Arachnid Surgical Robots And Neckless Third Basemen, With Paul Tremblay

Sooner or later, you just run out of sports.

There are currently a couple of regular seasons going on at the moment, but after a thrilling NBA playoffs led directly into a blast of a World Cup, a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds happening 71 percent of the way through a long season can't help but look weak in comparison.

This was a fun way to disrupt our normal sports watching biorhythms, but it was not a permanent one.

It was with that in mind that we invited the bestselling novelist Paul Tremblay, author of the new https://bookshop.org/p/books/dead-but-dreaming-of-electric-sheep-a-novel-paul-tremblay/ef0ae7d082a5722d?ean=9780063398467&bkshp-astro=t?aid=79623">Dead But Dreaming Of Electric Sheep, onto the show this week.

The idea was that, with no top-of-the-news sports to talk about, we could talk about basically anything.

And so we did.

The episode begins with talk about Paul's prostate cancer experience, complete with thematically appropriate Dreamcatcher comps, an arachnid surgical robot, and a surgeon no-selling his pre-operation attempt at a joke.

It is a good deal funnier than it had any right to be, even before the phrase "penile rehab" was spoken aloud.

We also spoke about his experience getting roasted by teenagers while continuing to teach high school math after authoring several bestselling horror novels, what it's like to sue OpenAI, and what his own lengthy deposition in that case revealed about big AI's legal strategy and effectively nonexistent capacity to read a room.

We also discussed his new book, invented a verb form of Weekend At Bernie's, and talked about the thrills and relatively mild indignities of the contemporary book tour.