949. - Kevin Morby

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Our friend Kevin Morby returns to How Long Gone. His critically acclaimed new record, Little Wide Open, is out now. We spoke with Kevin from his hotel room in Phoenix about life on the road in the desert, crushing his sleep score at the Holiday Inn Express, the game of “Odds,” getting sweaty on TikTok, just playing Kimmel and getting autotune put on his voice without being told, proposing a modern-day Traveling Wilburys with Morby as Dylan, which older bands make new fans and which don’t, his Pitchfork score starts with an eight, we update the famous people in Kansas City list, and a temp check on whether he’s reading the reviews. instagram.com/kevinmorby 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, the stars and bars are up in my house. It's Memorial Day. The sun is finally shining in New York City. I don't see any grills. I know that Jason has a six-pack of Japanese beer to stand with our enemies. Have you had a hot dog, a hamburger? What have we had today so far? Today I had protein.
0:39.0	I had a coffee.
0:40.7	I had a glass of milk.
0:42.6	I had some carrot orange juice.
0:44.2	I did a oatmeal that had some dates and walnuts.
0:48.7	This is not what I'm looking for.
0:51.4	Do you have anything more nut hanging style food at all?
0:55.7	Even the edibles I took were gay.
0:57.5	Fuck.
1:00.1	All right.
1:00.7	Do we have anything else coming later?
1:02.2	Do we have anything, you know, grill related coming later?
1:07.6	I'm not talking about a kebab.
1:08.8	You already know that's off the menu for today.
1:10.5	Oh, wow. Okay. You know what I'm talking about no kebab, no carnia sada. This is going to be a tough one for me. No, I don't know what we're going to do because I did some grilling a couple days ago. Actually, I grilled up two fine-ass steaks from our friends over at McCalls. I did a little dude. Hell yeah, brother. and a little bit-eye. Hell yeah, brother. But you're not going to like this.
1:31.1	I agree. from our friends over at McCall's. I did a little... Dude, hell yeah, brother. And a little rabbi.
1:28.5	Hell yeah, brother.
1:29.7	But you're not going to like this.
1:31.0	I grilled them over expensive baller ass charcoal.
1:35.8	No.
1:36.1	And then wait for it.
1:37.9	Brought it inside.
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