Laura Snapes is the deputy music editor for The Guardian. We chat with her from her home somewhere in England about Chloe Sev hating on dogs, the spirit of punk is back at fashion shows, we confront her about bangs, when everyone in her school flat-ironed their hair, will country music ever crossover in the U.K.? what's the matter with Morrissey? she, unfortunately, has been a journalist her whole life, Pitchfork and Star Access, she left Twitter a while ago, and we asked her why, the Talking He...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 601
Sam Fragoso is the host of the podcast Talk Easy, and he's interviewed Tom Hanks, Fran Lebowitz, and Ziwe, to name a few. We chat about Chris arriving in Copenhagen, TJ's Horses review, we ask him how he gets into all these parties, honesty is not a stray, is it possible to do too much research before an interview? film criticism, don't forget to go outside, red light therapy, why do people like this podcast? maybe music is a hobby now, Sam wants to be a basketball player, Smartless got another ...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 600
One-on-one pod today: Chris is in San Francisco, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about tankless water heaters, Chris is off to Copenhagen with his new Rimowa trunk, a deep dissection on Pookie looking absolutely fire today, a recap of our show in San Francisco, a lovely meal at Quince, a trip to Bar Part Time, pupusas with Lance Bangs, and maybe its time to rename some offensive foods. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 599
J Mascis is a musician best known for the band Dinosaur Jr. His new solo record, What Do We Do Now, is out soon. We chat about our trip up to San Francisco, Andre Nickatina, a dinner at Quince, hoarding family members, how he listens to music, his son likes Playboi Carti, if he likes doing podcasts, he got into fashion from his father, his relationship to the color purple, everyone thinks he's on drugs, he's an avid cyclist, Strava is the only social media he uses, he plays golf once a year, the...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 598
Jamie Oliver is a chef and the second bestselling cookbook author in England, behind JK Rowling. His newest book, 5 Ingredients Mediterranean, is out now. We chat about eating a 14-year-old strawberry, Chris had a tough flight to Los Angeles, perp walking writers, where Jamie's dining in New York, how he has such great hair, how he writes a book every year, the joy of cooking is unfortunately dying, the one thing he won't eat, beetroots, rude boys and boy racers, muscle confusion, Ibiza Tea, wor...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 597
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about Calvin Harris' "Summer," Jason explains what Rekordbox is, a recap of TJ's charity gig, followed by a Tár-themed birthday party, a shoes-off afterparty, Drake made a self-care GRWM video, Harmony and Travis are showing their freaky movie at a strip club, Chris gets looks when he wears shorts in frigid New York, we go over the Coachella lineup, Chris hates the band Queen, Anna Wintour didn't take off her sung...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 596
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, commuting to work would fix most of you, R.I.P. Pitchfork.com, Kyle needs help with pants, why he lives in...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 595
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 gayer than anyone going to The New Fire Island, what happens when he goes to Greece, how he might chan...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 594
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 or Virginity Rocks son? We're hours away from our first fake Coachella meme lineup, Chris wants to l...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 593
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 Geri from Succession in their video off a cold DM, Corin's dad is a neuroscientist specializing in slee...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 592
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 Globes sacrifice too much fun in order to survive in a new era? Who was on more drugs - Jo Koy or Kevin C...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 591
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 late-night host has had their soul sucked from their body and how we want that too, and what Chris ...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 590
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 musicians should stop, Christmas at the Girlfriend's parents, non-alcoholic beer, the online hate s...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 589
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 stealing stuff, he saw a Travis Scott show recently, the word "Migos," Dean explains his thoughtful ...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 588
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 commuter. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 587
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 culture, a walk down the militant vegan straight edge, OC republican punks, DJing Misshapes, how he go...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 568
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 could use to rent out your apartment for short term visits, defending Red Hook, the anatomy of a pa...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 585
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 sparkling waters, electrolyte powder is the new Diet Coke, Zaxby's, Cookout, hiring a hypnotist to stop eat...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 584
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 girlfriends from truckstops, his 10-year-old son thinks he's super rich because he has a Tesla, what a...
Dec 20, 2023•58 min•Ep. 583
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 from his life, Christmas wouldn't exist without seasonal depression, candles are like umami bombs for ...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 582
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 effect on Las Vegas? how many skate video attempts do we show before landing the trick, the Vice doc...
Dec 15, 2023•59 min•Ep. 581
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 Easton Ellis, Keith McNally's memoir, nicotine gum, call me crazy but I think people should dress up at ...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 580
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 airport on a Saturday afternoon makes you feel like George Clooney, a holiday party, and the nasty tradi...
Dec 11, 2023•55 min•Ep. 577
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 pharmaceutical merchandise, Chris' newfound love affair with Panetone, why are these big podcasts getting cancele...
Dec 08, 2023•55 min•Ep. 578
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 Champs, with Neal Brennan, I suggest he does my favorite impression of all time and he more than deliver...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 577
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 of our live show and afterparty, you can't fight someone when they're on mushrooms, TJ pleads for ho...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 576
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 on UOVO pasta, Canadian customs smelling their passports, his relationship with OJ Simpson, Ross fr...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 574
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 performer, being 1/4 Filipino, opening for Morrissey, walking through the snow for soup, numbing th...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 574
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 seems fine, we ask who in the world receives the best hand-me-down gifts, The Killer (2023) is about a ...
Nov 27, 2023•57 min•Ep. 573
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 Beastie Boys, early BSS days in New York, a deep dive into Canada's "The Tragically Hip," the demise...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 572
