Episode Transcript: #1726 - Chuck Palahniuk
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Good to see you, man.
Hey, welcome back.
Welcome back to you, too.
I was very excited to talk to you because it's been about three years, and during those three years, it seems like censorship issues and issues of what you can and can't say.
And what isn't is an acceptable, they seem to be ramping up.
And you are, in my mind, one of the more interesting and dangerous writers out there because you tap into these super uncomfortable stories.
And you're willing to explore areas in writing that I think a lot of people would avoid.
We talked about this the last time you were here, some of the more dangerous stories that you had workshopped and people had gotten upset at you for.
But I really wanted to talk to you because I wanted to know how this is affecting you, how this weird climate of hypersensitivity and purity tests is sort of affecting your writing.
This is the dead air part.
Scooch up to the mic.
Okay.
You know, and I don't want to kind of shoot my wad with a big term, but have you ever heard of absurdist existentialism?
No, I haven't.
Okay.
I can piece the two words together.
When I look back at the books that I really loved growing up, I see that they are now under the big umbrella of the very small phenomenon called absurdist existentialism.
Do you remember the book Geek Love?