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From the Front Porch

Episode 136 || Reading in the Age of Prestige Television

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We've survived the hurricane and the new Bachelor announcement, and we're back with another conversation on books, TV, and life in the South. The 2017 Emmy Awards air on September 17, and so many of the honorees this year are adapted from books! We've got thoughts and opinions. Also, Seth Meyers is blond. Mentioned this week: + The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood + The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu + Hagseed by Margaret Atwood + The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta + The Leftovers on HBO + Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty + Big Little Lies on HBO + Before the Fall by Noah Hawley + Fargo on FX + Fargo by the Coen Brothers + Legion on FX If you liked The Crown on Netflix, you might enjoy: + The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan + Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan + China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan + Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan If you liked The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, you might enjoy: + Children of Men by P. D. James + Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler If you liked This is Us on NBC, you might enjoy: + The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney + Modern Lovers by Emma Straub + Adopted by Kelley Nikondeha + Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate If you liked Westworld on HBO, you might enjoy: + Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick + Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie If you liked Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix, you might enjoy: + The Girls by Emma Cline + The Assistants by Camille Perri If you liked Stranger Things on Netflix, you might enjoy: + Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero If you liked Master of None on Netflix, you might enjoy: + Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari + Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham Learn more about Forlorn Strangers on their website.  Support us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

what did you do for labor day i stocked up on hurricane supplies are you part of the reason

0:07.7

tullahasi's out of war um yes i am but here's the thing i was really proud that i went

0:12.6

monday because i was like i have the day off i'm just going to go run some errands and it's going to be

0:16.3

fine so kelski and i went to a bunch of stores and we bought water and charcoal and stuff just to prepare, you know. Yeah, smart. I don't think anything's going to happen to a spad in Tallahasse except maybe being without power for a couple of days. I was about to say the trees are the problem. But the trees are the problem. So I bought charcoal so I can grow stuff and, you know, we can still eat. But Monday, there was still a bunch of stuff. By a Tuesday,

0:38.5

all the water in Leon County was gone. I went today. There's nothing.

0:42.8

Yeah. Jordan grabbed a couple bottles of water at the gas station last night. He also couldn't

0:47.6

get gas on the way home. Yeah. So, yeah, things are reaching a panic mode that I feel like normally

0:53.8

comes later.

0:54.7

Like if you've grown up in Florida.

0:56.6

Especially here, we're not, we're not, we're not, I was like we're going from.

1:01.9

Yeah, my, I just remember growing up, Andrew really did hit Tallahassee pretty hard, but that was years ago.

1:07.2

And Hermine last year was bad, again, it's because of trees. Yes. Knock on wood, but

1:12.9

like flooding hasn't really ever been a problem in Tallahassee. It's all the trees. Like my parents,

1:18.4

there are trees surrounding their home. So they are leaving, like they're going to leave because

1:22.3

they don't know what could happen. Sure. And they could be without power. Right. No, and that makes

1:27.1

sense. But they're like, grad students in my program who are like, well, we have to evacuate

1:30.7

because of flooding. I'm like, well, here's the thing. We're 100 miles inland. Yeah. We're 200 feet above sea level. And we're not near any body of water. Right. I think we'll be okay. I think we're going to be fine.

1:24.4

Again, check back with us next.

1:25.8

We're recording this a week in advance.

1:28.0

We're recording this on September 7th, so like...

1:30.5

Thanks, Congress. think we'll be okay. I think we're going to be fine. Again, check back with us next. We're recording this a week in advance. We're recording this on September 7th, so like... Things could happen. Things could happen. And we might be, I don't know, picked up by a cyclone and thrown across... Yeah. Clear into Kansas. Yeah. Jordan hates that movie. Wizard of Oz really? Yeah. Huh. I mean, I think it's a little weird, to be honest with you.

2:03.1

I mean, I haven't seen it in full in years, but...

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