#73: Murder on the Orient Express (part 3)

Close Reads Podcast

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads Angelina, Tim, and David discuss the finale of Agatha Christie's beloved mystery story, Murder on the Orient Express.

Topics include: The Great Candy Wars of 2017, the detective as a trope, the question of justice in the ending, Poirot's punting, Tim's inner struggle.

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0:00.0	Hello. Welcome to the Close Street. Welcome to the Halloween
0:12.7	the day after. I can't breathe. Welcome to Close Streets. I'm David Kern and I'm joined by
0:19.8	Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. Grand Pittman's in the room laughing at us.
0:24.3	It's gotten heated out here, folks.
0:26.1	We decided to finally press record.
0:27.6	We've been going for like two hours on this conversation.
0:30.0	It being the day after Halloween, we have been arguing.
0:33.6	We've got the best classical minds in America on this question right now.
0:36.8	We've been arguing about Halloween candy.
0:38.9	So Tim, I'm going to flip this question over to you because we've been talking about it already.
0:43.9	And I'm going to ask it this way to you.
0:48.0	Is a Reese's peanut butter cup a Halloween candy?
0:52.8	Does it come in a single? Are we talking to Reese's peanut butter cup in a single wrapper or in the dual wrapper?
0:59.3	You can define it like you want.
1:01.3	In a single wrapper, yes, in a dual wrapper now.
1:04.7	I buy that.
1:05.3	Now, here's my question.
1:07.3	Is Halloween candy exclusively seasonal?
1:11.4	Like when you say Halloween candy, why do you bother saying Halloween?
1:14.3	Because the recent peanut butter cup is just around.
1:16.0	It's available all year round.
1:18.0	And it's a universal good also.
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