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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Volume 57 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad leans on A.I. for emotional validation...Angry Adam weighs in...Mira's Grandpasaurus has a massive stroke (survives)...Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged...the Taylor Timer shatters...Lil Nas X walks nude through Studio City...a finger in a chicken wrap...and more... *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc. Get ⁠⁠How to Write a Novel,⁠⁠ the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to ⁠Brad's email newsletter⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠proud affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Brad and Mirror Protocol Drer.
0:05.0	Love you, Pee.
0:07.0	Okay, so here we are again with another episode of Brad and Mira for the Culture.
0:18.0	The Other People shows Weekly Pop Culture Assessment.
0:22.6	New episodes every Thursday. I am Brad Listy here with my friend and co-host, Mira Gonzalez. Hello, Mira.
0:31.6	Hello, Bradley. How are you doing today? I'm all right. I'm a little wistful. My daughter turns 15 today. Happy birthday,
0:41.3	Evan. Woo! Sound effects. I can't believe it. It's like, you know, it's like you, I can remember
0:48.4	distinctly, like bringing her home from the hospital and now we're here. I can remember
0:52.9	distinctly babysitting her when she was like a small child.
0:57.6	Like we were playing like tea party with her like stuffed bunny toys.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.5	It's like it's just in a snap.
1:04.9	I'm going to have to teach her how to drive this year.
1:06.9	I'm not ready for it.
1:07.7	Oh my God.
1:08.5	You are going to be fucking stressed the fuck out. Yeah. It's all happening. So,
1:13.7	happy birthday to her. And I want to give a shout out to Penguin Press this week's sponsor,
1:20.5	publisher of Pan, the debut novel by Michael Clune. Pan is the official August pick of the Other People
1:27.0	Book Club. That is my book club.
1:28.7	You can sign up at other ppl.com. It's a novel about a strange and brilliant
1:34.2	teenagers first panic attacks. The prose is psychedelic and specific and uncanny.
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