Episode 21: Sarah Hepola

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In the first interview episode ever, Laura and Holly talk to Sarah Hepola, author of the New York Times Bestseller "Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank to Forget." Sarah's essays on culture have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, The New Republic, Glamour, The Guardian, Slate, The Morning News, and Salon, where she was a longtime editor. Laura and Holly talk to her about the science of blackouts, what it was like to come out to the masses, dating in sobriety, and what's next. Photo credit: Zan Keith. Music by Radiation City.

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:08.0	I am Laura McCallin.
0:10.0	And I am Holly Wicker.
0:14.0	And this is Home Podcast.
0:17.0	Hey.
0:18.0	Hey.
0:20.0	Hey, good Eve.
0:22.0	Good Eve. how are you?
0:25.0	I'm a little groggy.
0:26.0	I just took a nap or woke up from a nap,
0:29.0	very trippy nap.
0:30.0	So I'm a little out of it, but I'm all right.
0:33.0	Sunday, it's a dark, rainy, dark Sunday here today.
0:38.0	Oh, it's rainy, that's good.
0:40.0	It's not really warm here.
0:41.0	It's like warm here.
0:42.0	Like frighteningly warm here.
0:44.7	Really? Yeah, the cow worm.
0:47.2	Like it's like 70.
0:49.4	It's like, I mean usually by this time it's freezing cold and it's it's just been a very I mean it's you know global warming yeah you've you've got climate issues
1:01.6	what's freezing with What's freezing though?
1:04.0	Well, I mean, it does freeze here.
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