had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2544">TS</a>]

00:42:25   basically made a religion of the seven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2545">TS</a>]

00:42:27   Eve's by ceaselessly looping the footage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2547">TS</a>]

00:42:30   in public places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2550">TS</a>]

00:42:31   Andrea indoctrinating people constantly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2551">TS</a>]

00:42:33   by having them see Stephenson seems to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2553">TS</a>]

00:42:36   labor under the sweet delusion that if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2556">TS</a>]

00:42:38   people only have all the facts they'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2558">TS</a>]

00:42:40   act reasonably and come to some quarter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2560">TS</a>]

00:42:42   cups or cultural accord and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2562">TS</a>]

00:42:44   delusion is like on full on display in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2564">TS</a>]

00:42:45   part 3 without sin we can just watch the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2565">TS</a>]

00:42:48   footage we can removal ambiguity and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2568">TS</a>]

00:42:51   everybody comes to some sort of common [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2571">TS</a>]

00:42:52   cultural candidates to have these people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2572">TS</a>]

00:42:54   behaved with each other and I I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2574">TS</a>]

00:42:57   it was really interesting how facts have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2577">TS</a>]

00:43:00   out how the worship of factual narrative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2580">TS</a>]

00:43:02   has become a religious a religious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2582">TS</a>]

00:43:05   belief system for these people 5,000 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2585">TS</a>]

00:43:07   years hence you know what i find really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2587">TS</a>]

00:43:09   interesting there actually is that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2589">TS</a>]

00:43:11   think Stephenson is even playing on that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2591">TS</a>]

00:43:14   a little bit because we get a whole we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:16   get a whole bunch between Dinah and IV [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2596">TS</a>]

00:43:18   very early on in the book basically what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2598">TS</a>]

00:43:21   two of the people on the space station [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2601">TS</a>]

00:43:22   who become two of the seven Eve's we get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2602">TS</a>]

00:43:27   a whole thing back and forth between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2607">TS</a>]

00:43:28   them about basically being on and have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2608">TS</a>]

00:43:31   it you know there's a there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2611">TS</a>]

00:43:32   difference between being on and being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2612">TS</a>]

00:43:34   ourselves and there's a difference then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2614">TS</a>]

00:43:36   when the cameras are on and when the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2616">TS</a>]

00:43:38   station cameras are rolling and when we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2618">TS</a>]

00:43:40   can just talk real talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2620">TS</a>]

00:43:42   and i love the idea of like I maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2622">TS</a>]

00:43:45   maybe it was completely out of his head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2625">TS</a>]

00:43:46   by the time that this was written but to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2626">TS</a>]

00:43:48   me it feels very much like someone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2628">TS</a>]

00:43:50   picking up you know the bachelor a lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2630">TS</a>]

00:43:55   paradise or something and being like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2635">TS</a>]

00:43:56   this is our religion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2636">TS</a>]

00:43:57   these are our descendants we must listen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2637">TS</a>]

00:43:59   to every single word they say and find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2639">TS</a>]

00:44:02   some meaning i would absolutely read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2642">TS</a>]

00:44:04   science fiction novel based on that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2644">TS</a>]

00:44:05   premise I would have it would be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2645">TS</a>]

00:44:08   hilarious i would i would read that book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2648">TS</a>]

00:44:11   all I would look at my job doing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2651">TS</a>]

00:44:13   but wow that sounds phenomenal i want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2653">TS</a>]

00:44:15   read it now and there are a lot of slide [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2655">TS</a>]

00:44:20   touches in there there's a lot of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2660">TS</a>]

00:44:22   book there are a lot of little things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2662">TS</a>]

00:44:23   that I liked and kinda want to take the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2663">TS</a>]

00:44:24   social but about like I thought it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2664">TS</a>]

00:44:27   both savage and hilarious when he went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2667">TS</a>]

00:44:30   when the journalist who gets up there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2670">TS</a>]

00:44:33   introduces the idea of quote-unquote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2673">TS</a>]

00:44:34   soft cannibalism because to me that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2674">TS</a>]

00:44:37   seems like exactly the kind of idea that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2677">TS</a>]

00:44:38   gets paddled in vc meetings and startups [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2678">TS</a>]

00:44:40   and I thought wow that's a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2680">TS</a>]

00:44:42   vicious commentary on the whole chatter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2682">TS</a>]

00:44:45   on TV chattering classes thing and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2685">TS</a>]

00:44:47   the way that poor blockers life ended [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2687">TS</a>]

00:44:49   was so that's that is somebody something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2689">TS</a>]

00:44:52   some scores and I mean riveting to read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2692">TS</a>]

00:44:55   don't get me wrong but I'm like I said I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2695">TS</a>]

00:44:58   the big problem I had with part 3 was of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2698">TS</a>]

00:45:02   PTFE is existence of the the deep diving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2702">TS</a>]

00:45:05   species of the pingers that's right and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2705">TS</a>]

00:45:08   that part of its like women are you see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2708">TS</a>]

00:45:10   how how would a bunch of people in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2710">TS</a>]

00:45:12   submarine have radically altered the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2712">TS</a>]

00:45:13   human genome to the point they would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2713">TS</a>]

00:45:15   have had to over 5,000 years to produce [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2715">TS</a>]

00:45:17   what is essentially a race of man seals [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2717">TS</a>]

00:45:20   you know God at that guy like that side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2720">TS</a>]

00:45:24   weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2724">TS</a>]

00:45:25   yeah like the science like I realize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2725">TS</a>]

00:45:27   mind you that you know where this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2727">TS</a>]

00:45:30   America is a weird thing to snark about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:32   in in this and especially since genetic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2732">TS</a>]

00:45:35   engineering does play a huge part with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2735">TS</a>]

00:45:38   the the races that have descended from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2738">TS</a>]

00:45:40   the seven Eve's but I was like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2740">TS</a>]

00:45:42   I don't feel like this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2742">TS</a>]

00:45:44   well-researched Aurora's carefully [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2744">TS</a>]

00:45:46   thought-out as again all the stuff that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2746">TS</a>]

00:45:48   has to do with the space nerdery like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2748">TS</a>]

00:45:50   the space nerdery that is that is stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2750">TS</a>]

00:45:53   for you could probably get a boatload of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2753">TS</a>]

00:45:54   NASA people really like no story checks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2754">TS</a>]

00:45:56   out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2756">TS</a>]

00:45:57   um but when it came to the genetic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2757">TS</a>]

00:45:59   engineering on there's almost no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2759">TS</a>]

00:46:02   explanation for for any of it and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2762">TS</a>]

00:46:05   kind of bug because i thought you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2765">TS</a>]

00:46:06   talking about fundamentally altering a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2766">TS</a>]

00:46:08   human genome and you're talking about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2768">TS</a>]

00:46:10   very small group of of raw material to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2770">TS</a>]

00:46:13   begin with and it's like I can't make it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2773">TS</a>]

00:46:16   work in my head I can't suspend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2776">TS</a>]

00:46:18   disbelief for it i think one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2778">TS</a>]

00:46:20   problems with this book is that it's i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2780">TS</a>]

00:46:23   not convinced that any of its science is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2783">TS</a>]

00:46:25   anything but ridiculous which makes it a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2785">TS</a>]

00:46:27   lot harder to sit through the downloads [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2787">TS</a>]

00:46:29   the fact the idea that we're going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2789">TS</a>]

00:46:31   take kind of a retrofitted International [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2791">TS</a>]

00:46:33   Space Station and just put a bunch of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2793">TS</a>]

00:46:35   stuff up there and people are totally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2795">TS</a>]

00:46:37   going to figure out how to survive in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2797">TS</a>]

00:46:39   space without any contact with earth for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2799">TS</a>]

00:46:41   5,000 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2801">TS</a>]

00:46:43   no that's not gonna work it's not gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2803">TS</a>]

00:46:46   work and and he didn't prove to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2806">TS</a>]

00:46:48   anything that would suggest that it does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2808">TS</a>]

00:46:49   it would work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2809">TS</a>]

00:46:51   it's sort of like lots of waving of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2811">TS</a>]

00:46:53   hands like no no we're resourceful we'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2813">TS</a>]

00:46:55   figure it out like now I don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2815">TS</a>]

00:46:57   anything you provided here would really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2817">TS</a>]

00:46:59   legitimately work and then the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2819">TS</a>]

00:47:02   that by the time you get to the midpoint [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2822">TS</a>]

00:47:04   of the book almost everybody has died [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2824">TS</a>]

00:47:07   already kind of love that actually like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2827">TS</a>]

00:47:10   that's the part that feels very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2830">TS</a>]

00:47:12   realistic sure horrible but then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2832">TS</a>]

00:47:13   everybody does this bien price and yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2833">TS</a>]

00:47:16   and no you don't get to space to get a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2836">TS</a>]

00:47:18   nice burgundy comes back having died for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2838">TS</a>]

00:47:20   rectal bleeding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2840">TS</a>]

00:47:21   oh yeah that's a little i thought that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2841">TS</a>]

00:47:23   was kind of cool when the Elon Musk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2843">TS</a>]

00:47:24   analog goes to a comet and brings it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2844">TS</a>]

00:47:28   back but I got a lot comment yeah for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2848">TS</a>]

00:47:30   the other grass Tyson gets the space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2850">TS</a>]

00:47:32   cancer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2852">TS</a>]

00:47:33   yeah everybody gets the space cancer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2853">TS</a>]

00:47:35   except for except for the Carly Fiorina [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2855">TS</a>]

00:47:37   stand injustice a bolt through the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2857">TS</a>]

00:47:40   tongue so there is any old deGrasse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2860">TS</a>]

00:47:44   Tyson analog yeah in here the daughter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2864">TS</a>]

00:47:47   here's a good kid alright so this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2867">TS</a>]

00:47:49   thing that has been bugging me about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:49   this book ever since I right and can I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:51   talk about with you like they have they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2871">TS</a>]

00:47:53   have a son i have the summit of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2873">TS</a>]

00:47:55   seven Eve's the the seven women who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2875">TS</a>]

00:47:57   literally that the last of the human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2877">TS</a>]

00:47:59   race out in space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2879">TS</a>]

00:48:00   one of them is patently insane [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2880">TS</a>]

00:48:03   yes and and one of them is just an evil [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2883">TS</a>]

00:48:06   woman who is whoo-hoo-hoo let's face it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2886">TS</a>]

00:48:09   basically precipitated the crisis that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2889">TS</a>]

00:48:12   they find themselves and now thanks to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2892">TS</a>]

00:48:13   her like breaking the crater lake accord [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2893">TS</a>]

00:48:15   and causing a cosmic incident and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2895">TS</a>]

00:48:18   causing the insurrection that causes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2898">TS</a>]

00:48:19   them to lose all their germplasm blah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2899">TS</a>]

00:48:21   why on earth would you let these to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:23   reproduce like why didn't anyone like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2903">TS</a>]

00:48:25   just without the space gun at that point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2905">TS</a>]

00:48:28   and go right you're out boom boom [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2908">TS</a>]

00:48:29   okay we got five of us here let's run [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2909">TS</a>]

00:48:31   the numbers like I just do not get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2911">TS</a>]

00:48:34   point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2914">TS</a>]

00:48:34   why do not kill Peeta and Julia when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2914">TS</a>]

00:48:37   get the chance what is the point to keep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2917">TS</a>]

00:48:39   him around again wouldn't have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2919">TS</a>]

00:48:41   palindrome you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2921">TS</a>]

00:48:42   well that's true but also there were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2922">TS</a>]

00:48:44   what their eight there's one person who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2924">TS</a>]

00:48:45   was too old to me yeah i mean he's right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2925">TS</a>]

00:48:48   so that means they think they're the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2928">TS</a>]

00:48:49   last eight humans in the universe and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2929">TS</a>]

00:48:53   even if two of them are not so great a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2933">TS</a>]

00:48:56   that's that's a quarter of the human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2936">TS</a>]

00:48:58   race right that you're just gonna kill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2938">TS</a>]

00:48:59   tonight improving the species [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2939">TS</a>]

00:49:02   well yeah I mean that the holistic way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:05   of looking at it and I do think I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2945">TS</a>]

00:49:07   think there's a very valid point there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2947">TS</a>]

00:49:08   especially when we do flash 5,000 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2948">TS</a>]

00:49:11   later it's like oh yeah these guys [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2951">TS</a>]

00:49:12   stealing my and everybody more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2952">TS</a>]

00:49:15   interesting with yeah that's right of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2955">TS</a>]

00:49:17   course it's an it's a rice it's a race [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2957">TS</a>]

00:49:19   bread of the aggressors and cannibals [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2959">TS</a>]

00:49:21   when you expect like I am all for nature [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2961">TS</a>]

00:49:24   over nurture over nature and all of that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2964">TS</a>]

00:49:26   but yeah I the only way i can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2966">TS</a>]

00:49:30   rationalize it is Scott's thing where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2970">TS</a>]

00:49:32   it's like these like these women as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2972">TS</a>]

00:49:34   crazy as they are have been through so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2974">TS</a>]

00:49:37   much together that there's just there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2977">TS</a>]

00:49:39   a at this point and line in the sand I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2979">TS</a>]

00:49:41   mean Dinah's pretty much ready to blow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2981">TS</a>]

00:49:43   everybody up at the end anyway I just be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2983">TS</a>]

00:49:45   like I we don't we don't deserve it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2985">TS</a>]

00:49:48   yeah and that would have been an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2988">TS</a>]

00:49:50   interesting thing if but then what that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2990">TS</a>]

00:49:52   does is 5,000 years later like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2992">TS</a>]

00:49:54   people come out of there came an Alaskan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2994">TS</a>]

00:49:56   like crap nobody has bothered prepping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2996">TS</a>]

00:49:58   the atmosphere that last two tests and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2998">TS</a>]

00:49:59   here's real steel hose to go back inside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/2999">TS</a>]

00:50:03   and your eyes the encyclopedia is my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3003">TS</a>]

00:50:05   love sonar tax law so our tracks Liza [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3005">TS</a>]

00:50:08   door so that I anyways he's probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3008">TS</a>]

00:50:11   been raped by the creepy Bollman yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3011">TS</a>]

00:50:13   but she's found true love with ms yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3013">TS</a>]

00:50:15   and as and has a companion deep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3015">TS</a>]

00:50:18   knowledge of many subjects between smt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3018">TS</a>]

00:50:21   yeah between sonar in tax on her hand up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3021">TS</a>]

00:50:25   it was interesting how they balanced out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3025">TS</a>]

00:50:27   the devolution from a written culture to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3027">TS</a>]

00:50:29   an oral culture to I thought I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3029">TS</a>]

00:50:30   that part was pretty I was like okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3030">TS</a>]

00:50:32   maybe maybe the acceptance dr. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3032">TS</a>]

00:50:34   communication scholar because they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3034">TS</a>]

00:50:35   there are significant cognitive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3035">TS</a>]

00:50:37   differences in language differences [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3037">TS</a>]

00:50:39   between oral cultures and written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3039">TS</a>]

00:50:41   cultures and how you transmit pass [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3041">TS</a>]

00:50:43   information down he got that right part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3043">TS</a>]

00:50:46   of my beef and I i just put this on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3046">TS</a>]

00:50:47   Twitter chatter is Sharia stepper wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3047">TS</a>]

00:50:50   this fantastic book back in 1996 called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3050">TS</a>]

00:50:52   Gibbons decline and fall which science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3052">TS</a>]

00:50:56   fiction as with a lot of her books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3056">TS</a>]

00:50:57   reproductive freedom is one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3057">TS</a>]

00:50:59   predominant platico through it and at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3059">TS</a>]

00:51:02   the end the protagonist is handed six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3062">TS</a>]

00:51:05   different color vials [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3065">TS</a>]

00:51:07   and said ok you can figure out how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3067">TS</a>]

00:51:09   guarantee the reproduction of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3069">TS</a>]

00:51:10   species one it's business as usual usual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3070">TS</a>]

00:51:12   to its parthenogenesis three and and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3072">TS</a>]

00:51:16   ideas that she has to pick the future of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3076">TS</a>]

00:51:18   the species and I I couldn't stop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3078">TS</a>]

00:51:20   thinking about that scene in that book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3080">TS</a>]

00:51:22   during that the summit of the seven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3082">TS</a>]

00:51:24   Eve's plus Louisa because i thought wow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3084">TS</a>]

00:51:26   this was done a lot better by Carrie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3086">TS</a>]

00:51:29   temper 20 years or so and that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3089">TS</a>]

00:51:33   enough actually points to another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3093">TS</a>]

00:51:35   problem i have with the whole oh and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3095">TS</a>]

00:51:37   here's how we manage to five thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:39   years of culture in our little space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3099">TS</a>]

00:51:40   structures and we now have what amounts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:43   to the US and Soviet relations and so on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3103">TS</a>]

00:51:45   and so forth is um John Varley who we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3105">TS</a>]

00:51:47   have discussed in earlier apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3107">TS</a>]

00:51:50   type book clubs back in the seventies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3110">TS</a>]

00:51:53   John Varley what a novel called the OPG [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3113">TS</a>]

00:51:55   hotline and the premise was that a bunch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3115">TS</a>]

00:51:59   of aliens watched how humans were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3119">TS</a>]

00:52:01   treating other species and said okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3121">TS</a>]

00:52:03   right we're on the dolphins and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3123">TS</a>]

00:52:04   Whale side here and then managed to a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3124">TS</a>]

00:52:07   neutralize all human technology to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3127">TS</a>]

00:52:09   attempt to cleanse the earth of humans [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3129">TS</a>]

00:52:11   and the only people who could the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3131">TS</a>]

00:52:15   the only people who survived four people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3135">TS</a>]

00:52:16   on a space station and they colonize the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3136">TS</a>]

00:52:19   column is the moon and then Charlie has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3139">TS</a>]

00:52:23   a whole host of short stories and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3143">TS</a>]

00:52:24   couple more novels about Lunar Society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3144">TS</a>]

00:52:27   lunar culture and they are fantastically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3147">TS</a>]

00:52:31   thought out from a sociological [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3151">TS</a>]

00:52:32   perspective and it culminates in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3152">TS</a>]

00:52:34   novel steel Beach which talks about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3154">TS</a>]

00:52:36   depression that people have when you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:39   raised in an environment that you simply [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3159">TS</a>]

00:52:41   haven't evolved to and I thought well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3161">TS</a>]

00:52:44   you know if they've already got the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3164">TS</a>]

00:52:45   genetic engineering going on with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3165">TS</a>]

00:52:46   races at the seven Eve's why don't they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3166">TS</a>]

00:52:49   talk a little bit more explicitly about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3169">TS</a>]

00:52:51   what it would take to evolve us to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3171">TS</a>]

00:52:54   two of all human beings to the point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3174">TS</a>]

00:52:55   where they're totally okay living in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3175">TS</a>]

00:52:57   world that that literally does not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3177">TS</a>]

00:52:59   paying any of the Paleolithic cuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3179">TS</a>]

00:53:00   buttons we had installed like there were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3180">TS</a>]

00:53:02   a few illusions here and there with a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3182">TS</a>]

00:53:04   calf to and how she was suffering from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3184">TS</a>]

00:53:06   sensory overload when she was gliding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3186">TS</a>]

00:53:07   around stuff like that but again it felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3187">TS</a>]

00:53:10   like this question either didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3190">TS</a>]

00:53:11   interest him enough to answer or like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3191">TS</a>]

00:53:14   didn't even think about it and I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3194">TS</a>]

00:53:15   kept thinking how Farley did this better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3195">TS</a>]

00:53:16   and early too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3196">TS</a>]

00:53:17   earlier and that's not a good sign when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3197">TS</a>]

00:53:19   you're reading an absorbing 900-page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3199">TS</a>]

00:53:21   epic and you like up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3201">TS</a>]

00:53:22   read it read it read it seen them since [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3202">TS</a>]

00:53:24   done it's been done better here you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3204">TS</a>]

00:53:26   about you suggested that you you liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3206">TS</a>]

00:53:30   the end part so I'm a big fan of space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3210">TS</a>]

00:53:33   opera and so this is you know when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3213">TS</a>]

00:53:35   they're he's talking about these giant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3215">TS</a>]

00:53:37   space rings and I like reading about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3217">TS</a>]

00:53:40   the hardware which is why i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3220">TS</a>]

00:53:43   military science fiction because a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3223">TS</a>]

00:53:45   of time is spent lavished on hardware [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3225">TS</a>]

00:53:46   right there's a lot of that they're so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3226">TS</a>]

00:53:49   there's a lot of that and the third part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3229">TS</a>]

00:53:51   there's a lot of the first and second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3231">TS</a>]

00:53:52   part but that's more you know like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3232">TS</a>]

00:53:53   current technology plus a lot of chain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3233">TS</a>]

00:53:57   physics which I didn't find all having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3237">TS</a>]

00:53:58   fascinating but I think Neal Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3238">TS</a>]

00:54:01   really find it interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3241">TS</a>]

00:54:02   clearly he does so but i thought i liked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3242">TS</a>]

00:54:06   the the first part the most i think when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3246">TS</a>]

00:54:09   they're you know neil degrasse tyson was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3249">TS</a>]

00:54:11   trying to figure out what what it means [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3251">TS</a>]

00:54:13   that the moon has exploded and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3253">TS</a>]

00:54:15   figures that he's horrified that's your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3255">TS</a>]

00:54:17   disaster story right that's your classic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3257">TS</a>]

00:54:19   disaster story parts portion of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3259">TS</a>]

00:54:21   book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3261">TS</a>]

00:54:22   yes I thought that was the best part if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3262">TS</a>]

00:54:23   I would have but now i'm going to rank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3263">TS</a>]

00:54:25   the parts i agree with the first part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3265">TS</a>]

00:54:26   was the best part the second part was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3266">TS</a>]

00:54:28   the second best part and the third part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3268">TS</a>]

00:54:30   i was the third best part III the third [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3270">TS</a>]

00:54:34   hurts me to 5th or 6th best part really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3274">TS</a>]

00:54:36   come yeah I you know I like to I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3276">TS</a>]

00:54:39   the third part but i think really that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3279">TS</a>]

00:54:42   renders comments about it are right on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3282">TS</a>]

00:54:45   which is I think it's actually more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3285">TS</a>]

00:54:47   problematic when you're thinking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3287">TS</a>]

00:54:48   the direction it's pointed from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:50   first two parts and thinking about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3290">TS</a>]

00:54:52   the families of these various people i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3292">TS</a>]

00:54:54   thought it was interesting I thought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3294">TS</a>]

00:54:55   went on too long and had way too much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3295">TS</a>]

00:54:58   detail on how the various objects that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3298">TS</a>]

00:55:01   have been built around the earth work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3301">TS</a>]

00:55:03   but that's again i feel like i like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3303">TS</a>]

00:55:05   everything you did your email Stephenson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3305">TS</a>]

00:55:06   he's just gonna show his work he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3306">TS</a>]

00:55:10   going to show his work in a lot of ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3310">TS</a>]

00:55:11   that you don't yeah he doesn't do a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3311">TS</a>]

00:55:13   grocery store list that going to like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3313">TS</a>]

00:55:14   two-page digression on the mechanics of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3314">TS</a>]

00:55:16   refrigeration and how grocery stores [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3316">TS</a>]

00:55:18   came to be because it's an interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3318">TS</a>]

00:55:19   story and i like that in general and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3319">TS</a>]

00:55:25   also i like he so the chain thing I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3325">TS</a>]

00:55:27   thought was annoying but he did thread [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3327">TS</a>]

00:55:29   it through the hole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3329">TS</a>]

00:55:30   every part had a part with the chain you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3330">TS</a>]

00:55:33   know they had weapons that were were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3333">TS</a>]

00:55:34   based on that chain thing and part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3334">TS</a>]

00:55:36   the whole giant megastructures part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3336">TS</a>]

00:55:38   changed so he put it through which I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3338">TS</a>]

00:55:40   appreciated i did still think it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3340">TS</a>]

00:55:42   annoying but I appreciate the work you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3342">TS</a>]

00:55:44   did you put in there that that's why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3344">TS</a>]

00:55:46   usually avoid deal Stevenson was at his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3346">TS</a>]

00:55:49   best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3349">TS</a>]

00:55:50   I find him to be a slog so I didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3350">TS</a>]

00:55:53   think this was some of his best now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3353">TS</a>]

00:55:55   I mean justjust contrasting the two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3355">TS</a>]

00:55:57   books the water knife i read in about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3357">TS</a>]

00:56:00   seventy-two hours and this took me about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3360">TS</a>]

00:56:02   two and a half weeks you know about Izzy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3362">TS</a>]

00:56:04   times longer than the white is 80 so but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:07   actually sitting down saying i have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3367">TS</a>]

00:56:11   keep reading this because i'm going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3371">TS</a>]

00:56:13   talk about it and where is put the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3373">TS</a>]

00:56:15   one was like I want to find out what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3375">TS</a>]

00:56:17   happens and you know again it was you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3377">TS</a>]

00:56:19   know been there done that read that seem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:22   that you know and and I kept coming back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3382">TS</a>]

00:56:25   to a julienne may if you want to see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3385">TS</a>]

00:56:27   someone handle while families across [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3387">TS</a>]

00:56:31   that was memorizing zip years are you to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3391">TS</a>]

00:56:34   get our dynasty yeah oh my god yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3394">TS</a>]

00:56:37   those books yeah yeah that's that's good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3397">TS</a>]

00:56:40   stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3400">TS</a>]

00:56:40   so this was sort of like oh you came up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3400">TS</a>]

00:56:43   with a palindrome good job I wife and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3403">TS</a>]

00:56:47   think you're right there is a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3407">TS</a>]

00:56:48   good novel hidden inside here it is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3408">TS</a>]

00:56:50   last policeman ok i enjoyed this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3410">TS</a>]

00:56:55   and I read a couple of interviews with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3415">TS</a>]

00:56:57   Stephenson and he his goal and I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3417">TS</a>]

00:57:00   that he has a group of science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3420">TS</a>]

00:57:01   authors that he's buddy-buddy with who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3421">TS</a>]

00:57:03   all think that people have lost sight of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3423">TS</a>]

00:57:06   trying to do big challenges and do big [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3426">TS</a>]

00:57:09   science so this was kind of his clarion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3429">TS</a>]

00:57:11   call to have big ideas so he wrote this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3431">TS</a>]

00:57:14   big epic swimming thing which I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3434">TS</a>]

00:57:16   talk speaks a little bit to the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3436">TS</a>]

00:57:18   that he kind of the people don't really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3438">TS</a>]

00:57:20   matter because they are banding together [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:21   to solve this giant problem and it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3441">TS</a>]

00:57:24   about individuals and I understand you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3444">TS</a>]

00:57:26   know i agree with you Lisa in that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3446">TS</a>]

00:57:28   stories are of course the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3448">TS</a>]

00:57:30   interesting when you have a character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3450">TS</a>]

00:57:32   that you kind of feel invested in and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3452">TS</a>]

00:57:34   can humanize but i don't think i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3454">TS</a>]

00:57:36   it was a conscious decision on his point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3456">TS</a>]

00:57:38   part not to do that at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3458">TS</a>]

00:57:41   or not that makes it good or bad I won't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3461">TS</a>]

00:57:42   yeah I read some interviews right he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3462">TS</a>]

00:57:44   said the same thing he's all yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3464">TS</a>]

00:57:45   wanted to bring back this commitment to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3465">TS</a>]

00:57:47   ideas that science fiction can inspire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3467">TS</a>]

00:57:49   people to do big ideas and I thought to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3469">TS</a>]

00:57:52   myself yeah characters are important and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3472">TS</a>]

00:57:54   he you know people can unite around an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3474">TS</a>]

00:57:55   idea i thought yeah but you know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3475">TS</a>]

00:57:56   that was called that one's called the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3476">TS</a>]

00:57:57   Martian when you know where everyone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3477">TS</a>]

00:57:59   United around the idea of bringing home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3479">TS</a>]

00:58:00   those dudes stranded on Mars so maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3480">TS</a>]

00:58:03   maybe it is possible to advocate for big [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3483">TS</a>]

00:58:06   ideas while remembering that ideas are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3486">TS</a>]

00:58:08   only successful when you can figure out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3488">TS</a>]

00:58:10   how to how to have put humanity into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3490">TS</a>]

00:58:12   picture because they're the ones execute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3492">TS</a>]

00:58:14   the ideas if you know anyone character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3494">TS</a>]

00:58:16   in the Martian you can you cannot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3496">TS</a>]

00:58:18   potatoes you can you go right now in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3498">TS</a>]

00:58:20   other words that's that are full of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3500">TS</a>]

00:58:21   ideas but you have to have a story that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3501">TS</a>]

00:58:23   makes people want to rally around those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3503">TS</a>]

00:58:25   ideas and I think that's one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3505">TS</a>]

00:58:27   places where Stevens and often struggles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3507">TS</a>]

00:58:29   is that that that's when he is i'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3509">TS</a>]

00:58:30   to show you how I did all this work and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3510">TS</a>]

00:58:32   again I think he's so talented that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3512">TS</a>]

00:58:34   can often pull it pull it off but I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3514">TS</a>]

00:58:37   think that i think it's a challenge in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3517">TS</a>]

00:58:39   and in this case I you know I read it I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3519">TS</a>]

00:58:42   read it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3522">TS</a>]

00:58:43   I read it relatively quickly these are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3523">TS</a>]

00:58:46   all things go in the back panties are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3526">TS</a>]

00:58:48   coming i read it all home i mean i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3528">TS</a>]

00:58:51   didn't i didn't know how to run it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3531">TS</a>]

00:58:52   in fact I read it fairly quickly so we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3532">TS</a>]

00:58:54   passed to the test but that all said I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3534">TS</a>]

00:58:57   found myself kind of squinting and being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3537">TS</a>]

00:59:00   like really deal Stephenson way more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3540">TS</a>]

00:59:03   than I usually do in his book and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:05   that for me I have to say I was kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3545">TS</a>]

00:59:06   disappointed even though there's a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3546">TS</a>]

00:59:07   of great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3547">TS</a>]

00:59:08   there's a lot of great stuff in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3548">TS</a>]

00:59:09   book it's just a really big book and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3549">TS</a>]

00:59:11   there's a lot of not great stuff in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:13   to me did a very good editor which it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3553">TS</a>]

00:59:15   did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3555">TS</a>]

00:59:16   now there's a guy named do i just-i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3556">TS</a>]

00:59:19   can't-- the past do business i wonder if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3559">TS</a>]

00:59:22   Neil deGrasse Tyson's like a total [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3562">TS</a>]

00:59:23   stoner as a college they have this side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3563">TS</a>]

00:59:26   joke I can't because I was like whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3566">TS</a>]

00:59:28   it's a neil degrasse tyson person and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3568">TS</a>]

00:59:30   and then that's a lot mosque and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3570">TS</a>]

00:59:32   when you get to Julia I was I was going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3572">TS</a>]

00:59:35   through like okay it's not Sarah Palin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3575">TS</a>]

00:59:37   but it's no it's yeah I don't know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3577">TS</a>]

00:59:41   he's a visa frustrating and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3581">TS</a>]

00:59:43   fascinating writer and and and it but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3583">TS</a>]

00:59:46   pulled me along i love i love this stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3586">TS</a>]

00:59:48   i mean Lisa we've talked about how many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3588">TS</a>]

00:59:50   times and with many of the people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3590">TS</a>]

00:59:51   are on this episode about into the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3591">TS</a>]

00:59:53   stories and and and how they can be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3593">TS</a>]

00:59:54   really interesting it and attracting I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3594">TS</a>]

00:59:56   just you know a lot of the stuff I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3596">TS</a>]

00:59:58   didn't I didn't I didn't but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3598">TS</a>]

00:59:58   didn't I didn't I didn't but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3598">TS</a>]

01:00:00   I had like I love the space stuff and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:01   the idea of going to the comment and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3601">TS</a>]

01:00:04   they end up dying of horrible like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3604">TS</a>]

01:00:05   radiation poisoning and all that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3605">TS</a>]

01:00:07   really an interesting story but there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3607">TS</a>]

01:00:09   a lot of stuff that I just couldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3609">TS</a>]

01:00:11   believe like you know this isn't we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3611">TS</a>]

01:00:13   aren't gonna if he's really saying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3613">TS</a>]

01:00:14   here's my big idea we need to be able to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3614">TS</a>]

01:00:17   survive in a rickety space station when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3617">TS</a>]

01:00:18   the earth gets destroyed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3618">TS</a>]

01:00:20   I don't think he I don't think he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3620">TS</a>]

01:00:21   convinced me that that's remotely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3621">TS</a>]

01:00:24   possible that one out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3624">TS</a>]

01:00:26   yeah you know this this is struck us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3626">TS</a>]

01:00:29   hard for me because this is a book that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3629">TS</a>]

01:00:31   opens with one of the best opening lines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3631">TS</a>]

01:00:34   that I've seen in recent years moon blew [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:37   up suddenly and without warning is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3637">TS</a>]

01:00:39   kind of sentence that just grabs you and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3639">TS</a>]

01:00:42   especially the the first couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3642">TS</a>]

01:00:44   chapters I although I have to say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3644">TS</a>]

01:00:46   listening to them an audiobook format [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3646">TS</a>]

01:00:48   the second time around when I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3648">TS</a>]

01:00:51   listening with someone else like this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3651">TS</a>]

01:00:53   actually a lot more dense than I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3653">TS</a>]

01:00:56   remembered the opening being I remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3656">TS</a>]

01:00:58   being like movable up suddenly without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3658">TS</a>]

01:01:00   warning a little bit with Dinah and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3660">TS</a>]

01:01:02   the let's have a star party and look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3662">TS</a>]

01:01:04   the pieces of the moon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3664">TS</a>]

01:01:06   oh crap we've been focusing on the wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3666">TS</a>]

01:01:08   thing yeah it's just like there there is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3668">TS</a>]

01:01:10   these really wonderful moments in the in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3670">TS</a>]

01:01:13   within this book that sort of slice out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3673">TS</a>]

01:01:16   I just what I think the core of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3676">TS</a>]

01:01:18   story is these one of these seven or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3678">TS</a>]

01:01:20   eight people that we follow throughout [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3680">TS</a>]

01:01:23   the throughout the book and there their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3683">TS</a>]

01:01:24   whole their own individual challenges [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3684">TS</a>]

01:01:26   but surrounding those from surrounding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3686">TS</a>]

01:01:31   those little bubble habitats are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3691">TS</a>]

01:01:33   infinite areas of space and myspace I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3693">TS</a>]

01:01:37   mean random descriptions about things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3697">TS</a>]

01:01:40   that again we're playing for me at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3700">TS</a>]

01:01:41   work i was so hooked by the opening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3701">TS</a>]

01:01:44   couple of chapters and then there's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3704">TS</a>]

01:01:46   bits here and there that would every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3706">TS</a>]

01:01:48   time i would get a little bit weary of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3708">TS</a>]

01:01:50   it would just snag me again like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3710">TS</a>]

01:01:52   we've been thinking about the wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3712">TS</a>]

01:01:53   thing and the you know qrt and like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3713">TS</a>]

01:01:57   little little bits here and there that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3717">TS</a>]

01:02:00   kept me on the the overall train but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3720">TS</a>]

01:02:03   looking at it in retrospective and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3723">TS</a>]

01:02:06   especially going back from mysore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3726">TS</a>]

01:02:08   fast-paced reading to listen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3728">TS</a>]

01:02:11   through it with a friend on a car ride I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3731">TS</a>]

01:02:14   was it made me realize that the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3734">TS</a>]

01:02:17   wasn't quite as I want to say great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3737">TS</a>]

01:02:20   because i didn't think necessarily the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3740">TS</a>]

01:02:21   book was great but i thought it had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3741">TS</a>]

01:02:23   really fascinating elements and I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3743">TS</a>]

01:02:28   think going back to it and looking at it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3748">TS</a>]

01:02:30   again it becomes more hollow where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3750">TS</a>]

01:02:33   you're like yeah you have these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3753">TS</a>]

01:02:34   wonderful of these wonderful Owens and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3754">TS</a>]

01:02:36   then you tear them down and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3756">TS</a>]

01:02:38   spend 30 pages talking about rockets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3758">TS</a>]

01:02:40   which is still interesting but a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3760">TS</a>]

01:02:42   good editor could have paired this into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3762">TS</a>]

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01:02:49   but it seems like once people become [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3769">TS</a>]

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01:02:55   they really really trust and want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3775">TS</a>]

01:02:58   work with an editor they don't get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3778">TS</a>]

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01:03:03   on the show many times bestselling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3783">TS</a>]

01:03:05   author not you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3785">TS</a>]

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01:03:11   talking about people love me and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3791">TS</a>]

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01:03:14   and that's why i write thousand-page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3794">TS</a>]

01:03:15   books and nobody stopped to say this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3795">TS</a>]

01:03:18   would be a stronger book or if they did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3798">TS</a>]

01:03:20   they were told you don't say that to him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3800">TS</a>]

01:03:23   you're being reassigned he has a sword [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3803">TS</a>]

01:03:26   and I apologize to the editor if this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:29   was originally 1,200 pages it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3809">TS</a>]

01:03:31   actually four thousand page letter had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3811">TS</a>]

01:03:34   been like really they're going to let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3814">TS</a>]

01:03:35   Julia live after she violates everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3815">TS</a>]

01:03:37   that this project stands for like why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3817">TS</a>]

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01:03:42   whose name I'm blanking on like they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3822">TS</a>]

01:03:44   could have had her just shove Julia an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3824">TS</a>]

01:03:45   airlock again and like a lot of problems [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:48   could have been delayed and I really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3828">TS</a>]

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01:03:57   it's going to be an 800-page book but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3837">TS</a>]

01:03:59   the last 10 pages is going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3839">TS</a>]

01:04:00   footnotes that and and appendices but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3840">TS</a>]

01:04:04   you know we're not going to let's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3844">TS</a>]

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01:04:16   he's going to get to do what he wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3856">TS</a>]

01:04:18   and people are going to go along because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3858">TS</a>]

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01:04:24   in a row that have been problematic for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3864">TS</a>]

01:04:27   me and although i like the first again I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3867">TS</a>]

01:04:29   like the first whatever it is half of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3869">TS</a>]

01:04:31   remedy before it becomes a a sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3871">TS</a>]

01:04:34   like action movie out in the woods which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3874">TS</a>]

01:04:38   was fine for what it was but was not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3878">TS</a>]

01:04:40   what we come to expect from him but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3880">TS</a>]

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01:04:44   would say reread the baroque cycle but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3884">TS</a>]

01:04:46   don't have that kind of time but like go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3886">TS</a>]

01:04:47   back and read reread right to nomicon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3887">TS</a>]

01:04:49   cryptonomicon or or even at them frankly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3889">TS</a>]

01:04:53   and jones i was i was thinkin bout [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3893">TS</a>]

01:04:55   cryptonomicon in contrast to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3895">TS</a>]

01:04:57   because there's a very funny passage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3897">TS</a>]

01:04:58   cryptonomicon about how one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3898">TS</a>]

01:05:00   characters vengeful ex-girlfriends raise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3900">TS</a>]

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01:05:10   very very funny when he's securing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3910">TS</a>]

01:05:13   culture around science and engineering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3913">TS</a>]

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01:05:21   he was trying to do with it here but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3921">TS</a>]

01:05:23   it's it's so bloated you really had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3923">TS</a>]

01:05:26   dig through a lot of it and there are a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3926">TS</a>]

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01:05:29   suspending disbelief was like okay I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3929">TS</a>]

01:05:31   really have to just accept this is going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3931">TS</a>]

01:05:33   to happen there there inexplicably going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3933">TS</a>]

01:05:36   to let Julia live there inexplicably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3936">TS</a>]

01:05:38   going to let all of the storage units [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3938">TS</a>]

01:05:41   that have all of the ova and sperm drift [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3941">TS</a>]

01:05:43   away with a bunch of demented youngsters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3943">TS</a>]

01:05:45   and Julia they are going to do a fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3945">TS</a>]

01:05:47   you know it just like getting up in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3947">TS</a>]

01:05:51   space was not the problem i really wish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3951">TS</a>]

01:05:52   he had taken the time to talk to some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3952">TS</a>]

01:05:54   those those hated and feared non hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3954">TS</a>]

01:05:56   science types who are you know say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3956">TS</a>]

01:05:57   sociologists and other people who study [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3957">TS</a>]

01:06:00   like communities that work in close [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3960">TS</a>]

01:06:03   quarters and stressful situations like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3963">TS</a>]

01:06:05   it would've been helpful if you talk to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3965">TS</a>]

01:06:06   somebody who isn't it for god sakes the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3966">TS</a>]

01:06:09   features a submarine like they could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3969">TS</a>]

01:06:11   drop some submarine science with well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3971">TS</a>]

01:06:12   you know the Navy studied how these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3972">TS</a>]

01:06:14   groups work together in these tight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3974">TS</a>]

01:06:16   close quarters which can kill them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3976">TS</a>]

01:06:18   here's maybe we should consider doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3978">TS</a>]

01:06:20   like there was literally nothing about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3980">TS</a>]

01:06:21   the social human engineering in this and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3981">TS</a>]

01:06:22   I think what you're talking about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3982">TS</a>]

01:06:23   fate of the human race you kinda have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3983">TS</a>]

01:06:25   bring that up i did I one thing that I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3985">TS</a>]

01:06:28   am disappointed that he didn't series we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3988">TS</a>]

01:06:30   sort of made good on all other threads i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3990">TS</a>]

01:06:33   am sorry that at the end he doesn't say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3993">TS</a>]

01:06:35   Oh didn't we tell you what there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3995">TS</a>]

01:06:37   also people on Mars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3997">TS</a>]

01:06:38   just because people go to Mars some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3998">TS</a>]

01:06:39   the rebels say we're gonna go to Mars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/3999">TS</a>]

01:06:41   and all the other unaccounted for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4001">TS</a>]

01:06:44   survivors of Earth established societies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4004">TS</a>]

01:06:46   that were flourishing 5,000 years later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4006">TS</a>]

01:06:48   but they don't even mention like oh you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4008">TS</a>]

01:06:50   know that they all died or 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4010">TS</a>]

01:06:52   miraculously like everyone else they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4012">TS</a>]

01:06:54   survived but there's many have a term is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4014">TS</a>]

01:06:56   equal no word about the Martians yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4016">TS</a>]

01:06:59   this is the pingers he doesn't rate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4019">TS</a>]

01:07:01   sequel submarine people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4021">TS</a>]

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01:07:04   that he doesn't ever believed in so he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4024">TS</a>]

01:07:06   gets the whole story out of it takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4026">TS</a>]

01:07:07   some 3,000 pages that's about Jewish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4027">TS</a>]

01:07:10   equals are just extra long it blocks no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4030">TS</a>]

01:07:13   yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4033">TS</a>]

01:07:14   any other thoughts about uh about what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4034">TS</a>]

01:07:17   the heck is this book called i can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4037">TS</a>]

01:07:19   remember seventies i'll say downward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4039">TS</a>]

01:07:20   seven Eve's anybody have any any other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4040">TS</a>]

01:07:23   quality i do of course it yeah at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4043">TS</a>]

01:07:25   you have more thoughts i do besides that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4045">TS</a>]

01:07:28   whole second novella of thoughts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4048">TS</a>]

01:07:30   yeah it's it's 800 pages that part I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4050">TS</a>]

01:07:32   know I'm i said this before saturday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4052">TS</a>]

01:07:34   popped on where I said I really admired [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4054">TS</a>]

01:07:36   the book and quality that serenity had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4056">TS</a>]

01:07:38   discerned when she put these two books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4058">TS</a>]

01:07:40   together because with seventies you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4060">TS</a>]

01:07:43   this space operates grand scale and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4063">TS</a>]

01:07:45   scope and it's suddenly the super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4065">TS</a>]

01:07:48   optimistic book about how science will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4068">TS</a>]

01:07:50   solve all your problems and humidity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4070">TS</a>]

01:07:52   will you know rise to the challenge and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4072">TS</a>]

01:07:54   o things will be wonderful in the future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4074">TS</a>]

01:07:57   they'll be you know hanging out and cool [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4077">TS</a>]

01:07:59   bars you drink in grapes farm by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4079">TS</a>]

01:08:01   andhra Thals and we and then the flip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4081">TS</a>]

01:08:05   side of it is this incredibly intimate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4085">TS</a>]

01:08:06   story in the water knife where it looks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4086">TS</a>]

01:08:09   at how no science and technology only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4089">TS</a>]

01:08:11   solve problems for people whose problems [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4091">TS</a>]

01:08:13   extend to have a nicer found in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4093">TS</a>]

01:08:16   archaeology that nobody else can get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4096">TS</a>]

01:08:17   into or how can my air filter work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4097">TS</a>]

01:08:20   better as I rip through the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4100">TS</a>]

01:08:22   sandstorm getting ready to put the hurt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4102">TS</a>]

01:08:25   on some of my boss wants me to its it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4105">TS</a>]

01:08:27   was two very able to opposition always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4107">TS</a>]

01:08:30   looking at the at the end of the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4110">TS</a>]

01:08:32   for somebody and I liked how the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4112">TS</a>]

01:08:35   differences in scope and the differences [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4115">TS</a>]

01:08:39   in the way that the two chose to look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4119">TS</a>]

01:08:41   the human condition and how that affects [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4121">TS</a>]

01:08:42   the outcome of of a of a society's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4122">TS</a>]

01:08:44   future they could not have been more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4124">TS</a>]

01:08:46   different and I think that reading them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4126">TS</a>]

01:08:48   back-to-back like I did for this podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4128">TS</a>]

01:08:49   real [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4129">TS</a>]

01:08:50   we highlighted that for me so you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4130">TS</a>]

01:08:52   seven years if you read that in context [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4132">TS</a>]

01:08:54   with the water knife it's it's just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4134">TS</a>]

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01:08:58   god i just keeps going and getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4138">TS</a>]

01:09:02   bigger and I've lost track of who all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4142">TS</a>]

01:09:04   the characters are because i've just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4144">TS</a>]

01:09:06   read some more about chains filled with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4146">TS</a>]

01:09:08   robots and from there so many robots so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4148">TS</a>]

01:09:13   many chance now I thought it was I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4153">TS</a>]

01:09:15   thought it was I thought it was some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4155">TS</a>]

01:09:16   helpful to look at it in contrast with a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4156">TS</a>]

01:09:19   very intimate end of the world book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4159">TS</a>]

01:09:21   which is what the water knife isn't a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4161">TS</a>]

01:09:22   lot of ways you know coming up the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4162">TS</a>]

01:09:25   idea from two very different points of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4165">TS</a>]

01:09:27   view exactly who go read Julian may just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4167">TS</a>]

01:09:30   be Julian ok please you recommend the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4170">TS</a>]

01:09:33   place in soccer would you just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4173">TS</a>]

01:09:34   straight into the straight into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4174">TS</a>]

01:09:37   stuff that start to Jeff the body list i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4177">TS</a>]

01:09:40   would i would start with the police in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4180">TS</a>]

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01:09:46   them all in order just in in publishing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4186">TS</a>]

01:09:49   order [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4189">TS</a>]

01:09:50   alright we have we have a come to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4190">TS</a>]

01:09:52   point of the show where I very quickly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4192">TS</a>]

01:09:53   want to go around and ask my panelists [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4193">TS</a>]

01:09:56   if there's anything interesting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4196">TS</a>]

01:09:59   they're reading or have just read other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4199">TS</a>]

01:10:01   than the books we've already talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4201">TS</a>]

01:10:02   about this is what we like to call what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4202">TS</a>]

01:10:04   are you reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4204">TS</a>]

01:10:04   David Laura what are you reading well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4204">TS</a>]

01:10:07   i'm back in writing mode so i'm reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4207">TS</a>]

01:10:09   nonfiction again and i'm reading the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4209">TS</a>]

01:10:11   monopolists obsession fury and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4211">TS</a>]

01:10:14   scandal behind the world's favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4214">TS</a>]

01:10:17   board game by Mary pallone it's about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4217">TS</a>]

01:10:19   the game of life right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4219">TS</a>]

01:10:21   yeah yeah and scrabble and and trivial [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4221">TS</a>]

01:10:24   pursuit ok good sits yeah good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4224">TS</a>]

01:10:27   that's as it should be and yes you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4227">TS</a>]

01:10:30   script you you owe me some scripts so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4230">TS</a>]

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01:10:43   and i finally got my copy of randleman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:46   Rose what if serious scientific answers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4246">TS</a>]

01:10:49   yes you too absurd hypothetical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4249">TS</a>]

01:10:51   questions so those are the two that i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4251">TS</a>]

01:10:54   reading concur i usually have like two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4254">TS</a>]

01:10:56   or three bucks going into time and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4256">TS</a>]

01:10:57   just kind of flip through them depending [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4257">TS</a>]

01:10:59   on the mood for all right that's that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4259">TS</a>]

01:11:01   good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4261">TS</a>]

01:11:01   serenity what are you reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4261">TS</a>]

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01:11:05   is Flavian loose series which is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4265">TS</a>]

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01:11:23   and she sells murder mystery spot for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4283">TS</a>]

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01:11:30   it's it's delightful English countryside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4290">TS</a>]

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01:11:35   reading the real all Americans which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4295">TS</a>]

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01:11:43   football and the teams who basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4303">TS</a>]

01:11:46   cheated or cheated and the reverse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4306">TS</a>]

01:11:49   cheating that gave college football it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4309">TS</a>]

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01:11:57   sport that is only 10 years old and has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4317">TS</a>]

01:11:59   a lot of rules negotiating happening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4319">TS</a>]

01:12:02   live on the track is fascinating to to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4322">TS</a>]

01:12:05   see that from a from another from a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4325">TS</a>]

01:12:07   sport that's now pretty storied in its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4327">TS</a>]

01:12:09   very early days it's got what are you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4329">TS</a>]

01:12:12   reading or have read that is a worthy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4332">TS</a>]

01:12:15   how I've read two novels right after I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4335">TS</a>]

01:12:19   read the seventies and water knife both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4339">TS</a>]

01:12:22   of which I thought were better than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4342">TS</a>]

01:12:23   seven leaves or the water knife one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4343">TS</a>]

01:12:26   which is by an author that jason has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4346">TS</a>]

01:12:28   sworn off forever so I'm sure he will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4348">TS</a>]

01:12:29   never read it unless nominee for Hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4349">TS</a>]

01:12:32   which i think is going and that's Aurora [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4352">TS</a>]

01:12:35   by Kim Stanley Robinson which is I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4355">TS</a>]

01:12:38   heard good things about it but uh yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4358">TS</a>]

01:12:40   I'm like I'm reluctant to go back there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4360">TS</a>]

01:12:43   I think I don't want to ruin it because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4363">TS</a>]

01:12:44   it has some fascinating twists to it but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4364">TS</a>]

01:12:47   I thought it was fantastic i'm a fan of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4367">TS</a>]

01:12:50   kim roberts Rakim yeah I am very man the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4370">TS</a>]

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01:12:57   Cartwright so I think it's great that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4377">TS</a>]

01:13:00   her it's basically it follows this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4380">TS</a>]

01:13:02   generation ship that's going off to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4382">TS</a>]

01:13:04   colonize world and some things happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4384">TS</a>]

01:13:07   and you know it's interesting and there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4387">TS</a>]

01:13:11   is another book that I really liked by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4391">TS</a>]

01:13:13   ian MacDonald who is one of my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4393">TS</a>]

01:13:15   authors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4395">TS</a>]

01:13:15   I wrote the Dervish house which we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4395">TS</a>]

01:13:17   talked about on the previous Hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4397">TS</a>]

01:13:19   episode he has the last couple of years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4399">TS</a>]

01:13:23   been writing young adult fiction which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4403">TS</a>]

01:13:25   angers me because I don't like an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4405">TS</a>]

01:13:26   affliction because I am an older adults [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4406">TS</a>]

01:13:28   yeah and this ho ho [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4408">TS</a>]

01:13:30   but he's come back to normal adult [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4410">TS</a>]

01:13:33   fiction and he's written a book called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4413">TS</a>]

01:13:34   Luna new moon which is set on the moon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4414">TS</a>]

01:13:38   and someone is called it the game of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4418">TS</a>]

01:13:40   thrones on the moon which I don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4420">TS</a>]

01:13:42   is really accurate but it involves five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4422">TS</a>]

01:13:46   families that are fighting on the moon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4426">TS</a>]

01:13:48   several hundred years in the future and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4428">TS</a>]

01:13:52   it has many nice little touches the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4432">TS</a>]

01:13:55   characters apparently in the moon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4435">TS</a>]

01:13:57   culture nineteen fifties style has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4437">TS</a>]

01:14:00   a research and so people print out 50 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4440">TS</a>]

01:14:02   dresses and things and go to cocktail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4442">TS</a>]

01:14:03   parties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4443">TS</a>]

01:14:04   everybody has these contact lenses that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4444">TS</a>]

01:14:08   are implanted in their eyes and they get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4448">TS</a>]

01:14:10   to see how much air they're being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4450">TS</a>]

01:14:12   charged for and if you run out of money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4452">TS</a>]

01:14:14   you suffocate and die because you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4454">TS</a>]

01:14:16   someone has to pay for the hair they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4456">TS</a>]

01:14:19   call people who come from the earth to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4459">TS</a>]

01:14:20   go to the moon they call him Joe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4460">TS</a>]

01:14:22   moonbeams because they're new and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4462">TS</a>]

01:14:24   can't figure out how to stuff that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4464">TS</a>]

01:14:26   just a great book so check out alright [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4466">TS</a>]

01:14:28   and for me I i read the end of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4468">TS</a>]

01:14:31   things by john scalzi which is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4471">TS</a>]

01:14:33   latest in his old man's war series and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4473">TS</a>]

01:14:38   I feel like he needs I i believe he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4478">TS</a>]

01:14:40   taking a little less step away from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4480">TS</a>]

01:14:42   series because i feel like it was kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4482">TS</a>]

01:14:43   of wheezing to the finish line [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4483">TS</a>]

01:14:45   it's got some familiar characters but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4485">TS</a>]

01:14:47   think he got caught up in the kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4487">TS</a>]

01:14:49   interstellar imaginations at a high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4489">TS</a>]

01:14:51   level of and add this plotline that went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4491">TS</a>]

01:14:54   through these last two books about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4494">TS</a>]

01:14:56   secret attack on the one human race and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4496">TS</a>]

01:14:59   I don't think it really merited two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4499">TS</a>]

01:15:02   books worth of story and I think these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4502">TS</a>]

01:15:04   series are really the the books in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4504">TS</a>]

01:15:06   series have been the best when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4506">TS</a>]

01:15:07   focused on on those individual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4507">TS</a>]

01:15:10   characters and how they make their way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4510">TS</a>]

01:15:12   in this crazy you know space opera world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4512">TS</a>]

01:15:16   that he set up and for the last couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4516">TS</a>]

01:15:18   we've had a lot of bureaucrats and a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4518">TS</a>]

01:15:20   of negotiations and a lot of ambassadors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4520">TS</a>]

01:15:22   and it's fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4522">TS</a>]

01:15:24   he's a good writer it's entertaining [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4524">TS</a>]

01:15:26   it's always kind of breezy and fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4526">TS</a>]

01:15:28   and yet I feel like at the end of it I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4528">TS</a>]

01:15:30   sort of said yeah okay whatever I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4530">TS</a>]

01:15:33   honestly I don't even remember how it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4533">TS</a>]

01:15:34   ends because it was so insubstantial and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4534">TS</a>]

01:15:37   I just moved on to the to the next thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4537">TS</a>]

01:15:39   and then I want to put a shout out to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4539">TS</a>]

01:15:41   aftermath by check when day which is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4541">TS</a>]

01:15:43   star wars novel it's got like one star a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4543">TS</a>]

01:15:46   million one-star reviews on Amazon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4546">TS</a>]

01:15:48   because it doesn't answer all of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4548">TS</a>]

01:15:50   questions fans have or service fans in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4550">TS</a>]

01:15:53   the way that they expected and i have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4553">TS</a>]

01:15:55   say is I thought it was fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4555">TS</a>]

01:15:57   um I don't think I don't think it's bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4557">TS</a>]

01:15:59   i don't think it's fantastic but I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4559">TS</a>]

01:16:01   honestly it's I pretty good for a meet a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4561">TS</a>]

01:16:04   a movie franchise tie-in novel and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4564">TS</a>]

01:16:09   people who are angry about it or not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4569">TS</a>]

01:16:11   angry about it because of the content [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4571">TS</a>]

01:16:12   they're angry for personal reasons that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4572">TS</a>]

01:16:15   don't relate to the actual book so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4575">TS</a>]

01:16:18   know that rage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4578">TS</a>]

01:16:19   yeah it's strong and I understand why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4579">TS</a>]

01:16:22   they might be angry but it's it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4582">TS</a>]

01:16:24   because of the book because what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4584">TS</a>]

01:16:26   book doesn't do which is tell the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4586">TS</a>]

01:16:28   that they have imagined for 20 years in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4588">TS</a>]

01:16:32   their own minds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4592">TS</a>]

01:16:33   this is what happens when you reboot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4593">TS</a>]

01:16:35   when you reboot a franchise and when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4595">TS</a>]

01:16:38   destroy years of cut former continuity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4598">TS</a>]

01:16:41   of the Expanded Universe continuity and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4601">TS</a>]

01:16:43   all that stuff so it's totally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4603">TS</a>]

01:16:44   understandable from that perspective I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4604">TS</a>]

01:16:45   just having read the book i can say i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4605">TS</a>]

01:16:47   thought it was fine i didn't again not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4607">TS</a>]

01:16:50   great literature or anything but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4610">TS</a>]

01:16:51   thought i had some interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4611">TS</a>]

01:16:52   characters it played with the star wars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4612">TS</a>]

01:16:54   universe in though in the way you might [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4614">TS</a>]

01:16:56   expect our uh novelist to get the chance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4616">TS</a>]

01:16:59   to play in the star wars universe to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4619">TS</a>]

01:17:00   so it you know it was it was fine it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4620">TS</a>]

01:17:05   a it was a quick read and and there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4625">TS</a>]

01:17:09   nothing wrong with being fine and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4629">TS</a>]

01:17:11   read it all and i read it already and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4631">TS</a>]

01:17:12   that's another great because my was fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4632">TS</a>]

01:17:15   i read it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4635">TS</a>]

01:17:16   what more do you want from me people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4636">TS</a>]

01:17:18   only one man put that on your book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4638">TS</a>]

01:17:22   unless you're ksr no take that well this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4642">TS</a>]

01:17:26   has been fun i know we're gonna have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4646">TS</a>]

01:17:28   figure out what we're going to read next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4648">TS</a>]

01:17:30   maybe we'll see things that sky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4650">TS</a>]

01:17:31   recommends that for marketers I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4651">TS</a>]

01:17:33   want to read but that's okay Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4653">TS</a>]

01:17:36   Scott's a reduced me to some fantastic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4656">TS</a>]

01:17:38   book so perhaps we will have to go go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4658">TS</a>]

01:17:40   ahead Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4660">TS</a>]

01:17:42   and something he is walking pressure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4662">TS</a>]

01:17:45   pressure and it is you yet to recommend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4665">TS</a>]

01:17:48   something to somebody and have them say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4668">TS</a>]

01:17:50   oh I hated that you know that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4670">TS</a>]

01:17:51   worst that's true i'd like to thank my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4671">TS</a>]

01:17:55   fellow members of the book club for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4675">TS</a>]

01:17:57   joining us tonight Lisa Schmeisser thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4677">TS</a>]

01:18:00   you so much for being here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4680">TS</a>]

01:18:01   I had a ball thank you I already called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4681">TS</a>]

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01:18:09   have water for now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4689">TS</a>]

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01:18:15   some water right now you know i might [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4695">TS</a>]

01:18:17   not surprising that is sooo tonight so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4697">TS</a>]

01:18:21   the water dive cut a little close for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4701">TS</a>]

01:18:23   you and Scott McNulty of course I it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4703">TS</a>]

01:18:28   wouldn't be book club without you accept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4708">TS</a>]

01:18:30   those times when you refuse to be on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4710">TS</a>]

01:18:31   that's right when someone has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4711">TS</a>]

01:18:33   recommended a book i will not read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4713">TS</a>]

01:18:35   exactly what I didn't happen this time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4715">TS</a>]

01:18:38   no I thought of that so thank you for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4718">TS</a>]

01:18:39   being here and reading books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMYON438/4719">TS</a>]

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