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How Long Gone

857. - Hot Chip

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Hot Chip is a band from England. Joy In Repetition, their greatest hits album, is out now. We spoke with Alexis from his home about RIP D'Angelo, a unique barbershop experience, what his daughter listens to, he got Liam Gallagher's autograph as a teen, The Cobrasnake singing on a plane, playing a show with LCD Soundsystem, MIA, and Ratatat at his first SXSW, James Murphy's drum machine work, DJing an all Prince set at Glastonbury just after his passing, our love of funny looking instruments, geting COVID at the Palace party, Alexis' love of country music, Brian Wilson and Evan Dando, how he quit drinking, and how Chris first discovered Hot Chip. instagram.com/hot.chip 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, Chris Black coming to you from sunny St. Augustine, Florida.

0:23.7

The groundskeepers just left Jason.

0:26.3

I can smell the freshly cut southern grass through the cracked screen door.

0:32.7

I'm sorry, I don't mean to paint a picture of this early.

0:34.8

How are you, though?

0:35.4

Because I know you're holding down the big apple for me while I'm gone. That sounds magical. Do you know what kind of grass they got over there? That I don't know. Kentucky Blue? Is that a Zen flavor? I'll find out soon, though, and let you know so you can kind of dig in on Wikipedia a little more. Kind of like grassy notes. Yeah, I'm over here

0:55.2

in the one and only nine orchard hotel yet again got the same room as last time, which, oh, that's nice.

1:01.2

It's, I don't know if that's ever happened to me before where, because the rooms here are, you know,

1:06.3

they have unique character. It's not just like every single, you know, so back to the same hotel, same room within about a week. It's a, it has a real groundhogs day. Like, I just feel like I'm at home, you know, but it's also creepy. It is a little, well, I've only gotten the same room if I've requested it, which makes me feel a little bit like a diva, but also if you like what you like,

1:28.2

you know, it's not that crazy.

1:29.3

I need the black suite.

1:30.9

Yeah, that's what,

1:31.9

when I say I need the black suite,

1:33.2

that's what they give me.

1:34.0

They know exactly what that means.

1:34.8

Rest in peace, DeAngelo.

1:36.4

Speak enough.

1:37.0

Rest and peace to the goat.

1:38.2

One of my,

1:39.4

yeah,

1:39.7

I mean, I know Penn Bagley's probably, you know, praying today. Yeah, yeah. Check on your pens today. Check on your bat. Also, is it Badgley or Bagley? I think it's Badgley? I don't know. Because on the intro, you said Bagley with such a confidence that I just assumed that that was the right way to say it. Oh, maybe I said it wrong. I was so cucked. I didn't even bother bringing it up to even begin the idea of correcting you.

2:04.3

I think it could go either way, maybe, but I've also never said it out loud until that

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