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Overdue

Ep 079 - The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter

Overdue

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The stuff in these show notes is just as important as the stuff that isn't in these show notes. At least, that would be the case if they were written by Harold Pinter. Andrew wasn't quite on board with Pinter's classic The Homecoming, but he was coming around a little bit by the end.

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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

I was thinking about when we make beer and how like, I don't know, I feel like it brings me

0:42.0

closer to the process and I feel like I'm really doing something and like making something and I

0:47.6

feel accomplished after we've spent like six hours making beer. But I didn't grow those grains,

0:55.2

I didn't grow those hops, I didn't like, purify that water or I don't know how yeast works like

1:05.5

just thinking about if I had to live in a world where I had to like grow food so I could have food,

1:15.7

I would just roll over and die like I'm not I'm not equipped to deal with that.

1:22.8

And that's what I wanted to talk about because if you did a guest spot on Doomsday

1:29.5

Preppers it would be 22 minutes of silence with a blank screen. Just don't even like,

1:35.6

even a shot of your tombstone. Even if you could live there wouldn't be pizzas, so what do you

1:43.0

what are you alive for? Welcome to overdue. This is a podcast about the books even meaning to read.

1:48.8

My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And what are you alive for books? They're gone. You'd

1:53.7

somebody else made them. You didn't grow them. Nobody's gonna press that wood pulp into pages

1:59.9

for you to scribble stuff on. Andrew, I live in a world where the internet comes to me through the

2:05.0

air. I don't know where anything comes from. You don't even know where your internet comes from.

2:10.6

I don't know where my emails are. You just know that there's you have a router in your house and

2:15.9

there's a password and when you type in the password you have internet. I don't even type

2:20.0

in the password that often. My magic box memorized it. Are you getting me?

2:28.4

It's just where does my internet made of? It's plastic. Where does plastic come from?

2:32.8

I don't what is plastic? Is it ground up whale? Is that what plastic is? Is it like made out of sand?

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