Ep 061 - The Lorax / Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

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

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🗓️ 19 May 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Children's Book Week, we each decided to read a Dr. Seuss book for this episode—that's right, Andrew had somehow managed to avoid the Lorax, and Craig knew nothing about the Places He'll Go. Seuss himself is a fascinating guy, a prolific and long-lived artist who put a lot of good into the world but was by no means perfect. In some ways he's a product of his time, even if his work is timeless.

Also on tap: old Subway ads, a couple of The Wire references because Craig is finally watching The Wire, and a discussion of the latest rash of Hop on Pop-inspired violence.

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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.
0:30.5	So what was your favorite children's book growing up? What did you read the most of?
0:43.2	My favorite children's book. Did you have a book that you were like,
0:46.4	Mommy, daddy, I'm going to bed and read this book?
0:51.3	There were apparently I really liked a little engine that could, that was a big one.
0:56.4	Okay, I think I can. Yeah, even though I couldn't read yet, I had the book memorized to the point
1:03.4	where if my parents skipped parts of it because they didn't want to read it for the 500th time,
1:08.8	I would get really mad. I'll talk about my favorite books in just a second, but that is one
1:13.9	thing about little kids that is real obnoxious is that like that comfort level they get with a certain
1:20.9	piece of media that they memorize. My friends little brother memorized free willy.
1:27.0	Man, we watched a little mermaid so many times. That was more of my sister's jam,
1:31.4	but we all just watched it together anyway.
1:35.3	The best thing about him memorizing free willies, you could turn the sound off and you could just
1:39.4	leave them in front of it, but then you could walk over, he'd be mouthing all the words.
1:43.8	Oh my god. One of the earliest books I remember being real into was Mike Mulligan and his
1:50.0	steam shovel. Did you ever read that book? Mike Mulligan in a steam shovel. Describe it to me.
1:56.8	I might be thinking of like clay henry or something. The book is, the cover is red. I don't know,
2:03.4	the guy had had like an old-fashioned steam shovel. It was about like new technology, I think.
2:10.1	And as he's digging it, it gets like trapped inside the construction site because it's digging down
2:16.8	and down and down and then they have to get like another steam shovel to dig it out.
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