Ep 402 - Paradise, by Toni Morrison
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this challenging novel, award-winning author Toni Morrison explores how utopias are defined (and perhaps undermined) by their boundaries. The all-black town of Ruby, Oklahoma survived for decades by cordoning itself off from the outside world. But what happens when the outside world starts gnawing at the people inside?
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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 | Andrew, I just flew back from Ohio and boy, my buck eyes tired. |
| 0:47.7 | What? |
| 0:50.7 | Well, I'm going to overdo it to podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:55.0 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is Andrew as a native of Ohio and I, the thing I love the most about buck eyes |
| 1:02.4 | I think besides go college, football, is that the snack buck eyes, which are like the peanut |
| 1:11.0 | butter dipped in chocolate, they're very good. |
| 1:14.2 | They are good. |
| 1:15.2 | And the tree nut fruit buck eyes are super poisonous. |
| 1:25.7 | So if you were to rank the three buck eyes as food, you would put seeds at the bottom |
| 1:36.7 | a literal human football player at number two and then the peanut chocolate snack at |
| 1:41.7 | number one. |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah, I mean, and it's understanding that there's a big gap like two and three are close |
| 1:47.8 | together because of like the brain injury and some of the many, the many shenanigans |
| 1:55.2 | that OSU coaches and players have gotten up to over the years. |
| 1:58.7 | I was judging them as food, but sure, yes, also just general. |
| 2:02.4 | I was judging them as what they are, which is, well, if you're judging them as what they |
| 2:06.7 | are, like buck eyes, super tasty, yeah, have state buck eyes, good at college football, |
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