398. - Chris & Jason in Atlanta

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. How Long Gone is here. What's up? Them Jeans, Chris Black. We're coming to you live from Atlanta, the beautiful Clermont Lounge and Hotel down here on Ponce. That's right, Pontiac Avenue. I'm just happy to be here, Jason. It's been a beautiful weekend in the A, chock full of activities. The weather has been magnifique. We were fearful of rain. And in the words of DJ Khaled, God did protected you. Yeah, I thought motherfuckers talked about weather in California. No, bro, it's crazy. Wait until you get down here. Bro, it's hurricane season. Put some respect on it. Okay? If Gulf Shores blows away, there's going to be some problems. Look over here at the beautiful Claremont Hotel. Hotel Claremont. I think these things could take category 8, 9, 10. You're saying because the structure of the building is so strong. It's just so nice. If these walls could talk, they'd say, is that all you got? Sure. Hank, Ida, Irma. So you're basically saying if Hurricane Ida was smacking against those beautiful vintage brick walls, you would be kicking back, sipping an IPA, watching diners drive-ins and dives like nothing is happening outside. Window crack, half of a pre-roll going out the window, ashing on ponts, doing my little thing.

A steady loop of Guy Fieri, his big bites, his games, his diners. Ashen on Ponce is a good name for something. That's good. I like that. We'll put that in the hopper. But it really has been an action-packed weekend. Jason flew in on Friday. I caught the blue eye, the Chris Black blue eye, where I wake up at 3 a.m. and go to the airport at 4. The blue eye is good. Look, you guys have heard me talk about this before. I loved it. As long as you get a good night's sleep before. It's fine. And you're doing a trip that doesn't require much stress. Like, I had to pack for three days. Yeah, I know what you mean. And you just, you know, you pack in ten minutes, throw in some shirts. You go to bed at nine. You wake up at three. You got six hours of sleep, bro. It's no problem. And then your flight is on time, you know, most likely. Your flight is usually always on. The Delta Lounge opens at 4.30 a.m. Yeah, so you can get some bad eggs. No problem. The eggs were bad. But I'm just happy to have a seat that's comfortable, a place to put everything. And you can just leave your laptop sitting out. The Delta Lounge is truly a place to sit your stuff down and not have to have somebody watch it. That's the main appeal of the Delta Lounge. I can afford Avion, thank God. Thank you to all our listeners. So I'm able to buy bottled water to consume it. And I could obviously tether. For Wi-Fi purposes, if I need to get something up. But if you're traveling solo, you don't want to ask your weird neighbor to watch your stuff while I pee. Yeah, I know. The person that you ask has to be either more wealthy or more attractive than you or else... It ain't worth it. And luckily in our case, that's tough. In the Delta Lounge, it was not as tough for me. No, yeah, you're fine. You're the lowest rung. I found a hot 52-year-old Asian businesswoman who I was like, can you watch my shit? And she's like, what's the point, you know? Nobody's going to want this. I'm sorry, that's plastic? Oh, no, no, don't worry about it, sweetie. Oh, because it's not metal? I'm saying what she might have said. Oh, damn. I disagree. I have both.

Do I suck for not having... Is it a recyclable... Is it a sustainability issue for you, or is it a Broco thing? It's a Broco thing. First of all, sustainability is never an issue for me. I obviously am bullish on recycling, as well as... That's what your chick said. As well as wearing used clothing. Couldn't be me. I'm good. It shan't be me. Jason got here on Friday. He checked into the beautiful... Hotel Claremont. I was greeted by a full bottle of Casamigos tequila with my name on it, bucket of ice, two glasses. And I finally cracked it right now once we got to mixing it up, let my hair down. We're going to see your parents later, so I'm going to bring them a little tequila, see if I can get your dad drunk. I don't think that would be that hard. So this trip was planned because Jason and I, as discussed in the show, I'm here in Atlanta while we renovate our house in LA, so I'm displaced, and Jason and I have been able to build IRL. We have these shows coming up, so we kind of need to sit down together and properly ideate on some stuff to get our shit tight. Writer's room. The writer's room for these important... fans that have bought tickets and support us tickets don't sell we'll have some announcements later in the show but during the booking process um you know shout out to delta shout to evan over over at the oliver hospitality group you know i started to look at some other stuff on some of my other favorite websites there's some other calendars you thought you'd take a look at i just took a look at ticketmaster.com you know just to check out because i'm seeing so many shows this week i've been kind of on ticketmaster just checking dates seeing who's around I did miss Lil Nas X, and I'm luckily not playing. I feel like Pavement is playing in a different city every single day. That's what tour is. You're right. Absolutely. They're playing so many shows for how old they are. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, apparently. Bruce Springsteen did Born to Run with your killers. I know. That's pretty cool. But something popped up, and I texted Jason, and I was like, bro. For the culture, do we do it?

do we go see Joe Rogan at the Fox Theater in Atlanta when you get here just to do it? And he responded swiftly with a yes. And then I entered in. No, it's a sacred clown tour. It's the sacred clown tour. I quickly entered in my information. I'm going to level with you guys. It costs $300 for two tickets. Total. With fees, of course. And that don't count parking either. Parking was $50 because I tried to find the most expensive parking, and I did, I think. You did, and that's crazy. I went to the Falcons game with my dad today, $20 parking. Yeah, that $50 parking lot was... It wasn't even good. ...was probably four times worse than the one in Glendale that's like $2 an hour, you know? It's crazy. It was four floors down. But anyway, so we decided to go. Nasty. We went to Elmere first, so Jessica has some margaritas and kind of get ready for this. And, you know, I... We need to tell a story about what happened at Elmere as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah, actually, yeah. So before, yeah, that's true. So... Let's go chronologically. It's 5 p.m. Not somewhere. This is dinner time. It was 5 p.m. It was dinner time. The show started at 7, so we went to Elmere early. Jason's having a couple margaritas, and we get up to leave. For our listeners at home, Elmere is a Mexican-style cantina that's sort of built around cocaine dealing and using. Yeah, it looks awful. Every, you know, when you go to like a Max Fish and like every millimeter of the bathroom stall is covered in graffiti. Yeah. Same vibe. It's not as, it's like, it's clean, but it's not super clean. But try the tofu. You know, tell me what you think. Yeah, you know, it's, if you're, yeah, if you're like a band bro and you want to like have some pint glass margaritas. But it's like a, it's a legendary. kind of atlanta spot and luckily in the neighborhood that it's in which is little five points which is now a shithole it's kind of just remained a stall it's like stayed there and not changed which is means yes it's bad but it's better than it would be if they tried to update elmere let their roots go deep down exactly deep down elmere bought some dirt and he made magic out of it and speaking of little five points we did see a little shooter as well didn't we all right so we're at our table

We're at our table enjoying it, and we see a group of people that was, I don't want to say mismatched, but it was an interesting... It was a motley crew of people whose only thing in common was, we need to do some meth sooner than later. These people, if all five of these people didn't have, like, ten foil in their backpacks... It was the weird, it was like a hot 19-year-old white chick in like a fake vintage shirt, like a fat gamer with a goatee and like a bang energy drink that he brought into the restaurant himself. But the star of the show was a little person. He looked like Gunplay if Gunplay played in a sandbox. So this guy is tiny and then Jason's like... He was a tiny killer. Did I notice or did you notice? I think I noticed. No, so... No, no, no. I noticed him first because I was looking over there and I was looking at one of their sweatshirts and it said something crazy on it. It said the word Frick on it. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. And I was like, someone's wearing a shirt that says the word Frick on it with like a punny message. I forgot what it was exactly. And then sitting next to her was Gunplay, three-foot-tall Gunplay. So Lil Gunplay, and it's not just his namesake means more. than his resemblance to mmg legend he had the sticky on him he well he had a face tattoo of an uzi that's right on his forehead which is like okay that's something and then i was like does he have a like an extra clip in his pocket and you're like that's the clips attached to something else and then later on we saw him earlier and he had a different gun this one was more of a kind of a khaki yeah It was the color of the Tacoma that people have been shopping for. It was the baby shit Tacoma color. Yeah. So he had multiple thingies on him, and he was just standing on the street, just hitting that backwoods. And his buddy tapped him on the shoulder and was like, bro, move your shirt, cover up the piece. Yeah, he lifted his shirt up and then went to cover up his butt. Kind of helped him, yeah. But I never get used to people who have open...

carry guns out in public. I didn't think I was in danger at any moment. No, it's just weird. But it's just weird to see somebody get Superman high who has three guns on them. Superman high when you're the size of Superman's tibia is not... I just think that guy's going to use that gun before a lot of people would because people do be trying him. Yeah. He has it for a reason. But I didn't feel like I was in danger at all. Sometimes, obviously, I'll feel very weird if you're at Panera and they've got the AR strapped to their back or some lady who has a fucking assault rifle that's taller than her at the car wash or something. That shit I fucking hate. Terrible. This felt like this guy actually needed it, but because of bullies, not because he's really serious in the streets. Because he gets bullied so much he has to flash it every once in a while to let him know that he's really about it. Okay, so my ops are bullies. Show me the lie, dude. This guy's just smoking weed. He's got the hookah. He's playing his twitch. If you go through life with such adversary, so much strife to overcome as being a little person. I think little people should be given licenses for weapons. Open carry. They deserve it. Let it rock. Honestly, do you know how mean people are? If you ask me, mean people suck. Let Chiquita speak. Okay. When it comes to meanies, kill them all and let God sort them out. I agree with that. Shoot first, ask questions later. But anyway, it was fine. We survived. It was merely an observation and then Jason tried to get a photo, but I think the tent maybe. I got a photo, but I can't post a photo on social media. No, he'll find you and he'll use that thing. Is there something funny about my appearance? It would actually be a really cool David and Goliath story if you got shot in the foot. Take one in the leg. Non-threatening. By the little person we saw, Elmere, with a gun on them. And I'll be like, deserved it. You deserved it. It'll be a lot more rehab than you had to do for your little knee problem, though. It's going to suck. Yeah, it'll be a one and done.

If you've got any oxys laying around here, let me know. I might have some pain. I mean, there might be. Linda's flushed them. No, she vacuums too much. So I'm two margs deep, pint-sized margs too. That's right. I went skinny, of course, but still. So I see my friend Matt, who has the brand factors. You should check out if you haven't. I see Matt sitting at the bar waiting on some food to go. I go up. to talk to him, and I'm like, oh, this is Jason. Actually, you know what? Let me go to the bathroom. You guys talk amongst yourselves. Coffee talk. I go, of course, there's some guy in a no-use-for-a-name shirt waiting in line for the bathroom. I fall in line behind him, and then I hear in my peripheral some cross-talk. Jason is sat down in a stool next to Matt, but there's a fellow on the other side of him, and he's like, Oh, my girl's sitting there. And then I was like, oh, well, my bad. I'll get up when she comes kind of thing. And then right in front of me is my second margarita, which I probably had like two inches left in the bottom of the pint glass. I grab it and kind of take a swig off of it, and I kind of go over to your friend Matt, and we're like, hey, what's going on, blah, blah, blah, shooting the shit. And then the guy sitting next to me is like, actually, that's my girl's. My girl's drink. And I turned around and I was like, you know, it sounds like everything's all about your girlfriend right now. And he's like, well, you just sat in her seat and you just started drinking her drink out of nowhere. But I would like to say this guy's tone was kind of like, he wasn't even mad. He was just like, this guy is fucking crazy. Like, what is going on? This is the most action I got all week. Yeah, this guy's losing his shit. So I hear what's going on. And Jason doesn't. Jason's not processing that he's drinking this man's girlfriend's drink. He's like, oh, you're about to be like, yeah, fuck it. Like, fuck off. My my the glass that I had just put down at our table had the same was the same drink in the same glass with the same amount in it. And it was just sitting right in front of me. I was on the blue eye. I woke up at three. I was.

You know, some edibles were taken somewhere over Minnesota, or not Minnesota, New Mexico. I wasn't of sound mind 100%. But then, so I am in line for the bathroom. I'm like, I can't let Jason. He's digging a hole real fast. Yeah, Jason's digging a hole fast. Matt doesn't know what's going on. I'm the only person that I feel like, I'm like, wait a second. So I go over and I'm like. You're the only one with Pyrex vision out of a lot of us. I'm like, Jason, you're drinking this guy's girlfriend's drink, and you're like. fuck bro i'm so sorry and the guy thinks it's funny and he's like let me guess blue eye and then his girlfriend comes back and thinks it's even more funny and did you even have to did you even buy a replacement no oh the only thing i did was make her subscribe to how long gone on her phone she's like death cat for cutie i love those guys this episode of how long gone is brought to you by squarespace Obviously, Jason, you and I spend a lot of time on the World Wide Web. So do our peers, our listeners, our friends, our colleagues, maybe even your parents if they're freaky. And if you're doing anything in the world, writing, taking pictures. I do topless boxing. You need a website. Exactly. A website that works, that does what it's supposed to do, that allows you to be creative but also business-minded. Jason, there's one place to go for that, Squarespace. Yeah, Chris, I'm over here. I'm modifying calculators and putting Claude inside of them so you could cheat at school. And I just want a place where I could, you know, have everything all in one place. I can have the SEO tools so those future graduates can find me. And, you know, I'm able to accept, quote, unquote, donations for my services that might be gray area. You know what I mean? And then email campaigns. Hey, I got a new 2.3 version upgrade. Boom, boom, boom. Get the analytics going. Raise some money. Show your investor all of your cool analytics of what's going on. They're going to want to get in early. And we can use Blueprint AI to make your website look as professional as your competition, if not more.

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They're not afraid to say what they want to say, brother. Yeah, Rupert ain't sniffing around in what journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman are up to over there at Stateside. But yeah, listen wherever you get your podcasts. You can watch it on YouTube. It's three times a week. And who couldn't use more news? Especially when it's not from here, let's say. Give it a listen. Give it a listen. Well, she, I mean, hopefully they're listening right now because what a meet cute. It was a great. Because he was such a sweetheart. Like if some guy sat down in my girlfriend's seat and started drinking her drink, I'm not going to fight him, but I'm going to, there's going to be some aggression happening. Yeah, you're going to scuff his common projects. At the very least. You're going to crease his Jordans. I will say, what the what? But he was so nice about it. His energy was very much like, I did not have this on my bingo card for this afternoon. 100%. And then his female friend came over. They're not dating. Oh, they're not? They're not dating. They're just old friends. That's why they were doing coke in the afternoon, then. I think they may have had a little, you know, maybe they've... You think he smidashed once or twice back in the day? Yeah, but it just didn't feel right, you know? Yeah, no. Like, they got the job done. They got to where they needed to go. But afterwards, they're like, yeah, we're better as friends. They were very funny, though. And yeah, and she sat down and she was like, oh, you're fine, sweetheart. It's all good. It's all good. I'm like, wow, you're really, you guys are, this could not have gone any better of like sitting down and stealing a girl's drink. Because Elmira does attract a certain kind of character and there are a lot of them that would have punched you. Yeah. You just got lucky. I know. So that set the tone. I could have got a mastodon, bro. Coming at me real quick. He works at a tattoo shop, and it ain't going too well there, and he's got nothing to lose. Yeah, they're letting you pay for tattoos and credit cards now. I'm taking that on this tall fellow's nose today. So that kicks the night off. We hop in the Camry. Unfortunately, I have had to return. Well, really quick, I was apologizing for being absent-minded. Yes, of course. And she was like, oh, you're fine. I haven't slept in two days, so I get you. And I was like, hmm, that seems...

odd have you tried have you tried thc maybe a cbd gummy or something before you go to bed familiar with cannabis what you know nootropics whatever to get you across the line and she's like oh no that don't work and i was like so you need something a little stronger like what's going on and she's like no i have like medical grade insomnia like it's real shit kind of thing little spliff won't do it i'm like so what do you want she's like trazodone i was like that sound i've heard of that drug i don't know what it does but it sounds very strong and she's like yeah it is and then i'm like so if you haven't slept in two days how are you like you're having a very alert conversation with me you're talking to me you know snappy as all hell like zane low level shit and she's like oh honey cocaine's a hell of a drug My bitch is five o'clock right now. That's how we do it. I just saw a little gun play. That's how we do it down here. It ain't nothing to get a bag belly up to the bar at 435 on a Friday. I felt like I was back in Orange County. No, that's right. It's different. You can't hear the surf in the background. Only sirens. But it's the similar kind of vibe. Yeah. Less flip flops. Yeah. So we went straight from that to a Joe Rogan concert. So I'm not. I don't like Joe Rogan. I don't listen to Joe Rogan. I've never really listened to the podcast. I've seen clips here and there. I know he's a comedian by trade, but I never thought about if it was good or bad. I just thought about it as something that's popular because of the podcast. He's so popular that whatever he's going to do is also going to be popular. It's such a subjective art form that we don't know if he's funny or not funny, but... We could tell that he's successful at it. He sold out two nights at the Fabulous Fox Theater, which is not a joke. It's nice. It was probably 3,000 people. Yeah, 3,000, 4,000 people. And the crowd, we can start with the crowd. We'll start with the crowd. Dude, I saw one of them last night when I got back to the hotel last night. There was just people standing on the sidewalk, like drunk people talking to each other. And they're like, one guy just screamed to the other guy, Joe Rogan, am I right?

and then they high-fived because they had seen each other at the Rogan show the night before, and they were bonding over. And these were two people that didn't have two teeth to rub together, carrying a 30-pack of Coors back to their hotel. Nasty shit. The style of person at this, I mean, the thing is, I'm kind of, I guess, not exclusively, but I'm perfectly suited to speak on the types because it's Southern archetypes. You're a scholar on the subject. I'm a scholar on the subject. So there's kind of like the guy that's like 32 and doing pretty well for himself, could lose 15 or 20. He's dressed like okay. You know, he's got like a collared shirt on. It's tucked in, but it's all in that like kind of light redneck style. Right. He plays golf, but it's day beers. Yeah, 100% day beer guy. And he's got like a girlfriend who's overdressed. There's a lot of women in the building. A lot of women. That were wearing like freak them dresses. To see Joe Rogan at a theater. And then there was the full-on, like, I literally came from the job site. My car hearts are dirty. I got my sunglasses sitting on the back of my neck. Like, I have drywall in my hair kind of guy. I only have time to go pick up a couple tall boys on the way, drink them on the way in the car. We'll make it for the second night kind of thing. Actually, every single person there except us drank on the way there in a car they were driving. That's what I would say, the crowd. But then there's also the kind of upper middle class. Job site foreman is what we call them. I probably live 30 minutes outside the city. I look a little more maintained. My chick looks a little more maintained. My truck's a little more expensive. The lift's a little higher. i'm the most racist yeah my flannel shirts i'm wearing my formal flannel it's a formal flannel it is it's buttoned i'm not letting any any chess show you know it's an untucket brixton little number i got my untucket with my brixton i got this one dry clean so the the crowd was kind of what

I would expect, but they were also, it was quite friendly. There was a lot of, not to us, of course, because they could tell we were the op, but they were like, there was a lot of intermingling. We were the two F-words in the crowd. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the seats were good. We had good seats. Only you can take credit for that. I'm not going to go to something unless I'm a VIP or I'm going to pony up for the good seats. i'm just i'm going into this a little bit like oh this will be funny like whatever it'll be something for us to talk about like i don't i don't really care it's not gonna be no cat williams level stand-up it's not gonna be earthquake shit but i'll sit through a couple hours get some laughs it'll be fine yeah it's fine and i have to say buy some creatine on the way out exactly yeah i got some cb4 that i have to say this was one of the worst things i have ever seen in my adult life and i've seen I've seen screamo bands in basements in the suburbs. I've seen sports. I've been to a lot of live events. You and I combined have probably been to more live events than most people. You know the amount of bullshit I've seen? Just the choices that we've made in our lives have led us to spend our money and time seeing things performed live, whether it's music, comedy, whatever it is. Magicians. Magicians. The performing arts in general. This Joe Rogan stand-up, The Sacred Clown Tour. I'm not exaggerating. We gave him 30 minutes. We almost got through half of it. It was so deeply unfunny. I know I say stand-up's unfunny, but I can watch something on Netflix and I can usually crack a smile. Like, oh, that's pretty good. I can find hope. You can watch the new Nick Kroll special and get a couple chuckles out of it. I did watch the first 20 minutes. Awful as well, but we'll get to that. We had a couple good laughs. It was just... truly awful in a way that's like, I guess what it is, is that because he tries to talk about kind of like important subjects on his podcast and that he's known for being on the wrong side of history with every kind of everything, basically, which I think I would agree with. He is on the wrong side of history with basically everything. Ivermectin, give it a try. I don't know.

but seems to work fine for me this was more of like it was like he was a 15 year old yeah yeah yeah like there was no intent there was no attempt at it being intelligent in any way and maybe he's maybe i mean i think he's i don't think he's dumb they were all pandering a little bit yeah the southern crowd compared to doing a show at madison square garden or something but By and large, that's his normal operating speed for his target demo live. But it's like – it's like – it's not even – like his preoccupation with gay is insane because it's not – It's Lil Boozy level. Yeah, it's like not funny, but it's also not like introspective or interesting. It's just literally – Like, duh. It's just sort of milk toast frustration at the matter. Yeah. And typically, as a comedian, you're like, here's the thing I noticed. Maybe it bothers me. Maybe it doesn't. But now I'm going to make fun out of it. Yeah. Versus, like, trans divers, trans weightless. It was just, it's just like. Why do you care about trans divers so much, bro? Him being, like, the class, like. Gay guy, I mean, must rule, bro. You know? I'm not homophobic at all. I think gay guys are awesome. They get to, like, get their dick sucked, like, every day. If you ask me, I like to get dick sucked, too. It's just, and it's just, he's saying all these deeply, and they're not even, it's not even like the stuff is so offensive to me. I'm just like, this is just a swing and a miss. Well, what I think it is, is he's so old, and he's been doing it for so long, he's like mid-50s. And he has stopped trying new things. So he's just he's stuck. So in his mind, this this material is still progressive because when he was doing this bit about wouldn't it be funny if I said like being gay was like actually good. And in like 1997, when he had that epiphany of like, I'm going to flip it and be crazy subversive. And this is actually going to be kind of punk rock what I'm doing here. But in 2022.

It's 35-year-old logic. Like you said, it felt like a 15-year-old proselytizing to a crowd of 15-year-olds because mentally that's where they're at. Or emotionally more so. It reminds me of if you go to a 2000s radio band show and the crowd is all people who have not discovered new music since they were in high school. Exact same people. They haven't had a new thought since high school. Yeah, set in their ways. It's just like, but it's all very like, I mean, everybody was having a good time, and I think he was, I think people were liking, I mean, people were laughing. No, people were giving him standing ovations when he said, you know what I miss? I wish, oh, the F word, man. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. Man, we can't say the F word anymore. That had nothing to do with gay people. Like, bro, it inherently has everything to do with, there's no escaping that. Like, whether you want to say it or not, you've got to admit the origin. I mean, it's not great. Like, I know you could say it's a pile of sticks, but let's be real. You know what I mean? Like, that's just not. We're all on our journey of unlearning and progress and breaking the walls down of, you know, all the stuff that's inside of us. And some people are further along that journey than others. we're definitely not leading that pack personally you and i sure just because you know based on our age but like he's he's so far in the back he's so far behind and he's like hey i'm so far behind and so are most people i mean i think he's so i'm going to be your person well it's just one of those things where he's tapped into something clearly and he's making millions of dollars off of this stuff because most people feel not most people but a lot of people feel the same way or at least find the same things funny Yeah, he was he was saying it was weird because he reminded me of literally like my friends in high school who would, you know, basically when you haven't had any like male bonding or you haven't had like emotional growth enough to call your friend in high school and wish them a happy birthday or just say like happy birthday or love you, bro, or whatever it is. You couldn't do that without saying the F word. Yeah, you had to like you had to kind of like.

happy birthday fag yeah you had you had to like that you couldn't show any emotion without having something like right it was sort of your way of saying like if you're a straight guy you would use the f-word as a way to you know recognize that we're we're in a vulnerable emotional situation right now you know that i know yes and that was sort of like the way that straight people use that word with other straight people And it's a thing that most people our generation stopped doing in high school, you know, in the teenage years. And now the current generation stops doing it when they're three or they don't even ever say the F word. But with Rogan, he's a 55-year-old guy who is whining and complaining about not being able to call his other millionaire friend and not be able to say, Happy birthday, fag. It's crazy. I think that the thing is, I wonder, I think maybe that crowd, and maybe I'm giving them more credit than they deserve, but I feel like there's also an element of it where this is a night where they can come together and laugh about this stuff because they can't do that in their lives because they know it would be detrimental. You know what I'm saying? Like, this guy that has like a... Like a Klan meeting. Yeah, literally, though. It's like I can come here, I can laugh at this shit, and everybody's like, oh, the podcaster Joe Rogan, oh, yeah, yeah, he's controversial. That's crazy. And all these people are definitely like Republican, like Trump vibe for sure. But I also don't think these people actually hate gay people or are actually racist. That's not the vibe. No, no, no. They probably all have people of color in their lives and gay people and trans people in their friends and family groups. They're around it. They're okay with it. They don't hate any of those people. They just haven't learned the cosmopolitan skill set of being socially normal around those people and talking about people as if they're just equally like one of us. They're like, I know they exist, but like...

I don't know how to do it. It was a very strange, because it didn't seem, I mean, I don't know. But also, I'm saying cosmopolitan, but it's the mirror image of, if we were to go see Joe Rogan in Orange County, everyone would look the same, dress the same, talk the same, have the same everything. I don't feel, I'm glad that we went. I think I always wrote him off as just like, why do people care about this so much? Like, who gives a shit? And I still say, why do people give a shit? there's nothing entertaining or necessarily interesting about it all. But I do think that like hearing, hearing some bro three rows back scream, fuck Fauci. for no reason purely out of context that wasn't being talked about that wasn't he's doing a bit about you know like rear naked chokes or like how crazy it is like when a grizzly bear have you ever seen a how big a grizzly bear's paw is it's so huge it's like bigger than your head and some guy just hear crickets tripping in the back of the crowd and row 78 b and it was just like i love making fun of fauci it's fucking hilarious but screaming that With no context? In 2022, months after he's retired, months after he's appeared in the news. That says a lot. But in that person's mind, he's been waiting to scream fuck Fauci just so that Joe Rogan hears it. He doesn't have to respond. He doesn't have to say, who said that? Here, go give him a backstage pass. I want you to come do the episode with me tomorrow. Just so Joe hears me say fuck Fauci. That's enough to get him from swallowing a bottle of Tylenol. I don't even think Joe himself would say that. That's what's funny about it. But I found it all to be very... It was just very interesting. I'm glad we went, but I do think that it's like this... It's just the lack of... You can't bill that as comedy. No. I mean, well, it's...

It was smart to bill it as a company. Of course. No, I agree. No, I'd agree. I mean, it's very similar. It reminds me a lot of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology where, like, you know, what is it about L. Ron Hubbard that got him to have millions of admirers and, you know, amass hundreds of millions of dollars? Like, why do people care? When everyone says he's an awful writer, every one of his books is terrible. You know, it's all fake bullshit. You know, but what is it? But he's also like, yeah, I'm also fucking started a religion. Yeah. Joe did the same thing. Yeah. No, he did. He just has he tapped into this one thing that he saw. He said instead of being the best stand up comedian in the world or the best podcast in the world, he saw a hole in the market. He saw an opportunity for a lot of people who are angry and pissed off who are just like him. And they needed a leader. And he stepped in, and he is far from a good leader. He's far from a perfect leader. But also, compared to the competition, he's number one. So he's number one. That's what it is. Well, and we didn't even talk about his outfit. Because, you know, that's kind of what you guys come to How Long Gone For, of course. He came out. This might have been the most shocking part. He was wearing some rock star skinnies. Okay, so at the bottom, we'll start at the bottom. He had some Jordans on. Some Dunks or Jordans. Yeah, some black and silver Uptown Dunks. Yeah, like regular Nikes, not for sport. The kind of shoes a Filipino nurse would wear. Painted on. What's the brand of denim, do you think? It was regular, just a normal standard wash. Yeah, but I bet a guy like that, just because he's so rich. Custom? No. I bet a stylist buys it for him, and it's definitely some designer shit that's expensive. It honestly could have been Amiri. It could have been regular Amiri's. Rockin' Republic? Yeah, it could be regular jeans. It's probably Amiri's or something like that. Yeah, because they're expensive, and a stylist is like, here, put these on. Because they were very tight. They were very tight. Even nothing to the imagination. And Joe's not a little guy. I mean, he's a little guy, but he's a meatball.

Yeah, he's not vertically impressive, but horizontally, he's wide bodied. And then he was wearing this black button-down shirt. That's a Nick Kroll reference. And he's wearing a button-down shirt, and it's like a blouse. It's blousing. It was a little too long and a little too silky. Our seats weren't good enough to see whether or not the buttons were mother of pearl. Yeah. But they were just about. It was just, the outfit, everything about it was very strange. And we were talking about this on the way home, about how comedians just like, why can't a comedian just put on a t-shirt and jeans? Why does everybody have to be like, have a look, and it be bad? And the look is rarely what you want it to be. Honestly, for a special, I kind of want you to look a little schlubby. Agreed. Like, Aziz didn't have to wear that weird beanie. Well, that beanie was probably Elder Statesman, set him back 900, but he's not above that. I'm rich. Yeah, I mean, I think that every comedian feels like I've got to be wearing shoes that are brand new when I go out on stage. It's good. Well, there's a problem in the comedy world where... You ain't Cedric the Entertainer, bro. There's a sneakerhead crossover. I watched that Paul Verzi. I listened to Paul Verzi and all he's talking about is how he buys three Jordans every time he leaves the house. His wife's mad at him. Cancel D'Elia. Yeezys. fucking joe rogan's wearing fucking jordan ones like it's very strange it makes sense you have disposable income yes and you have the mental and emotional growth of a 19 year old it's true that's a good point but i i mean the we didn't even go do anything after rogan because we were so spun out yeah i need time to process the size of his head was so large too yeah i mean he looked When he had the blouse, and the blouse is pretty big because he's a buff guy. Yeah, his chest is, he's wise. So he's wearing a shirt, like his shirt size is probably the same as I, as I wear. And his, you know, like if I'm wearing like a 34, 38 jean, he's wearing, you know, he's wearing a 34, 24 jean, you know.

It looked like he had on the 34-24-7 for all mankind. I don't know if Eminem does black and orange colors for Halloween, but he looked like a black Eminem. Yeah, he did. Black on top, skinny little legs, big head. You're right. He looked like... He looked like an Eminem. Like Aretha Franklin just came off stage and I could finally untuck this shirt, y'all. No, the shirt was hitting the knee. But when you wear the skinny painted on jeans and then you have... this huge barrel chest it creates a lot of distance in between the in the stomach area and down there's it's almost like a sheet like a ghost sheet so there's so much it's the proportions of his body are so bad that he had to become a comedian or else he was never gonna it was never gonna happen for him you're right you're right i just i don't know man i'm in the opener hans kim who is one of the most racist comedians I've ever seen in my life, but he is Asian, so he can say things. Your theory is that Rogan has him open because he knows his crowd will like it, and he can get away with it because he's Asian. Look, when you're the godfather, you have your foot soldiers, you have your capos, you have your shooters. Every rapper has, I got my little shooters, they're 16-year-old, 19-year-old kids. They have nothing to lose. All they want to do is be me when they grow up, and they will do anything I want them to do, even some dirty work. I need you to go take care of something. And he's like, hey, I have $700 billion. I'm constantly being canceled. The news talks about me every day. My career is hanging on. It's not hanging on by a thread, but I'm flirting with cancellation on a daily basis. I can't say the things that I feel inside of my head. I can't say the locker room talk that I say around my friends publicly. So I'm going to hire a person of color who has no problem saying some crazy shit because my audience, you know, it's like the tiger cage. I'm going to be feeding them some pretty good, you know, ham sandwich slices, some deli meat, but they really want that raw steak.

I wonder if that guy, what's his name again? Hans Kim. Okay, if Hans, that sounds German. He was Asian, I saw him. If Hans... Hans does sound German and Kim does sound Asian. If Hans is, like, do you think his material is different? I think anyone who opens for Rogan, you have to change your material. And I think it's sort of understood and that's how it's going to be kind of thing. And it's the cost of doing business. If you want to come on this show and open for me in front of this crowd, you're going to have to adjust some of your material. And you don't have to change your act, but let's say you've got 100 jokes in your arsenal. These 10 that you don't really do in Venice Beach and Highland Park. Those are going to kill. And Gowanus. Yeah, let's pull those out. Pull those out for when we're doing Albuquerque on a Monday or whatever it is. Where, you know, no one's your normal fans aren't going to hear you say a few, you know, kind of things. Yeah, it was worse than I could have ever imagined. So deeply unfunny. Yeah, it is a trend that I think is going to become a lot more popular where the powerful, powerful, rich whitey is going to employ minorities, people of color. gay people trans people whatever you know anyone who's not a straight white person they're going to employ these people and they're going to do they're going to say the things that they can't say and i mean it's not a bad idea whoever is paying tim dylan you know tim dylan is the same thing you know he's the perfect like hey i'm gay i can say all this insane shit i'm gay and i'm fat and i'm funny very you know like hey i'm funny You're going to chuckle. I'm going to say some shit that most people can't get away with because I'm not a straight white guy. And I'm going to do the dirty work. I don't know, man. Look, I've had a tough weekend. I've learned so much about just general sociology and just how large swaths of the world operate. It's good to get out of our bubble. Eye-opening.

I went to a fucking football game today. I've been on a real tear in the South. But I think that the... How did my Falcons do, by the way? They won. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, so today... Anyone can beat Cleveland, right? Just kidding, I have no idea. So today, during another beautiful afternoon here, my friend Larry, who works at Mercedes-Benz, he's a creative director, the new stadium. Oh, wow. He was like, you want tickets to anything? I was like, yeah, sure. I'll take my dad to see the Falcons game. He's like, all right, cool. Two days later, I get the ticket master. I can do anything but Bad Bunny. I got tickets. Yeah, literally, he's like, Elton John's going to be tough, but you want to see some MLS? I got you, bro. But he sends me the tickets because his new stadium is very nice. He sends me the tickets immediately. Then yesterday or two days ago, he texted me. He's like, why don't you guys come early? Come on the field. I'm like, oh, am I? Okay. Am I running some? you need me to run a pattern or like what am i am i just am i hanging out he's like no you're just hanging out you don't have to you don't have to you don't have to suit up you know what i mean you don't have to do any instagram story posts yeah i don't do any instagram story posts i don't have to get take any hits we have of course we have to give a shout out um yeah just go to atlantafalcons.com use the promo code gone at checkout if you want to Buy the football team. If you want to get your name on the back of the jersey, you will get 20% off if he's gone at checkout. But, yeah, so I take my dad, and Larry, first of all, Larry meets us at the entrance to the stadium, full Tom Brown suit for game day. He escorts us. He hands us these passes, escorts us directly onto the field, and we watch the warm-ups. And I've got to say, pretty sick. Yeah. You probably like the warm-ups more than the game. Well, I was taking notes on some stretches and stuff that I was interested in. Because there's a lot of downtime in the game. Yeah, I mean, you know, when you watch a football game on TV, which I obviously do, you know, for 10 hours every Sunday, you know, you're watching the commercials, it just flies by, you know. Y'all actually kind of like the commercials. Yeah, I like the commercials. I'm kind of an ad guy. But then when you're at the game, it's every five seconds is a TV break where they pull out some fucking...

budget dancers they got some fundraiser going on today this is not an exaggeration today there's a video like a pre-tape of this guy and his face looks fucking crazy you know he's like i'm a marine full beat not full beat okay i'm a marine i got i've survived cancer seven times my face got blown off and you know he takes out half his mouth no it's crazy he looks crazy it's like really a crazy story okay I'm watching it, and I'm like... You lost some shit in Fallujah. Yeah, and I'm like, all right, yeah, bro, sorry. You know, that sucks. And then he's like, but you know what? When I woke up from my last surgery, I decided... Not sure why I'm laughing? ...to dedicate my life to the National Anthem. I'd never sung a day in my life. I woke up, and I felt compelled to be the best I could be. at singing the national anthem of this country wow and i'm like all right dude that's weird but yeah like that's a really weird thing like okay dude i mean i know you're marine but like jesus so then then they're like of all the things to devote and then they're like yeah a song it's not even like it's not even like a cure song and then he said then he gets he goes then they're like and today to sing bohemian rhapsody yeah we all know that we all know the anthem It's like, today, singing the national anthem, this motherfucker comes down. Bro, this guy sounds like a dying mouse, bro. This guy can't sing for shit. A little pitchy? I'm just like, bro, this is crazy. Just because it's like if I was like, you know what? I woke up yesterday. I dedicated my life to basketball. I'm going to be the best basketball player I can be. And they put me out one-on-one versus LeBron. And he dunked. Breaks both your ankles, quite literally. It's just like you can't just say, like, just because you've been through some shit doesn't mean you can just say, it's crazy. Like, why would you want to be bad at something just because you did it? So you said, big bro, we ain't going to give you a pass. Big bro. No, fuck no. Nobody gets a pass, bro. Get Adele. I don't want to hear these losers. And then they have some loser from, like, I don't know, some, like, you know, America's Got Talent runner-up from Austell came down. She sang a cover. She sounded pretty good, to be honest.

So he had the energy of, regardless of the fact that half of his face had been removed by IED, what's it called? Yeah. IUD? No, not that, not that. Whether or not he had all of his face and faculties, he would have been a terrible singer. Well, he said that himself. He was basically like, I had never sang a day in my life. I woke up at 55 years old and decided I was going to sing. He didn't go to school. Everyone learns the National Anthem in school, especially as somebody his age. No, no. I don't think it's about learning the words to the National Anthem. I think his point was... He didn't invent it. He's trying to perfect it. No, no. His point was the song is so powerful and so moving. It doesn't matter what you sound like. For those 90 seconds, it brings everyone to it. I'm like, bro, have you ever been to any state besides Georgia? No one gives a shit about the national anthem. Bro, it's called Lana Del Rey. Pick any song. You ever heard? So you haven't heard Lady Gaga, really? Even High by the Beach is more moving than that. But it was just like this. I was just like looking around. Everybody's like standing up like, wow. I'm like. So you guys are just going to pretend like this guy doesn't sound like absolute shit. Yes, we are. I'm not saying his story isn't insane and that's crazy. I get all of that. I mean, basically what it was was a Chappelle show skit without the laugh track. I was like, I would rather, I don't know, man. So you're like, I'm not the only one here who feels like they're taking crazy pills. Standing up for the National Anthem is loser shit, first of all, but I felt pressure. Damn, I don't remember the last time I stood up for a national anthem. I didn't want the guy. There are two guys. Not to get on my De La Roca shit. There are two guys behind me, behind my dad and I, that both had, I don't even know if he knows this, both had like full Scott from Anthrax goatees. So for our listeners at home, that's a beard, a goatee beard that's maybe two feet long. It could hit the belly button depending on height.

Oh, wow. These guys didn't know each other, and they literally were like, I saw it happen. I saw them exchange a knowing glance of like, damn, do you use Perp Plus on that too, bro? It was crazy. What do you do about flyaways? But there's also a lot of, because it was Falcons versus Browns, so there's a lot of Browns fans in the building. Makes me sick to my stomach. And there's apparently a guy on the Browns named Chubb. C-H-U-B-B. Last name or first name? Last name. Like the bank? Chubb. Yeah. Not like Drake's homie, but without an S. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there's a bank called Chubb with two Bs. The point of this is the guy next to me and his chick who were eating raw hot dogs, like no sauce and just bun. I'm like, what? A dry hot dog. His shirt said Chubb hub like porn hub. What? Yeah. He said, I'm Chubhub. And he had a shirt made? No, no. I think this is a thing that the Browns fans do to support Chubhub. Okay, okay. So I was hoping that this was a one of one. He had this idea. But this is a thing. So that's like when I saw the only Rams sticker for Dodge Ram owners. Yes, yes, yes. Damn, Chubhub. Chubhub was sitting next to me. He had a nice sleeve. You know, a lot of guys at sporting events, tattoos with the Apple Watch. What do you mean with the Apple Watch? You got like a half sleeve, you got the Apple Watch, you got the black rubber wedding ring. That's the southern special right there. And then if you may or may not have a leg sleeve, and it will be a lovely... portrait setting of a largemouth bass being pulled out of the water. Or something involving Star Wars characters. The South is just absolutely crazy. I've done too much Southern stuff this weekend. I need to detail. I might have to fly to New York just for 24 hours to reset. Bro, me and your chick ate ribs and Frito pie today. But you like that.

Golly. Jason and Al went to Fox Brothers Barbecue today. Get you some. I had to do my classic passive-aggressive move where nobody was talking to us or taking our order when you ask the server if you order at the front. I hate to do it, but it had to be done. Do you think that was because they could tell they were dealing with some city folk? There's a little bit of that. They said that they were in the middle of a shift change, but I think that's a lord of horse. Yeah, this is like when I called Enterprise and they didn't answer and then I went there and they're like, oh, we can't do that today. And I was like, well, I tried to call and they're like, well, we were busy. I'm like, bitch, I'm sure you were. You still got to answer the phone. But yeah, honestly, I like that I've been in the South and I haven't had really anything to do. And to just kind of do nothing is nice. It's nice. I mean, look, man, this time of year. The nice houses and the nice neighborhoods here are so perfect. I know. And they're so much cheaper. But you've got to live here. Look, I couldn't do it, of course. But I get it. I could, but maybe not year-round. Oh, you're a fall in Atlanta guy? Look at summer in fall in Atlanta. Summer is brutal. You don't want summer. I like brutal. You don't understand it, bro. You ain't built like this. You're not, dude. 130? It's going to be 130 degrees today? No, but it's going to be 100 and humid, which is worse. I don't give a fuck. You ain't ready for humidity, bro. My taint already coming stank. Off the lot. Driving off the lot. We're already moist. Speaking of driving off the lot, Big TJ, thanks to my generosity of... employing him at this podcast, was able to purchase a new car. Bitch. I'm the one who has access to the Stripe account. No, you're right. Thanks to Jason's... I just want all you influencers listening to know that one day you can buy your own car, too, if you do that right. If you kind of stick to it and you really give it your all... This is not the first car I've had. Yeah, but it's the first nice car you've had. I guess so, yeah. I mean, when I met you, what did you have? The Prius? Prius, yeah.

But, I mean, that was in the heyday of Los Angeles when Larry David drove a Prius. So you could... Oh, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying this car is nicer. I guess maybe I was projecting to my life partner who would say, you're an F-word if you drive a fucking Prius. I mean, I like a Prii, but, I mean... I do, too. You get a black... In 2008, you got a black Prius in Los Angeles. You're... And you're white. You could do anything you want. You're good. I could be blacked out drunk driving down the freeway, and I will just be the 14th black Prius that's driving poorly. But then there was that dark period where you didn't have a car because you thought it was cheaper to lift everywhere? Well, no. That was when I was super into cycling. Okay. And I worked from home. I didn't have a commute. You didn't work from home. You were a bike messenger, so you had to meet up. I was never a bike messenger. At different public squares with your other messengers. I was at the time when the only time I went out at night was to go DJ or go out drinking. I would have taken an Uber anyway. Yeah, I would have, quote unquote, taken an Uber anyway. That's for sure. I'm sure it is. What? It's true. Bitch, you're on Mario Kart time. You're gone off the cranberry and vodka still driving. Don't act like that. I don't like to, but I have done it before. It's something that I really adamantly avoided for a long time. I think I had some kind of scare, but I went years without ever driving drunk. I had some scares, too. Of course, now I'm back. Welcome home, brother. Just this afternoon. My point is that you... The truck is retired, and we are entering into a new phase of TJ. E-Class TJ. E-Class TJ is pulling up in the navy blue with the mocha brown leather. Espresso brown. Espresso, I apologize. Because I don't put milk in mine, so it's a little lighter, but we don't need to get into that. I don't want to get DeBris to talk to that. It's as dark of a brown as you can get for interior leather on the Benz, I think. And does it have a moonroof? It does have a moonroof. Okay, and it has Apple CarPlay.

It does have Apple CarPlay. Okay. Good to go. How big is the trunk? It's a standard size trunk. It's not bad. Okay. Our seats fold down. You know, we can fit the skis in there. Perfect. Because I was wondering what we're going to do on this trip. You know, we got the nice... It has all the shit that you want. You know, a big ass display. It drives fast. What are the shoes looking like? The rims look good. They're not... They have some nice tires on them. Are the tires low profile, regular tires? They're a little low profile, but they're not the normal janky Benz wheels. Somebody had upgraded. The previous owner had upgraded. No, they're still Mercedes Benz wheels, but they just happen to look... I don't know. There's something about... I'll show you a photo of them. They look a little nicer than... Oh, they do look a little nicer. I feel like that's the upgrade of the... that's like the stock upgrade, which is a nice choice because you don't want to look too flashy. And now I heard from a mutual friend of ours that the windows are not tinted. Is that something you kind of plan to change? Or are you keeping it? I think I might tint up. I mean, I live in Glendale. Everyone was like, oh, are you stoked that now you're finally going to be able to fit in Glendale driving a band? And I was like. Not until I get these windows tinted and I start smoking with all the windows rolled up will I ever fully be respected by my comrades. So you're a pussy until you smoke Paul Mall's The Windows Up and you've got the .5 tint. Yeah. So 4 in the morning on Friday, we have our driver, Vic. If anyone needs a driver in Los Angeles, send me a DM. But he's the man. But he lives in Glendale. He's basically built like Joe Rogan. He's killed many. He's the biggest boss of all time. We love this guy. Straight shooter. Every once in a while, he picks me up, and he forgets to turn the music down, and he listens to 90s House. Like C&C Music Factory shit. Nothing endeared him more to you than knowing that that's what he listens to in his free time. Yeah. When he told me his sister was a doctor, and I was like, what happened to you? He didn't. What happened to me? I love to dance. I just love to dance. I lost years in Berlin.

I prioritize dance where I shouldn't have. No, but so it's four in the morning on Friday. It's not even out yet. I'm still wiping the gunk out of the sleepies out of my eyes. I'm wheeling my plastic Remova, which is never going to biodegrade. I just learned today. To the curb and, you know, Mr. Jason, here you go, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, hey, Vic. Because you think you're talking to a fellow auto enthusiast. He has multiple cars. This is a guy who's probably purchased and sold hundreds of cars in his lifetime. He owns Benzes, Navigators, Escalades, Lexi, Beamers, you name it. He's bought it, owned it, sold it, stolen it, removed a dead body from it, you name it. Chopped at least one or two. And his car was parked right in front of mine. It was dark. You can't see the full thing. He didn't ask to see any photos on my phone or anything, but I was like, Yeah, take a look. Got a new... Mr. Jason got a new whip. Got a new car. Just got it yesterday. What do you think, Vic? And he looks at it and he gives it half of a second. You know, he looks at... You know when like a little kid is like, I drew you a picture and it's like two lines and crayon and a piece of paper and you're like, oh, that's good, baby. He gave me that look and the only thing he said, the first thing and last thing out of his mouth is... No tint? And then I'm like, Vic, I've owned this car for seven hours. I haven't had a chance to tint it yet. And he's like, I'll give you a number. It was like it had the energy of like my big fat Greek wedding. Or like you tell the grandpa or the grandma like, hey, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, no, this. And you're like, okay. So he's happy for you, but he's also maybe a little bit disappointed in you. The fact that you would drive it off the lot with no tent says something about you as a man. That's just crazy, bro. Yeah, that's crazy. But he knows that I'm a friend, and he will give me the phone number of a tent artist in my neighborhood. And he has let me know that he is, in fact.

Very good. So I feel excited about it. Well, my question is, if you're going to get it tinted, just because maybe I'm home right now, I'm in the ATL. In high school, it was very popular to have kind of the sun strip on the front go very deep. Transition. No, no, hard line, like when I go to the wrong barber. So you're kind of... Because you're so bent back. You're so bent back and you're seeing underneath it. But I think we could maybe get a nice gone kind of insignia there. Just to really kind of get vandalized. Well, no, I don't think. I think the car is blue. I'm just seeing a green kind of insignia on the black sunstrip. Okay, so it's low profile laser cut. Of course. No, this is only the finest. I would have someone design it for you. It's very. whatever the opposite of invasive is. Exactly. No, no. This is topical surgery. This is a topical local. We don't even need to put you under. No, you're not going under for this. But it's just something to think about. I'll give you some numbing cream if you want, but honestly you won't. We'll be in and out. I don't even know how much window tending costs because I'm so not interested in it. I mean, it's probably going to be like 800 bucks. Between five and a grand, probably something like that. I've never had tinned windows in my life. In fact, I would have it removed. That's crazy, bro. I hate it. No, because, I mean, you always say you got to see me coming. Exactly. But we're not all young dro, Chris. Well, I mean, I just think that if I'm going to have the Patek on and it's going to be shining like that, I want you, I need you to see it. Yeah, because how else are they going to home invasion you? Home invasion me? Don't home invasion me. It's weird because I spent my whole life, you know, my modest upbringings, the thought of, paying somebody to tint one's windows was an expense that i didn't even ever think was within my bounds you're welcome bro and then i met my no not you you're anti-tent fuck you i met my chick her family my driver and everyone is just like yeah every single car tint the windows all the windows always but is there any reason what's wrong with the only reason people do it is because they think it looks good it doesn't there's no other purpose for it

It keeps the car cooler? All right, bro. Yeah, it's purely cosmetic, I think. But also, I mean, I don't fucking know. Like, I'm sure my fiancé's dad is not, like, nobody's checking for him at the red light. What's that guy up to? I think it's more like, I think people justify it. Like, it keeps it cool. It'll protect the leather seats. It'll allow you to move in silence. I think it's a self-confidence. Like lasagna? I think it's a self-confidence thing where I've never had enough self-confidence to think I am so hot that I need to tint my windows. You're not still. I know. I know. And then it's like when you go to the gym and usually the hottest person at the gym is wearing a hat pulled all the way down, big sunglasses. You're covering your face as much as possible. You're tinting your face because you're like, oh. If the world saw this, I'd be hounded. I wouldn't be able to walk two steps. It's just not worth it. It's just not worth it. So I have to live in this cloak of secrecy. Same vibe. And I've never been there. I'm kind of wondering what you're actually going to do. I feel like you're not going to tent. I'm going to tent. It's not at the top of my to-do list. I've got to get to those rain gutters first. And this dish isn't going to do themselves. But, yeah, I mean, that's why I have my life partner in my life. I mean, I wouldn't have bought this car if it wasn't for her being like, let's go check out this car. You should have this car. I would have been like, yeah, I'll get it one day, but I don't care. Yes, women push us. That's true. Partners push us. And us stubborn Virgos, we need to push it. Well, we should talk about some news. We got some news. Okay. What kind of news we got? About how long gone live. Okay, how long gone live announcements? Coming to you very soon. So our first show of the Troubadour. October 19th, West Hollywood Troubadour with Joe Mandy is sold out. But the announcements are as follows. October 20th, Highland Park at the Lodge Room. We do have a friend of the show, John Early, joining us. So go get those tickets now. Look, he's funnier than Jason.

Probably funnier than me. So it's going to be a great night over there in hell. And he's only one guest so far. Who knows who's going to come with John. Who knows who else I'll be able to pull out of my back pocket. But also for the Lodge Room show since I think that's a Friday, right? Yeah, it is. It's like Thursday for Troubadour Friday. So Friday since we all have no work or school the next day. I think maybe hopefully upstairs there's like a little bar, club area, and we'll do a Them Jeans and Friends DJ set after a party. Yeah, bring your USB sticks. Bring your USB sticks. So, yeah, so you get a full evening of entertainment. You get to see John Early, Them Jeans, Jason Stewart, and you, C. Black. Wow, okay. You get all that stuff. And so you show up at, what, 7 o'clock. You have some. Ghia, you rub some free soft soap, scrubbing bars on your body, and there's all kinds of cool products. Sorry, soft services, not soft soap. Well, soft soap, I understand the confusion. They're another sponsor as well. But, yeah, you're going to have all these free goodies and cool things, and then you get comedy, and you have laughs, and then you dance until 2 in the morning. I won't be there until 2 in the morning, neither will you. We have an early flight to catch to Tampa the next day. Yeah, we'll see about that. 1028, New York, New York, the Bowery Ballroom. We are being joined by CNN. This is a culinary event, guys. The face of CNN, Alison Roman, a How Long Gone favorite and a favorite of white listeners everywhere is going to be joining us at the Bowery Ballroom. So get those tickets. This is going to be chef-driven live podcasting. We can't bring Roman out on stage and not get to slicing, chopping, sniffing. I will be marinating. I will be sous-vying. I will be broasting your ass. And finally, Brooklyn, New York Music Hall Williamsburg on November the 4th. Still working that one out, so stay tuned. But, you know, those tickets are selling well. All the tickets are selling well. Make sure you get them now. Those are the guests as we see it. Our merch designs are locked. Those will be coming to you at all of these shows. We're also going to put a few little teasers online for sale in the next couple weeks before we hit the road if everything goes as planned.

Yeah, we have some merch design from Jason Stewart, Ben Edgar, Sam Jane. There's all kinds of cool stuff. All of your favorites. But yeah, great, great week of podcasts like last week with Zane Lowe and Phoenix. If you missed those, go check them out. And if you are here because of those, you probably won't listen to this again. Yeah, both of those pods are really good. Great pods. And then next week we've got... We took two people that were bad at podcasting and made great episodes out of them. Jason is a motherfucking surgeon. Next week, we're crossing the pond, actually, I think, for both episodes, which is my favorite thing. As an Anglophile. A certified legend on Tuesday that if you know, you know, type B, but he's going to have stories for us. Banging. All right. Well, thank you guys. And thank you for the Hotel Claremont for letting me crash over here for the last few days. You guys rock. Thanks for giving me a bottle of Casamigos that I've been drinking a little bit. And I'm going to go over to Meemaw and Peepaw's house and give the rest of this Casamigos to your own daddy. And, yeah, thank you to the Atlanta Falcons, Larry Book, Mercedes-Benz Arena, of course. And also no thanks to Joe Rogan for being the least funny person I've ever paid money to see live. We'll talk to you next week. Shitted with my VBS rings on Shouted saving hoes Told that boy put his cape on My partner down the road I'm talking to him on tango I put that bitch in a Porsche I bought that bitch in New York I'm scraping a bowl with a fork Scraping a bowl with a fork I'm fucking that bitch in my van I'll be shoot at your man. You still imma cut off your hand.