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Ep 774 - Kristy's Great Idea, a Baby-Sitter's Club graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier (w/ Daniela Doncel)
2 november 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
Come with us as we revisit Stoneybrook, CT through the visuals of acclaimed author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier. Joining us on this trip is Daniela Doncel, host of Generation: Baby-Sitters Club, a five-part series from Connecticut Public exploring the history and impact of the series. For more of Overdue episodes on the BSC, check out our longread series SIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME. Lees meer
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The Sillymarillion Ep 05 - The Last Stage (of the First Age) (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
30 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in October 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project THE PRYDAINGER ZONE (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit patreon.com/overduepod. Lees meer
Tolkien concludes the Quenta Silmarillion with several tales of woe, mostly centered on the man Húrin and his cursed children. After a half-elf successfully pleads his case before the supreme court of the Valar, a final battle ensues and Morgoth is defeated...or is he? (He is.) (Or is he???????)
The reading list:
Ep 1 - Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion Ch 1-3
Ep 2 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 4-10
Ep 3 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 11-16
Ep 4 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 17-20
Ep 5 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 21-24
Ep 6 - Akallabêth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Appendices
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Ep 773 - Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist
26 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
Also titled Let Me In, this mid-2000s horror debut from Sweden engages directly with some vampire tropes, as well as one of the great fears of humankind: what if the kids were bad? Lees meer
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Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki
19 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
It's true that we usually try to reserve Spooktober for books that are, how you say, "classically spooky." But isn't societal misogyny and fatphobia just as spooky as any ghost, ghoul, or pieced-together-monster-that-represents-humankind's-hubris? We'd like to think so. And we'd really like you to think so too. Lees meer
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Ep 771 - The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones
12 oktober 2026 · 1 uur
Spooktober continues with this Rez Gothic slasher from Stephen Graham Jones. A vengeful spirit hunts down four young Blackfeet men for a past transgression on their reservation, prompting reflection on whether or not they'd ever have become "good Indians." Lees meer
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Ep 770 - She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang
5 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
A classic haunted house tale, full of ghosts and bugs and ghosts who can boss around bugs. I swear the presence of time travel was not something I gravitated to on purpose this time. Lees meer
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Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
28 september 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Heinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of both. Do they gleefully depict fascism? Do they glorify militarism and violence? Do they successfully subvert either? In our experience, both versions of Starship Troopers seem...complicated. Lees meer
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The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
26 september 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in October 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project THE PRYDAINGER ZONE (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Lees meer
Morgoth is back baby!!! He's got dragons, he's got balrogs, he's got orcs, and he's ready to make a mess of the meticulously described map that a bunch of the rest of this book is dedicated to setting up.
But he doesn't get everything he wants! Like when a man and his elf girlfriend defeat his most-trusted lieutenant, put his big dog to sleep, and come a-creeping to grab the Silmarils right from his crown! We still don't really know what they do, but people sure do seem to want those things!!
The reading list:
Ep 1 - Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion Ch 1-3
Ep 2 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 4-10
Ep 3 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 11-16
Ep 4 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 17-20
Ep 5 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 21-24
Ep 6 - Alkallabeth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Appendices
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Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein
21 september 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
They'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try! This week's riff on the formula includes megalomaniac tech billionaires, millennial malaise, and an astoundingly dangerous amusement park in northern New Jersey. Lees meer
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Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
14 september 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
Shhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will they? This breakout essay collection laid much of the foundation for modern popular understanding of American restaurant culture, but some of its lessons may not feel so fresh today. Instead, it may best be viewed in the context of Bourdain's larger media career, which could not have happened without the success of this book. Lees meer
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Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay
7 september 2026 · 58 min
This classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifiable Whahappen?? Lees meer
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Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)
31 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 31 min
Do you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What began as Tamsyn Muir's concluding entry in her trilogy of The Locked Tomb evolved into a full novel of its own with the charming Nona at its center. Is it easier to understand than prior entries in the series? Of course not! But that might only add to its charms. Lees meer
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The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction
28 augustus 2026 · 33 min
For this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five books in this classic children's fantasy series, then close out with an extra episode on the Disney adaptation The Black Cauldron. Lees meer
In this episode, you'll hear us discuss Andrew's background with the series, how Alexander came to write Prydain, and the Welsh myths from which he took inspiration.
This is a preview of a series we’ll be running exclusively for our Patreon supporters over the next few months; we won’t release them on the main feed until the entire series has run. If you want to listen to them as they’re released, see patreon.com/overduepod for more! Episode 1 is already up!
Here's the full syllabus for The Prydainger Zone:
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Lyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
Bonus: The Black Cauldron (1985)
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Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst
24 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
This is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week. Having to deal with your friends' significant others is one possible hazard; having to deal with a decade's worth of pent-up horniness and anxiety and yearning is another. Lees meer
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Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
17 augustus 2026 · 55 min
This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy coffee shop set against a D&D-flavored backdrop, a place where almost no one is really a villain and the one person who comes close gets the ending they deserve. Lees meer
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Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
10 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into the deep end with characters we've met just pages before. However, the titular Olive looms much larger than the others we meet, compelling us to wonder if the collectionovelcyclegraph isn't a bit uneven. Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Odyssey (2026)
3 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 46 min
Sing, O Muse, of an adapted poem - specifically Homer's Odyssey as adapted for the silver screen by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. That's right, we went to an actual movie theater to see the blockbuster film that everyone is talking about (including friend of the show Emily Wilson). And don't worry, our personal Age of Bronze isn't collapsing - we'll be back to books next week. Lees meer
You can read Homer's poem along with us in our very first longread series Stop! Homer Time.
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Chatting with Emily Wilson
30 juli 2026 · 44 min
With the recent release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and buzz around Emily Wilson's translation of Homer, we thought we would unlock this special Stop! Homer Time episode originally released to Patreon supporters in early 2024. Lees meer
In November 2023, the acclaimed translator returned to the show to chat with us as we embarked upon our Iliad read. She spoke with us about her process, what it was like to have an audience clamoring for her translation, and what happens when the muses make you forget how to play guitar.
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Ep 761 - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), by Solvej Balle
27 juli 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
Welcome to the 18th of November, friends! What's that you say? It's not the 18th of November for you? Well it is for us! Over and over and over again. Lees meer
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Ep 760 - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
20 juli 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
Toni Morrison's debut novel traces the tragedy of a young girl named Pecola Breedlove and the community that failed her. By splintering the book's perspective across the community of Lorain, she humanizes everyone and exonerates no one. Not an easy book, but a rewarding one. Lees meer
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Ep 759 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
13 juli 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
Join us friends, for a real paradigm shift. Andrew and Craig's synergy reaches levels never before seen as they proactively seek to understand the meaning behind this self-help titan. We'll also discuss our most upsetting dairy-related prose since the Krampus egg-nog thing. Lees meer
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Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
6 juli 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Groom's picaresque romp Forrest Gump inspired a juggernaut of a movie in the mid-90s - but it's really a rather different story than the one told onscreen. Did you know Gump went space?? Lees meer
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Ep 757 - Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
29 juni 2026 · 2 uur 2 min
New achievement! Record a podcast about Dungeon Crawler Carl! Lees meer
The thought of having to write flavor text in Dungeon Crawler Carl’s “achievement description” voice bums me out so I’m going to skip that part of the joke.
Reward: You get to listen to the podcast we recorded about Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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The Sillymarillion Ep 03 - Of Elves and Stewed Curses (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
27 juni 2026 · 1 uur
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in August 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Lees meer
Let us talk about Men, but not too much -- for many elves have returned to Middle-Earth! Let us instead pass the time with talk of the Noldor and their curse: the Doom of Mandos. Morgoth may yet hold the Silmarils, but he is surrounded by Fëanor's Large Adult Sons and their kin. A peace (of sorts) is achieved (sort of).
Also, Tolkien gives us one heck of a geography lesson.
The reading list:
Ep 1 - Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion Ch 1-3
Ep 2 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 4-10
Ep 3 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 11-16
Ep 4 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 17-20
Ep 5 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 21-24
Ep 6 - Alkallabeth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Appendices
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Ep 756 - Private Rites, by Julia Armfield
22 juni 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day--oh. You're never going away? You're going to flood the world and make it very damp for a trio of sisters as they parcel out their dead father's legacy a la King Lear But Wetter? Sounds like you're the rain from Julia Armfield's Private Rites, an intimate novel about familial traps that happens to have a horror card or two hiding up its sleeve. Lees meer
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Ep 755 - Audition, by Katie Kitamura
15 juni 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
Have you ever read a book where you haven't been entirely sure what happened in the book? Where you haven't been sure what's "real," and if you can tell what's "real," you can't tell who the book is "real" for? Have you ever felt like the whole world is a stage, and that we are merely players? If you answered "yes" to all these questions, you might be the target audience for this one. Lees meer
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Ep 754 - Legend of the White Snake, by Sher Lee (w/ Heaving Bosoms)
8 juni 2026 · 3 uur
Here we go again: another collaboration with Heaving Bosoms! Buckle up for a supersized episode on this folklore inspired YA fantasy by Sher Lee. Special thanks to our guests Melody and Sabrina from Heaving Bosoms for joining us to discuss snakes, lost contacts, love, and Chinese myth. We have a lot of questions about snakes! Do we get all the answers? Listen along to find out. Lees meer
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Ep 753 - You Are a Millionaire, by Jay Leibold (Choose Your Own Adventure #98)
1 juni 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
Living in our age of elite impunity made us want to imagine what it must be like to have one million US dollars (approximately $2.6 million, when adjusted for inflation). Luckily, there's a book series that lets you choose to be anything you want to be, as long as what you want to be exists within one of several scripted narrative paths of steadily escalating goofiness. Lees meer
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The Sillymarillion Ep 02 - The Choices of Master Fëanor (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
29 mei 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in July 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Lees meer
The Elves are here, and it's time to learn all about them! Because there are a whole bunch of different sub-types of them, mostly sorted by whether and how quickly they decided to heed the summons to come party with the gods on their paradise island.
The most important one we meet is Fëanor, who forges the book's MacGuffins and then instantly gets super weird and possessive about them, in a way that ensures lasting misery for all involved. Hooray!
The reading list:
Ep 1 - Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion Ch 1-3
Ep 2 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 4-10
Ep 3 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 11-16
Ep 4 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 17-20
Ep 5 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 21-24
Ep 6 - Akallabeth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Appendices
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Ep 752 - Daisy Jones and The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
25 mei 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
In 2019, author Taylor Jenkins Reid released her sixth novel Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional oral history of a Fleetwood Mac-esque 70s rock band. In May 2026, Andrew and Craig from Overdue recorded a podcast about the author, her novels, the themes and points of inspiration that helped make Daisy Jones a bestseller. This is an aural history of that recording. Lees meer
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Ep 751 - Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
18 mei 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Less a story about AI, and more "what if that Star Trek episode about whether Data was a person was also exploring the concept of domestic abuse?" Greer writes a short punchy novel that is occasionally uncomfortable but thoughtfully constructed, not unlike a sentient humanoid robot might be. Lees meer
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Ep 750 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
11 mei 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
In the not-so-distant future, Andy Weir will write a novel about a Competent Man getting into trouble and then getting himself out. Then it will be made into a major motion picture starring a relatively bankable movie star. Then Overdue will (probably) read the book. That's what happened with The Martian, and that is what's happening this week with Project Hail Mary -- a novel about a science teacher on a mission to save Earth (and maybe some other planets) from an otherworldly threat. Lees meer
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Ep 749 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and Other Stories), by Eric Carle
4 mei 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
To celebrate this year's Children's Book Week, we're discussing the work of children's author and illustrator Eric Carle, whose colorful art and innovative prints have delighted our children (and us!) for years. Since they're each pretty short we decided to talk about a bunch of them, including: Lees meer
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
2. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (with Bill Martin, Jr.)
3. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (with Bill Martin, Jr.)
4. My Very First Book of Numbers
5. My Very First Book of Colors
6. The Grouchy Ladybug
7. The Very Lonely Firefly
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Ep A03 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated)
27 april 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Around 25 minutes into this episode, Andrew and Craig take a mysterious elixir that turns them into younger versions of themselves with worse microphones and less research under their belts. Oh no! I hope they can find the ingredients to turn themselves back! Lees meer
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The Sillymarillion Ep 01 - A Shortcut to Ilúvatar (J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion)
24 april 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in June 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Lees meer
In the beginning, Eru Ilúvatar created the heaven and the earth, primarily by watching his child-angels have an epic sing-off. And Melkor was there singing bad stuff, but Ilúvatar was like "no matter how bad you sing I can always make it a part of the awesome world I am building."
Anyway, this episode is about perhaps the most biblical part of the Hobbit Bible, where a god-like figure creates the world and casts out one of his followers who thinks he's good enough to challenge god himself. Also: the Dwarves are created, and the Elves wake up.
The reading list:
Ep 1 - Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion Ch 1-3
Ep 2 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 4-10
Ep 3 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 11-16
Ep 4 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 17-20
Ep 5 - Quenta Silmarillion Ch 21-24
Ep 6 - Akallabeth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Appendices
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Ep A02 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Annotated)
20 april 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Our stroll down memory lane continues this week, but we come provisioned with Present-Day Overdue research and context. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Mary Shelley and the legacy of her most famous work while 2013 Andrew and Craig deal primarily with the story, including the titular Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. (Even past us knew that Frankenstein is the doctor, okay??). Also please bear with 2013 us as we discuss artificial intelligence with no knowledge of where we'd be in 2026. Lees meer
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Ep A01 - Dune, by Frank Herbert (Annotated)
13 april 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
We're revisiting our past this month, adding Present-Day Overdue research and context to a few old episodes that didn't have them. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Frank Herbert and the extended Dune-iverse while 2013 Andrew and Craig do their best to talk about the book. Lees meer
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Special Collections: Twilight (2008)
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
This isn't a belated April Fool's joke. We really did watch the movie Twilight, and we're really here to talk about it. Why are Edward and Bella SO strange? How is it that all of the side characters come off as more human than they do in the books? Why is the vampire running like that?? Lees meer
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Ep 748 - MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker and W.C. Heinz
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
MASH is the book that inspired the movie that inspired the show M*A*S*H, which is set in an active war zone but doesn't have a ton to say about war. If you wanted to read about the exploits of a bunch of meatball surgeon wiseacres, though, it is not completely without its charms. Lees meer
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Sit Me Baby One More Time Bonus - The Baby-Sitters Club: The Movie (1995)
27 maart 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
Ho-na-na-na Hey-ey! It's time to talk about the 1995 film adaptation of the series, directed by Melanie Mayron and written by Dalene Young. We mostly enjoyed it, though we have to acknowledge how hard it is to squeeze full plots for each BSC member into one 94-minute movie. Also, what is the deal with Kristy's dad? Why is he so stinky? Lees meer
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Ep 747 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
23 maart 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Before everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell wore brightly colored bandanas and ate pizza for every meal, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were black-and-white underground vigilantes. Eastman and Laird drew on a variety of influences to create something that starts with the energy of self-serious parody before transitioning into the violent yet goofy comic series that would ultimately launch a goofy (but still sort of violent) cartoon empire. This collection contains the first 8 published issues from 1984-85, which includes a Raphael one-shot that introduces hockey stick enthusiast Casey Jones. Cowabunga! Lees meer
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Ep 746 - Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, by Maud Woolf
16 maart 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
This week we've commissioned all thirteen of our clones to record thirteen other versions of this podcast, because we're just such busy guys that we can't do them all ourselves. So are you listening to us, or the clones? And if you're listening to clones, which ones?? Lees meer
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Ep 745 - Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
9 maart 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and - wait, Morrie's here. Tuesday's not so bad after all! Mitch Albom's breakthrough account of his meetings with the late Morrie Schwartz includes some moving lessons about how facing death head-on can help you lead life to the fullest. It also includes some observations by Albom that really threw Craig for a loop. Lees meer
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Ep 744 - Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
2 maart 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
This week's book examines the Asian-American experience through the age-old phenomenon of Hollywood typecasting. And there's an intentionally porous line that separates this book's "reality" from the rest of it, which kind-of-sort-of takes place inside of a formulaic police procedural. Lees meer
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Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 08 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby! (The Baby-Sitters Club #90)
28 februari 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
We jump way ahead in the sequence of the series (but not in the lives of our sitters, who remain stubbornly trapped in the Eighth Grade Time Loop), well into the books' ghostwritten era. This week we meet Abby, an acerbic new member of the Club, and we also meet ghostwriter Nola Thacker, who wrote over a dozen main-series BSC books during the original run. Lees meer
Here's the full Sit Me Baby One More Time reading list:
Kristy's Great Idea
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
The Truth about Stacey
Mary Anne Saves the Day
Dawn and the Impossible Three
Hello, Mallory
Jessi's Secret Language
Welcome to the BSC, Abby
Next time: we're heading to the movies, with The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)!
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Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
23 februari 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
Paul Beatty took the Booker Prize in 2015 with this satirical novel about a grieving man’s attempts to put his small town back on the map. The book lampoons the notion of a post-racial America, touching the fourth rail of "political correctness" with outlandish scenes of segregation and slavery. It's a real high-wire act of a premise that he mostly pulls off?? Lees meer
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Ep 742 - Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2), by Rachel Reid
16 februari 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
Ilya Rozanov. Shane Hollander. Two of hockey's greatest young goal scorers are also trying to score...with each other?? Reid's breakthrough hockey romance has become a true pop culture phenomenon, so we figured it was time to lace up the skates and see what the puck is going on with this most heated of rivalries. Happy belated Valentine's Day! Lees meer
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Ep 741 - Monk & Robot, by Becky Chambers
9 februari 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Usually when robots gain sentience in fiction, they rise up and slay or otherwise subjugate their human creators, but this week's book dares to imagine what might happen if they stood up, looked around, said "thanks but no thanks," and left. It also ponders the meaning of existence, just for good measure. Lees meer
Monk & Robot collects two previously published novels: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.
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Ep 740 - Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
2 februari 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
Three lives, all alike in indignity. Stein's debut book is a collection of stories about three working-class woman at the turn of the 20th century. In it, we see the beginnings of her unique literary voice - full of repetition, repetition, poetic vernacular, and repetition. Lees meer
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Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo, an introduction
30 januari 2026 · 55 min
For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will travel to Neo-Tokyo to meet Akira, created by Katsuhiro Otomo. We're going to read this classic manga across six episodes, then close out with an extra episode on the groundbreaking 1988 film adaptation. Lees meer
This is a preview of a series we’ll be running exclusively for our Patreon supporters over the next few months; we won’t release them on the main feed until the entire series has run. If you want to listen to them as they’re released, see patreon.com/overduepod for more! Episode 1 is already up!
In this episode, you'll hear us discuss our own experience with manga and anime, Otomo's background, and the story of how Akira came to be published in the US.
The episode schedule:
Vol. 1 - Tetsuo
Vol. 2 - Akira 1
Vol. 3 - Akira 2
Vol. 4 - Kei 1
Vol. 5 - Kei 2
Vol. 6 - Kaneda
Bonus - Akira (1988)
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