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Overdue
with Craig Getting and Andrew Cunningham
Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy children's books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
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[Ep 759 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
7/13/2026](/content/overdue/ep-759-the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-by-stephen-r-covey#player/index.html)
Join us friends, for a real paradigm shift. Andrew and Craig's synergy reaches levels never before seen as they proactively seek to understand the meaning behind this self-help titan. We'll also discuss our most upsetting dairy-related prose since the Krampus egg-nog thing. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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[Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
7/6/2026](/content/overdue/ep-758-forrest-gump-by-winston-groom#player/index.html)
Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Groom's picaresque romp Forrest Gump inspired a juggernaut of a movie in the mid-90s - but it's really a rather different story than the one told onscreen. Did you know Gump went space??
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[Ep 757 - Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
6/29/2026](/content/overdue/ep-757-dungeon-crawler-carl-by-matt-dinniman#player/index.html)
New achievement! Record a podcast about Dungeon Crawler Carl! The thought of having to write flavor text in Dungeon Crawler Carl’s “achievement description” voice bums me out so I’m going to skip that part of the joke. Reward: You get to listen to the podcast we recorded about Dungeon Crawler Carl. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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[The Sillymarillion Ep 03 - Of Elves and Stewed Curses (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
6/27/2026](/content/overdue/the-sillymarillion-ep-03-of-elves-and-stewed-curses-jrr-tolkiens-the-silmarillion#player/index.html)
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in August 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod.
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[Ep 756 - Private Rites, by Julia Armfield
6/22/2026](/content/overdue/ep-756-private-rites-by-julia-armfield#player/index.html)
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day--oh. You're never going away? You're going to flood the world and make it very damp for a trio of sisters as they parcel out their dead father's legacy a la King Lear But Wetter? Sounds like you're the rain from Julia Armfield's Private Rites, an intimate novel about familial traps that happens to have a horror card or two hiding up its sleeve.
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[Ep 755 - Audition, by Katie Kitamura
6/15/2026](/content/overdue/ep-755-audition-by-katie-kitamura#player/index.html)
Have you ever read a book where you haven't been entirely sure what happened in the book? Where you haven't been sure what's "real," and if you can tell what's "real," you can't tell who the book is "real" for? Have you ever felt like the whole world is a stage, and that we are merely players? If you answered "yes" to all these questions, you might be the target audience for this one. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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[Ep 754 - Legend of the White Snake, by Sher Lee (w/ Heaving Bosoms)
6/8/2026](/content/overdue/ep-754-legend-of-the-white-snake-by-sher-lee-w-heaving-bosoms#player/index.html)
Here we go again: another collaboration with Heaving Bosoms! Buckle up for a supersized episode on this folklore inspired YA fantasy by Sher Lee. Special thanks to our guests Melody and Sabrina from Heaving Bosoms for joining us to discuss snakes, lost contacts, love, and Chinese myth. We have a lot of questions about snakes! Do we get all the answers? Listen along to find out.
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[Ep 753 - You Are a Millionaire, by Jay Leibold (Choose Your Own Adventure #98)
6/1/2026](/content/overdue/ep-753-you-are-a-millionaire-by-jay-leibold-choose-your-own-adventure-98#player/index.html)
Living in our age of elite impunity made us want to imagine what it must be like to have one million US dollars (approximately $2.6 million, when adjusted for inflation). Luckily, there's a book series that lets you choose to be anything you want to be, as long as what you want to be exists within one of several scripted narrative paths of steadily escalating goofiness.
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[The Sillymarillion Ep 02 - The Choices of Master Fëanor (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
5/29/2026](/content/overdue/the-sillymarillion-ep-02-the-choices-of-master-feanor-jrr-tolkiens-the-silmarillion#player/index.html)
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in July 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod.
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[Ep 752 - Daisy Jones and The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5/25/2026](/content/overdue/ep-752-daisy-jones-and-the-six-by-taylor-jenkins-reid#player/index.html)
In 2019, author Taylor Jenkins Reid released her sixth novel Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional oral history of a Fleetwood Mac-esque 70s rock band. In May 2026, Andrew and Craig from Overdue recorded a podcast about the author, her novels, the themes and points of inspiration that helped make Daisy Jones a bestseller.
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[Ep 751 - Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
5/18/2026](/content/overdue/ep-751-annie-bot-by-sierra-greer#player/index.html)
Less a story about AI, and more "what if that Star Trek episode about whether Data was a person was also exploring the concept of domestic abuse?" Greer writes a short punchy novel that is occasionally uncomfortable but thoughtfully constructed, not unlike a sentient humanoid robot might be.
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[Ep 750 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
5/11/2026](/content/overdue/ep-750-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir#player/index.html)
In the not-so-distant future, Andy Weir will write a novel about a Competent Man getting into trouble and then getting himself out. Then it will be made into a major motion picture starring a relatively bankable movie star. Then Overdue will (probably) read the book. That's what happened with The Martian, and that is what's happening this week with Project Hail Mary -- a novel about a science teacher on a mission to save Earth (and maybe some other planets) from an otherworldly threat.
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[Ep 749 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and Other Stories), by Eric Carle
5/4/2026](/content/overdue/ep-749-the-very-hungry-caterpillar-and-other-stories-by-eric-carle#player/index.html)
To celebrate this year's Children's Book Week, we're discussing the work of children's author and illustrator Eric Carle, whose colorful art and innovative prints have delighted our children (and us!) for years. Since they're each pretty short we decided to talk about a bunch of them, including:
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (with Bill Martin, Jr.)
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (with Bill Martin, Jr.)
- My Very First Book of Numbers
- My Very First Book of Colors
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- The Very Lonely Firefly
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[Ep A03 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated)
4/27/2026](/content/overdue/ep-a03-the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-by-robert-louis-stevenson-annotated#player/index.html)
Around 25 minutes into this episode, Andrew and Craig take a mysterious elixir that turns them into younger versions of themselves with worse microphones and less research under their belts. Oh no! I hope they can find the ingredients to turn themselves back!
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[The Sillymarillion Ep 01 - A Shortcut to Ilúvatar (J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion)
4/24/2026](/content/overdue/the-sillymarillion-ep-01-a-shortcut-to-iluvatar-jrr-tolkiens-silmarillion#player/index.html)
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in June 2025. If you want to hear our current longread project TOKYO DRIFTERS (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod.
In the beginning, Eru Ilúvatar created the heaven and the earth, primarily by watching his child-angels have an epic sing-off. And Melkor was there singing bad stuff, but Ilúvatar was like "no matter how bad you sing I can always make it a part of the awesome world I am building." Anyway, this episode is about perhaps the most biblical part of the Hobbit Bible, where a god-like figure creates the world and casts out one of his followers who thinks he's good enough to challenge god himself. Also: the Dwarves are created, and the Elves wake up.