Mar 27, 2026
Whenever I think of incomprehensible demoralization, I think of this episode... just the bafflement at the inability to stop and the inability to imagine a life without it....
but he makes it throughhhhhh!!!!
Oct 27, 2025
Sometimes, it’s amazing to me that with all my privileges and advantages I’ve still struggled to make it through this life. And yet my next guest is a guy who really had none of that - absentee parents running from their own mess inflicting their trauma on their poorskids. And somehow he found a way through - a way...
Sep 28, 2025
When I was an assistant at William Morris my boss would sometimes hire this masseuse - Steve - to come into the office and give everyone neck and shoulder massages. And he would laugh that my session was always a kind of wrestling match. “Nick, relax,” he’d say. “This is meant to be enjoyable!” This next...
Sep 2, 2025
Kaila Yu used to tell people that she was born in Tai Pei, she was actually born in Lawence Kansas and moved to Southern California at a young age where she was reared by her tiger mom parents until she discovered ecstasy and cocaine in Socal’s rollicking rave scene of the early aughts. She dropped out of UCSD and...
Jul 26, 2025
This was one of my very fist insterviews, and I really didn't know what to expect. Every interview back then felt so fraught - like there was so much at stake. As you can see, this one was pretty intense!
It's starts out with some fun stuff about Terrence Trent Darby and Shawn Michael Howard's earlly career and then...