Ep 159 - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and The Forbidden Words of Margaret A (Bonus Episode)

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For January's bonus episode, we put together a sci-fi double feature: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin and The Forbidden Words of Margaret A. by L. Timmel Duchamp. Both are short stories of speculative fiction, and both are incredibly clever bummers.

When not despairing at the states of humanity and journalism, we lighten the mood with some horrifying mouth noises, David Brooks articles, and Andrew's campaign for Sexiest Man Alive.

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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	There are some of the worst noises.
0:49.0	Oh, no, oh, oh, oh.
0:54.6	Welcome to Overdo.
0:55.6	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:58.4	My name is Craig.
0:59.4	My name is Andrew.
1:00.4	And hopefully you didn't just throw up.
1:02.0	Those are, I know that we really enjoy talking into microphones and having people listen,
1:08.6	but man, I hope we don't make too many terrible mouth noises.
1:15.8	I'm really self-conscious of when I say things like like and you know and stuff.
1:24.4	We podcast and like when I pause and that kind of stuff, but yeah, hopefully, hopefully
1:30.7	one people have gotten over that or made their peace with it.
1:34.6	And two, at least I'm not making terrible mouth sounds.
1:37.6	Yeah, I don't sound like an octopus rolling through a carton of eggs.
1:46.8	Oh, I would rather have four or five more verbal ticks that I couldn't shake.
1:54.4	Make any noises.
1:56.7	Like you pointed out a couple to me and I won't say them out loud or else people will
2:00.0	go back and find them and like make a wiki about it.
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