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Overdue

Ep 464 - The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's time to post at the top of the key and shoot some literary hoops! Pick and roll with us into a poetic novel about brotherhood, family, and passing the rock. Alexander's poetry in The Crossover is eclectic and energetic, which makes for a fun read whether you stan LeBron James or Nikki Giovanni or both!

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a headgun podcast.

0:06.2

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told

0:10.5

tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:16.3

Plus these are books you should have read by now.

0:43.2

Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot.

1:13.2

I am fundamentally changed.

1:30.3

My favorite part of buying a house is the part where you write a check with all the money

1:33.8

that you've ever had in the entire world and then it's just gone.

1:38.2

And they don't provide you any security to take it to where you're supposed to go.

1:43.8

You have to get it there.

1:46.3

Money in that amounts belongs in armored trucks.

1:48.8

Yes, there are two kinds of checks.

1:51.0

There's the fake kind of check where you just say you have the money and then there's

1:55.9

a big bunch of verification on the back end that happens when you hand it over.

2:01.0

Then there's the other super check where they do all the checking up front and then they

2:05.8

just give you a piece of paper where you food dropped it in the sewer.

2:09.5

It would be pretty hard to get a new one.

2:15.4

Thankfully none of that happened to us.

2:18.9

Yes, expect to hear in future episodes, drips and drabs of my new novel, Craig buys us

2:26.2

with us.

2:27.2

Craig buys a house.

2:28.4

We bought a zoo but it's a house.

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