Book mentioned: https://a.co/d/irEEqFP

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

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

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/

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

Megan tried quilting! Check out this episode to learn more about the history, challenges, and controversies of quilting.

YouTube video about making the quilt: https://youtu.be/9RhEmPULrDw

Look at some quilts: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=quilts

"Brevity is the soul of wit." This week our dynamic duo sets out to prove the bard wrong! A collection of topics spanning work to leisure and anything in between.

Chisels: https://a.co/d/2yOLUyZ

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose: https://a.co/d/2Wvazec

Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: https://a.co/d/9VYEgix

And https://a.co/d/1NFePL2

"Ask not for whom the bells toll; it tolls for thee".

The history of bells, a dissection of change ringing, inept bureaucracy (redundant, I know), the life of a church, Old Years, New Years, Floods, Easter, resurrection, and oh yeah, a disfigured body.

Throw in a stolen emerald necklace and you have "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy L. Sayers. A master wordsmith delving deep into the craft of campanology and sleuthing, Sayers brings new heights to the murder mystery.

This week, our dynamic duo explores what makes this such a complex novel from one of the most dynamic authors.