Ep 596 - The Roaches Have No King, by Daniel Evan Weiss

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

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our Patron's Choice Poll for June had a theme: Junebugs! And this novel by Weiss about a roach colony attempting to assert control over the apartment in which they live is uhh...well it won the poll. So Craig read it. And now he's going to talk about it.

Caveat lictor: this book is a strange one (also it's got more explicit sexual content than you might expect!)

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:04.0	Hey everyone, Craig here.
0:06.0	This episode has an explicit tag because the bug book gets a little horny.
0:13.0	Have a good listen.
0:30.0	Hey everybody welcome to overdue.
0:40.0	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:42.0	My name is Craig.
0:43.0	My name is Andrew.
0:45.0	I woke up this morning and I was a bug.
0:48.0	It sucks.
0:50.0	It sucks to be a bug.
0:52.0	I bet it sucks to be a bug.
0:55.0	It sucks to be a huge bug everybody.
0:57.0	I'm so big and squishy and nobody, people keep trying to step on me.
1:01.0	It sucks.
1:04.0	I'll figure it out but for now it sucks.
1:08.0	Why don't you just bug off and come back when you're not a bug?
1:16.0	You can try that.
1:17.0	Do you want me to figure that out now and we'll just pause and figure it out.
1:20.0	Just take a breath.
1:21.0	Leave the room to come back.
1:23.0	See if you're still a bug.
	...

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