740. - Jonathan Ames

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Ames is a writer from New York, responsible for countless books, some of which have been turned into TV shows like HBO's Bored To Death or the film You Were Never Really Here with Joaquin Phoenix. He's lived quite a life and spoke with us from his home in Los Angeles about The Golden Globes, Kylie Jenner's slice of humble pie, Bradley Cooper's Cheesesteak Factory, summering in Malibu, he recently joined Equinox to swim, how he pronounces the word "Hyperion," his brain can read words backward and he does it throughout the episode, stealing Napkins in Beachwood Canyon, his relationship with tinned fish, his Buddhist-leaning lifestyle, blowing weed smoke into a tequila shot glass and chugging them both, the Russian baths, his celebrity boxing career, he lost too much weight going vegan, working with Greenpeace in Alaska, he was discovered at twenty by photographer Bruce Weber as a collegiate fencer, and he teaches us the three steps to releasing anger. wikipedia.org/Jonathan_Ames twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	You know, how long gone coming to you live from the epicenter of the santa anna winds jason the
0:53.8	the trees are swaying. People are covering
0:56.5	their eyes walking down the street. There's fires. Is this the end for us? It's another day
1:01.3	in Cali, bro. Sound like a fucking pussy. Just kidding. I just closed my office window because it was
1:08.0	too loud, kind of Hurricane Alley over here and glendale it's a little
1:12.0	different over in weho i'm assuming no it's not great i mean they i did get an email alerting me that
1:17.2	the uh equinox west hollywood was shutting down due to wind which i would love some more explanation on
1:23.5	um because i don't think the wind should affect the indoor gym.
1:28.7	I was going to ask, is the WeHo location an indoor offering?
1:32.0	Yeah, it's all outside.
1:33.7	No, it's also, it's also like it's not even, it's not like it's on the 50th floor of a fucking skyscraper.
1:40.0	You know what I mean?
1:40.5	It's a two-story building on Sunset Boulevard.
1:42.6	Right, right, right.
1:43.4	And the second floor is mostly just floor Pilates.
1:45.7	It seems manageable.
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