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Ep 049 - Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What's a granfalloon, you ask? Or a karass? A stuppa? A wampeter? These are all terms from the Bokonon religion, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle - a hilarious but depressing satire of scientific and cultural responsibility in the atomic age.

Topics for this week's discussion include Donuts versus Bagels, grading your own work the Vonnegut way, the incredible intimacy of feet, and pissants. That's right. Pissants.

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

What do you eat lately? What did I eat lately? Eating anything good?

0:44.8

Why did you ask me like that? I don't know, it sounded like the only way that I could actually

0:50.5

ask you what you'd eaten lately. Dungen Donuts has these heart donuts that I got,

0:58.1

but we got some for Valentine's Day just because like, I thought you, you're the worst.

1:05.8

What? I hate corporate love, forced day. I do eat these heart donuts.

1:12.4

We got donuts anyway, we just got them because of, because we wanted donuts.

1:18.5

To celebrate your everlasting love. Yeah. All right.

1:22.1

And I don't know if they still have them because Valentine's Day was like a week ago,

1:25.3

if they do still have them, probably they aren't that good anymore.

1:28.8

No, let's go get a bunch of them and see how it goes.

1:31.5

But there's one that's like strawberry frosting and then cookie dough filling that...

1:37.7

Ew! Yeah, the cookie dough filling just tastes like cream or whatever, but it's a really weird

1:44.0

combination. It's way too sweet, it's way too much, and the flavors do not complement each other at all.

1:51.2

So it's not actually cookie dough inside a donut?

1:54.7

No, because I don't know how you might cry, I think.

1:57.4

Yeah, but how could you fry a donut and then or bake it or whatever and then put

2:03.0

unbaked dough inside? That seems difficult.

2:06.8

Yeah, I mean, I don't know enough about the nuances of donut productions or really say one

2:12.5

way or the other. I suppose you could just take a donut and then put a lot of cookie dough in the

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