Ep 053 - The Yellow Wallpaper / The Lottery

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

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🗓️ 25 March 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We double-dip a bit in this week's show, reading two short stories and proving that you don't have to have a ton of time to read something thought-provoking. The theme is "female authors writing about controversial-at-the-time ideas," and the stories are The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

One is about a misdiagnosed "hysterical" woman slowly going insane through lack of mental stimulation, one is about a seemingly innocuous small town that is slavishly devoted to its own traditions. Both remain subversive and retain their impact even today.

Oh yeah and we also talk about which grocery store animal mascot would win in a fight.

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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.
0:30.1	On, okay, so on page, if I, if I want to talk about gross animals, I turn to page seven.
0:41.6	Yeah, this is choose your own adventure and you can't keep your thumb back in the book where you
0:47.2	were. So if you die, you can go back and do the other one. That's not how this works.
0:51.5	And if I want a hypothetical situation, I've turned to page 43.
0:55.6	Yes. I'll turn to page 43 for the hypothetical situation.
1:02.9	That's what I said. Okay. Okay, this is, I'm going to start, I'm going to phrase it
1:08.9	in the form of a Seinfeld bit. Have you ever noticed how lots of chain grocery stores are
1:16.4	named after animals? No, Andrew, I haven't. Have you ever noticed that? Okay, so I want to know
1:24.6	which grocery store animal would win in a fight? Big Bear, Giant Eagle, Food Lion,
1:34.5	or Piggly Wiggly, which for the purposes of this conversation is a pig.
1:40.5	Is it a pig wearing clothes? It's a, I'm going to go with
1:46.8	like a cart too, like a porky pig. He's got a shirt and no pants. Okay.
1:54.0	I think it might be Giant Eagle. Okay, it explained to me what Giant Eagle does it?
1:58.8	All these other grocery store animals can't do. Well, he's humongous. He's giant.
2:04.0	He's a giant. I have, by Food Lion, what is special about him other than that he's a lion
2:11.2	who happens to guard food? He has food. Yeah. He can starve the rest of him out.
2:17.3	Plenty of lions have food. No, this is not a, this is not a war of attrition. This is
2:22.3	they're in a pit and they're fighting each other. Okay. All right. Maybe the food line uses
2:28.8	his food to like barter with the other animals. Okay, let's, if we're just going on size,
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