Podcasts that mention 📚 This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
This Is Water
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Podcasts that mention This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
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Episode: STDWYTK Presents: A Conspiracy of Sound, Live in Brooklyn | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Published on April 21, 2025
It reminds me a little bit of the old David Foster Wallace quote where a fish goes up to the other fish and is like, uh, it's crazy. We're swimming around in water and the fish says, "What's water?"
One of the hosts references a quote by David Foster Wallace about fish and water to illustrate how people ignore common sounds.
Episode: Weird Finance, with Paco De Leon | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Published on July 8, 2023
it reminds me of David Foster Wallace in a bit uh like that commencement speech where he says what is water
Ben mentions David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, referring to its famous line 'what is water', which is also the title of the book version of the speech.
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