Ep 675 - The Kid Who Ran For President, by Dan Gutman
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
It's election season here in the US (please go vote if you're reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh "celebrate" we have chosen to put together a one-hour-and-forty-five-minute episode on Dan Gutman's 1996 book The Kid Who Ran For President, a book that is pretty wild and only made wilder by Scholastic's characteristic late-00s-early-10s stealth updates that "modernize" the text while leaving everything about the story's context totally unchanged.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale, |
| 0:11.2 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.2 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:44.0 | Music These are books you should have read by now. Hey, everybody, welcome to Overdue. |
| 0:46.8 | It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:47.6 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:48.9 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:52.0 | That pesky, scary guy is gone. |
| 0:57.9 | But, you know, it's November. It's a whole other thing to be scared a whole other thing to be scared about Andrew it we I just it's our election special it's it's |
| 1:05.3 | election season we're recording this on October 25th which is which is holding election day |
| 1:10.8 | at like a comfortable remove. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't know that I could actually have recorded whatever we're about to do on like November 3rd. |
| 1:18.6 | Yep. |
| 1:19.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:20.5 | So I'm glad we've built ourselves this, this like buffer where we can, you know, we can just like bask in uncertainty. |
| 1:28.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:29.1 | But process some anxiety through laughs and gaffs and goofs and poofs. |
| 1:35.4 | And we get to read a book that I feel like I've referenced on this podcast many multiple |
| 1:40.2 | times, a lot of times. |
| 1:41.5 | We are going to talk about the kid who ran for president by Dan Gutman. |
| 1:46.9 | But first, let me remind you that here in the United States, election day is November 5th. |
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