Ep 245 - Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If you could wish for anything, what would it be? Dinosaurs to eat? Money to spend? A Nintendo to live in?

The kids in E. Nesbit's story Five Children and It are bad at wishing. Like, really bad. But that means we get to have fun at their expense and perhaps learn a little bit about the perils of cutting corners.

Also, if anyone finds out what Andrew would wish for if he met a genie, please tell us. The world needs to know.

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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	What's in the news?
0:46.0	What is it?
0:47.0	What is it in the news, Andrew?
0:49.0	What's in the news?
0:51.0	NASA's going to launch something into the sun, which sounds like something I want to
0:56.1	sign up for.
0:57.1	That sounds like a waste of money.
1:01.3	Like you know what's going to happen to it.
1:04.1	Okay.
1:05.1	What's the end game?
1:06.1	Like you just...
1:07.1	I think the goal is that you don't have any money anyway.
1:11.1	Can you really afford to be launched into the sun?
1:13.5	I think the goal is for it to like call us all the way and like, yo, it's getting hot.
1:19.3	Yo, I'm so upset that you do this to me.
1:22.6	It's getting hotter in here.
1:25.1	All nelly, the sun is getting hot.
1:28.6	Welcome to Overdo.
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