4.4 • 926 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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The kind, sweet, and wise for his age Connor Franta joins Matt and Dave this week for a fantastic interview about coming out and coming up on Youtube. Connor regales our hosts about his childhood in a small town in the midwest, as a rambunctious kid, and his relationship with catholicism, including attending a college with an actual monastery. Finally, Dave and Matt ask Connor about his new book, "House Fires", a collection of narratives, poetry, and original film photography.
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0:00.0 | Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
0:15.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello everybody it's Matt McConke I am solo at the moment because sweet |
0:30.1 | sweet Dave is a very busy working man and I am not but don't worry he is in the interview and we're going to get right to it we had such a great conversation with Connor Franta. He is a YouTube phenomenon and an |
0:46.6 | entrepreneur. Very smart, very accomplished, very cool, very young, under 30, which is upsetting. And you know that I don't always love talking to the |
0:57.4 | youtubers, but I love Connor, you're going to love him too. We had a really great conversation. He's got a new memoir out now |
1:04.8 | it's called House Fires. This is his third memoir. He's already written three memoirs. |
1:09.2 | You can get it wherever you get your books. You're definitely going to want to read it after hearing |
1:12.4 | him today |
1:13.3 | without further I do here is Connor Franta in a room full of planters there you |
1:21.4 | you know you. Where are you? I'm at home here in West Hollywood. |
1:26.8 | Ooh, okay. All right, very good. How is life over there? Our thing is the street life teeming with activity. |
1:33.7 | Weirdly quiet, weirdly calm, not a lot going on over here to be honest, |
1:38.2 | which is better than the alternative of what was happening like a year ago, but it's it's very quiet. I know I went out there I live on the east side but I did go to West |
1:48.8 | Hollywood like a two or three weekends ago and it was packed. |
1:54.0 | Really? I feel like maybe when did you go like on a weekend? |
1:57.5 | Like where they... |
1:58.5 | I went on a weekend like a weekend night like a fucking, you know bridge and tunnel person which essentially I am now. |
2:06.1 | And do you ever venture out there? Do you hit the bars and not during COVID? No, I'll have a rare vulnerable moment |
2:14.0 | where someone will convince me to go to a bar-ish club |
2:16.6 | situation. |
2:17.4 | I've done it a couple times in the last two years |
2:19.3 | during the pandemic, but not frequently. |
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