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How Long Gone

878. - Roddy Bottum

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Roddy Bottum is a musician most known for the bands Faith No More and Imperial Teen. His detailed new memoir, The Royal We, is out now. We chat about The Dick Dock in Provincetown, getting in early on Apple stock, Manhattan real estate, American Apparel briefs, Kim K's brain scans, the heyday of San Francisco, and early bike messenger culture, heroin, his favorite cruising spots in Los Angeles, why everyone had dreads back then, cantaloupes in the microwave, and we pry some Courtney Love stories out of him. instagram.com/roddybottum 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 your fearless co-host Chris Black.

0:22.6

I'm in Chicago, Jason, and there's hell of snow on the ground, which I was only mentally prepared for.

0:31.0

I mean, how else could you really prepare for it?

0:33.0

I guess you could.

0:33.6

Physically, I wasn't ready to brace for, you know a like I'm wearing boots you know but you know

0:38.6

the step in the snow this is something you don't experience that much thank god no you're lucky yeah

0:43.4

yeah I mean I uh chose not to go to Chicago today but that's just on me you know I just I mean in life

0:50.8

in general you've you've been able to avoid snow by living in los angeles which is you know

0:56.4

has it ever snowed there not actual real snow i mean there's there's been times where i was in

1:02.7

elementary school and the teacher will be like it's snowing and then everyone screams and runs

1:07.3

outside but then you know there'll be one one single snowflake that you could watch turn to, uh, to water in front of your eyes. Immediately as soon as it touches the ground, but I'm saying so. Boy, it doesn't make the ground, honey. I'm staying at a very, uh, an undisclosed hotel that Katie loves. And so the, the band is staying here. I was like, sure, I'll be a team player.

1:45.0

And just to be, you know, I, you know, Jason, I'm not as much of a snob as you, even though I get a bad rap. But I'm sitting in my room. Are you a team player or are you a cosplayer? Both, depending on the situation, I'm both. I just thought it would be funny, you know, whatever and i i get here and i was joking that i needed jimmy johns for lunch to solve my you know my travel day and i'm

1:51.8

this hotel is situated in something i've never seen before it's almost like they plopped a three-star

1:57.8

hotel in a food court so i'm looking out out the window, and it's five guys. Oh, sorry, five guys are their restaurant, not just five guys. There's also five guys, actually, but they're all in moose. They're in moose knuckles jackets in front of the five guys. So we've got five guys. We got Buffalo Wild Wings. We got Auntie Anis. We got Starbucks, Jimmy John John, smoothie king, Pandix, Spresch, Slotsky's Deli, as well as a store I've never heard of before, Scrub Depot, where you get all of your scrubs if you work in the medical field. It's one of the most twisted things I've ever seen. Scrub Depotot. That's where you found your man,

2:34.5

that said over the Scrub Depot.

2:36.6

You a fool for that one.

2:38.2

Okay, so I mean, that is interesting because whenever we stay in Chicago,

2:41.9

whenever you're traveling with me,

2:43.9

we like to be over at the Waldorf,

2:46.9

and there is a Jimmy Johns in the sub floor of that location, remember?

2:52.3

That's also, you're right, actually, and I did forget that this one I had to trapes outside

2:57.5

through a small amount of snow.

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