Ep 148 - Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (Bonus Episode)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Our belated bonus episode for November tackles Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a seminal work of Nigerian literature and a look at the bad things that can happen when cultures clash.
Join us for a treatise on present wrapping, discussions of colonialism and yams, and a tiny, disturbing sneak peek into our next 50 Shades of Grey talk.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm done this weekend. |
| 0:44.2 | Rapping presents. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, Suzanne has been rapping presents. |
| 0:49.8 | Oh, man. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm not great at it. |
| 0:55.6 | A rapping presence? |
| 0:56.6 | No, and I don't care to become better. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, I'm awful at it, actually. |
| 1:02.2 | It always looks like a four-year-old got bored midway through. |
| 1:07.6 | Which is basically the case, except it was like a 29-year-old kid. |
| 1:11.6 | Oh, I get really into it, but I'm just bad at it. |
| 1:16.0 | My present rapping philosophy, because it is the season for present rapping, is that |
| 1:24.5 | there just like it just exists to obscure the item. |
| 1:28.4 | So if it obscures the item, and it's not too hard to remove, because everybody has that |
| 1:33.6 | relative who just tapes every seam and makes it impossible to get at the sweet, sweet |
| 1:37.8 | presence in there, as long as it obscures the item, it's fine. |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah, that's all you need. |
| 1:42.6 | You get bonus points for style, but you get a participation grade for rapping things |
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