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How Long Gone

463. - Delia Cai

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Delia Cai is a writer at Vanity Fair currently living in New York. Her new book Central Places, is out now. We chat about cloutbombing, archival Heavn, reading poetry for an audience, "dead girl voice," what kind of pop-punk girl she was, the fan fiction community, Delia thinks it would be nice to come home to a fifties-style housewife, she wants kids but she doesn't want to stay home and hang out with them, the difference between male and female codependent friendships, getting negged on the train for wearing a bow in her hair, writing her Grub Street diet the week she got broken up with, if TJ has to adjust his demeanor based on his potentially intimidating height, Delia is having a hard time finding people to help with her suitcase, dog systems, the post-brunch breakup, and we discuss a new word she learned in Los Angeles. twitter.com/delia_cai twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The How long gone. We're bike to business. Chris Black live from

0:24.0

live from lower Manhattan DJ them jeans and his hyper

0:27.7

hyper ice go coming to you live from Glendale as usual and there's a lot going on today. I'm kind of I'm feeling

0:37.6

frazzled you know I tried to have a little crisp time like a little beauty moment Well, I just, I like to go get a haircut

0:44.4

and then get a pedicure at the same,

0:46.5

on the same day because they're next to each other.

0:49.4

And unfortunately, because of my back-to-back schedule

0:52.0

and calls, I was having to talk on the phone

0:54.2

while getting a pedicure which is one of my biggest pet peeves and I find it to be very

0:57.8

rude so I kept the call very short but I felt like it is rude isn't it it's rude and people do it people just talk the whole time I just find it so it's crazy to me I agree I kept it tight and I don't think my

1:10.8

conversation partner even noticed.

1:12.6

So, you know, it's a, that's right, I'm slick with it.

1:16.0

It does, I feel like you would love to be in a situation

1:19.6

maybe in the future of your life where you have a personal relationship with your manicurist,

1:27.5

pedicurist, your beauty squad to where you can take a call while you're getting your

1:32.2

nails done without any guilt or shame that could be a goal of yours one day.

1:36.5

I would like that but it would have to be in the privacy of my own home or hotel suite.

1:40.2

Of course. That's the issue. It's not about I think that I just don't like to be rude to the other you know the fellow patrons

1:47.7

Especially if they're getting their 10 minute leg rub because that's kind of a sacred time

1:51.5

You know, so I don't want to I don't want to kind of step on that as the no

1:55.0

trust me I don't need the whole two minutes let me tell you what brother.

1:59.2

I'm I finished quick you know what I mean? Yeah I'm out in four or five. How's it how's it going over there now I noticed I noticed that you

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