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Bill's Trip and New Book for November 6th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Uh, well, you didn't tell us anything about your trip.
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  Speaker 2: I need to call my travel agent. Though my trip
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  was really a kind of sedate. I mean it was.
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  I can't, you know, do a lot of physical activities,
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  so I didn't go hiking. People would go hiking, and
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  I stayed stayed in this really nice house that we
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  like in Escalante and read What did you read? Was
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  reading a novel?
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  Speaker 1: Why won't you tell me what it is?
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  Speaker 2: It's called Little Meg by John Crowley?
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  Speaker 1: And I've read about this.
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  Speaker 2: Novel you're I just told you the name of it
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  and the author, Gina don't. I don't see you writing
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  it down. I don't think it's a novel that you
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  would like.
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  Speaker 1: Why what's it about? It's he doesn't want to talk
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  about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why it's it's a novel about you
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  just wouldn't like it. I want to know what book
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  you think. I wouldn't like a lot of a lot
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  of the books I've read, you wouldn't not like. Please
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  give me I'm reading. Also, it's because I can't. It's
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  too difficult.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough to follow it.
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  Speaker 2: That No, I'm not smart enough to give you a
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  plot synopsis. Because there's so much odd stuff going on
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  in the book. It's a very strange novel. I've read
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  it before, even I found it. It's funny. I found
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  a lot of the books that I've kind of gotten
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  attached to over the years when I've been on vacation
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  and I've gone to, like in a drug store and
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  they used to have a lot of paperbacks, a twirl
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  rack or something. And I found it in a twirl
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  rack in Springville, Utah, as a matter of fact, as
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  a paperback, and I thought, well, that sounds interesting. And
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  it's just a very odd book about a family and
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  their relationship to fairies and changelings. And by fairies I
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  mean the little people of course, and and world domination
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  and and love and loss.
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  Speaker 1: And it's got everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. A lot lot going on in this book.
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  And let's see what else did we do? We went
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  to the Hell's Backbone Restaurant and uh, you know, I
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  mean it was just a kind of a very casual down,
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  just kind of relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that sounds nice.
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  Speaker 2: I did go. I went to Devil's Garden, which is
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  I've been there before, but but again, I can't hike
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  through Devil's garden. Now, so I sat. I sat in
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  the car outside of it and walked looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, to take your complicated book with you or anybody
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  else want on a hike?
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  Speaker 2: I did. I did. It's a book that you would
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  find just you wouldn't care for it. I know you.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm going to have to read it. Now.
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  What's it called? Again?
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  Speaker 2: A Little Big by John Crowley? And I don't know
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  how old it is. It's you know, it's been out
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  for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna make me read it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you should read it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm offended that you think I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Would you? Did you find it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Is there a synopsis or something? What
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  does it say about it?
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  Speaker 1: It says John Crowley's masterful Little Big is the epic
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  story of Smokey Barnabull, an anonymous young man who travels
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  by foot from the city to a place called Edgewood,
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  not found on any map, to marry daily alice drink
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  of water, as was prophesied. It's the story of four
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  generations of a singular family living in a house that's
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  many houses on the magical border of another world. Okay,
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  it's twelve dollars. I'm buying it.
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  Speaker 2: What what is that hardback? You two can have a
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  little book. You can get a paperback. Well, maybe it's
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  had a print. I don't know. I just downloaded it
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  to Kent. I bought another copy of it for Kindle.