Does your heart race when you hear Nicolas Cage's name mentioned? Did you smoke weed once or twice in high school? Do your parents ever talk to you about one of your exes? Then let's discuss Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice".

0:00 - cold open

5:30 - intro

8:20 - Thomas Pynchon bio & context / postmodernism

21:57 - plot summary

27:20 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category

1:06:33 - category #2 - draft of songs mentioned in the book

1:16:46 - category #3 - Parks & Rec. His Favorite Movie is Books category

1:32:35 - category #4 - Lifter Puller Smoking Weed & Makin Money category

1:40:48 - category #5 - song roulette: Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar and Desaparecido by Manu Chao

1:44:43 - category #6 - Karen from Mean Girls Yeah But He's My First Cousin category

1:47:25 - outro