449. - Chris & Jason

All right, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it three times a week, Jason. Does that sound familiar to you? We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place. All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. or watch on YouTube. Hello, hello. How long gone is here? Checking in from King's Cross and all that. I've got a bottle of Baraka. And a flat white that's gone cold. Thank God. It's our final dispatch from London. I think we've been burning it at both ends too much. Jason and I are both feeling a little bit depleted, but we have one more mountain to conquer, one more flag to plant over in suburban Hackney. Yeah, we have to plant our flag in Hackney. What's the Hackney version of L.A., do you know? Oh, I think it's like a Highland Park type of beat. I believe. I believe. I don't want to speak, but it seems like kind of people our age have made a little bit of money somehow in this cursed, low-salary country. They can afford organic beetroots. They can afford not only that, but a home. They lease it from the queen. It's kind of theirs. And they have to pay it weekly, don't they? Not monthly. Oh, I didn't know that, really. I think so. I think the way they do it over parts around here, like the rent or the mortgage or either. I think maybe more the rent than the mortgage. I don't know all of it, but I think you might have to... Maybe it's like you pay monthly, but the rate is listed. It's like 300 quid a week versus 1,200 a month. I think I like that more.

Do you? I mean, it's like when brands change the prices around on you, psychological warfare. $9.99, it's actually $10 when you think about it. Wait, wait, what? Stuff like that. I mean, I don't want to fuck your mental up. Not today, bro. Not on a Sunday. You can't fuck my mental up on a Sunday. Not Sweetgreen, but a lot of brands will do stuff like that. Okay, so you're saying if I go into the Tesco and it says $3.99, it's actually four dollars at the end of the day yeah three pound 99 p yeah exactly yeah is actually four four pounds okay fucked up man and they think we don't we're not they don't think we've caught on to this yet or or do they think we've caught on to and we just continue to purchase blindly i keep going back because i am a sheeple at the end of the day yeah so we um we we've People ask all week long, what do you guys talk about? How do you know what to talk about? And we just look at Twitter and someone's dad makes an agenda for what they talk about when they go to the pub. And that's basically what we do every week. I saw this. Thanks to the new Twitter. Everybody's so mad about the new Twitter algorithm and how it shows you people that you... don't know. I actually like it. I think it's led me to discover some hilarious content. Maybe TikTok is for you. You should check it out. I just don't understand. I don't want to see everything, but if it's based on my likes and my current followers, then it's doing a pretty good job. Why the bloody heck not? But the only problem is that works out really, really awesomely as long as they get your algorithm perfect, which does not happen perfectly. No, but there's been this whole thing this week about the menswear guy. on on twitter and how he like he hit the algorithm and people it became like a viral thing that he was annoying people because it got so it was on everyone's feed right right he's talking about like blazer length and like arguing about sustainable construction and they're like why is this cunt pop up on my feed so everybody's complaining about it and then in an unbelievable uh unbelievably predictable turn of events he had like

15 pieces of press in one week like how do you feel about it like gq wall street journal everyone was asking about it and he's he's he's anonymous he's been around forever yeah yeah yeah um i think he follows me he's funny what's his name die workwear shout out to die workwear i know nobody likes you but it was just it was just like this isn't that interesting it's like this guy's just like yeah sorry to me it's it's very similar to like i know you won't understand this reference but maybe you will but for our gamers out there like when you're playing super mario kart and you get a little bonus shell, and your character goes, or you run over, like Sonic the Hedgehog runs over the turbo arrows. Okay. I'm fast-forwarding through this part. You go into hyperspeed. You get signal boosted. And then all the other characters are like, man, what was that like when you got boosted into the algorithm and every punter across the land was able to see or tweet about blazer length? And they're like, wow, it's so crazy that you asked me. I'm still kind of getting over it. But, yeah, it was awesome. I got 11 more followers. People are like, no, he was getting some insane amount of followers, I think. But he's also getting an insane amount of negative feedback, as you can imagine. Sure. Well, I was just on my fucking timeline. Right, right, right. It's like, bro, take it up with Elon. It ain't my problem. Yeah, it's like when people complain about, like, you're watching TV and a show comes on. Like, when you're done watching the show you like and then, like, Big Bang Theory comes on, you're like, what is this foot like bro you have a hand and a button push it and it's gone hulu is so fucked up it's forcing me to see things i don't feel comfortable with well this goes back to my favorite tweet of the week where a member of the the gen z population wrote a what seems like uh satire but i believe is not a tweet about how they are upset that film and tv You don't consent to see sex scenes. And it makes them very uncomfortable. And then somebody's like, actually, you do consent because it gives a warning before. So, I mean, I guess you're not signing any paperwork. Yeah, it's called a rating system. And before every film or TV show, it says, this is what's going to happen in it that could offend you. A guy has a cigarette. One person calls somebody a B word. Yeah. And then you see one titty. It's really something.

It was something I came across quite a lot. Not as much as menswear guy, of course, but, you know. Consent is such a tricky topic right now, and I don't know if I could talk about it. I want to talk about our list of topics that we need to discuss today on the podcast. I just want to kind of start at the top. Let's do it, man. Okay, so first of all, NFL playoffs. Okay, NFL playoffs. No, let me just go through the whole list first. NFL playoffs, the never-ending Aaron Rodgers saga, something I know you feel close to. Using an agenda on a date. feedback on the bourbon tasting we went to um the new trolling motor and locator that's on my fishing boat uh and then one of kind of life's great battles bud versus bud light and then i have left some room for general discussion here at the bottom so i just want to and please do be on time as you see we have a great deal to get through it's kind of the addendum at the end i i guess when you So this is like a dad, like someone's dad and his group of five friends. His boys hit the bar every Friday. They go to Hooters for some alpha time. They go to Hooters for some alpha time after a long day at the office. They leave the ball and chain at home. The screaming babies, they leave it all at home. And they go for some fella's time in a public place where they can get a little drunk and talk about which beer is better, a full fat or a light. I mean, it's something, you know, you know, when things are so straight that they become gay. Yeah. Like, that's kind of what this list is. Like, I don't know if I could ever imagine any dad. I mean, I, I haven't had a dad, so I don't know. But like, I can't imagine any of the father figures that I grew up with. Yeah. Creating an agenda, you know, like, because it's like typed out on a computer and printed out. Like every dad I'm picturing, like the archetypal dad in my mind, like doesn't even know how to like create a Word document and print it on his, like, you know, like typing with one finger, like.

B-U-D space L-I-G-H-T. My dad would do it on an adding machine somehow just to kind of keep it old school. It comes out like a scroll. No, I mean, I agree with you, but I also find it a little bit charming that they only get so much time with the homies because of all their work and family responsibilities that they want to use the time wisely and kind of get through everything. So I find it charming, and I also like, and I feel like you would like this too, that it's printed out on paper and not on their Apple iPhone or more likely Android device. Yeah, they're keeping it. We're killing trees still, baby. Yeah, that's what makes it real dad shit. Yeah, because they're like, look, I'm gay, but I don't have an iPad. You know, it's kind of like that. Unfortunately, I want to agree with you, but I think every dad is issued an iPad. I think dads are the number one owners of iPads. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, because computers are super expensive, and they have all those stuff on there that you don't need. Like, what am I going to do? Photoshop? They're definitely not making beats. No, they're not even using Photo Booth once on their Apple laptop. They're like, Chris, get down here. I had a question about rendering speeds. Do you think the M2 chip, I don't need it, but I want it. You know what I mean? My dad asking me about the M2 chip would be really something else. I would assume it was a cookie. Yeah, M2 Chibi, and you're like, didn't it get canceled for having a gender pronoun green one? That green would look like a whore. I don't usually like to say stuff like that, but... You don't wear heels with a green dress that short. That M&M is not welcome in my house. Not welcome. We're eating off-brand now. We're eating our Kroger brand M&M. So, I mean, you know, the never-ending saga of Aaron Rodgers, my doppelganger. I'm the good version of that guy, and he's the evil version. Same amount of money, same body. Same BMI. I love him. I still love the fact that he asked that new player on the team.

who did 9-11 when he first met him. If that's true, Aaron Rodgers is the coolest guy of all time. Great to meet you, man. USC? Yeah, you guys are. So what are your thoughts on 9-11? Bush did it. Obviously, Bush did it. We've all seen the Epstein painting, right? It's just so funny. The only reason why I'm able to throw such a long pass is because the earth is flat and there's no curvature going on. I imagine this happening in a locker room where they're both half-dressed with shoulder pads on. It's just too good. That line of questioning in any sort of athletic environment puts it over the top. Also, there's a situation where we're old enough now where a rookie in the NFL... could have not even been alive when 9-11 happened. That's a good point. Isn't that funky? And they might not have had time to kind of do the research on YouTube the way that you have. So they don't, I mean... They're unfortunately focused on TikTok and other things, wasting their time, and they could be on YouTube learning about the Earth's flatness and that Bush did 9-11. We're living in a cashless society, and if you're born into that, you don't know what loose change is in a multitude of ways. You're exactly right. Take a moment to think about that. It's a Sunday morning. I haven't seen the sun in seven days, approximately. Oh, it's dreary. It's bloody dreary, and I am feeling absolutely beat up. Because obviously the workouts haven't stopped. I feel like shit because the workouts haven't started. That's right. Although I did bring five pairs of Nike fitness shorts that haven't left my trolley. I haven't seen Jason wear any sort of athletic gear. I can vouch for that. He doesn't even wear the shorts to podcast. He does put on one of his nice trousers. London changed me. It did change you. I've worn an overcoat. I've worn a thick Prada overcoat every day this entire trip, and people walk around and look at me as if I'm a respectful adult. It feels odd. Jason thinks it's cold here, but it's pretty nice. Actually, I would say it's pretty temperate for January. Temperate for January? Well, I mean, it's probably colder in New York, or it's similar. Some days have been warmer than others. Yeah, some days are warmer than others. If you ask me, the weather can change on a day-to-day basis. Chill, bro. And shout-out to our homies down in New Zealand.

Do you see that shit? What happened? There's flooding. Oh, no. But there's photos and videos of the airport where, like, the Virgin Atlantic terminal check-in has, like, three feet of water inside the airport. Jesus, really? It was like all the flights canceled. Oh, wow. I didn't know. I don't think I saw anything about that, actually. My algorithm is showing me Bud versus Bud Light, not multinational disasters. Yeah, but I guess we haven't podcast since the show on Thursday. Oh, yes. Much to cover. Much to cover. Thank you to our friends at matchesfashion.co.uk. you guys are a dream come true if you want to buy clothes that are nice and expensive that's the website to go so first and foremost we get to matches fashion's beautiful townhouse five carlos place over there in mayfair and they're like let's take you to the green room you know and i'm thinking like okay we're probably going to go to like a back area you know yeah usually when we do a live show the green room is just like here's here's where we keep the mop The mop and the bucket. Here's where we keep old hummus and bottled water from a convenience store. Here's the warm canned beer that you didn't want. So they take us to one of their personal shopping suites. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's where you would imagine Meghan Markle would be outfitted for an overcoat or something. Yeah, so we're in there, and they bring a couple bottles of champagne, some crisps. There's places to hang our coats. And it was expensive champagne as well. Oh, was it? Yeah. That's nice. It was just a very comfortable environment because I think we were, you know, we didn't know fully what to expect. But then our guest, Alexa Chung, showed up. And within five minutes, I could tell that we were in for a treat. You know? Yeah. I mean, obviously, she's a gift to the world. And it was one of those things where like whenever, because it was like a secret too, we didn't announce it. So there was no, I don't know. It was like holding an engagement ring in your pocket and you don't know, you know, everyone, nobody around knows it, but you know it. And when you announce, ladies and gentlemen, here's our guest for today, Alexa Chung. Like that's a fun, special moment.

But also just when you're like, okay, we're going to hang out with Alexa Chung for an hour and then do a live podcast and talk about, you know, big and tall clothing or whatever it is. Like there's, you don't really know how to approach it other than to just do it. Well, I was just, I knew she would be, I mean, I just assumed because, you know, friends, like we know we have a lot of friends in common. You know, I assumed it would be easy, but I think having the hour beforehand. At the mixer. Yeah. Yeah, you're a celebrity whisperer, which is your strongest suit, for sure. Well, that's it? That's all I have going for me? I didn't say that's your only strong suit. I said that's one of your strongest, whereas I'm a security guard whisperer or a bathroom-attended whisperer. I can really earn their charms. Yeah, but she really made it easy for us, and she looked great, of course, in Gucci. Stunning. And she even did us the service of taking a selfie in our new London exclusive How Long Gone tube hat, which was a nice gesture. Yeah, I mean, I was like, hey, do you want a hat? And she's like, yeah, let's take a photo. And I was like, yes. And then she's like, let's post it on my Instagram. I was like, yeah, that's a really great of you to post it on your stories. I'll screenshot it. Oh, it's on the grid. When I was in the hired car leaving the live show, driving to the after party, and word just got round that she posted a photo of me on her Instagram grid, I was really like, it felt better than getting signed to CAA. It was a cemented moment in my life. It's very funny what happens and what people respond to the most when you do something. Because we just do a lot of these shows and we do a lot of stuff all the time. And I'm always like, that seemed like a pretty... I'm really proud of this. This was really cool. It made me want to text my high school bully a photo of it.

And be like, how's your three fat kids, dumbass? Look at me, baby. But she's a really funny instance of someone who's like our peer. Her and I are, I think, literally the same age. And the fact that she has the same level of notoriety in America and the U.S. Excuse me, in the U.S. and the U.K. is kind of rare. You know what I mean? Because I think bands kind of come and go. It's just not the same. she just had some yeah like the arctic monkeys will come to america and you won't even recognize them but in in london yeah like like a street will shut down yeah totally yeah they can't go to the pub but yeah anyway so it was very fun and then we we did take a higher car to sweeties for the after party where um jason and louise uh shut it down i would say shut down because i was told louise was like look this place is usually It's like kind of mellow, like ultra lounge vibes. Like people don't really dance. It's not really a dance floor situation. You lounge around, grab a drink, a song you love comes on. You have like a little, you go up, smoke a fag on the roof, come back down, whatever. But we tried to get the dance up, big up the dance, up the lads. But it really spanned a lot of genres and time periods. Well, you got to find out what these Brits want. What I hate and I think you hate and Louise hate is that, unfortunately, an LCD sound system song works very well. And I even liked it in that setting. But I truly hate them with every ounce of my being. And I don't even know why I hate them. But the song works so well. And I'm just kind of like, damn, this song is working right now. People are loving it. And I'm loving it. But why, Chris? You would never listen to this on your own. It's almost as if... we are the lcd sound system of podcasting because we hear that a lot too because like while i mean well first of all at the party the matches fashion live podcast they're like what do you guys want to serve at our bar like we have like tray plast tray past wagyu sliders and all these nice you know upscale hors d'oeuvres and stuff and i was like martinis and champagne only that's it so everyone was like pissed before the party even opened doors so

We were DJing, and Louise played that song. Which one was it? Is it Someone Great? I don't even know. I don't know the name of it, but I know, like, everything. But it was funny because she put it on. It was, like, towards the end of the night where it becomes, like, the indie dance nighttime. Not necessarily because of that music, but because of the BPM of it. Oh, I see. You just kind of start slow, and you work your way up, and then, you know, like, block party. lcd sounds you know all those bands that are like dancey rock and roll strokes and things like that it's like 150 160 bpm which is the same range as drum and bass oh oddly enough interesting okay not many people can go in and out of those waters and it's it is treacherous but she put she put that song on i think it was someone great maybe And she's like, sorry, I just had to do it. And I look at her, and it was funny because we're going back to back, and her CDJ had it on, and it was playing, obviously. And I pointed at my CDJ, and I was like, I hate LCD sound system. I hate this song, and I also have it on my USB. And she goes, I don't like them either, but we're just playing it, and it's working, and it sounds nice. I think it's a good song to check on if you have to go to the loo. Sure. Because it's a little long and it's a slow build the entire time. There's not like a refrain or a break. Yeah. But yeah, people say that about how long gone all the time. It's like, you guys fucking suck. You're like a bearded white guy who's pretentious. I don't like anything about it. But you keep selling out Madison Square Garden. God damn it. We did 10 nights in a row. I could see you also opening an obnoxious wine bar in a bad neighborhood. One billion percent. This episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Squarespace. Obviously, Jason, you and I spend a lot of time on the World Wide Web. So do our peers, our listeners, our friends, our colleagues. Obviously. Maybe even your parents if they're freaky. And if you're doing anything in the world.

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But also, that's why we hate them so much, and they probably hate us so much, is you attack the thing that is you. Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah, of course. That's always the case. That's the name of your next book, Chris. The song worked, and I'll tell you what song worked even more. It was 1901 by Friends of the Show Phoenix. Yeah, of course. That's another one. I didn't know that went off in the club the way that it did. People lose their fucking shit to that song. People lose their shit. Well, it has a call and response. Sing along. True. And it has a bit of a herky-jerky rhythm beat to it where it's like a four on the floor. Yeah. You know, any simpleton can get into it. That's a good point. Yeah, I guess that's true. That's true. I mean, yeah, that. And then that goes into the strokes. Hard to explain. And then that goes into... I'm doing a DJ set right now. I feel like Rozelle. This is crazy. They should be paying for this. This is what Patreon exists for. I want to talk about your consumption that night because I feel like when we were on the way to Sweeties, you seemed pretty twisted. And then you did – I also want to talk quickly because we came up to our rooms to kind of drop off our stuff. We did get a few commemorative matches, fashion, how long on T-shirts that will not be hitting the streets. I have two of them, highest bidder and one XL, one medium. And you came down and you had done a little wardrobe change. That's right. It wasn't that big of a – it's not like a crazy – It was a noticeable change. I was wearing a suit. And then the shirt underneath my suit was changed to a different shirt. And the jacket was gone. Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh, fuck, it was. No, it wasn't. I took it off. No, no, I was wearing the jacket, but then I got so hot DJing because I used my body as well as my mind in the boot. So I did have to take off my jacket. Yeah, I was like, Jason did a wardrobe change. He's really feeling himself after all of this. Is there a situation where maybe the wardrobe change was?

somebody else's idea yeah i mean i suggested it but i didn't think you would actually do it it wasn't you no i'm kidding it wasn't you it was my fiance okay so you did a wardrobe change but it was i'm in no way did she force me to do it but she was like oh you should you know mix it up a little bit and also it it did she was like well I don't want to leave everyone hanging. I was wearing a normal black suit, and underneath it I had a brown cashmere sweater. Understated, simple, archival Barneys. Archival. Used Barneys. Whatever word you want to use. And then underneath, and then I switch it up with, it was a gray and purple striped cashmere rugby shirt. From the good people over at Brunello. This was bought on a deep discount, I assume. This was bought on the RealReal.com. But so I put it on, and from you to my girlfriend, everyone in my life was like, oh, that's such a cutie sweater. Like, wow, great find. Looks great on you. Wonderful, blah, blah, blah. And then I put it on. And then I, and, and she was like, no, no jacket, just wear it. And I'm like, I'm going to try it with the jacket. I put it on and she's like, son of a bitch. It works with the jacket. The collar was hitting just right. And I said, let's go, let's do it. And then, you know, I took it off within an hour. Rugby is an interesting shirt. I mean, I, I really like them and I find them hard to wear in many ways. And I've tried cause J crew makes really good ones right now. And then barbarian is like the OG, like, That's like the one you want. That movie was so scary. But the high end, usually with stuff like that, I want to stick to the kind of traditional makeup. You know what I mean? Like I don't want a high end version of that. Not everyone can afford Brunella. You're right. You can't. And that's why you got it on the real reel. But I did. I did. I do think it works quite well. Because you also have that other rugby, another fashion rugby from local designer Wales Bonner. And that also looks great on you.

Well, I had to retire that one. Well, actually, because it was, Carolyn had it, and she wore it as an oversized style, which, it's so cute when the birds do that. Oh, the over-the-knee boots, your ass peeks out a little bit. The problem with it, it was so oversized that it was big on me. Yeah, but it's still, look, I remember you wearing it a couple times, but this is cool. But the problem with that one was, it was basically... as if you were to embroider a whales bonner logo on the blues clues shirt that's true so every time i wore i'd be like damn i'm stunting in my whales grace whales bonner rugby jump you know it costs hundreds of dollars i'm swagging on you fucking peasants suck my dick and everyone's like what up blues clues dumbass i'm like it's whales bonner and they're like you look like a whale which is dumbass blues i'm like okay I got no respect, I tell you. No, you can't. That's a good point. Because you also tend to dip your toe in the Doug Funny pool as well when you have the sweater vest on. So you've got to be careful. It sounds like... I've got a body of a Nickelodeon. character that's live action or animated i can go live action or animated it doesn't matter just whatever whichever one you want is fine nothing for adults whatsoever that's really funny but yeah i thought i thought the i stayed up till um most later than i would like uh oh yeah me too and i've felt basically bad all week because in friday um i was sitting in this hotel room on calls all afternoon um because of the time difference it kind of ruined our trip to River Cafe for lunch. Which is fine. So did my alcoholism. Yeah, exactly. So I don't feel too bad. But then Friday night, we went over to Suburban Hackney and had dinner with 15 Australians. Which was tough because there was the day after, and I don't know if we talked about it before on the show, but every morning I go downstairs to the lobby and have breakfast. Complimentary, of course, in the King of Kings suite.

I just get a coffee, a juice, and a bowl of fruit. Keep it light. Just for the record, I haven't gone down for the breakfast once. Of course not. I just want to keep myself on track. Yeah, you are keeping yourself. But I mean, I need the coffee. And they have filter coffee, which is a rare find. Yeah, I get the coffee across the street. And I know all the servers now. It's like usually the hostess or the host that greets you at the entrance. is just like a bitch. The hot, mean chick is alive and well. They're always a hot, mean chick. Perfect. That's how it should be, goddammit. It happened to me this morning when I was like, oh, hey, just one, please. And she's like, oh, well, we surveyed the restaurant and it's about half empty. And she's like... this this one this seat right here the one right next to the hostess stand right next to the entrance where you could like it's like kind of cold and you're gonna have to overhear my conversation every three seconds you get kicked you could get kicked you could get hit with a remova whatever it is this is the only seat available right now and and then i look around i pause and i'm i see you know the 11 empty tables i'm like well if this is the only empty seat in the house then i suppose i'm left with no choice And she's like, yes, right here. And then three minutes later, two fucking German cunts walk in and she seats them to the table next to me, which is also open and not next to her host aunt or the other one, you know. Yeah. And I'm just looking at her and she's looking at me and they never break. Like the hot bitches, they never break. It's one of the, this happened to me yesterday at Dover Street Market. They're like, try it, motherfucker. Yeah, I was like. It's amazing. I'll see you in the bathroom next time. I also appreciate it. I'm kind of like, this is how the world should work, and I'm nobody, and I want you to treat me like that. But the servers are all just bizarre people. They're all non-binary people from Belgium with ponytails, and they're all so nice to me and so cool. I became friends with all of them.

And they're just like these bizarre alien creatures that came out of nowhere and they all are servers at the center. And they're all so sweet and they're the best. And one of them, the day after the Sweeties night and the big crazy night, I'm down there just like doing everything I can to not vomit on the table in front of me. And he goes like, oh, you... You don't look very... You look a little... And I was like, yeah, I had a late night. I actually DJed upstairs. And he's like, yeah, you could tell because your eyes look bad. They don't look very good. He was trying to say it in a way, but the language barrier, it came off a little more harsh than he intended to. He literally said, your eyes look bad. I can tell that you look bad. And then this morning... I come down, and he kind of knew it, and he was like, oh, you look very good tonight. I mean, you look very good this morning. You didn't DJ last night, did you? And I was like, no, I did not. Last night, instead of having 45 drinks, I had 35 drinks. Yeah, exactly. Well, that does make a difference, though. Well, I'm glad that you're making friends, because that's what I think. Of course, of course. I haven't been to that restaurant once, actually, which is kind of weird. Had a pint there. But yeah, so we went to Hackney on Friday night. Our friend Stevie invited us to a gathering. Off to Elliot's. Of all of his homies at a restaurant called Elliot's and Hackney. And I didn't realize it was going to be like literally 15 people. And were we the only non-Australians? There was probably a couple. No, there's a few. There's a couple. There's a few. My new friend from Dallas, of course. There's a Dallasite. And I think her husband was Danish or Swedish or Finnish or something. But it was really... Magnus. I was saying this... He had amazing skin. To you, yeah, he was beautiful. I was saying this to you guys last night, but it was just nice for some reason to be at one of those things where everybody's kind of our peer. Like everybody's kind of the same age at the same level of like...

career and like give a lot in common and but we were all new like I didn't know I knew I knew Stevie and Matthew but I didn't know really anybody else yeah me too and I found it quite it was nice it was really nice the power of the podcast yeah it was it was an odd situation for me because like you were saying like what I'm in that point in your life where like you've you've you have all the friends you need obviously you and I have you know a thousand acquaintances all over the world but the who are like considered a close true friend it's pretty low you know and i thought that i wouldn't really ever meet other people like that where you could consider meeting somebody who you'd be excited to have a new friend for life and there was a table full of 15 of them where each one of them was very charming yeah educated very fashionable very funny like everything about it was just like wow this is amazing like i met a group of people who like me a lot and are like have revealed like once you get drunk they're like yeah i listen to your show all the time and i and i'm like wow we're like you guys are all like cooler than me and i feel honored and special to know that all of these intelligent successful fashionable interesting diverse people are are into me i i agree and i blew me away and i think that the the it's usually just like 21-year-old racist guys. Yeah, but they were also all almost lifelong friends, kind of, which is also interesting. That says a lot to me about someone's character. Like in this case, if Stevie is the host and he invites us... and that it's all people he's known for 15 or 20 years, that to me is like, oh, that's a testament to you being like a great friend. Because a lot of people don't have that. It's like when you have a job interview and your resume doesn't have gaps in it, you're known as somebody who will be loyal and stick around and be reliable. And also when you're there and you're in that friend group that you can clearly tell that everyone has known each other for 20 years.

They've gone on vacations and they've had ups and downs and broken up and happiness and weddings and all this crazy stuff. And then they have such a tight-knit group to be invited into that fold. Yes. Means that you have really done something or like you've been chosen. You've been plucked. I've been verified. When I realized what was happening, when I realized that none of the couples were sitting together, I was like, this is going to be good. Oh, yeah. Like, none of the couples, like, married or dating or otherwise. Even you and I. Yeah, Jason and I weren't. Chris and I were sitting at opposite ends of the table. We didn't say a single word to each other all night. No. So I was like, this is interesting that all these, they're like, oh, that's my husband over there. Oh, that's my boyfriend over there. I'm like, oh, you guys are, like, good then. Like, you don't, that's a very, I've never thought about that or seen that before, but that's an interesting social thing to, like, witness. Show me how the world can be. But I'm a little upset still because there was a little bit of a truffle gate at the dinner. Oh, no. This is your version of the bronze story. Yeah. There was a dish that came down. It looked delicious. It was kind of like a pizza thing. It was a pizza. A small pizza that had a great crust on it. It had a nice little kind of sour chew to it. Some thinly. shaved potato, and then I think a telegio cheese. Yeah, where she was like, it's a telegio pizza. I'm like, look, I know I'm a dumb American, but I know that telegio means cheese. Don't think you're slick. Yeah, I mean, it was a cheese pizza. Yeah, exactly. The most common pizzas, but it was not your granddad's cheese. No, it was a high-quality cheese, but then we eat the pizza down on our end. and then she's like oh yeah slice of cheese pizza goes in front of your plate you're scarfing it i'm scarfing i'm not waiting but then then i'm told that the other end of the table jason's end um they had received uh a truffle to kind of top it with and that's how it's supposed to be served a black truffle with a truffle slicer or shaver i guess you do it yourself well i had i actually had caroline carolyn my fiancee i had her i kind of uh

Tilted my head back like a baby bird. Like when the Greeks do the ozu? Yeah, like when you're using a Spanish porron, perhaps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I told her to, you know, I got a big-ass mouth. Start dumping black truffle right into my hole. So you were raw-dogging the truffles at the table. I'm guessing you thought you were going to have to pay for this dinner at all. That's right. And also, the funny part was, while we were sort of recreationally shaving truffles just to see what it feels like, we're sitting across from the owner of the restaurant who bought the truffle in order to make money to support his family with. And I was looking at him, and I was like, are you looking at me where every single time Carolyn goes... You just hear a cash register sound like, ching, ching. Or like, okay, that quarter truffle you have left, that's got to last me all weekend. And you're just kind of burning money on me. No, I think that luckily for you and for him, the 16 bottles of natural wine lining the table had probably clouded his judgment making. And he was probably fine with it. But I was just a little upset because the... As well as the 30 glasses of mezcal that came every half an hour. Yeah, there was a mezcal shot every half hour. And they brought me a mocktail, actually, without preparation, which I did have a sip of in solidarity, but it was a very nice gesture. You would know this, but on the most recent season of Great British Bake Off, there's a character, I think he's Polish or Latvian or Romanian or something like that, but he's this very animated... gay guy who like will wear like high heels and he has he's like the coolest guy of all time i really love him he's really smart really funny full beat makeup the whole time but the there's a server that was working there who had the same voice as him which is a very distinct voice like hello did you tell him that i did not tell him that but so so i duck out to smoke a cig and i'm opening the door to leave and i hear that voice from behind me saying

no no you can't leave and i was like oh shit i'm sorry like oh like do i have to smoke around the back or something like that because it's on like the front yeah thinking like that and i was like oh what's going on he's like you can't leave we're all doing a new mezcal shot and i was like okay he like literally has a tray of like 20 mezcals and he like grabs my shirt and was like come with me now we're going to sit back down and have more mezcal shots and i was like How do you say no to that? How do you say no to that? No, it was so fun. It was great. The party has continued because yesterday I woke up and was able to go to the gym and I met a new friend for coffee downstairs who has this thing called Heat. I told you about this, which is a really interesting concept. Great movie, too. I wasn't in the mood to talk. Doesn't hold up if you ask me. At 11 a.m. about work. But then when he was explaining to me, basically this guy figured out how to make a mystery box, something I absolutely hate. Like a bark box. High end, and it's working really well. And he got investment from LVMH and the Hermes family. So obviously my ears perked up. You say what now? But I was working on a Saturday, but this guy was 26 years old and incredibly successful, which is always really inspiring to me. Yeah, unless they're a DJ. Yeah, of course. What's the opposite of inspiring? So I have a chat with him, and then I head out to head around the shops. And it was so busy at all the places I went that I started to feel ill. In Selfridges. Okay, so Selfridges made you feel ill. Well, no, it's like I was, obviously I was kind of hungry and the smells in there are so strong because of all the high-end fragrance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Worn by not only the customers, but also the peddling of it in the lower floors. Yeah, in America, they stopped sort of insisting that they spray Givenchy on you at 9 in the morning. But over here, I had to say no to 11 people with very bright lights. Yeah, it was a little disorienting, even though it's my favorite store. And I was able to go to the food hall and get a glass bottle of Avion, one of my favorite things to do over here. And I enjoyed it. What color Jacquemus Mini did you wear?

I didn't buy anything, but then I went to Liberty, and then I went to the Dover Street Market, London, the best location, some would say. Is it actually on Dover Street? No, no, no. It was absolutely rammed with freaks. Because it's a sale. The sale's on. So I was surrounded by freaks, but I went upstairs to get a coffee at Rose Bakery. I was able to resist a treat. But I was greeted by an extremely hot waitress and a bitchy young gay barista who just wore not... I was like, do I order here? You order from me. And also this guy is dressed like... in the way that young people that are cool dress where it's like just awful shitty clothes from the vintage store but because he's young and hot and gay and at dsm it's very cool yes and the girl is just like hot and cool and they're just like conspiring against me it felt like i like it when people are like that we're like i'm dressing so badly for sport just just to i'm so advanced just to amuse myself yeah it was like it was unbelievable like she looked like ripped from the Delia's catalog. And it worked. I hate to say it. It worked. Shorty looked like Mandy Moore. Actually, yeah. Not that beautiful, but yeah. I go to Dover Street. I'm checking it out. The sickness creeps over me. I start to feel weird again. I'm starting to think that the Chris Black retail report, one of the most important things, I think I have to carb load before it. You have to have a full Evan Funky pasta? I think I have to have a big plate of pasta, some bread, and a couple of waters to kind of do this because it takes so much out of me. Being surrounded by the people, being rammed on the tube by all the locals. I'm walking. It really fucked up equilibrium. I bought you, I bought Jason... A lovely book. A lovely book about DJ and rave culture. DJ dance and rave culture.

examining pop culture. That's the only thing I was able to purchase yesterday because I couldn't go into End because there was a line. And I realized yesterday in a kind of a dark moment for me that End, one of my favorite online retailers, after matches of course, is kind of the British Kif. Kif. They don't make their own ugly clothes, so it's much better than that. But like, it's just a good shoe store in the right neighborhood. Right. You know what I mean? So there was a line, and then there was a line at Stussy. There's a line at every fucking store. No soft ice cream, though. No, but don't worry. They have a Kith Treats inside Selfridges, so I was able to get the Funfetti kind of... Yeah, we went to Harrods. I was able to shoplift a little bit of food, kind of Whole Foods style. It's very easy to shoplift the food hall there. That's good to know. But there was... Like the same thing happened to me where you walk in and it's just, it's so disorienting. There's so many people. It's as if you're at Heathrow, except there's no planes, like just as many people with like luggage for some reason. Yeah. Not a single person. It's like when you walk past the Gucci store at the airport and you're like, who the fuck is going to buy? clothes at the airport like you're going on an airplane you you're gonna get a sandwich maybe this is this is poor guy mentality but we'll talk about that later yeah i'm sure you buy a lot of luxury clothing and jewelry at the airport i don't because i have they always have the best buys i haven't reached that that platitude yet yeah and when i was when i was walking around the shops at harrods they had the big louis vuitton inflatable What's her name again? I don't know. Kurosawa? Yeah, yeah. Is that her? I actually don't mind the collaboration. I think it's, like, pretty good, but, you know. For some reason, it irks me because, to me, it feels like the end of fashion and shopping and clothing. Like, it felt like the ice cream museum. Yeah.

like we don't like since nobody like when we're at dinner at elliott's for example and it's all these fashionable people and we're like oh like yeah i'm wearing this and blah blah and this vivian westwood thingy this and blah blah blah and they're like where are you what shops are you going to and i was like what shops do you go to and they're like online i'm like i don't remember like i haven't bought a piece of clothing in a store in years i have um well you're built different but like all that is to say like You have a brand like Louis Vuitton, which is considered top of the food chain in the luxury clothing market. And they're basically like, what can we do to have rich parents, little kids go like, ooh, polka dot, cool. And then does that translate into buying the world's ugliest varsity jacket for $4,000? I think the bags are actually kind of nice. I don't mind the bag. I'm sure it's fine. To me, I'm thinking Louis, Gucci, Hermes, YSL, all these top-tier brands, you think of going in there and it's like a relaxing experience. Would you like a glass of champagne? I'll get a room started for you. Oh, this cashmere scarf is wonderful on you. It hasn't been like that for 10 years. I know, I know. And now it's just like children being like, I want to see the polka dots. No, now it's like, wait in line. Where's the smart people stuff? Well, no, but it's not, I don't think it's that visually bad. I think it's like a gimmick, of course, like having her hang over the side, having a blow up version of her hang over the side of a building is obviously a gimmick. But I also think that the experience that you're referencing is non-existent. Like now to go to any designer store, you have to wait in a line, even though the store is not busy. And you go in and buy something, they want to get you out of there as fast as possible so someone else can come buy something. There's no, like, come to the back, we'll bring you this. It's not. I mean, of course, it still happens if you're a certain level of client, I would imagine. It happens at Match's Fashion, of course. Me and you walk in somewhere, they're like, they either send a guy to follow us around because they're going to steal or they look at us and look back down at their cell phone. There's no, oh, Mr. Black, welcome back. Yeah. I mean, that's.

Everything is experience-based now. That's true. And going to stores is not to buy clothes. It's to have something to do and something to take photos of. The Hermes store in Paris that used to be in an old pool, it's insane. It's like the best store I've ever... It's incredible. It's huge. It's incredible. They have everything. It's really nice. But it's definitely like they're doing millions of dollars a day. But I'm saying it's big enough and it's Hermes enough to be like, you can all walk in here and take pictures, and there's still a whole other group of people that are walking here and only buying stuff, and it serves both of those things. It's like the Vatican. Exactly. You have to pay money to come to the gift shop. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's like when you're at an amusement park and they make you walk through the gift shop when you get off the ride. Or it's like duty-free at the airport. You've got to walk through to get to it. Sure, sure. Yeah, after a long day of shopping, I didn't have enough time to take a nap. I felt kind of funny when we left for dinner. Well, I've just been grabbing naps as I can. I'll nap at 10 a.m., 6 p.m., whatever you can do. I'm feeling much better today because we had a meal last night that was American-influenced. Yeah, it was. It was. So it was like, oh, okay, this is good. Yeah. I mean, Elliot's was delicious. Actually, Elliot's was like shrimp and grits. Elliot's was delicious and pretty straightforward. We went to Rita's last night, which is a restaurant that's owned by a guy. I've actually a guy, Gabe and his partner, Missy. But I've known Gabe for like 15 years from like New York. But I haven't seen him in a really long time from the network of tatted up white guys. Yeah. Yes. But it was it was very cool because it's in Soho. It's like a restaurant I would go to a lot if it was in New York. Oh, yeah. It feels like a New York restaurant. And there was a server there that I chatted up outside named Mike. A guy called Michael, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we really hit it off. And by the end of it, he's like, you should have me on your podcast. And I was like, once you get famous, let me know and we'll come on. But he was saying, oh, he said his favorite thing to do is watch Holocaust documentaries because it makes him cry. And we need to cry more often. And I was like, what are you going to do tonight? And he said, I'm going to.

I'm going to eat a cold steak from yesterday with popcorn and watch Drag Race. And I was like, that's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life. I love it. No, that guy was – I only talked to him for a little bit, and I was into it. He was a legend. I actually went down to the kitchen to have a chat and kind of kick the tires. Oh, wow. So I was just checking out. Obviously, service was over. They were kind of cleaning it up. But we were discussing how the pecan pie was actually more of a pecan tart. It was. It was. And that's why maybe the flavors are familiar to you, but it was a different application. I was like, that's so crazy. That's exactly what I was thinking, bro. It was a delicious pecan tart. So good. It was so good. Yeah. I love it. Pecan pie, what a treat. I thought you and Michael might exchange numbers, actually. We were close. I said, follow the podcast. Send me a DM. He also said that his parents are in America right now. And I was like, oh, where are they? He's like, They're at a spa in Phoenix. They're at a spa in Phoenix. And I was like, oh. And he's like, yeah, I've been to America a lot because my uncle opened a car dealership in New Jersey and is rich. And he told us that when he – this is so good. He told us that when he was, I guess, probably like in middle school maybe. He said that they would go to visit his uncle in New Jersey every Halloween. Who does that? That's very strange. But then he was like – So yeah, when Gossip Girl was really popular, I made my dad take me trick-or-treating on the Upper East Side. Which really made me fucking chuckle. I thought that was so funny. The king-size Mike and Ikes. Yeah, like you said, they're just handing out 20s to get you out of their house. He's like, I saw a lot of really beautiful hallways. Love it, love it. You don't get to chat with people like that in America too often. Where they're like educated, charming, smutian. Funny and smart. No, I know. I mean, that's the thing about because Otega, who has been on the show, joined us for dinner and it is. I think she keeps us on our toes. She does. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, they say never be the smartest person in the room, always buy the cheapest house on the most expensive block. You know, like that's what happens when we come to London. It's aspirational to be like, wow, I need better friends.

Thank God we're better looking than all of them, but we could use some. Yeah, yeah. And even though we don't make that much money, we make way more money. That's true. I'm still feeling good. There are pros. I mean, and that's not a brag. Unfortunately, if you have a cool creative job in London, you don't make shit. Multiple people have said to me, I want to make, basically, I could never live in the U.S. You guys are monsters. I only want to figure out how to make U.S. money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Direct quotes. I'm like, sorry, we have guns and you have knives, pussy. I don't know what to tell you. That's not my fucking problem, bro. We have guns. You have knives. We have a weekend car. And you have... I also... You know what we didn't talk about is how cool Alexa's agent was. I love... Alexa's agent was like this beautiful, like, blonde mother of one who was just really refined, really put together. And just like by the end of the night, I was like, I think I need to hang out with you next time I'm here. And she's like, yeah, come to Notting Hill. I'm like, can I? I'm like, I don't know if I can drive the Range Rover because it's the wrong side. And she was like, oh, I'll just pick you up in mine. Deadpan, dead serious. And I was like, you're my kind of chick. Not having a laugh. You're my kind of chick. Yeah, Alexa's PR person and agent were both. very funny and very pleasant and both surprisingly had children which i didn't see coming from either of them you know how do you have it all how doth you do it uh i'm gonna say husband and finance but i don't know sure sure i don't know i don't want to i don't want to i don't want to pigeonhole or assume obviously but that's my guess just based on what i've learned in my in my short life um the only the only downside slash upside of whenever I do travel internationally is the tree talks. And I'm right deep in the thralls of it right now where the nightmares have begun to really kick on. Yeah, Jason. So Jason came in because we kind of ended it early last night at Rita's. We were home by like midnight or whatever. So, you know, because we needed sleep because we have a show tonight at the Moth Club with Izzy and Jason walked in. I'm like, how'd you sleep?

Not good. I'm like, really? What's the problem, dude? Nightmares. And I was like, what are you, 12? You're an adult man. What nightmares are you having? You're Tesla didn't charge? What's the nightmare? When you smoke weed every night before you go to bed, the dreams and the nightmares go away. Are you trying to tell me what happens when you smoke weed? I'm trying to tell our listeners to reiterate a fact that you are aware of. Trust me, the people who listen to this podcast are stoned right now to deal with this bullshit. But sure, I appreciate the educational. So you're simply validating my point. And you agree with that. That's true. When you smoke marijuana before you go to bed, you wake up, you have a wonderful sleep. The dreams never happen and the nightmares never happen, which is a good and a bad thing, I believe. Because something is being repressed. And when I do travel internationally without marijuana to smoke because it is illegal and I don't want to go to jail, that's the spring cleaning. That's the Marie Kondo-ing of my mind. And you don't want to see what's underneath the couch cushions. But it does have to come out. So are you having a nightmare like you jolt awake in a cold sweat? Yeah, for sure. Bro, get it together. No, it's good. I mean, it's because I have a year's worth of repressed emotions that have to come out somewhere or else I'll die. So they come out. It's tough. You know, it's like going to rehab or something like that where you're dope sick on emotions. Yeah, but going to rehab and being dope sick is cool because you had to do something cool to get there. Jason taking a little break from his marijuana makes him scary. I'm not scared. I'm releasing repressed emotions, and that's something that I think is cool, too. Okay. But I'm just saying, like, it's never fun, but it has to happen, you know? Of course. It's like getting a root canal. Like, you don't want to do it, but you got to do it. You have no choice.

You go to the airport and you forgot your passport. Stuff like that. That's not very scary. It's not scary, but it can be something that feels like a 12-hour ordeal where you're in constant distress and annoyance. And this one was much worse for me where I was having a house party. No, no. My roommate or something was having a house party. It got out of control, and it turned into a situation where people were abusing me. stealing my shit the nightmare here is that you had a roommate and the rest of this stuff you deserve for having no it was basically like i was i was taken captive by like a hundred terrible people inside my own home and they like ripped my clothes off of me you know drugged me stole all my belongings you know it was like really really bad and then it ended by me waking up naked like on the couch in my living room fully naked all my possessions are gone and then there's like a hundred of these people and they're all asleep because the party was over it's like the next day and i go up and i pick up a ball ball peen hammer like a small hammer won't kill you but it'll hurt you and i went one by one to all the people at this party and i said leave now or hammer and the first two people were like all right all right sorry bro sorry bro we're gonna go And then the third person was like, I'm not going. And then I hit him on the head with a hammer. And then he kind of doubled over and blood started coming out. And then I did that for every other person in the party. How long gone? Thanks for listening. My co-host Jason is a murderer. But this is the lesson to be learned. I would love to hear what the lesson from this is. When you are having a nightmare or a dream. You know when people have a little trick to realize if they're dreaming or not? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mine always is, if it is a dream, I can produce a weapon and kill the person. If something bad is happening to me, I would have a dream as a kid that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is chasing me and my legs don't work. But you always have a weapon on you. And then you're like, oh, if I am dreaming...

put a gun in my hand, and I'll shoot him in the head. And if it happens, then I'm like, oh, thank God, this is just a dream. How long gone? Follow me on Instagram at them jeans. Oh, wow. That's one of the worst things you've ever told me. This is why daddy need grass. Yeah, okay. Now I understand why weed is more of a prescription. Excuse me, cannabis is more of a prescription for some people and a hobby for others. It's more than a crutch. It's a wheelchair. Thank you guys. All of the London friends that we've made, thank you so much for the hospitality. We love all you guys here from the young chaps. Little Ethan to the oldies. We had an absolute blast. It was really fun. We have a show tonight at Moth Club with Izzy Wood. sold out and in the suburbs so i can't wait to take a 45 minute uber uh because i don't want i like to take the two but i like to transfer a lot that makes it a little i can't be bothered i can't be bothered one and done so we'll see you there tonight and then next week we're we're back on our more regularly podcasting schedule i'll be coming to you live from stockholm at 8 p.m which is not great but this is this is what we do so You know, if you have any recommendations for Stockholm, please don't send them to me. I already know kind of what to do based on actual friends I have in real life. Yeah, you're going to have some thin, dark toast. I can't wait. Yeah, I'm going to lose 10 pounds in Stockholm because I don't eat cold fish, you know. Okay, thank you for listening, guys. Have a blessed week. Later.