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How Long Gone

627. - Lauren Oyler

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Oyler returns to the pod; her new book, No Judgement, is out now. We spoke with her from her home in Berlin about New York City turbulence, height shaming in Midtown, asking for books, where are all the hot people hiding in Berlin, Mallorcan hams, the most important city in the world, she tried to write a bad review of her own book, fleeting magazine articles, defending West Virginia, stress eating vs. stress starving, the German precision of SoulCycle, a trance song that torments her, listening to the sound of rain at full volume is a red flag, and what we used to do first thing every morning before we had phones. twitter.com/laurenoyler 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 and How long gone?

0:25.1

gone coming to you live from New York City in different places but we're both here which is it feels good oh it's cold and wet here bro what the hell I wouldn't say it's cold but it's it was

0:30.4

wet yesterday it was not good yesterday but I was not good. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to travel during that mess.

0:36.0

I know that really stresses you out.

0:38.0

I know I wouldn't say it really stresses me.

0:41.0

My body sort of gives up and I sort of just roll over and submit to the punishment.

0:47.0

But it was the first time I've been on one of those flights where the landing is like

1:00.6

Scary Spice I've honestly and this is not me being tough because we all know my pussy I've never felt scared on a plane in my entire life I just don't I don't know why I just can't imagine that it will happen to

1:04.7

me no matter how bad the turbulence gives or how small the plane is. I know what you mean I

1:09.2

didn't feel like I was going to die or I was in danger.

1:14.0

Sure, sure.

1:15.0

But it was, you know, some, there's like the two different kinds of turbulence.

1:18.7

There's like the, everything is fine, you're flying normally,

1:21.9

and then you just drop

1:24.7

yeah quickly and then that kind of you get the little

1:27.9

stomach the stuff yeah the butterflies in the stomach but not in a good way

1:31.5

something I chase on the roller coasters but go ahead.

1:34.1

Yeah yeah you get the roller coaster for it's not it's it's more fun on the roller coaster

1:39.7

when you're preparing for it and less fun when you've got you know some bubbles to start and you're watching

1:46.5

American fiction and your sunships go a fly-in but we had more of just the just a wobbly woozy just an hour and a half two

1:57.4

hours of just like and then you look out the window and it's just gray rain

2:04.9

You can't see anything you don't know what your altitude is yeah I like the fact like the idea that if you knew what the altitude was that would mean something to you.

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