595. - Kyle Chayka

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker; he returns to How Long Gone to speak about his new book, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. We chat about plain omelets, all the podcasts he's been doing lately, the rise in pain maintenance, the hierarchy of our family desktop computers, maybe I want to get caught, spraypainting angel wings on a wall has been replaced by the gym, commuting to work would fix most of you, R.I.P. Pitchfork.com, Kyle needs help with pants, why he lives in Washington D.C., it's not littering if it's an Eames chair, the only books that sell are dragon-based erotica, the resurgence of Barnes & Noble, and as cogs in the algorithmic wheel, it's important to tell our story. twitter.com/chaykak 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 eat it a little bit and I'll edit out the chute.
0:25.2	Sorry, what's up, Chris?
0:26.4	That's actually funny.
0:27.2	I had an omelet for lunch at Balthasar just moments ago.
0:31.2	What flavor?
0:32.2	Plain.
0:33.0	That's what I'm having.
0:35.0	Yeah, playing with a little Greer, which is, you know, makes it a little bad boy, but if they offer
0:41.0	Cheddar Greer, I'm'm not it's not even French
0:43.7	cost play I just prefer a greer in a French style omelet with just a light dusting of
0:47.8	herbs on top oh now there's herbs wow just plain omelet
0:51.1	this plain omelet. This plate omelets taking a turn.
0:55.0	It was nice though, was a nice quiet.
0:56.7	If you go to Balthasar at like 1130,
1:00.1	it's the perfect time because it's not lunch and breakfast is over so there's like a 30 minute
1:06.8	45 minute window where people aren't there or it's less busy than than normal it's like when I go to
1:14.4	horses at 515 it's just I did see friend of the show kid loroy having lunch as well
1:19.6	so it's you know it was a heavy room does sound like a heavy room. Does sound like a heavy room.
1:23.5	How is how is Bapplesard doing nowadays?
1:26.5	I don't know if I'm ever gonna go there again.
1:28.2	I mean, it's fine, but like there's so many places to go to as
1:31.5	absolutely rammed at all times except for like 1130 but
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