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How Long Gone

914. - Tom Junod

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Tom Junod is a journalist who has written for Esquire and GQ and is currently a senior writer at ESPN. He’s known for his stellar profiles of Mr. Rogers, Kevin Spacey, and many more. His memoir, In the Days of Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, is out now. We talk about our travels to Paris for Fashion Week, perpetual publication, the Morgan Freeman of dogs, selling women’s handbags in Texas, the terror of your junk mail, the ease of podcasting and the difficulty of writing, the magazine section of supermarkets, the software he uses to write, his shed, and which cocktails his dad drank for each season of the year. instagram.com/tom_junod 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

Hello, it's Chris Black.

0:07.0

Jason Stewart. We are in Gay Paris. And it's feeling, I'm feeling a little crazy. I don't know about you, Jason. But we literally just got here and then sat in the lobby of the hotel for two hours or so because a hotel room has never been early in Paris and all of my years of coming here.

0:40.7

They're, as I said to you in the lobby, their response is always, not possible is their response.

0:46.8

If early check-in is available.

0:48.3

Not possible.

0:50.4

It ended up working out.

0:52.3

Yeah, I'm feeling a little psycho psycho obviously just got off the plane from

0:56.6

cali woke up wednesday a little bit of this little bit of that went for a hike kind of pulled

1:03.8

pulled something in my leg kind of jogging down the hill too fast so i have some travel oh no oh no i didn't know about this it's okay

1:13.9

i mean it's not like it's just like one of those things where you're walking around you got a little

1:18.5

just a little bit of underlying soreness but it's not going to like of course of course it's not

1:23.5

going to keep me off the runways of paris okay, thank God. That's what I was worried about.

1:28.7

Oh, that's what I was fucking worried about.

1:30.5

Yeah, thanks to our Loeve familia for bringing us out.

1:35.2

We got the little bag.

1:36.5

We got the little flowers.

1:38.1

Did you open up your little invite box that has a little item in there?

1:43.6

No, I didn't. I think I have a lobster claw, an inflatable

1:48.2

lobster claw pouchette. Does that sound right? That feels really good for you. I know, right?

1:54.1

It does. As far as stuff, like, it's as far of your cross-section of interests. You know,

1:58.3

powshette and crab, or excuse me, powshette and lobster or two things i think of

2:02.6

when i when i think of you i haven't had enough time to really you know crack this claw open and see

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