Ep 657 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Caw caw! Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a New Age messiah. Or is it? All we know is that this seagull loves to fly and craves perfection -- which is somehow an allegory for self-improvement?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
| 0:11.0 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:15.6 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh, |
| 0:24.0 | uh, uh, Cacogne, Welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to qua! My name is Craig. My name is Andrew Craig. Have you ever considered just as like white guy podcasters? |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.8 | That we're just out here like grub in for like, |
| 0:57.6 | we are for like, like coffee ads. |
| 1:01.8 | And we're just trying to get by and like downloads and just trying to get by and we don't really like we're not really |
| 1:07.3 | realizing our full potential we're just part of the podcasting flock man you know just floating but not really doing anything stylish and you're |
| 1:16.2 | right just eating trash yeah and just like what if for example yeah like broke |
| 1:25.6 | speed record, like flying speed records. The podcasting sound barrier? |
| 1:27.1 | Yes. |
| 1:28.1 | Yes. |
| 1:29.1 | What if we, what if we thought bigger about what we were doing here. |
| 1:32.7 | I think I have a book for you, Andrew. |
| 1:35.7 | Ooh, that could. |
| 1:37.4 | On our book podcast? |
| 1:38.6 | Yes, on our book podcast for each week, one or maybe |
| 1:41.0 | both of us reads a book and tells the other or both of us about it. |
| 1:45.2 | I have a book for you that might be relevant to your query. |
| 1:50.0 | Okay. It is called Jonathan Livingston Siegel by Richard Bach, who may or may not be a descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. |
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