795. - Shirley Manson

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Shirley Manson is a singer and songwriter, most notably from the band Garbage, whose new record, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, is out May 30th. We chat with Shirley from her home in Los Angeles about Diddy updates, DJ Akademiks, Esq., Chris is flying out of Newark tomorrow, walking in Los Angeles without a dog, octopuses are sentient beings, what she listens to in the MRI machine, how Chris cleans his bathroom, her shower schedule, sloppy seconds, when she gets nervous, streaming revenue, she says the phrase "player, please", the best ways for a band to break up, touring with Noel Gallagher, opening for My Chemical Romance, and the last time she did ecstacy. instagram.com/garbage 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, rainy Wednesday here in New York City.
0:22.1	We're doing the rare Wednesday recording to accommodate our legendary guests' schedule.
0:29.0	Them jeans.
0:29.7	What's up?
0:30.2	I'm only happy when it rains.
0:31.5	I just wanted to get it out of the system early, so I wouldn't fit again.
0:35.5	Thank you for that.
0:36.7	Save us all.
0:37.6	Save us all. Thank you. I. Save us all. Save us all.
0:38.2	Thank you.
0:38.4	I was talking to Carolyn this morning and I was like, she's like, do you know how many times
0:43.2	she's probably had to hear a rain joke in her, you know, 30 years of interviews she's done?
0:50.8	And I was like, I'll find a way.
0:52.4	Please don't find a way.
0:54.5	I said challenge.
0:55.6	It's not a challenge.
0:57.4	It's a warning.
0:58.3	It's funny.
0:59.4	Well, that's, I mean, this is literally why usually when I do a podcast, I will hang out
1:04.0	with Carolyn and say a bunch of dumb shit just to get it out of my system, just to, you know,
1:09.4	get the first load out. So then I have to, you know, get the first load out.
1:12.0	So then I have a little more clarity, get the throwaway stuff done.
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