645. Paul Scheer

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Paul Scheer is a comedian, actor, and host of the podcast How Did This Get Made? Amongst many other credits. His new book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, is available for preorder now. We chat about creativity not being for everyone, the realities of releasing a book, his upcoming airport book signings, his podcast is 14 years old, his house was recently in Architectural Digest, how to convince your wife to get a bigger TV, corporate gigs and performing in Afghanistan, early days of Best Week Ever, and we learn what to do when you meet a celebrity. We're on tour soon. Come see us live! twitter.com/paulscheer twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com 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? A, a gloomy and windy Thursday afternoon here in New York City just ran a friend of the
0:26.3	show Jeff Henricsson at Cafe Andrew Groll things are looking good how are you
0:29.0	Jason? Beautiful it's not windy here it is a a little gloomy. I was kind of bummed to come to LA and it's like
0:36.3	Gray and overcast, but otherwise I'm good. I'm about to adjust the volume on my microphone. Hold on a second.
0:48.0	Oh Yeah, that's sounding good. Yeah I'm good I was I've just I've been I got in last night from New York City had a late eat some joy. Oh, I the restaurant joy got about joy joy is banging it's a good it's a good airport meal because there's a lot of like healthy like kind of like brothy soups and vegan noodles and like steamed veggies and stuff like that so you can get like a yummy vibe without like destroying your body with burger and fries and kind of things but it was it was nice to
1:18.1	Just kind of do the thing where you time the delivery to arrive at your house when you arrive at the house from the
1:27.0	airport it was like it was like 30 seconds that's a sport it's a sport I mean obviously it's a sport. a sport.
1:33.0	I mean obviously it's a game of chance.
1:35.0	There's no way of really knowing how long it's going to take for your food to come and how long it's going to take to drive home from the airport.
1:41.0	I have of course messed that up several times and the food
1:45.0	has been left but and it usually is there. Yeah I mean it's fine for me because I live in a
1:49.3	nice neighborhood and the food just sits there in my doorstep and nobody would ever bother it but you know for you and in
1:56.0	New York City it's so bad it's different but yeah I mean it was it was literally 30
2:00.9	seconds the food there so you just come drop the suitcase off and you don't even have to
2:06.4	reheat the shrimp wantons. Oh baby. Fantastic but I'm still kind of drowsy I'm still a little fucked up. I'm still a little
2:14.7	you know NYC man it's crazy but I didn't even have time to read your your newsletter
2:21.3	about about Ricky Rubin what's going on with that?
2:25.6	Can you just read it for me?
2:26.8	Yeah, I'll just read it for you.
2:27.8	I know that's how you like to digest.
2:29.6	No, it's not even about, I mean, it is about Rick Rubin to an extent but it's more about
2:33.7	that book and what that book signifies and how there's this new relatively new line of
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