Ep 270 - The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week we put on our flapper outfits and dance back to the Roaring Twenties! F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby bears us ceaselessly back into the past, and we use the Jazz Age as a backdrop for a conversation about the American Dream and also the cartoon Rugrats.

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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	How's it going old sport?
0:44.0	Pretty good old sport.
0:46.9	I feel like the bees knees.
0:48.9	Old boy, I feel like new money.
0:51.8	I have to go see a man about a dog so I can get zazzled, find some clams so I can cut
0:59.1	it out with this apple sauce.
1:00.9	I hate prohibition and I love jazz and art deco.
1:07.9	Welcome to Overdoot is a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read.
1:11.3	My name is Craig.
1:12.3	My name is Andrew.
1:13.8	And we are living in the roaring twenties.
1:16.7	The roaring twenties roar.
1:18.5	Oh, I just remember.
1:21.5	I have to interrupt this podcast for the realization that the next decade on this planet will be
1:27.3	the 2020s and we're going to get a lot of vision jokes.
1:31.9	Yeah, I guess.
1:34.1	I mean, especially when people buy those Dick Clarks New Year's rock and eve glasses to
1:39.9	wear in Times Square that say 2020.
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