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Ep 104 - 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, by John Ford

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

John Ford's 1620s revenge drama 'Tis Pity She's A Whore has everything: friars, murder, bawdy jokes, bawdy suitors, incest -- incest?! What's that doing there?, you might say. And such has been the reaction from nigh on four centuries of critics and audiences confused by how romantically (and tragically) Ford depicted a brother and sister's love.

Never ones to stay wholly on topic, we also discuss March holidays, snow melancholy, and hitting up celebrities for college tuition.

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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

Do you want to talk about being sick? Do you want to talk about

0:39.0

International Pi Day? Do you want to talk about spring training baseball?

0:45.9

I don't want to talk about baseball. I don't want to talk about sick.

0:51.2

Well, I don't have much to say about Pi Day, except that it was an international Pi Day.

0:56.0

You don't have much to say about Pi Day, except every year you go to this insane party where people

1:01.2

eat pies and then vote on the best pie and win prizes for the pies. That's true.

1:07.3

Except for that elaborate thing that nobody else does.

1:11.3

Do you know that that's true? I don't even know if I tweeted about Pi Day yesterday. That's how

1:16.0

little I have invested in it. But let me tell you this, Andrew. Okay.

1:20.8

Yesterday's, we're recording this on a Sunday. Yesterday's Pi Day won't happen again

1:29.9

for another hundred years. I know. With our, like, Ding Peacounder Equinox or something.

1:35.9

So at, like, I don't know the digits of Pi at, like, 926.

1:40.4

3.14159. That's as far as I know. It might be, like, 2653 or the next ones.

1:47.8

Okay. So we did a toast at 926.53. The best part was that none of us knew what to toast to.

1:57.0

We did, it was, we did a 10-second countdown. Like, it was a happy new year. Everyone just kind of,

2:01.9

it was like, it's like when you sing the birthday song, but no one's quite sure, like,

2:05.6

if people go by their nickname or their regular name and everyone goes, happy birthday, dear.

2:13.1

Oh, you mean, you mean the work version of happy birthday?

2:17.6

Yeah, that's exactly right.

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