# Interview from the bathroom - with David Sedaris?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-from-the-bathroom-with-david-sedaris/969637 "2022-08-14T09:19:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-from-the-bathroom-with-david-sedaris/969637/1 "2022-08-14T09:19:05Z")

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A number of years ago (maybe 5-10), I remember hearing on a podcast the story of someone trying to conduct an interview late at night from their office with someone in Europe. I think they were trying to interview David Sedaris. And they had been waiting a while, and had to go to the bathroom, so either interviewed from the bathroom, or relieved themselves in their cubicle.

It was really funny, but now I can’t find any evidence of it anywhere. I thought maybe it was on This American Life, but their archive doesn’t show me anything familiar. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-from-the-bathroom-with-david-sedaris/969637/2 "2022-08-14T11:13:52Z")

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Was it Mike Sacks? [They first connected when Sacks interviewed Sedaris for a book and spent nearly five hours on the phone. Sacks says they talked so long that “I had to urinate into my trash basket. Twice.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-writer-mined-his-80s-adolescence-in-the-dc-suburbs-then-came-the-kavanaugh-hearings/2018/10/19/3170fb70-c8ad-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html)

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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-from-the-bathroom-with-david-sedaris/969637/3 "2022-08-14T11:31:22Z")

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I don’t recall the name, but that definitely sounds promising!

However, I’d really like to find the episode where I heard the story. It was so funny…