377. - Nabil Ayers

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Nabil Ayers is the President of Beggars Group US, working with artists like The National, Grimes, and Big Thief. He’s written about race and music for the NYT, GQ, and Rolling Stone. His new memoir My Life in the Sunshine is out now. We chat about the end of ambition, in defense of robot labour, ablest Beyoncé, Nabil just got an electronic drum-kit because he’s 50, music is his drug, Kid & Play style hair, it would be cool to go on Tucker and dress like him, Nabil knows more about 90’s alternative rock music than Chris, why artists sell more tickets than others, Depeche M’Odeon, do songs go viral on Tik Tok because they’re ethereal? It’s hard to stab yourself to death, why Xan Hathaway’s having a resurgence, approaching celebrities at the grocery store, we saw Billy Joel blasting a cig at Gjelina, and Elon’s dad. twitter.com/nabilayers twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The How long gone, gone an overcast morning in moneymaking Manhattan. It's your fearless co-host, Chris Black coming to you live.
0:24.8	Uh, Jason, what's up, bro?
0:26.8	Oh, Bestie, I don't know what is up. I'm almost parted out. I think I really am going to need this vaca. I mean I wish I could feel the same way.
0:36.7	I've just been reading an article about how we're just all what are we we racing towards, you know, Jason?
0:43.2	Where can I find this article? The Guardian, and I quote a bigger paycheck, I'd rather watch the sunset.
0:49.7	Oh no, that's too far. An interesting take, is this the end of ambition? And I have to ask,
0:55.5	um, what? And the girl on the, is, is laying on like a nasty green love seat with a little mangy dog and it says mauve a generation
1:06.6	zer who has a huge huge almost indignant desire to be happy that's her fame. Okay, so she has a huge desire to be happy.
1:16.4	That should be sort of a base level thing, right? I guess, but I guess she's saying work creates
1:20.9	problems for that. Right, all right. So all the eggs are going in the happiness basket, none of them are going in the work basket or the...
1:30.0	I'm not talking about work as in like your sales force job. I mean like what you're doing in the world
1:35.8	How you will be remembered you know?
1:37.8	Other than like yeah, I remember that chick she was really fucking happy. Let's write a book
1:43.0	Exactly. I write a book about her.
1:44.0	She died at 95 because she stopped working and luckily she was on the dole and able to get some
1:49.7	fresh produce but she didn't leave much of a legacy.
1:52.4	She didn't yeah I you don't leave much of a legacy.
1:52.5	She didn't, yeah, you don't leave a legacy, you leave some fancy feast tins.
1:58.1	I don't really, I don't really understand this, but this is what, I don't, what's going to happen to Gen Z if none of them work does our society crumble
2:05.9	No because we got the robots bro. That's right
2:09.6	We got Basis got the robots and they're going to do all the jobs.
2:14.0	But I mean, you know, the jobs are only going to be putting my
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