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How Long Gone

575. - Jonathan Rado

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Rado is a musician and producer best known for the band Foxygen and for producing records for The Killers, Weyes Blood, Tim Heidecker, Father John Misty, and many more. He's also a chill guy who we like a lot. We spoke with him from his home studio in The Valley about our upcoming shows in New York and Boston, a recent article about us, where Jonathan orders food from mostly, our thoughts on UOVO pasta, Canadian customs smelling their passports, his relationship with OJ Simpson, Ross from Friends, his process in the studio as a "to tape" guy, Chris pokes around for an in with The Killers, working in the Pet Sounds studio, our thoughts on straws, his history with Monster Energy Drink, and before he has kids, he's gonna need a platinum plaque. instagram.com/jonathanrado twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to go and How long gone? A beautiful Thursday in Manhattan. Jason, what's up, bro?

0:25.0

He's hating my life, dying?

0:27.0

Why are you dying?

0:29.0

Why are you dying?

0:30.0

Because you get a little overwhelmed before you travel.

0:32.0

And it's weird because you're a little overwhelmed before you travel and it's weird because you're a pro but you just is it just too much for you?

0:37.2

There's just I mean I have a full just a full work day just this whole week is just you I wake up at six and I work until seven and that's it just

0:46.1

straight straight straight through. Jason what else what else is there is the question I ask I mean what

0:50.7

else it's true what else would you be doing is the real question I can't I mean I know you have a lot of hobbies but you can only clean out the gutter so many times

0:58.6

I don't have hobbies anymore good that's that's this is where I've been trying to get you this is where I've been trying to get you.

1:03.0

This is where I've been trying to get you.

1:05.0

Your woodworking career wasn't going anywhere.

1:08.0

And I've never done woodworking.

1:10.0

I know you're trying to rebuild that engine in the garage that thing's been sitting

1:14.4

there undone for months so it's it's nice to see you realize that that the future

1:19.7

is not in hobbies for you grown Grown ass man having hobbies.

1:23.0

F-O-H, that's what you say, right?

1:24.6

Honestly, having hobbies as an adult is crazy.

1:28.2

It means that you're either socially stunted

1:31.8

or you haven't figured out how to make money from the things that you love.

1:35.5

That's the way I'm going to find that.

1:37.6

Ooh. Preach, honey, more on that after the break. I need to take a minute.

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