Episode 12: I Read, I Heard, I Hated

The voices of Episode 12: Jake Rummel, Rebecca Brown, and Christopher Frizzelle

Episode 12

The conversation gets going with some chatter about The Great Beyond, the August 1 variety show and summer party for FrizzLit that takes place on Herman Melville’s birthday.

Have you seen this lineup?!

Jake goes viral on TikTok

We also talk about Jake’s paean to a corndog on a ledge in an apartment building he just moved out of.

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@jacobrummelcorndog friends

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Also mentioned on this episode:

• “Benito Cereno,” a story by Melville that Christopher read for the first time in Rebecca Brown’s recent Melville book club

• The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century according to the New York Times

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

• The Texas songwriter Jo Carol Pierce

• “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Paul F. Tompkins’s “Peanut Brittle” on Good One: A Podcast about Jokes

• Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall

• Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2024 film Kinds of Kindness

• Joe Versus the Volcano

Note

This episode was recorded on July 18, 2024

We forgot to mention

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