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Ep 059 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mark Twain is an incredibly prolific, incredibly distinctive author. This week's read is just a short story and it's one of Twain's first major successes, but it manages to convey why he remains vital over 100 years after his death. It's great for a few laughs, 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

You lived in King of Prussia, which was not a city, but it was not in the middle of nowhere.

0:42.2

Is that right?

0:43.2

Yeah, that's correct. It was a suburb.

0:45.8

So, did you guys ever have a cat that you fed once and then it became your cat just by default?

0:53.4

No. We had neighbors who did that until

1:00.0

I would want to say until I was in middle school or maybe even early high school, we had a cat

1:06.8

that was an outdoor cat that was really old for as long as I could remember.

1:12.8

So, we didn't feed strays because we fed that cat.

1:16.9

So, occasionally we would put out food for her, but she would fight off.

1:21.7

She was a fighter. She would get in fights all the time.

1:23.7

Sure. Yeah.

1:24.5

One time she left us a bird after she'd taken its head off.

1:29.5

That means she likes you.

1:30.7

Yeah, it was pretty good present.

1:35.2

There's the best Christmas ever at the getting out.

1:38.4

Did you own a bunch of straight cats?

1:41.0

Is that what you're telling me?

1:41.8

No, I'm just saying we had one that we fed and her name was Shadow because she was all gray.

1:49.0

She was like a lighter gray.

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