Ep 512 - The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting (w/ Alli from SSR)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Where did his animal-talking abilities come from? Why is he worshipped by animals all over the world? Why does this book talk about money so much? And why did so few of us read Dr. Dolittle in grade school?
This week, we tried to answer these questions (and more) with Alli from the SSR Podcast, a great show you should check out! You can also listen to our previous SSR Podcast collab: Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots with the Bailey School Kids.
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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. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey everybody welcome to Overdoot. |
| 0:43.2 | It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my name is Craig. |
| 0:45.2 | My name is Andrew we're going to really fast I guess. |
| 0:47.3 | Because we've got stuff to do this up. |
| 0:49.4 | Well, places to be. |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.2 | We have a cool episode coming up for you with Ali from the SSR podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Had us on again for our second time. |
| 1:00.0 | It had been too long and so we got together to talk about a book. |
| 1:05.0 | Andrew what book did we talk about? |
| 1:07.0 | We read The Original Doctor Do Little by Hugh Lofting. |
| 1:10.4 | It's called The Story of Doctor Do Little but it is the first and last story. |
| 1:14.8 | The Teen Doctor Do Little books by Hugh Lofting. |
| 1:18.0 | We had a good conversation. |
| 1:19.7 | It ranged from maybe some reasons why that book wasn't really considered and why we mostly |
| 1:26.6 | know them as a film character now. |
| 1:30.3 | We talked about Animal Personhood which we all know is one of my favorite topics. |
| 1:33.8 | You do like talking about that don't you? |
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