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How Long Gone

860. - Shepard Fairey

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Shepard Fairey is an artist, activist, and founder of OBEY. We chat with him from his office in Los Angeles about World Series traffic, aesthetic appreciation in Charleston, SC, we thread the needle between Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari, and Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, political scapegoating, how to start a revolution in 2025, how to navigate political activism without getting too overboard, Rage With The Machine, RISD shows in the 80s, working with Space Invader and Damien Hirst, and which jail was the most chill. instagram.com/obeygiant 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 my shit was fucked up.

0:19.7

Chris Black still touching grass down here in the swamp.

0:24.5

Them jeans, what's good, bro?

0:25.9

Them jeans, what's good, bro?

0:27.4

I'm just writing down a note for our guest today.

0:33.1

Carolyn was like, are you going to ask him about getting up?

0:35.6

I saw something right before we got on that I wanted to talk to you about.

0:39.6

I don't know if you've seen this series that Rolling Stone is doing the musicians on musicians thing.

0:44.5

It's their, I think we talked about it a little bit.

0:46.5

It's like their version of actors on actors.

0:49.3

I saw it, but I definitely did not click through.

0:53.1

Oh, I haven't watched any of them.

0:55.0

I don't care, but there's apparently, there's one with friend of the program, Lucy Dacus,

1:01.0

and Janelle Monet and Janelle Monay.

1:05.0

One out of two ain't bad.

1:07.0

So Janelle Monet says that she time traveled and saw David Bowie.

1:14.4

She's time traveled many times, and she's telling Lucy this.

1:17.4

And Lucy has to keep a straight face because Janelle Monet is dead fucking serious.

1:22.1

And Lucy does a great job of keeping a straight face.

1:24.6

And I was impressed because I would have been like, bitch, you are tripping.

1:27.4

Yeah, but that's where I want the real Lucy to come through and say, excuse me,

1:32.7

because, I mean, but what does that exactly mean? So you're saying she, she, she teleported, went back

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