Ep 525 - The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Truly great butlers are work-focused automata, occupied only on maintaining and increasing the reputation of their employer. But what if there were more to life than that? This week, we follow one butler as he comes to exactly that realization.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:40.6	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot.
0:42.2	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:44.0	My name is Craig.
0:45.0	My name is Andrew.
0:46.5	And it's the month of April.
0:48.7	April showers bring May flowers.
0:51.1	Maybe.
0:52.7	If you try hard enough.
0:54.3	I mean, actually, as we record this is March 28th and we got alerts on our phones here
1:00.0	in the Philadelphia area about something called a snow squall.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.8	Snow squall, you know what month it is?
1:06.9	How late it is in that month?
1:08.5	What are you doing?
1:09.5	Let's talk.
1:10.5	I went to at my April wedding several years ago, so I just am unfortunately prepared for
1:17.4	the fact that I could not see the city of Philadelphia today as I was driving over a bridge.
1:24.7	Snow squall.
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