How Long Gone

Jared Followill, bassist and songwriter for Kings of Leon, talks from his Tennessee home about surviving SEC football weekends, touring from motel floors to Four Seasons hotels, and the pigeon incident that canceled a show. He recalls opening for U2, the band’s thrift-store style, church-music roots, and his role as the group’s music scout. Plus: chocolate gravy, Southern canning, and Kings of Leon’s independently produced new album.

Caspian of New Orleans band Twisted Teens shares stories of twelve years living off-grid, riding freight trains, trimming cannabis, and exploring California’s wild plants. He discusses choosing pop songwriting, touring, squats, institutionalization, and a possible Unabomber biopic. The conversation also veers into Rick Rubin’s spirituality, AI influencers, courtroom Bibles, kratom, libido, and the surprising history of hops.

Chris and Jason debate Baby Gronk, children’s soccer, sports betting, and Bella Hadid’s branded sauna workouts. They unpack Jake Shane’s Madonna education, plot an outrageous W Youth party infiltration, and question the hype around the Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Plus: the return of Girls, Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley’s romance, Quavo’s surprising sales, Atlanta desserts, and Charli XCX concert FOMO.

Samuel Hine, New York Magazine’s senior men’s style editor and former GQ writer, returns for a lively conversation about transformative haircuts, gray sweatpants, suits, and oversized luggage. He shares stories from a steamy Russian-Turkish bathhouse shoot with Ryan McGinley, weighs in on Troy Sivan, jet-lag remedies, wedding planning, AI vows, newsroom culture, bean sandwiches, and New York’s buzziest restaurants.

Quil Lemons, a Philadelphia-born photographer and visual artist, discusses his new book, Quiladelphia. He explores regional Black culture going global, Soulja Boy’s internet legacy, Black queer masculinity, Stone Mountain, and the politics of cultural ownership. He also talks about queer intimacy, sex education, casting OnlyFans models, meeting JoJo at Walgreens, and making art with his stylist husband.

A lively cross-continental catch-up spanning Mexico City taco crawls, potato chips as salsa delivery systems, structural fries, and Dua Lipa’s American hot dog. Chris and Jason debate partners absorbing each other’s quirks, Kelly Clarkson’s puzzle-store backlash, Shane Gillis’s SNL struggles, and the etiquette of greeting strangers on hiking trails.

Rickie De Sole, Air Mail’s Dress Code editor and former Vogue and Prada insider, returns from Milan and Paris for a stylish, chaotic chat. They discuss color-coded packing, traveling with jewelry, competitive sailing, Londoners relocating to Milan, luxury scarcity, legendary Prada sample sales, retail powered by cocktails, and why commercially viable fashion may be the future.

Kurt Vile is a musician from Philadelphia. His great new record, Philadelphia’s been good to me, is out now. He returns to the pod from his home in Philadelphia to chat with us about Chris hitting Keith McNally’s son’s restaurant called Faux, ice cream, playing banjo at the punk club, Paul Revere’s Greek-style pizza, crying a bit after watching Beach House open for the Strokes, quantized drums and staying “off grid,” Bob Dylan being an alien, his favorite songs of the year so far, his thoughts on phone-free concerts, hangin’ out in the garage, guys only crying while watching TV, the vocal mix on “Wonderwall” being really loud, and having something really impressive planned for the “Pretty Pimpin” deluxe release.instagram.com/kurtviletwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeanshowlonggone.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in London, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about trouble at ComplexCon in Los Angeles, all the new clothing brands we don’t know, hoodies in triple-digit heat, Chris having to play a game at a small dinner party, Jason planning to see EsDeeKid next week, we celebrate Tinashe’s new album in an uplifting way, as well as her “2 On” remix featuring Drake and OB O’Brien, Diddy being forced to solicit male masseuses behind bars, Jason’s Apple iPhone shoulder strap, personal trainer slash cinematographers, Turnstile on SNL, and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme entering a rarified level of zaddy on the Ann Demeulemeester runway in Paris.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeanshowlonggone.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dylan Jones is a journalist and author. He edited GQ in the UK from 1999 to 2021, as well as i-D and Arena. He’s written several books, and his newest, Table Hopping, is out in time for Christmas. We chat with him from his home in London about Parisian chocolat, the Outkast Waffle House collaboration, how long he waits to try a new restaurant after it opens, F&B options at the Hollywood Bowl, why one shouldn’t remark on the food at a “meetings” restaurant, the hierarchy of seating at a horseshoe-style bar, what he was wearing in 1987, how many members’ clubs he’s a member of, La Colombe d’Or in the south of France, pan-Asian clubstaurants, the “second-best answer” you can give someone, the best name-dropper in London, our mutual DJ friends, and we analyze those who argue for sport.instagram.com/dylanjones⁠twitter.com/donetodeath⁠⁠twitter.com/themjeans⁠⁠howlonggone.com⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.