Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episodes 5 & 6
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode 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 monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. In the first half, you'll hear us discuss what misfortunates befall a beloved hunchback and the stories his assailants use to save themselves. In the second, we meet a garrulous barber and his many unfortunate brothers.
Stories covered in Nights 102-170 include: The Story of the Hunchback Parts 1 & 2, which include tales from several subjects of the King of China and a barber who won't shut up.
Programming note: this is our penultimate episode of Genie Babies. Our next and final installment will be a mix of closing thoughts and stories we didn't have time to cover.
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, yeah, it's right between me and some machine. |
| 0:07.0 | On the time of sound I took in the night, and it placed it cold as a fight. |
| 0:13.0 | Those balls, lies near, and the stars, we from here, well, you don't know what to, we can find. |
| 0:21.0 | Why don't you come with me, little girl, on a magic common rider? |
| 0:26.0 | You don't know what? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Genie Babies. |
| 0:31.0 | If your wish is more Arabian nights overdues, got you covered. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:36.0 | My name is Andrew and I'm a baby. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm a genie, so it works out. |
| 0:41.0 | Dang nice. |
| 0:42.0 | What wishes do you want me to grant? |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I want a new diaper, and I want a new, some new blocks to stack. |
| 0:54.0 | Henry's been stacking blocks lately. |
| 0:56.0 | Delightful. |
| 0:57.0 | And a million more wishes. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, the wind's that good, and crap. |
| 1:05.0 | Here you go, I'm going to bury you in a bunch of coins that say wish on them. |
| 1:09.0 | You didn't make me sign in and use your license agreement before I started making wishes. |
| 1:14.0 | So I can do whatever I want. |
| 1:15.0 | That's true. |
| 1:16.0 | I didn't get your data. |
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