508. - Simon de Pury

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Simon de Pury is an art auctioneer, dealer, and five other art things and a DJ. We chat about shabu shabu, are we going to kiss, matcha = paella, baby shopping, in an ever-changing world, it's nice to have things that never change, Simon tells the story of the one time in his life that he wore a t-shirt, how he became a DJ in his sixties, why he loves long flights, could Simon sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves? He's a world-class vibe-reader, his superstitious nature and love of numerology, passion, + emotion = a dope ass art collector, why removing pieces from your collection is more important than adding to, how to build a collection as a broke boy, sure, Pierce Brosnan is an artist too, some of his favorite NFTs through the years, and how his seconds-short appearance on Emily in Paris (s01) made more of an impact than anything else in his decades-long career. instagram.com/simondepury twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to go on the How long gone? A nice, crispy early morning podcast in LA. I love I love when we pod with Europe
0:23.2	Jason because it forces us to do things a little earlier. I feel like it's
0:27.0	better for you with your editing and your workout schedule. Is that fair to say or
0:30.7	no? No it's not. Okay. How are you? No I'm good I'm good I had a nice
0:38.7	dinner last night a friend of the show Aaron Garcia and his wife such ago invited over to their house for a
0:48.1	Shabu shabu shabu dinner. Oh wow I felt like I was in a serene kind of Japanese village there's incense and you know soothing kind of
0:57.0	Eastern jazz playing and had some Tamago and some mushrooms and some lovely broth and dashi and
1:03.8	oh not broth wow couple supportos you know there's some mochi in the broth it was
1:10.1	you know having having like a big hot pot kind of meal where everyone is
1:14.6	gathered on the table and everyone's dipping veggies and meats and thingies
1:19.6	into it and sharing some convos it's it's such a it's like the best way to can I hold on let me ask a question I
1:26.9	listen to a lot of those words and I recognize most of them and I don't often think of Mochchi is something that can be placed in a piping hot broth
1:36.5	Please am I am I girl I thought the same thing okay. Okay. The Mochi it kind of looks like the size of, you know, it's like maybe like a little bit bigger than a quarter and maybe like a quarter of an inch thick.
1:49.0	Okay. It just kind of looks like a large like gummy, gummy treat. It has that standard mochi kind of chewy consistency but then when it
1:56.6	simmers in the broth for maybe 10 minutes or so it gets this really interesting kind of gooey texture where it's still chewy but it's also soft.
2:06.6	It's like it's like I hate to say it but it's like an al dente mochi.
2:12.2	Where it's like this perfect consistency in texture and mouth feel where you're like, I mean I don't even care about Mochi that much,
2:20.0	but when it's done really well you're like damn I gotta give it up Mochi., damn, I gotta give it up, Mochi.
2:23.2	Okay, so you had to give it up to Mochi.
2:25.6	Uh, we gave Mochi an eight minutes standing ovation.
2:29.6	To be clear, Mochi is not a god that I had to give it up to or anything like that.
2:34.0	Usually when I'm talking about Mochi with you is you referencing a fictional small dog.
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