Episode 106: “Lose me in the tundra, I’m here for it.”
From tetherball to Judy Blume, C+D spend this episode throwing it back to talk about their favorite recess games and childhood reads. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more.
Links To Give You Life:
Dive into a new corporate sitcom—with a nerdy twist—”Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet,” now available to stream on Apple TV+
Take the plunge with deeper learning on edX, an open source platform for students across the globe to take live and on demand courses from top universities
Walk down a bookish memory lane with throwback reads, childhood classics, and Scholastic book fair picks
For this week’s #AskReddit segment, C asks, “If life had loading screens, what would it say?” while D asks, “What is a common cliche in movies that never fails to make you laugh?”
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Episode Guide: (01:15) D’s obsession with “Mythic Quest” (07:50) C’s obsession with edX (19:15) The good old days of Scholastic book fairs (23:00) Tetherball tournaments and sports games at recess (26:30) C+D’s first “jobs” in the cafeteria and storage room (30:00) Daredevil acts on the playground bars and swings (37:15) Childhood classics “Julie of the Wolves” and “Island of the Blue Dolphin” (45:15) “The Box-Car Children,” “The Baby-Sitters Club,” and “Harriet the Spy” (48:40) “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and Judy Blume (50:55) “Santa’s Twin” by Dean Koontz (55:15) “The Edge Chronicles” by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (01:04:08) #AskReddit with loading screens and movie cliches
