Ep 073 - Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth

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

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🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Things get a little hot and heavy on this week's episode dedicated to Philip Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint. We do, however, start off with some reactions to our Pride and Prejudice episode before diving headlong into the mishmash of sex, psychoanalysis, and American Jewish life that is Portnoy and his titular complaint.

Caveat Lector: This book necessitated discussing some rather graphic subject matter, so we decided to slap the "Explicit" tag on the episode. Not only did this mean talking about a few choice scenes in detail, it also means we're a bit freer with language than we are on a regular basis. Don't say we didn't warn you!

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone this is Craig from Overdo. I just wanted to let you know that on this week's show things get a little sexy.
0:07.0	Consider this our sexy prey-lude. Due to the graphic nature of Port noise complaint, we decided to put the explicit tag on this week's episode.
0:16.5	I didn't get as bad as we thought, but just for safety's sake, we thought you might want to know that language is a little dirtier than usual and some of the subject matter we cover is a little grosser than usual.
0:29.5	So you may want to exercise some judgment in whom you listen to this show with or maybe where if you tend to listen without headphones.
0:38.5	Thanks very much for listening and enjoy the show.
0:41.5	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:51.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:59.5	Let me know if I can swear because I'm really feeling it.
1:23.5	Okay well we said in our sexy prey-lude that we were going to swear. Do you need to swear right now?
1:29.5	Sexy prey-lude. Well hopefully we sang that a whole bunch of times. What do you need to swear about? Do you need to swear about Nebraska?
1:37.5	I mean I always need to swear about Nebraska. Let's not, let's not mend swear.
1:43.5	I'm like, I get married in two and a half months.
1:47.5	Yeah, yeah you do. And we're deep into it.
1:53.5	And we've talked before I think in passing about wedding stuff and I want to emphasize that I'm super happy to get married to Savannah who I'm getting married to.
2:04.5	But we are way far past the fun part. Like the part where you're like tasting cake and stuff months ago.
2:12.5	But that cake's still now. I mean we ate it all. Like it's all gone. So we're going to get the rest of us.
2:19.5	We're getting a new cake. How do you know it's going to taste the same?
2:22.5	It's because the same person is making.
2:24.5	Oh, what is she like sad on the day of your wedding in the cake?
2:28.5	Okay sad.
2:29.5	One, it's a woman. So way to be sexist and two, we're just going to have to take that chance.
2:35.5	And that's like that's why I want to talk about because up until now everything has been about planning and about.
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