805. - James Frey

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

James Frey is a writer and businessman currently living in Connecticut. His newest book, Next To Heaven, is out June 17th. We chat with him about Mariah Carey at the Interview Magazine party, being cancelled before cancellations happened, bouncing a bar in Chicago, the age he began inbibing, why he loves to drive (very) fast, a detailed account of his entire writing process, he started playing hockey at 42, whats in the water in Connecticut right now, his relationsghip with AI, his non-writing career, dangerous art, his next book idea, his bum-like uniform dressing, both of his cars, his nicotine gum and Dunkin consumption, and an unusual proud parent story. instagram.com/jamesfrey_ 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	This episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by booking.com.
0:03.4	Booking.
0:03.6	Yeah.
0:04.6	Jason, I'm getting ready for the holidays.
0:07.6	Memorial Day is right around the corner, Chris.
0:09.6	You always get super psyched around these holidays.
0:11.6	It's so sorry.
0:12.1	I can taste a hot dog in my mouth right now.
0:13.9	Booking.com has the ideal summer stay for absolutely anyone, even those who might seem impossible to please. You know, I know that you kind of have some unorthodox methods to, you know,
0:23.6	cleaning your big body.
0:25.6	And I'm a long guy.
0:26.9	Occasionally you like to kind of sit down in the shower.
0:30.4	So you need sort of a roll-in shower so that you can plop down and bathe yourself like an elephant.
0:37.0	I'm not always entering the hotel room
0:39.5	in a wheelchair but it does happen sometimes and it is nice to have that amandy and it's cool that on
0:45.5	booking dot com booking dot yeah you can just straight up select a box that says roll in shower so
0:50.7	whether or not you're rolling i like to to lay down. Some people do hot yoga.
0:54.8	I like to do wet yoga.
0:56.1	I'm in the shower.
0:57.3	I'm in all different kinds of wet positions.
1:00.4	And the reason why I do it, because I like it.
1:03.2	And that's the best part of travel, Chris.
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