Book · 2007 · Fiction
Naked Lunch
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Speaking of addicts i'm reading um naked lunch by william s burroughs sort of like a that's a classic it's a classic when is that from it's like 59 yeah it's real uh about like a heroin addict running around like tangiers.
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Oh guys it just occurred to me you know what else is another good free Port that's ú in in in um in pop culture and literature ú inter Zone in William S Burrow's Naked Lunch is is a free port.
Did he write Naked Lunch yeah he wrote naked we did yes am amongst other things Nova Express.
Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast · Mar 2018 Or like Burrows. Yeah, same same thing. Outsider artist kind of like Yeah. I remember reading some of Burrow's stuff and thinking like I might get high just reading this. Yeah. You know, like like Naked Lunch. That was him, right?
Duncan Trussell The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2016 Where and when it comes up
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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs is a seminal mid-century counterculture classic novel that chronicles the hallucinatory experiences of a heroin addict moving through Tangier and other surreal locales. The work has surfaced across multiple podcast platforms, including Pod Save America, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the Monday Morning Podcast, and The Joe Rogan Experience. On Pod Save America, Jon Favreau mentioned reading the classic text while discussing personal habits and addiction. Meanwhile, on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin referenced the book's Interzone to illustrate how literature depicts free ports as havens for society's undesirables. Bill Burr and Al Jourgensen briefly touched upon the author and his bibliography during the Monday Morning Podcast, and Duncan Trussell discussed Burroughs alongside Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience, marveling at the mind-altering, outsider nature of his writing style, recalling that reading his prose felt so intense it could almost get someone high.
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Jon Favreau speaking of addicts i'm reading um naked lunch by william s burroughs sort of like a that's a classic it's… 1
“speaking of addicts i'm reading um naked lunch by william s burroughs sort of like a that's a classic it's a classic when is that from it's like 59 yeah it's real uh about like a heroin addict running around like tangiers”
Ben Bowlin oh guys it just occurred to me you know what else is another good free Port that's ú in in in um in pop cul… 1
“oh guys it just occurred to me you know what else is another good free Port that's ú in in in um in pop culture and literature ú inter Zone in William S Burrow's Naked Lunch is is a free port”
Bill Burr did he write Naked Lunch yeah he wrote naked we did yes am amongst other things Nova Express 1
“did he write Naked Lunch yeah he wrote naked we did yes am amongst other things Nova Express”
Duncan Trussell Or like Burrows. Yeah, same same thing. Outsider artist kind of like Yeah. I remember reading some of Burro… 1
“Or like Burrows. Yeah, same same thing. Outsider artist kind of like Yeah. I remember reading some of Burrow's stuff and thinking like I might get high just reading this. Yeah. You know, like like Naked Lunch. That was him, right?”
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“yes we know Naked Lunch was written there thank you thank you sir”
“Oh, guys, it just occurred to me– you know what else is another good free port that's in pop culture and literature? Interzone in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch is a free port, and it's like kind of a hive of scum and villainy situation that evolves around there.”