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How Long Gone

282. - Matt Sweeney

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Matt Sweeney is a musician from New York City. He’s worked with everyone from Rick Rubin to Tom Petty, Bonny Prince Billy, Cat Power, and Billy Corgan. We chat with him from his iPad about managing relationships, Adam McKay blowing it, Chris saw Licorice Pizza, physical music media, the evolution of Spotify, living in Malibu with Rick Rubin, drug ghosts haunting your home, having Tik Tok FOMO as an older person, the relationship between wrestling and hip hop, what to do to get in the room with the big dogs, his relationship with drugs and alcohol, going to jail for smoking a joint, being a spazz, and why he started running. instagram.com/theheavyjamz twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.1

Oh, TJ, how are you doing? It's the worst week of the year, the week between Christmas and New years where there's nothing going on and the biggest news story features the CDC. I hope you're doing better than I am.

0:26.5

You know I don't I don't know if I am we're all going through it these are you know I

0:30.9

think because of what the reasons that you just said that there's

0:34.9

nothing for us to really do or focus on that much even though I for some reason feel

0:40.3

very overworked and busy doing shit.

0:44.0

Your chores aren't, they don't pay, so it doesn't really, I know it makes you feel that way,

0:48.0

but you're really just throwing your energy into the void, you know that.

0:51.3

Well, sometimes you have to do stuff that don't pay

0:54.8

Chris I'm I'm sorry I don't I don't know comprende senior part of being in a

0:59.8

modern relationship means that we all have to do our part and I am not doing my part enough

1:07.1

so says who says people I live with sometimes so you're telling me that both of your dogs spoke to you in English and said you're lazy? That's fucked up, bro. You need to get rid of those dogs. I told you.

1:17.5

You know, it's kind of, it's tough. Like the way I look at it is like there's a whole there's priority list and one person's

1:25.2

priority list is not always in line copacetic whatever you want to call it with

1:32.2

other people in your life and that that can be

1:35.6

the truth and that's something she looked at my parents list for me when I was a

1:39.8

junior in high school it didn't really line up with mine you know and and we've been able to maintain a relationship

1:45.7

That's nice well you know so sometimes the things that uh that I'm like you know what this can wait for another time it can't wait for other people

1:55.0

so this is the time of the year where if if other work and emails and things like that

2:00.0

are slowing down then I could finally focus on all the other exciting stuff like

2:04.3

getting a quote to fix a sprinkler system or cleaning an oven or you know all that stuff.

2:13.0

Look as a guy who takes out the trash four times a day because someone isn't into that part of the of the

2:19.0

chore list. I do understand we were coming from to some extent but I think we should focus on more positive things today

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