Good Story 272: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Around Christmas time, Julie thinks deep thoughts... If Santa is at Macy's who is making all the toys? How many Christmas cocktails are too many? Does Scott sleep with his beard outside or inside the covers?
Miracle on 34th Street (the original from 1947) is the subject of Episode 272.


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Good Story 271: "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Joyful and Triumphant" by Jo Walton

Julie tries to high-five a flippered Delfein. Scott reads St. Zenobius' instructions to the atheist doctor on the spaceship.
Episode 271: "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Joyful and Triumphant: St. Zenobius and the Aliens" by Jo Walton.



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LINKS!

"Joyful and Triumphant: St. Zenobius and the Aliens" by Jo Walton

"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke reads his story "The Star"

Jo Walton's LTUE Guest of Honor Address (2018)

Good Story 100: Among Others by Jo Walton (with guest Br. Guy Consolmagno)

Good Story 212: Lent by Jo Walton

Good Story 224: Genesis 1 and Seven Glorious Days by Karl W. Giberson

St. Zenobius story

For those wanting to read the St. Zenobius story:

Here's the St. Zenobius story link.

About the real St. Zenobius

Good Story 270: Three Episodes of Star Trek TOS

Julie swept floors to earn money for the vacuum tubes Scott used to record this podcast. Those tubes held on just long enough to talk about three Star Trek episodes from the Original Series: Enemy Within, Balance of Terror, and The City on the Edge of Forever. Episode 270!



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Good Story 269: Rivers of London (aka Midnight Riot) by Ben Aaronovitch

Julie and Scott were on guard duty this week. Julie met a nice transparent fellow who saw a murder. Scott was reading what was on the lion statue's bum.
Episode 269: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (aka Midnight Riot)



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Good Story 268: Fan (2016)

After seeing Shah Rukh Khan's live show, Julie and Scott plan a revue of their own. Their big number is performed by two look-alike fans who locked them in their dressing room. Scott and Julie don't complain because the fans got standing ovations. Episode 268: Shah Rukh Khan In and As: Fan (2016)



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Good Story 267: Three Tales of Love and Terror

Julie is running in circles in the Long Gallery. Scott's science fiction book has become inexplicably Squashily Sentimental. Episode 267: Three Tales of Love and Terror - Honeysuckle Cottage by P. G. Wodehouse, How Fear Departed the Long Gallery by E. F. Benson, and Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller, Jr.



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The Haunting of Hill House - episode 71

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Good Story 266: My Cousin Vinny

Julie is trying to learn to cook grits in 10 minutes. Scott asks the witness — and only the witness — how many fingers he is holding up.
Episode 266: My Cousin Vinny (1992)



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Good Story 265: John Paul the Great

John Paul II shakes his staff and shouts, "A Good Story is Hard to Find!" Scott and Julie cheer. Everyone else looks confused.
Episode 265: John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father by Peggy Noonan.



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Good Story 264: Baahubali (The Beginning and The Conclusion)

Julie practices walking with a bowl of live coals on her head. Meanwhile, Scott makes final adjustments to his Lawnmower of Death.
Episode 264: Baahubali: The Beginning and Bahubali 2: The Conclusion.


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Good Story 263: Murderbot Diaries (Books 1 - 4)

Julie has watched all 397 episodes of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Three times. Scott missed most of the episodes because he had to convince the security system that everything is normal, thank you very much.
Episode 263: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, Books 1-4. (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocal, and Exit Strategy)



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Good Story 262: Moneyball (2011)

Julie and Scott hold tryouts for a new co-host. Julie wants the one with the good looking swing. Scott wants the one whose wife looks most like Karl Urban. Billy Beane tells them they're asking the wrong questions.
Episode 262: Moneyball (2011) directed by Bennett Miller, written by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, and starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.


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Good Story 261: Blue Highways

Julie and Scott travel across America, using only Blue Highways, keeping a sharp lookout for banana slugs and ho-made pies.
Episode 261: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon.



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Good Story 260: A Gentleman in Moscow

Scott is in training to be a Man of Intent. Julie is trying to control her borzois. They recover by having cocktails at the Metropol's bar. Vodka. Straight up.
Episode 260: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.



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Good Story 259: Casablanca (1942)

Julie couldn't win enough at the roulette wheel to get an exit visa to Lisbon until Scott, wearing a very fine white tuxedo jacket, told her to bet on 22. Episode 259: Casablanca (1942) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.


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Good Story 258: Ratatouille (2007)

Julie's making Turkey Bone Gumbo and Peach Crumb Pie. Scott's trying to cut these veggies extremely thin. And there's not a rat to be seen, anywhere in the kitchen. At least not one that hasn't washed its hands. Episode 258: Ratatouille (2007) directed by Brad Bird.


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Good Story 257: Gone with the Wind, Part 2

Scott's got a new job at the saw mill. Julie's helping Frank at the store. They expect great things from these exciting new careers! See how wrong their expectations are in this discussion of the second half of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.


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Good Story 256: Gone with the Wind, Part 1

Julie and Scott were at the barbecue minding their own business, when suddenly someone started throwing vases. Also the Civil War started. All this and more in the first half of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.


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Good Story 255: Airlift (2016)

Julie, Scott, and 170,000 of their closest friends are stuck in Kuwait. Which one of them will tell Ranjit about the state of the toilet? Episode 255: Airlift (2016) starring Akshay Kumar.


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Good Story 254: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Julie's worried about zombies. Scott's worried about another flood. When Gilgamesh shows up with only part of the Bull of Heaven, they really get worried. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the subject of Episode 254.


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Mentioned in the episode:

Forgotten Classics, Episode 144: The Epic of Gilgamesh, in which we hear a retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh and also consider myth and literature.

Here is a look at a tablet, written in Akkadian, that contains the flood story:

Good Story 253: Looper

Julie and Scott go to France, but they probably should have gone to China. Episode 253: Looper (2012), directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt.


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Good Story 252: The Book of Tobit

Julie and Scott are pretty sure this guy they're on a road trip with is an archangel. Or Karl Urban. One or the other. Episode 252: The Book of Tobit from the Old Testament.


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Good Story 251: A New Leaf (1971)

Julie spills her Mogen David extra heavy malaga wine cooler on Scott's white rug. With a great effort, Scott holds his temper. It is Lent, after all. A New Leaf (1971), written and directed by Elaine May is the subject of episode 251.


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Good Story 250: The Virginian

Scott smiles when he says that. Julie refuses to say that at all. Episode 250: The Virginian by Owen Wister.


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Good Story 249: True Grit (2010)

Julie throws in with some marshals on a manhunt. Scott stays behind to seek a writ of replevin. Episode 249: True Grit (2010).


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Good Story 248: Tuyo

Julie and Scott remember doing this episode with one other person, but how can they be sure? Will Duquette joins them for Episode 248 and he brought Tuyo by Rachel Neimeier with him.


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