Ep 722 - The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Rudyard Kipling's classic story collection The Jungle Book doesn't have a jazz orangutan named Louie, but it does have the bare necessities of imperialist fiction. The stories about Mowgli and other trailblazing animals all contain a whiff of "But what about the rigid hierarchy of nature?" And when every animal is personified...well...those simple bare necessities begin to reveal themselves.

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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,
0:11.3	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.
0:49.7	Music These are books you should been meaning to read. My name is Craig.
0:55.1	My name is Andrew. Everybody at home knows that we do all kinds of stuff in every episode.
1:01.3	But the bare necessity for an overdue episode is that one of us has read a book that we've never read before.
1:04.4	And we tell the other person about it.
1:05.8	And also you, the listener.
1:08.4	And that's where the content is made.
1:10.5	That's where the content is found on this one.
1:12.0	Hey, Andrew. Yes, what? I want to to be like you i want to have a nice clean intro to an episode no shenanigans yeah let's just
1:19.2	get right it's very civilized it's very indulgent we were last time yes just getting just thinking
1:25.9	thinking big thoughts yeah being another year closer to the grave, you know? Well, I'm glad that you had a good punny intro for this week's episode on the jungle book by Roger Kipling because I was probably just going to read lyrics from Welcome to the Jungle instead. Yeah, I'm, that's less thematically relevant.
1:45.7	It also has the word jungle in it.
1:47.5	It does.
1:48.6	We've made more out of less.
1:51.3	We have.
1:53.0	Not against the advice of our lawyers.
1:57.3	We've made more out of less.
1:59.3	So I have, um, let's like do a quick, like check in on our relationship to the Jungle Book, Andrew, and then you're going to tell me about Rudyard Kipling.
2:07.6	Yeah.
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