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Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episodes 1 & 2

Overdue

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Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham, Arts, Podcasts, Comedy

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On our newest 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 monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. In the first half, you'll hear us discuss the some of the background scholarship as well as the stories that setup the collection. In the second, we'll dive deeper into some nested tales where demons truly thrive. In both halves, we'll grapple with the heaping helpings of misogyny that accompany these wild tales!

Stories covered in Nights 1-27 include: The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Visier's Daughter; The Story of the Merchant and the Demon; and The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon, which includes tales about King Yunan, a talking parrot, a She-Ghoul, and a stony prince.

Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I like to do a dream here, here's a ride between a song machine

0:07.0

On the top of the sign after the night, any place it goes is right

0:13.0

Goes far, lies near, moves on all the way from here

0:17.0

Well, you don't know what to, we can find

0:21.0

What I can come with be little girl, on a magic common rider

0:26.0

You don't know what we can see

0:30.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Jeannie Babies

0:32.0

It's a podcast from the podcast, which is the Overdo podcast, which is about the books you've been meaning to read, my name is Craig

0:39.0

My name is Andrew, I'm a baby

0:41.0

Oh my good gracious baby Andrews here

0:45.0

I'm a baby

0:47.0

Oh no, change my diaper

0:49.0

Change my diaper, I made a boom boom

0:52.0

No one has ever said that

0:56.0

My baby says that, he says father, I've made a boom boom

1:02.0

Father, please clean my boom boom in the room room

1:06.0

Okay, we're starting a new long read project where we read the 1,000-1 nights instead of the Odyssey or Dante's Divine Comedy

1:15.0

So that's a new thing

1:16.0

I was just wondering, and you can say no to this, this is kind of a, you know, it's a democratic process and we each have one vote

1:23.0

So we can just reach an impasse and the status quo will hold, I assume

1:28.0

Can we do a better intro than the one where you say it's a podcast within a podcast, which is the Overdo podcast?

1:36.0

Just one where you don't say the word podcast seven times

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