How Long Gone

Spoon is a band from Austin, Tx, their new album Lucifer On The Sofa is out now. We chat about taking big swings, TJ saw Top Gun: Maverick, getting high in parking structures, The Elden Ring is the Infinite Jest of gaming, the Ps5 is tough to find, TJ booked Spoon to play 15 years ago, Rick Rubin’s polar bear, if Matador is making them do Tik Toks, old music is getting more streams than new, Spoon has no syncs that they regret, how to stay awake while driving from Austin to LA in one straight shot, people who think they’re reinventing music, Howard Stern’s favorite Prince record is the Batman soundtrack, we confront them about canceling on us twice, and we charge up their Sweetgreen cashew.https://spoontheband.comtwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one episode recorded live and uncut from Glendale, Chris & Jason chat about insufferable digital nomads, eating at a chili parlour, crying while watching Dating On The Spectrum, insider trading is a victimless crime, in defense of nepotism, how to be a celebrity at dress normal, Lawry's Prime Rib, we do 30 minutes on a $700 omakase dinner at Nozawa Bar, the street art flash mobs of 2009's Friends With Benefits, it's very difficult to pull off a ribbed tank top successfully, and a social media backlash on TJ talking about "edging" too much on the pod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our friend and host of the podcast Are We On Air? had us on as a guest recently to talk about How Long Gone, and the music that shaped us growing up. It's a fun listen with tons of music so we decided to add it to the feed. Here's Arman's intro for the episode:Turn on, tune in, drop out! CHRIS BLACK and JASON STEWART join Arman for a little tête-à-tête that will feel like time is slipping like sand through an hourglass.Tuning in from the leafy suburbs of Glendale, the boys use their well-honed cultural commentary skills to go through their character-defining musical choices. But make no mistake: in classic HOW LONG GONE fashion, each choice is infused with the nonchalant ease that CHRIS and JASON have already accustomed us to.Be it JASON making the case on the advantages of exclusivity - "When it's so homogeneous, there's so little to clamp on to, that it identifies you with no identity" - or CHRIS reflecting on how the evolution of music distribution shapes music fandom and the underlying culture that stems from it - "Today's low barrier of entry to music access changes the perception, the fandom and the tribes that genres create" -, CHRIS and JASON leave no question unattended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sloane Crosley is a writer living in New York. Her new book Cult Classic is out June 7th. We chat about the new Sky Ferreira, an update on TJ’s water fast, Sloane does not work out, Ana De Armas, getting her house broken into, her crypto investments, Criterion dick, writing with ugly fonts as a litmus test, learning to play tennis on a slanted street, do fucked up people workout more, drinking martinis with Gay Talese, New York is great for walking, the pros, and cons of a Q&Ad and being honest about the nightmare of parenting.twitter.com/askanyonetwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Lakin is a writer from New York City. His work can be seen in NYT, Artforum, The New Yorker, and everywhere else. We chat about testing dirty for mayonnaise, TJ’s declaration of war with a local park’s groundskeepers, the anger issues of baseball guys, cops taking an extra Powerade at the bodega just to feel something real, Max’s thoughts on Balenciaga, Frank Ocean’s fit, when to lay on the floor, not going to Marfa, what Banksy might be up to, the graffiti pipeline, people focusing on the “how” when its irrelevant, $1500 Adidas shirts, the difference between advanced basic and basic plus, in defense of shorts and heavy coats, the vibe shift of dressing for comfort, and where to get a good pair of pumps in the meatpacking district.https://maxlakin.comtwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one pod today, Chris zooms in straight from the Balenciaga show and TJ is still sweating out the mollywater from his successful festival DJ set. We chat about Chris somehow sleeping his entire flight, insights into the songwriting process, Jack Antonoff is music’s fentanyl, it’s the big apple's heatwave, NYSE scene report, Just Like Heaven Festival recap, a photo of TJ sound checking to an empty field becomes viral online, Goldenvoice using a logo pulled from the Outdoor Voices website for my stage visuals, stop-n-chat anxiety, the teaches of Peaches, a bunch of damn kids backstage, TJ hopes for a massive vibe shift in the water world, Azealia Banks’ tips for kicking nicotine, and we get to the bottom of John Mullaney and Dave Chappelle’s bait-and-switch tactics.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Sebastian is the Editor in Chief of Esquire Magazine. We chat about Rihanna’s water breaking, what we might do in that same situation, blue smoothies matter, where Hollywood’s fattest firefighters dine, what an EIC does and doesn’t do, moving to Jersey because of a house fire, Liam earning his right to dress casually in his older age, suit-wearing changes in your 40’s, Chris is exhausted by Martini culture, our theories on when you become set in your ways, peaking in high school, evergreen podcasting, telephone calls are the new zoom meetings, and thinking in “magazine” vs. thinking in tweets.twitter.com/msebastiantwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Mande is a comedian and writer living in Los Angeles. You’ve seen him on Parks & Rec, Modern Family, and most recently HBO’s Hacks. We chat about putting the paws on people, getting some "cut," the backstory on a friend's bespoke shirt, the food at San Vicente Bungalows, Cameo trying to recruit him, TJ ran into Maron at Whole Foods, the underground world of cops on Tik Tok, pissmaxing, working as a pharmacy delivery boy in high school, the various pieces of merch that Joe sells on his website, taking an experimental drug for his IBS, running around the reservoir, smoking pot with Seth Rogen is like playing a pickup game with Jordan, Joe started wearing sweatshorts during the plannedemic, Soulja Boy's entrepreneurial ventures, and he pitches us on his idea for Celebrity Shark Tank.instagram.com/joemandetwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One-on-one pod live and unedited from Glendale. Chris and Jason talk about our trip to Toronto, airplane whining, TJ teaches his flight attendant how to make a Bloody Mary, visiting Matty Matheson’s new restaurant, working out the tour life cobwebs, TJ taking mushrooms and DJing the afterparty, Canadian snowboarders teaching us about Japanese cuisine, tableside branzino sashimi, espresso martinis and asparagus, we got the lucid dream pills from Carsten’s pod, and we spend the last half of the podcast discussing the new Kendrick Lamar album while TJ’s Meyer lemon and sumac edible begins kicking in.twitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carsten Höller is a German-born artist currently living in Stockholm. He’s known for years of amazing and interactive installations, and most recently his Brutalist-themed restaurant Brutalisten. He’s an amazing scientific mind who we had a blast talking to. We chat about our arrival in Toronto, Chris injuring himself on the assault bike, writing a book about playing games, why Americans talk too loudly, taking drugs to stimulate lucid dreaming, sometimes there is no egg to crack, his personal brutalist manifesto, the consumption of breastmilk, removing and restricting to create new ideas, we pick an outfit for his upcoming trip to Ibiza, how to make brutalism fun, reducing the amount of noise you experience, his disdain for mayonnaise, and we make him explain why he has dozens of birds in his apartment, and we question whether or not it smells crazy in there.gagosian.com/artists/carsten-hollertwitter.com/donetodeathtwitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices