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The David Sedaris Interview with Throwing Fits

6/1/20261 hr 27 min

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Our interview with David Sedaris is sardonic. David—best-selling author whose new book, The Land and Its People, is out now—was kind enough to join us in studio to chat losing Comme des Garçons in his hotel and how he gives his clothing away, his step count for the day and the current state of his disgusting feet, replacing the meth addiction from your 20s, Rei Kawakubo's impending retirement, if he walks into a store and bros try to talk to him he's walking out immediately, his many gripes with retail, weird gifts from weird fans and how he has learned to correct their behavior, living abroad and what he misses about America, as a gay man he's been rebranded a few times, meeting your husband because you needed to borrow a ladder, going to black movie theaters on Christmas, his thoughts on AI, the audience is his editor, executive orders if he was mayor of NYC, and much more on David Sedaris' interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Clips

Five-Grand Dog Tax Fury
Sedaris Reveals His Salary
Debating The Word "Queer"
$800 Sneakers, Zone One Flex
Fake Surgeon, Real Compliments
ChatGPT’s Brutal Breakup Letter

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

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  3. James Harris· Host0:29

    Our guest this week got his papers lit like he's burning that sardonic chronic. He's put in his 10,000 steps and 10,000 hours of eye-opening observations and autobiographical anecdotes that have hit The New York Times bestseller list 10 times. I just hope me podcast pretty one day. Before the next leg of his live tour kicks off, here to chat collecting Comme des Garçons, British culture that still confuses him, and the weirdest gifts he's ever gotten from his fans, his new book, The Land and Its People, is out now. Author David Sedaris. David, how the hell are you?

  4. David Sedaris· Guest0:57

    Oh, hello.

  5. James Harris· Host0:59

    Hi.

  6. David Sedaris· Guest0:59

    Thank you for having me.

  7. James Harris· Host1:01

    [laughs] Thank you for coming.

  8. David Sedaris· Guest1:01

    [laughs] I was in the neighborhood, you know?

  9. James Harris· Host1:04

    Yeah.

  10. David Sedaris· Guest1:04

    Just not a problem.

  11. James Harris· Host1:05

    Just a quick little pop-in. Yeah. We know you're a busy guy. You flew... You've been on the road.

  12. David Sedaris· Guest1:10

    Yeah, I just got back yesterday. I, I got back, uh, six days ago. I was, uh- [laughs] I went to 42 cities on a lecture tour.

  13. James Harris· Host1:19

    Jesus. Wow.

  14. David Sedaris· Guest1:20

    And then I just started my book tour a couple days ago.

  15. James Harris· Host1:24

    Was there anything you forgot to pack?

  16. David Sedaris· Guest1:26

    Uh, well, it's hard, because when

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