604. - Ed Cumming

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ed Cumming is the senior feature writer for The Telegraph and an editor at The Fence. We chat about Chris changing his mind about Berlin, mango soup, bringing your own to-go containers to restaurants, the sweet and savoury of English high tea, a breakdown of "builder tea," Ash Wednesday > Valentine's Day, they're stealing catalytic converters in London now too, he went to see Morgan Wallen at the O2, we get to the bottom of known beard Stanley Tucci's motives, the Blackpink hammer, Anna Wintour has eyes on almost everything, the downsides of getting comped dinners, when the pub gets too busy, and how he ended up in the background of many fashion photos. twitter.com/edcumming twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers.
0:03.0	Seering our pat is so they juicier,
0:05.0	adding onions at the grill for extra flavor,
0:07.0	new toastier buns,
0:09.0	and we're serving them hotter for even meltier cheese.
0:12.0	The McDonald's classics. Now a little more.
0:14.3	Mm.
0:15.3	Comparism with Prior Classic Burgers served after 11 a.m. subject to availability. The How long gone? It's on. It's your boy. Chris Black, my final night here in Berlin and I've actually turned a corner on it Jason.
0:45.0	Hello, hello. This is huge. I feel like you've been, I was writing the episode description for yesterday's pod and I was like we didn't even discuss
0:56.9	where Chris was so in the intro where I'm like Chris is in New York Jason is in Glendale ever I was just like
1:05.1	Chris is in Europe like I was like I don't I don't know where you are because at this point
1:11.0	it's just like you kind of live there but we haven't talked about it which is weird so like I don't want this bubble to burst I understand no I understand I'm ready to go home I go home tomorrow morning so you are sort of on record. I've never been to Berlin, but many people have said I will like it there because it is cheap. You can get around on bicycles and drugs and alcohol and bad techno music are abound.
1:34.0	And that is true, but I've unlocked a new side to the city
1:38.1	thanks to some local friends.
1:41.1	It's called a circuit party, and I love it. Now I met some new friends.
1:46.5	I've had some new friends. They've welcomed me into their, they call it their den.
1:49.8	But today, I, my, Sven, who actually was on the show, he does that thing called the talks he was on when the when their book came out
1:57.1	Like Sven Schulah spin Schuman yeah and he uh shuman he was like you want to get lunch and he gave me a healthy option and then he was like I'm also could take you to the China club which is in in the same building as the hotel where Michael Jackson dangled the baby over the over the ledge
2:17.8	And I was like I like okay. That's the most crisp black tempting thing,
2:23.2	like, if someone's like,
2:24.6	do you want to go to this restaurant for lunch?
2:28.3	The food is good, and you're like,
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