Ep 636 - The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

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

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Modern readers often experience C.S. Lewis as "the Narnia guy," but he's also one of the 20th century's foremost Christian apologetics. The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of view of a demon whose object is to send souls to Hell, is a deeply Christian work but its appeal comes just as much from Lewis' insight into what makes humanity tick.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to
0:40.5	welcome to Overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:44.8	My name is Craig.
0:45.8	My name is Andrew.
0:47.8	Do you get mail these days, Andrew?
0:51.2	Yes. I get, so there are two kinds of mail that I get these days. One kind is junk mail.
0:57.2	Okay. That we all know and love. We love junk mail.
0:59.8	The other kind is if I've bought a single individual Pokemon cards off of TCG Player.com.
1:05.6	Which you do sometimes when you're building a deck or you're trying to fill out an expansion and you just don't want to you
1:14.8	don't want to deal with the cold randomness of a booster pack anymore?
1:18.0	Sure, yes. So those are yeah that's the mail that I get what kind of mail do you get?
1:22.1	I guess like wine so we're going to talk about the book that
1:26.5	Andrew read for this podcast which was the screw tape letters by CS Lewis so I don't get any that I know of
1:34.8	letters from a mid-level demon in hell. I've ever gotten males about Donald Trump though.
1:45.0	Do you get you get mail from Congress?
1:48.0	Got them.
1:52.0	The mail I get, junk mail of course, and a lot of political mail. A lot of
2:00.6	political mail. A lot of fundraising mail during you know lockdown I was you know I was you
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