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Ep 075 - The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

"I'm a hairy ape, get me? And I'll bust youse in de jaw if you don't lay off kiddin' me."

When Eugene O'Neill wants to get his point across, he leaves nothing to chance. In his 1922 work of expressionist theatre, The Hairy Ape, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner spells out exactly how you're supposed to feel about the dehumanizing effects of Capitalism and industry. Men resemble gorillas, crowd after crowd spurn individuals, and a chilling ending leaves us wondering where any of us belong.

Join us as we talk about O'Neill's family life, butcher some key facts about his life, and take a trip to the monkey house.

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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.

0:30.4

Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.

0:40.7

My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And we're going to kick the door right in on this podcast

0:46.3

with an email this week. So rarely happens. I'm so excited. Okay. And it's not even,

0:53.9

I don't want to sell the email short. It's fine. So Joshua wrote in and he said, Andrew and Craig,

0:59.6

I was listening to your podcast concerning orange as the new black. I noticed that you discussed

1:03.6

a league of their own and the quote other woman in the cast film that is not Gina Rosie and Madonna.

1:10.4

And when he put other woman in quote, I'm editorializing right now. When you put other woman in

1:14.0

quotes, it sounds like a weird relationship thing, which I hope we did not imply. I don't know.

1:19.2

I think the only thing we implied is that we didn't know everybody who was in league of their

1:24.1

spare. Joshua continues, the woman whose name you could think of is Laurie Petty. She recently

1:29.7

starred in orange as the new black season two and will be a recurring actor on season three.

1:34.0

I thought this might be interesting to you just based on the coincidence. Oh dang. Who was she?

1:38.4

She was in the first episode of season two. I imagine she was in that like new prison that

1:44.9

yeah, yeah, maybe like they talked to her on the airplane or something. Yeah, that sounds right.

1:51.0

Oh, she had the she I think her head might have been shaved or her haircut was really short.

1:55.2

She was on the airplane talking to Piper. Maybe yeah. Okay. I have seen a decent number of

2:02.0

Laurie Petty's 90s films. I'm just going to run. How many yeah, hit me. What? What?

2:06.8

Have you ever seen point break? I've heard of it. It's the one where Keanu Reeves pretends to be

2:12.3

a surfer. All right. I do know that that's a that's a Keanu role. Like Keanu is a big pre matrix

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