873. - Paul Needham

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Paul Needham is CEO of The Infatuation. We chat with him from his office in New York about unhoused Kevin Spacey, Chris's newsletter about Substack, TJ saw Robyn last night, British Politics, we rank all the new markets trying to be Erewhon, the psychology of waiting in line for things, his In N Out order, Iced matcha add banana pudding, elevated small luxuries, why Ojai? Restaurants that "release 12 burgers a night," The River Cafe and Bar Pitti, should restaurants have a phone number in 2025? Chris won't buy a flight on his phone, the current bagel wars, and we go through some of The Infatuation's top restaurants of the year. theinfatuation.com 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. It is Chris Black london it is them jeans in los angeles what's really good baby
0:26.7	just drinking my cowboy colostrum coffee reading my gq newsletter penned by you you know haven't had a good
0:35.8	night's sleep in in a week i'm just not good i had my first one last night
0:40.6	and it's still it's still i still had a sinking spell at dead 2 p.m so how good was it you know
0:46.2	yeah i did i did get a little nap in yesterday actually while i was doing my hyper-ice legs
0:52.5	on the couch oh those those will low you to sleep, man.
0:55.6	That pressure, it's like being in the womb from the waist down, of course.
1:00.1	Shottie Waste Down.
1:03.3	Shottie in the womb from the waist down.
1:05.7	Yeah, I'm just reading your goat.
1:08.8	Oscar winner, Kevin Spaceyy says he is now homeless
1:11.6	Yeah but he's living in Airbnbs and hotels
1:13.6	Which is I mean to me that's every
1:15.3	That's a lot of creators
1:17.0	You know
1:17.7	Diplo's homeless homeless
1:19.4	Yeah technically he's not he didn't say what cars he has
1:22.4	He didn't say you know he didn't he kind of left out some major stuff
1:25.4	I feel like in that in that
1:27.3	I will say
1:27.9	kevin you should have done what you are good at which is acting generational actor you probably
1:36.7	played many roles in and outside of the courtroom represent yourself for all of your
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