Ezra Marcus is an investigative reporter based in New York City. We chat about burpees, TSA hoading the hojicha, the Sentimental Valu e premier, DJing a Halloween party in drag, his gourmand grandma, the sync button, who Rick Owens looks good on, an update on his Horses story from a few years ago, how his family feels about Zohran, political corniness at an all-time high, the day-to-day safety of crypto whales, and if he's going to dig deep on the "D4vd" scandal. ezramarcus.com twitter.com/donet...
Nov 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Our friend Daniel returns to the pod. He DJs under the name Physical Therapy, and his newest project, Car Culture, has a great new record out now. We chat with him from his studio in Ridgewood about the upcoming NY election, RIP Dick Cheyney, pirogis on a date, "cheating shoes," SNL cast member names, estate sales in Queens, and $800 record, Rekordbox Gate, lurking on r/aves, when being a DJ was cool, club Space in Miami, people think all his artwork is AI, and his current diet. instagram.com/fy...
Nov 05, 2025•1 hr 9 min
One-on-one pod recorded live at Chris's home in New York City. We chat about Halloween in the city, practical effects, Arcade Fire splits, a trip to "Noodle Pudding" in Brooklyn Heights, the rise of the Marathon spectator, Dodgers win the World Series, two nights of Tame Impala at Barclays, the new Rosalía, celebrities and their private security, the aura of Central Cee, is having a boyfriend embarrassing? And the end of MTV's Rediculousness. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlong...
Nov 03, 2025•1 hr
Tim Miller is the host of The Bulwark Podcast, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of Why We Did It. We chat with Tim from his home in New Orleans about Chris arriving home in New York sans MacBook Air, College Football, Tim can't sell Chris on Nawlins life, Trump's ballroom culture, "echo chambers, " it's hard to tell when people are gay now, safe spaces, Jake Tapper, Sombr makes his fans bark like dogs? Hottie basketball players, Pod Save America edibles, his top five prescription drugs, and his ...
Oct 31, 2025•1 hr 22 min
One-on-one pod today, Chris is almost out of Florida, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about the decline of "today's office" posting, Bieber's World Series look, Chris somehow has a Greyhound story, Vogue World, and the rise of celebrity outsourcing, Jason is activating at Gelson's Market, ear infections, college football players wearing Chrome Hearts on the field, we do Polymarket predictions on closeted actors and Presidential pardons, and Jason has a neighborhood narc conundrum. twitter...
Oct 29, 2025•59 min
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in St. Augustine, FL, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about banana maple bacon protein foam, Chris finally went in the ocean, long blacks vs. americanos, make fishing great again, Chris almost drove shirtless, Daft Punk & Fred Again DJ set in France, a Mamdani Mayoral meal at Omen before the debates, making stuff thats popular is cool, Jason saw One Battle After Another and Chris almost saw the Springsteen movie, football and baseball, Lily Allen's new r...
Oct 27, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Nat Wolff is an actor and singer from New York, currently living in Los Angeles. We chat about the NBA gambling scandal, the big gooning article in Harper's, all gender dressing rooms, flying home from Sydney for one night to be in a Billie vid, taking things to the brink of embarrassment, if Tame Impala got upset when Jason compared his lyricism to Drake, the power of a fedora for a 12-year-old boy, his pickleball wizardry, Marc Maron's retirement, the mandela effect of "set pranks," and what i...
Oct 24, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Shepard Fairey is an artist, activist, and founder of OBEY. We chat with him from his office in Los Angeles about World Series traffic, aesthetic appreciation in Charleston, SC, we thread the needle between Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari, and Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, political scapegoating, how to start a revolution in 2025, how to navigate political activism without getting too overboard, Rage With The Machine, RISD shows in the 80s, working with Space Invader and Damien Hirst, an...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Kevin Parker, aka Tame Impala, is a musician from Australia. His new record, Deadbeat , is out now. We chat with him from Lititz, PA, about his favorite thing at a restaurant being when someone orders for him, pub punishing, her favourite flavour of shapes, his pre-show alcohol routine, lyrics out of context, MF Doom X Taylor Swift, when you have to come up with a song right now in the room, his new musical instruement chord generator, Stevie Wonder's blind updates, his Ferrari theory, his kids,...
Oct 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Jordan Tannahill is an author and playwright from Canada, currently in New York. His critically acclaimed new production, Prince Fa**ot, is currently playing. We chat with him about Chris's Hermes dinner in Tennessee, Meg The Stallion courtside, digital media making zines, the photo of Prince George that inspired his play, the current economics of Broadway, the catacombs of club Basement, straight actors playing gay roles, and vice versa, latex and pup play, what he wore to his wedding, and his ...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Hot Chip is a band from England. Joy In Repetition , their greatest hits album, is out now. We spoke with Alexis from his home about RIP D'Angelo, a unique barbershop experience, what his daughter listens to, he got Liam Gallagher's autograph as a teen, The Cobrasnake singing on a plane, playing a show with LCD Soundsystem, MIA, and Ratatat at his first SXSW, James Murphy's drum machine work, DJing an all Prince set at Glastonbury just after his passing, our love of funny looking instruments, ge...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 9 min
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in Saint Augustine, and jason is home in Glendale. We chat about the xTurning Pointx halftime show, bald eagle guard dogs, we compare Zach Bryan and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jason explains Sora 2 to Chris, we explore different ways to return clothes, fashion can get real "tunnel fits" real quick, a second look at Benicio Del Toro, Marty Supreme jacket, Jason tries beef tallow moisturizer, a Floridian Publix scene report, and Role Model brings out Charli on SNL. twit...
Oct 13, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Lukas Gage is an actor and writer. His debut memoir, I Wrote This For Attention, is out soon. We chat about making copies, Mandy Moore, living in a Tribeca frat house, being a PrEP spokesperson, jizz on the sleeping bag, cybering on The Sims, Hollywood homeownership, pornstar names vs. superhero names, what agents and managers do, we haven't heard of half of his top 5 prescription drugs, take me back to 2007, and our experiences at the Addison Rae show. instagram.com/lukasgage twitter.com/doneto...
Oct 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Penn Badgley is an actor known for his work on Gossip Girl and You , and is releasing a collection of essays based on his podcast, Podcrushed , available next week. We chat with Penn about Lana's swamp daddy at Valentino, the smell of Chris' local health food store in Florida, a shakeup at CBS News, Penn has twins now and records the entire episode with one strapped to him, his Baha'i faith, Iranian food, doing mushrooms at 17, living with indigenous people in Colombia, acting with knives, AA an...
Oct 08, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Flynn McGarry is a chef and friend of ours from New York City. His newest restaurant, Cove, opens tomorrow. We had a chance to eat there and chat with him about death row meals, rice cookers, New Hampshire wagyu, live squid, wet towels, farmers market drama, how to eat a Copenhagen bun properly, you need clusters in granola, the tasting menu gift at the end, the rise of affordable luxury homewares, we have him breakdown our favorite dishes at Cove, and our thoughts on the new Taylor record. http...
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Gene Pressman, of the Barney's New York Pressman's new book, They All Came to Barneys , is out now. We chat with him from his home in West Palm Beach, FL, about LA being a better morning city, protein foam, Chris is eating his way through Los Angeles, Theo Vons in the news, Jason's Orange County Barneys experience, New York in the 70s, he had a boxing ring in his office, the early 90's financial crisis, public access television, starting an advertising agency in house, the importance of humor in...
Oct 03, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Mark Ronson is a DJ, producer, and author of his new book, Night People, which has recently been picked up for television adaptation. We chat about a recent home improvement at TJ's house, sensitive listeners, waking up with his bed on fire, his history with the Chateau Marmont over the years, when James Blunt went diamond, bad bunny at the Super Bowl, directing the Music for SNL's 50th anniversary show, he found his editor at Thanksgiving dinner, his thigh-high leather YSL boots, Gen Z's 90s no...
Oct 01, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Lucy Dacus is a singer-songwriter from Richmond, VA, currently living in Los Angeles. Lucy is known for her solo career, as well as her work with Boygenius. We spoke with her from New York about our time in Austin, TX, for the Levitation Festival, ripping the filer off Camel Reds, her Southern Baptist upbringing, female billings, landbacking, cashew cardamon almond butter at Erewhon, her fav restaurants in LA, Phoebe Bridgers told Bruce Springsteen to call her on her birthday, Travis Barker's ru...
Sep 29, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Richard Ashcroft is a singer-songwriter, known for his work with the band The Verve. He's currently on tour opening for Oasis, and his groovy new record, Lovin' You, is out soon. We chat about Kimmel's apology, Richard's love of New York City, accidentally getting Liam's hotel room on tour, when Oasis opened for them, what makes an anthem, Manchester United, touring with kids, he'll wear a supermarket t-shirt with the Celine leather jacket, how to say "no" when they tell you to take off your sha...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Cass McCombs is a singer-songwriter from the Bay Area, currently living in New York City. His great new record, Interior Live Oak , is out now on Domino. We chat about Tylenol autism, Kimmel predictions, good things about Baltimore, playing guitar while sitting down, his morning routine, cars, the engine of music, overall he's grumpy, cioppino soup, working at the soda fountain in Berkley and cruising the free vinyl section at Amoeba, and our thoughts on slang. instagram.com/cassmccombs twitter....
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in Sylt, Germany, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about airport cortados, chunky soups, Netflix's Black Rabbit and The Spotted Pig, our thoughts on Kimmel's cancellation and late-night equality, will the run club bubble burst? Lorde's treadmill, LA's Noma pop-up, we celebrate the end of summer Euro trips, Harmless Harvest recession indicators, our Pure Beauty pre-rolls come out this week, and come see us in Austin this weekend. twitter.com/donetodeath twitte...
Sep 22, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Ben Lippett, aka @dinnerbyben, is a cook from London. His new book, How I Cook, is out now. We chat about old pizza in Naples, the recession indicating Coachella lineup, season one of Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares, beef wellington theories, UK farmers’ markets, Kewpie mayonnaise, drizzling and sizzling olive oils, how to turn your Substack into a book deal, why he stopped working in restaurants, and the need to innovate vs. nailing the classics. instagram.com/dinnerbyben twitter.com/donetod...
Sep 19, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Jamie xx is a musician from England. He's one of our favorite DJs, and his band, The XX, is currently recording an album, with the hope of releasing it before their Coachella appearance next year. We chat about Chris & Jason's wildly varying Euro trips, early days XX producing with Diplo, our love of Portishead, TJ dives deep on his live show setup, the physical demand of 10-hour sets, Drake went to Berghain, how he deals with weed smoke in the studio, he lived in LA for 5 years and surfed a...
Sep 17, 2025•1 hr 8 min
One-on-one pod recorded live and uncut from the hotel moments before a wedding in Sicily. We chat about an upsell dessert in the Italian countryside, tutto limone at The River Cafe, The Clipse performing live at The Vatican, the Tiny Desk stagedive, we tuck into Zoe and Harry now that we're a few weeks in, Oasis in LA, Kirk's shooter dry snitched on his self, Chris enlightens Jason about the Brooks Naderverse, and on the heels of even more SNL cast changes, we fantasize a world where Druski is t...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Michael M. Grynbaum is a writer for The New York Times. His new book about Condé Nast, Empire of the Elite , is out now. We chat about Scott Galloway's bracelets, Charlie Kirk's assassination, the untapped powers of Hillary Duff, his love of shawl collared sweaters, being married to a fellow writer, galley proofs are the new sceeners, fact-checking notorious maître d's in Korea, Bruce Weber is back, Sunday appointment television is the bond that will keep us together, his thoughts on the Devil W...
Sep 12, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Pamela Hanson is a photographer currently living in New York. Her newest book, "The 90s," is out now on Rizzoli. We chat with her about Italian driving conduct, Chris went to a Prada party, TJ's hotel vibe, Pamela's archivist, lighting philosophies, showing up at the magazine's offices, and asking them if they need any pics, French advertising practices, the influencers shouldn't be backstage, social media jealousy, where she "long lunches," Christy Turlington's neck, her love affair with water ...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 17 min
One-on-one pod recorded on Friday, Chris was in New York, and Jason was home in LA. We chat about bedazzled Labubus, cast member changes at toxic SNL, we've reached peak moniker, superstar celebrities going on livestream, mukbang carfax, elbow rehab, Toyota FJ Cruiser with Microsoft Zune livery, Uniqlo socks could save the world, and pickleball developers could help end the unhoused crisis. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Sep 08, 2025•57 min
Saint Etienne is a band from England formed in 1990. Their newest and final record, International , comes out today. We spoke with Peter from his home in Hove about the passing of Giorgio Armani, the Kith padel tennis smoothie complex, Atlanta hip hop drama, calfskin innuendo, hanging out with Orbital at the beach, Oasis opened for them twice, his wife's shoulder exploded playing tennis, DJing at Glastonbury, their critically acclaimed vapourwave quarantine record, his kid listens to Suede, work...
Sep 05, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Bar Italia is a band from London that we're both fans of. Their new record, Some Like It Hot , is out next month on Matador. We chat with Nina and Jezmi about Vogue's new editor, Tim Dillon's Abu Dhabi payday, Howard Stern, Harry Styles in Rome, Jezmi's dad's salsa dancing career, silent mat pilates, pissing in a cup at the Oasis show, our karaoke songs, how they write songs, Pro Tools as a band member, good and bad festivals, how many push ups Jezmi can do, and their top five over the counter h...
Sep 03, 2025•1 hr 11 min
One-on-one pod today, Chris is summering on Long Island, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about out-of-office reply etiquette, a dinner at Andy Barghani's, Sky Ting on the laptop, polycule US Open viewing, Italian deodorant, the seawater diet, and why servers are suddenly so talkative. Did Trump die last week, and we're waiting to announce after Labor Day? Will straight people ruin GHB? Polish pavers caught stealing, Oasis in America hits different, and why fear the tote bag-wielding, matc...
Sep 01, 2025•1 hr 3 min
