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From the Front Porch

Episode 217 || Seasonal Reads: April Foolery

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We all need a laugh now and then, and when better than prank season? Learn more about Thomasville's Rose Show and Festival here. You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + Live from New York by Tom Shales and James Andre Miller + Bossypants by Tina Fey + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein + Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiney + The Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton + A Woman First: First Woman: A Deeply Personal Memoir by the Former President by "Selina Meyer" + The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster and Jules Feiffer + The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 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 Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

Yeah, curious minds want to know how the H you picked your bracket this year.

0:10.0

I'm doing well, huh?

0:13.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

You had the, I think you had a perfect first day.

0:18.0

I think so too.

0:19.0

Where I texted Jordan and I was like, I have never seen somebody like our whole, like we

0:25.5

have a bracket competition on ESPN with like a bunch of people we know.

0:30.7

Nobody had a perfect bracket.

0:32.7

And then I can't remember where you are now.

0:35.8

Like you've lost some as usual.

0:38.0

My entire Western bracket is perfect. Mine is two. Okay. But that's not, so that, like, which is good. Yeah. Yeah. But, but. I have lost a couple now, though. But it, but it was the, it wasn't just the West because I also had a decent, I had a, I still have a perfect West. Yeah. But it's the whole bracket really

0:56.0

was perfect until a couple of losses. And now I think I don't even know I couldn't tell you

1:02.5

like how many losses or wins you have. But how'd you do it? I don't. I don't know. And I remember

1:08.8

I have not followed the scores in a couple of days. But I did for those first couple of know. And I remember, I have not followed the scores in a couple days,

1:12.5

but I did for those first couple days. And I remember day one being like, wow, Minnesota beat

1:16.7

Louisville. Yeah. Like, ooh, that puts me way ahead of everybody because nobody had that. Yeah. It was

1:22.2

nuts. It's bonkers. How did I do it? On dissertation brain, no less. I know. And I think I just tapped into

1:30.0

some spirit in the ether. Um, no, just, just intuition. How did I do it? I picked random names.

1:38.8

We just, we, it was so funny. Like, because Olivia picked her bracket. She started off,

1:47.9

because I showed her how seatings work.

1:48.7

Like, we talked about that.

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