Ep 047 - Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 4 February 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

'Ello 'ello! What's all this then?!

A discussion of George Bernard Shaw, turn-of-the-century dialects, My Fair Lady and gender politics, ya say?

Conversations about whether or not stories should end romantically or with women declaring their independence, ya say?

Well, 'Guv, I'm all ears. Cheerio!

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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	It's a thing you can see coming from a mile away. This is overdue, a podcast about the books you've
0:41.2	been meeting to read. My name is Andrew. My name is Craig and I didn't know we were doing the intro.
0:45.9	I was so uncomfortable with where that was going that I had to toss up the record normal
0:53.6	intro and just just go for it. I don't even know if we have an intro anymore. Maybe we just
0:58.7	started the show. Yeah, I think we did. Every week, if you're just tuning in and why would you
1:05.3	become? Every week we, one of us reads a book and explains it to the other one of us and it's
1:11.0	it's just a rip-roar and good time for fun time was had by all. Wait, we haven't even had the time.
1:19.3	That's what that's what the reviews tomorrow. We'll say it was a fun time. Fun time had by all.
1:26.2	Who's here reviewing the show? Just don't worry about it. So this week, Craig read something.
1:31.6	Craig, what did you read? I read Pig Malion by George Bernard Shaw and I assume this is about
1:39.6	a hybrid pig, Camillean sort of animal and his like trying to fit in in society. Sort of,
1:52.6	you almost got the second part, right? Okay. So there's no pig, there's no Camillean. Society is
2:03.3	there. You might consider society a character in the macro thematic sense. Okay. And definitely
2:15.0	people are trying to fit in. Okay. So I was like half right basically. Yeah, it's kind of what I
2:20.5	said you were half right. But there's no pigs. Pig Malion actually drives its name from the Greek
2:28.5	myth, Kazooontite. Thank you. That's not the name of the Greek myth. The Greek myth,
2:33.6	Pig Malion, where a dude carves a woman out of stone and then she comes to life and he wants her
2:43.0	and she says no, if that. Why does she say that? Because he's her maker. I mean, I'm familiar with it,
2:50.6	but I haven't read it myself. I don't know. I haven't read the myth. This is a background.
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