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Bonus: Exit Through the Gas Chamber feat. Jerry Stahl

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4.69.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In a bit of bonus content, Will interviews legendary author and screenwriter Jerry Stahl about his extremely funny and extremely dark, new book of gonzo reporting and personal memoir: Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. Jerry relates his surreal experience of visiting Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau by tour bus rather than train, reviews the cafeteria and gift shop selections available at these historical sites, the friends he made along the way, and muses on moments in human history that fall in between chops of the axe. http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/nein-nein-nein/"

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0:00.0

Greetings. Hello, it's Chapo. It's Will here coming at you with a bonus episode.

0:05.9

And joining me today is the screenwriter and author Jerry Stahl,

0:10.5

who you might remember from such films as permanent midnight and bad boys too.

0:15.2

But no, he is here to discuss...

0:17.0

I was just...

0:18.8

You were here today not to discuss those films, but you're here to discuss.

0:22.2

You're extremely funny and extremely dark new memoir, Nine-Nine-Nine,

0:27.0

which is basically an account of the worst vacation any man has ever voluntarily taken.

0:34.1

But Jerry, it's more than that. What is Nine-Nine-Nine?

0:37.6

And did you describe your vacation to us?

0:40.2

Yes, vacation in the very loose sense of the word.

0:43.4

I was... I don't know if you can relate to this, man.

0:47.4

I was mightly depressed, despairing for the world myself, my psyche, everything.

0:54.4

And I decided that when you are super depressed, what better remedy than just go somewhere

1:01.4

where depression is absolutely appropriate and complete despair is pretty much what you should be feeling.

1:07.5

So long story short, I was able to con the general folk at Vice Magazine to send me on a bus tour

1:17.6

to do a six-part series, a bus tour of the Holocaust.

1:21.7

So I basically rode with a bunch of strangers, many of whom who had never seen as you,

1:26.8

for 19 days to the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchewald and Dachau.

1:34.7

But so, Jerry, I mean, obviously everyone wants to know, you've been to all the death camps in Central Europe.

1:39.7

What's the best one? You know, you went to the whole bus tour, but a lot of people they might have time for that.

1:44.3

So if you really have to see one death camp, what's the experience to go for?

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