Ep 390 - The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
George Selden wrote a charming story about a charming cricket named Chester who just charms the pants right off everyone living in New York City - including a cat and a mouse. And the illustrations by Garth Williams are also charming!
You know what's not so charming? Liverwurst.
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 | Overdue is brought to you in part this week by Tell Me A Story Season 2 from CBS All Access, |
| 0:05.6 | created by Kevin Williamson. Tell Me A Story takes the world's most well-known fairy tales and |
| 0:10.4 | re-imagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Exploring an entirely new set of |
| 0:16.0 | characters this season features three legendary stories, beauty in the beast, sleeping beauty, |
| 0:21.5 | and Cinderella, like you've never seen them before. Carrie Ann Moss is the matriarch of the |
| 0:25.6 | Pruitt family and all the stories are wrapped around her family's lives. Tell Me A Story |
| 0:30.8 | Stars Paul Wesley, who's best known for his role in the vampire diaries as well as Danielle |
| 0:34.9 | Campbell, Carrie Ann Moss, and a stellar ensemble cast. So sign up today for CBS All Access by visiting |
| 0:41.5 | CBS.com slash Overdue. Get your first week of CBS All Access for free and stream the new season |
| 0:46.6 | of Tell Me A Story on Thursdays at CBS.com slash Overdue to get your first week of CBS All Access for free. |
| 0:53.4 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:56.6 | Hey everybody welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig. |
| 1:26.6 | My name is Andrew. How many times does a baby thrown up on you today? None yet. None times, man. I was once like you. |
| 1:37.6 | Each week we talk about a book that we haven't read before and I'm going to be talking about the |
| 1:41.2 | cricket and times square, which I think I read as a kid, but Andrew, any tips about getting puked |
| 1:48.2 | on by babies you want to talk about? Try not to do it. Okay. Get a good pediatrician who will be |
| 1:55.3 | very reassuring to you on the phone when you call them. Now when you call the pediatrician. |
| 2:00.9 | Now this is appropriate because this is a kid's book that we're going to talk about. When you call |
| 2:04.0 | the pediatrician, do you say I am covered in babies puked help me? Do you say like or you up front |
| 2:11.1 | that your your main concern is is your main concern you and your puke state your puke covered state |
| 2:16.7 | or you really like or were you being a good parent? You were aware of course, of course you're worried |
| 2:21.6 | about the baby. Now you can I think the quality of your call with your pediatrician is going to be |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
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.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.