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How Long Gone

945. - Rostam

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Our dear friend and talented musician Rostam returns. His great new record, American Stories, is out now. We chat about Chris’s run-moshing in Arizona, hoodless hoodies, him befriending our wives, protecting his wrist strength as a multi-instrumentalist and his very heavy first guitar, queer coating > queer coding, our favorite Beatles, we make him defend Pleats Please, how something bad has to happen in the rock doc, his newfound gym gains, a Stir Crazy celeb sighting, and his potentially controversial merchandise. instagram.com/matsor twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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 How long gone, happy Sunday to you, Jason, the Lord's Day. It is overcast in Los Angeles, but I'll take it. How are you feeling? Yeah, you take it, you little bitch. Take it. Yeah, it's been gloomy. It's been overcast, but you'll notice around noon time, things will really start picking up in terms of some. I'm familiar with the system here. I just don't. I reject the system.

1:11.6

Well, that's not the,

1:12.3

I'm just letting you know,

1:13.0

that's not the daily,

1:13.9

everyday system.

1:14.9

That's just what's happening right now.

1:16.5

Okay, got it.

1:17.2

Thank you for getting into your...

1:18.7

Sometimes sun happened in the morning.

1:21.1

I guess post...

1:22.1

And you don't have to wait.

1:23.0

Post Arizona when I would crack the blinds at 6.30 a.m. And it was 85 seeing iguana dying, you know,

1:29.7

in front of me. I guess we all don't get to live in Arizona. Okay. Some of us have to be here.

1:34.6

It was only a couple days, but I sort of got the, damn, I get it. I get the appeal of this,

1:39.8

at least weather-wise, but I'm sure it's unbearable as the summer trudges on. Well, that's why God invented a little place called Palm Springs, where you can enjoy all of that stuff that you said without having to live, no shade, some parts of Arizona. I think I don't know. The food in Arizona might be better. That's real talk. That's real talk. Think about it.

2:01.3

Better than what?

2:16.7

Better than Palm Springs. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Palm Springs, yeah. I mean, it depends on the city. Palm Springs has some of the worst restaurants in California. It's psycho how it happens. And I think that one day it's going to take a straight man to come in there and show them how it's done. That's right. I'm just sorry.

2:17.3

I'm looking at a picture.

2:18.1

I sent to the group chat of,

2:20.7

it's a to take a straight man to come in there and show him how it's done that's right i just sorry i'm looking at a picture i sent to the group chat of um it's a michael jackson thriller

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