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How Long Gone

838. - Chris & Jason

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

One-on-one pod today, Chris is summering on Long Island, and Jason is home in Glendale. We chat about out-of-office reply etiquette, a dinner at Andy Barghani's, Sky Ting on the laptop, polycule US Open viewing, Italian deodorant, the seawater diet, and why servers are suddenly so talkative. Did Trump die last week, and we're waiting to announce after Labor Day? Will straight people ruin GHB? Polish pavers caught stealing, Oasis in America hits different, and why fear the tote bag-wielding, matcha-drinking performative male? 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 them jeans it is the last day of summer.

0:22.1

I couldn't be happier as we move into fall.

0:26.1

The hands-down best season, I think everyone can agree.

0:29.0

But we're talking about calendarily speaking, not in terms of our actual present-day weather that we're feeling i i would say that in belport long island

0:41.3

it's feeling you know 80 during the day you know chilly you could wear a sweater at night so it's

0:47.0

you know okay wasp wednesday's it's getting there fall has fallen okay today i've got a high of

0:53.5

95 tomorrow high than 96 Tuesday 90 We're in the 90s all week long, brother. Yeah, that's your problem. In California, in many parts of the world, I said it last night. You got until October. We're in the middle of summer. Yeah, yeah, that's probably true. Yeah, we're in the middle of summer right now. It's not even September yet. September is the hottest month of the year. I don't really care because I just want life to get back to normal and people to abide by a schedule and stop being on vacation and not and I don't want to get any more out of office messages. We got to, you know what, we got to get rid of, just don't respond to me. Like, it's fine. Like, just don't respond. If you're not going to respond for a week, like, I'll just forget about it and not even care. You know what I mean? Unless it's urgent. Not everybody in the world has these crumbling communication boundaries that you have.

1:48.7

Yours have sort of been sanded down to the studs.

1:49.9

I think out of office reply. Other people need to have that level of clear communication or else they'll do an anxiety spiral.

1:56.4

I think that out of office, I think out of office messages are a low key way to boast that you're not

2:03.1

at work. You know what I mean? Like I think it's a little bit of a, if you don't, no one is going

2:08.4

on vacation for a week or even two weeks and not looking at their email. You're lying. No one on

2:14.4

earth can physically do that. I really believe that. I don't think there are people,

2:18.8

I mean, obviously there are a few and far between, but I think a few psychos. I would say 90% of people,

2:24.8

no matter where they are in the world or what they are doing or what they're supposed to be doing,

2:28.4

they're going to look at their phone and check an email or check a text message to receive

2:33.5

communication about something urgent.

2:35.4

I really believe that to be true.

2:37.4

Yeah.

2:38.0

It allows you to have a little bit more of a peace of mind when you're on the holiday,

2:42.6

pull up the Gmail and be like, okay, blah, blah, blah, this and that.

2:47.0

Still, you know, make sure that there's no fires to put out.

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