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How Long Gone

943. - Hrishikesh Hirway

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician from Los Angeles, best known for his masterful podcast Song Exploder. His new record, In the Last Hour of Light, is out now. We chat with him about the new Salem x Supreme collection, Pitchfork giving Chris Brown’s new offering a devastating 1.3, our salad days of podcasting, competing with A.I. in both music and podcasts, when the emo band opens for the hardcore band, what happens when doctors and lawyers run in your family but you choose Spotify, exactly how many licks it takes to explode a song, whether songs will have ads one day, the “Ratatouille moment” when a singer hears their original recording from decades ago, and which podcasts Hrishikesh is listening to. instagram.com/hrishihirway 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

All right, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it three times a week, Jason. Does that sound familiar to you? We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that we do talk about fashion and

0:22.1

wellness but for everything else kai and carter are a great place all right so who couldn't

0:27.5

use more news listen wherever you get your podcast or watch on youtube Hey guys, Jason here, really quick.

0:51.8

Chris's recording got a little messed up so we used his Zoom recording for the

0:56.2

intro but for the interview portion after the commercial break he sounds back to normal. If

1:02.6

you hate it, just fast forward about 15 minutes, but it still sounds pretty good. Thanks for

1:07.4

listening. How long gone? Good to hear from you bitch it's chris black i'm back

1:12.4

in new york the sun is shining uh it's a little chilly but we're gonna power through tj you're

1:17.9

still holding it down if i'm not mistaken i'm over here at the nine orchard room six e beautiful

1:23.0

little corner view of of dime square i got to see a lot of stuff go down on the block over the last few days

1:28.9

there was a you know some skaters who can't skate a couple chinese funerals some yelling all kinds of

1:36.1

stuff that obviously sums it up perfectly those are the those are the three things i experience most

1:41.3

well for my purview i also also have basketball and pull up bars,

1:45.0

but it's not that much, it's not that much different than what. Would you rather have basketball

1:48.8

pull-up bars? I've got the sound of ping pong kind of deeper into the forest. It's not exactly

1:54.2

right in the corner, but I get a lot of stand-up comedians who film talk shows about dating and stuff

2:00.4

on the street. Oh, street oh sure sure what's your

2:02.6

biggest it uh yeah no i know i know i know there's a lot going on bro i'm happy to be back in new york i felt

2:08.3

like you know we got this we got this roast we got ice i mean ice man in just a few days now

2:14.2

i can't contain my excitement fire and ice with the roast and the man,

2:18.2

huh, Chris? These roasts, I just like that the roasts are now about how much these comedians

2:24.8

hate each other and have nothing to do with the actual roast and the point of the whole

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