Alan Sisto

I don't want to ascribe that strong a word to it.

He made choices, and other choices could have been made.

And it's not necessarily one's better than the other.

But he had a really unenviable task.

except also very enviable.

Can you imagine your sole job over the rest of your life is to sort through Professor Tolkien's manuscripts?

It's daunting.

It's very daunting.

that compares to it in the history of publishing correct and there never will be at this i can't imagine at this point because i mean sure an author could let us get behind the scenes and see their process the way christopher showed us what his father did yeah but that would be done like almost in the moment like uh i'm thinking of sort of like the documentary behind the scenes stuff that peter jackson had shot while they were producing the film right yeah

everything's digital these days.

Anybody who's writing, isn't writing manuscripts and then type scripts and going back and putting emendations in pen on the, in the margins, there's only at all a Google doc, you know?

You're welcome.

I do love the range of co-hosts I get because...

Sarah has her doctorate.

James is going to school to get his doctorate.

You know who doctors are.

I do.

That's true.

Oh, man.

All right.