Ep 677 - No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Misanthropy, anxiety, and societal alienation? In this economy?? This week's book and author aren't the most uplifting podcast subjects we've ever covered, but our discussion ended up being an oddly cathartic way to help process election results and the feelings downstream from election results.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.6	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:11.2	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.2	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:47.9	Music These are books you should have meaning to read. My name is Craig.
0:54.8	My name is Andrew. We're back again with a podcast. It continues. The podcast continues.
0:56.5	The world keeps a spinning.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:58.7	It does.
1:07.3	This is the second podcast we've released since the United States presidential election of 2024.
1:10.8	But the first one that we've recorded since that happened.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:17.3	And yeah, I just don't, I don't know how it's going to go.
1:25.2	And I accidentally, without realizing it, picked like the biggest bummer of a book that we've read in many, many years to do this episode about.
1:25.9	Yeah.
1:28.4	So that's like, that's probably the fun, gonna be the funniest thing about this episode.
1:30.3	It's just like the juxtaposition of,
1:32.0	of world events and what a gigantic bummer this book is.
1:37.0	And the author is.
1:39.3	Well, the author's not a, like,
1:41.4	their, their life story is tragic.
1:43.7	No, no, no, it's a, what I mean, yes, it's tragic, it's a tough subject. Yeah. It's not a like their life story is tragic.
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