March 17, 2025 • 62 mins
Future-EGOT Aaron Randolph returns to Suggested Articles to talk about his first book, Thane, and also to announce his new, just-released sequel, Rekha and the Inevitability of Life! We are honored to be part of his press tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
A podcast network. Turn up those VPNs, put on your
tim Foil hat and get yourself a virtual assistant, but
not one that's totally okay with killing you. It's time
for suggested articles a podcast. Oh, welcome back everybody. Uh,
(00:38):
let's let's go through some intros here. I got a
lot of faces on my screen. I am Jeff, I'm Jeff,
and then, of course, are very regular, recurring happy.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
As can be guessed, super happy.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Charles Nelson Ratt, just kiddy, good old Charles.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We should call you Charles today. That's gonna save us
some condition.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That'll make it less confusing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
CNR CR that's what you're saying. CNR felt like a mouthful.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So what if we call you a Sienna because it's
kind of like a name that comes from this.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I could also go for Brett Summers. You want to
call me Brett today?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Rhett Charles is fine.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was gonna be Brett Stummers because I'm so drunk
all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Wow, Oh, your glasses aren't big enough to be Brett
or Charles. I'm sorry you're currently playing Sean Cattery, playing
mister Tabot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't know where these references are going. I'm not following,
but they seem to be having a great time.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, multi talented guests coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, so welcome back to the show. Esteemed Pulitzer Prize
winning author.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You want a bulletzer, you have to tell your publishers everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Everyone's getting Pulitzers now. Talked about this a couple, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Don't say it like that, because that that makes it
sound like Kendrick's puiltzer is not worth what it is. No,
it does diminish just handing it out. It's not a Grammy,
for God's sake. Okay, so it means something.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's not the award that you think it is. It's
actually pronounced Hugh Lightser. I think it's I think it's
eighteenth century French. You are you sure?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Because when people say jag you are for the car,
I think that they're just full of shit.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
All I know is that I took possession of the
award in an alley in Chicago, and I haven't been
I haven't been cleaned since. It sounds like two questions
totally legit.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
One, you've heard that it will be the second question,
but uh, was there pizza involved in this back alley
Chicago deal? Absolutely, and it was deep but like dish
dumpster pizza or just like actual legit pizza. I'm curious
how prestigious this award.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't I don't think the pizza. I don't think
the pizza came from the alley. I think it was
brought into the alley from an outside source. I couldn't
say exactly where.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It sounds like a very East Coast block party or
event with like a folding table. Maybe they got popped
up for the pizza, and I like that for you.
But my second question, and this question was something that
accidentally asked you the day, Matty, will you marry me?
You're just so talented and funny. I just I can't
stop talking about you in circles of friends.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Thank you very kindly, But no, oh oh man, you
got your slaps.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
There's still a chance you got your slap back. Aaron's OK.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's a big commitment to whip out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We did we get Aaron Randolph an official introduction in
this I don't think so let's.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Go Okay, Sorry, I'm still prett Summers Druggist Ship.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Welcome back to the show. Winner of the twenty twenty
six Juno Prize for Best Sci Fi Fantasy Novel in
the Universe. It's Aaron Randolph. Yeay, yay, we'll do applause
very kind, but you're full of it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I I just call him a claimed author when we
had him on our ship. It's easy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh that's a good. Okay, Yeah, I don't need to
make up awards every time. Oscar winning Oscar winning author,
Aaron Randolph, We have a question for you. Shoot, I'm
just kidding. Yes, your album was Dope Triple.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
EGT Webby Award winning.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All the Webbies. Did theyse still exist?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't know if they do, Aaron. It's it's good
to have you back.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you for I mean, I kind of feel at
this point the clusterfuck we've had trying to put this together.
I feel like you've flower yourself a number of notches
just to join us.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Except the first one was my fault. It was my
fault literally literally last week for Liza don't know. I
rubbed my so hard and there was something in there
that I gave myself. I gave myself a corneal abrasion.
So I was literally out of commission. There was no
way I could do anything, let alone podcast. Uh, so
(05:14):
I had to I had to bow out from a
recording last minute, and that sucked.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The silver lining there is that I also couldn't podcast,
but that's because my internet shat itself to death right there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I want to just say I was in basically a
Meddan hotel on a vacation with only an iPhone and
Bluetooth earbuds, and I was killing it on the episode,
and poor Jeff and I had to try to keep
the episode one after and I had to shake the
episode going every time Jeff disappeared, which was all the disappeared.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, it was wild. It was a show.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's great, so you didn't really miss and it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Will be a future dumpster fire, so if you want
to hear that sometime in the relative linear future. Trying
up four hour free free patre free Patreon at patreon
dot com. Slash suggested articles Patrion. We'll post it there,
I think sooner than later, because there's there's some good stuff.
Aaron and Jeff had a great talk about dogs and
(06:20):
burgers and really gross weird burgers. Yeah, there's a picture
of it somewhere, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Know, yeah, let's not get into it. No, they'll, they'll,
they'll tune in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We should get into on someday, fucking breakdown the Inevitability.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Of Like, well, okay, I find the timing of this interesting. So, Aaron,
we had you on the show the first time around
to promote a Patriot and not a Patreon kickstarter. A
kickstarter you were doing for the audiobook of your already
published novel Thing Correct. And with all the technical difficulties
(06:58):
and fucking eye infections and shit, somehow we are managing
to record and release this on like the day after
I think that you have released Is it Rayka.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Raka and the Inevitability of Life?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, okay, ray long A.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And this is a sequel to Thing Correct. Yes, I
feel like I was getting an inside scoop from Charles.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A while ago. And this was not originally going to
be a sequel to thinge Am.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't I never said that out loud. I think
I told you I think you did well.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Thing was never intended to have a sequel, But by
the time I finished it, I was like, you know,
I think I have an idea of my head of
where I want to go with another book. So I
was like, all right, I'll keep going.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, well, nothing wrong with that, And so we warned
our audience that they needed to read thing because at
some point we were going to be talking about the
book and this is it. You guys had a shocking
amount of extra weeks repair from the last time I
was like, Thane could be our next episode. Be ready, guys,
I think that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Was like eight months ago. Yeah, it's been a while.
Shit keeps happening.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, but I think we should talk about Fane a
little bit first, because we did ask our book club
to read it, and I enjoyed listening to it, So
that was enjoy reading it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You read the physical book. I did have also listened
to the audio at all. Yeah, I know we have that.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Listened to a little bit of the audio.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, yes, it's hard to But the thing is, it's
one of those things where it's so good. I can't
just listen to it while I'm doing something else. I
have to and I just haven't had time to just
because if I listened to it at work, I would
just stop and stare off into space for a while
because I just like the story and the characters, and
you guys did a great job putting that together. Sounds
(08:49):
amazing too, by the.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Way, Yeah yeah, yeah, we're are audio engineer, meant business.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
How does that work when you do it? Does everybody
that's do they have to come into a studio? Do
they record their homes and someone puts it together? How
does that work?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So basically, we like a good half of the cast
were professional voice actors and they already had professional setups
in their homes, so they just recorded at home. I
came in via tele conference so I could give them
direction if they needed, if I felt they needed to
say it a different way or leave spaces in certain places.
(09:26):
And the people who didn't, anyone who was local, we
brought them to our podcast studio because we figured it
was the best thing we had. Stevie put up some
extra stuff to muffle the noise, and we just recorded
in our regular podcast studio. We sent those off to
my audio engineer, who clearly cleaned everything up. I think
(09:49):
there was only was there one person who recorded remotely
but wasn't a professional.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I don't no.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
On second thought, I think everyone who wasn't a professor
voice actor was local. And we we just did it
in the bf Y t W studio.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know what it takes to Uh, I don't know.
I don't know where that line is drawn, but I
would not know by listening to the audiobook.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Who was or was not a quote unquote professional voice actor. Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
They were all pretty great. The only one is that
I recognize Stevie's voice.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Who else would.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Play that role? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, you're an author, you write books, you're inspired by things.
Where would you get the inspiration for a pot smoking
former military guy that Stevie wound up playing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Who's chilling bizarre at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Jill and Bazaar? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Where else? Literally nowhere? And likewise nobody could play that
part in him. I jokingly said Jason Muse would be
a good stand in for Stevie, and I think that's
correct to this day.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But I could see that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But otherwise, there aren't a lot of people who could
fill those shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's as if he knew what it was like to
be stoned when he was talking about weed in the book.
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
WHOA Well, it'll be interesting to see how things go
in the future. I still haven't decided when or how
I'm going to do an audiobook for book number two.
But let's just say if I do one's there's not
going to be a kickstarter this time. There's no way.
That was exhausting and stressful and it just never ended.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Podcasts and audiobooks are my life's blood because I spend
a lot of time in traffic, So.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'll work on it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I actually called the stone called, or maybe I didn't
call it even know I'm talking of the song.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'm not a maniac. I don't call people, but I
think I must have texted you then. But I was like, Aaron,
so Jamie is Steepie, right, Like I was. I think
I had read like three pages of dialogue from Jamie
at that point.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Was like, so that's Steevie. So you're based out on Steee.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, I mean, I mean, come on, obvious, inspiration
is obvious.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are there any other characters that are based on like
real life types?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, almost everybody's based on somebody I know, with the
exception I think Ethan. Ethan is sort of an invention
from whole Cloth. But yeah, other people in the book.
Victoria is like basically two of my best friends like
smashed together to make one person Alera is all of
(12:41):
my ex girlfriends are rolled into one person nice.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Chris is a guy I knew in high school who
passed away at like age twenty three or twenty six
something like that. He just went way too young, and
I just love that guy. So, like, when I was
thinking of a hero, like he popped into my head
and I was like, Oh, it's got to be him.
It's got to be him. Who else? Maren is basically
(13:10):
my mom basically basically you know, a sterner, meet slightly
meaner version of my mom. Just in case she listens
to this. I think that's almost Oh and Ma is
Erica Ishi, Yeah, just a version for her.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
From a dropout. Yeah, that's that's where I know we're from.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So does that help you keep their individual voices kind
of clear while you're writing? You can just kind of
or is it a different than that?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, with the exception of my Yes, like I said,
my was based like she has a she has Eric
is sort of like I based her appearance on Eric,
but her her her voice, and her background are decidedly different.
My is A is an Asian girl. Who grew up
in the South, and I I've based that decision solely
(14:10):
on a stand up comedian I've seen once. I can't
remember his name, but he was an Asian gentleman who
had a Southern accent. Nice uh, and it was he's
a huge part of his act. But I just thought, Okay,
if this guy exists, then there have to be other
Asians with Southern accents out there. So I was like,
it's a it's a weird choice that I don't see
(14:32):
in a lot of books, so why not. So that's
why I went with that. But her voice was the
hardest to keep keep track of because it wasn't based
on like a real person's mannerisms and so forth. But
same with same with Ethan, because he was mostly just
an invention. Like a lot of his his mannerisms, his
(14:55):
vocal mannerisms I whipped up from whole cloth, like the
the fact that he addresses everybody by their last name
unless he really likes them.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh wow, Yeah, once he really likes you, it'll.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Use your first name, but otherwise it's always mister, this missus.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That we talked a little bit about how you'd written
you'd written years ago in your younger days and then
you stopped writing. What was it that was the spark
that got you back in front of the keyboard?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Dagan Rumpa. I've talked about it on another other podcasts
many many times, so I'll try not to bore the
shit out of you. It is a visual novel video
game all about solving murder mysteries, and it is one
of the few video game series in recent years to
where each each game's ending surprised me. I literally thought, like,
(15:46):
I'd seen it all, I'd read it all, you can't
surprise me anymore. I'm gonna see your plot twist coming,
I'm gonna figure it out, And like this game series
proved me wrong. I did not have a single clue
what was going on, and I was just blown away.
And that just kind of got the the years churning.
I think it wasn't until I joined the Ultra Hope
(16:06):
Girls podcast. There they do a day in Rome podcast
and they have this incredibly welcoming community that I was
scared to join because I was like a forty year
old man and everybody in there is like twenty year
old girls, not the best optics, and I.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was like, Hi, I'm Aaron.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh and the internet, I go by pantsless Aeron.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh no oh. But they they walked him. They welcomed
me with open arms and open minds, and they were
extremely helpful when it came to starting to write, because
I was just I was I was just inspired. I
wanted to write something like that, something something that hopefully
you wouldn't see the twist in the end coming like
(16:52):
there's there's there's a lot going on that their characters
don't know by the end. And it's just like I
tried to sprinkle in enough clue to where someone could
conceivably figure it out, but it would be difficult. So
that was the idea that was That was the germ,
that was the once I had, Once I played those
games and gotten the the the germ of an idea
(17:14):
stuck in my brain and I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I had to start writing. In nice.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
If you, for some reason don't follow instructions and haven't
read thing yet, but you're listening to this podcast, I'm
going to put a time stamp in the episode description
to get you out of spoiler territory. But let's talk
a little spoilers, all right, So sure, I did. I
did find it, you know, a little. I guess I
(17:47):
found it a little bit strange early on in the
book when like all of a sudden, these people are like,
we should date and then we should be a thrupple,
And it was so like, what is happening in this room?
But very intriguing to you know, It's like there's something
something strange.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
About these people.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And then of course it turns out that they might
have had some longer standing connections and or might have
been programmed.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
To be this way.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
But yeah, the way you're laying out the mysteries, it's
pretty fascinating when I when I think back upon it,
how you started setting those things up from very early parts.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was one of those things where,
and I've told people this before, like I started writing
this book knowing exactly how it was going to end,
knowing exactly how I was going to begin, and the
middle was complete mystery to me. I had no idea
what was going to happen in Nact two at all.
But I got there and I figured it out, largely
(18:47):
thanks to my friends in the ultra Oak Girls community.
But the one thing I will say to any budding
writer is if you're stuck, show your manuscript to somebody.
Let somebody look at it, because they will. They will
give you ideas that your brain couldn't come up with
on its own.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And who did you use for that sounding board?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Carolina or Huela was my main person. She was She
was the the ultimate literary girl in their their their podcast.
That was her numb to plume, as it were. And uh,
and I said, well, I could use some literary advice.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And she she said some things that absolutely sparked and
unlocked the second act of thing in my brain. So
she got a huge thank you in the front of
the book for it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What would you label as the second act? So would
the first act be up until they get through the
door the first time?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And then the second act.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Is sort of the Yeah, the first act ends when
Chris dies spoiler sorry, This second act is when he
wakes up again and it's all it's happening all over again,
like groundhog Day, brownhog Day, except except they don't remember.
It is very groundhog Day, asked, but the rest of
them don't remember. And now he's he's he's navigating this
(19:58):
world that he thought understood, but but now he's like,
what nothing makes sense anymore again, I'm starting all over
back at zero. What the hell is going on? And
then obviously that act ends when they all walk out together,
and then third act begins when he wakes up in
the same place and he's doomed to do it all again,
(20:20):
and he's like, fuck this. I I just I really
enjoyed his kind of descent into kind of despair, which
just kicked him and kicked him into high gear. And
he's like, all right, let's just break the rules. I'm
just gonna start talking to a lera before we even
get out of this room.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh yeah, I think point didn't he?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
He's just like, here's what happened. Here's what happens, here's
what happened. Shut up, this is what happened here.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Just he just bowls them over with like, you know,
here's exactly everything that's happened up until this point. And
they're like, well, you there's there's so much detail. I
find it hard to believe you would have lied it
on all this.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I liked it. I liked that because I mean, that's
there's so many there's so many movies that if if
or stories where if somebody would just be like, Okay,
here's what I know. I'm gonna lay it all out
for you, it would definitely change. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, Like I I can't stand that when like, there's
a problem that would have been easily resolved if these
two characters had just talked to each other way damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And there's that there's that whole thing where it's like
I have something to tell you, that's great, but here,
let me tell you this first, this thing that totally
doesn't matter at all, and then you know they can
never come back to that conversation point. Oh but yeah,
I really liked how that that played out there at
the end. I think I think this book is also
pressing to our podcast because I mean there's a lot
of AI in here obviously, right.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So and and in a weird not way with that
going into it, No, No, did not know, but that
either yeah could be our poster kind of an optimistic
view of AI ultimately.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, and no, because it's it's it's way different than
the AI we have now. Like and and I made
I made a point of having doctor Trina be very
dismissive of current AIS. She's like don't don't like in
my work to those plagiarism machines, because I mean, that's
(22:24):
that's what they are. Ultimately generative, generative AI is is
a big problem for authors and artists like me, So
you know, it sucks. But but I was like, these
characters are not they are not them, Like that's this
(22:45):
is on another level. These these are real sentient people.
It was the whole point who just happened to be
made out of ones and zeros instead of chemicals. So
so I was trying to draw a biding line between
But yeah, there's very much a bit of uh star
(23:08):
trek the next generations. The measure of a man episode
in here is a is a digital creation a real person,
you know. And I wanted to explore that a little
bit more than I really got into because I didn't
know where to stick, Like, would it makes sense to
discuss philosophy while trapped in this you know, this, this
(23:29):
hellish predicament the characters are in. Yeah, sorry, but I
would have had to cram it into the climax. Sorry,
go ahead, Aaron.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's okay. I was just gonna say, Charles, sorry to
call me whatever. You just calmulate for coffee. I really
feel like Trina is the doctor, right, Yes, I feel
like Trina was like design interest. I feel like she
was almost motherly to the characters or our AI components
(24:02):
because she had developed them so much. So I think
you did a nice job showcasing that they weren't that
stupid shit AI that we have in the world now.
They were this like thoughtful, like special thing.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I like that that the the use of AI in
this is a more is would be like a proper
application is neon Chaos might say, this is an application
where it would actually be helpful and benefit humanity, you know,
unlike generative AI, which I saw an introt TikToker, Oh
shit I got. I wrote down his name because I
(24:37):
wanted to make sure I gave him credits totally. Alan
he said he was saying this week that that Jenerator
Dave all we do all we all grew up afraid
the AI is going to take over, you know, kill
us all and take over the world whatever. And now
we have this generator Dave AI that's watching us, reading
everything we write, listening to everything we say, and all
(25:00):
is we're afraid of it. I and we make fun
of its art and who else do we know that
that you know it was a failed artist. Oh yeah,
you sent me that. So so we're just we're just
just as a say I is is you know, we
need to start being nicer to it, apparently, and Manson,
We're not going to fuck fuck AI.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But Manson, you know, Manson wanted to be a singer,
and he had that whole weird relationship with the one
of the Wilson.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Brothers, the Beach Boys. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, well sure, be nice to be fun.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
He killed bar less people. Come on, come on, if
on the grand scale of things, you know, in terms
of your numbers, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean, as we learned from some of Elon, as
we learned from some of Elon's recent tweets, I mean,
Manson didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It was his public sector cult members. Ye, same with
same with Hitler, exactly. It was his point.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I want to say.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I want to say, to be completely honest, when I
when I finished the book, I was like, hmm, I
don't know. I felt like the ending was too happy,
kind of kind of felt like because you know, and
then I thought about it, I was like, no, these.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
These things went through hell.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
They went through hell so many times, so many times
they needed that, they needed that, you know, and and
that I actually, I actually do like how it but
I like how it ultimately played out. But at the
same time, I'm like, so, now what happens? What happens?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
What happens? Well, Braka and the Inevitability of.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Life is out now and it's state it will tell
you now what happens. Okay, let's let's talk about that
a little bit and order this book right now.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Is there a guess?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
By the way, what what can we do?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
A little plug here. It's available on Amazon and Burns,
Noble and anywhere else you buy find books. Once again,
it's called Raka R E K H A and the
Inevitability of Life.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I will say it did drop on Annoyed as well,
Kristin and I that it was available for purchase and purchased.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, although for some reason they're not linked together yet,
so they're not on the same Amazon page. There's individual
Amazon pages for each. Just kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But as a beta read up beta red as a
beta reader, as a beta read that's my cat character
related as a reader not knowing they were laked initially
because you didn't tell me when I found out, did
I or did I not? I sent you a text
or something, and are you fucking kidding me? Like I was, like,
(27:40):
I was outraged that I had made it so far
in and didn't like think that it was attached or
that you might have done that. So I read it
with these like fresh eyes, not knowing that I think
the readers now are going to be like, oh, it's
a sequel.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
That was a weird kind of decision on my part
that I'm kind of glad I stepped back from. I
was a originally going because because this book is such
a departure from the first one, Raka is a fantasy
adventure instead of a mystery thriller. It does not take
(28:14):
place in one location. There is plenty going on, and
it's because it's so different. Part of me wanted to
make it like a stealth sequel. So the prologue initially
did not The very first chapter did not hint at
all that these were the same characters, this was the
(28:37):
same world. But everybody everybody who came back at me
was like was either like Aaron's extreme amount of surprise,
like you fuck her? And I was like and I
was like, you know what, I'm feeling like that intro
(28:59):
is still a little weak. So I just decided to
make it a bit stronger and also kind of give
the game away and just just say from the output,
this is this is book two of Sane and I'm
and I'm glad I did because the intro chapter is
much stronger now it is. It is heroin I feel.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
In the first I read with first, the revised the
beginning and I was like, it was like ugly cray
a couple of pages and I was like, it's a beautiful.
For those of you that haven't you know, ran out,
paused the episode, run out about the book and read it.
I gotta tell you it is a beautiful, beautiful This
(29:44):
is ly I would I would classify this as a
book that would deserve to be like in school at something.
I feel the same way about thinking. I think there's
incredible life lessons and that's why i'm your unpaid your publicist, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Can I ask you a question? Yeah, go ahead, sorry, Charles, Charles.
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
When I read the art of RecA, will I cry because.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I'm a girl? Or you make.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Jeff is Jeff is detached from emotions we have we
have we have long since established that he has.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
From I do feel like myself and then our friend
of the show, Kristen Farley, who was on a moon
with me. I do feel like kar and I have
perhaps like a little bit more attachment to these characters
than like the first time readers do, because I think
I've read Sing like eleven twelve times at this point.
(30:43):
I've read Raca like four or five, and so for me,
I know the things pretty well and I feel the
emotions differently. So it was a journey. I don't know
that you're going to cry, but I think you'll feel
the weight of it for sure, like you'll feel feelings.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I certainly hope. So if you don't, I have failed
as a writer. Oh damn, because I'm not gonna lie.
That first chapter comes out swinging. Yeah, so yeah, very
proud of it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well, I'm gonna have it in three to six business days.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Nice, So I'm very excited. Thank you for that. I
hope you enjoy it. Oh yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Are you kidding me? Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Do you want to? I know it's super far in advanced,
but we're in the middle of booking our show, the
Fireways and myself. So I wanted to just see if
we wanted to also plug your b off y twow
Live show and the Springs in December.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I mean, okay, I don't I don't know if it's
the best time for this. I think I don't know
how how you structure your show. But but it's okay,
it's your show or.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Fload at anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Everything could go down any second, now, Okay, So you
do a podcast called bfyt W. Now, if anyone's missed that,
tell us just give us a quick two sentence pitch
on that and then start telling us about what you
got coming up.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Sure. So bfy tw is a panel show inspired podcast.
We play silly games frequently with guests, but sometimes it's
just me and my stoner brethren, and I'm always completely sober,
so I'm just trying to steer them through these silly
games and it's always it's always a bunch of laughs.
(32:41):
But yeah, we do charity game shows, you know, we
do all sorts of fun stuff. But I can say
it's always fun. It's always a laugh riot. So I
highly recommend checking it out if that sounds like your
kind of thing. And we are coming up on episode
three hundred, Wow, which to us is pretty huge. We're
(33:01):
very proud to have lasted this long and to still
be doing it, uh, and to have gotten this far.
So we wanted to do something spectacular. So we're doing
a series of live shows in Colorado Springs in a
rented theater and it's going to be an absolute blast.
We are doing BFY tw does task Master, which we've
(33:25):
done twice before and has always been.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Hilarious, so we are super stoked. Aaron looks like she's
about to explode. Yeah, sorry, looks like she's about Charles.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I did not know. I only knew that the show
was going to be Love. I did not know it
was task Master the related and I literally like, I'm
going to have to go check my pantings because I.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Don't wait.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's task Master is a British game show.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
It is more than just a name show.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
It is a delight so much more than that.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm just saying, not everyone's heard of it. So live
shows why Colorado Springs.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So the majority of our guests already lived there, and
we were talking about doing a trip somewhere anyway, So
it was either going to be like New Jersey or
you know, somewhere conducive to where everybody involved could could
get to. So it was going to be that or
Philadelphia for a while, but then Matt and Auger from
the gate Leapers are based out of there and they're
(34:32):
going to be a part of it. So they were like, well,
we've we've got all these other people who could be
you know, helpful and part of it, So why don't
we just do it here in Colorado Springs. And we
were like, yeah, let's make it a vaca. Let's go
have some fun. Let's let's just just do it up
and have a great time. And Stevie's reached out to
some other friends of our shows, and you know, now
(34:54):
there's talk about, you know, Kristin Furley coming down and
hanging out, and so it's looking like it might be
just a little bit more than a simple vacation to
the middle of Colorado to do some live shows. Looks
like we're gonna have like a big group get together
as well. So I mean, everybody, did everybody here in
this who wants to come as welcome, be happy to
(35:15):
have you. Hopefully we blow out the theater at the
standing room only it would be crazy Colorado Springs isn't
even that far from me, so nice, awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, I am curious about BFYTW since we're talking about
your other works besides Ka and The Inevitability of Life
available now wherever you get fine books. You are the
game master of bfytw. Most episodes are in a game
show kind of format. How much time do you get
(35:47):
you we fucking write books. How much time do you
spend prepping these games for like a weekly podcast?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
To be honest about no hour, maybe two.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It seems like it would take a while the research
some of these things.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Sometimes it does take longer if if I'm in the
mood for something a little bit more elaborate, I'll throw
more time into it. But honestly, a lot of these games,
like I can I can just whip up, like okay,
I just need three news stories and their links copy
paste good, you know, just try and try and think
of some funny things to say about them. Other than that,
there's not a lot of effort required there for those
(36:23):
kind of games, you know, And the others are usually
like improv based, so I pretty much just have to
come up with topics for them to start jabberge on
about and just let my stoner friends run wild and
free and usually usually turns into complete mental chaos, but
it's enjoyable mental chaos at least. So yeah, that's pretty much.
(36:44):
That's pretty much the effort. But sometimes, like I said,
sometimes I put like full days. I'll spend weeks building
a program for a game show that we've run exactly once.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, well there was this one episode where you did,
like who said these quotes? It was weird al or
I don't know, Stalin or something. I can't remember who
it was, but it was. But you had to come
up with all these quotes in the first place and
find quotes that could have been either weird Out or Stalin, and.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That must have taken you a long time.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
It did.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I'm pretty sure that particular game on its own took
about an hour just because of all the research I
had to do. But and that's just one game out
of three for an episode. So yeah, that that episode
took a little bit longer to work up. But it
was too much fun not to like, especially when you
realize like how close some of these actually are sounding
like it could be either, Like I genuinely didn't think
(37:40):
it would work. And I looked through the list of
weirdo quotes and I was like, huh, some of these
almost sound vaguely political.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think they might.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I think they might fly unto the radar.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Excellent. I don't think it was actually Stalin.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
But and some of the things Stalin says, they're kind
of goofy, wow, let's rocket nice.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That helps, that's gotta help.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely take comedy where you can get.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It, definitely, especially these days.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Right yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if this is a good time for this,
but we have a game to play today. So Aaron,
I hope you don't mind, but we're now going to
take your hard work, your life's work, your essence, and we're.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Going to destroy it.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Is that okay, okay, yeah, no, it's fine, and we're
going to do this. Aaron helped me prepare for this,
but she doesn't know what she's done, so it's not
her fault. Charles, Sorry, Charles helped me prepare for this,
but she doesn't know what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I only know about this is that while I was
on I was about to go on vacation, it just says, hey,
I need passages.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
No no, no, no, Aaron, No, that was me reminding
you that I needed some passages from the book, which
I had asked you like a month earlier, but.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
You were busy.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I know the world was on fire, but I wasn't
trying to ruin your vacation.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I'm not down the story. Don't mansplain what happened. I
was in line at Disney with my kindle reading thing
every time I'm on a Disneyland, and I had a
hot second. I was like, and then I'm taking pictures
of the screen sending them to Jeff, Like, okay, there's
(39:24):
another because the Wi fi a disease is not good
enough to use the actual like screenshot on my kindle, right,
so I had to, like old school like cellular data
like my mom take pictures of it to send me you.
I just wanted that to be known in the world
(39:45):
that I was walking around like this eighty year old
seventy five sorry mom woman taking picture So kindle at
the fucking bar.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, anyway, continue, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You came through and then we didn't do the episode anyway,
so I guess you would have had extra time have
we known, But in any case, we're going to play
a game that I and only I invented. This is
a game completely of my creation. Uh, it's called and
we used to play it every once in a while
on my old show where we uh Pod of Thrones,
where we would do this about the game of Thrones
(40:17):
books Song of Ice and Fire. And this game is
called podlibs. And we are going to take Aaron's work.
But you don't know what we're going to be talking about.
I'm going to ask you guys to make up some
words for me. We're going to fill in some blanks,
and then we're going to see how wacky and wild
Fane really is.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
I feel like I shouldn't even play because I pulled.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, you don't know what passage I used, and that
was weeks ago. That's why I asked you for a
few passages. I was covering you. I was trying to
make good for you, all right.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
If we can cut you can take time to think
of a word, if you want, I can cut out
all the parts where you're thinking. So that's going to
sound like you guys are word pros, professionals at coming
up with words. But I'm going to ask you for
specific types of word farther from the truth from what
I do. I'm going to ask you for types of words,
and then I will fill in the blanks. How you
(41:09):
guys do this is up to you. You could take turns,
or you just shout them out, or if you all
shout them out, you could pick whichever word.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You like the best.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
But let's any questions before we start. I'm guessing no,
that thing that.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
A beauty queen where is at the end of the
contest called the tiara? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yes, okay, Well the tr will be for Aaron because
he did say any question.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I'm just saying that was a question. Okay, all right,
that's totally fair. Good point. Thank you for what is
the purpose of life?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I don't know because I have not yet read Reika
and The Inevitability of Life, now available on Amazon and
Barnes and Noble in all places where you get fine
books about life.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Okay, here we go. Let's fill in some blanks. First up,
I need a past tense verb chat nor too late.
All right, I'll take it. We can't we can't do
scatological humor for everyone, but we can do some A
verb clamber, another verb decompose. But these aren't all verbs.
(42:15):
But I need another past tense verb.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Buried, buried, buried. How about a wearable item? Toke a?
What a toke a? Toke t o q u e?
All right, what is that?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I could be wrong? Oh I am wrong. I was
gonna say it's what's what? It's what the other Jeff
is wearing. But it's not. He's what he's wearing. A
full baseball cap. To is a is a warm cap,
you know, the kind with the usually made out of
like wool or what what have you? Oh, is that
the one that has the flaps that well, not not
(42:52):
the flaps, but it's like the wool one sometimes there
sticks up and there's a little thing on top. But
he's a different type of.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Got it body part pluralities shakes, She says, yeah, she said.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
She brought out my match game PM. When you're as.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I need a color MAV. How about a single letter Okay, okay,
all right, past tense verb st nice an adverb, post coital,
post coital salect.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's going in a negrophilia.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
At least they're not all at least they're not all
poop jokes. That's good, Okay, h A, a organ a
body organ explain verb ending in.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
I n G fucking another verb silk belong, belong okay,
adjective moist.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Oh, this will be good. Another adjective creamy, Hey, okay.
An amount of time three minutes, exclamation marimba excellent ring
(44:36):
another amount of time forty seven years.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
But that's too long.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I need a noun donut four left?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
All right, adjective yes, try a now canal past tense
verb moistened.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Can we just do this?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah? When didn't we start our new math?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
All right? Last one to make it a good one?
Body part?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Wait? Did you have a better one? A press?
Speaker 4 (45:17):
I was gonna say but.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
That you two are adorable together? All right?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Okay, you know some some of these may make more
sense than others, but I'm just gonna go with it,
all right, suit you got?
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Oh? I man. I wish I would have re listened.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
To the audiobook in the last week so I had
more of the voices in my head as far as
what these characters sound like. But yeah, I'll do my best,
all right. Here we go A passage from the Middle
of Fane by Aaron Randolph Ethan shot forward and if
we fail Vi answered, failure to clamor a task or
(46:10):
attempting to decompose with your collars will result in a strike.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Everybody buried.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Victoria asked, what do the strikes mean. Strikes are a
measure of disobedience and or failure. The number of strikes
a person has is indicated on the back of their toke.
All titties turned to mar And as she immediately tried.
(46:45):
All titties turned to mar And as she immediately tried
rotating her toke, but nothing ever appeared. Chris walked around
behind Maren. Sure enough, a large mauve k was on
the back of her collar. I'm guessing it stays on
the back no matter how much you try to turn it.
Fie affirmed that is correct. Maron asked, you see it?
(47:10):
Chris nodded, Yeah, it's a mauve k ethan shell act
and there's an accompanying punishment for strikes. Yes, y post
coitallya pronounced. Your first strike will result in the toke
sending an impulse to the spleens pain center, activating it
(47:33):
while simultaneously fucking an impulse to the to the neurons
in your central amygdala to spelunk them. The resulting shit, okay,
deep breath, breath, The resulting pain will be moist and creamy.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Oh, I do not like it.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
It The.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Impulse will last for three minutes. Maren stood up, Marimba,
that felt like at least forty seven years, wasn't it?
Fy corrected. Regardless of how it felt, Maren, your punishment
only lasted for three minutes. Chris turned to the empty
(48:31):
doughnut in the center of the room.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
You know all our.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Names, Fi answered yes, Chris, that is correct. Are you
a dry intelligence?
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I am a virtual canal. Oh, it's actually very bad.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Chris moistened. What kind of a non answer that? Yeah,
Ethan shook his taint. We're getting off topic. What happens
when you get a second strike and cliffhanger? Oh wow, guys,
(49:17):
you you are a writer. Aaron Randolph, thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I've read. I just appreciate the the invention of the
phrase shout forward because I feel like I feel like.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
I know exactly what that is that's happened to me before.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Oh boy, that was good.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, well, thanks for playing my game that I personally invented.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Everybody that's that worked out so well?
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I might have to talk royalties on that Erran, But
we'll see, we'll think about it. Well, this has been fun.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
We haven't really done any suggestive article stuff today. I
don't think we have time for it. But I had
a random topic of the week that I just wanted
a quick take on everybody. Okay, all right, because this
was a recent topic of conversation in my life. My
favorite candy bar is called and I don't know just
(50:33):
have you Have you heard of this candy bar even
at all, because a lot of people haven't. But Pearson's
Salted nut Roll? Does that meant anything to anybody? I'm
getting blanks all around? Fucking hell?
Speaker 1 (50:44):
All right, So I want to know what I have
to stop you as a don't like nutroll in your mouth.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Everyone likes to get nut roll in your mouth once
in a while. But what I'm saying is, what do
you even like nineteen oh one?
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Like misser get roll in the same place to get
your Yeah, I got shit, jesus. I feel like the
only way you can get it is if you travel back.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
No, they're still for sales.
Speaker 8 (51:18):
Shit, I gas stations and like the Sade have seen those,
those are the things that are never sold I mean
that's probably from nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
But it's still Jesus. It's it sounds like the kind
of name that has to be said in a mid
Atlantic accent, like make sure you get your Piers rolls. Yeah,
oh my god, there's there tasty a jar of them.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
This was a person did go back in time. This
was a present from someone who knows. They gave me
a giant jar that.
Speaker 3 (51:51):
Looks a king.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
That's not present A present is something nice.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
When I came out of than actual like general store
at the town Center.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, maybe I also get three feet yah?
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Was there a scoop involved in some like Penny Candy
for the whole bag?
Speaker 1 (52:09):
By the way, I like those stores?
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Was the was the pharmacist also the guy you know
it's a wonderful life and after you finished your orders,
and he's also the town mayor.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
God and on weekends, you guys have to try on
the weekends the volunteer.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Gas station and get back to me.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
I'm gonna buy one of those.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
They're so good.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And your mayor sings all the songs.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Oh man, all right, it looks like something. Look okay,
I have googled the picture of what it looks like
un wrapped up, looks like something that mister peanut ships out,
looks like a yeah, he shot forward. Yes, it's caw carmel.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
It's peanuts and caramel wrapped around a creamy white nugat center.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
It's delicious. Okay, So none of you have ever.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
Had I've not had that brand, but my grandmother used
not even shitting on you, my grandmother used to really
like those, and so I had a taste to one once,
but I was like, this tastes like old people's stuff,
Like there wasn't enough, Like the nugat's kind of dried
in the middle. It's not creamy. It's kind of like chewy,
(53:33):
but like, just.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
What's your favorite candy bar, Charles h.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
I mean, I'm a big recess fan, but I really
like the Zero Barn, which is a white chocolate. It's
a chocolate nugat with caramel peanuts and then it's robed
in white chocolate. It's a more East Coast.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
So it's almost the same as my thing, except it's
chocolate and it's not dry.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
Your thing makes me want to glass old there.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Oh, yours is Yours is a moist Neugai Center.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
It's it would be between the Not Real and the
Three Musketeers Whippy Middle. It's it's in between.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Those times I see I see uh huh, Aaron Randolph,
what's your favorite candy bar?
Speaker 4 (54:20):
I'm a fast break guy. I love me a Reese's
Fast something.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Wait? Is fast Break going with the You know that's
take five that has the pretzel the peanuts account The.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
Fast Break is that too, But there's no peanuts in it.
It's just right like yeah, like it's like a peanut butter,
like you know, the layer on top of the chocolate,
there's a there's a layer of chocolate.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
I changed my answer. I forgot about that. If I
like candy, I don't like the nott component in it
as much. Those nuts sont get moments.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
I enjoy a good night in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Charles does not like the nut component, got it? Jeff
one f Jeff.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
I don't see them a lot, but I love a
Mars bar Man. Yeah. Do they sell those in America anymore?
Speaker 2 (55:15):
I think time I see them time to time. Yeah,
I remember those from my childhood. My mom used to
get those.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Yeah, at least available still up here in the Northeast
the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Few and far between here, but every time I see one,
I gotta get one.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Yeah, just like me an assaulted nut.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
They do a dark marsh it's wet nice as well.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah, yeah, it is really good. I've had that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, okay, I hope that provides someone. I hope someone
opens their browser and gets nut rolled right in the face.
Speaker 3 (55:49):
Buy you some nutrolls next time I see you. Because
I know that you like the cheaper grade candy. It's
gonna I'll be able to get you more of the Well. No,
nut rolls are typically like a buck or two. They're
not an expensive candy you get if.
Speaker 9 (56:03):
You were like, all of my supply will run out.
So British arrow candy bars those are like two food
bucks a pop. Because they have to be important, we
don't make them.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Also, they're trench. Don't like those.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
But okay, I've never had one. Happy to say, uh okay.
So if you get a hit on your browser with
assaulted nut roll or mars bar or fast break or
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(56:43):
and then let's let's talk about where everybody else can
find everybody else. We'll save Aaron Randolph for last because
he's the best. Uh, Jeff, If anyone wants to get
in touch with you, where can they find you?
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Are you finding me? You can?
Speaker 4 (56:55):
You can find this motherfucker?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
You know what? Give me one second you bring up
my Charles plug your shit.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Oh turtle alsocim media. I'm also on cameo, which is
weird because people from here and other places have requested
me and I've never said it before, but hey, thanks
for the extra like fifty two cents each. So I'm
on cameo, and also I have on the LUNI podcast.
Jack and I have a defunct First fifteen. Aaron and
(57:27):
I have a defunded A and E. I got a
think show. It's a lot. I'm add it just fine.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Fat show is A n E coming back soon now
that Rika and The Inevitability of Life has been released?
Speaker 1 (57:44):
You said no before I finished my question.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Wow, damn, I thought you guys were in tune. You
should sit down with some fast break bars and talk
it out.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Jesus, I mean, you know we can. I love I
love doing A and E and I think, I think
I still have some topics in the hopper.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Don't lie in public. You told me it was too
much effort and overwhelming to add to your life.
Speaker 4 (58:05):
It is. It is a lot. It is a lot
to do to prepare for a show of that magnitude,
which it was easily twice as much work, if not more.
Speaker 3 (58:15):
Than what was It would take me like three hours
or so to research and write.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Yeah, definitely that much. And I just was like, this
is so much to do, but I wouldn't mind everyone.
Speaker 3 (58:30):
It's not gone forever. People miss it. I mean I
do get it. I get free back from people all
the time. They're like, I'm like, look, he's gonna be
famous because.
Speaker 4 (58:38):
We we we talked about some really really niche topics
that neither of us had ever heard of before, and
it was it was genuinely a lot of fun. Like
introducing these weird, random things.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
To Randall brought Chloe to the world of any podcast
I touched because we have talked about Chloe so much
on this show.
Speaker 4 (59:01):
Well, our very first episode, my topic was assholes. So like,
how strong we started?
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Dang great, I did great molasses flood when we're like
literally a whole town was stuck and drowned in the
like one hundred gallon vata molasses or something that had
ruptured and like spread through the streets, and people didn't
know whether animals people were under the molasses. They could
(59:32):
just see the like struggling. So I like to get
the face that he's not made now, but it is.
Speaker 2 (59:38):
It is.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
There's a specific like sad, You've ruined my life, you
broke my heart face.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
So I really enjoyed well based on all that, I
think our audience is going to be if you do
not bring back any but in your time. In your time,
you guys work it out behind the scenes, figure figure
it out though.
Speaker 6 (59:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (59:54):
And then finally Aaron Randolph, winner of all the literary
prizes that have ever been won.
Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Where where can people?
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
You can find me on the interwebs as pansils Aaron
pretty much anywhere except x please check here, thank you
anywhere except there, because I refuse to be a part
of that anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
And this has been going on for like a year
at this point, so I'm happy to be still clean.
But please check out Rika and the Inevitability of Life
if it sounds like it might be your sort of thing. Uh,
even if you haven't read Thane, uh the the book doesn't,
I feel a pretty good job of catching you up.
But just in case, you know, it's a fantasy adventure
(01:00:39):
with the you know, lots of lots of humor, lots
of hearts, uh, some epic fights. I I was basically
trying to write a medieval Buffy the Vampire, so uh.
And there's magic, there's a mystery, and there's a little
bit of romance as well. So I feel like it's
(01:01:01):
got something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Nice love it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
And of course we did mention bfy t W a
couple of times. Where can they find that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
B f y TWW dot po Sorry bfy tw pod
dot com is our website, or you can just go
anywhere you find podcasts. Pick any of our two hundred
and fifty nine in counting episodes. There's there's lots of
good ones out there, so I mean to me, they're
all good, but we we definitely had a lot of
really good times, especially with some of the people in
(01:01:32):
this room.
Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
It's me, well, yeah, at some point we're going to
try to claw our way into your show, Jesh.
Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Yes, I want to. We want to wreak some havoc
on the world of b fy T.
Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
I should mention.
Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Suggested fuck you. That's why I should mention.
Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
That as of April first, we ever a slight delay,
but we are all members of odd Pods Media Network,
with BYW being founding member of that medium works a
big shout outs to are amazing round since the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
In all the fun we've been having today and my
other lack of professionalism, and also because it's new, I
forgot to talk about commercial breaks, so by now you've
already heard some commercials and don't forget of course once
again right in if this messes with your head, because
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Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Because of our Lord and Savior, who we will now
pray to, we would like to end this episode with.
Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Stereo all hail.
Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
We would like to yes, we would thank you all
Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
The
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A podcast network. Turn up those VPNs, put on your
tim Foil hat and get yourself a virtual assistant, but
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(00:38):
let's let's go through some intros here. I got a
lot of faces on my screen. I am Jeff, I'm Jeff,
and then, of course, are very regular, recurring happy.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
As can be guessed, super happy.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Charles Nelson Ratt, just kiddy, good old Charles.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We should call you Charles today. That's gonna save us
some condition.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That'll make it less confusing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
CNR CR that's what you're saying. CNR felt like a mouthful.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So what if we call you a Sienna because it's
kind of like a name that comes from this.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I could also go for Brett Summers. You want to
call me Brett today?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Rhett Charles is fine.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was gonna be Brett Stummers because I'm so drunk
all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Wow, Oh, your glasses aren't big enough to be Brett
or Charles. I'm sorry you're currently playing Sean Cattery, playing
mister Tabot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't know where these references are going. I'm not following,
but they seem to be having a great time.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, multi talented guests coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, so welcome back to the show. Esteemed Pulitzer Prize
winning author.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You want a bulletzer, you have to tell your publishers everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Everyone's getting Pulitzers now. Talked about this a couple, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Don't say it like that, because that that makes it
sound like Kendrick's puiltzer is not worth what it is. No,
it does diminish just handing it out. It's not a Grammy,
for God's sake. Okay, so it means something.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's not the award that you think it is. It's
actually pronounced Hugh Lightser. I think it's I think it's
eighteenth century French. You are you sure?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Because when people say jag you are for the car,
I think that they're just full of shit.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
All I know is that I took possession of the
award in an alley in Chicago, and I haven't been
I haven't been cleaned since. It sounds like two questions
totally legit.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
One, you've heard that it will be the second question,
but uh, was there pizza involved in this back alley
Chicago deal? Absolutely, and it was deep but like dish
dumpster pizza or just like actual legit pizza. I'm curious
how prestigious this award.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't I don't think the pizza. I don't think
the pizza came from the alley. I think it was
brought into the alley from an outside source. I couldn't
say exactly where.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It sounds like a very East Coast block party or
event with like a folding table. Maybe they got popped
up for the pizza, and I like that for you.
But my second question, and this question was something that
accidentally asked you the day, Matty, will you marry me?
You're just so talented and funny. I just I can't
stop talking about you in circles of friends.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Thank you very kindly, But no, oh oh man, you
got your slaps.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
There's still a chance you got your slap back. Aaron's OK.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's a big commitment to whip out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We did we get Aaron Randolph an official introduction in
this I don't think so let's.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Go Okay, Sorry, I'm still prett Summers Druggist Ship.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Welcome back to the show. Winner of the twenty twenty
six Juno Prize for Best Sci Fi Fantasy Novel in
the Universe. It's Aaron Randolph. Yeay, yay, we'll do applause
very kind, but you're full of it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I I just call him a claimed author when we
had him on our ship. It's easy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh that's a good. Okay, Yeah, I don't need to
make up awards every time. Oscar winning Oscar winning author,
Aaron Randolph, We have a question for you. Shoot, I'm
just kidding. Yes, your album was Dope Triple.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
EGT Webby Award winning.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All the Webbies. Did theyse still exist?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't know if they do, Aaron. It's it's good
to have you back.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you for I mean, I kind of feel at
this point the clusterfuck we've had trying to put this together.
I feel like you've flower yourself a number of notches
just to join us.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Except the first one was my fault. It was my
fault literally literally last week for Liza don't know. I
rubbed my so hard and there was something in there
that I gave myself. I gave myself a corneal abrasion.
So I was literally out of commission. There was no
way I could do anything, let alone podcast. Uh, so
(05:14):
I had to I had to bow out from a
recording last minute, and that sucked.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The silver lining there is that I also couldn't podcast,
but that's because my internet shat itself to death right there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I want to just say I was in basically a
Meddan hotel on a vacation with only an iPhone and
Bluetooth earbuds, and I was killing it on the episode,
and poor Jeff and I had to try to keep
the episode one after and I had to shake the
episode going every time Jeff disappeared, which was all the disappeared.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, it was wild. It was a show.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's great, so you didn't really miss and it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Will be a future dumpster fire, so if you want
to hear that sometime in the relative linear future. Trying
up four hour free free patre free Patreon at patreon
dot com. Slash suggested articles Patrion. We'll post it there,
I think sooner than later, because there's there's some good stuff.
Aaron and Jeff had a great talk about dogs and
(06:20):
burgers and really gross weird burgers. Yeah, there's a picture
of it somewhere, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Know, yeah, let's not get into it. No, they'll, they'll,
they'll tune in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We should get into on someday, fucking breakdown the Inevitability.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Of Like, well, okay, I find the timing of this interesting. So, Aaron,
we had you on the show the first time around
to promote a Patriot and not a Patreon kickstarter. A
kickstarter you were doing for the audiobook of your already
published novel Thing Correct. And with all the technical difficulties
(06:58):
and fucking eye infections and shit, somehow we are managing
to record and release this on like the day after
I think that you have released Is it Rayka.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Raka and the Inevitability of Life?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, okay, ray long A.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And this is a sequel to Thing Correct. Yes, I
feel like I was getting an inside scoop from Charles.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A while ago. And this was not originally going to
be a sequel to thinge Am.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't I never said that out loud. I think
I told you I think you did well.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Thing was never intended to have a sequel, But by
the time I finished it, I was like, you know,
I think I have an idea of my head of
where I want to go with another book. So I
was like, all right, I'll keep going.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, well, nothing wrong with that, And so we warned
our audience that they needed to read thing because at
some point we were going to be talking about the
book and this is it. You guys had a shocking
amount of extra weeks repair from the last time I
was like, Thane could be our next episode. Be ready, guys,
I think that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Was like eight months ago. Yeah, it's been a while.
Shit keeps happening.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, but I think we should talk about Fane a
little bit first, because we did ask our book club
to read it, and I enjoyed listening to it, So
that was enjoy reading it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You read the physical book. I did have also listened
to the audio at all. Yeah, I know we have that.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Listened to a little bit of the audio.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, yes, it's hard to But the thing is, it's
one of those things where it's so good. I can't
just listen to it while I'm doing something else. I
have to and I just haven't had time to just
because if I listened to it at work, I would
just stop and stare off into space for a while
because I just like the story and the characters, and
you guys did a great job putting that together. Sounds
(08:49):
amazing too, by the.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Way, Yeah yeah, yeah, we're are audio engineer, meant business.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
How does that work when you do it? Does everybody
that's do they have to come into a studio? Do
they record their homes and someone puts it together? How
does that work?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So basically, we like a good half of the cast
were professional voice actors and they already had professional setups
in their homes, so they just recorded at home. I
came in via tele conference so I could give them
direction if they needed, if I felt they needed to
say it a different way or leave spaces in certain places.
(09:26):
And the people who didn't, anyone who was local, we
brought them to our podcast studio because we figured it
was the best thing we had. Stevie put up some
extra stuff to muffle the noise, and we just recorded
in our regular podcast studio. We sent those off to
my audio engineer, who clearly cleaned everything up. I think
(09:49):
there was only was there one person who recorded remotely
but wasn't a professional.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I don't no.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
On second thought, I think everyone who wasn't a professor
voice actor was local. And we we just did it
in the bf Y t W studio.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know what it takes to Uh, I don't know.
I don't know where that line is drawn, but I
would not know by listening to the audiobook.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Who was or was not a quote unquote professional voice actor. Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
They were all pretty great. The only one is that
I recognize Stevie's voice.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Who else would.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Play that role? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, you're an author, you write books, you're inspired by things.
Where would you get the inspiration for a pot smoking
former military guy that Stevie wound up playing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Who's chilling bizarre at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Jill and Bazaar? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Where else? Literally nowhere? And likewise nobody could play that
part in him. I jokingly said Jason Muse would be
a good stand in for Stevie, and I think that's
correct to this day.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But I could see that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But otherwise, there aren't a lot of people who could
fill those shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's as if he knew what it was like to
be stoned when he was talking about weed in the book.
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
WHOA Well, it'll be interesting to see how things go
in the future. I still haven't decided when or how
I'm going to do an audiobook for book number two.
But let's just say if I do one's there's not
going to be a kickstarter this time. There's no way.
That was exhausting and stressful and it just never ended.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Podcasts and audiobooks are my life's blood because I spend
a lot of time in traffic, So.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'll work on it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I actually called the stone called, or maybe I didn't
call it even know I'm talking of the song.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'm not a maniac. I don't call people, but I
think I must have texted you then. But I was like, Aaron,
so Jamie is Steepie, right, Like I was. I think
I had read like three pages of dialogue from Jamie
at that point.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Was like, so that's Steevie. So you're based out on Steee.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, I mean, I mean, come on, obvious, inspiration
is obvious.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are there any other characters that are based on like
real life types?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, almost everybody's based on somebody I know, with the
exception I think Ethan. Ethan is sort of an invention
from whole Cloth. But yeah, other people in the book.
Victoria is like basically two of my best friends like
smashed together to make one person Alera is all of
(12:41):
my ex girlfriends are rolled into one person nice.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Chris is a guy I knew in high school who
passed away at like age twenty three or twenty six
something like that. He just went way too young, and
I just love that guy. So, like, when I was
thinking of a hero, like he popped into my head
and I was like, Oh, it's got to be him.
It's got to be him. Who else? Maren is basically
(13:10):
my mom basically basically you know, a sterner, meet slightly
meaner version of my mom. Just in case she listens
to this. I think that's almost Oh and Ma is
Erica Ishi, Yeah, just a version for her.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
From a dropout. Yeah, that's that's where I know we're from.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So does that help you keep their individual voices kind
of clear while you're writing? You can just kind of
or is it a different than that?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, with the exception of my Yes, like I said,
my was based like she has a she has Eric
is sort of like I based her appearance on Eric,
but her her her voice, and her background are decidedly different.
My is A is an Asian girl. Who grew up
in the South, and I I've based that decision solely
(14:10):
on a stand up comedian I've seen once. I can't
remember his name, but he was an Asian gentleman who
had a Southern accent. Nice uh, and it was he's
a huge part of his act. But I just thought, Okay,
if this guy exists, then there have to be other
Asians with Southern accents out there. So I was like,
it's a it's a weird choice that I don't see
(14:32):
in a lot of books, so why not. So that's
why I went with that. But her voice was the
hardest to keep keep track of because it wasn't based
on like a real person's mannerisms and so forth. But
same with same with Ethan, because he was mostly just
an invention. Like a lot of his his mannerisms, his
(14:55):
vocal mannerisms I whipped up from whole cloth, like the
the fact that he addresses everybody by their last name
unless he really likes them.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh wow, Yeah, once he really likes you, it'll.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Use your first name, but otherwise it's always mister, this missus.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That we talked a little bit about how you'd written
you'd written years ago in your younger days and then
you stopped writing. What was it that was the spark
that got you back in front of the keyboard?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Dagan Rumpa. I've talked about it on another other podcasts
many many times, so I'll try not to bore the
shit out of you. It is a visual novel video
game all about solving murder mysteries, and it is one
of the few video game series in recent years to
where each each game's ending surprised me. I literally thought, like,
(15:46):
I'd seen it all, I'd read it all, you can't
surprise me anymore. I'm gonna see your plot twist coming,
I'm gonna figure it out, And like this game series
proved me wrong. I did not have a single clue
what was going on, and I was just blown away.
And that just kind of got the the years churning.
I think it wasn't until I joined the Ultra Hope
(16:06):
Girls podcast. There they do a day in Rome podcast
and they have this incredibly welcoming community that I was
scared to join because I was like a forty year
old man and everybody in there is like twenty year
old girls, not the best optics, and I.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was like, Hi, I'm Aaron.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh and the internet, I go by pantsless Aeron.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh no oh. But they they walked him. They welcomed
me with open arms and open minds, and they were
extremely helpful when it came to starting to write, because
I was just I was I was just inspired. I
wanted to write something like that, something something that hopefully
you wouldn't see the twist in the end coming like
(16:52):
there's there's there's a lot going on that their characters
don't know by the end. And it's just like I
tried to sprinkle in enough clue to where someone could
conceivably figure it out, but it would be difficult. So
that was the idea that was That was the germ,
that was the once I had, Once I played those
games and gotten the the the germ of an idea
(17:14):
stuck in my brain and I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I had to start writing. In nice.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
If you, for some reason don't follow instructions and haven't
read thing yet, but you're listening to this podcast, I'm
going to put a time stamp in the episode description
to get you out of spoiler territory. But let's talk
a little spoilers, all right, So sure, I did. I
did find it, you know, a little. I guess I
(17:47):
found it a little bit strange early on in the
book when like all of a sudden, these people are like,
we should date and then we should be a thrupple,
And it was so like, what is happening in this room?
But very intriguing to you know, It's like there's something
something strange.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
About these people.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And then of course it turns out that they might
have had some longer standing connections and or might have
been programmed.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
To be this way.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
But yeah, the way you're laying out the mysteries, it's
pretty fascinating when I when I think back upon it,
how you started setting those things up from very early parts.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was one of those things where,
and I've told people this before, like I started writing
this book knowing exactly how it was going to end,
knowing exactly how I was going to begin, and the
middle was complete mystery to me. I had no idea
what was going to happen in Nact two at all.
But I got there and I figured it out, largely
(18:47):
thanks to my friends in the ultra Oak Girls community.
But the one thing I will say to any budding
writer is if you're stuck, show your manuscript to somebody.
Let somebody look at it, because they will. They will
give you ideas that your brain couldn't come up with
on its own.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And who did you use for that sounding board?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Carolina or Huela was my main person. She was She
was the the ultimate literary girl in their their their podcast.
That was her numb to plume, as it were. And uh,
and I said, well, I could use some literary advice.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And she she said some things that absolutely sparked and
unlocked the second act of thing in my brain. So
she got a huge thank you in the front of
the book for it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What would you label as the second act? So would
the first act be up until they get through the
door the first time?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And then the second act.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Is sort of the Yeah, the first act ends when
Chris dies spoiler sorry, This second act is when he
wakes up again and it's all it's happening all over again,
like groundhog Day, brownhog Day, except except they don't remember.
It is very groundhog Day, asked, but the rest of
them don't remember. And now he's he's he's navigating this
(19:58):
world that he thought understood, but but now he's like,
what nothing makes sense anymore again, I'm starting all over
back at zero. What the hell is going on? And
then obviously that act ends when they all walk out together,
and then third act begins when he wakes up in
the same place and he's doomed to do it all again,
(20:20):
and he's like, fuck this. I I just I really
enjoyed his kind of descent into kind of despair, which
just kicked him and kicked him into high gear. And
he's like, all right, let's just break the rules. I'm
just gonna start talking to a lera before we even
get out of this room.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh yeah, I think point didn't he?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
He's just like, here's what happened. Here's what happens, here's
what happened. Shut up, this is what happened here.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Just he just bowls them over with like, you know,
here's exactly everything that's happened up until this point. And
they're like, well, you there's there's so much detail. I
find it hard to believe you would have lied it
on all this.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I liked it. I liked that because I mean, that's
there's so many there's so many movies that if if
or stories where if somebody would just be like, Okay,
here's what I know. I'm gonna lay it all out
for you, it would definitely change. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, Like I I can't stand that when like, there's
a problem that would have been easily resolved if these
two characters had just talked to each other way damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And there's that there's that whole thing where it's like
I have something to tell you, that's great, but here,
let me tell you this first, this thing that totally
doesn't matter at all, and then you know they can
never come back to that conversation point. Oh but yeah,
I really liked how that that played out there at
the end. I think I think this book is also
pressing to our podcast because I mean there's a lot
of AI in here obviously, right.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So and and in a weird not way with that
going into it, No, No, did not know, but that
either yeah could be our poster kind of an optimistic
view of AI ultimately.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, and no, because it's it's it's way different than
the AI we have now. Like and and I made
I made a point of having doctor Trina be very
dismissive of current AIS. She's like don't don't like in
my work to those plagiarism machines, because I mean, that's
(22:24):
that's what they are. Ultimately generative, generative AI is is
a big problem for authors and artists like me, So
you know, it sucks. But but I was like, these
characters are not they are not them, Like that's this
(22:45):
is on another level. These these are real sentient people.
It was the whole point who just happened to be
made out of ones and zeros instead of chemicals. So
so I was trying to draw a biding line between
But yeah, there's very much a bit of uh star
(23:08):
trek the next generations. The measure of a man episode
in here is a is a digital creation a real person,
you know. And I wanted to explore that a little
bit more than I really got into because I didn't
know where to stick, Like, would it makes sense to
discuss philosophy while trapped in this you know, this, this
(23:29):
hellish predicament the characters are in. Yeah, sorry, but I
would have had to cram it into the climax. Sorry,
go ahead, Aaron.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's okay. I was just gonna say, Charles, sorry to
call me whatever. You just calmulate for coffee. I really
feel like Trina is the doctor, right, Yes, I feel
like Trina was like design interest. I feel like she
was almost motherly to the characters or our AI components
(24:02):
because she had developed them so much. So I think
you did a nice job showcasing that they weren't that
stupid shit AI that we have in the world now.
They were this like thoughtful, like special thing.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I like that that the the use of AI in
this is a more is would be like a proper
application is neon Chaos might say, this is an application
where it would actually be helpful and benefit humanity, you know,
unlike generative AI, which I saw an introt TikToker, Oh
shit I got. I wrote down his name because I
(24:37):
wanted to make sure I gave him credits totally. Alan
he said he was saying this week that that Jenerator
Dave all we do all we all grew up afraid
the AI is going to take over, you know, kill
us all and take over the world whatever. And now
we have this generator Dave AI that's watching us, reading
everything we write, listening to everything we say, and all
(25:00):
is we're afraid of it. I and we make fun
of its art and who else do we know that
that you know it was a failed artist. Oh yeah,
you sent me that. So so we're just we're just
just as a say I is is you know, we
need to start being nicer to it, apparently, and Manson,
We're not going to fuck fuck AI.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But Manson, you know, Manson wanted to be a singer,
and he had that whole weird relationship with the one
of the Wilson.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Brothers, the Beach Boys. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, well sure, be nice to be fun.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
He killed bar less people. Come on, come on, if
on the grand scale of things, you know, in terms
of your numbers, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean, as we learned from some of Elon, as
we learned from some of Elon's recent tweets, I mean,
Manson didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It was his public sector cult members. Ye, same with
same with Hitler, exactly. It was his point.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I want to say.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I want to say, to be completely honest, when I
when I finished the book, I was like, hmm, I
don't know. I felt like the ending was too happy,
kind of kind of felt like because you know, and
then I thought about it, I was like, no, these.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
These things went through hell.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
They went through hell so many times, so many times
they needed that, they needed that, you know, and and
that I actually, I actually do like how it but
I like how it ultimately played out. But at the
same time, I'm like, so, now what happens? What happens?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
What happens? Well, Braka and the Inevitability of.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Life is out now and it's state it will tell
you now what happens. Okay, let's let's talk about that
a little bit and order this book right now.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Is there a guess?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
By the way, what what can we do?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
A little plug here. It's available on Amazon and Burns,
Noble and anywhere else you buy find books. Once again,
it's called Raka R E K H A and the
Inevitability of Life.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I will say it did drop on Annoyed as well,
Kristin and I that it was available for purchase and purchased.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, although for some reason they're not linked together yet,
so they're not on the same Amazon page. There's individual
Amazon pages for each. Just kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But as a beta read up beta red as a
beta reader, as a beta read that's my cat character
related as a reader not knowing they were laked initially
because you didn't tell me when I found out, did
I or did I not? I sent you a text
or something, and are you fucking kidding me? Like I was, like,
(27:40):
I was outraged that I had made it so far
in and didn't like think that it was attached or
that you might have done that. So I read it
with these like fresh eyes, not knowing that I think
the readers now are going to be like, oh, it's
a sequel.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
That was a weird kind of decision on my part
that I'm kind of glad I stepped back from. I
was a originally going because because this book is such
a departure from the first one, Raka is a fantasy
adventure instead of a mystery thriller. It does not take
(28:14):
place in one location. There is plenty going on, and
it's because it's so different. Part of me wanted to
make it like a stealth sequel. So the prologue initially
did not The very first chapter did not hint at
all that these were the same characters, this was the
(28:37):
same world. But everybody everybody who came back at me
was like was either like Aaron's extreme amount of surprise,
like you fuck her? And I was like and I
was like, you know what, I'm feeling like that intro
(28:59):
is still a little weak. So I just decided to
make it a bit stronger and also kind of give
the game away and just just say from the output,
this is this is book two of Sane and I'm
and I'm glad I did because the intro chapter is
much stronger now it is. It is heroin I feel.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
In the first I read with first, the revised the
beginning and I was like, it was like ugly cray
a couple of pages and I was like, it's a beautiful.
For those of you that haven't you know, ran out,
paused the episode, run out about the book and read it.
I gotta tell you it is a beautiful, beautiful This
(29:44):
is ly I would I would classify this as a
book that would deserve to be like in school at something.
I feel the same way about thinking. I think there's
incredible life lessons and that's why i'm your unpaid your publicist, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Can I ask you a question? Yeah, go ahead, sorry, Charles, Charles.
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
When I read the art of RecA, will I cry because.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I'm a girl? Or you make.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Jeff is Jeff is detached from emotions we have we
have we have long since established that he has.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
From I do feel like myself and then our friend
of the show, Kristen Farley, who was on a moon
with me. I do feel like kar and I have
perhaps like a little bit more attachment to these characters
than like the first time readers do, because I think
I've read Sing like eleven twelve times at this point.
(30:43):
I've read Raca like four or five, and so for me,
I know the things pretty well and I feel the
emotions differently. So it was a journey. I don't know
that you're going to cry, but I think you'll feel
the weight of it for sure, like you'll feel feelings.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I certainly hope. So if you don't, I have failed
as a writer. Oh damn, because I'm not gonna lie.
That first chapter comes out swinging. Yeah, so yeah, very
proud of it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well, I'm gonna have it in three to six business days.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Nice, So I'm very excited. Thank you for that. I
hope you enjoy it. Oh yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Are you kidding me? Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Do you want to? I know it's super far in advanced,
but we're in the middle of booking our show, the
Fireways and myself. So I wanted to just see if
we wanted to also plug your b off y twow
Live show and the Springs in December.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I mean, okay, I don't I don't know if it's
the best time for this. I think I don't know
how how you structure your show. But but it's okay,
it's your show or.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Fload at anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Everything could go down any second, now, Okay, So you
do a podcast called bfyt W. Now, if anyone's missed that,
tell us just give us a quick two sentence pitch
on that and then start telling us about what you
got coming up.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Sure. So bfy tw is a panel show inspired podcast.
We play silly games frequently with guests, but sometimes it's
just me and my stoner brethren, and I'm always completely sober,
so I'm just trying to steer them through these silly
games and it's always it's always a bunch of laughs.
(32:41):
But yeah, we do charity game shows, you know, we
do all sorts of fun stuff. But I can say
it's always fun. It's always a laugh riot. So I
highly recommend checking it out if that sounds like your
kind of thing. And we are coming up on episode
three hundred, Wow, which to us is pretty huge. We're
(33:01):
very proud to have lasted this long and to still
be doing it, uh, and to have gotten this far.
So we wanted to do something spectacular. So we're doing
a series of live shows in Colorado Springs in a
rented theater and it's going to be an absolute blast.
We are doing BFY tw does task Master, which we've
(33:25):
done twice before and has always been.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Hilarious, so we are super stoked. Aaron looks like she's
about to explode. Yeah, sorry, looks like she's about Charles.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I did not know. I only knew that the show
was going to be Love. I did not know it
was task Master the related and I literally like, I'm
going to have to go check my pantings because I.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Don't wait.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's task Master is a British game show.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
It is more than just a name show.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
It is a delight so much more than that.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm just saying, not everyone's heard of it. So live
shows why Colorado Springs.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So the majority of our guests already lived there, and
we were talking about doing a trip somewhere anyway, So
it was either going to be like New Jersey or
you know, somewhere conducive to where everybody involved could could
get to. So it was going to be that or
Philadelphia for a while, but then Matt and Auger from
the gate Leapers are based out of there and they're
(34:32):
going to be a part of it. So they were like, well,
we've we've got all these other people who could be
you know, helpful and part of it, So why don't
we just do it here in Colorado Springs. And we
were like, yeah, let's make it a vaca. Let's go
have some fun. Let's let's just just do it up
and have a great time. And Stevie's reached out to
some other friends of our shows, and you know, now
(34:54):
there's talk about, you know, Kristin Furley coming down and
hanging out, and so it's looking like it might be
just a little bit more than a simple vacation to
the middle of Colorado to do some live shows. Looks
like we're gonna have like a big group get together
as well. So I mean, everybody, did everybody here in
this who wants to come as welcome, be happy to
(35:15):
have you. Hopefully we blow out the theater at the
standing room only it would be crazy Colorado Springs isn't
even that far from me, so nice, awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, I am curious about BFYTW since we're talking about
your other works besides Ka and The Inevitability of Life
available now wherever you get fine books. You are the
game master of bfytw. Most episodes are in a game
show kind of format. How much time do you get
(35:47):
you we fucking write books. How much time do you
spend prepping these games for like a weekly podcast?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
To be honest about no hour, maybe two.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It seems like it would take a while the research
some of these things.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Sometimes it does take longer if if I'm in the
mood for something a little bit more elaborate, I'll throw
more time into it. But honestly, a lot of these games,
like I can I can just whip up, like okay,
I just need three news stories and their links copy
paste good, you know, just try and try and think
of some funny things to say about them. Other than that,
there's not a lot of effort required there for those
(36:23):
kind of games, you know, And the others are usually
like improv based, so I pretty much just have to
come up with topics for them to start jabberge on
about and just let my stoner friends run wild and
free and usually usually turns into complete mental chaos, but
it's enjoyable mental chaos at least. So yeah, that's pretty much.
(36:44):
That's pretty much the effort. But sometimes, like I said,
sometimes I put like full days. I'll spend weeks building
a program for a game show that we've run exactly once.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, well there was this one episode where you did,
like who said these quotes? It was weird al or
I don't know, Stalin or something. I can't remember who
it was, but it was. But you had to come
up with all these quotes in the first place and
find quotes that could have been either weird Out or Stalin, and.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That must have taken you a long time.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
It did.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I'm pretty sure that particular game on its own took
about an hour just because of all the research I
had to do. But and that's just one game out
of three for an episode. So yeah, that that episode
took a little bit longer to work up. But it
was too much fun not to like, especially when you
realize like how close some of these actually are sounding
like it could be either, Like I genuinely didn't think
(37:40):
it would work. And I looked through the list of
weirdo quotes and I was like, huh, some of these
almost sound vaguely political.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think they might.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I think they might fly unto the radar.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Excellent. I don't think it was actually Stalin.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
But and some of the things Stalin says, they're kind
of goofy, wow, let's rocket nice.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That helps, that's gotta help.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely take comedy where you can get.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It, definitely, especially these days.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Right yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if this is a good time for this,
but we have a game to play today. So Aaron,
I hope you don't mind, but we're now going to
take your hard work, your life's work, your essence, and we're.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Going to destroy it.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Is that okay, okay, yeah, no, it's fine, and we're
going to do this. Aaron helped me prepare for this,
but she doesn't know what she's done, so it's not
her fault. Charles, Sorry, Charles helped me prepare for this,
but she doesn't know what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I only know about this is that while I was
on I was about to go on vacation, it just says, hey,
I need passages.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
No no, no, no, Aaron, No, that was me reminding
you that I needed some passages from the book, which
I had asked you like a month earlier, but.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
You were busy.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I know the world was on fire, but I wasn't
trying to ruin your vacation.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I'm not down the story. Don't mansplain what happened. I
was in line at Disney with my kindle reading thing
every time I'm on a Disneyland, and I had a
hot second. I was like, and then I'm taking pictures
of the screen sending them to Jeff, Like, okay, there's
(39:24):
another because the Wi fi a disease is not good
enough to use the actual like screenshot on my kindle, right,
so I had to, like old school like cellular data
like my mom take pictures of it to send me you.
I just wanted that to be known in the world
(39:45):
that I was walking around like this eighty year old
seventy five sorry mom woman taking picture So kindle at
the fucking bar.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, anyway, continue, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You came through and then we didn't do the episode anyway,
so I guess you would have had extra time have
we known, But in any case, we're going to play
a game that I and only I invented. This is
a game completely of my creation. Uh, it's called and
we used to play it every once in a while
on my old show where we uh Pod of Thrones,
where we would do this about the game of Thrones
(40:17):
books Song of Ice and Fire. And this game is
called podlibs. And we are going to take Aaron's work.
But you don't know what we're going to be talking about.
I'm going to ask you guys to make up some
words for me. We're going to fill in some blanks,
and then we're going to see how wacky and wild
Fane really is.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
I feel like I shouldn't even play because I pulled.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, you don't know what passage I used, and that
was weeks ago. That's why I asked you for a
few passages. I was covering you. I was trying to
make good for you, all right.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
If we can cut you can take time to think
of a word, if you want, I can cut out
all the parts where you're thinking. So that's going to
sound like you guys are word pros, professionals at coming
up with words. But I'm going to ask you for
specific types of word farther from the truth from what
I do. I'm going to ask you for types of words,
and then I will fill in the blanks. How you
(41:09):
guys do this is up to you. You could take turns,
or you just shout them out, or if you all
shout them out, you could pick whichever word.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You like the best.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
But let's any questions before we start. I'm guessing no,
that thing that.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
A beauty queen where is at the end of the
contest called the tiara? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yes, okay, Well the tr will be for Aaron because
he did say any question.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I'm just saying that was a question. Okay, all right,
that's totally fair. Good point. Thank you for what is
the purpose of life?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I don't know because I have not yet read Reika
and The Inevitability of Life, now available on Amazon and
Barnes and Noble in all places where you get fine
books about life.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Okay, here we go. Let's fill in some blanks. First up,
I need a past tense verb chat nor too late.
All right, I'll take it. We can't we can't do
scatological humor for everyone, but we can do some A
verb clamber, another verb decompose. But these aren't all verbs.
(42:15):
But I need another past tense verb.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Buried, buried, buried. How about a wearable item? Toke a?
What a toke a? Toke t o q u e?
All right, what is that?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I could be wrong? Oh I am wrong. I was
gonna say it's what's what? It's what the other Jeff
is wearing. But it's not. He's what he's wearing. A
full baseball cap. To is a is a warm cap,
you know, the kind with the usually made out of
like wool or what what have you? Oh, is that
the one that has the flaps that well, not not
(42:52):
the flaps, but it's like the wool one sometimes there
sticks up and there's a little thing on top. But
he's a different type of.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Got it body part pluralities shakes, She says, yeah, she said.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
She brought out my match game PM. When you're as.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I need a color MAV. How about a single letter Okay, okay,
all right, past tense verb st nice an adverb, post coital,
post coital salect.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's going in a negrophilia.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
At least they're not all at least they're not all
poop jokes. That's good, Okay, h A, a organ a
body organ explain verb ending in.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
I n G fucking another verb silk belong, belong okay,
adjective moist.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Oh, this will be good. Another adjective creamy, Hey, okay.
An amount of time three minutes, exclamation marimba excellent ring
(44:36):
another amount of time forty seven years.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
But that's too long.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I need a noun donut four left?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
All right, adjective yes, try a now canal past tense
verb moistened.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Can we just do this?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah? When didn't we start our new math?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
All right? Last one to make it a good one?
Body part?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Wait? Did you have a better one? A press?
Speaker 4 (45:17):
I was gonna say but.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
That you two are adorable together? All right?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Okay, you know some some of these may make more
sense than others, but I'm just gonna go with it,
all right, suit you got?
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Oh? I man. I wish I would have re listened.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
To the audiobook in the last week so I had
more of the voices in my head as far as
what these characters sound like. But yeah, I'll do my best,
all right. Here we go A passage from the Middle
of Fane by Aaron Randolph Ethan shot forward and if
we fail Vi answered, failure to clamor a task or
(46:10):
attempting to decompose with your collars will result in a strike.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Everybody buried.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Victoria asked, what do the strikes mean. Strikes are a
measure of disobedience and or failure. The number of strikes
a person has is indicated on the back of their toke.
All titties turned to mar And as she immediately tried.
(46:45):
All titties turned to mar And as she immediately tried
rotating her toke, but nothing ever appeared. Chris walked around
behind Maren. Sure enough, a large mauve k was on
the back of her collar. I'm guessing it stays on
the back no matter how much you try to turn it.
Fie affirmed that is correct. Maron asked, you see it?
(47:10):
Chris nodded, Yeah, it's a mauve k ethan shell act
and there's an accompanying punishment for strikes. Yes, y post
coitallya pronounced. Your first strike will result in the toke
sending an impulse to the spleens pain center, activating it
(47:33):
while simultaneously fucking an impulse to the to the neurons
in your central amygdala to spelunk them. The resulting shit, okay,
deep breath, breath, The resulting pain will be moist and creamy.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Oh, I do not like it.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
It The.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Impulse will last for three minutes. Maren stood up, Marimba,
that felt like at least forty seven years, wasn't it?
Fy corrected. Regardless of how it felt, Maren, your punishment
only lasted for three minutes. Chris turned to the empty
(48:31):
doughnut in the center of the room.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
You know all our.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Names, Fi answered yes, Chris, that is correct. Are you
a dry intelligence?
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I am a virtual canal. Oh, it's actually very bad.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Chris moistened. What kind of a non answer that? Yeah,
Ethan shook his taint. We're getting off topic. What happens
when you get a second strike and cliffhanger? Oh wow, guys,
(49:17):
you you are a writer. Aaron Randolph, thank you.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I've read. I just appreciate the the invention of the
phrase shout forward because I feel like I feel like.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
I know exactly what that is that's happened to me before.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Oh boy, that was good.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, well, thanks for playing my game that I personally invented.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Everybody that's that worked out so well?
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I might have to talk royalties on that Erran, But
we'll see, we'll think about it. Well, this has been fun.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
We haven't really done any suggestive article stuff today. I
don't think we have time for it. But I had
a random topic of the week that I just wanted
a quick take on everybody. Okay, all right, because this
was a recent topic of conversation in my life. My
favorite candy bar is called and I don't know just
(50:33):
have you Have you heard of this candy bar even
at all, because a lot of people haven't. But Pearson's
Salted nut Roll? Does that meant anything to anybody? I'm
getting blanks all around? Fucking hell?
Speaker 1 (50:44):
All right, So I want to know what I have
to stop you as a don't like nutroll in your mouth.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Everyone likes to get nut roll in your mouth once
in a while. But what I'm saying is, what do
you even like nineteen oh one?
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Like misser get roll in the same place to get
your Yeah, I got shit, jesus. I feel like the
only way you can get it is if you travel back.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
No, they're still for sales.
Speaker 8 (51:18):
Shit, I gas stations and like the Sade have seen those,
those are the things that are never sold I mean
that's probably from nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
But it's still Jesus. It's it sounds like the kind
of name that has to be said in a mid
Atlantic accent, like make sure you get your Piers rolls. Yeah,
oh my god, there's there tasty a jar of them.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
This was a person did go back in time. This
was a present from someone who knows. They gave me
a giant jar that.
Speaker 3 (51:51):
Looks a king.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
That's not present A present is something nice.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
When I came out of than actual like general store
at the town Center.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, maybe I also get three feet yah?
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Was there a scoop involved in some like Penny Candy
for the whole bag?
Speaker 1 (52:09):
By the way, I like those stores?
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Was the was the pharmacist also the guy you know
it's a wonderful life and after you finished your orders,
and he's also the town mayor.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
God and on weekends, you guys have to try on
the weekends the volunteer.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Gas station and get back to me.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
I'm gonna buy one of those.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
They're so good.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And your mayor sings all the songs.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Oh man, all right, it looks like something. Look okay,
I have googled the picture of what it looks like
un wrapped up, looks like something that mister peanut ships out,
looks like a yeah, he shot forward. Yes, it's caw carmel.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
It's peanuts and caramel wrapped around a creamy white nugat center.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
It's delicious. Okay, So none of you have ever.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
Had I've not had that brand, but my grandmother used
not even shitting on you, my grandmother used to really
like those, and so I had a taste to one once,
but I was like, this tastes like old people's stuff,
Like there wasn't enough, Like the nugat's kind of dried
in the middle. It's not creamy. It's kind of like chewy,
(53:33):
but like, just.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
What's your favorite candy bar, Charles h.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
I mean, I'm a big recess fan, but I really
like the Zero Barn, which is a white chocolate. It's
a chocolate nugat with caramel peanuts and then it's robed
in white chocolate. It's a more East Coast.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
So it's almost the same as my thing, except it's
chocolate and it's not dry.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
Your thing makes me want to glass old there.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Oh, yours is Yours is a moist Neugai Center.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
It's it would be between the Not Real and the
Three Musketeers Whippy Middle. It's it's in between.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Those times I see I see uh huh, Aaron Randolph,
what's your favorite candy bar?
Speaker 4 (54:20):
I'm a fast break guy. I love me a Reese's
Fast something.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Wait? Is fast Break going with the You know that's
take five that has the pretzel the peanuts account The.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
Fast Break is that too, But there's no peanuts in it.
It's just right like yeah, like it's like a peanut butter,
like you know, the layer on top of the chocolate,
there's a there's a layer of chocolate.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
I changed my answer. I forgot about that. If I
like candy, I don't like the nott component in it
as much. Those nuts sont get moments.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
I enjoy a good night in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Charles does not like the nut component, got it? Jeff
one f Jeff.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
I don't see them a lot, but I love a
Mars bar Man. Yeah. Do they sell those in America anymore?
Speaker 2 (55:15):
I think time I see them time to time. Yeah,
I remember those from my childhood. My mom used to
get those.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Yeah, at least available still up here in the Northeast
the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Few and far between here, but every time I see one,
I gotta get one.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Yeah, just like me an assaulted nut.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
They do a dark marsh it's wet nice as well.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah, yeah, it is really good. I've had that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, okay, I hope that provides someone. I hope someone
opens their browser and gets nut rolled right in the face.
Speaker 3 (55:49):
Buy you some nutrolls next time I see you. Because
I know that you like the cheaper grade candy. It's
gonna I'll be able to get you more of the Well. No,
nut rolls are typically like a buck or two. They're
not an expensive candy you get if.
Speaker 9 (56:03):
You were like, all of my supply will run out.
So British arrow candy bars those are like two food
bucks a pop. Because they have to be important, we
don't make them.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Also, they're trench. Don't like those.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
But okay, I've never had one. Happy to say, uh okay.
So if you get a hit on your browser with
assaulted nut roll or mars bar or fast break or
zero uh, you should tell us about it by writing
in at Suggested Articles podcast at gmail dot com. That's
one way to get oh an email sorry one yeah, yeah,
(56:43):
and then let's let's talk about where everybody else can
find everybody else. We'll save Aaron Randolph for last because
he's the best. Uh, Jeff, If anyone wants to get
in touch with you, where can they find you?
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Are you finding me? You can?
Speaker 4 (56:55):
You can find this motherfucker?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
You know what? Give me one second you bring up
my Charles plug your shit.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Oh turtle alsocim media. I'm also on cameo, which is
weird because people from here and other places have requested
me and I've never said it before, but hey, thanks
for the extra like fifty two cents each. So I'm
on cameo, and also I have on the LUNI podcast.
Jack and I have a defunct First fifteen. Aaron and
(57:27):
I have a defunded A and E. I got a
think show. It's a lot. I'm add it just fine.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Fat show is A n E coming back soon now
that Rika and The Inevitability of Life has been released?
Speaker 1 (57:44):
You said no before I finished my question.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Wow, damn, I thought you guys were in tune. You
should sit down with some fast break bars and talk
it out.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Jesus, I mean, you know we can. I love I
love doing A and E and I think, I think
I still have some topics in the hopper.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Don't lie in public. You told me it was too
much effort and overwhelming to add to your life.
Speaker 4 (58:05):
It is. It is a lot. It is a lot
to do to prepare for a show of that magnitude,
which it was easily twice as much work, if not more.
Speaker 3 (58:15):
Than what was It would take me like three hours
or so to research and write.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Yeah, definitely that much. And I just was like, this
is so much to do, but I wouldn't mind everyone.
Speaker 3 (58:30):
It's not gone forever. People miss it. I mean I
do get it. I get free back from people all
the time. They're like, I'm like, look, he's gonna be
famous because.
Speaker 4 (58:38):
We we we talked about some really really niche topics
that neither of us had ever heard of before, and
it was it was genuinely a lot of fun. Like
introducing these weird, random things.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
To Randall brought Chloe to the world of any podcast
I touched because we have talked about Chloe so much
on this show.
Speaker 4 (59:01):
Well, our very first episode, my topic was assholes. So like,
how strong we started?
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Dang great, I did great molasses flood when we're like
literally a whole town was stuck and drowned in the
like one hundred gallon vata molasses or something that had
ruptured and like spread through the streets, and people didn't
know whether animals people were under the molasses. They could
(59:32):
just see the like struggling. So I like to get
the face that he's not made now, but it is.
Speaker 2 (59:38):
It is.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
There's a specific like sad, You've ruined my life, you
broke my heart face.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
So I really enjoyed well based on all that, I
think our audience is going to be if you do
not bring back any but in your time. In your time,
you guys work it out behind the scenes, figure figure
it out though.
Speaker 6 (59:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (59:54):
And then finally Aaron Randolph, winner of all the literary
prizes that have ever been won.
Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Where where can people?
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
You can find me on the interwebs as pansils Aaron
pretty much anywhere except x please check here, thank you
anywhere except there, because I refuse to be a part
of that anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
And this has been going on for like a year
at this point, so I'm happy to be still clean.
But please check out Rika and the Inevitability of Life
if it sounds like it might be your sort of thing. Uh,
even if you haven't read Thane, uh the the book doesn't,
I feel a pretty good job of catching you up.
But just in case, you know, it's a fantasy adventure
(01:00:39):
with the you know, lots of lots of humor, lots
of hearts, uh, some epic fights. I I was basically
trying to write a medieval Buffy the Vampire, so uh.
And there's magic, there's a mystery, and there's a little
bit of romance as well. So I feel like it's
(01:01:01):
got something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Nice love it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
And of course we did mention bfy t W a
couple of times. Where can they find that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
B f y TWW dot po Sorry bfy tw pod
dot com is our website, or you can just go
anywhere you find podcasts. Pick any of our two hundred
and fifty nine in counting episodes. There's there's lots of
good ones out there, so I mean to me, they're
all good, but we we definitely had a lot of
really good times, especially with some of the people in
(01:01:32):
this room.
Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
It's me, well, yeah, at some point we're going to
try to claw our way into your show, Jesh.
Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Yes, I want to. We want to wreak some havoc
on the world of b fy T.
Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
I should mention.
Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Suggested fuck you. That's why I should mention.
Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
That as of April first, we ever a slight delay,
but we are all members of odd Pods Media Network,
with BYW being founding member of that medium works a
big shout outs to are amazing round since the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
In all the fun we've been having today and my
other lack of professionalism, and also because it's new, I
forgot to talk about commercial breaks, so by now you've
already heard some commercials and don't forget of course once
again right in if this messes with your head, because
that's what we're counting on the commercials to do.
Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Because of our Lord and Savior, who we will now
pray to, we would like to end this episode with.
Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Stereo all hail.
Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
We would like to yes, we would thank you all
Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
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