How Long Gone
Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse
- 1 hour 14 minutes916. - Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur is a musician and bass player best known for bands like Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. Her new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, is out next week.
We chat with Melissa from her home in upstate New York about the new Apple laptop, Montreal vibes, Grimes and Elon, channeling the gods on stage, shooting a roll of film a day in the ’90s, Courtney writing “slut” on her stomach, the time MTV asked her to take The Verve to Tom & Jerry’s, when musicians make their best work at their most fucked-up, Canadian ayahuasca retreats, owning Bo Burnham on vinyl, and gently prodding around a Hole reunion one day, and getting back in the studio with Courtney.
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11 March 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutes915. - Chris & Jason
One-on-one pod today, Chris and Jason are back from Paris to chat about New York Sour Diesel, Uno at the dinner table, the Vince Staples Live Más experience, a listener plea regarding Viagra, which drugs work best, a recap of our Loewe show in Paris, Chris seeing Cat Power last night, giving the Harry record a little more time, René Redzepi serving body shots, and cameras in the pit.
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9 March 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutes914. - Tom Junod
Tom Junod is a journalist who has written for Esquire and GQ and is currently a senior writer at ESPN. He’s known for his stellar profiles of Mr. Rogers, Kevin Spacey, and many more. His memoir, In the Days of Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, is out now.
We talk about our travels to Paris for Fashion Week, perpetual publication, the Morgan Freeman of dogs, selling women’s handbags in Texas, the terror of your junk mail, the ease of podcasting and the difficulty of writing, the magazine section of supermarkets, the software he uses to write, his shed, and which cocktails his dad drank for each season of the year.
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6 March 2026, 3:17 pm - 1 hour 15 minutes913. - Ella Quittner
Ella Quittner is a great home cook and writer in New York. Her new book, Obsessed With The Best, is out now. We chat with her about meal replacement, cutting your hair at the airport, life's simple pleasures change during pregnancy, the Bon Appétit heyday, her time working in private equity, a truck driver's diet, eating "goo," her dad's level of whimsy, we make her compare herself to her siblings, her thoughts on some LA restaurants and dining overall, and what happens to her husband once they hit the airport.
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4 March 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 44 seconds912. - Chris & Jason
One-on-one pod today, Chris and Jason are in LA and chat about Harry Styles' at The Brit Awards, Jim Carrey's facial transformation, Connor Storrie on SNL, rapper T.I., and 50 Cent are beefing, Glavie and Alysa Liu dating rumors, a recap of our party with Silencio and Tom Of Finland with DJ Harvey, we went to a Gus Van Sant book signing at Acana and had dinner at the Century City mall last night, Drake wearing the iguana cross body bag to celebrate his McDonald's collab, the Supreme "Paris Is Burning" hoodie, and our plans for Paris this week.
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2 March 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutes911. - Rachel Zoe
Rachel Zoe is America's favorite stylist and the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. We chat with her from her home in Los Angeles about Jason placing 2nd at the Substack spelling bee, being a Jersey girl, late 90's partying in New York, having a smoky eye before 8 am, her recent foray into the EDM world, how many suitcases she brings for a trip, Free People sweats at brunch, her newfound dating life and what she's looking for in a man, her kids have discovered Rick and Chrome, how to survive financially as a freelancer, most of her hair is real, her black diamond skiiing, and she wants to come out of stylist retirement for the Met Gala this year.
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27 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutes910. - Leonard Baby
Leonard Baby is a fine artist currently living in New York. His newest show, Resting Baby Face, debuts today in LA. We chat with him from his hotel room about mojo mispronunciations, a deeper look at Tourette's, all the dark things art buyers do, Lily Rose Depp's AI jumpoff, the music of Janet, Whitney, and Mariah, the new Supreme drop, if art has to have a deep meaning behind it, they had to de-ice his plane out of New York, the corniness of his work, and the deep waters of growing up in an evangelical christian household.
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25 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutes909. - Chris & Jason
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in Charleston, and Jason is home in Los Angeles. We chat about Olympic hockey and large-mouth bass, a dissection of Joe Budden's chef's AI-generated menu, Jason made borscht, we ideate in the rotisserie chicken space, the awful waffle, TSA Pre-Check shutting down, the Wang Contemporary, is RFK a never-nude? Substack and Polymarket comingling, Gwen Stefani's anti-abortion app, and TJ is hitting the Laker game.
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23 February 2026, 6:10 am - 1 hour 5 minutes908. - Cazzie David
Our friend Cazzie David returns to the pod to discuss Prince Andrew getting popped on his bday, GQ's backlash for publishing a Clavicular story, the difference between podcasts and shows, EMF headphone extension cords, oil pulling, lymphatic vibration plates, how she uses Gilmore Girls, who should fall asleep first in a relationship, Love Island, lake bathing at summer camp, the pains of pushing your product, and how her and Chris's life changed after their episode of Subway Takes aired. Cazzie's new book, Delusions, is out March 3rd.
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20 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutes907. - Audrey Hobert
Audrey Hobert is a musician from Los Angeles. Her new record, Who's The Clown? Is out now. We chat with her from her home in LA about Johnny Cakes, Chris Martin's pimp hand, her newfound transcendental meditation, Katseye and bulgogi bowls, Sicko Mode is our Bohemian Rhapsody, gagging at the Burberry store, using marijuana, what creams she uses, sleepah builds, getting addicted to pilates in Venice, how we're gonna get Drake back in the game, meeting Connor Storrie, her thoughts on writing for other people now that her album is out, and we defend Richard Kind.
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18 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutes906. - Chris & Jason
One-on-one pod today, Chris is in New York, and Jason is in Santa Barbara. We chat about Fella-tines day, unchosen families, DJ Vlad's Roc Nation confessions, J Cole's Honda Civic, Jimmy Eat World's tour poster, Chris' uncle was kicked by a horse, the rise of microdramas, Clav takes NYFW, reality TV and live streaming, scraping the resin bowl of culture, Evan Dando takes a turn, and Harry's Martin Parr portraits.
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