How Proust Can Change Your Life Red Taped

Is Marcel Proust that author we all should be reading or just the founding father of internet trolling and incel culture?  In this new old-stock episode (recorded February 2021) we finally get around to reviewing Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life.  In addition to 50 minutes of mispronouncing “Proust” we also go off on a bunch of tangents including curated bookshelf backgrounds, loving/hating Scott Adams, the good and bad of Proustian moments, Andy’s misadventures in tiny European countries, and the “frosted kiss” of beer angels/ defrosting your soul with Dunkin.  (Trigger warnings: We also briefly talk about suicide, death, and hitting rock bottom)
Book:  How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Drink: Pommeau De Normandie and Ben Franklin Hard Cider (sometimes mixed—don’t do it)
References and Attributes:
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness presented by Alain de Botton-Episode 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24FxdvfOko&list=PLxRuhrcSjnv2weFRcqOeCpk4Wy7_hay2j
“Marcel Proust” by the School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mLdo4uMJUU&t=513s
“How to Cope with Bureaucracy” by the School of Life:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_IoZqyb1I
Alain de Botton on The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KreaV59NkE
Opening Background Music: “Mastermind” from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com
Closing Quote: Marcel Proust read by Alan Rickman