Episode 162 || March Madness 2018

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Annie sits down for her husband Jordan for their annual March Madness episode, a long-standing FTFP tradition. This episode is sponsored by the Thomasville Entertainment Foundation; the Foundation's new book, Thomasville in Concert, celebrates the Foundation's 80 years in Thomasville. You can purchase the beautiful new book (written by our friend Nadia Watts) on the TEF website or in-store at The Bookshelf. This year's book bracket features The Bookshelf's "sweet sixteen" -- the 16 bestselling books of 2018 thus far: + Gracism by David Anderson + Beauty by John O'Donohue + Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan + Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer + The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce + The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin + A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle + Awayland by Ramona Ausubel + Sunburn by Laura Lippman + Only Child by Rhiannon Navin + Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro + The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny + We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter + The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey + Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward + Feel Free by Zadie Smith Other books mentioned on today's episode include: + Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott + To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue + Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett + Room by Emma Donoghue + To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee + The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon + Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle You can listen to previous March Madness episodes here. The Out of Print book bracket from 2016 is still online. This episode of On Being with John O'Donohue is so worth your time. Follow along with Anne Bogel's Book Flight Bonanza here. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like what Annie didn't finish reading this month, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	Okay, so talk to me about last year's bet.
0:05.0	So every year my friend David and I do a bet based on our March Madness bracket and whoever loses gets punished.
0:15.0	And last year the punishment was that the winner got to pick headwear for the loser for one day.
0:25.0	And so David lost, and I found a really, really fantastic milk carton mask that pulls over your face.
0:33.9	It was a party city gym.
0:36.9	And anyway, your face fits through the middle and it's a giant
0:40.0	milk carton and it says, have you seen me? And so I made him wear that around, what was it, Mo'Bill?
0:47.2	Yeah, so let's be clear. David and Jordan have a bet, but every July 4th we get together with these friends,
0:57.6	and the bet takes place, like the consequences of the bet take place during this July 4th weekend.
1:04.5	So...
1:04.9	In public.
1:05.5	In public.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.4	So we have been to Atlanta.
1:09.5	Savannah.
1:10.2	Savannah.
1:19.7	Disney World. Yeah. Chattanooga and Mobile all while either David or Jordan looks like an absolute buffoon but we all look like buffoons we're all punished
1:26.3	there have been years i have won march march
1:30.0	madness and you still look like a buffoon because your husband or david look yeah if it suffices to
1:36.2	say if you see two men and two women in a city um around a no around july because that's when the bed actually gets, you know, that's when we
1:47.1	see each other.
1:48.1	And one of the men looks like a fool, then that's us.
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