Ep 660 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Communities collide in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of 1930s Pottstown. Will the tensions become more than this town can manage? Since this is a James McBride novel, probably not! His work is characterized by a warmth of spirit that feels optimistic without naivete. So it shouldn't surprised you that folks of different backgrounds are finding common cause on all sorts of things - like how cool it is they all call somebody Big Soap.

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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
0:46.5	been meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew how's everyone everyone? How are you? How's everyone doing?
0:54.8	This is, we weren't gonna do a, should we do an intro or can we just like kind of ask everybody
1:00.0	how they're doing?
1:01.0	Is that not an intro?
1:04.0	They can't respond.
1:06.0	You know that, right?
1:07.0	No, well, shoot, all right, fine.
1:10.0	Okay, new plan.
1:11.0	The last time we did a James McBride book for this our book
1:15.0	podcast where one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it we did a
1:22.2	fun segment called
1:24.0	Burns My Butt where we talked about things that burn our butts.
1:27.0	Really?
1:28.0	And at the time, I was mad about multi-packs of beer where one of the beers is a low calorie IPA.
1:35.0	Oh man, I was really upset about it.
1:38.0	What burned my butt?
1:41.0	I don't think anything really burned your butt as much as my butt was in like July of
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