475. - The National

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The National is an American band whose new album, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, is out soon. We spoke with Matt, their singer, from his home in Los Angeles about TJ's big night out in Brooklyn, Hi Chews and Red Vines, Matt comes out as a cat guy, mushroom exploration, The National is still waiting to play the Saudi Prince's bday party, which members of his band don't wear shoes, taking lessons on how to be an aging rocker from Morrissey and Nick Cave, that one time they played a show in Las Vegas while the AVN awards were happening, lo-fi beats to pole dance to, what he listens to when he smokes weed and rides his bike around Venice, we figure out where he's going to live next, TJ pitches a video concept for their new single, writing a breakup song with your wife whom you're currently happily married to, and some writer's blocks are bigger than others. instagram.com/thenational twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The How long gone?
0:15.0	on, uh, Chris Black coming to you live from another rainy day in Los Angeles.
0:23.7	Them Jeans is currently, he's under medical watch.
0:30.0	And I just want to make sure, know I'm not a doctor I'm not even a
0:35.6	healer or a Reiki specialist but I just want to make sure you're doing okay I heard some
0:39.6	alarming reports from the public hotel this morning have we recovered.
0:44.0	Hell no.
0:46.0	Okay, okay so I you know I you did you did DJ.
0:51.0	Allison Romans You did the day.
0:58.9	Allison Romans sweet enough her dessert book came out on Tuesday. You did at the party last night in the cursed neighborhood of Williamsburg Brooklyn at a venue owned by enemy of the state
1:07.1	James Murphy do you think something do you think something nefarious has happened or do you think that this is just kind of God's plan?
1:15.6	What happened? What's going on? You know tell everybody what's what's what's the deal is you know
1:20.7	I was I was I had some, I didn't have technical difficulties, it's hard to explain, but I was
1:27.3	DJing, it was a great party.
1:29.5	Allison had, through an amazing event, great crowd, open bars, she made all these desserts and sweets
1:37.1	from her cookbook that just came out.
1:39.7	It's a real who's who of the culinary world as well as every gay person in Brooklyn that has money.
1:46.0	All right, so rich gays and all the all the back of house staff they could lose 15 pounds and then
1:54.5	Andy Varagani looking fucking hot being being himself with the blonde hair can, it's like I was there with that description.
2:05.5	It was like, it's like I was there.
2:06.5	Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead.
2:07.5	Little Andy was snatched it.
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