Ep 023 - Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the book's preface, Vonnegut called Breakfast of Champions an attempt to "clear his head of all the junk in there." He wasn't kidding. Breakfast is a melange of narrative, sketches, and character sketches - and Andrew totally dug it.

This week we discuss current events (specifically royal babies), Vonnegut's voice, and the benefits of self-insertion.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	So there's this, there's this country called England.
0:39.0	The United Kingdom.
0:41.0	The United Kingdom.
0:42.0	Great Britain.
0:43.0	Yeah, it has a lot of different names and maybe they mean different things.
0:48.0	I think so.
0:49.0	I don't know.
0:50.0	Yeah, probably.
0:51.0	Okay.
0:52.0	Anyway, so they have this, this figurehead and they don't, they like live on the taxpayers'
0:57.0	name, but they don't like do anything.
0:59.0	And those are the royals.
1:01.0	But that one old lady owns dogs, right?
1:03.0	That's like her whole thing.
1:04.0	I mean, you can be a figurehead and still own dogs like they're not usually exclusive things.
1:10.0	But so one of them is having a baby.
1:13.0	And she's the only woman on earth who's ever had a baby except for like Kim Kardashian.
1:19.0	And I don't know.
1:23.0	Blue Ivy Carter was a while ago, so I don't think that counts anymore.
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