Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

**Craig Getting** (0:00)
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While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

**Craig Getting** (2:44)
Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

**Andrew Cunningham** (2:50)
My name is Andrew Craig. It's August 14th. And you know what time of year it is.

**Craig Getting** (2:56)
Oh no.

**Andrew Cunningham** (2:57)
And August 14th.

**Craig Getting** (2:58)
Is it here already?

**Andrew Cunningham** (3:00)
It's Halloween.

**Craig Getting** (3:01)
Oh no.

**Andrew Cunningham** (3:03)
I'm joined on the call by the pumpkin himself, the caramel pumpkin. Caramel is what I say, but Susanna is a caramel person, and she's made Henry a caramel person. And now I'm catching strays every time I say caramel.
He's like, daddy, you don't pronounce that right. I'm like, I'd say it how I say it, kid. Anyway, it's pumpkin beer season. Happy August 14th. Everyone is pumpkin beer season.

**Craig Getting** (3:31)
Is it also pumpkin spice lattes season?

**Andrew Cunningham** (3:35)
I don't know. I don't observe that holiday. I'm happy for people who do, but I drink black iced coffee, and that's it.

**Craig Getting** (3:44)
Yeah. It's a legendary season, wouldn't you say?

**Andrew Cunningham** (3:49)
It is a legendary season. For lattes. Oh, you're trying to bring it into a coffee thing. That's cool.

**Craig Getting** (3:54)
Well, it's kind of fortuitous that you tried to make it a pumpkin thing.

**Andrew Cunningham** (3:58)
No, it's good. I successfully made it a pumpkin thing. It's pumpkin time. It's August 14th. It's Halloween. Halloween's upon us, everyone.

**Craig Getting** (4:05)
We're not even reading a spooky book. What is happening?

**Andrew Cunningham** (4:08)
No, it's just Halloween. Pumpkin beer's here.

**Craig Getting** (4:11)
Oh my goodness.

**Andrew Cunningham** (4:12)
There was something in the news about how Halloween's the longest holiday now.

**Craig Getting** (4:16)
I went to the grocery store last week. This is a classic Overdue intro. I went to the grocery store last week.

**Andrew Cunningham** (4:20)
We are not going to go on that long.

**Craig Getting** (4:22)
There was a... They had gotten the big candy boxes out.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:27)
Like the big... It's out.

**Andrew Cunningham** (4:28)
It's here. It's Halloween.

**Craig Getting** (4:29)
In the seasonal section, those big cardboard troughs.

**Andrew Cunningham** (4:34)
I again... And there will be those who argue that the cure is worse than the disease, but this is what we have to do to stop the relentless march of Christmas, which is aesthetically much worse.