Charlotte's Web

Guys, you know, some of the things that I have been really impressed with in this show is honestly the more because this is the first time that we've had this show on this podcast.

And last time when I was watching the show, I was just watching and enjoying and now I'm really thinking through it a lot more and I tend to be that much more impressed with the writing this time around and just how well they kind of place everything in here like the reading of Charlotte's Web, whether it's, you know, beard reading it aloud, the boy reading it and saying some pig and making obviously the direct reference to the sign and all that.

But really, the more you think about Charlotte's Web, it's everything from sacrifice and looking out for one another the the power of words with one another and how Chilton saying yes and and giving a words of encouragement to players.

There's there's always a lot of the the thematics are placed into these episodes really well.

And I think that if you're just kind of watching and not paying attention to it, you miss it.

I mean, I just again, I'm glad that they brought they're bringing the show back the right way.

And the writers are just there's so many perfect moments.

I love the way that you say that, too, and how Charlotte's Web, the power of words and then using the believe in how you can't copy paste it and There's just so many different elements of that that I think make it so powerful and more than just to feel good.

James got married and moved to New York, and in 1926, he began his career as a freelance writer.

There he became friends with E.B. White, who was the author of Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and it would be E.B. White who would introduce him to the editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross.

Ross hired Thurber.

Did you read any of the Stuart Little? Of course! I actually never read any of the Stuart Little, but I did read Charlotte's Web.

E.B. White and Thurber shared an office at The New Yorker, and Thurber had been working on some drawings, which he ended up throwing into a trash can.

White looked at them and thought they were pretty good, so he submitted them to The New Yorker for publication, and they did publish them, and this began Thurber's decades-long career of contributing drawings and writings to The New Yorker.

The two men also worked on their first book together, which was called Is Sex Necessary?, and it featured a number of Thurber's cartoons.

Oh, my.

And then she went on to say that she thinks the job of a writer is to tell the truth, but to make it bearable.

And she cites E.B. White in Charlotte's Web.

And I thought that was just so beautifully stated.

She said that White loved the world.

When I was a kid and I read a lot of soothing books, you know, because I think, you know, all kids have things about growing up that are hard.

So I like the Little House on the Prairie books and Beverly Cleary and Carolyn Haywood and like series of books where I would revisit the same characters and enter that world, you know, and my mom read a lot to us.

So even now, like when I hear, you know, the Winnie the Pooh books or rabbit Hill or Charlotte's web or Beverly clear.

I can hear it in my mom's voice, reading it out loud to us.

Don't be afraid to have some fun with it.

E.B. White, the author of Charlotte's Web, once turned down an invitation by writing, "I must decline for secret reasons." An amusing or thoughtful no may well be appreciated more than a thoughtless yes, as Sherry Lu found out.

She got in the habit of explaining her boundaries and conveying care.

Like, immediately I would say, "Hey, I, you know, I'm at bandwidth right now." But I wouldn't just say no straight up.

Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery for Kids in High School.

There's a lot of classical literature like Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Great Expectations, Charlotte's Web, which I absolutely loved as a child.

So you've got your kind of stalwarts on there.

I mean, I haven't been through the list of the 200 books, but it's not, I suppose...

I mean, I just do.

I love her.

I very much agreed with Charlotte's Web, which I brought with because I still have my beloved copy.

But, you know, I also think syllabus-wise, for me, a major gap was my lack of classics knowledge and not being able to have the opportunity to study it.

I never either acceded to that training or I never was trained that way, but it felt vital to me to be respectful and in communication and concert with other species from a very young age.

When I would read books that had animals as characters in That feeling that you have that they are with you and they are like you that comes from reading Charlotte's Web, let's say.

That's the feeling that I still have.

I never lost that feeling.

nice.

More than just Charlotte's Web.

His book called One Man's Meat was part of the curriculum.

And to this day, I still adore that book because it's so relevant, even though he was talking about stuff in the 30s and 40s.

Probably anything science is going in there, let's be honest.

I wouldn't be surprised if they put Charlotte's Web in there as well.

Let's be honest.

Who's Charlotte?

It's a little pig with a spider friend.

I'm so sorry I haven't recently read Sir Charlotte's Web.

Pigs don't make webs.

What the fuck?

I don't even know who that is.

Charlotte's Web.

Do you remember

that book? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Charlotte's Web.

They made a movie of that, didn't they? They made a book.

It's a book? E.B.

I'll have to put it on the list.