Ep 360 - We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle shares some qualities with her best-known short story The Lottery; both feature small New England towns that are the site of some unfortunate mob action. Join us for a conversation about non-supernatural creepiness, unreliable narrators, and early flights.

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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	Hey, here's a story.
0:43.5	Don't get off flight at 6am.
0:45.9	Don't do it.
0:46.9	It's too early to fly.
0:48.3	It's too early to do all the things you need to do to get on a plane and go somewhere.
0:55.2	Is what I have to say.
0:56.6	Welcome to Overdoot.
0:57.6	This is a podcast for the books you've been meaning to read.
0:59.3	My name is Craig.
1:00.3	My name is Andrew and you're going to tell some jokes about airline food too.
1:04.7	What are the hot planes in the lights that you have to play down on?
1:09.2	Listen, dude, if you go for a whiz bang weekend in Durham, North Carolina, I highly recommend
1:16.6	all the food that I ate there.
1:17.6	It's a pretty good time.
1:19.6	But then you got to get a cheapo flight because you got too much stuff going on.
1:24.0	You can't be spent all sorts of money on flights.
1:26.3	So you get a 6am flight for a 90 minute flight, which means that you go to a wedding and
1:32.8	you have great time.
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