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Feedback 042 - Tiny Mind Explosions (Patreon)

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2025-12-09 16:00:08
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We're discussing your comments on Slaughterhouse Five, Jason X, and everything in-between!

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Rick Hound

In comparison to the military romanticism that lingers still now in literature, I can see your points on how Tolkien tempers any glorification of militaristic violence. During the month where you did Vonnegut I was also rereading Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and listening to a podcast that was manned by two people who’ve read Wolfe for decades and went on deeper discussions of his work. One of the hosts talked about on his social media about a hard to find book of his letters to his mom when he served in the Korean War. It gave me a profound sense of how in contrast to Tolkien and Lewis, Wolfe will weave cruelty whether by its civic form or it’s military form with a contradictory sense of being feverishly quick to the point of being anticlimatic but clinically drawn out where you least expect it and a sense like Vonnegut of being nonlinear.

Fredrik Jigland

I was literally holding a glass of saké, unknowing the wallop I was about to receive

Rick Hound

Now I need to be creatively distracted with writing flash fiction of Chad getting an unworldly urge to drink gallons of milk while not delving down into the steam tunnels where the leman lurks under his house.

The Cheese and The Worms

I know it’s a novel and you’d probably be more open to short fiction but “A Canticle for Leibowitz” is science fiction that soars on both conceptual and literary planes.

Rick Hound

I thought the locked closet of sweating human chairs would be too much for something that short

Gideon Falcon

"Old Shatterhands" makes me imagine some kind of weird niche super hero who's fists explode like miniature frag grenades when he punches people. Finding out it's actually just a racist cowboy fantasy character is so much more disappointing.

Mooncubus

Speaking of suspicious chairs, there's this neat short film I saw that you guys should check out. I won't say more because it'll spoil it, but here's the link: https://youtu.be/mhazCS14Tas?si=PL3woSz6YFLWav5X I am still alive and living off of cave fungus and podcast episodes. I've been working through the lovecraft audiobooks by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney and then your episodes covering each story. It's been a really fun ride despite my surroundings!

Richard Horsman

The Kilgore Trout problem puts a finger on a big problem with genre as a whole: style is often relegated to a secondary (or worse) position. So many interesting ideas wrapped in prose that’s either so bland it puts you to sleep, or so florid you can’t take it seriously (or in the case of Seabury Quinn, both). But there are authors who buck the trend, even in the golden age. One who jumps to mind that you haven’t covered is C.M. Kornbluth. His two most famous stories are “The Little Black Bag” and “The Marching Morons.” The former is in a billion anthologies, and has a pretty good Night Gallery adaptation, while the latter prefigures future-focused satires like Sleeper and Idiocracy by years and decades. But I’ll also put in a word for his less well known story “MS Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie,” a funny and paranoid story revolving around excerpts of a mysterious manuscript that the narrator finds in a series of (you guessed it) fortune cookies. It’s playful, it’s weird, it’s funny, and it has a certain spark that few of his contemporaries had. Kornbluth was a cynical man with a bleak outlook in many ways, but we’re not in “The Cold Equations” territory here. His works are those of an author who very much wants us to be better, but who knows we’re not going to get there. And the writing! It’s so good, and his stupid early death makes me angry in a way that few others do. He was hitting a stride in his late stories that suggested a big evolution was coming, and then he had a stupid heart attack and stupid died. TL;DR: please do a C.M. Kornbluth story, he was rill good at writing

Alan Ricks

Jason X is the BEST of the series! Jason killing people in space is sheer brilliance. The “in space” entry in film series is always the best, from Leprechaun to Muppets to Critters. No questions.

Nathan Wunner

I had the eeriest podcast listening experience of my life listening to this episode. I drive for a living, at least 6 hours a day behind the wheel, and I am starved for things to listen to. I went back just last week and downloaded some old HP Podcraft episodes- The Yellow Sign, the Yellow Wallpaper, and some Ambrose Bierce stories. I was doing my nightly walk at the local park and I was finishing up episode 153- Bierce's "The Damned Thing". Towards the end of that episode, Chad tells a story about Rod Serling during WW2, and the horrific event of Mr. Serling watching his friend getting beheaded by a freaking care package out of nowhere. Anyway, I finished that episode, saw that this feedback show dropped, and started it up. And so there I was, walking through the park listening to the new show- and I hear the exact same story on this episode! Within in the span of 10 minutes, from my perspective, it was the same description of Rod Serling's friend dying by decapitation, even though these episodes were years apart. That weirded me right the F out. I actually went back and forth between the two episodes to make sure I hadn't replayed the same show, but nope! I'm an atheist and not easily spooked but that coincidence gave me the willies. Well, hopefully it's not some kind of "The Ring" situation where I get beheaded in seven days. I'll keep you posted. And keep an eye out for care packages.

James Anthony

On the Honorary Doctorate topic, you're aware you can just write them and ask for one, right? Maybe focus on Michigan University, or one with weird fiction authors among their alumni.

Aaron La Vene

Albert is 14!! Have you considered him hosting the show at some point? Has he ever expressed interest? We know he has a lot of interest in the show itself , but maybe he should be a guest host soon .. Oh and to everyone reading this. Go f yourself <3

Aaron La Vene

The slander of sake shall not be tolerated in these comments

Doc Singles

For anyone that needed to know: the Slaughterhouse 5 bird call "Poo-tee-weet?" is almost certainly the Northern Bobwhite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4219Wc9DSE I grew up with this bird song in North Carolina. I think a better mnemonic device for this call would be "Van-na-White?"

DR

The talk of suspicious chairs reminds me of the Chair-Dogs from Dune. They are alive and made to look like big fur lined chairs.

It's a Ghost.

I've heard there've been sightings near Palm Springs of Jules Verne riding a giant chicken with Dracula.

Jim Cannon

That's the Human Bomb, from Quality Comics' Freedom Fighters.

Robert Curtin

I will be Roadside Picnic's strongest soldier. Very weird sci-fi story set in Canada, written by Russians, and available online! (And of course inspired S.T.A.L.K.E.R., both the games and the wonderful film by Andrei Tarkovsky) It was the first book I ever sourced from a sketchy website, and had to read awkward, skewed scans of each page. On a re-read I feel like I can already hear you guys covering the episode...does this mean I'm seeing time all at once!? Or maybe I've just been binging the show too much. Either way, I'm excited for January!

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

Chad, your reminiscing about the job you held at Spencer’s Gifts reminds me of something you once said about having a job at the mall, which is that it was easy for mall people to move from job to job there. Even if the type of store you were leaving and the one you were looking to jump to had nothing in common in terms of a skill set that might be called for, the people doing the hiring put a premium on the fact that you already knew the culture of the mall and also where to park and where to throw away the garbage.