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How Long Gone

910. - Leonard Baby

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Leonard Baby is a fine artist currently living in New York. His newest show, Resting Baby Face, debuts today in LA. We chat with him from his hotel room about mojo mispronunciations, a deeper look at Tourette's, all the dark things art buyers do, Lily Rose Depp's AI jumpoff, the music of Janet, Whitney, and Mariah, the new Supreme drop, if art has to have a deep meaning behind it, they had to de-ice his plane out of New York, the corniness of his work, and the deep waters of growing up in an evangelical christian household. instagram.com/leonardbabyart 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, sorry my shit is tangled. We're back, back baby it's a sunny Tuesday here in charlest

0:23.6

i'm still stranded uh thanks to our friend god um for you know dumping all that given letting

0:31.8

zoron give us 20 inches um it's it's been it's been a humbling it's been a humbling uh journey but we're

0:40.1

the end is near jason uh that's what you think but you know god can really do so many

0:46.3

mysterious things so randomly you don't even know god is random as hell but you you mentioned it

0:51.9

and other people are mentioning it and i was wondering you've been a you've been

0:55.6

a native new yorker for many years now is i don't recall there ever being a situation where

1:03.1

the may whoever was mayor it was sort of talked about as if he was the person who was like

1:14.4

in control of the weather yeah you know what i mean i think it's more of a quick and easy test of a mayor's capabilities i guess to clean up the snow

1:22.2

and therefore which is sort of i mean sure i'm sure it always was that way, but because

1:27.6

Zoron is so young and plugged in and wearing his custom car heart jacket and hiring

1:32.2

freelance creative snowmovers, I think maybe it's a little bit. I think he's taking it to

1:38.1

task because he might look at it as an easy W. And from what I've seen, it does look like the roads are pretty fucking clean and

1:47.0

and i have people on the ground reporting that like yeah would you know about that charleston you're

1:51.6

one of those you're what's the who's the guy ted ted cruise whenever so there's some weather

1:57.5

in texas he goes to laguna beach i look there's many things uh about

2:02.7

ted cruz that i don't like that is one thing about ted cruise i think you and ted you both

2:08.1

you don't have anything in common other than the fact that you have been in your city in its most

2:12.7

time of need yeah it's my yeah they need me there i could have made 30 dollars an hour shoveling snow, which honestly, I would have done for the story. I mean, it would be great for the shoulders, upper back. You know what I mean? You got to brace your core. I've never, if I'm keeping it an absolute buck with you, I've never shoveled snow. Well, I'm glad I was sitting down. I know. I know you're know you're shocked well look i grew up in the south i've

2:35.4

raked leaves i've i've spread pine straw i've cut grass those are our chores you know what i mean

2:40.7

like you're more of a rake and spread less of a scoop and shovel exactly don't make me

2:46.4

you don't plow you get plowed i get exactly i get plowed normally. But yeah, so we got pounded by 20 inches. Everything seems to be recovering. The weather is kind of warm and the sun is out. So I think it's going to melt pretty quickly. My 6 a.m. Delta flight is currently still on time. Okay. So, you know, it's looking, it's looking good. Staying hopeful.

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