Kurt Andersen, Chris Fairbanks and Ari Graynor

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Jordan Morris sits down with Kurt Andersen to talk about creative procrastination, why a new generation is happily digging into its parents record collection, and Andersen's new book True Believers. The comedian Chris Fairbanks shares a story about a nice neighborly mugging. Plus, actress Ari Graynor talks good old fashioned phone sex in her new movie For A Good Time Call.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Holly from Massachusetts.
0:02.0	I'm James from Salt Lake City.
0:03.6	I'm Jason R. Wallace from America's Georgia,
0:06.4	and these United States.
0:07.9	Both I with Jesse Thorn is produced independently
0:10.3	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.2	You should support the show like I did.
0:14.0	Just visit MaximumFong.org slash Donate.
0:18.0	I'm Jordan Morris.
0:19.2	In his new novel, True Believer's Kurt Anderson writes
0:21.9	about a woman with a James Bond obsession.
0:24.6	So it makes sense that Kurt had some childhood
0:26.8	spy fantasies of his own.
0:28.7	I did things like when I was about 12 radio shacks
0:33.3	started selling this thing called The Big Ear,
0:34.9	which is this giant dish that you could point
0:37.6	at people hundreds of yards away theoretically,
0:40.6	and wear headphones and listen to what they were saying.
0:42.8	I saved up and bought one of those.
0:44.8	I did it work.
0:46.0	You did well enough.
0:48.2	I mean, that I literally could listen
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