How Long Gone

965. - Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne is an actor, director, producer, and memoirist. We chat with him from his home upstate about the Empire State Building Banksy-esque proposal, some Taylor Swift wedding predictions, the bachelor life, escaping L.A. at 18, why he has a surplus of steak right now, some great Joan Didion stories, his love of obituaries, Mamdani’s thermostat settings, learning about the Joan Didion Celine ad while in the Amazonian jungle, Jason predicting the return of female-only hotels, some drug stories, and Griffin hosting SNL in 1986. instagram.com/griffindunne [https://www.instagram.com/griffindunne/] twitter.com/donetodeath [http://twitter.com/donetodeath] twitter.com/themjeans [http://twitter.com/themjeans] howlonggone.com [http://howlonggone.com] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

964. - Jon Kelly

Jon Kelly is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the media company Puck [https://puck.news/]. We chat with him from his office in New York about restaurants desperately needing more alcohol sales, Jason proposing a revamp of movie theater concessions, the suburbs being exotic to a native New Yorker, the need for Chief Taste Officers, whether Puck plans to enter the prediction market space, acquiring Air Mail, their former competition, the need to be camera-ready as a journalist, him reading what you think he reads, his history with the Knicks, when you train your agents to replace you, and we close on his personal philosophy of lunchtime food temperatures. puck.news [https://puck.news/] twitter.com/donetodeath [http://twitter.com/donetodeath] twitter.com/themjeans [http://twitter.com/themjeans] howlonggone.com [http://howlonggone.com] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

963. - Chris & Jason

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in Atlanta, and Jason is in Providence, R.I. We chat about Jason being in town to DJ a wedding the night before and breaking down his playlist, Kanye does 72K in Tampa, Drake’s quiet charity, Chris knowing the guy you call to "light up" New York City, public defecation at the Noah Kahan gig, the canned hard seltzer epidemic, Jason suggesting we sunset the watermelon radish, R.I.P. Chef Katsuya, Jason visits a local “Chris” type of gym, real men do not "sample flavors," the new Phoebe dropped, and our Fourth of July plans. twitter.com/donetodeath [http://twitter.com/donetodeath] twitter.com/themjeans [http://twitter.com/themjeans] howlonggone.com [http://howlonggone.com] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

962. - Chris & Jason

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in Atlanta, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about white chocolate clusters, the Kiki’s seizure and other restaurant gossip, the current state of dive bars, both of us cashing checks at the liquor store back in the day, Chris going to the Meta glasses mixer in Chelsea, and the interviewing of Meta employees, the heat waves in Paris and Cannes, Whoa Vicky’s renaissance, sundress season falling flat, Pharrell’s red wave, and Johnny Marr’s guitars going up for auction. twitter.com/donetodeath [http://twitter.com/donetodeath] twitter.com/themjeans [http://twitter.com/themjeans] howlonggone.com [http://howlonggone.com] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

961. - Matt Spicer

A cinema-heavy episode today with Matt Spicer, director of the now-cult indie Ingrid Goes West, and his newest film, Little Brother, on Netflix this weekend, with Jon Cena and Eric André. We chat with Matt about Cannes Lions, his Criterion ADU, being 30 days out from having his first kid, when acquiring “festival rights” goes wrong, the dark corners of Blu-rays, his wife, actor Sarah Ramos, things that take us out of films, Jason saw the Bourdain biopic, Netflix’s habit of putting up one billboard near the director’s house, and how we all have a friend who spends too much time at the kill shelter. instagram.com/hellomattspicer [https://www.instagram.com/hellomattspicer] twitter.com/donetodeath [http://twitter.com/donetodeath] twitter.com/themjeans [http://twitter.com/themjeans] howlonggone.com [http://howlonggone.com] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]