370. - Chris & Jason

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 wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place. All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. or watch on YouTube. Hello, hello. How Long Gone is here. Today is your Monday. Monday morning ritual. How do you get your day started? Actually, coffee kind of upsets my stomach, so I've started to drink oolong. I only take oolong in the form of edible gummies. Shout out to Rose. You guys rock. Shout out to my homegirl, Noon Chi. You're always gelatinizing things. Are you talking about Lil Noon Chi? Not Lil Noon Chi. Noon Chi, she makes those gelatin cakes and little things like that. Oh, yes. Yeah, I've seen that. I've seen that. It's a trending object. I love cakes that jiggle. If my dessert don't jiggle, I ain't putting a four-gore spoon in it. Uncharacteristic for you and your sensibilities. No, I'm kidding. I would prefer my dessert be hard as a rock. I'm more into peanut brittles and, you know, kind of jawbreakers. If it's not going to possibly force me to lose a tooth and have emergency surgery, that's pussy shit. I need to have cosmetic dental work after my dessert course. Or tiramisu, that's soft. No. We don't do that. Okay, so no Chawanmushi's and nothing like that. No, no, no. No Chantilly cream. I would eat an ice cream, but it needs to be deeply frozen in a way that it is bad, and it does have freezer burn. If I'm going to ingest any ice cream, I'm going to need it to be...

Deeply frozen. Deeply frozen. I mean, this needs to come from the garage sub-zero. You know what I mean? This ain't coming from the house fridge. And it would be good if the drive home from the Kroger's to your house was very long and windy, so we want that ice cream to be completely liquid when it arrives at your house. Maybe almost warm. Yeah, and then re... And then you put it in the freezer to kind of destroy all the crystals. That way it takes on a twisted shape as well. Kind of looking like the surface of the moon. The surface of the moon. I have some special hard spoons for desserts like that. They're shaped a little differently. Your Laguli chisel. Yes, exactly. It's more of what you use when you're doing a free solo. You know what I mean? You're kind of like. The Snow Peak Ice Pick. Exactly. It really grips the Craig's Vegan after it's been frozen. When you're up there at Craig's, you need something you can trust. 100%. I can't go in there with some off-brand tools. Okay, so yeah, that's... How do we start talking about dessert? I don't even know. You're edibles. You're edibles because you're high as hell drinking a coffee and a ice-cold La Croix. I'm not high yet. I just ate one edible. It's only five milligrams. It seemed like you ate two. Two is 2.5 each. So you put them together. It's a boba. One is boba flavor. One is oolong flavor. You put them together, it tastes like oolong boba. If you close your eyes and take mushrooms, you can kind of get there. But that's only five milligrams. And nowadays, for me, that's not really. Blowing the sails. You're saying your tolerance has gotten so high that this stuff is barely affecting you and your mental state? I'm saying that my tolerance has not gotten so high. My tolerance was so low that I have now achieved just the normal tolerance level of most casual smokers. Big adults. Yeah. But, I mean, I don't want to go past this level of tolerance, though, because then at a certain – it doesn't end. You know this. Yeah, I know. This is going to get tough for you, Chief, because the marijuana is just too available. I know, but I think luckily – Jason has a brand of pre-rolls called Loud Pack, and I'm sure it's not even that loud.

There's no way it's that loud. I mean, how loud is loud for you? Because when you were buying weed, you weren't checking the statistics on the THC percentage, were you? No, because it was cool back then. The guy would come over and he'd have 10 jars with 10 different names and you'd pick the coolest names. But you would have to just... Take someone's word for the level of loud. You can eyeball perp, of course, but... Yeah, when I see the hairs growing off that shit, because I would usually pull out my microscope when the dealer would come over, break off a little nut, kind of throw it under the plate, give it kind of a look-see, like I was inspecting a beautiful diamond, flawless diamond. Pull out your cookie's jeweler's loop. Exactly, yeah, exactly. It had a very cool look to it. It was a little over-designed for some people, just a lanyard that I would keep it on. You know what I mean? It was a little too much for some people. But it served the great purpose of kind of inspecting the nug at a level which the human eye couldn't see alone. Someone needs to be able to – I mean, you know when you're doing like a wine tasting? I'm at a raw wine festival, and I can't drink all of these meads and ciders and pet gnats. Or else I'll get cross-eyed drunk and I won't be able to network. Yeah, and if you can't network with the sommeliers from all around the world, what's the point? I won't be able to write it off at the end of the year. Yeah, no, that's right, of course. Uncle Sam knows when I'm not networking and when I'm writing those non-off. But you have the spit bucket, you know, which always seemed insane to me as an alcoholic. It seems insane to me too, but what other option do you have? If you're not swallowing it, What do you do? Spit it into someone else's mouth? There is no other option. But, you know, me coming from a time where, like, I would never leave any food on the plate. We know you're the kind of guy that the table next to you leaves the fries. You give a look to the left and a look to the right. No one's going to catch you. Take a little hand. Yeah, my baby TJ's first words were, you don't eat that. You done? Yeah, so that, I would never, like, if I went to a restaurant,

As a kid, I'd be so excited. I would never leave anything. Sure, sure, sure. I'd be licking the wrapper, wrapping paper. When you were hitting Red Robin with the fam, there's no tomato left on that plate. No shred of lettuce left unturned. It's all inside of me. But the same thing with wine. I'm like, this is some good-ass wine. But I'm saying for weed, do you smoke it and then not inhale? Is that the version of the spit bucket if you want to sample? I guess that's the only way, but then if you don't inhale, you're only tasting it, so you're not even able to test how high it's getting you. You're tasting it with your mouth, but not with your soul. Exactly, and weed needs to be full tongue licked with the soul, you know what I mean, to get the soul, because otherwise, weed, I mean, honestly, like... It's just like anything else. I don't believe you. It's like Fidelity audio dorks. I'm like, you don't hear a difference, loser. You spent $10,000 on these Ohas speakers for your Hamptons house, and you put on the Chet Baker vinyl. Okay, good luck. Through the Crosley turntable? Yeah, exactly. Good luck with that. Yeah, good luck. I'm sure you do, bro, but it's the same thing. You're telling me you can smoke three joints, and you're tasting the difference? I don't believe it. I don't believe it. There's no way. We're calling B fucking S on that. We're calling BS on somebody being able to tell the difference between the cookies and cream and the gelato. They're both dessert. You know what I'm saying? Amen to that, brother. Okay, so what did we do this week? I have some notes, but should we do a little restaurant talk first? I think we got to jump right in because we had an experience that has to be discussed in this podcast, and it's something that's been kind of eating away at both of us, I think, for the last... since the incident. We had our bi-weekly toxic gentleman's dining experience. That's right. Where four to six dudes eat deep-fried squash blossoms and say the equivalent of smell my finger for four and a half hours as the wine decants. Yeah, yeah. And it's...

Honestly, as someone who doesn't get to spend that much time in the locker room, it's kind of nice for me to settle in. It's more than nice. It's essential. It's necessary for us. So the usual murderer's row. You've got to water the weeds in the garden sometimes, too. Exactly. You can't just water the beautiful plants. The weeds need it, too. So we gathered for a 6.30 p.m. dinner at Mother Wolf. And it was Jason. myself, Uncle Pauly, Al Wilmot, and Davide. Okay, so there's four guys that eat and me. You know what I mean? Four guys that drink and me. Four guys that want to talk too much to the server and me. You know what I mean? That's the vibe. I'm happy to be there. It allows me to take a backseat and build with my bros and enjoy kind of a bad boy car because it is the best pizza in LA for that style. I would say one thing that Because you just named all of the ways that you're different from the main group. Yes. In a negative way, perhaps. No, no. Maybe not. But one through line I was also seeing is that it makes you look like the nicest guy at the table. That's right. Which is not unusual. You're never mean at a restaurant. You're never mean to a server. I don't bark for the Amaro cart. You know what I mean? It's a little different. Yeah, but. And it's not because the other people are necessarily mean people, but they're people who own restaurants. They're too experienced. Work in restaurants. Yeah, yeah. So it's kind of like server person. You don't have to talk to me like a layman, like a Custy. I'm one of you. I am of this world. And if you were in my house, you would be taking orders from me, not the other way around kind of thing. If you want delicious cold cuts on bread, you know where to fucking come, loser. So Chris is somebody who might have a persona that might be a little prickly or – But not when it comes to the service team. Yeah, I agree with that. They deserve the utmost respect because that job is truly harder than anything I've done in my pathetic life. And I recognize that every time I step into a dining establishment, especially one of that caliber. The contrast makes you appear –

Almost angelic with how selfless you are with your food requests. You guys take a cigarette break between every course. You know what I mean? It's a tough table to deal with. You mean before or after the seconde? Yeah. Before, after, during even? I don't know. But the crux of the story is not just that we gathered with our bros to break literal bread, but that we were treated like tourists. In our own city. We were basically taken to the motherfucking dry cleaners like we had just left Universal City Walk and had walked in here for dinner by accident. This is a little bit of horses syndrome 1.0. So we're at Mother Wolf. We've been there. All of us have been there multiple times. We know what we want. Multiple people who work there are coming over to the table, kissing each other, double cheek kiss, asking how your kids are in Italian. There's Italian being spoken. Once that happens, I check out. You would think that you were in a good place. I check out. So a member of our party mentions the wine that he usually gets here, which runs approximately $90 to $100 per bottle. I'm not aware of what this wine is. I'm not clear on the region. Excuse me. But I think that the sommelier, what I've been taught since this incident happened to me, since we were victimized, is that if the bottle of wine that you request is not available, the sommelier is able to request a bottle that is more expensive, but only up to $60 or $75 more expensive, or it's considered uncouth, rude, and possibly an obvious upsell. Yes, you want to stay in that same price range. Even if it's like, hey, I actually have a great bottle. It's a little bit cheaper. This one's only $78. I think it's just as good. That's a welcome offering. That's nice. But if the bottle goes for $85, you don't want to exceed any more than double that is sort of the golden rule. Which makes sense. As a rule I'd never heard before, it did logically compute for me.

And so anyway, we go about the dinner. You guys are drinking martinis. There's a bottle of wine is ordered. Then that wine was so good. That wine is so good. Let's get another bottle. Well, because we got five people there, four of them drinkers and big guys. Yeah. You know, four guys who are over 200 pounds. Looking to go in. And a bottle of wine with a proper pour is like four glasses. You know, it's like a glass each, basically. For listeners at home, the bottle was a R-Pepe, A-R-P-E-P-E, the Sasella Rocherose. It's not the Pepe's fault. The Reserva 2005, and it's a very nice bottle of wine. A 2005 vintage. Jason says it's delicious. Everybody seemed to enjoy it. It had the color of when you piece of blood, you know what I mean? You get punched in the kidney. And we had a great time. Heard some amazing stories about actor James Caan. May he rest in peace. And then we're finishing up, of course. Maybe the coolest story I've ever heard in my life. One of the coolest stories I've ever heard in my life. I was dipping my spoon into the last piece of the galette. Jason is scrolling on his phone, and I see his eyes, his beautiful brown eyes light up. And it didn't seem good. It didn't seem like, oh, I got a Zelle. You know what I'm saying? I had a push notification on my phone, and it wasn't. A deposit has been made into your business check-in. It was the opposite of that. It was not like, hey, them jeans, wondering if you'd like to headline Coachella this year. It was not funny. Bill Maher wants you to do panel this weekend. He said, you know what, I'm going out of town. I'm going to Jamaica with my chick. You might be filling in. And then Jason turns the phone to me, and it's an alert from our friends at American Express showing us that we were just charged.

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this is it's no big deal and i'm like guys this is kind of a big deal i just threw it's a hot it's this could turn into a forest fire and they're like you're a pussy don't worry about it's not gonna do anything so i'm i'm initially i'm the cheapskate well not initially that's always but in this case especially you're dealing with guys who really don't care in a way that is negative to our lives you're the most as far as i'm the the nicest you're the most responsible at this table by far I was the first person who was brave enough to point out the sticker shock of my push notification. I don't have those set for this exact reason because I don't want my night ruined by knowing how much I'm spending. That's a good point. 101. That's a post and ghost logic. That's a post and ghost logic. So then it starts to trickle in that like, wait a second. Five times three. What the fuck happened? How did this happen? And then we look at the. uh cvs style receipt so yeah i mean that's without tax and tip so with tax and tip it's 400 plus i'm looking i'm looking like floyd mayweather at excess on this shit i'm like this is fucking crazy bro like i didn't know so this pineapple juice i would have done that and and so we start to calculate and then and then you know Davide takes out his reading glasses. You know what I mean? What is this? And he's pouring over the bill. We realize, no pun intended, that the bottle of wine went from 90 to 350 times two. I think it was 320, 330 maybe. So basically we had two bottles of wine that was about $640. Which, as rich as you guys think we are, and I'm not going to. I'm not going to argue with that, but I don't want to be spending my money on a 2005 vintage, especially as a non-drinker. But even the alcoholics at my dinner did not want to spend this either. So we feasted like kings, of course. We had a great meal. We enjoyed it all. I mean, the food is delicious. But you take the two bottles of wine and the 42-ounce porterhouse bone-in, which was far from rare. And we're touching a...

we're touching a band at that point on two bottles of wine and a steak. And we also have 17 other things. Yeah. There was five pastas, five pizzas, you know, all the appetizers, the whole thing. So, so if we were just doing carnivore, if I was on my Peterson shit, yeah, it would be a band. Just, just that's it. If you were just on your red wine and steak, like I'm trying to die tonight. So. I had to run to see a show. Coyne was playing at the Palladium, and my friend Ryan's a drummer, so I had to run. But I left you guys at the valet smoking cigarettes looking like you had just lost a child. Everybody was a little – like you were talking about earlier how you come out of the sauna and you're a little dazed and don't know how to talk to people. I've never seen specifically Pauly like that in my entire life because there was an anger. He started pulling a blade out of his Air Force One. He said, hold on. But it was also funny for some reason because it was so – All you could do is laugh about it. All you could do is laugh. It's just so stupid that you're like, well, fuck it, whatever. Because we're not going to dispute the charges. You can't dispute the charge. We all let this happen. Hey, I noticed that you charged me $[redacted address] that it could be less, please? Yeah. Because I think it's too much. The wine that we drank all of. I would like to figure out how to maybe put that back in the bottle, if you don't mind. But then Pauly, as I'm leaving, Pauly's like, we're going to sit at this fucking table and finish that wine until they bounce us out of here. We're going to make a meal out of this meal. So there's a half a glass of wine left. How long were you guys able to hold the table down? We did a cute 20 of me taking the smallest sips of this. And I was so full. I had no appetite. I didn't want the wine anymore. You know what I mean? It was. It was like when you're at the restaurant and there's like, oh, there's still half a tin of caviar left. And you're just like begrudgingly eating it because it's $4,000 worth of caviar. Of course. Same kind of thing where I'm not happy. They're not happy. There's parties and tables waiting to take that booth. And we were just taking our sweet, sweet. Can we get another Voss? Let me get. How many? Yeah, Pellegrino's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I forgot. I know you told me earlier. Where's the bathroom at? They did ask you to leave.

They did ask us to leave, yes. Because we had been there, to be fair, for three and a half hours at that point. We were there. You went to go see the coin show, and I said, you're going to go see coin. I'm going to go see Coin Star. Yes, exactly. So I can figure out how to pay for all this fucking food. I forgot. All right, I got to hit Ralph's to see if they got a machine that's working. These things are broken all the time. It's like the ice cream machine at McDonald's. They're always broken. You know what I mean? I got a cup holder full of nickels. That's ready to make a dent in this wine bill. That's going to give me one bottle of sparkling water at Mother Wolf. But that being said, I want to say that I'm upset and won't go back. But I'd go back next week. Like an abusive partner. I'd come back. It's so good. It really is. It's like I really like the food. And if I'm going to eat bad boy shit like that and have to hear hip hop, I like it. Once bitten, twice shy. And I've said it before recently of drinking wine now is a fool's errand. It's over. Wine's over. It is. It's over. We're back to classic canned beer and martinis. Martini and beer covers every base that you would ever need. This wine shit, all you dorks that went all in on it, you're fucked now. You made natural wine your personality. What are you going to do? Yeah, you're going to get fat. You're going to have hangover. What are you going to do? They don't have a punch card at Psychic Wine, so I don't know what you've been doing. You're going to have weird acne? It's going to be a punch card. It ravages your body. So I returned to the complex for another meal. The complex. Because these restaurants are all next to there. You returned to the heart of Hollywood. The heart of Hollywood to a restaurant called Mes Amis that's a chef you know, I guess. Yeah, he used to have a restaurant downtown called Bon Ton. Which is now Young Band Society. Oh, yes, of course. The worst restaurant name of all time. Look, French food ain't my bag, really. But I was like, all right, let's check it out. It's new. And I got to say, I loved it. Okay. How rich did you get with it? I didn't get that rich with it. But there was the standout dish for me, which I want to talk to you about because I didn't really understand this. Aside from the bread and butter, which I'm assuming is the best. Actually, really incredible bread and butter. But there was a Japanese mackerel.

kind of cold like almost like a french ceviche yes yes but it was super it was like pickled vegetables really light it was really i was hesitant i was like we're getting that and i'm like all right bitch you're a foodie now and then i was like it was the best thing it was the best thing I like my mackerel Spanish. Yeah, yeah. After the war, I stopped eating Japanese mackerel. Exactly. I didn't know what to expect, but it was very good. It was very good. Okay, so it was light, bright, acidic. Exactly. It lit your palate on fire for the rest of the meal. It lit my palate on MF and fire. It was very good. Well, so it sounds like you didn't go to an actual French restaurant if they're serving Japanese mackerel crudo. So it doesn't get as much. I mean, that feels very funny. Was it a la ronge or was it a la blood orange? Was it a la yuzu? No, there was some sort of berry. Berry? Goose berry? No, no, no goose. But yeah, it was just a... And the server, I really liked him. Like, I want to build. Because he worked at Scarpetta. in its heyday. Scarpetta. And I feel like he's got some great stories. Mm-hmm. Scarpetta, they have a great spaghetti marinara with an infused basil, olive oil situation. Is it still open? I don't know. I don't think so. Was that restaurant owned by Danny Masterson and Ashton Kutcher? I don't know. Was it part of that whole thing? The chef was Scott Conant. What does he do now? I think he was kind of like a Food Network semi-sovereign shot. But he had this pasta where it was like you take olive oil in a pot, like a good amount of it, and then you slowly heat basil leaves in it. So it infuses it with the basil. Then you pull the basil out, and then you use that olive oil as a base to make this marinara with a bunch of... It's like a bunch of butter, a bunch of oil. That sounds good as hell. It's really, really good, but it's like...

That's kind of like the Rolls Royce of spaghetti marinara kind of. Because of the infusion. Yeah, it looks very unassuming and simple, but then it's bursting with fat and flavor. Fun recipe to execute, actually. I feel like you've talked about that before somehow because that seems... Also, basil doesn't do much for me. I don't need that, but it sounds like because of the level of difficulty, I'm more interested in the execution. Yeah, the basil, just like a good... Just like Ringo Starr and the Beatles. You shouldn't notice. It shouldn't stand out. It's just there. It's part of it. It's just a four on the floor. I'm assuming. I'm sick of fucking eating. Thank God I can go to Erewhon like a normal person tonight. God. Shit is exhausting. Yeah, I cooked dinner last night and it was a failure. And now the house smells like fish. It smells a little funny here. I wasn't going to say anything because I love you. But what happened? Do you want to share? No, I made like a variation. It's actually from the Andy Baragani cookbook. Oh, you can't flick it like Baragani, can you? Couldn't flick it like Baragani. No, it's like a spin on this Vietnamese dish where you put like white fish and you take a bunch of herbs like basil and mint and cilantro and a bunch of dill and you kind of wrap it. By the way, dill? We got to chill. There's too much dill on shit, and I don't like it. I don't like dill. It's gross. It's too much. Dill's not gross. No, it's not gross, but it should be used sparingly. It's being overused right now. It's being overused, and I'm not a foodie. Baragani is to blame. Oh, is Baragani behind big dill? He'll say cover it with heaping handfuls of dill. You can't have enough dill, you know what I mean? I just don't. It's not for me. I don't like pickles either, though, so maybe that's part of my... So you're saying, but it didn't work. No, I mean, some parts of it worked, some parts of it didn't. Was it edible? Yeah, yeah, it was edible. But it was just kind of like I didn't nail it, and I know why. And now I'm reminded of my cooking failure every time I smell my house. It'll go away in probably 24 to 36 hours. It'll eventually go away. But not only do I have to live with it, but...

I have to live with my girlfriend letting me know that the house smells like fish. And I'm sure she was able to let you know last night that it wasn't that good as well. She let me know that the other parts, she let me know that the things of the dish that she did like. And then she let me know the thing that was awful. So she, oh, awful. Okay. So she led with the good stuff and it wasn't like a soft landing on the bad. It was awful. Yeah. Do you agree with her? Yeah, I don't disagree with her. Okay, but you maybe didn't need to hear that in your vulnerable moment as you're sweating and plating. That's right. But it's also, you know, there's just so much energy and tension, especially if I'm me, a cis white male, cooking Vietnamese food for a Vietnamese person out of a cookbook that was written by an Iranian person. Yeah. They're going to be, you know, it's like me going to like an authentic taco restaurant deep in Oaxaca. And I'm like, all right, so I got this Kraft shredded cheese. And then I just grill up this bomb ass carne asada. And I got these mission tortillas. How hard is it, bro? And they're like, you can just see them. I thought because of your deep ties to multiple Asian communities that you had been taught by grandmothers and mothers. These dishes should come easy to you. But you're saying... It was humbling. Well, it was both good and bad because I'm like, I know what I'm good at, and I stick to that, and then I deviate from that, and then I fail, which then leads me to figure out why it failed. I learn a new skill, and then I have the fire under my ass, so the next time I cook, it'll be good. I mean, look, that's a great way to look at it. I'm glad that you have so much free time to spend in the sauna to think about this because I know... where this line of kind of thinking comes from. It doesn't come from running around looking at decks like me. It comes around from centering yourself and understanding the path forward, and I'm proud of you for that. I put on my felt Russian sauna hat, and I pick a dot on the wall, and I just stare at it. By the way, so I come over today to podcast, and there's this freaky hat in my seat, and I put it on because I look cool in it.

and I'm like, what's going on with this? And you're like, oh, it's a felt Russian sauna hat. And I said, Emily Dawn Long better be fucking quaking in her fucking St. Laurent boots because this shit is cool as hell, and it's $15 on Amazon. If you guys haven't seen this, explain to me it's a felt hat that kind of helps the heat leaving the head during a sauna session. Yeah, just Google Russian sauna hat, and you'll see hundreds of them. Each one looks cooler than the last. They all have fun embroidery on it of like a fat Russian guy and it'll say like sauna boss or like a hot blonde Russian bimbo like sponging herself and it'll say something like sexy hot room in Russian. I don't know. But the logic is you have this felt on your head. It traps the heat escaping from your scalp. That's right. Which cools you down in a way that you would drink a hot beverage on a hot day and it actually cools you down. And then it's also good for keeping the hair kind of moist and from getting fried from all that. I'm very concerned with that. And also, somebody pointed out, because I have a bucket-style hat, it covers the eyes a little bit, which could be damaging the red infrared light. Prolonged exposure to it, to the eyeballs directly, might be a little dangerous. You need to get some of those kind of 80s tanning bed sunglasses. I've thought about it. Because you're not laying down, you just squint the whole time to keep them in? That'd be a fun exercise. That seems like some shit you'd find a way to get into. Yeah, it really is good for this muscle right here. I was able to squint for a full hour. Yeah, I cured cancer in that hour. I couldn't stare at the dot on the wall because I was squinting too hard, but it did work in other ways. Yeah, so yeah, that Russian sauna hat. Life-changing. Very cool. Very cool accessory. And I could wear it if I want to do a Toro y Moi style photo shoot. That's right. Yeah. He plays with felts. Yeah. Actually, I wonder if we should get him one. We should maybe make a custom one for him. Take it down to downtown. Get him embroidered as a nice little gift. And it was another gift watching you wear this hat that I have just sweat. It was on your head. Yeah. I don't really care about that. Good.

I run clean. I shower daily. I wouldn't go that far. I shower twice a day, so I'm a little cleaner. It's true. Speaking of clean, I was looking at Twitter and there was a shoe that's made out of recycled dildos. Yeah, I reposted that. I think that is... I mean, it just looks like a Merrill. But I think it's... It looks like Skechers made the Kanye... I don't think it's... I don't... I smell bullshit. No pun intended. I feel like it's just... I feel like it's like recycled plastic didn't sound good enough. So we said recycled dildos. How are they going to prove it? How are they going to prove it? And who... And how are they gathered... Because if I have a dildo in my possession and I want to get rid of it, I'm not going to... Put it in the recycling bin. I'm not going to take it to a place. I'm going to put it in a Din Tai Fung bag, roll it up tight, and throw it in the bottom of my trash can. I feel like the amount of dildos I've seen on the street in my life, people just toss them out of the window of the car as they're driving, actually. So it feels anonymous like a gun after a shooting. Look, I live in Glendale, bro. I don't know what it's like over in your part of town. In my part of town, I don't think dildos ever get thrown away. I think they get used forever. The only littering we have here are different aftermarket vape companies. Yeah, it's all vapes. Shell casings and stuff like that. I don't believe it because I agree with you. How are we tracking this? Is there a special recycling bin that you get a tax credit for dropping off your dildo? Yeah, and I'm assuming if you want to make tens of thousands of pairs of these recyclable shoes, you're going to need... You're going to need a million extra dildos that have been recycled. I feel like dildo is like 90s. I don't think – like the sexual wellness industry has been upended by female founders with technological advancements that make the dildo seem a little archaic, but I'm not – Like how we can't say smoke a joint anymore. We have to say smoke a pre-rolled cannabis. Yes, exactly, exactly. Maybe –

Maybe I'm wrong. I would love to be wrong. No, I think dildo is a little bit of an antiquated phrase because people want to say sex toy, sex worker tool. Exactly, and I think they used dildo specifically for shock value because it is a term that is graying. It's graying. I also call bullshit on that style of shoe. I wish it would go away. You guys aren't river walking. You don't need shoes with holes in them. So you've got a rubber dildo, and then you take it to a place, and then this dildo has to be identified as a dildo. Well, it's pretty clear what a dildo looks like. And then cleaned? Probably just put through some sort of meltdown machine. I'm imagining the way they put trees. Put it into a meltdown machine. You know how the trees... Yes, yes, yes. Something like that, but melty. But you don't want to wash it before? I mean, I bet there's some sort of sanitary kind of steps. They give it a UV blast like how Trump does it for COVID. I'm going to get something a little more efficient. I don't think they throw in the dishwasher like I do with my stuff, but I could be wrong. I mean, a lot of them are dishwasher safe, which is nice. Oh, I'd like to learn more about that later on. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, I use 7th Generation All-Natural Dish Retergent. You see more of like a chemical guy. Yeah, oh yeah. My shit is very clinical. You want bleach. Mm-hmm. It's like red, white, and blue packaging on my shit. There's no pastel colors. I had to go to Ralph's to get the Trump dishwasher solution. Yeah, there's no drawing of planet Earth on the shit that I'm doing. Actually, maybe I need to return to toxic products. I think they probably do a better job. Of course they do a better job, but at what cost? I feel like I paid $50 for my last bag of fucking, you know. pods for the dishwasher. You would do a better job at the gym if you were seething with HGH and steroids and creatine. Let's take some steps to get away from these brands. We're over-branded. It's time to go back to what we know. Living off the land. Foraging for your duck berries. I do it myself. Tide if you want to link up.

Anytime you want to link up, Todd, because I do. Because it's cold water wash summer. The problem is with my laundry, of course, I have to use the Laundress, my favorite brand. You know them. They've collaborated with people like John Mayer. Fuck the Laundress. That's the best. It's the best. It's pretty competitive price-wise. It's for sissies is what it is. No, agreed, and I'm not denying that, but I'm also angling for a collaboration. Clothes getting clean like a sissy. Yeah, it feels like a hand wash even though it's a machine. So I was walking around my neighborhood on one of my nice earthing journeys, as I do, and I see a thing all the time of people posting up missing pet signs. But over here, in addition to the standard dog and cat, you'll get a turtle, you'll get a parakeet. Wow, so we're living – this is not just an urban jungle. This is a regular jungle. It is. And you'll see the lost signs on lampposts and trees, and then you'll see it on the Nextdoor app. Of course. And every time I see a post for a lost bird, it makes me wonder. It makes me jealous of having that much hope that the owner has. Bro, let me tell you something. If a bird flies away, it ain't flying back. That's what I'm saying. What does the owner expect to happen? Well, they're at a complete loss, Jason, because their best friend has left them. And I think that they're desperate for that connection that a pet gives and anything they can do. If it's printing out a few signs on their Hewlett Packard and posting them up, what more can you do? It's just like... Like resharing a link on your Instagram stories and wiping your hands clean. Yeah. Well, you could also maybe, I mean, I'm sure that in this case the bird does have a pretty popular Instagram account. So you could maybe post like a missing person style flyer on the grid. And then you'll have an account that you can tag it with. And then, okay, that's smart. But I was imagining myself being like in a park and being like.

I just saw a JPEG of a cockatiel, like a bird that you would see at Petco, just a generic. But you see him hanging out in a tree in your park while you're pulling your little kettlebell. There's a parakeet sitting on a tree in the park, and I'm like, oh, this is a bird that loosely matches the description of one that I saw in my Nextdoor app post from four weeks ago. And then I'm going to go home and email this person and say, like, hey, I saw your parakeet. at the park 45 minutes ago so i i'm sure he's still there and you can just and also like you can't capture a bird i would rush over there well i think the idea is that if it's your bird the bird sees you you give it a whistle like a falconer and it flies over your arm out and all of a sudden jimmy the parakeet fucking flaps on over and puts his claws in you i and it all it did was make me think of like as soon as my bird flies away i'm like That chapter of my life is done. 100%. I will not think about this ever again. That bird said deuces, and I have to go buy another bird if I want to have a bird in my life. You might as well have a pet cockroach and be like, has anyone seen a cockroach? This is exactly why pets are the downfall of our society. We're not going to do another one-on-one. I'm not. I'm just telling you that. You're adding fuel to the fire as an owner. I know, I know, I know. It's true. You were just on the Dewey Dudes podcast? That's right. It was good. You did a good job. Hey, thank you. I had a good time with those guys. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it was video, so I was heavily backlit from the park MGM in Las Vegas. But yeah, please go check it out. Those guys are cool. My main takeaway from it, aside from you doing a good job, was you're taking great pleasure in the phrase, holes in souls. Which is one that I... Somehow missed. Obviously, I missed it as well. And that's in reference to typically YTPPL and their showering habits. Yes, yes. Only cleaning and scrubbing all of your holes. I guess it's just one or two holes, depending on. I mean, I'm not hitting my mouth.

nose and ears with the with the loofah well that's your mistake but continue and then only the bottom of the feet which what about if we're if we're hitting the bottom you might as well hit the top and sides is what i say but i agree but it's like having the range over hand wash you know what i mean cost a little extra some people don't want to do it do we want to express or do we want we're only we're only getting hand wash on the set we run it through the machine you know what i mean but yeah i'd never heard that before and i would like to kind of start using it in my day-to-day life Because it has a lot. It's a chicken or egg thing for me because it's not a phrase that I had heard until recently after the rise of pornography because it has a very pornographic feel to that sentence. But the problem is when I hear holes in souls, I think about the soul. body, not the feet. Only if you hear the phrase and not read the phrase because of the way soul is spelled. When I hear it uttered, I'm like, how do we clean our souls? The Aesop ain't going to do that. You know what I mean? It's going to take a little more than that. Maybe that's something that God could kind of take care of. Bro, I'm so glad you said this because I've really been into this kind of stuff lately. The mind and the body are connected in a lot of ways as it pertains to my little holes. I keep hearing that. I kind of treat the mind and body like church and state as much as possible. But I'm thinking about maybe letting one trickle into the other almost like a nice Arnold Palmer at the country club. You know what I mean? Because I got lemonade in here, and I got some beautiful iced tea. You see the martini shaking, and you're like, too much. It's too much. It's too much. I just need a little trickle, you know? Like a lava lamp. Bloop. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, holes in souls. I'll be thinking of some ways to use that in my day-to-day conversation, if you could just wish me luck. Yeah, I mean, it's just, it seems like your pornographic search. preferences or it's like i'm into i'm into holes and souls i'm just a normal guy kind of thing it definitely does sound like it's been repurposed from a deviant sexual community um but that's what we do we steal from the rich and you know repurpose chris are you have you gotten over the nasa photos yet i know that was big for you people are so stupid who gives a shit liking space is also as bad as pets

It's crazy. Like, who cares, dude? You're never going to go there. Who cares? Who cares? Like, it looks like a picture. It looks like a fucking one of my microscope pictures of weed. It don't look like shit. Who cares? I do like that this is the first, like, we've gone so far up our own asses with the internet and social media that space has become something that we make fun of now, sort of collectively. Whereas before, like in the 60s... It would bring people together. It brought society together, the fascination with getting to the moon. Yeah, like NASA would send a thingy up to the space, and we're like, damn, we can see what the moon really looks like. We beat Russia and China. That's the one time. And then somebody was like, hey, why don't we turn that camera around and take a picture of the Earth, because we don't believe that we live on a round planet. Well, I still don't, but... And then everyone – the whole world was brought together by that image. My issue mainly is it's a classic thing where everyone is so mad at these billionaires for wanting to go to space and not giving that money to charity but then also want to jerk off to a picture of what the billionaire is trying to see IRL. It's like you're all idiots. None of this matters. Like this absolutely doesn't matter. NASA clothing – like I see a NASA T-shirt every day. Is your life that bad you have to focus on planets? Yeah, space is where anxiety lives. There could be nothing less interesting to me than a picture of stars that looks like a print of carpet at an airport. It's crazy, dude. And there have been a lot of great memes about it. They'll show that high-resolution image. And with like the little microscopic line going down. And then it's just like your parents' kitchen island black marble. It's so funny. But it's also like Joe Biden just getting destroyed. And then he's like, yo, check this shit out, fam. I got a picture of space. And NASA saying over and over again, these images were previewed by Biden a day in advance before the public gets to see them.

make any do any anything it's more limited edition like it was approved by a non-scientist maybe i think i think that biden just needed a w and they're like so what did you do this week i tried to shake hands with with literal air um I fell off of something. I fell off of something. I did that thing on movies and TV shows. That thing that happens on Family Guy where you're reading a teleprompter and you say the notes in between. It's like when Scott Disick posted the entire caption that his agent sent him. Like the time to post it. That's why I love Saqqara Life. Make sure to post at 8 a.m. Monday morning. And email Richard at PRC. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. Yeah. And Biden does all that stuff. And they're like, he needs a W. And now they're like, we showed Biden this picture of a bunch of dots 24 hours before you did. Yeah. Don't forget, he's very important. Is that like, yeah, that's Biden's version of getting a screener. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw Little Women first. They sent me a DVD. I saw Bodies, Bodies, Bodies back in June, bro. Oh, no, I saw it at home. No, I didn't have to go anywhere. Yeah, it's a link, and then I had to get my assistant to kind of put in a password. It'd be cool if from the Twitter POTUS account, it was him posting the image the day before, and it shows his name watermarked across it in diagonal lines like a screener. Official property of NASA MGM pictures. oh god that's really funny yeah the space it's another pathetic thing that people like that makes absolutely no sense and it's it's just like it's to me it's it's in the same vein as liking like fantasy stuff where it's like i just don't hate my life enough to need to escape

to watch Game of Thrones. Yes, yes, yes. I don't need to watch people kill each other with axes. And you should be grateful for that. Like it's 200 years ago because life is pretty good. There's a lot of real stuff that's cool. More than enough cool stuff happening right now right in front of you. I mean, I understand the fascination with the unknown. Sure, sure. Of course. But enough to repost it on my story? No. No, no, no, no, no, no. And everyone's like, here's this picture from NASA. And they're like, yeah, we saw it when NASA posted it. Yeah. And it was like all over the news and stuff. Oh, do you think NASA has less followers than you? Okay, well, that's interesting. Probably not. Maybe some of you, you know. There is something noble about working towards something that you're never going to accomplish in your lifetime so that the future generation hundreds of years from now will then eventually be able to do something. Sure. That is cool and noble. Well, it's also cool and noble because we will all be dead. before we will all be dead we ain't taking a there ain't gonna be a roller coaster on uranus that we're gonna be able to fucking pay twenty dollars to skip the line to take i'm starting to wonder how long this earth is gonna work though because when i was i remember when i was like a nihilistic 20 year old i was like oh bro we got like four years tops you know i'm saying and people have been saying that for hundreds or thousands of years don't ask greta thurberg about this it's You know when you fill a condom up with water? Yes. And you're like, this thing is still going? And you're shocked and amazed by how much it can hold before popping? Absolutely incredible visual here of you making condom water balloons. It doesn't have to be just water. Of course, piss, of course. Yeah, I agree. I'm like, how much can this old girl take? Before it crumbles, and I'm starting to believe. Look, as long as I die before it's over, I don't give a shit. Like, what am I going to do? But you don't want to die. You don't want. You think I'm going to stop taking private planes to save the Earth? You're wrong. No, no, no. But you want to die before Earth dies. Sure. You don't want to see it die. I don't need to see it. I've seen HBO shows. Like, I'm good. Like, I don't know, man. Like, I'm all set. Why do I need to be here for that? If I get 50 more years, if I get 40 more years, I'm good.

I've seen season two of Westworld. Yeah, like I don't need to do that. Anybody that wants to see that is insane. Like, it's just insane. I've always wanted to see that. That's always been my logic my entire life. What are you going to do, dude? Be in here fucking working on one of Baragani's recipes while fucking the flames start going down the street? No, bro, I'm going to have the Burberry lawn chair on my roof. Okay. You know, six pack of Pacifico, six pack of lo-fi aperitif grapefruit hibiscus spritzes. impossibly refreshing serve him over ice on a hot day because the you know we are about to die in a furnace of flames so you want to watch it almost like a like a fourth of july parade in a small town bingo i like that i mean because if the world is about to implode on itself forever ending human life on this planet I'd like to check that. I mean, you've got my attention is what I'm saying. I have no interest, and I would like to be cremated, and then my ashes spread throughout different locations in the East Village. So you go ahead and handle that, bro. I hope you get some good footage for your YouTube channel. I got the quarter. I got the ladder protein scoop. All right. That's on fourth and A. Fourth and B. Yeah, I want you to go to a Brasso with the Ladder Protein Scoop. Just spread some out. I'm going to have to check the wind report, make sure. Of course. You don't want one of those crazy things to happen like we see on our explore page. A fumble ruski with the urn. Oh, no. It's in my mouth, you know. Grow up. Seriously, grow a pair. It's not actual human remains. No, no, no. It's just ashes. It's like you get... The same ashes that you get at Destroyer on your potato salad. After I light a fire in my beautiful fireplace, I'll brush those off my Belgians. It's no big deal. Unless it's the ashes of an evil person, I don't want it. That's right. Yeah, I know. I know the only ashes you're looking for on eBay are Putin's, but he is still alive, and I hope that you one day can get those. I want Epstein's ashes on my farmer's market roasted carrots with harissa. Oh.

God, that sounds, I love kava. I heard they're going to start offering that on their kind of Middle Eastern style menu. That's delicious. That's delicious. Yeah, I've just always thought that if humans are going to be on this earth for millions of years, yeah, millions, not thousands, Catholic listeners, why not see it end? I get it. I get it. We sat through Showgirls. We sat through Gone Girl. We sat through Elvis. Let's see how this thing ends. I see what you're saying. You're saying that I watched three hours of Austin Butler pretending to be a musician directed by Baz Luhrmann. Why would I not spend that same amount of time watching our society crumble? Yeah, because it's the ultimate... That's a fair argument. And I think Drake should get involved with the sports betting angle. Oh, I like this. You know what I mean? Because when you're watching... Steak.com, bang my line. Yes. I'm watching the Elvis movie and I'm like... We all know how Elvis is going to die. How is it going to happen? Is it going to be him on the shitter? Is it going to be him waving goodbye from an airplane? Is it going to be poetic? Is it going to be whatever? Same thing with the Earth. Problem is, Earth can't sing good, you know what I mean? So I'm a little less... The Earth doesn't shake its hips in the same way that Elvis kind of... Did people bet money on the Y2K thing that the whole world was going to shut down? I would guess so. When the clock ticks over? I mean, I think that betting was a little more complicated at the time, but I would imagine that true gambling addicts would have to do that. Also, a little update from the last episode. A friend of the show, Drew, sent me a message saying there are a lot of horses in the desert. You should think of Coachella, which is a polo ground. Great point. In one of the hottest places in America. That's a great point. Lousy with horses over there in the desert. And we stand corrected with egg on our face. Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that this guy sucked. You know what I mean? Of course. And we should take away his right to own horses based on that outfit.

That's kind of a legal thing. I don't want to get into it here, but you know what I mean. That's right. Lastly, rent in Manhattan, $5,000. Got to pay the cost to be the boss. You know what I'm saying? What, are you going to live in Fort Greene for $4,500? What do you think is going to happen? What's going to happen? Because the rent in L.A., the prices for at least buying a home are going down in L.A. Yeah, I think that... It's just like, this is what happens, dude. It just goes in a circle. It'll go down again. That's what happens. I know. Because people, because what happened is everybody that said they were going to leave came back and the landlord was like, hey, dumbass, if you stayed. Price going up. Like maybe someone we know here, you know, price didn't go up that much. You know what I mean? It's a little light increase. So is your New York apartment, are you going to be locked in? I think I, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm not, I don't think that like. I also think that there's a world where if you can't afford $5,000, I mean, $5,000 a month is high, of course, but if you can't afford that, then you've got to go somewhere else. Right. There's a lot of places you can live. You don't have to. Yeah, I think most people don't have to go anywhere for work. And if you do have to be in an office, I hope they're paying you enough. And I think that the employers are going to feel some responsibility for that at a certain point. You shouldn't go to an expensive restaurant. and be shocked that the prices are high yeah that's my whole thing i'm like i don't understand what you guys expect like it's manhattan it's always been the most expensive thing and now it's like hit a new record and it will just continue to hit new records and then go down and hit it's just that's just what it is i'm not an expert but it just seems like that's how everything works it just goes up it goes down it goes up it goes down that's just you know i agree i agree but the i mean i guess are there any like There's always, is there going to stop being a need for these cities that artistic people, you know, because like every, like it used to be like you could live in Silver Lake for cheap as an artist. You can live downtown cheap for an artist. You can live in San Francisco for cheap as an artist. You know, the Lower East Side, downtown, there's always like places where, hey, I can't afford to live in Beverly Hills.

So I'm going to live in K-Town because it's cheaper. That's crazy. But now, at a certain point, will there be no place? I mean, kind of. Well, I think that there's always – first of all, there's always going to be rich people. And until there's a full generation of young people that don't think that New York or L.A. are important, which I find that hard to imagine, that's the only thing that will truly end it. Even if you come here for six months and you can't afford it, you do it because you've thought about this and you think you need to live there when you're 21 or whatever. If TikTok ruins New York and LA, if that is the only way I see it, there's always going to be kids whose parents are going to send them to NYU. There's always kids who are going to go to UCLA and they're going to make money and they're going to live in the big city and they're going to have a Bentley truck. It's just what it is. But if those people become such a minority that they're isolated, and then if there is a rising of the middle class, like if Austin and Denver and Omaha, all these places, become so populated and powerful and they create their own subcultures, is there a chance that LA and New York will be like, oh, you guys are like... The people that, like, paid for bottle service table? Like, oh, that's not cool. I mean, it's going to take a long time. Like, when you see someone driving a Maserati and they're like, hey, check it, me. And everyone's like, yeah. That's not that cool, bro. It's going to take too long because the best of everything is in these places. Like, yeah, you can go to Austin and have good barbecue, but you're surrounded by ugly people that are Republicans. You know what I mean? So it's like you can go to Manhattan and have a great dinner surrounded by hotties. It's tough to replicate. How many years until Austin is full of? Sexy Democrats. Fuckable sexy Democrats. I don't think people will stay there. I think it sucks. I don't think people actually want to be there. Maybe we need a classist system. Who would have thought? But I think that's what happens with these cities. I think everybody moves there, and it's not ready, and the infrastructure can't handle it, and then it's kind of bad for everybody. The people who lived there before, the people who moved in, the corporations. It's just too many problems.

You can't flush your toilet. The sewer's fucked. The heat's crazy. I'm hurting. Outdoor voices is hurting. Bro, if you've got to start a CBD rub for your knees, it's tough, bro. It's tough. Shout out to Weed Sport. Love you guys. Shout out to the goat. But yeah, I mean, I do think that that's what happened. I mean, you look at Austin's a great example of like, it all happened and now everybody's like, this sucks. Like, we have to leave. We still need us in LA and New York. To punch down at those people. I don't even think it's about punching down. Those places are fine, but it's just like that's choosing. You think you're part of something. You think you're going to be part of this new revolution of people that move to a non-major city and your rent is cheap, but at what cost? Everybody here sucks, or they're just transplants that I don't know. It's cultureless. You know what I mean? New York and L.A. have hundreds of years of history, and that's why people are attracted to this. It's not just like, it's cheap, bro. I don't want things to be cheap. That's the whole thing. If things are cheap, then everybody can do it. The point is it encourages you to be successful and try harder so you can be a part of something bigger than yourself. Words to live by, words to grow on. I love growing. How long? Go on. You already know the fucking vibes. Thanks for listening, everybody. Thanks for listening. We got some podcasts this week. I'm just checking. Okay, yeah. We do have some podcasts. Should we talk about next month when we're going to... Holiday? Yeah, we are going to be taking a little holiday against my wishes. Obviously, I would be podcasting from Lake Como in the pool if I could. This coming week is going to be good. This coming week. I'm not going to say who because there's always genius. We have a lot of podcasts and we're going to take a little bit of a break in August. But then Jason and I will be reuniting in Tuscany for our classic Apertivo pod. From the villa. One year ago, or last summer, we did the same thing where we recorded one Big Daddy episode where I filled Chris in on all of my escapades, Italiano escapades, and that ended up being one of the most downloaded episodes of all time that we've ever done. I'm just complaining about European dream vacations. No problem. I hate them.

But we got a few good things in August before we head out, and then end of August is really coming together, I got to say. We got some heavy fucking hitters when we get back from holiday to kind of get us into fall. Also, in some personal news, very exciting, a big profile on My Fearless Leader at J.Crew. It comes out in print in GQ on Tuesday. Okay. And I got a leak of it yesterday. Okay. Not a leak, but my friend Alex. I was like, bro, you're working on this, right? And I'm like, what? Send me all, I need to see this right now. He's like, all right, bro, chill. And like took six pictures of the whole spread. But yeah, Sam Shuby wrote the story about Brendan and the new J. Crew that launches in the fall. So I'm very excited for people to... It's the first time people are going to, like, see the clothes and stuff. Should be. Which we've been working on for a while, so I'm very excited. I haven't even seen these clothes. I haven't even shown Jason the shot from the showroom. It's crazy. I do love J.Crew because of their commitment to the tall sizing. That's right. Hopefully that doesn't go by the wayside. It would never. As J.Crew 2.0 emerges when he does. No, no, no. We would never do that. And I've kind of made that a mandate, you know, with my position. Because big fella needs shirt, too. I've ran it all the way up the flagpole. This is something we see over there. Okay. Anyway, thank you for listening to How Long Gone. We'll be back next week. We appreciate all of you. Jaw Rastafari. Exactly. We'll see you soon.