Ep 605 - Arctic Cannibalism (feat. Buddy Levy)
3/25/20261 hr 11 min
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yo0o. Hello everybody. We got the legend Buddy Levy at the podiums for you this week. Buddy wrote 'Conquistador' and 'River of Darkness' two b...
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First 90 secondsBuddy Levy· Guest0:00
The wow wow Wes.
Shawn Gardini· Host0:01
All right, we're live. We are live. Buddy Levy, thank you for coming. It's Levy or Levy?
Buddy Levy· Guest0:06
It's Levy.
Shawn Gardini· Host0:07
Levy. Hell yeah, I got it right. Thank you for coming.
Buddy Levy· Guest0:09
Hey, my pleasure, man. Thanks for having me.
Shawn Gardini· Host0:11
I've been, I've been using your books to fuel the Patreon, and, uh, well, thank you for that.
Buddy Levy· Guest0:17
I appreciate it, man. Yeah.
Shawn Gardini· Host0:18
Dude, it's been... I, I mean, I, I guess we do have a symbiosis going here, but it's really... Dude, they're, they're, uh... First of all, I thought, like, you know, I read the books and I'm like, "Man, this historian really is a good writer." I would, like, read and I'm like, "This guy can really kind of, uh, really turn a good sentence." And then I, I learned you're, you studied as a creative writer.
Buddy Levy· Guest0:35
Yeah, that's true. I, um, I actually published my first story when I was 14 years old. Um, and it was a, it was a bird hunting story about, uh, me, you know, killing a chukar partridge, uh, which no one knows about. Um, but, um, you know, once I, uh, saw my byline for the first time I was like... You know, because I grew up in this, uh, in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, and I was like, um, I just like telling stories, you know?
Shawn Gardini· Host1:00
Mm-hmm.
Buddy Levy· Guest1:01
And, uh, it was, it w- So I, I wasn't ever good at anything else. I ended up being an English major, so I just followed that path, you know, from the time I was a kid.
Shawn Gardini· Host1:10
That's, well, that's why I really like the books, is, and I was talking to you before we came in here. I was like, how did I... I don't know how I heard about the book. I was like, maybe it was from someone I follow. It might have just been, like, a random search. I, I genuinely don't remember. I do think it's from the Josh Reads books thing, but I forget. Um, that was Conquistador. But that was the thing. I was reading it and I'm like, man, this, this