803. - Adam Roberts

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Adam Roberts is a writer from New York whose debut novel, Food Person, just arrived. He's an OG food blogger, podcaster, and former neighbor of Jason's, so they have plenty to catch up about. We chat about Marc Maron's retirement announcement, Reneé R*pp hates the straights, Chris's beef with a United States postal worker, where to find a bagel in Atlanta, Katz's Deli erotica, the early days of Gay.com and Manhunter chatrooms, the new Pee Wee Herman documentary, where he's eating in Los Angeles this week, coconut kale smoothies, the notorious gay poker night, he got the idea for his book while ghostwriting a cookbook for a celebrity, who will play his book's characters in the inevetable screen adaptation, what it would take Zendaya, and Chris Black, to gain 30 lbs for a role, and Adam throws his therapist hat on to deduce Chris' emotional trauma based soley on his Sweetgreen order. instagram.com/amateurgourmet 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	This episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by booking.com.
0:03.0	Booking. Yeah.
0:04.0	Whether you're booking for yourself, your partner, your sleeplight, rise early mom,
0:08.7	or your high-maintenance group chat, them jeans,
0:11.8	you can find exactly what you're booking for on booking.com.
0:15.6	Luckily for us, booking.com lets you get really specific and granular with your search oh really good because when i
0:22.4	travel sometimes i like to bring my iPad and you know check out my sites but sometimes the
0:27.7	wifi is down yeah and i mean what what do i do to occupy my time booking dot com has an option to
0:34.5	search for properties and vacation rentals that feature board games and puzzles.
0:39.7	So if you're mute or boring, you have options to kind of keep yourself entertained on holiday that go beyond scrolling on your phone, staring out the window, watching football on TV.
0:51.8	There's something a little more interactive for you and your fellow travelers if you book using booking.com.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:56.8	And if there's an upcoming quarantine on the horizon, you know, puzzle playing is such a great
1:03.0	way to pass the time without staring at your devices, having your mind sucked away by
1:09.6	the apps.
1:13.8	So let's do a little boggle. Let's play out a little operation. Booking.com, Chris, is the place to go. Find exactly what you're looking for, like a
1:20.3	vacation rental with a nice closet full of cranium. Booking.com. Booking. Yeah. Book today on the site or in the app. Not cranium, booking.com, booking. Yeah. Book today on the site or in the app.
1:29.8	Not cranium.
1:31.2	Think of a breakfast muffin with sausage and egg. Yep, that's the one. You can see it,
1:37.5	can you. Deep in your mind. Sausage, egg, cheese, muffin. I don't even need to say its name, do I?
1:47.0	Breakfast, done properly.
1:49.7	Served until 11 a.m. Chris Black coming to you from a beautiful New York City.
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