848. - Cass McCombs

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Cass McCombs is a singer-songwriter from the Bay Area, currently living in New York City. His great new record, Interior Live Oak, is out now on Domino. We chat about Tylenol autism, Kimmel predictions, good things about Baltimore, playing guitar while sitting down, his morning routine, cars, the engine of music, overall he's grumpy, cioppino soup, working at the soda fountain in Berkley and cruising the free vinyl section at Amoeba, and our thoughts on slang. instagram.com/cassmccombs 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 uh chris black in berlin at my favorite hotel, Chateau Royal, here.
0:24.6	Just sitting by the window, beautiful crispy fall day here in Germany, the country I'm most ready to leave.
0:31.7	Jason, what's good with my man on the West Coast?
0:35.9	It's ranking high on the top 10 list of countries that you want to leave right now,
0:42.0	actively and currently.
0:43.6	I'm good, I'm good.
0:45.8	I just finished.
0:46.5	Sorry, I'm two minutes late.
0:48.4	My morning dog walk ran a little late, you know, with the rapture going on and all.
0:53.9	I saw they played Portola.
0:55.5	I had to dump out all my...
0:57.1	Are you talking about it?
0:58.3	Yeah, the amount of the raptured versus the rapture I've been seeing on my timeline.
1:05.1	It's a real millennial pickle.
1:07.0	You know, which one is which?
1:08.1	Yeah.
1:08.3	Which one is which?
1:09.0	There's the house of jealous lovers.
1:10.8	There's the house of expired life on planet Earth.
1:15.3	I don't know.
1:15.7	I mean, the rapture, the biblical rapture that we're talking about is supposed to be happening today.
1:22.2	I think they're supposed to drop it at noon, PT.
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