Ducks Never Waver Lunch Break

S2E9 "Why Children Should NOT Read Abridged Classics"

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S2E8 "Slipper and the Rose and Why Adults Should Enjoy Fairytales"

We often relegate fairytales to children thinking that when we reach a certain agedness we no longer need them. If we do this, we deprive ourselves of respite and imagination, the wonderment of grace, and how to face mortality and the vanity of life. This week, your favorite dynamic duo explore the magic of the Cinderella story retold with emotional and beautiful depth in "The Slipper and the Rose". They also accidently fall into the world of Stephen Lawhead's "Song of Albion " Trilogy, a perfect example of how the secondary world (or fairy land) and primary (real world) feed into each other and how the two support each other. More Fairy Tales: Grimm's Fairy Tales: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/ On Re-Enchantment: https://firstthings.com/thinking-twice-about-re-enchantment/ https://blog.ayjay.org/some-enchanted-evening/ https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/10/awakening-moral-imagination-vigen-guroian-timeless.html?mc_cid=a94540758d&mc_eid=0ced15dc4b https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/tolkien-on-fairy-stories-argument-bradley-birzer.html?mc_cid=ecf758b3f9&mc_eid=0ced15dc4b The things discussed: Slipper and the Rose:https://a.co/d/0ceLv4t The Paradise War (Book 1 Song of Albion Trilogy): https://a.co/d/2Yi899c Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations [https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations]

S2E7 "Spinning: Myth, History, Craft"

Craft is so much more than the actual skill and tools that are required to create a desired outcome. This is seen most clearly in the the craft of spinning. Myth, history, tales, and more a twisted up in every yard of yarn produced. Our dynamic duo explores these depths looking at such materials as "The Odyssey" and "Sleeping Beauty". Surprisingly, the time space continuum didn't come up but we all know it's there, for when spinning, one is connected to time past in the present looking towards the future. More Quackiness:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations [https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations]

S2E6 "The Craft of Comedy"

Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight! What makes something funny, what is the difference between laughing and crying, what is the point of laughter? These are good questions! But they shan't be answered! Nay! Who can feign to know the deep dark mysteries of comedy? "Dying is easy, comedy is hard" -Edmund Kean Rather, our favorite dynamic duo will bring you on a journey through their favorite comedies pulling apart comedic attributes so that you may be illuminated on just how difficult it is to be funny, on purpose. To be funny on purpose. Either that or to make you cry. I don't remember which... Some of the movies mentioned: Marx Brothers:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/ Screwball: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 Mel Brooks: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/ W.C. Fields:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022883/ Woody Allen: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073312/ Information about the lost Jerry Lewis movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33030466/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations [https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations]

S2E5 "The Beauty of Homeschooling"

In this exciting episode our dynamic duo discuss their experience being homeschooled. Find out if they feed into the stereotype or maybe they'll say something unusual, which would feed into the stereotype. Looks like we're caught in a loop again... Get ready to be loopy and enjoy! "My Divine Comedy" by Missy Andrews: https://centerforlit.squarespace.com/mydivinecomedy Other quackyness:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations [https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations]