Episode 32: Rayya Elias

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Rayya Elias is the author of the incredible memoir, Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side. She's a musician, filmmaker, hair artist, and all around awe-inspiring human being. She talks to the girls about scaring off ghosts, her relationship with her best friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, emotional sobriety, living on the streets, forgiveness, what recovery looks like for her now and the NFL. Learn more about her at: www.rayyaelias.com. Music by Radiation City.

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:05.0	We are young, we are wet.
0:07.0	I am Flora Macau.
0:10.0	And I am Holly Whitaker.
0:15.0	This is Home Podcast.
0:18.0	And so it would be in.
0:20.0	Paula.
0:22.0	No, please don't say that.
0:24.0	Oh, it's my least.
0:30.0	All right, so we are just doing our quick intro for an interview with Raya Elias, who Laura is going to drop a quick bio on.
0:44.4	Yeah, so Raya is the author of Harley Loco
0:52.0	that came out in 2013. The full title is Harley Loco, a memoir of Hard Living
0:59.6	Hair and Post Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side.
1:04.0	So much.
1:05.0	So good.
1:06.0	So good.
1:07.0	She is an artist and a filmmaker and a musician and she was just I this conversation was
1:17.4	so fun for me and I think it was for you too I talked it was it was long and we I kind of forgot where I was and forgot what was going on and just it was it was awesome and we went off in a bunch of different directions
1:35.1	Talked a lot about addiction she has a story unlike
1:40.6	Definitely unlike ours.
1:43.0	And unlike anybody really, I know, I mean, to be honest, let's be honest,
1:48.0	I had at this point not really been, you know, exposed personally to anybody that has had I think as is severe
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