Stop with the long audio text messages. Feat. Julian Casablancas
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Summary
Julian Casablancas from The Strokes hates long voice memos, calling them a "Trojan horse voicemail." The host defends sending minute-long audio texts in his buttery voice. They banter about brown relatives loving voice notes and whether Subway Takes beats Jimmy Fallon. Julian even sings a Strokes song on the train. Then things get real when he pitches a populist anti-billionaire party. The host jokes that white guys with manifestos are usually bad news.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? Stop with the long audio text messages.
100% disagree.
You're one of those people. I send them all the time.
I don't want your stream of consciousness, man. I have things to say.
You're Trojan horsing a voicemail into the text world. Would you rather have me just call you and say, "Hey, Julia." Cuz I don't like texting my phone.
The worst part of a phone call and a text message combined. You got any uh Arab relatives or African relatives? Cuz brown people, I find brown people are very into the voice note.
Short is fine. Like, you know, get to the point, little song, little like 10 second. 10 seconds. Way too short. Like, I think the rule should be up to a minute of information.
Okay, that's pretty long. You think that's long?
Yeah. You don't want to hear my sweet, sweet, buttery voice.
Anyways, I've seen so many of these that it's just fun to be in it. Oh, that's a very nice compliment.
It's like a lucid doom scroll. What's more exciting for you, coming on Subway Takes or Jimmy Fallon? The fact that I could play music on Jimmy Fallon, but the talking part this?
You could play music on my show. Oh, actually, that'd be actually really cool. We
I know that would be cool. Concert in the subway.
That's like a Strokes song he's playing right there. I can see in my eyes. I can sing our song too and you can dance too and I'm alone with you. Wow, that guy's singing a Strokes song. That's so sick.
I'm thinking about dancing to "I'll Try Anything Once" at my wedding. So like you you'll try marriage once. That's the second time. So then maybe that's a weird choice. What is another take? Give me another one. This is so boring. But I really think conservatives and progressives need to come together, do a non-corporate consensus populist party to fight the billionaire gang agenda villains. And you know, we can fight about abortion and guns later, but let's just focus on, you know, no corruption and democracy.
Class. Class.
Okay. It's a class thing. The war of all against. Oh, I thought you were saying like, ooh, like a euro glass man.
I think people are just confused cuz they don't know what they're fighting about anymore. I don't know how we get out of that. You should check out my manifesto. Usually usually when a white guy has a manifesto, it's not good.
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