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Oct 2021
44m 43s

"David Remnick"

JASON BATEMAN, SEAN HAYES, WILL ARNETT
About this episode
Why is David Remnick always so cold? He’s surrounded by drafts. Editor of The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick joins us this week to discuss penne pasta, drunk tweeting, feeding the recycling bin, and Leonard Cohen. Theres some other good stuff in their two also, its’ 
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