685. - Blake Butler

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Blake Butler is a writer from Atlanta who lives in Baltimore. His newest book, the critically acclaimed Molly, is out now. We chat about green tea, veggie burgers, Blake and Chris' tangential relationship, the crazy story behind his book, a shellfish ranking, he recently saw Limp Bizkit, M*cklemore and K*ller Mike, biscuit-eating bitches, bootlicking, his time at Bennington, Honor Levy's book, taboo humor, media and the publishing industry, why he has a Substack, and shitting. twitter.com/blakebutler 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. How long gone? Super Tuesday, what's up, is it Super Tuesday or is it just Tuesday?
0:25.0	It's just regular Tuesday, but I was kind of having fun.
0:27.0	Okay.
0:28.0	I was just having a little fun.
0:29.0	That's nice, that's nice.
0:30.0	I'm well, just, uh, just got out of the song the sonna made a little green tea
0:35.2	ate an apple. I'm still pretty sweaty. How is this no coffee nightmare doing green tea? I don't pity that I don't I don't wish
0:45.0	that my worst enemy well I drink I do drink coffee every day oh you do you just
0:49.7	have one you have a
0:55.0	a pour over black coffee sure sure and then my coffee
1:00.8	consumption for the rest of the day is zero.
1:03.7	Okay, that's totally fine.
1:05.7	That's reasonable.
1:06.7	As long as I get that one in me, yeah, pause.
1:08.8	I'm good, get the blood flowing.
1:10.3	Yeah, I get, I get you.
1:11.2	I mean, green tea just doesn't do anything, and people pretend that it does which I appreciate but I know that you're a realist
1:16.7	You mean it doesn't do anything in terms of caffeine
1:20.5	Boost? Yes or are you disputing its medical and nutritional benefits? I would never
1:26.5	don't do that. I would never argue with Eastern medicine. That's something I
1:29.4	believe in deeply, but I will say that it doesn't do anything caffeine-wise.
1:33.4	And also, at times, and I'm not super sensitive,
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