Kurt Vonneguys

Plot Time! (01:10) Kurt Blurt! (55:30) Recurring Characters Update! (01:31:00) Kurt Cameo! (01:39:20) VonneWHAT?! (01:42:00) VonneART! (01:52:15) The Meat! (01:55:45) Vonnegrades! (01:57:00) Movie Time! (02:01:40) Related Reading! (02:07:50) Vonnegut News! (02:17:10) Related Reading: Film: Grave of the Fireflies: https://goo.gl/V6xGcF Film: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story : https://goo.gl/gWFjlH Film: Arrival: https://goo.gl/c8DmrG Short Story: Ray Bradbury: "Tomorrow's Child" (in I Sing the Body Electric!): https://goo.gl/zQuv1B Album: Roger Waters: Radio Kaos: https://goo.gl/x1rx05 Graphic Novel: Yoshihiro Tatsumi: The Pushman and Other Stories: https://goo.gl/nTpYca Short Story: Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: https://goo.gl/NBaa18 Preface: George Saunders: "Introduction to Huckleberry Finn" (in The Braindead Megaphone): https://goo.gl/mr1ydG Short Story: Elie Weisel: "Night": https://goo.gl/jsGqyg Novel: Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow: https://goo.gl/0s9wE

Sections: Gettin' Social! (02:15) Emergency Situation! (27:20) Meet Space! (41:00) Related Reading: Novel: Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place: https://goo.gl/jxJQCI Novel: Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: https://goo.gl/M4Eo8g Film: Harrison Bergeron: https://goo.gl/jtIVDt Film: 2081: https://goo.gl/xZgOGF Film: Who Am I This Time?: https://goo.gl/h9sdju Podcast: Limetown: https://goo.gl/z2p59C Music: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Musical Demos: https://goo.gl/RNGnwU Radio: Dimension X: Report on the Barnhouse Effect: https://goo.gl/Srrcyl Novel: Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee: https://goo.gl/N0IpjK Novel: Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue: https://goo.gl/EmRjI9 Short Story: Cordwainer Smith: "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" (in The Rediscovery of Man): https://goo.gl/MJqiwx Book: Kurt Vonnegut: Drawings: https://goo.gl/CV7oTM

Super Short Story Plot Time! (06:15) Recurring Characters Update! (01:54:30) Kurt Cameo! (01:55:55) VonneWHAAAT! (01:57:00) Kurt Blurt! (02:05:30) Vonnegrades! (02:11:00) Related Reading! (02:12:45) Vonnegut News! (02:21:00) Related Reading: Book: Marc Leeds: The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: https://goo.gl/tu8S4W Book: Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man: https://goo.gl/ihH8r9 Book: George Saunders: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: https://goo.gl/01l2O8 Book: Charles Yu: Sorry Please Thank You: https://goo.gl/JJ9AAG Book: Eric Puchner: Music Through the Floor: https://goo.gl/S5YgOY Short Story: Harlan Ellison: "The End of the Time of Leinard" (in Dream Corridor): https://goo.gl/QZWi1H Short Story: Harlan Ellison: "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" (in Shatterday): https://goo.gl/b1koGV Short Story: Michael Swaim: "Cost of Living": https://goo.gl/LLivV0

From the Group! (01:00) Plot Time! (06:45) Kurt Blurt! (01:34:45) Recurring Characters Update! (01:52:00) Kurt Cameo! (01:59:30) VonneWHAT! (02:00:30) The Meat! (02:08:10) Altruism Olympics! (02:11:50) Vonnegrades! (02:15:15) Movie Time! (02:17:10) Related Reading! (02:21:00) Vonnegut News! (02:28:20) Related Reading: Book: Theodore Sturgeon: Microcosmic God: https://goo.gl/tTYkXd Essay: James Black: What in Hell Is He For?: Vonnegut's Avatar & the Need to Sneak Sci-Fi in Under the Radar: https://goo.gl/cKvjq2 Short Story: Ray Bradbury: The Taxpayer (in The Martian Chronicles): https://goo.gl/uA719G Short Story: Harlan Ellison: On the Slab (in Angry Candy): https://goo.gl/zWBtm3 Short Story: David Brin: "The Giving Plague": https://goo.gl/e6bXug Book: David Brin: The Practice Effect: https://goo.gl/3zFce6 Graphic Novel: Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan: https://goo.gl/nQr6sT Book: Robert Lynn Asprin: The Cold Cash War: https://goo.gl/MxVZI7

From the Group! (01:00) Plot Time! (07:45) Kurt Blurt! (11:40) Kurt Cameo! (1:53:20) Recurring Characters! (1:54:40) VonneWHAT! (1:57:15) The Meat! (2:07:15) VonneGrades! (2:12:20) Movie Time! (2:16:00) Related Reading! (2:26:10) Vocab Quiz! (2:33:50) Vonnegut News! (2:37:00) Related Reading: Article: Scientific American: Let's Colonize Titan: https://goo.gl/KP4dx0 Song: 10cc - Sand in My Face (Dynamic Tension): https://goo.gl/S0UbEP Movie: Synecdoche, New York: https://goo.gl/h6AV1Z Book: Ginger Strand - The Brothers Vonnegut: https://goo.gl/zIYN0X Short Story: Ray Bradbury - The Fire Balloons (in The Illustrated Man): https://goo.gl/ihH8r9 Book: Will Self - The Book of Dave: https://goo.gl/ApmVV4 Song: Ambrosia - Nice Nice Very Nice: https://goo.gl/m6xlA3 Short Story: Harlan Ellison - The Deathbird (in Deathbird Stories): https://goo.gl/neeVyS Short Story: Harlan Ellison - The Executioner of Malformed Children (in Shatterday): https://goo.gl/b1koGV Book: Robert Heinlein - The Unpleasa

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(00:00) The Sirens of Titan (07:00) Plot Time! (50:30) Recurring Characters (56:30) VonneWHAT? (1:04:00) Kurt Blurt (1:13:00) Related Reading (1:28:30) Movie Time (1:44:00) Kurt News Related Reading: Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: https://goo.gl/Tuo0UJ V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore & David Lloyd: https://goo.gl/yYGwhM Speaker for the Dead -- Orson Scott Card: https://goo.gl/QUiIA5 Dark They Were and Golden Eyed -- Ray Bradbury: https://goo.gl/xFKAeA Mozart in Mirrorshades -- Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner: https://goo.gl/BCNgfs The Stranger -- Albert Camus: https://goo.gl/ppBtSI Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein: https://goo.gl/S1vr3K

Join reader-comedians Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim for a fun, digressive trip through the Kurt Vonnegut canon. It’s a book club, a comedy show, and a cavalcade of smart, entertaining segments. Discover Vonnegut works you’ve never read! Rediscover your Kurt favorites! And cure the terrible disease of loneliness by going on a K.V. appreciation deep dive with a friendly karass of your fellow listeners. (00:00) Player Piano (12:20) Kurt Blurt (20:20) 1984? (36:45) Kurt Cameo (42:50) Recurring Characters (59:30) Image-O-Rama (1:05:00) VonneWHAT? (1:11:50) Related Reading Related Reading: The Silver Corridor & "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman -- Harlan Ellison: https://goo.gl/7NK9Pu Knox -- Harlan Ellison: https://goo.gl/NlwI03 The Veldt -- Ray Bradbury: https://goo.gl/ihH8r9 The Caves of Steel -- Isaac Asimov: https://goo.gl/8uA6TQ

Stay tuned for the first two episodes of Kurt Vonneguys, covering 'Player Piano' and 'The Sirens of Titan', premiering soon.