Trees and Spider Aliens w/ Kurt Braunohler

“Bananas Podcast” co-host and voice on BOB’S BURGERS, stand up comedian, Kurt Braunohler joins Joshua to talk about how his kids read more than him by virtue of them exhausting him. The two discuss their shared love of trees prompted by book “The Overstory” that Kurt says is one of his all time favorites even if he hasn’t finished it yet. Their conversation ranges from a book about dishwashing to imagining Raymond Carver’s stories as cartoonishly overwritten without his famed editor Gordon Lisch. They also discuss the stunted feelings of the cursed white male rugged individualists and CIA interference in U.S. art institutions and literature. Ultimately, it’s about reading what you love, no matter if it’s spiders in outer space science fiction or 70’s NYC musician junkie memoirs.

Books talked about include:

“What People Talk About When They Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver

“The Overstory” by Richard Powers

“Dishwasher” by Pete Jordan

“I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp” by Richard Hell

“Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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