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Kevin Kautzman

Kevin Kautzman

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter from North Dakota, co-founder of Bad Mouth Theatre Company and host of the Art of Darkness podcast.

Jun 22, 2026

58:20
And Lewis is kind of like, hey, give an entry point, have a story, and then went from there.
58:27
Yeah, I started my Lord of the Rings journey with an elvish thesaurus.
58:35
With the maps.
58:36
That's where I started.
58:38
It's just it's all great stuff.
58:40
And I it was cool to go to Oxford many years ago now and sit in the corner table where they where they hung out and everything, you know, and visit Tolkien's grave.
58:49
That's a that's a to do if you're ever over.

35 MINS LATER

CapitalisimoHOST
93:31
There it is.
8:53
It's pretty incredible.
8:55
Well, so what just popped in mind, and then I have another little bit of business that I noticed, but I love the business with the German.
9:03
And then later in the novel, he pops back up and you learn his name, Fest, and you learn his personal life.
9:12
And his father's dying.
9:13
And of course, that's a motif, dead fathers, dying fathers, dying parents.
9:18
Skip Sands is the sort of orphaned American, which is just a wonderful, sad, tragic leitmotif for that whole war.
9:30
And then it also explains his psychology around the colonel.

18 MINS LATER

27:49
Yeah.

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