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🗓️ 5 November 2013
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Another Hunger Games movie is right around the corner, but you just can't wait. You need to read a heartwarming tale about tweens and teens who are all dropped down on an island by a repressive government and forced to kill each other, and you need to do it now.
That's why special guest Suzannah Rosenberg joins Andrew and Craig this week for a discussion of Koushun Takami's Battle Royale. Join us for a discussion of romance, violence, birthdays, and cat whispering.
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0:00.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
0:05.1 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
0:10.4 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
0:30.0 | Well, let's talk about turn to 28. |
0:39.7 | Technically, I'm not 28 for another two hours and 27 minutes, so I couldn't I couldn't tell you |
0:45.8 | what being 28 is like. How did you I don't I think I was born at six in the morning, but I don't |
0:53.8 | actually empirically know my parents had it on a pillow like they had the time on the pillow that |
1:00.2 | I think what I think it's still around I don't know it got really hard to read there in there |
1:06.6 | somewhere like a baby pillow yeah like a baby pillow and the ink is really faded and it's hard to |
1:11.6 | read but yeah 1017 on October 27th is when when I was brought into the world all right I don't think |
1:21.2 | 28 is much different from 27 it can't be why can't it be like well where's your what's your |
1:28.4 | evidence what are you going off I don't know can't be well like 25 you start reading cars you can |
1:36.3 | start bringing underage people in a day of busters wait what that's a true thing |
1:43.8 | like one time when I was in high school I tried to go to day of busters and they wouldn't let us |
1:48.0 | in unless we had someone who was over 25 is the idea that that person would be responsible enough |
1:55.3 | not to let you drink or more so than a 21 year old yeah that doesn't make any sense but yeah |
2:03.6 | it's like 21 is drinking 25 is you can like rent a van and there's like nothing between that |
2:11.2 | and 65 I don't think it's in less like 40 is a thing like some people die at 30 though |
2:17.8 | that's right we do live in a Logan's run esque dystopian society I forgot for a second |
2:26.9 | you were probably distracted right yeah I don't know do they give you anything when you turn 30 |
2:37.0 | like this day like the government the government don't give me anything now a lot of sitcoms have |
2:44.8 | gotten a lot of mileage out of people turning 30 and like taking stock of their lives and whether |
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