Ep 231 - The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week the boys join Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club and read (fictional) stories about the Chinese-American children of Chinese immigrants; they also attempt to navigate some choppy waters around the book’s potential perpetuating of Chinese and Chinese-American stereotypes and the reaction to the 1993 film based on the book. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 trying to get back off that Diet Coke monkey again.
0:46.0	Yeah, you got that.
0:47.5	Wait, are you on the monkey or is the monkey on you?
0:50.0	I'm trying to get off the monkey.
0:52.0	Get off that monkey.
0:53.0	Welcome to overdue this to podcast about the books that you have been meeting to read.
0:56.5	My name is Craig.
0:57.5	My name is Andrew.
0:58.5	What is up with your Diet Coke monkey?
1:01.0	Just in retrospect deciding to get hooked back on caffeine again, like right as Philadelphia
1:09.0	instituted a soda tax was like not my most fiscally responsible decision.
1:15.5	Yeah, that I could have made.
1:18.0	That's not.
1:19.0	I am, we don't need to get all political about soda here.
1:23.9	I am largely in favor of the beverage tax, though I recognize that it might be steeper
1:31.4	than it probably should be whatever.
1:34.5	It's first of its kind.
1:35.9	It's an ex-brand experiment.
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