Ep 071 - Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

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

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🗓️ 29 July 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Go Tell It on the Mountain, the first novel by revered American author and essayist James Baldwin tackles a whole host of serious issues ranging from slavery to the Great Migration, religion to racism, and Southern oppression to broken Northern promises.

Naturally, we break up our earnest discussion of these weighty subjects with frequent admissions of our own perpetual ignorance, as well as a few tangents on Very Important Topics such as Orange is the New Black, erotic wrestling, Wilson from Home Improvement, and the age old question: Kirk or Picard?

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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.
0:30.7	I did just see that there's a group of people challenging whether or not
0:40.4	that happy birthday song is actually under copyright.
0:44.1	Is it like that such a prominent urban myth?
0:48.2	If apparently the last valid copyright expired in the 60s and was never properly refiled.
0:55.7	So you're always substantial evidence that claims that the copyright was never valid.
1:02.8	There's a forthcoming documentary about it.
1:06.4	Welcome to Overdo, this is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
1:10.2	My name is Craig.
1:11.2	My name is Andrew and apparently anybody will make a documentary about anything these days.
1:16.5	Yep.
1:18.8	I've run into, do you have people who recommend that you watch documentaries on Netflix and stuff?
1:25.1	They've been watching a lot of documentaries and they have ones to recommend or they've
1:30.8	just idly been watching documentaries.
1:33.5	There are people who watch a lot of documentaries.
1:35.6	People I wish I watched more documentaries.
1:37.8	I like them.
1:39.6	Do you not?
1:40.7	I don't know.
1:41.1	I think they're fine.
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