Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episode 7
Overdue
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🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the finale of Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On this show-within-a-show, we're reading Husain Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights (also known by its westernized title, The Arabian Nights).
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes early, but we always release them for general consumption later on. In this closing episode, we share stories we've yet to discuss as well as some not included in our edition.
Stories covered include: Aladdin, Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves, the Story of the Golden Apples, and more.
Programming note: keep an eye on our social feeds for the announcement of our next longread project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a baller. I wish I had a girl. |
| 0:16.0 | A good hour calling. Wish I had a rabbit and a hat with a bat. |
| 0:20.0 | The 6.4. I wish I was like 6.9 so I can give it Leo. She could she don't know me, |
| 0:26.0 | but yo she's really fine. Hey everybody, welcome to Genie Babies. It's a podcast brought to you by |
| 0:33.1 | the folks at Overdo. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew and when it's time to put away our childish |
| 0:39.6 | things, yeah, and wrap up Genie Babies. And I am sort of glad that that voice is going to get put |
| 0:46.4 | away in the toy box and sold by Andy's mom at a yard sale or whatever. I'm kind of glad to see |
| 0:55.1 | that one. Well, yeah, and you know, well, but if you can hear the voice and that means you're a toy, |
| 1:01.2 | too, you're a Genie baby, too. No, the toys can talk to people. Is that true? Yeah, they torment |
| 1:07.9 | Sid remember? Oh crap. Yeah. Right? No, that's true. You're right. You're right. You're totally right. |
| 1:14.5 | I think my good. Yeah, you just you do this like Jack Nicholson thing. Yeah, it's weird how I can't |
| 1:20.5 | actually do a baby voice. I can only do a old actor voice wise guy baby voice. This is our Arabian |
| 1:29.0 | Knights, one thousand and one nights podcast. We are wrapping up our mini series here on the |
| 1:37.0 | mousen body. Hussein. How do we translation and addition of these collected folk tales? |
| 1:43.6 | This last time on this program, we talked about the story of the hunchback part do and we heard |
| 1:52.9 | that he got a fall kinds of stuff. And then we met that kooky barber and all of his brothers, |
| 1:58.9 | all of his unfortunate brothers. His misfortunate brothers, perhaps. And so this is going to be our |
| 2:06.9 | wrap up episode. We are going to talk about some stories that were not in our collection as well |
| 2:13.6 | as some of the stories that we did not read for this purposefully shorter long reads project. |
| 2:20.2 | So what do you want to tease at top Andrew and then I'll go into what I've got prepared? |
| 2:25.2 | So when we started, when we'd picked the one thousand one nights, we were like, |
| 2:31.4 | oh dang Aladdin and like Lampson stuff. Yeah. And that's not in here. We got like a jar with a |
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