How Long Gone

Katie Parla is a Rome-based food writer and friend. Her new book, Food of the Italian Islands, is out now. We chat about some last-minute Coachella additions, new Ghia dropped, new anti-woke canned beer just dropped, Italian trap music, which drinking fountains have the best water in Rome, pizza for breakfast, her dad owned a wild game restaurant in New Jersey, the first thing she eats when she comes back to America, obviously Capri is over, what is the Tulum of Italy? The White Lotus effect, cooking to live vs. living to cook, TJ's Italian wedding takes place at the most expensive time to travel to Italy in the history of time, a few Islands that will become Tulum soon, every Sicilian drives with their left blinker on, and on her seventh cookbook, she's decided to self publish, and we break down how much that cost.instagram.com/katieparlatwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wednesday is a band from North Carolina. Their critically acclaimed new album, Rat Saw God, is out now on Dead Oceans. We spoke with Karly about Coachella coming up, There is Life After Influencing, her grandpa goes to bed at 4 am, a 9/11 money laundering Jewish Boarding School startup, when you become as smart as your parents, she doesn't respond to DMs but she'll write you a letter, a heinous nosebleed, she just watched a Motley Crue documentary and people don't live like that anymore, we explain what poppers are to her mom, her 80s mom, why she doesn't write songs on the road, she's an actual mysterious woman who goes to bed at 9:30, her first advance was $500, and sometimes you have to listen to death metal in the van.wednesday.bandtwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one episode, Chris is in New York, and Jason is home in LA. We figure out the last time we celebrated Easter, Vanderpump Emo Nite, white people walkthroughs, Linkin Park's remixed history, is therapy speak making us selfish? Traffic cones are the only things that should "hold space," why you're rewatching Entourage and Girls, hanging with Tim Apple at the GQ Creativity Awards, TJ had a Diet Mountain Dew dream, Taylor's breakup song, can musicians refinance their masters? And Chris and Jason switch dispositions.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sasha Spielberg, also known by her stage name Buzzy Lee, is an American actress and musician. Her new record, Internal Affairs, is out now. We chat with her about cufflinks, Chris' yearning for the South, our Vegas writing trip, throwing up while driving a car, the decimation of a NorCal tote bag, the unique ways she takes care of her husband, sandwich bread, her dad's submarine themed restaurant from the 90s, legacy Los Angeles dining, we're staying up until 2 am watching Vanderpump, reality TV makes her say the word "bitch" a lot now, her parents grounded her for life for smoking weed, growing up as a robotripping-poser-narc-teacher's pet, she would have never become a singer if it weren't for the Hebrew language, voice notes make us anxious, saving all her AIM chats on a hard drive, and her relationship with scent memory songwriting.instagram.com/sashaspielbergtwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Walkmen are a band from New York about to embark on a reunion tour. We'll share the stage with them at the Just Like Heaven Festival in Los Angeles next month. We chat with Hamilton and Peter from the band about Trump's arrest being eclipsed by the Barbie movie, Bad Bunny rides again, beard trimming, Pete's a real bruiser in the paint, being a band that doesn't really high-five each other, living at the Carlyle Hotel for awhile, Pete's son met his girlfriend at a Napalm Death show, Glastonbury stories, some depressing sync talk, and what happened when they performed on The OC.instagram.com/thewalkmentwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one episode recorded live and uncut from Glendale. TJ is still on the mend, so go easy on him, we chat about Chris' lack of Sweetgreen credit, check on your barista because the new Boygenius dropped, a few odd things that we overheard at dinner, new guy dropped on Melrose, we dissect Huberman a bit, the problem with podcasts about learning, I drain my boyfriend's nuts 6-to-7 times per day, the genius and darkness of fake TikTok podcast clips to sell OnlyFans, the pandemic of country line dancing is infecting Los Angeles' east side, the post-pandemic nightlife is just fine in New York but not so much here, dinner with previous podcast guests Bret Ellis and Ryland Blackinton, Deadline for dick, Chris took a pressie at a cabin in his twenties and fell in the tub, and we try to figure out why the flag at the Trump golf course here in LA is currently flying at half-mast.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The National is an American band whose new album, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, is out soon. We spoke with Matt, their singer, from his home in Los Angeles about TJ's big night out in Brooklyn, Hi Chews and Red Vines, Matt comes out as a cat guy, mushroom exploration, The National is still waiting to play the Saudi Prince's bday party, which members of his band don't wear shoes, taking lessons on how to be an aging rocker from Morrissey and Nick Cave, that one time they played a show in Las Vegas while the AVN awards were happening, lo-fi beats to pole dance to, what he listens to when he smokes weed and rides his bike around Venice, we figure out where he's going to live next, TJ pitches a video concept for their new single, writing a breakup song with your wife whom you're currently happily married to, and some writer's blocks are bigger than others.instagram.com/thenationaltwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blondeshell is a musician from New York, currently living in Los Angeles. Her new record comes out on April 7th. We chat about an update on the gym-food-heater-upper, Chris went to Hatchet Hall, I found a Twitch stream that Chris would actually watch, vocal practice is like doing a squat with your mouth, LA neighbors, insomnia treatments, taking an Uber over to Larchmont to grab some lunch, why we find assholes so attractive, socializing while sober, the battle of drugs being bad and cool, the 27 club, the different ways a man can wear a cap and what that says about them, she got the On Runnings in seafoam, and we hear her top three prescription pills.instagram.com/blondshelltwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one episode, Chris is in LA, and Jason's in New York. We chat about airplanes somehow getting older, an update on Gwyneth's trial, our plans for Succession, TJ goes Funk Flex mode on the way to Bed Stuy, feet tattoos, Vanderpump updates, 21 Jump Street (2012) saved mankind, Harry Styles' Tokyo tongue, new Lana Del Rey, what Chris listens to when he's bench pressing, 6ix9ine looking like a larb salad when they were done with him, Chris is so white he can't even look a photo of chilies, a new idea to save the failing film industry, Chris finally went to Erewhon in Beverly Hills, and TJ found some cool shoes on TheRealReal.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Sommer is a politics reporter for The Daily Beast, cohost of the podcast Fever Dreams, and author of the new book Trust The Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America. We chat about some art handling at the Black household, a dinner at Jon & Vinny's followed by a nightcap at The Kibbutz Room, the difference between Sofia Coppola's daughter's TikTok and The Last Of Us finale, helicopter parenting, I've seen Stevie Wonder driving a car, Washington D.C. is more beautiful than Paris, Roger Stone's martini recipe, meatball Ron vs. Tiny D, the intersection of Jordan Peterson and George Castanza, the power of Tucker, Q meetups at iHop and Hardee's, The Bible XXL, paranoid people secretly record everything, which hat does Trump plan on wearing for his perp walk, and some of our favorite non-political conspiracy theories.twitter.com/willsommertwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices