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The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano | S1E3


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Do you like the song "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants? Do you remember when Saul Goodman said he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy? Do you want to groove for a while with Butthead? Join us as we thoroughly analyze and make total and complete sense of Arturo Belano's masterpiece The Savage Detectives.


0:00 - cold open

10:12 - intro

11:14 - context

17:17 - plot summary

22:28 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category

36:31 - category #2 - the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Uhm see what had happened at first was..." category

1:06:25 - category #3 - the Saul Goodman "I know a guy who knows a guy...who might know a guy" category

1:20:10 - category #4 - the Dwight Schrute "the bigger the keychain the more powerful the man" category

1:45:20 - category #5 - the Beavis and Butthead "let's groove for a while with Butthead" category

1:57:50 - song roulette - The Crossing by Menahan Street Band, and Smith & Jones Forever by Silver Jews

2:00:55 - the Karen from Mean Girls "yeah but he's my first cousin" category

2:08:16 - outro

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