How Long Gone

Claire Ptak is a baker and owner of London’s Violet Cakes, making the Royal wedding cake for Harry and Meg amongst many other scone-based accolades. We chat about our weekend of concert-going in LA, flying to NY to party with Palace and Calvin, Chris thinks that London lunches lean a bit heavy, the fine Volvo SUV collection, we generalize which flavors that men and women lean towards, the early hours of a baker's life, weight lifting flow, working at a very young age, selling baked goods to an Arctic Monkey or a Klaxon, what to do when your nanny goes on holiday, Ibiza plans, Sad lamps, enjoying the business side of things as she’s progressed, British or gay, and what she’s looking for romantically as a newly-ish single boss. instagram.com/violetcakeslondon twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans

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One-on-one episode recorded live and uncut from Glendale California. We chat about TJ in the Porsche 911, interior color stories, flea market pros and cons, what our forefathers would have thought about writing an article about giving yourself a treat for running errands, Chris finally caught someone putting dogshit in his trashcan, medieval punishment, we're going to two shows tonight and we have to figure out what to wear, Delicore lifestyle, Substack is a dating site now, new Harold Stylish dropped, getting dick off Letterboxd, naming your kids off a Judd Apatow movie, the simple-minded lyrics of country music, and we argue about a few more things.

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Lance Bangs is a legendary film director who's worked on countless videos, films, and documentaries for the last few decades, most recently on the new Jackass film and shooting a posthumous video for George Harrison. We chat about Californication, TJ got a facial and got drunk at Neiman Marcus, growing up in Jersey in the late 80s, the Suicide Girls of Portland, Lance has a video treatment for us involving firearms, his 21-year-old son plays Russian video game music on guitar and teaches jiu-jitsu, clickbait shawties, crack addicts, Beabadoobee’s new video rips off Papa Roach, and we end with some Jackass stories.

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Willa Bennett is the head of social at GQ, a Forbes 30 under 30, a writer for countless publications, and a very good sport for putting up with our bullshit. We chat about Chris’ NYC fashion shoot, the Scientology slap, raising donkeys, eating tater tots at Fanelli’s, her love of ties and their relation to autoerotic asphyxiation, Avril, my 600-pound podcaster, uniform dressing, stumbling upon a Fiona Apple Concert as a teen in Tennessee, our unabashed love of industry plants, Olivia Rodrigo’s lyrical content, how legacy media uses social media to its advantage, gay Tik Tok, the kids are deleting their Instagram grids, and we argue about the future of magazines.

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Cat Power is a musician currently living in Miami. We’re both big fans and we're excited to chat with Chan about dank donuts, Chris finally got to hang out with John Mayer, TJ got Yeezys, Chan’s love of comedy, doing things alone, she does a beautiful French accent, seeing Bob Dylan a thousand times, the Stones at Hyde Park, therapeutic karaoke, downtown New York in the ’90s, coming up in Atlanta, what Miami was like 20 years ago, real estate deals, tanging with Victoria’s Secret on some sync talk, her favorite Mexican restaurant in Highland Park, and her upcoming tour starts soon so go buy a ticket.

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Richard Marx is a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter with over 30 million records sold worldwide. We chat about signing your text messages, Ryan Seacrest and Howard Stern still have to wake up at 3 am for work, Marx is back on the road and loving his crowd work, his crib in Miami, the music business is mostly about business, being a king of 80s hair despite not doing cocaine, Daisy Fuentes cooking him vegan Cuban sandwiches, Martinis are like tits, singing one song a night without a microphone, Richard works blue on stage, running into Rick Rubin at Pavillions just how Diplo does, his fitness routine, the evolution of his boots, learning how to manage ridicule from Nickleback, his own podcast based on tequila drinking, what to do when you see a fellow celeb in public, and his first apartments in LA as a teenager. 

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Bill Addison is a James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic for the LA Times. We chat about Grimes’ DDoS attacks, a deeper dive into Diplo’s carnivore diet, salad dressing through the years, Bill’s singing career, cutting his teeth in Atlanta, how to recognize when food has a soul, the death of the takedown review, getting softer with age, the first six months of a restaurant, the importance of anonymity as a critic, vegan pastry, Bill’s blessed metabolism, gay vanity, how to eat three dinners a night, how to get a res at Motherwolf, why to get the peanuts at Cookbook, and Bill doesn’t believe in food trends but we still ask him about some.

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Wes Pentz, aka Diplo, is a musician and DJ from Florida, currently living in Los Angeles. We chat about And Just Like That getting renewed for a second season, how much your business manager should be skimming off the top, why Diplo needs 8 CDJs, living shirtless, the only reason he did this podcast was that the waves were sketchy today, rappers are upset with the Postmates options in Malibu, going on the carnivore diet after Rick Rubin told him to, moving into Kid Rock’s old house, why the industry is different in Nashville, ALBUM albums don’t exist anymore, how the music biz figured out how to make a shitload of money again, the steady growth of Diplo vs. the early peak of Major Lazer, how he slowly took over Las Vegas, day parties vs. night parties, building with Kraftwerk, hanging with Rocky in China, and what happened to his pants after smoking 5-MeO-DMT.

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One-on-one episode today recorded live and unedited from Glendale California. We chat about soundbwoy slander, where to park with a luxury car, Chris met some friendly young people downtown, fizzy hoppy tea is ready for the big leagues, when the restaurant is absolutely serving food, Diplo is a slippery little shrimp, how Chris is handling the dog poop situation at his new home, a flirtatious neighbor of TJ's, Dead Eyes podcast, and honestly, the last half of the show is our plan to deal with America's dependency on pets.

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Bret Easton Ellis is a writer from Los Angeles. We chat about nude podcasting, a dinner at Horses with Raven Smith, Posh Spice’s love of steamed fish, reply guy complaints, Bret’s dour demeanor, the origin of Bret’s opening monologue, switching to Patreon, his worst podcast guest, an update on his new book, Didion’s thoughts on moving to New York, the ease flying private, all actors gain 30 pounds between filming, contemporary country music, the possible decline of cancel culture, we have to kill the celebrity profile, Anna Delv, And Just Like That, Emily in Paris, a teen TJ’s brush with homosexuality, and what it was like working with Lindsay Lohan.

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