530. - Coco Mellors

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Coco Mellors is an author living in New York. Her current book, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, is available now. We chat about jet lag or depression, wifi was down on his flight, so Chris watched Yellowstone, is her name real? Dancing with countertop drugs, Carrie Bradshaw read her book, was SATC better than AJLT? A recent holiday in Italy, her vacation style, bicoastal humility, she makes a good case for going to school, her indie sleaze phase, why she stopped partying, her drunk meal of choice, how her relationships have changed, dealing with her onscreen adaptation, the famously underrated man in his forties, who plays Cleo, and her top three dry goods. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans www.instagram.com/cocomellors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to go and How long gone? We're back baby. I just got to Los Angeles a few hours ago after a nice blue eye from JFK to LAX the sun is shining.
0:29.0	My car looks like you know it's it's from the 1800s, it's so dusty.
0:37.0	Jason, I saw Jason this morning when I picked it up,
0:40.8	but we didn't really get into it.
0:42.0	How are you feeling big dog oh me
0:43.8	not good at all why I don't know I've just been a little down ever since I got
0:50.1	back like it usually takes me like a week to just get back. Otherwise I wake up at like 2 a.m. every day and then I just kind of I crash around 3 p.m. 2. 3 p.m. So it's got me all fucked up and you know just all the little
1:06.9	minutia of getting back on track and laundry and cleaning and
1:11.0	unboxing electric bikes and you know all the all the all the stuff that you all the little things that you have to yeah you you design all of your life so you can wake up and I'm going to work out and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and be good and responsible and do all the things I need to do but I can't I can't do that yet.
1:30.5	I understand.
1:31.5	So I've been writing instead said I mean you have great
1:34.3	You're the only person riding and eating I was going to say you're the only person on earth who
1:37.8	writes as a form of procrastination versus doing anything but writing so that you have that going for you I don't know I haven't been able to figure out
1:48.0	how to how to do fitness and work at the same time. I can I can do one or the other really well.
1:56.4	No don't yeah I mean you don't want to be the guy like rolling calls on the treadmill.
2:00.9	You know what I'm saying? Like that person does exist, but I mean made
2:06.4	some home improvements while I was gone so I got to see those when I got back which was nice.
2:11.1	You made some or you paid for some? Oh paid for no I didn't make any but just you know
2:15.9	You know got just changed up a few things you know switched up some stuff in the in the backyard
2:22.4	Got rid of some stuff change up a few things
2:25.3	switched it up got rid of some stuff this could this be any more vague we pulled out
2:30.9	a deck I mean what what do you ever say there was like a weird deck in the back of the house and we removed it?
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