How Long Gone

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician from Los Angeles, best known for his masterful podcast Song Exploder. His new record, In the Last Hour of Light, is out now. We chat with him about the new Salem x Supreme collection, Pitchfork giving Chris Brown’s new offering a devastating 1.3, our salad days of podcasting, competing with A.I. in both music and podcasts, when the emo band opens for the hardcore ba...

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in Atlanta for Mother’s Day, and Jason is in New York. We chat about Raising Cane’s Mother’s Day BOGO meal, the colorful Swatch x Audemars collab, what music to listen to on a 250-mile run, Jason DJing our friends Emily and David’s wedding the night before, and the ethnic dance music section of the night, British Taskrabbit auctions, don't bring your Moleskine to the...

One-on-one pod today: Chris is home in New York, and Jason is in London. We chat about a lunch at The River Café, TJ’s treetox, developing a new drink called the “Lennox Carbomb,” TFW you’re a metalhead and they wanna know what Beyoncé song is your fave, TJ going freeball for a bit, self-serve alcohol in Paris, a loud eater at a lovely London trattoria, Charvet suspenders, Billie Eilish flip-flopp...

Lynette Nylander, Harper’s BAZAAR Executive Digital Director, returns to chat with us about this year’s Met Gala. We discuss pornstar martinis, Lewis Hamilton letting his beard shine solo, Pete Davidson’s penis, the Bezos-Sanchez effect, Sabrina Carpenter’s Dior film-strip dress, the loser behavior of themes in general, Hunter Schafer stuns in Prada, Connor Storrie continuing to lap Lil Huddy in t...

One-on-one pod today: Chris is home in New York, and Jason is in Paris. We chat about Lime biking, Olivia Rodrigo and Aziz on SNL, hosting large files online, “Net 30” negotiations, iced coffee in biodegradable paper cups, L.A.’s “Forest Lawn Drive,” the similarity between Noah Kahan and Them Jeans, the Baby2Baby Gala, hotel room tours and “Italian-style” bathrooms, the Yung Lean choreo, RIP Spiri...

One-on-one pod today: we originally had a guest booked who canceled, so ignore us introducing them in the intro. We chat about hotel room bathtubs, Chris returning to the Minneapolis airport chiropractor, 2 Chainz and his ten-year-old son podcasting about strip clubs, the Latinas vs. Snowbunnies pool party in Orange County, Erika Kirk dressing like sober Eminem, the Mount Rushmore of faerie musici...

Paul W. Downs is a creator, writer, and star of the award-winning television show Hacks. We chat with him from his home in Los Angeles about furries, protein-rich gravy, Picasso plates, the Cinnabon Mochalatta Chill, Paul Newman and Martha Stewart, the AMAs in Vegas this year, Hacks coming for magicians this season, shaving his body as a teen swimmer, buying Gucci at the outlet mall in New Jersey,...

One-on-one pod today: Chris is home from Italy, and Jason is in L.A. We chat about Jia Tolentino’s microlooting scandal, our Secretary of War's jaw and the packet is in D.C., staging our new White House ballroom, false flags and Scientology speed runs, Drake’s injections and ab dissolvers are settled and ready for the launch of Iceman, and what we need The Boy to deliver next month, the Stagecoach...

Jago Rackham is a chef from London. His wonderful debut book, To Entertain, is out now. We chat about Salone in Milano, the UK cigarette ban, acid reflux, Britain’s obsession with failure, deviated septa, being more brown rice and steamed veg than you’d think, emailing on the medium screen, getting good grades in school while drunk, getting paid in clothes, Waymos with human drivers, how to be a p...

Recho Omondi is the host of The Cutting Room Floor, a popular fashion podcast. We chat with her about Law Roach’s lay-flat seat, softmaxxing one’s hair with human tears, her false reputation as an intimidating person, the guarded secret of her clipping style, a scene report from the Devil Wears Prada 2 premiere, from Africa to Oklahoma, the pressure to succeed from her father, how little craftsman...

One-on-one pod today: Chris was in Los Angeles, and Jason was off to Coachella. We chat about substance use game plans, concert “underplays,” cruise ship financials, vaping in the airplane bathroom, Zohran’s rap royalties, some performances from the weekend, nine-inch nut-licking, Madonna’s Illuminati ritual, Drake’s ice-covered chairs, Ice Spice getting touched at McDonald’s, the left needing to...

Playwright, actor, and screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris returns to the pod to chat about philosophy clubs replacing the club, our Paul Smith event with Delaney Rowe, a late-night meal at Canter’s, whether listening counts as reading, Lena Dunham’s beautiful mess, producing on Euphoria, all the boys he shared a Japanese jail cell with, the Geese conversation, his new film Erupcja with Charli XCX, his...

Monica Padman is an actor and co-host of the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. We chat about Chris tailgating on his ATV ride, new Lena Dunham dropping, Los Feliz grocery shopping, her martini order, Affleck and Damon remaining crushes, how wide her search parameters are set, Mr. Freeze your eggs, working with toxic men, large arms, Skims, and we compare the striking similarities between o...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about leg washing, celebrities at Coachella, Bieber’s gay guy music video night, Euphoria diaper play, taking a helicopter to Noma, Sabrina Carpenter’s car, Ethel Cain showing brain on main, spherical mixology ice cubes, cropped oxfords, we make some dinner plans, Chris going fly-fishing this week, and DJ Yousuke Yukimat...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about the new Strokes record, Coachella fever, Tucker impressions, TJ got a new TV, a power lunch at New York’s The Grill, the pub-trification of America, The Masters and The Derby, Twitter 1.0, whether Substack will feature adult content in 2026, prayers up for Natasha, and our thoughts on NASA’s recent moon conten...

Pierce Abernathy is a popular New York-based cook whose recipes can be seen all over the internet. We chat with him from his apartment in Brooklyn about rapper Offset's altercation, Kanye banned in the UK, Chris' kitchen setup, Jarrito's Aqua Mineral, the Kentucky Derby, Louiseville hardcore, are pomegranate seeds for women? His original dreams of moving to LA and becoming a DP, tender tops, all t...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in Philadelphia, and Jason is home in LA. We chat about Rockport shoes, a packet-filled evening, beating your face before Club Space, Christina Hendricks’s recent all-vinyl DJ set, Chris and Alix revisit The Rachel Zoe Project (2008), when the gym has an indoor track mezzanine, the ongoing tribulations of Pooh Shiesty, our friends posting the Kanye concert to Close F...

Christina Najjar, aka Tinx, is an author, radio host, and influencer. We chat with her from her home in New York about Summer House stuff, OpenAI acquiring TBPN, Chaotic Good marketing, Strike! (1998), perpetual press tours, Benicio Del Toro being her type, doling out advice, recently getting unbanned from Feeld: The Dating App for Open-Minded Individuals, her group chat having a penis-related nam...

Naomi Fry is a writer for the New Yorker. She's a dear friend and returns to the pod to chat about Jill Biden's attractiveness, Nike pregame mules, her new Bottega bag from The Real Real, cocaine service journalism, her current social media break, Vanderpump and The Valley, the SUR goatcheese balls, Mormon soaking bed technology, the tear-jerking Love Story finale on FX, Hunter Biden's sexiness, H...

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in New York, and Jason’s just back from Las Vegas. We chat about a Southwest flight, camouflage body tea, the Cantina Contramar opening in Vegas, TSA stuff, a massage and spa report, Tiger taking a turn, a broader look at driving on pills, Gavin DeGraw live, Chris having fun spending in the city, the Marc Jacobs doc, Druski continuing to dazzle, and Chris reporting o...

Listener favorite Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, returns to How Long Gone. Her new album, Ricochet, is out now. We chat with her from the Matador offices about Matthew Williams to Oakley, the end of Taix, how she’s been outfitting her new home, the dark secret of her neck of the woods, string arrangements, trans guitars, how she handles the popular girls of Los Angeles, and how it’s been five yea...

Adam Goldberg is an actor known for his work in Saving Private Ryan, Dazed and Confused, Friends, and more. He also makes music, and his new record, When the Ships of My Dreams Return, is out now. We chat about Meek Mill’s LinkedIn activity, Jaÿ-Z’s return, melting Babybel cheese, a recent motorcycle accident, romanticizing the “summer camp” feeling of film sets, how many times he can play Matthew...

One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about the Founder Asylum, potpourri, the apartment in Love Story, plaster fetish, SNL UK, the Cou Cou Intimates pop-up, Chappell Roan's desire to physically harm small children, Dave Grohl’s therapy journey, Nelly’s “Grillz,” Afroman’s courtroom flavor, and the Air Mail Horses story. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/t...

Jessica Koslow is the chef and owner of Sqirl, a popular restaurant in Los Angeles. We chat with her from her home in Pasadena about a London punch-up, what to do with a restaurant bathroom, Atlanta strip clubs, which actor’s sourdough starter they use at the restaurant, her new dinner menu, a dish lightly influenced by Chris himself, clientele exclusion, what to do about the burger situation, Sys...

Nicole Richie is an icon who needs no introduction. We chat with her from her home in Los Angeles about Oscars red carpet journalism, male brooch-wearing, a literary salon in New Orleans, how she acquired her sourdough starter, calling Lionel Richie “L-Train,” the Van Nuys Airport, Virgo power, not being able to imagine talking to two straight men for an hour, stealing a pog slammer in Brentwood,...