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Do You Even Lit?

cam and benny feat. rich

stemcel tragics use THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP to read literary classics

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76 episodes

  1. Great Expectations Part I: Pip gets status pilled 55:27
  2. DYEL existential crisis: What's the point of reading fiction anyway? 42:25
  3. James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues: That Scotch and Milk Goes Down Smooth 47:12
  4. Herzog Part II: Great men take on the potato 50:21
  5. Saul Bellow's Herzog Part I: How dare you make me sleep with your wife 1:07:28
  6. Middlemarch FINALE: It's OK to be mid 1:17:43
  7. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: Wearing Homer as a skin suit 1:15:51
  8. The Tragedy of Othello: Cucked by the green-eyed monster 1:07:52
  9. Middlemarch, part 2: Pity the man with the young hot wife 1:21:09
  10. Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars 1:27:23
  11. Raymond Carver: Cathedrals even for those without eyes to see 50:50
  12. Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' 1:27:31
  13. American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk 58:45
  14. American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic 48:40
  15. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode 1:16:01
  16. Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel 1:12:58
  17. Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1) 1:02:30
  18. Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book? 46:08
  19. Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome 1:06:19
  20. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Look how they massacred my boy 52:50
  21. Moby Dick, part 2: A conceptual analysis of Whiteness 1:19:34
  22. Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales 1:04:04
  23. Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF 1:04:36
  24. DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025 1:09:12
  25. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: It's not rocket science 44:11
  26. Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls 1:06:10
  27. A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn 1:08:37
  28. C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef 56:03
  29. Butcher's Crossing: John Williams's rougher cut 1:02:08
  30. Borges's Library of Babel: Ctrl + F for meaning 1:00:28
  31. Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists 1:26:35
  32. Anna Karenina part 2: I am begging you to touch grass 1:09:51
  33. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Real Housewives of Russia 1:16:53
  34. One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero 1:31:13
  35. Everything is Illuminated: Cultural Learnings of Trachimbrod for Make Benefit Glorious Book Club 1:57:21
  36. Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite? 1:14:10
  37. The Dispossessed part 2: Why would capitalism make me do this? 35:34
  38. Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried 1:23:10
  39. DeLillo's White Noise: psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo 1:40:00
  40. The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dads 1:37:51
  41. Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversion 1:10:36
  42. Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy 38:40
  43. Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory 1:54:16
  44. Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, part 1: A legion of horribles 1:42:39
  45. DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024 1:22:45
  46. The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaise 1:04:55
  47. Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita 1:24:42
  48. Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellation 43:36
  49. Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom 1:22:53
  50. Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy) 1:44:33