Our Struggle To Start A Podcast ft. Robert Rust (a Real Norwegian)

NOTE TO LISTENERS: DREW'S AUDIO GETS BETTER IN THE SECOND HALF I
PROMISE


 


Call this episode the opposite of Norwegian cuisine because boy
is it SPICY! In the pilot episode of Our Struggle we put the
following institutions on blast: quinoa, Sweden, the New Yorker,
and august literary critic James Wood (for being a beautiful
genius :) ). This is a jam-packed episode that is sure to make
you laugh AND make you contemplate your mortality. - so will
James Wood give it a positive review? (Please come on the pod
Professor Wood.)


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cheat sheet:


2:28 - Lauren and Drew introduce themselves and talk about their
reasons for starting the pod. Do we, in this moment, need Karl
Ove Knausgaard more than ever? Our answer is yes, if only because
of the fate currently befalling the overly hydrated quinoa eating
Swedes.


10:57 - Our friend Robert Rust, a real Norwegian, calls into the
show to teach us how to say the great man's name in the AUTHENTIC
style of the fjord peoples. My pronunciation is perfect and
Drew's sucks


22:32 - We get pretty deep into Norwegian cuisine. If you're like
Karl Ove and fish makes you nauseous - maybe skip this section!


36:10 - Finally we start building out a theoretical framework for
KOK with the help of close personal friend of the show James
Wood. We discuss Wood's 2012 NEW yORKER essay on Karl Ove. Why is
death so crucial to storytelling? Are contemporary novelists
willfully avoiding the ultimate fact (their own demise) in their
writing? Why do Lauren and Drew keep connecting quinoa with
mortality?


INTRO MUSIC: Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks


Production by Lauren Teixeira, the Man of the show