American Gods
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Nov 3, 2026
Steven SirskiHOST
How's China? How are the students? Two more gym visits and then I think it's time for a break.
Steven SirskiHOST
And I finally finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Steven SirskiHOST
What's next? Folks, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026.
Steven SirskiHOST
I'm Stephen Sersky, long-time Canadian expat.
40 MINS LATER
Steven SirskiHOST
I'd rather have a beer.
Steven SirskiHOST
And if you'd rather have a beer than read a book, then maybe get rid of the book.
Steven SirskiHOST
Finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Steven SirskiHOST
Finally, it took me only a month and a half.
PB SquamerHOST
Okay, that came out in 2015.
PB SquamerHOST
Next one, American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
PB SquamerHOST
It's a good book.
PB SquamerHOST
I've heard good things about that one, too.
AnneyHOST
Yeah, I mean, it is really interesting to think about, in terms of our current pop culture, how... how prevalent a lot of these ideas are, even though a lot of people don't know where they come from.
AnneyHOST
But it's a lot of these I do recognize, for better or worse, from video games and from, like, current things, like American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
AnneyHOST
So it's like, it resonates with people.
SamanthaHOST
Right.
Albert ChengHOST
Leslie Klinger is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on gothic horror, as well as being an attorney who specializes in tax, estate planning, and business law.
Albert ChengHOST
He is a noted writer, literary editor, and annotator on the classic horror film genre and history of crime, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, the novels Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the Edgar-winning classic American crime fiction of the 1920s, as well as Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Comics and American Gods, and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel, Watchmen.
Albert ChengHOST
He is currently the editor of the 16-volume Library of Congress Crime Classics series.
Albert ChengHOST
Les attended the University of California, where he received an A.B. in English, and also earned his J.D. from the University of California School of Law.
Steven SirskiHOST
How's my other reading going? Well, you know...
Steven SirskiHOST
I will have, I'm almost finished American Gods.
Steven SirskiHOST
So that's actually got me kind of thinking of another topic I'd like to discuss.
Steven SirskiHOST
And it also came up with the No Agenda show this past weekend where there was a bit of a kerfuffle on the show.
Mike The FabHOST
So anyway, just to acknowledge a little bit here, Neil Gaiman is a celebrated novelist and I guess to a certain extent graphic novelist.
Mike The FabHOST
Most famous, I think, for American Gods, Good Omens, and The Sandman.
Mike The FabHOST
But he was shacked up with one of wife of the pod, friend of the pod, Caroline, a.k.a.
Mike The FabHOST
Bat Free's favorite favorite musicians, Amanda Palmer, for many, many years.
Mike Back At YouHOST
You know, we'll let history decide.
Mike The FabHOST
sure uh well in any event uh you know okay neil gaiman what
Mike Back At YouHOST
i will say what i will say is that i read the uh the allegations section of his wikipedia page last night after finishing the film and uh he issued one of those like half apologies where he was like i didn't do any of these illegal things that were said but also i'm taking the time to work on myself and i really apologize like it's like one of those where it's like okay you're kind of trying to hedge your bets in a some of something might right like wait whenever the person who's canceled says like i understand that i have a lot of work to do or something to that effect it's like okay they were doing some fucked up shit let me just say my sincere opinion on the neil gaiman controversy and cancellation is i love i love when a cancel controversy is about someone that i don't give a shit about like nothing that is nice nothing makes me happier like i remember a couple years ago and all those allegations were coming through and i saw the article like headlines on twitter and whatever and just thinking to myself like man it fucking rules that i don't give a shit about sandman or american gods or any of his bullshit like i'm just letting this wash over me and it passes right by and i'm just gonna keep doing what i'm doing living my life listening to kanye west songs you know living that very unproblematic life and it's just fantastic
Mike The FabHOST
he's one of uh art's least problematic men uh kanye west uh yeah i never liked neil gaiman so i didn't it didn't affect me at all i tried to read good omens and american gods and sandman uh when i was in high school and i didn't enjoy any of them and i have just uh Never liked him.
Steven SirskiHOST
Is it all coincidence? As Adam Curry would say, there is no such thing as a coincidence, especially in politics or in media, but certainly in terms of God, it might just be that, you know, People, me, Adam Curry, in general, are waking up to, you know, maybe we shouldn't keep God so sequestered on the back burner, or at least not spirituality or godliness or faith, but instead bring that to a little bit more of the fore and allow people to have the expression of God and the equivalence, whatever they may be, rather than putting their faith in AI and technology and money or whatever else is going on.
Steven SirskiHOST
You know, Steve, what about American Gods? How's that book going? Well, I got 200 pages more, and that's, I mean...
Steven SirskiHOST
Everything's just coming around God these days.
Steven SirskiHOST
So anyway, I'll leave it there.
Jeffrey ScottHOST
Uh, I love Sandman.
Jeffrey ScottHOST
I love American Gods, and Coraline is my favorite of all of them.
Jeffrey ScottHOST
Um, I loved the book when I was a kid.
Jeffrey ScottHOST
It is a children's book, and, uh, it's a little bit creepier than the film even, but the movie, what a movie.
Jake FederleGUEST
Yeah.
Greg DickmanHOST
And, and Neil Gaiman said that American Gods, his novel American Gods, is a, a, a tribute to Something Wicked.
Greg DickmanHOST
And then, um, within Stephen King's work, he mentioned it in his, um, Danse Macabre-
Jake FederleGUEST
Mm-hmm
Chris PipkinHOST
No, there's something really, really interesting going on in, in this with that.
Chris PipkinHOST
Yeah, I, I mean, it, it does touch on sort of European injustice towards native peoples, right? For sure, but the reason that this is happening is, is weirder than, than even that, right? It's, it's the [laughs] there are, like, these two, these two English guys who move into town and inherit an old, old, like, kind of witchy place, right, on, on the top of this mountain, and, and they are trying to mix the old druidic gods with some of the more villainous, you know, sort of grotesque Native American gods that the Cherokee kind of steered clear of or, or whatever else.
Chris PipkinHOST
If, if, yeah, if they would even, um, yeah, which, which I g-
Jonathan GeltnerGUEST
Well-
Aaron IrberGUEST
That's, it's fairly straightforward plot.
Aaron IrberGUEST
But then it's, he's mixing all of these ...
Aaron IrberGUEST
You have the druid gods, you have the, you have the, the Native American gods kind of, right? It's more like the Cherokee, oh, I forget the name.
Aaron IrberGUEST
They're, the great spirit they have.
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