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How Long Gone

585. - Willy Staley

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Willy Staley is a beloved Twitter user, an editor at the New York Times, and one of our favorite thinkers in general. He returns to the pod to talk about what "unplugging" means to us, Chris has discovered Sirius XM Radio, we finally watched a Tr*vor N*ah special, putting in the office, you don't see that too much these days, we compare skateboarding to golf, Willy wishes there was an app that you could use to rent out your apartment for short term visits, defending Red Hook, the anatomy of a parking spot, we try to get him to sell his car, the evolution of subtitles since c*vid, Peter Griffin on Fortnite, we dive into act two of the untitled Willy project at Hulu, and our predictions for the future of potentially offensive comedy. twitter.com/willystaley twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to go and Wow, you know, just some December gloom, the last moments of gloom happening.

0:28.8

How are you feeling?

0:29.8

I mean, the weather's been tragic, but it seems to be, it's sunny over here yeah I'm just you

0:37.2

know we today's a 22nd but you're gonna be hearing this next week after Christmas ticking a day off.

0:45.2

Sorry about that guys, but you know, I needed to unplug from my Ableton.

0:51.4

Self-Care, Self-Care Saturdays. I mean you should be hanging out.

0:55.0

Yeah. Going hiking with your loved ones on Christmas anyway, right? You shouldn't be

0:59.5

well hiking alone. I mean, I guess I would maybe hike alone. I mean, luckily I did check today.

1:05.9

Equinox is opened on Christmas Day, so I have plans. I know I saw that and I was like Christmas day.

1:13.0

I was a little upset that I wasn't going to be able to see what it looked like.

1:16.7

I bet it's going to be at 9 a.m.

1:19.0

9 a.m. won't be busy, but I bet like 11 a.m. will be the 11 to 2 11 to 2 stretches

1:25.8

Christmas doesn't matter I octane it doesn't matter anymore like when I was a kid

1:29.8

Everything shut you know it was like everything shut down it was like the

1:32.6

fucking you couldn't you couldn't do anything you know the grocery store was closed

1:37.0

everything now you can kind of go about your day if you know things close a little

1:41.2

early but you can hit the coffee shop there's some

1:43.4

restaurants that are open is that good or bad is that better or worse or is that are

1:47.3

you different on it no it's better it means that Chris it means that

1:51.4

Christmas means less which is what means, which is what I'm

1:53.2

means that you, which what I'm going for.

1:55.1

That's what I'm pushing for.

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