‘Best of Dave Chang Show’: Learning to Live With Blindness, With Andrew Leland

The Dave Chang Show

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Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dave is revisiting some of his favorite episodes and interviews for his ‘Best of Dave Chang Show’ series. In this episode, writer (and Chris’s first boss out of college!) Andrew Leland joins the pod to talk about his experience with retinitis pigmentosa and common misconceptions about blind people. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Andrew Leland Producers: Victoria Valencia, Gabi Marler, and Euno Lee Additional Production Supervision: Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Chang show part of the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major Dome
0:07.4	Media. Thank you a lot Tengue as always. This is our last best of episode
0:11.6	knock on wood but I'm saying that because then we're really going to have
0:14.8	to stick to it. Originally aired last year at this time, so not too long ago with Andrew
0:21.5	Leeland, where we talk about learning to live with blindness.
0:26.0	Chris's old boss at a college. Andrew Leeland joined us right when he's about to go on tour for his book, The Country of the Blind, where we talk about on this episode.
0:39.0	And I gotta say, we did it again.
0:41.0	No, but he didn't win it. I know, come on this is crazy shit man. No, I mean, no, he didn't win it. So, listen, we told, we've told some authors,
0:51.0	Hua Su was on this, and we told him,
0:54.5	you're gonna win a Pulitzer now.
0:56.2	Mm-hmm.
0:57.2	What was the name of his book?
0:58.2	He has a great book.
0:59.2	Like, his book is, oh my God, what is it?
1:03.0	His stay true, which, by the way, ranked in like the top 50 of New York Times,
1:08.0	most 100 books of the past century, again, while, top 50, not top 10. You might have won a Pulitzer, which I can't
1:21.6	believe we didn't get any credit for your victory speech
1:24.8	will shed while you know this is this is I mean this is wild though
1:30.1	we don't have a ton of author guests on here, but when we do authors out there you come on this show
1:37.8	You will win a Pulitzer or at least be a finalist and this is purely out of the invisible hand that Chrissy and I have, all right?
1:47.6	We didn't do it post victory lap for them.
1:51.0	This is before they even started this fucking shit on their tour. And yeah,
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