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Ep 517 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor

Overdue

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Roll of thunder, hear our podcast! We're talking about Taylor's Newbery-winning novel about the Logan family working to survive in the Jim Crow South. Also, Andrew makes a joke about The Sims to try and liven things up.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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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 Overdo. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning

0:47.1

to read. My name is Craig.

0:49.0

My name, as always, is Andrew.

0:51.3

Didn't change it this week, huh? You thought about it.

0:54.4

Yeah, just good to create a sense of continuity for people so they don't get scared.

1:01.0

Let them know that some things, yes.

1:03.8

Some things will stay the same. You know, we got a different Super Bowl champion this

1:11.2

week.

1:12.2

It's not the Bengals. It's not the Bengals. It's not like the Bengals, they're never

1:19.6

going to get another shot. Like they are never the society will collapse and the Super Bowl

1:24.3

will cease to exist before the Bengals get another chance to go to the Super Bowl.

1:29.5

So like as someone who's from Ohio doesn't particularly care about the American football

1:36.2

when the Eagles aren't involved, I do feel for them as Ohioans.

1:42.6

Yes.

1:43.6

Well, good for Matt Stavardy. We're going to talk about books I promise.

1:49.9

There was a stat that they shared early in the broadcast about how Matt Stavard had led

1:55.3

the league at one point in interceptions and the Bengals quarterback Joe Burrows had led

2:00.2

the league in being sacked.

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