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🗓️ 4 January 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Odd's fish! It's time to reveal the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the hero of Baroness Emma Orczy's 1908 novel. (No seriously, we're going to tell you who he or she is.)
Other spoilers during our Reign of Terror include what finally tipped the public against Robespierre, some truly terrible accents, and secret identities stretching from Batman to Zorro.
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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 | We haven't had trouble starting the show in a while. |
0:44.7 | We could just start it. |
0:47.5 | How would you start it? |
0:48.5 | Would you start it? |
0:49.5 | Just say welcome to overdue. |
0:50.8 | This is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
0:52.9 | My name is Craig. |
0:53.9 | Oh, so I should say welcome to overdue. |
0:55.7 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
0:58.3 | My name is Craig. |
0:59.3 | I'm Andrew. |
1:00.3 | And we're deciding to start the show now. |
1:03.4 | Normally, we have an introduction, but we just hung out this weekend so we don't have |
1:08.2 | anything to talk about that we haven't already talked about. |
1:11.2 | Is that, well, I don't know that's empirically true, but I... |
1:15.5 | The conversation with another person is like a glass that fills up slowly as things |
1:22.2 | happen to you and you're not talking to each other about them. |
1:25.1 | And then you drink each other. |
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