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Chuck Klosterman on Why We’re Wrong about the Past, the Future and Almost Everything Else
39 minutes Posted Jun 30, 2016 at 8:22 am.
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The Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs author talks Kanye 2020, Hamilton, the Kardashians and what he did to piss off Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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This week, we’re joined by Chuck Klosterman, prolific culture critic and author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. To pre-game for the interview, we (literally) take a page out of that book and ask each other questions from his piece, “23 Questions I Ask Everybody I Meet In Order To Decide If I Can Really Love Them.”

question destiny's child gif

After we decide if we can love each other (we can), Chuck joins us for a chat about his new book, But What If We’re Wrong?, and tells us why everything we think about the past is wrong:

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And we cap things off with the song Chuck hopes makes it to 2516, “The Boys Are Back in Town” by Thin Lizzy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZqDzb__bw

Until next week!

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