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How Long Gone

854. - Penn Badgley

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Penn Badgley is an actor known for his work on Gossip Girl and You, and is releasing a collection of essays based on his podcast, Podcrushed, available next week. We chat with Penn about Lana's swamp daddy at Valentino, the smell of Chris' local health food store in Florida, a shakeup at CBS News, Penn has twins now and records the entire episode with one strapped to him, his Baha'i faith, Iranian food, doing mushrooms at 17, living with indigenous people in Colombia, acting with knives, AA and god, Filipino volcanoes, and his love of soul music. instagram.com/pennbadgley 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.

0:19.1

It's a humid Tuesday down here in San Augustine, Florida, them jeans. What's going on, bro?

0:25.3

A little humid for Glendale, Overcast. I got back into town, had a great restorative Monday in Los Angeles.

0:35.1

I was living very Lanzer-Hoffian actually having having soup and salad for dinner.

0:40.0

I wish. I wish I had a salad, but yeah, I'd see what you're saying.

0:44.1

Oh, okay, okay, okay. Well, you had, I read in GQ you had a vegetable.

0:49.0

I did, no, I did have a vegetable. I did have a vegetable. I don't want to, I don't want to

0:52.8

misrepresent what I was served.

0:55.4

But it was at night, I guess dinner was never anything but soup.

0:59.3

So that's why I'm sort of triggered.

1:01.6

You know, it's okay.

1:02.7

But now I'm back to, look, I'm back to eating and drinking as normal.

1:06.9

But I am still chewing vigorously when I think about it.

1:10.7

Oh, all right.

1:11.1

Okay.

1:11.4

You're acting as if your eating schedule and practices are normal.

1:17.1

When you say they're normal to you, just not normal to the average person walking around.

1:23.0

Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about you when I eat because I'm a slow eater and I be chewing.

1:30.0

And, but sometimes, you know, if I'm eating something that's a little less digestible, you know, I'm working some short rib tendons or something like that.

1:40.3

Of course.

1:40.9

Of course.

1:41.3

If I'm just having some miso soup, I don't need to chew it 40 times and give it a

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