Ep 336 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Bonus Episode)

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

How is sex different than love? Is privacy a necessity for human identity? For political identity? DOES GOD POOP?

With the help of Milan Kundera, we attempt to answer these questions and more in this bonus episode on his classic novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Also, be sure to listen post-outro to experience the horrors of a Google Hangout gone wrong.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot.
0:43.5	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.4	My name is Craig.
0:47.4	My name is Andrew.
0:49.4	And this is one of our bonus episodes.
0:53.3	We're back again.
0:54.3	Yep.
0:55.3	More content.
0:56.3	This is our December bonus episode that we are doing on Malon Kondera's The Unbearable
1:07.2	Lightness of Being, which is recommended to us by some Patreon supporters Emily and
1:13.3	Mandy.
1:14.3	Thank you both.
1:15.3	And we have Patreon supporters in the chat with us as we record this episode.
1:19.8	So hey chat, how's it going?
1:21.6	I'm waving.
1:22.6	I'm always curious to see, because we've done a lot of different content.
1:26.2	We've done a lot of different kinds of books with the chat watching.
1:28.3	And sometimes it's routier than others.
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