Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us?

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. My name is Gordon and I shall be your

host. I'm going to try something a little bit different for this solo show all kinds of reasons all kinds of reasons

why at its core, what I want to do is put to mostly 20th century

American thinkers in conversation about story and telling a new story about telling new stories and

and why that's somewhat transformative, well it's completely transformative, okay?

And that's the core and the reason we're doing it this way is part of that process, telling a new story about telling

new stories, is to focus on the telling, right? So it's not simply a linguistic or verbal event but a voiced one and I think it has to work this way

because it's tied back into for people who don't know we've been renovating the house to some

extent emergency renovations that we can get done given the you know collapse of

worldwide economies and supply chains and all the rest of it so just trying to get

as many things done now as as we might need in the medium term right but we're in the process of moving back into the house.

After all that has happened and it occurred over a weekend of the Feast of the Assumption and for the

premium members we did a Feast of the Assumption, Rosary Discussion and then run through.

And part of that Rosary discussion was looking at the stories that shape Christianity's in plural, right? And in that case, it's sort of the story of Mary,

being the shape of the liturgical calendar for about half of the Christian

calendars even though Jesus is the main event kind of thing. So it was...

This solo show has to be part of nested performances moving in rather than simply

descriptions in audio content that goes out. So that's why I'm trying it in a different way,

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