Nancy Drew and Soul Food | (Ep. 189)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode offers a SASF smorgasbord:

Is Nancy Drew healthy soul food for a teenager?
The guys discuss syndicate writing such as Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and the Hardy Boys.
Also on this episode: Why theater is so often gay, why Broadway is boutique, and why Shakespeare isn't a counterexample.
... with a chaser of why you should still, probably, be writing and directing plays (on your way to making a movie).

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0:00.0	Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.
0:04.4	Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.
0:07.6	Made a ghost of a king on a row.
0:09.9	Here we go.
0:10.7	We're going to start Sass with a question about developing taste, I think.
0:15.6	But I got this question without a lot of meat on the bones.
0:19.2	Nancy Drew's stories, are they healthy soul food for a teenage girl?
0:22.7	Never finished one.
0:24.5	Never finished one.
0:25.3	Well, you're not a teenage girl.
0:27.3	That's why I don't feel bad that I've never finished one.
0:31.2	No, I would think not.
0:33.9	And why?
0:34.5	Can you flesh that out a little?
0:35.9	I think that it could be a totally acceptable snack sure
0:40.5	but not healthy soul food yeah there's nothing wrong with a bowl of doritos right but if
0:46.2	somebody starts eating six bowls of Doritos a day then you can be like you know if some girl
0:53.6	uh becomes hooked on just that level, and this is what normally happens with the like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, there was a Christian version, Sugar Creek gang when I was a kid.
1:06.9	The people get hooked.
1:08.3	I love to read.
1:08.9	I love to read stories.
1:09.8	And so it's just like doing laps,
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