Balancing Act: Work, Life, and Deli Culture

Adam Roberts is a writer from New York whose debut novel, Food Person, just arrived. He's an OG food blogger, podcaster, and former neighbor of Jason's, so they have plenty to catch up about. We chat about Marc Maron's retirement announcement, Reneé R*pp hates the straights, Chris's beef with a United States postal worker, where to find a bagel in Atlanta, Katz's Deli erotica, the early days of Gay.com and Manhunter chatrooms, the new Pee Wee Herman documentary, where he's eating in Los Angeles this week, coconut kale smoothies, the notorious gay poker night, he got the idea for his book while ghostwriting a cookbook for a celebrity, who will play his book's characters in the inevetable screen adaptation, what it would take Zendaya, and Chris Black, to gain 30 lbs for a role, and Adam throws his therapist hat on to deduce Chris' emotional trauma based soley on his Sweetgreen order.

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