Ep 570 - The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Natty Bumppo is here to guide you through the wilderness of a Canonical White Guy's famous adventure tale. Maybe he can help us track down why it became the template for some less-than-helpful stereotypes based on dubious historical records.

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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.
0:43.0	Hey everybody welcome to Overdoot. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning
0:46.6	to read. My name is Craig.
0:48.4	My name is Andrew.
0:49.6	It's the last of the Podhekins.
0:52.4	That's a good joke.
0:54.4	It was a good joke.
0:55.4	The first time it was a good joke this time.
0:57.4	Yeah. It makes sense.
1:00.8	So you say it makes sense. What is it? What does the last of the Podhekins mean to you?
1:05.8	It means that if we aren't careful, it's always there's always a chance that they bring
1:17.5	down podcasting.
1:18.5	We can bring down big podcasting.
1:21.8	Last of the Prohekins because you and me are good bros.
1:25.1	We are good bros.
1:27.4	Or it's because it's been so unseasonally warm lately that maybe we've seen the last
1:32.8	of the Snowheakens. I'm just saying there are syllables that rhyme with Mo that we could
1:37.8	have gone for.
1:38.8	I'm out of coffee and now I'm the last of the Joheakens.
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