Ep 048 - Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Overdue

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

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🗓️ 18 February 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Craig and Andrew take a trip to Transylvania this week, facilitated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Join us for a talk about the evolution of the vampire, the Olympics, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff too.

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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	I think they would actually have to use cats as like, what do you even call the curling ball,
0:51.3	the curling disc? A stone? The curling stone? The cat stone. You need to have to use cats as
0:57.9	curling stones to make me interested in the winter Olympics. Okay, how could they make hockey
1:02.2	better? How could they put cats and hockey for you? If they just cut out all the hockey part and
1:08.8	there's just people in in padding like hitting each other, that might be I would like that. Okay,
1:15.1	I would watch that. Okay, so boxing. Boxing but with more with more on like with more protection.
1:22.6	Okay, so the reason you don't like boxing is because the dudes are too naked. I didn't say it in
1:26.5	like boxing. I said I didn't like the winter Olympics. Don't put words in my mouth. Okay, how can we
1:32.6	make figure skating better? Do they need to wear cats as as skates? They all need to be in big
1:38.5	costumes and they need to be like snoopy on ice style. Yeah, like like wasn't there like a
1:45.3	rugrats on ice thing? I think they all need to be like 90s nick tunes characters. There's a kid on
1:50.8	the ice. What's there to do? And there's a kid on the ice. I want hey Arnold. I want I don't want
1:58.1	cat dog. You know what I would watch? What would you I would watch like each country picks their
2:05.7	beloved cartoon franchise and has to do like an X on ice show. Oh, I would want to come
2:14.4	because like France would do like asterisks. I don't know what Russia would do. Maybe they
2:19.1	would do like Rocking Bullwinkle. That has Russian stereotypes in it. I don't think it originated in
2:28.3	Russia. I don't know anything about cartoons. And you really you really did not have enough material
2:34.8	to sustain that goof. Well, we'll see. That's why I need this to happen so I can learn more about
2:39.6	foreign cartoons. Welcome to overdue. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meeting
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