Ep 100 - Fifty Shades Darker, by E.L. James

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

100 episodes! That means we've read and talked about 100 books, which isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things but it sure feels like a lot for our little podcast.

For our last milestone episode, we read EL James' Fifty Shades of Grey. Now that we've done another 50 shows (and since the major motion picture is in theaters now), we've gone back to the sexy, sexy well to read Fifty Shades Darker.

Our frustrations with the original book are joined by some new complaints, and just like last time you can find some nearly-compelling threads amid the wreckage if you try hard enough. We also talk a little about the actual BDSM community, and how poorly Christian Grey would fit in among real-life practitioners. One of our listeners provided us with some links, which we've included below for added reading.

Added reading:

"Feminists can be kinky too" from Femmeuary: https://femmeuary.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/feminists-can-be-kinky-too/

"The two mantras of BDSM" from The Kink Factory: http://thekinkyfactory.com/bdsm-for-beginners/ssc-rack/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Andrew.
0:02.0	Normally we try to avoid cursing and talking about things that you wouldn't want your
0:07.8	kid to hear on the show because we know that a lot of you who listen have young children
0:12.8	and you don't want them exposed to all the terrible stuff that the world has to offer
0:17.2	just yet.
0:19.3	This show is not going to be that way because of the book that we read and because of
0:22.8	the stuff in it and because of the reactions that we're going to have to it.
0:26.8	We're going to be cursing freely.
0:29.4	The swears will flow like wine.
0:31.0	It's going to be a good time.
0:33.0	Well, I don't have any.
0:34.0	Yeah, we're going to need to talk about some behavior of a sexually explicit nature.
0:40.9	So even if your kids totally down with cuss words, if you still haven't had the birds
0:45.2	and bees talk yet, you should like do that before they listen to this because these
0:50.7	bees have whips and these birds.
0:54.3	They're corsets.
0:55.3	So sexy birds.
0:59.0	All right, everybody.
1:01.1	Buckle up.
1:02.1	Here we go.
1:25.3	How long did you think this would go when you pitched it to me?
1:31.7	What the show?
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