Iranian Roots and Cultural Familiarity

Penn Badgley is an actor known for his work on Gossip Girl and You, and is releasing a collection of essays based on his podcast, Podcrushed, available next week. We chat with Penn about Lana's swamp daddy at Valentino, the smell of Chris' local health food store in Florida, a shakeup at CBS News, Penn has twins now and records the entire episode with one strapped to him, his Baha'i faith, Iranian food, doing mushrooms at 17, living with indigenous people in Colombia, acting with knives, AA and god, Filipino volcanoes, and his love of soul music.

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