Ep 594 - Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Meet Gulliver, a traveling English surgeon. First he's big, then he's small. Next he's wise, then he's a Yahoo! To wit, Swift's seminal satire is realer, grosser, and really grosser than either of us knew.

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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.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:48.3	My name is Craig.
0:49.7	My name is Andrew and I put a little extra schwa at the end of my name that time.
0:54.8	Not sure why, but today I'm...
0:57.5	I have anything to do with today's book.
1:00.4	Maybe can we tie it back to the podcast in some way?
1:04.7	I don't know.
1:06.1	Okay, we'll find out as we go.
1:07.9	There's a lot of languages in this book.
1:09.9	There's a lot of people experimenting with learning other people's languages.
1:15.6	So maybe I'm just speaking like someone from a different part of the world.
1:19.1	Sure.
1:20.1	Maybe I've traveled there.
1:23.0	You know what I think we should do.
1:25.3	Like Gulliver did.
1:27.3	You know, I also think we should do is we should eat some babies.
1:30.4	Well, I think it would be a good idea to eat some baby.
1:32.8	You got it.
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