767. - Justin Pearson

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

A wild episode with a wild guy, Justin Pearson is a musician known for the bands Swing Kids, The Locust, and many more. We spoke with him from his home in San Diego about a new guy in the Sauna, the early 2000s punk to electronic music shift, a dry cleaner hates to see the Locust coming, his brief EDM career, working at a gay bar until he was 40, treating his record collection like his retirement fund, getting pulled over with a missile launcher in the trunk, true grindcore, fighting nazis, his thoughts on Krishna and Bikram, bands cashing in on the reunion wave, and go see the Swing Kids play at the end of the month in SD. instagram.com/justinpearson31g twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How long gone?
0:19.5	It's Chris Black coming to you live from my favorite recording studio, the J-Crew
0:25.6	offices in downtown Manhattan.
0:28.7	It's exciting.
0:29.5	It's one of my favorite.
0:30.5	I've got a view, you know, it's much better than my house or any other place I've
0:34.3	been lately.
0:35.2	How are you feeling them jeans?
0:37.4	The view is better than the view of anywhere you've been lately. You've been lately. How are you feeling them jeans? The view is better than the view of anywhere you've been lately.
0:41.2	You've been all over the world, bro. Come on.
0:43.1	Yeah, but what's more beautiful than downtown Manhattan on a sunny day?
0:46.4	It's a tough.
0:47.8	It's tough. Okay.
0:48.5	Is this going to be a working podcast or are we going to be online?
0:52.6	Well, I mean, I have to be online to use the
0:54.6	zoom application uh so i'm not really sure what you're asking i don't i don't mean literally on the
1:00.2	network i don't mean 5g i mean i mean your mental 5g you know my mental is good we're going to have
1:07.2	one eye on your notes and one eye on the Gmail? No, no, no.
1:11.3	Well, I always have one eye on the Gmail because if one of us doesn't, we could miss something.
1:16.0	You know what I mean?
1:16.4	That's true.
1:16.9	Well, somebody I'd hate to miss anything.
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