Ducks Never Waver Lunch Break

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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...

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&#39...

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 favori...

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 quackyn...

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 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations

"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 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-nev...

"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 c...

We're baaaaaack! We hope you stick around for a fun season of quackery! Why, Winter? Thy frosty countenance is enough to try men. Why dost thou tary and blacken the earth with thy cloudiness? To change the time, Winter replied. With great contrast I provide rich bounty of death, to halt industry, to frustrate thy plans. To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream. For in that sleep of deat...

"Don't know where we're goin', but wherever we was wasn't it." We're back! Sort of... Catch up with your favorite dynamic duo to hear why they disappeared from the land of podcasts (hint: it's all Edwin's fault). Things were made and thoughts were thought, then they were talked about. What a time to be alive! This will be the last podcast for 2024. We are restru...

"Simple" is a word that seems easy to understand, basic, and well, simple. But when you get down to boiling the pudding you swiftly realize how complicated simple things are and vice versa. It is in this paradox our dynamic duo shall reside a while; trying simply to say that the simple things are complicated without reducing our existence to simplistic understandings. It really couldn'...

Structured as a prayer, "Confessions" by Augustine is a book that everyone should read. But why? Well, that's what the podcast is about, silly! If you want a more in depth look we recommend this lecture series from The Great Courses: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/st-augustines-confessions Recommended translation: https://a.co/d/gsbp3Tw More fun stuff: https://linktr.ee/ducksnever...

And we don't mean the slumbering kind, although we are in favor of that too. Especially Edwin. He's always sleeping. But he's not sleeping during this podcast! In fact, he's all fired up to talk about a plethora of topics in this Quick Fire Quack. Teamed up with the ever sprightly Megan, this dynamic duo will amaze you with their verbose verbiage. What kind of amazement is in store...

Whether you're a scientist guru claiming you have the key to a perfect life or you're someone trying said keys, everyone is an expert in self improvement. But not our dynamic duo! Listen to them frolicking about the idea of self betterment and rambling free associations that Megan insists are necessary. We don't promise any improvement, self or otherwise, but we hope you enjoy this wee...

"Watership Down" by Richard Adams is a sweeping epic of leaving home and building an empire, leaders and warriors, and, well, rabbits! Our dynamic duo go off on an adventure of their own, following the journey of those motley rabbits. Parallel roads to "The Aeneid" and "The Odyssey" are hopped across, tyrannical totalitarian civilizations are brought low, and "true hero...

What is philosophy? How do you know philosophy is philosophy and not something made up by some guy named Phil? Our dynamic duo offers up for your auditory amusement an awareness to the far reaching realms of philosophy. This may become a series, it may not, either way you should listen to this intro to philosophy! You might like this: https://a.co/d/aTRoYfg And this!https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwav...

Calming yet infuriating, easy to do yet must be highly skilled, these are just a couple of the paradoxes (or as Megan likes to say: pair-of-docks) that makes the waters of fishing murky. Can Edwin (the most experienced fisherman of the dynamic duo, which isn't saying much) enlighten to the joys (and let downs) of casual fishing? Will Megan ever go fishing? Why is Edwin so annoying when playing...

Urban homesteading, most valuable thing learned in school, and maintaining friendships (ick), are a few of the topics discussed in todays exciting episode! More fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations

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A free flowing episode with highlights such as bunnies, toughness, and the problem with metaphors. More Fun:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations

A spin on the concept, Edwin and Megan take turns answering a plentiful plethora of questions. No one saw this coming. What will they do next?! More fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations

Picking up the poem where they had previously played, this dynamic duo discuss the alliterative, ambiguous, end without further adjournment. More fun:  https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl-Orfeo/dp/0345277600 https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donations

Covering style, setting, and subject, our dynamic duo discourse that weighty, worthy, classic-without-end - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" . Heroically our heroes search high and low thru this highly regarded and honorable poem. And amiably stroll down the avenue of ambiguity. Make sure y'all come back for part 2, now y'hear? More Fun:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver https://ww...

Well, this week we went thru the harrowing experience of the all dreaded "technical difficulties". 3 days, 7 hours, 900 tests later, we THINK we are back in business! We hope you enjoy this lil' teaser... Can you guess what the next episode will be about? Stay Quacky https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ducks-never-waver-lunch-break/donation...

Have you ever been told "You don't need that book. You have more at home that you haven't even read!"? And did you feel an irrational, irate, irritating, indignation? Today Edwin and Megan are here to tell you that those feelings are anything but irrational and that contemptible cur should listen to this podcast. You should too, for you will feel oh-so-victorious when you hear that...