Three Percent #79: Barely Surpassing Lorem Ipsum

On this week’s podcast, Chad and Tom preview the semifinals of the World Cup of Literature (both suspect Chile will meet the US in the Championship), and then discuss The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and this New Yorker piece about its limited U.S. success. Also, the Penguin Cup is stupid.

In relation to the rants and raves portion of the podcast, here are three videos from the Estonian sketch comedy troupe that Chad praised.

First, here’s one about how much it sucks to be Estonian:

And the “Knight Rider” one that he mentioned:

More can be found at this YouTube channel.

And in keeping with the Estonian-themed “rave,” this week’s music is Zaha Hadid from Deserts.

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