The Golden Basement by David Norman Lewis - Episode 175

<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">This time we read <em>The Golden Basement</em> by David Norman Lewis, self-published in March of 2023. This was recommended by long-time listener, first-time caller Max who sent us a wonderful email recommending that we read this saying, "<em>A few months ago you might have noticed a poem titled "$Reward$If$Found$" stapled up all over Cambridge, there were a couple reddit threads about it. On going back to my hometown of Seattle, WA I found out the poem is from a local self-published book...The author has been stapling the same poem everywhere. The novel is a "kids' book" about underground monsters controlling people's thoughts during the 1990 Goodwill Games...There's a YouTube video where the author is trying to sell it with donuts. You have to check it out. I so want to hear your takes on it…I emailed the author and he told me the baker is a friend of his. They once worked together on trying to make a new religion for Seattle but nobody showed up.</em>"</p> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Thank you so very much, Max, for your longtime support and for recommending this book. It was very different from anything we've read before and we actually didn't hate it!</p> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><em>Today’s show includes our usual barnyard language plus discussion or mention of: emotional abuse, enslavement, murder, parental neglect and abuse, sexual assault, and suicide.</em></p> <p><strong>Random Band/Album Reference from this Episode: </strong><a title="Swan Christy - One with the Swan" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYj7VONCNyY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swan Christy - One with the Swan</a></p>