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Lauren Sporer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

Do people like our episode descriptions being a little bit vague, or would they like to have a lot more concrete info about what's in this episode?

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

And overwhelmingly, their response was, we love it vague.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

We love it.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

But then some people did say that after they liked the surprise of listening to the episode, having no idea what's coming,

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

But then when they want to go back and find something from years later, they sort of wish that they could have it both ways, that there would be like a more concrete way to search, which frankly there is now that we have really, really up-to-date transcripts.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

So you could search for something more concrete.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

You could also always just email us.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

We're really fast about saying, oh, you're thinking of this one.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

Here's the link.

Criminal
Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

Last episode, we inaugurated a new reading group.

Criminal
Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

We started with a Hemingway short story called

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

This was born out of controversy that I said, haven't we all heard enough about Ernest Hemingway?

Criminal
Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

And you challenged me to read a short story, and we put it up for everyone on Patreon.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

We read the story.

Criminal
Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

We read a short story, a very, very short story called Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

And Phoebe, I have to hand it to you.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

You were right.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

It is very good.

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Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

I think it, I was surprised.

Criminal
Captain's Orders (Criminal+)

It was, I felt sort of like such a cliche because I was so surprised how many times it would move, it would just move away from the action.