How Long Gone

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in New York, and Jason is back home in L.A. We chat about influencers ruining the U.S. Open of tennis, reverse-engineering Soho House, Chris being bullish on Ohio, stick season not coming soon enough, what it must feel like when flight attendants finally memorize their lines, Sarah McLachlan’s beauty and the odd Rolling Stone digital cover, the even odder Lollapalooza Mumbai poster, the pros and cons of having 11 people in your musical act, I Love Boosters, Jason never getting that Irish spice bag, and nature taking over Jason’s home in his absence.

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Kate Young is a celebrity stylist living in New York. We chat with her from her office about Jason’s time in Dublin, the Bill Simmons A.I. situation, sending her viola-playing son to CalArts to study experimental pop and her other son’s graffiti and opium-style clothing interests, advancements in Chinese luxury clothing duplication, the upper arms of Madonna, Jennifer Aniston, and Sarah Jessica Parker, what she watches on the plane, the reality TV offers she’s received over the years, the salad days of celebrity brand deals, when clients send her A.I. images of clothing that doesn’t exist, her gay-guy group chat, and her husband’s vinyl and vintage metal tee collection.

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One-on-one pod today: Chris is in Colorado, and Jason is in Biarritz, France. We chat about craving Asian flavors on the road, Chris relying on his SoulCycle training on the gravel trails, Jason driving across France in a BMW X2, Jason DJing a friend’s wedding, the sea mist of Biarritz, Chris tracking the Colorado bison with his Swarovski binoculars, Chris pondering a career pivot to chocolatier, pod brother Joe Budden finally popping the question, Chris Black getting fired from GQ, and some musical announcements for the inaugural Goneies Awards.

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Nick Axelrod is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Into The Gloss and Nécessaire, and most recently, the fragrance line Contrapposto. We chat with Nick from his home in Los Angeles about an early Them Jeans remix, a Parisian CrossFit gym, Chris going to a comedy show in L.A., nasal projection, cheek-kissing Mischa Barton, coming out to his parents via email, Diane Keaton’s Baby Boom (1987), egg freezing and the lack of gay porn at the sperm collection office, Steve Jobs’ theories on packaging layers, Maison Bonnet sunglasses, edibles and injectables, gaining and losing 50 pounds, and spraying a blueberry smoothie all over the new carpet in the primary bedroom.

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One-on-one pod today: Chris and Jason are both in L.A. after hitting the Just Like Heaven festival the night before. We chat about our day at the festival, artist parking bribery, Chris eating a breakfast burrito, "morning sauces," hash browns, pretzels both soft and hard, Feist’s drummer, slump busting, comedian Reggie Watts is in the news, shamanizing therapy, and talking about your short rib plate for a living.

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Brennan Wedl is a musician living in Nashville. Her new self-titled record is out today on ANTI-. We chat about Purely Elizabeth granola selling for $850 million, the New York Times matchmaking article, her astrology practice, Amy Grant, a recent footwear brand deal, eating dinner at a bowling alley, burrito rolling, Nashville’s transience, “writers’ rounds,” staff meal, chicken roasting, and Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars.”

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Jerry Stahl is a writer best known for his 1995 memoir of addiction, Permanent Midnight. Gonzo Neurotic, his new collection of essays over the years, is out next month. We chat with him from his home in L.A. about Jason’s time in Sea Ranch, how Jerry landed in suburbia, working at Hustler magazine while living at the YMCA in Columbus, Ohio, how writing is the only job you can do fucked up, naked, and alone at three in the morning, The Joe Rogan Experience, shadowing Mickey Rourke for two weeks in New Orleans, Cindy Crawford treating his Miami sunburn, heroin nods and fentanyl folds, Playboy magazine and the new cocaine, selling yourself on the internet, the life of a profiler, and leaning into a terrible interview.

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One-on-one pod today: Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about Shania Twain, the incomprehensible fashion statements of Gen Z, This Is Us’ Chrissy Metz being forced to defend her jab, fact-checking Nicole Kidman’s allyship, Chris getting closer to pulling the trigger on Starlink, the heated driveways out on Sterling Point, TJ predicting box office success for the Rolling Loud film, Chris making his case for San Francisco, Jason predicting the Soho House-ification of cities, the brunch menu at Frenchette, the rise of pancakes, and a trip to the Whitney Biennial.

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One-on-one pod today: Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about our attention spans, the long-term effects of “high-low” aesthetics, Apple chargers and foldable phones, pre-iPod MP3 players, calling a woman “handsome,” all the info you need to know about The Goneies, our awards show next month in New York, the Irish “spice bag,” shiso leaves, whether Bill Simmons is “dark woke,” and Jon Hamm being pregnant.

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Our friend, comedian, musician, and actor Whitmer Thomas returns to the pod. His new HBO special, Terminal Crew of Dudes, drops this week. We chat with him from his home in L.A. about Brad Pitt drinking again, Homer Gere emerging, eating on camera, Tim Robinson and John Mulaney, getting COVID at Hooters, sweetening up the comedy "in post," a hotel throwing all his clothes away, getting scammed on Depop trying to buy a shirt from The Dark Knight, his robust shrimp hat business, turning down a Sydney Sweeney commercial, and how he likes to gamble.

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