Ep 532 - The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot (Bonus Episode)

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

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Who wants to celebrate April with some modernist poetry??? This month, we allude to many of the allusions in T.S. Eliot's landmark poem.

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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.
0:42.9	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoops a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.7	My name is Craig.
0:47.9	My name is Andrew.
0:49.3	And this is our April 2022 bonus episode.
0:53.6	April is the cruelest pod.
0:56.5	The cruelest pod.
0:58.0	Oh yeah, that is, is that why we did this?
1:01.2	You know, I did April.
1:02.8	Not plan that.
1:03.8	Okay, so yeah, that's why we did this.
1:05.8	That's why we chose this poem this month.
1:07.8	Yes.
1:08.8	And so we're going to be talking about TS Eliot's The Space Waste Space Land.
1:15.8	Yeah, he's very insistent about that.
1:19.1	And we have our Patreon supporters in the chat go to patreon.com slash overdo pod for
1:25.3	more information on how you can join future live streams, which I sure will not be about
1:31.4	modernist poetry.
1:32.4	I need to say, you know, it's easier to sort of riff on and have fun with the podcast.
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