952. Mark Leyner

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Mark Leyner is the author of A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader, now available from Back Bay Books. Leyner is the author of the novels and collections I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories (1983); My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990); Et Tu, Babe (1992); Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog (1996); The Tetherballs of Bougainville (1998); The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack (2012); Gone With the Mind (2016); and Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit (2021). His nonfiction includes the #1 New York Times bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples?, and he cowrote the movie War, Inc. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	All right, welcome to the Other People's Show. My name is Brad Listy. This is my podcast. Thank you for listening. I am here in Los Angeles. Wherever you are, I hope it's all right. I feel like our right is maybe as good as it can get right now. By the way, congrats Republicans. Good job, right-wingers.
1:35.0	For creating a situation of extreme peril and chaos and darkness.
1:43.5	Who could have predicted this? What a shock when you give insane people the keys to the White House,
1:48.1	crazy, oligarchical, racist, misogynist, ablest,
1:55.8	nightmare humans, you give them power and it turns out that they don't actually care at all about the rank and file people who support them and they just want to loot the treasury and do dark things.
2:02.6	Who could have predicted?
2:05.4	I don't know where this goes, but something has to happen.
2:11.6	There's going to be some kind of moment of reckoning.
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