824. - Chris & Jason

31:12Jason Stewart:First day fits, handled. Walk out ready for whatever's next. visit your nearest croc store today

31:23Jason Stewart:but i'll talk about it and then really quick i just want to because you were talking about beef tallow i was like drunk two days ago and i wrote in my podcast show notes just the phrase chicago runs on tallow uh in a in a duncan style of way i just want to make sure i didn't forget that before i cross off my list but yeah wow thanks thanks yeah we needed that it's super important But yeah, shout out to everyone who double-chopped a photo of me throwing a baseball. But yeah, our friend Mary-Kate over at Neiman Marcus helped put it all together. And her brother works with the organization, went over there, got to hit onto the field and throw the ball around with my brother right on the grass for a little bit to warm up, which was...

32:09Did they provide you with a glove?

32:10Jason Stewart:No glove. No glove. I was just bare-handing it. I would have gone to the dugout and said, one of you motherfuckers, give me a glove. I was thinking about it. I don't respect baseball players enough not to take their shit. I don't know if anyone has a glove in my size for a lefty. You know what I mean? That's true. That's true. All these dinky major league athletes. You know those short stops. They're small. All right, so you're tossing the ball around. Hung like a bumblebee. Yeah, so I'm tossing the ball around with my brother, which honestly that was more important and memorable than the throw itself to me because my brother's a huge baseball fan him and i grew up playing little league together and i would pitch the ball and he would he would be nice enough to catch for me in the front yard pause and we would you know so he got to be on the field at wrigley you know one of like the last remaining like it's just wrigley and boston basically are the only two like original stadiums from from the original baseball days or whatever 100 years old so that was really cool and then um clark the mascot runs out posts up on home plate you go out there what why is hold on hold on hold on why is why is the the why is the mascot named clark it's a great great question i mean it's a i know it's a street in chicago but i just feels like clark is like a twerp name i got it it's named it is named after clark street chris that's it okay okay okay i didn't know if there was more to it than that clark was introduced in 2014 boring boring but now every team has has like a mascot that catches the ball it's kind of a whole thing they love the mascot try to get the kids out there you know get those tickets moving for the family blah blah blah but yeah you do that throw out the ball the whole thing is over really quick it's a very professional organization they send you like a drop box link with your assets and you know it's a it's a whole operation very smooth but afterwards we we had some great seats right behind the home team dug out.

34:12Jason Stewart:I was just ordering beers off of my phone and a guy brings it over to you. That's nice. Really nice. But then every time I had a beer, I started spelling my name a little differently. And he would, he would just, he would say it differently. And like the last one, I, it was like J-A-Z-O with an accent mark over it and N, and he was like,

34:35Jazzo? Jazzo? Because he's like a barker. He's like a guy who's selling peanuts. Okay.

34:40Jason Stewart:Yeah. I did have some peanuts as well. Love a peanut at a baseball game. The best part is just littering. The littering part of it is really nice. I mean, that's the only thing that could make baseball exciting is a little high from littering. I agree with you, though. It feels good to toss a shell. Unfortunately, my Cubbies lost, but they won the other games of the series. It was almost a sweep. But it was cool being there in a place like Chicago. you know chicago boston it has the kind of real kind of american conservative sports white guy kind of energy but it was it was feeling like a very inclusive space and there was i saw a lot of chicago cubs pride jerseys and i was just imagining what it must have been like going there in the 80s and how that was not even that would not be possible to do that but when i went to the bathroom there was a line you know the baseball bathroom line is like 700 guys even for the trough even for the trough there's but the line is very long but it's ever moving it's like a it's very yeah sure i know what you mean i know what you mean very efficient operation i was like literally maybe 140th in line i waited for less than three minutes it was pretty cool but there was a guy at the trough and he was wearing a pride jersey and no dude wanted to pee to the left or the ride of him because that would come on come on so then i cut the line past 50 guys to go pee on the trough next to next to my pride boy do you think he was just or do wow that's actually really that's actually insane so it's a good it's a good hack if you really have to go and you're in a long line of the trough bring out bring out a pride jersey or you know i don't know i should to that it'll part the sea what is the what does the pride jersey look like is it is it a flat like is it a multi-color stripe situation or is it just like a patch there's there's different options the one that i saw it was a standard cubbies jersey but then the two numbers on the back were rainbow flag colors oh that's that's tasteful actually i like that it was tasteful it was tasteful it yeah it didn't it wasn't just like trying to think of something gay to wear um it's basically just like a it's like a jacquemus tunic that's a tunic it's a single button mandarin collar tunic um it's made of a an amazing amazing fabric uh yeah that's okay that's it that's a very that feels like something that really would still happen in chicago and boston and somehow not in New York.

37:25Jason Stewart:I know, right? It's strange because I think of all these places as so similar in many ways as far as how far they've come. And if I was like a Silver Jews type of songwriter or even a Bob Dylan, I would be, Pride Jersey at the Urinal is a good kind of starting point for verse two. Pride Jersey? Alright, hopefully hopefully Ryan Davis or Jake Linderman. Hopefully none of these guys are listening. They're going to take that. Jake, take that. You have my words. Please. That's really funny. It sounds like it was a success. The beers come in a funny cup, or could you get them in a regular cup? There's a lot of different options.

38:09Jason Stewart:You can get a regular cup. You can get just the can of the Michelob Ultra, or you can get the decorative, collectible baseball bat kind of thing which uh ben edgar had one i saw a good video i don't think he enjoyed and he didn't enjoy it because the one thing about a hollowed out plastic baseball bat is that it's round at the bottom so you can't set it down so you have to just constantly be holding holding this this three-foot baseball bat filled to the brim with with alcohol oh that's funny that's actually really funny they got your ass you can't it's like having a very long ice cream cone that's how they get you drunk though you can't put it down i mean it's like yeah when i have an ice cream cone and it starts dripping i'm gonna devour that shit i'm not gonna i'm not i have to finish it fast same thing with the brewski i imagine especially michael bolter no calories exactly gotta take it and stop it gotta take them down um all right well look i'm glad it went well I'm glad that you, you know.

39:14Look, you didn't throw a strike, but you threw a pitch that could happen in the game. Do you know what I'm saying? Like a little bit outside a little bit is totally fine. You didn't bounce it. You didn't hit the umpire. You didn't go, you know, because we've seen some crazy ones.

39:29Jason Stewart:I know it could have been much worse, but I don't know. Obviously, it's all fun and games, and you can practice a million times, but when you're standing on the mound. Do you think the pressure got to you? I don't think the pressure got to me. Honestly, what got to me was I felt a little rushed because they were getting people on and off really quick. And I think I would have been better if I had the glove because that's what I was practicing with. Of course, yeah. I didn't think about that. Yeah, just the offset and then that creates the sort of muscle memory movement. Don't bring up offset. Don't bring up offset right now.

40:04But I get it. No, I get what you're saying. Like that's, I can't imagine throwing a baseball without a glove does feel pretty weird, I think.

40:12Jason Stewart:Yeah, I didn't realize how foreign it would feel. And then also the mound where it has a little kind of white rectangle that you put your foot up against. The rubber. The rubber. It wasn't out there. They hadn't, they wait for the first civilian pitch. They're like, you guys don't get all that. Yeah, so I'm going to, they're like, I was talking to a guy at the show the night before in Chicago. and thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Chicago. It was good fun. But he was like, and when you're up there, since you're not wearing cleats, you want to make sure you really dig the side of your foot into that rubber and that'll keep you nice and straight and give you the right force and the angle because you're up on the mound and it's taller than you think it's going to be.

40:56Jason Stewart:I'm like, all right, got it. Put it on the rubber. And I go out there and it's just a little insert rubber here ass area. So that threw me off. and I was like do I do the full wind up or do I do the half wind up you know is it gonna if I do the full theatrical wind up and make a meal of it then if I don't do a good pitch then I'll really look like a fucking knob head so then I was like better to under promise over deliver you know just do a regular throw but people are like oh okay made it there didn't bounce it he caught it good to go I mean bouncing it is diabolical I couldn't. I would leave if I bounced it.

41:36I would walk off the field and not watch the game if I bounced it.

41:40Jason Stewart:You know what? I think it should be like a tennis serve. I think that you should be allowed two chances. The first one, you go all out. It's great. No problem. The second one, all right. We're not going to fuck up twice. We'll do a good. Yeah. What's the baseball version of a kick serve? You know what I mean? Just really. Yeah. Underhand. Underhand. underhand whatever it takes whatever it takes well look i mean i'm glad that i'm glad that all worked out and the jersey did look good on you i have to say you look you look comfortable thank you jersey i'm glad the last minute i i chose a large instead of an extra large and i made the right choice yeah i have never worn a baseball jersey because i'm not i wasn't in dmx's crew and never worked retail at supreme but i imagine them to be never played baseball i did play baseball are you kidding me i played baseball until i was like 12 probably so then but then you wore a jersey not like those jerseys weren't real it was like a t-shirt with a couple buttons like there was it was never like an m playing in the broke hole league no bro just think about it you probably didn't either honestly you probably i played in two leagues i played in two leagues one of them had full uniforms and then one of them had the little cute cutie ringer t kind of thing yeah the yeah exactly i don't i just baseball jerseys are one of the worst garments ever made in my opinion like i just think it's very tough to pull pull it off as far as on the street on the field of course but the other thing about baseball that i think if i was wearing timberlands it would have enhanced things a little bit more i don't think so i do not think so i well you would have been it would have been harder to dig into that mound that's for sure but you're right you're right but the but the the players now their pants are like baggy and it's such a strange it looks strange it doesn't look as it doesn't look easier to play in it doesn't look right yeah it doesn't look right but also they would they would rather sacrifice the flow and ease of movement as long as they don't look gay just like the guy on the airplane eating eating his banana oh yeah we saw a guy we were we were we were flying to chicago and a guy who looked like a triathlete like literally had like a you know to me i i i had to flinch and look twice because i thought it was literally lance armstrong that's so funny because he i told you he looked like mark duplass if he was fit to me and those two people don't look alike at all but i whatever i think we had different side profile views that's why that's true but yeah he's so he's like a triathlete looking motherfucker with like the you know backpack and the water he got a garment on yeah Yeah, he's got the garment on, fit, and he pulls out the banana on an airplane.

44:17Jason Stewart:Well, first of all, the banana was in his front pocket. Crazy, crazy. Almost as if it was like a prop that set design gave you. And I was seconds away from making a, is that a banana in your pocket type joke. I hadn't even finished the punchline, but I was about to start saying it because it was just right there. and then he pulled it out and peeled it and then ripped the banana in half and then started feeding the banana to himself from the other hand. There is no, like, I know I'm... Which, and this goes back to pride urinal. Yeah, it's crazy. No one thinks you look gay eating a banana the right way.

45:05In fact, I would say it's obviously superior for several reasons. Mainly history is on our side, but also it keeps your hand clean. I don't want banana all over my fucking hand. The beauty of the banana is that you can eat the full thing and not have to wash your hands out. You're not dirty afterwards.

45:23Jason Stewart:Yeah, it's a self-contained unit. Yeah, that's the beauty. That's the beauty, yeah. I've had to, Jason, as you might know, since we've been friends for so long, I've had to force myself to like bananas. I never liked bananas. And I remember having to help you. So I'd be like, look, the flavor, it's good. The mushier it is, the better the flavor. The firmer it is, the lighter the flavor. You will really like kind of a harder one. So when it tickles the back of your throat, I think you'll like that feeling a little bit more. And that started kind of turning you around. It turned me around. It turned me out.

46:01I got turned out. And I think that a banana is one of the – if you travel a lot, a banana is crucial. They have them everywhere. it's easy, it's quick, it's nutritious it's healthier than almost every other option

46:12Jason Stewart:sorry to interrupt, in addition to it being a self-contained clean serving vessel it's also one of the only fruits that you do not have to wash before eating and bonus point, it's a fruit where you can eat an organic version or a non-organic version and there's virtually no benefit for having an organic version or not Basically, the gas station one is just as good and clean and safe as the Air One one. That makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. And it's good to hear that from an expert. Yeah, that blew my mind. That blew my mind. Yeah, so he ate it in a way. I would say whenever you have somebody who is too afraid to eat a banana the standard way and they have to rip it off into little chunks or maybe even bite it down the side like a corn in the cob, which some guys will eat sandwiches that way depending on how long and tubular they are.

47:12Jason Stewart:A JJ's a person who's particularly insecure might have to go corn on the cob style. But I think those people I think were just they grew up and they had friends that were sort of leaning more on the Nelk boys side of the spectrum in terms of you know emotional communication and sexual security and also cultural diversity. I saw some kind of LA news that could burst your bubble a little bit and I wanted to wait to tell you about it. Is this the Tesla diner? No, Rachel Zoe and her gay husband Roger getting divorced after countless years of matrimony. They gave us so many gifts on reality TV. Rachel Zoe, one of the great sort of aughts, you know reality stars uh with her long curly blonde hair and her boho dresses but they're calling it quits after like 20 plus years um and i you know i just well i think it's tough i hate to see it i saw um i think they have been divorced i just googled it and i think this happened like no it's official no it's like today it came out that it's like i think they were separated and I'm reading it Us Weekly, September 12, 2024.

48:31Jason Stewart:Rachel Zoe and Roger Berman called it quits after 26 years of marriage. She probably officially filed today, and that's why it's like. Look, I trust that you found that. I just want to make sure that you're not. Another. And I just looked at Roger, co-CEO of Rachel Zoe Incorporated. So he's still in the cuck chair. Bro, look, if your chick makes that much money and you work for her, it ain't worth breaking it up. I've seen it happen before. I hope to get Rachel Zoe on the pod. I don't know about that. Why? I don't know if Rachel Zoe is that fun, to be honest. I feel like she might have sort of tried to put that sort of experience behind her after years on television.

49:19Maybe I'm wrong.

49:20Jason Stewart:She knows better than to have an open-minded, not media-trained conversation. on record. All the good ones do. All the good ones do. All the good ones do, but you could do it in a good way. I just don't find Rachel Zoe particularly interesting, except for her, I mean, her heyday was also, at this point, 20 years ago. But it is interesting that she's completely stayed out of the limelight, really. How long gone? Listeners getting a glimpse behind the negotiation guest curtain, seeing how we work it out. No, I mean, I'll talk to Rachel Zoe. I don't give a shit. I'm not going to be excited about it in any weird way it was more of just like this is literally how we talk about stuff if you want to see how it actually how the sausage they followed they followed up they followed up about travi mccoy today so listeners weigh in should we talk to gym class heroes travi mccoy uh listeners please weigh in in a serious and earnest manner only not in a let's have pitbull do a concert in alaska kind of way yeah let's not let's not in a let's sell boiled cod yeah exactly let's avoid that i um yeah so i got back and i i borrowed a a mercedes convertible and yeah i heard you mention that on the t bpn report show dude dude i gotta talk i gotta talk actually tp t what is it t i i always say it wrong you're asking me no i know hold on i'm looking it up bntn tb tbpn at tbpn it's these guys um john and jordy who do like a daily show from 11 to 2 every weekday and it's it streams live on twitter i mean you can see it so it's three hours long yeah and it's like two two good-looking guys in la they're at like on a set and it looks like you're on you know cnn or whatever there's you know there's tickers running there there's the whole thing um and they they asked me to come on and then i go on and jordy one of the guys was like bro i had your fucking book in college i was like i was like oh great so uh you're more successful than me better looking i've been watching you and i'm old as a motherfucker thank you for letting me know um but it was it was he's paying his respects to the og it's true but it was really fun it's a really great idea and it leans tech heavy so i was kind of surprised to be on but they really you know talked to me about my stuff they didn't try to get me to weigh in on on sort of you know what's going on over at open ai and i appreciate that they wanted to keep it cultural what uh what up with the no show socks play uh what's going on with the this and that kind of a little bit i mean we talked about some current events and and you know publishing in general but yeah overall it was a pretty i think that they're uh very good at their job and and know you know they do they put in the time because they have like six guests an episode yeah i know i know people listen to my friend devin tech guru devin foley he uh he said he listens and he heard he saw that you were on there and he's like what the what yeah that's what that's what jordy was like netanyahu on nelk boys chris black on tpbn it's a huge day it's a huge day out here yeah this is this is like amazon prime day for this sector of the media exactly it was fun But yeah, anyway, I borrowed this Mercedes.

52:41Jason Stewart:Did you get the hat? Last question. It had a hat that has bezel embroidered on the side of it, like an M3 car. No, I didn't get a hat. Okay. Well, maybe for visit number two. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. A little upset about that. But, you know. Yeah, I borrowed this AMG, this CLE convertible, and we drove to Bedford Post Inn, which is this like it's like an hour outside of the city and it's uh in in basically like westchester so it's like rich suburban paradise but like feels like nice like it does it feels like a quaint really really uh really rich suburb and i now uh want to live there and i've only been there for photo shoots at like estates because it's like a very much like a we have horses you know we have acres and acres of land and a giant barn um does it feel keith mcnally ish going to the vineyard kind of feel it's no it's not vineyardy it's more it's it's more like kind of classic east coast american because there's no beach element you know what i'm saying so which i think kind of informs everything but the um bed for post in is this like small like hotel that was started by richard gear the actor um and i yeah i'd always wanted to go um the gigolo And finally it worked out and it was just, yeah, it was awesome.

54:03And the food, they opened like a restaurant there and the food was really good. Much, much better than I was expecting. I was very impressed.

54:13Jason Stewart:What were we eating, bro? We had some popovers, you know, with some honey butter. There was a shrimp cocktail. There was a tuna carpaccio that had a very nice wasabi pistachio, you know, type thing on it. There was an onion tartlet. There was a Caesar salad. But there was a fucking crazy dessert, like a corn ice cream with blueberries. They really, really hit. Corn ice cream with blueberries sounds like a very good upstate summertime dessert. Yeah, it felt very good. That's when the berries are tasting different. You know what I mean? The berries did hit different. Yeah, so it was good. But it was the perfect amount of time.

54:56like you know day and a half basically and the the best part is there was an equinox located only 15 minutes away so i got to go to this this kind of like hot mom equinox location where it's only busy at 10 a.m because no one has a job like all the guys are at their bloomberg terminals and the women are at the equinox sounds perfect it was amazing and the great smoothie you know it had everything you need it was in like an office park you know off the highway since it

55:25Jason Stewart:was like a you know a woodland area compared to an urban market did this equinox have any different accents like any oil lamps or things of that nature full court no just full court basketball the stretching area is actually like a really beautiful quilt hey do you want a blanket no i'm i'm i'm on the stair master like just in case your shoulders get cold here's a blanket no no no dude that's so funny oh do you want some warm apple cider while you run um yeah the it didn't it didn't have any of that it had it had but it was a very great it was a good layout i mean i've been to several equinoxes in my life and i'm going to go to the one in dc i'm sure when we're there um and i'll obviously go to my favorite location yorkville toronto but this one had a very nice suburban layout you know what i mean because the it just It felt more sprawling instead of stacked on top of each other like most of the city versions.

56:24Sure.

56:24Jason Stewart:I mean, this is why we go out of the city, right? Get a little more. I was driving this fucking convertible, and it smelled good, and the weather was 10 degrees cooler. And, you know, it was just everybody's got a fucking pond. It was something else. We don't have a pool. No tennis court. We do have a pond. The frogs are ribbiting. I want to know about the car. You said it's a CLE convertible. so that's a it's the coupe e-class it's this amg e-class with like a yeah but it's got the full it's got the full back seat though so it's like pretty okay it's got two door it's two door but full back seat but i hadn't been in a new convertible in a while and it's just so sick to be able to just basically roll down a window it's the same motion as rolling down the window takes the top completely off you know whereas like on on older ones you got to crank something You know how it is.

57:17You got to have an extra tool.

57:19Jason Stewart:You have to take some latches off. Yeah. Depressurize the cabin. Pull over. Put the emergency brake on. That's really funny. But yeah. What's the, what color? What interior color? Let's talk the trim. Oh, that's the best. Red with white interior. I was going home mode up there, baby. Walk me through the red. It was a little darker than cherry. It wasn't like 80s hair metal video red. It was more of an understated. So it wasn't like a lipstick red. It was a little darker burgundy. A little darker. But the thing about the white. It wasn't a Pinot though. No, it wasn't a Pinot. But the thing about the white interior, which I'd never thought about in a convertible, is that I'm like, this is crazy.

58:05It wasn't white. It wasn't like optic white. It was a little bit creamier. Yeah.

58:10Jason Stewart:But it wasn't cream, but it was creamier. Exactly. But you can leave the top down while you run into the store or go get lunch, and the seats stay cool. Whereas black leather, and also the seats are cooled, which is one of my favorite features on any new car. But it actually, and I was like, oh, you know what? This white actually serves a purpose. It's not just a stylistic choice, and I had never considered that myself. I think because I would never consider getting a car with white interior unless it was like my six-foe Impala, unless it was some type of old school. But yeah, black absorbs heat and white reflects it.

58:49Jason Stewart:So it makes sense. I mean, any silver lining to the cloud of having a red convertible with white interior. I like the red. It's a great vacation car. Well, it's an appropriate color for a convertible. I agree. Good point. I wouldn't want a sedan that color, but for some reason, maybe it's because we were born and raised in America. You know, a red convertible is sort of a... You see a champagne convertible. You're just kind of like, what are you doing? Kind of a waste of a drop top. But it has that. All these new Mercedes have that feature where you can toggle between two phones connected to the Bluetooth.

59:27Ryland and I discovered this on our trip. And it's literally life changing. Like, I can't believe that it's taken this long for us to get there.

59:34Jason Stewart:I'm glad you're enjoying the Benz This is great I've actually been thinking about when I'm gonna Get a new car myself, I gotta get the big body I think Yeah, you gotta get the big body If you wanna fit in with your brothers over there You know what you gotta do Yeah, and that's kind of why I'm doing it I'm pulling up to the meat markets And the cigarette shanties And they're saying You have a great car, you look cool, you look awesome Mr. Jason But But, you know, because of your size and your age and how pimp you are, I think you need to be having a 7 Series or an S-class. Not how pimp you are.

1:00:14All right. So we're leaving tomorrow. We're going to rendezvous in Washington, D.C. We're playing the Atlantis on Thursday night, which I'm looking forward to being back in D.C. We're going to Keith McNally's all-new Minetta Tavern on Wednesday night with Kyle Chayka, friend of the show. So we've got a lot going on in D.C., and hopefully I'm able to kind of see the list. I don't know who's going to have it, but I feel like somehow we could stumble. If you have the list, please bring it to the Atlantis. We'll put you on the guest list free of charge. We'd be happy to do it.

1:00:50Jason Stewart:To be clear, for the record, we did reach out to Jake Tapper's people if he would want to be a guest in D.C. And he really wanted to, but I think it was a scheduling issue, right? Yeah, he was out of town, but we tried. I mean, you know, it's summer in D.C. Those guys are in Delaware or whatever. You know, they're at the beach. We're down at Hilton Head. We're down at Hilton Head Friday in Toronto at the good old Great Hall. We will see you then. Get your tickets. There's a few left. Thanks to everybody who streamed Minneapolis on Veeps. Thanks to everybody who came out in Chicago. um lollapalooza we're cooking some stuff beyond just our chat with the dare hopefully something pans out if not you know we'll we'll see you at the dare after party um howlonggone.com is the website for all your tickets uh we'll be back on friday with a guest who's not going to cancel and um thank you jason uh for podcasting with me today thank you also um i was on lauren sherman's podcast fashion people today so go give it a listen talk about clothes Okay, that's all.

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