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Episode 38: Augusten Burroughs

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

They say don't ever meet your heroes, but in this case, they turned out to be wrong! Augusten Burroughs is the author of ten books, including NYT Bestseller-turned-movie "Running with Scissors," "Dry," which tracks his journey through addiction and sobriety "This is How," his foray into self-help and his most recent memoir (released TODAY!), "Lust and Wonder." He talks with the girls about his new book, moving out of NYC, finding the capital T Truth, sobriety, his feelings about AA, and the day he started writing instead of drinking. Music by Radiation City.

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:07.0

I am Laura McCallin.

0:10.0

And I am Holly Whitaker.

0:12.0

This. And I am Holly Whitaker.

0:17.0

This is Home Podcast. Hi.

0:20.0

Hello.

0:22.0

So... Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

0:26.0

Yeah, I know, this is such a big deal.

0:28.6

So this is, what are we talking about?

0:31.4

Well, everybody already knows because the title.

0:33.4

It's not like we're revealing the secret here.

0:36.0

We're talking about Augustin Burrows and

0:39.6

on our interview with him, which was... Yeah the most the most exciting interview like

0:45.6

for me it has been it was a total life moment yeah Yeah, it was, you know, it was for me incredibly important and I think probably one of the things that I loved about it the most was him. I think I told you this he just he reminded me of my

1:06.4

sister's best friend Brandon who I grew up with as an older brother and there's

1:10.4

there's something I was so expecting a catty bitchy man and I for some reason

1:15.6

imagine his voice would be like long and deep and drawly and he was the sweetest sweetest thing.

1:23.0

The caty-fitchy gay man, that's what you were imagining.

1:26.0

Yeah, I thought, well I had him built up in my mind is, I mean he, you know, he's not, he's, you know, he talks about his mean brain, you know brain you know I mean he he the way that he

1:35.0

writes he's very you build up yeah he's super sarcastic and he said some mean

1:39.4

things you know and which I which I love it appreciate about him but I was expecting him to be intimidating

1:46.0

and what I found was just I mean he was so sweet and I really just I couldn't be more in love with with someone so yeah it was great

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