Ep 200 - Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Here it is: the big two-hundo! This week, Andrew tackles David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in a show that is nearly 2.5 hours long and yet somehow still not quite long enough to get to everything.

We break down the plot and the structure, such as they are, and we also dive deeper into the role of addiction and depression in the book and the book’s at-times antagonistic relationship with the reader. It’s a book worth reading, but perhaps more than anything we’ve yet done for the show, it resists being read.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:03.7	Hey, everybody Craig here.
0:07.4	Andrew Redd Infinite jest for our 200th episode.
0:10.3	Hello.
0:11.3	Hello.
0:12.3	He's here.
0:13.3	Oh, wow, I didn't even see you over there.
0:14.3	And in keeping with our pattern, our tradition, our belief system of 50th episode anniversaries,
0:22.1	we decided to put an explicit tag on this episode.
0:25.8	I'm not sure why we haven't even recorded it yet, but Andrew has a lot of feelings.
0:31.6	I just assume that those feelings are going to get explicit.
0:34.8	I have a lot of feelings.
0:36.0	It feels like something that could easily get explicit.
0:39.2	We're not planning to get explicit, but this week we won't hold ourselves back.
0:47.6	Hold on to your butts.
0:55.8	Big 200.
1:11.8	Big 200.
1:14.8	I would read 200 books and I would read 200.
1:20.8	Just to be the man who read 200 books to fall out.
1:37.6	Welcome to overdue.
1:38.6	Pod, my name is Craig.
1:39.9	My name is Andrew.
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