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Overdue

Ep 408 - The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight #1), by Katherine Arden

Overdue

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Arden's debut novel is a potent mix of Slavic folklore, Russian history, and good old-fashioned fantasy. We dig into which of those ingredients work best within the scope of The Bear and the Nightingale's story, but first we take a moment to debut Andrew's new classic catchphrase.

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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

Well, you tell the people what you wanted to say Andrew.

0:49.0

Oh, just because you know how sometimes you say something is kind of a joke, but then everybody

0:54.8

reacts really strongly to it and then it becomes a thing.

0:58.5

Yeah, I know exactly what that's like.

1:01.7

That's what that's what has happened with my new hit catchphrase daddy hungry, which

1:07.5

since I became a dad is something that I said ingest one time when I was hungry.

1:14.3

Oh, that's what that's the word you meant.

1:17.3

Yes.

1:18.3

And so my wife hates it and all my friends hate it.

1:24.3

And but they're hate is funny to me.

1:28.2

And so sometimes I when I'm hungry, I'm just, you know, daddy hungry.

1:35.5

I don't like it.

1:37.3

I really don't like.

1:38.6

I've never liked a letter less.

1:41.0

I've never liked the letter W less than when it comes out of your mouth in the word hungry.

1:48.3

Oh, I'm welcome to over to it's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

1:53.6

My name is Craig.

1:54.6

My name is Andrew.

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