Nick Hornby
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Sep 12, 2026
Randy CohenHOST
Oh, that's a great way.
Randy CohenHOST
Wasn't it Nick Hornby who used to write this column in The Believer, I think, and it was a monthly book column.
Randy CohenHOST
It was divided into books I read and books I bought.
Randy CohenHOST
Yeah, no, I think that's right.
Ben FurnasGUEST
I think that's right.
Ben FurnasGUEST
It's funny you say Nick Hornby because this is sort of like a high-fidelity thing where He sorts his records autobiographically.
Ben FurnasGUEST
And similarly, looking at my bookshelf and books in the order that I bought them is actually quite interesting, because the stuff I was interested in at certain times are all clumped together.
Randy CohenHOST
Yeah, it's lovely.
Ben StefanoffGUEST
It was just very freaky.
JoshHOST
So what do you look for in a show? If you're going to create a show and you're going to spend all this time, all this energy, you're saying up to six months to a year, like, prepping for the show, what Nick Hornby.
JoshHOST
Nick Hornby, that's it.
JoshHOST
Yeah, okay.
JoshHOST
Close.
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
But that record seems to sort of have this theme that really draws me to it.
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
And I remember, like, getting that and, and reading High Fidelity by Nick Hornby around the same time, and sort of, like, being like, "Oh, this is sort of like meta art about making art." And I feel like with this record, I mean, you've got Some Bands, you've got Learning to Sing, and both of those seem to sort of center around the idea of, of playing music.
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
I wonder, uh, what was it about right now that sort of drew you to that particular l- territory? Or is that something you've, you felt like you've done a lot over the years? Or, or what was it about this moment?
Sam SodomskyGUEST
Yeah.
Lisa JewellGUEST
And I just had this incredibly serendipitous conversation when I was drunk one night with a female friend.
Lisa JewellGUEST
Um, I, I'd just read the Nick Hornby novel, "High Fidelity," and it just got me thinking, like, audacious thoughts about, "A woman needs to write a book like this.
Lisa JewellGUEST
I'd like to write a book like this." And I told her, uh, you know, "I think, I think I'd like to write a book.
Lisa JewellGUEST
I think I'd like to write a bl- I'd like to write a book like Nick Hornby." And she brilliantly persuaded me to do it with the offer of dinner at, free dinner at my favorite restaurant.
Lisa JewellGUEST
So we were drunk.
Lisa JewellGUEST
It was a bet.
Rob BaileyGUEST
I don't know that it's even possible.
Rob BaileyGUEST
But yeah, it was, I think it was a kind of a book that defines me or something you were asking about, and I chose High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
VicHOST
Mm.
Rob BaileyGUEST
And it's a kind of similar, like, like obviously I, I kind of chose a film that kind of defined me professionally.
Rob BaileyGUEST
I, I literally, like my entire life is in the '90s, and, um, it's very annoying.
Rob BaileyGUEST
But yeah, I mean, I think that is a little bit of it.
Rob BaileyGUEST
And it's also like Nick Hornby, I dunno whether you've ever come across any of his other stuff.
VicHOST
Yeah.
Wesley StaceGUEST
I was not, I mean, I'm less close with him now for different reasons.
Wesley StaceGUEST
I mean, nothing bad, but I was very tight with Nick Hornby.
Wesley StaceGUEST
He was or is married to a friend of mine from university.
Wesley StaceGUEST
And I've stayed at their house countless times and gone to see Arsenal, you know, was at their wedding.
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Wesley StaceGUEST
hollywood put forward you know five or six songs and yeah i
Wesley StaceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
mean
Wesley StaceGUEST
i've never really meant i've never really talked to nick hornby about the whole thing it could be that he had a say in it and that's why i'm in it i've no idea one tends not to
John LamoreauxHOST
That's funny.
Paul MyersHOST
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Paul MyersHOST
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Paul MyersHOST
I'm Paul Myers.
Paul MyersHOST
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay strong.
Hannah MurrayHOST
We shall see.
Hannah MurrayHOST
There's also a new novel from Nick Hornby.
Guy LloydGUEST
Yes, it's his first for a few years.
Guy LloydGUEST
Not quite this year.
Guy LloydGUEST
And it has a football theme, but if...
Guy LloydGUEST
There are some of you, I'm told, don't like football and don't switch off.
Guy LloydGUEST
This is Nick Hornby, who is very skilled in making the subject interesting for the neutral.
Guy LloydGUEST
And I would give as an example, his first book, Fever Pitch, which is now 35 years old, crazily.
Emma ZetterbergHOST
The brilliant Alfred Molina will be joining us in New York.
Emma ZetterbergHOST
And as a little teaser, we thought we'd share his London performance from several years ago of Nipple Jesus with blessings from the author Nick Hornby.
Scout RileyHOST
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Emma ZetterbergHOST
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Emma ZetterbergHOST
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Scout RileyHOST
And now, please enjoy Nick Hornby's Nipple Jesus, performed by Alfred Molina.
Scout RileyHOST
Nipple Jesus
Alfred MolinaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sometimes I forget what I look like, if you know what I mean.
Knox McCoyHOST
And it was kind of that same transition period of like, Okay, I'm done like with English lit and analyzing weird poems that no one cares about.
Knox McCoyHOST
Like, what's my personality? What do I like? What are books doing these days? And someone had recommended High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
Knox McCoyHOST
And I jumped in and I was like, holy cow, this is incredible.
Knox McCoyHOST
And I think in a lot of ways – It it felt predictive or foreshadowing of like not just my life, but of the culture.
Knox McCoyHOST
And then I think Rider Strike and COVID kind of killed any chance of it getting a second season.
Knox McCoyHOST
But that was an incredible adaptation of the book as well.
Knox McCoyHOST
So High Fidelity, Nick Hornby, have you guys read that book?
Jamie GoldenHOST
I haven't read High Fidelity.
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