391. - Ben Gibbard

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ben Gibbard is a musician best known for fronting Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service. He lives in Seattle, but we spoke with him from a hotel in Los Angeles about Federer retiring, Timothée's Vogue cover, taking a look at the man in the mirror, how to be sober when your chick likes wine, some common traits of ultramarathon runners, every musician needs a side hustle, you have to give it to jam bands, opening for Neil Young but not the Stones, the post-divorce haze, Death Cab is huge in the Philippines, some tough sync talk, back when you could make money selling records, his love affair with Teenage Fanclub, and some of his favorite LA haunts from when he lived there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The them jeans what's up how long gone is back if you just are listening to us for the second time because you discovered us from our 1975 episode
0:27.4	Welcome all
0:29.4	Depressed 19 year olds. Thank you for joining us on how long gone you won't say long if you have a
0:34.2	1975 tattoo go ahead and shut this podcast off now and we'll just see kind of who's
0:39.6	left after the bodies are sorted out.
0:42.5	Jason, how are you feeling?
0:44.4	Because I've had a crazy morning, Chief.
0:46.4	I'm feeling okay.
0:47.3	Yesterday, I was able to do, you know, you do three days.
0:51.1	I did a, I did a, or two two a day I did a three a day yesterday so
0:54.3	I'm feeling I'm feeling good and so okay okay okay hold on a dog walk doesn't
0:59.1	count so what did you actually do because I'm I'm confused I know you have a lot of free time but still there
1:04.0	of course there was a dog walk and I try to get my sporty-en-rich dog walk in every
1:08.0	morning I think it's good for not only the body but also the mind I don't know if you
1:12.1	can wrap your head around that theory but I'm more focused on soul
1:15.9	Something that I don't think you have but you know I have so much more soul than you Chris and I'm not even a soldier.
1:23.2	Oh, don't do not slander the killers on this podcast.
1:26.8	You know I will not stand for it.
1:28.0	That's only slander if you want it to be Chris.
1:30.0	Just something to think about, take a look at the man in the mirror when you're talking about.
1:33.3	Oh, now we're going to reference Michael Jackson.
1:35.8	This is a bad day for you, Jason.
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