Bill and Joel read Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, which is a trilogy of plays about mid-19th century Russian thinkers! The Broadway production still holds the record for the most Tony awards won by a play. Spoiler alert: one of us didn't like this one very much!

Bill and Joel also read a big chunk of Isaiah Berlin's Russian Thinkers, which is the book that helped inspire the Stoppard.

Episode Six - The Coast of Utopia (July 2019)

A (melo)dramatic reading of Daniel Mallory Ortberg's "I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town," which is about House House's "Untitled Goose Game." (https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives)

The text is Ortberg's, I just read the thing.

I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town, by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Reading too widely and talking too seriously.

Episode Six - The Coast of Utopia (July 2019)

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