How Long Gone

Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker; he returns to How Long Gone to speak about his new book, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. We chat about plain omelets, all the podcasts he's been doing lately, the rise in pain maintenance, the hierarchy of our family desktop computers, maybe I want to get caught, spraypainting angel wings on a wall has been replaced by the gym, commut...

Stavros Halkias is a comedian from the Baltimore area. We chat about tropical supplements, our review of The Emmy's, Mumford & Sons for LV, Stav's drying up in Baltimore, eating on airplanes doesn't count, the best and worst comedy condos he's stayed in, the Planet Fitness black card, how he went viral doing Raven's recap videos, his history with childhood sports betting, straight Greek men are ga...

A one-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about Taylor Swift's Swag Surfing, Mos Def sending shots to Drake's Target, you'll never guess what some guys at the gym said, therapist said I gotta start excavating anger, plumbaz > bartendaz, is boxing the final form? we unpack different rollerblading tricks, I learn about actor Cush Jumbo, crust punk daughter...

Sleater-Kinney is a band from the Pacific Northwest. We chat with Corin and Carrie about sneaky license plates, a recent dinner at Horses, the dark origins of Damp January, Corin's love of Beats By Dre headphones, fake NPR voice, Carrie doesn't do legumes, when soy milk was soy milk, 90's coffee shop was a movie, we figure out if Corin was ever a goth hostess, why she loves audiobooks, getting Ger...

Matt Belloni, previously an editor at The Hollywood Reporter, is now a founding partner at Puck and host of The Town, a favorite pod of ours about the entertainment industry. We recap the W Magazine Annual Best Performances Party we attended before chatting about how our writer's strike recovery is going, why Suits? Matt wants us to rank Los Angeles' worst parking experiences, did The Golden Globe...

One-on-one pod recorded live and uncut from Glendale, CA. We chat about the Milk Bar Birthday Cake outliving the Triple Berry, the Beanie Babification of Stanley Cups in America, time to throw away the Christmas tree, we need health food to return, Katt Williams' talking that mess again, Cybertruck, Stephen Hawking is having the second or third worst week ever, Jimmy K could get touched, how every...

The Japanese House is a musician from England, currently living in Detroit. We chat with Amber about the Safdie's split, Damp January, a dinner with Nick Wooster, Jurgen's annual W Magazine shoot, when her dog is allowed on the bed, adjusting to life in Detroit, our on-stage relationship with alcohol, The Family Stone and the Netflix winery rom-com, her father basically invented natural wine, when...

Dean Kissick is a pod friend and writer from New York City. He returns to chat about our shagadelic NYE plans and our hungover NYD, the new Dave Chappelle special, it's good luck to eat long foods for the new year, we give resolutions for everyone else, Facebook is back, Banksy and Adam Curtis and Burial, Emma's dating normies, don't read his thesis on graffiti, the history of dressing well while...

Recorded live and uncut from Glendale on the morning of New Year's Eve. We chat about a new way to approach the end-of-year lists, questions we didn't get the chance to ask Moby, TJ went to Costco, young people are low-key offended by 30 Rock, we went to a corporate steakhouse in Orange County and then saw Tim Dillon do stand up, and Chris had one of his road rage episodes with a Bird Scooter comm...

Moby is a musician and animal rights activist living in Los Angeles. We chat about what we did for the holidays, $93 sushi rolls at Nobu Cabo, how Play makes Chris feel, he used to live in a giant castle but he downsized, watches vs. trees, soy milk and electronics don't mix, $500 a day on coke, the Eilishes took over his old restaurant space, the vegan elite, his Grandpa level knowledge of pop cu...

Willy Staley is a beloved Twitter user, an editor at the New York Times, and one of our favorite thinkers in general. He returns to the pod to talk about what "unplugging" means to us, Chris has discovered Sirius XM Radio, we finally watched a Tr*vor N*ah special, putting in the office, you don't see that too much these days, we compare skateboarding to golf, Willy wishes there was an app that you...

Heather McMahan is a comedian from Atlanta, her Netflix special, Son I Never Had, is out now. We chat about the LA rains, Nobu's coffee program, America's worst cities, Southern Tumblers, como se dice pound town? Buying her childhood home, her mom's dating again, top 5 prescription pills, which Spotify playlist she listens to before a show, we give her some Australian pointers, her love of sparkli...

We spoke with Tim Burgess, frontman of the legendary English band The Charlatans, about keeping ambient music weird and keeping the Tiny Desk tiny, Santos on Ziwe, gamer headphones, some of his favorite LA haunts from when he lived here, we confront him on putting cinnamon in his coffee, his lockdown listening party listened to 1300 records, we fantasize life on the road in the '90s and calling gi...

One-on-one pod recorded live and uncut from Glendale, CA. We chat about showing hole on the Senate floor, LGA -> LAX, which colleges eat more on the airplane, Condé Nast All Hánds, union dues, #ad, yellow is the traditional rain color, Ott*ssa M*shf*gh love/hate list, Bon Iver at The Ace Hotel, Meta Ray Bands, Black Mirror is like Banksy tv show, the A24 Civil War movie, Chis has outsourced joy fr...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about running our little errands, Chris' car situation, San Francisco is likely bad now because they don't have as many fixed-gear cyclists, we reminisce about a simpler time like season 1 of Entourage, who has an office anymore? Bethany Cosentino is disappointed with her album launch, will prime-time tennis have an...

Dana Brown is the Deputy Editor of Vanity Fair and the author of his memoir Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster, which Chris enjoyed. We chat about LinkedIn, evangelical roots, power lunching, LA is number one but it didn't use to be, we're all for sale and we're all reviewing restaurants, members-only clubs are for cocaine only, we celebrate the cultural criticism of Bret East...

One-on-one episode today. Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about a Jared Leto spotting, NYT's 71 most stylish people of 2023, zany ties, a dinner at Le Bernardin with Andy Baraghani, translation is key, Chris got the McDonald's shoes, Army vs. Navy, Boston hotel report, Brian Grazer is the Hunter Biden of producers, Chris and I sang at our Boston show, being at the airp...

One-on-one episode recorded remotely in New York. We chat about mouth taping, male comedian facial reconstruction surgery, Taylor Swift's Time Magazine photos, croissant a day keeps you twinking, a piping hot blueberry muffin, maybe gut health is overrated, when you try to "win" your restaurant order, borscht is up next, who is a bad enough bunny to wear a Fentanyl t-shirt? deadstock pharmaceutica...

Moshe Kasher is a comedian, podcast host, and writer. His newest book, Subculture Vulture, is out next month. We chat about Jason having a Chris day today, a recent expose on air travel's CLEAR, we reminisce about Vegas trade shows, Moshe invents a slew of terms early in our convo, wallpaper is now more important than microphones in today's podcast studios, our love of his earlier podcast The Cham...

A one-on-one pod recorded live and uncut from The Standard East Village on a rainy Sunday after our show at Webster Hall. We chat about drinking two-day-old Dunkin coffee from the airport, we argue about hangover meals, going hard for like three days in a row, Chris got food poisoning, our love of saltines continues to thrive, Cr*nch Fitness, TJ got measured at Bode, monograms are tricky, a recap...

Jonathan Rado is a musician and producer best known for the band Foxygen and for producing records for The Killers, Weyes Blood, Tim Heidecker, Father John Misty, and many more. He's also a chill guy who we like a lot. We spoke with him from his home studio in The Valley about our upcoming shows in New York and Boston, a recent article about us, where Jonathan orders food from mostly, our thoughts...

Future Islands is a band whose new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, is out in January on 4AD. We spoke with Sam, their singer, about used puffer jackets, a punk rock museum in Las Vegas, Celine discovered Dimes Square, when they started taking a cut from merch sales, memoirs, living in New Orleans, a lot of knee talk, he seems to live in crab-adjacent cities, he has an old uncle whos also a...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in Jamaica, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about our Thanksgiving plans, I wish a family member would, a question for PJ Vogt, Chris' Caribbean flight, the best kinds of travel involve novel familiarities, Chris' Air Mail Holiday Gift Guide, is toothpaste a cleaning product? Kardashian photoshoots, a new airplane violation emerges, buying a used treadmill see...

Kevin Drew is a founding member of one of our favorite bands, Broken Social Scene. His new solo record, Aging, is out now on Arts & Crafts. We chat about our Thanksgiving plans, "Apple Head," gender revealing, how much longer until holidays, in general, are over, he listens to podcasts to fall asleep, removing yourself from situations where a reaction is necessary, he tries to convince us to like...

Simon Rex is an actor currently living in Joshua Tree, CA. His newest film, The Sweet East, is out Dec 1st. We chat about TJ in New Orleans, we break down Tate M*rae on SNL, Simon's history with car ownership, how he moved off the grid to Joshua Tree, the dichotomy of desert Trumpers and crystal hippies, being a runway model in the 90s', interviewing 2pac moments after smoking a blunt, his acting...