914. - Tom Junod
Tom Junod is a journalist who has written for Esquire and GQ and is currently a senior writer at ESPN. He’s known for his stellar profiles of Mr. Rogers, Kevin Spacey, and many more. His memoir, In the Days of Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, is out now. We talk about our travels to Paris for Fashion Week, perpetual publication, the Morgan Freeman of dogs, selling women’s handbags in Texas, the terror of your junk mail, the ease of podcasting and the difficulty of writing, the magazine section of supermarkets, the software he uses to write, his shed, and which cocktails his dad drank for each season of the year. instagram.com/tom_junod twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Speaker A: All right, uh, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it 3 times a week. Jason, does that sound familiar to you? Speaker B: We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place.
Speaker A: All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Bonjour, it's Chris Black, Jason Stewart. We are in Gay Paris. And it's feeling, I'm feeling a little crazy. I don't know about you, Jason, but we literally just got here and then sat in the lobby of the hotel for 2 hours or so because a hotel room has never been early in Paris in all of my years of coming here. As I said to you in the lobby, their response is always, not possible is their response if early check-in is available.
Speaker B: Not possible. It ended up working out. Yeah, I'm feeling a little psycho. Obviously just got off the plane from Cali, woke Woke up Wednesday, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, went for a hike, kind of pulled something in my leg kind of jogging down the hill too fast. So I have some travel pain. Speaker B: Not possible. It ended up working out. Yeah, I'm feeling a little psycho. Obviously just got off the plane from Cali, woke Woke up Wednesday, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, went for a hike, kind of pulled something in my leg kind of jogging down the hill too fast.
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