Ep 152 - The Cuckoo's Calling, by Robert Galbraith (w/ Margaret H. Willison)

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

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🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What exactly IS a Cormoran Strike? Did J.K. Rowling's publisher leak her pen name to make big big bucks? To answer these questions and more, we invited on friend of the show Margaret H. Willison to talk The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling.)

Other mysteries solved include the origins of Godbucks, the power of Reddit detectives, and how much Andrew likes Bones.

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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	Craig, you have a podcasting mode that you enter into mentally.
0:44.3	A little bit when you're podcasting.
0:46.4	I usually get dumber.
0:48.2	I hadn't noticed.
0:51.4	Yeah, I don't know.
0:53.4	We've been doing this for like 150 episodes now.
0:55.6	I don't know if you noticed.
0:56.9	I turned on the dumb.
0:58.6	Now, I'm not saying that I fabricate the dumb.
1:03.4	It is hard to lean into it.
1:05.8	Right.
1:06.8	In a social situation, maybe you would keep your mouth shut.
1:09.9	Lean away from it.
1:10.9	And just like, and not and be like, mm-hmm.
1:11.9	And you just act like you know what's going on.
1:14.4	On this show, you can be like, I'm stupid.
1:16.9	I don't know what you're talking about.
1:19.4	I'm not even going to pretend to pick up context clues that could tell me what you're
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