Ep 279 - The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A boy and his wolf cross the border into Mexico and things go...rather poorly. That's the premise of Cormac McCarthy's 1994 novel The Crossing. It's a Southwestern Gothic coming-of-age story that also touches on the evil nature of man and the collapse of the mythic American West.

Talking points include the puppet comedy of Jeff Dunham, violence in McCarthy's West, and a call for proposals on "Neoliberal Discourse and/in McCarthy."

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is a head gum 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	Hey everybody, this is Overdo.
0:43.6	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.6	My name is Craig.
0:47.6	My name is Andrew.
0:48.6	And it's the first recording session of the new year.
0:54.0	And in fact, the first time we've recorded a podcast since mid-December.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.4	Little rusty Craig.
1:00.4	I don't remember what our podcast is about.
1:04.4	Oh, sure.
1:05.4	Remind me and by extension, anybody who decided that their new year's resolution would be
1:10.4	to listen to our podcast.
1:11.8	Great.
1:12.8	Welcome aboard Andrew and other folks.
1:14.4	Thanks.
1:15.4	Got to be here.
1:16.4	Each week one of us reads a book and talks to the other person about it.
1:20.9	We also talk about the author or the history of the book.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Headgum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Headgum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.