Ep 637 - The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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The third and final of White's whimsical children's books about animals, The Trumpet of the Swan asks important questions like: How do swans learn English? How can we better provide accommodations for those who need them? And how much money could a swan earn at a jazz club in the 1960s?
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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 Overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew |
| 0:52.4 | Bana pada pada pada pada pada pada pada |
| 0:55.0 | trumpet of those Trumpet of the of the swan. |
| 0:59.0 | That is the best known trumpet. It's like the thing. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean you could do taps I guess. |
| 1:02.0 | Is that a bugle? |
| 1:02.6 | Well, okay, we will talk about we will talk about taps today. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay. |
| 1:07.4 | It does get played by a trumpet in this book. |
| 1:12.0 | The other one I was thinking of is Trump |
| 1:15.0 | of the Swan, but wait, that was not a good Star Wars. |
| 1:19.8 | The trumpet. |
| 1:20.8 | The trumpet! The trumpet yeah, yeah. What about that? That's how what I think about when I think about the trumpet. |
| 1:29.2 | B. B. B. B. B. B. But, uh, that's, we can't do that. Welcome to our book podcast, Andrew. Yes, every week one of us reads a book that we've never read before and we tell the other one of us about it and we just kind of goof about and have a good time and you get to listen to that. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. This week Craig, what did you read? |
| 1:46.9 | I read the Twomp it up. |
| 1:48.4 | Leave it in. |
| 1:52.4 | I read. There's so many wuzz coming up. I read the trumpet of the |
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