835. - Chris & Jason

27:38Jason Stewart:And our old friend Left Sets has a lot of good insight onto this subject about how it's not based on how many plays you have. It's the percentage of plays that you have in comparison to all the other plays. Oh, it's a fucked up system. Do not get me wrong. It's a fucked up system, but with SoundCloud and YouTube and Bandcamp and all these other options, the amount of money that they were losing that they lost from Spotify is worth the sort of virtue signaling and the power that they get from that statement. There's no power. They get a bump in social media for a 12-hour period when Stereogum and Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan write about it.

28:20Like, there's no real... What I'm saying is it makes them feel good and virtuous, but there's no upside to it at all except I feel good about myself because I'm standing on business.

28:31Jason Stewart:There could be also no loss either. There's definitely a loss. No downside. Because there's no way. That band is popular enough to be making some money from Spotify. You know what I mean? It's not like a... How much money do you think? Oh, I would probably say hundreds of thousands. No way. Yeah, dude. Absolutely not. At least. Dude, I know bands that are much smaller than they're clearing a hundred grand or more. What are the million plays? million plays is 7500 is that what it is i don't know something like that maybe maybe it's less than that maybe less you're an independent band if it's 50 000 if it's 30 000 it's still like money you want and what do you what do you hang on listeners tell me if you tell me how much money hotline bling makes all made on spotify i just can't believe because it's one of those things but also if you're a if you're a diy indie kind of punky anti-establishment thing anyway it's like when you're straight edge and you go vegan to me it's that kind of thing they're connected and enough people have done it and enough people are into that to where the switch over it's like switching from Verizon to T-Mobile it's pretty frictionless to do that and then you're able to thrive in your punk vibe this is what I'm saying, you're not going to thrive because no one actually gives a fuck what you do if they want to listen to your music and you make it harder for them, then they're not going to listen to your music 8 out of 10 fans you've made it harder for them but it's still extremely easy.

29:58I'm not going to use Bandcamp. This shit sucks. It's ugly. Like, it's stupid. I don't like Spotify. It's ugly. It's stupid. But I'm going to...

30:05Jason Stewart:Well, luckily, you can listen to their music on Apple Music. Exactly. Because Apple Music's never done anything wrong. I'm sure that they don't do anything. Like, I'm sure those phones are made in great conditions. High-paid laborer. Yeah, I mean, you know, Zane Lowe, whatever that is. I just don't understand. And I guess I just this the the rush and the good feeling you get from other virtue signalers telling you how great you are for an afternoon because of your post on social media is not worth giving up thousands of dollars in income to continue the career you've tried to build. One more argument.

30:44Jason Stewart:There's enough people out there who hate Spotify and think they're the enemy that if they hear that you have left, they will have it in the back of their mind to vote with their dollars and support those types of artists that make the difficult decision to do that. It's such a minuscule amount of people. I can't see it with my human eye, the people that would do that. Okay. Like if Drake and Taylor Swift left Spotify, then we're talking business. Then something's happening. If an indie band that's on Third Man Records or whatever leaves, it's like whatever. And again, their music is good. I like it.

31:24I want them to succeed. I just don't think this is going to impact anyone except them negatively.

31:30Jason Stewart:But what if they feel good about it forever? Congratulations. I don't give a fuck. Well, they're going to grow and rise and get better and make more money regardless of Spotify, if that is the case. So all it is is just they're removing what they would consider to be a cancerous limb or an organ. You know, they're cutting on a kidney. Yes, it was a difficult procedure, but now they're still able to succeed and have a great life without that. And they're able to sleep at night knowing that they did the right thing in their mind. Well, they were sleeping at night fine for the last five years using Spotify.

32:05We don't know that. They've been tossing and turning for the last five years. I mean, just assuming that like there it's just thinking that you already hate it. You're mad at it, but you deal with it. And then you find out this guy invested in something you don't agree with. And that's where you draw the line. That is virtue signaling. That is literally what that is. Like this is Spotify has been problematic with the way they treat artists since day one. That's the whole thing. That's the whole narrative around Spotify.

32:31Jason Stewart:All right. We've got Hotline TNT on line one.

32:36i just don't i that's it man i just don't i just don't understand like what people are proving and

32:42Jason Stewart:who they're proving it to that's all okay boomer let's talk about i'm just kidding let's talk about uh a new weed that you pulled i feel like um i told you it was something that i had tried to write for the last few years every time nothing inspires me to get writing than returning home from Europe. I have a lot of thoughts, but then a third of the way through, I will have to pull the eject seat because it's just too hateful. It's just like a dump kind of thing, and it doesn't really have any... It's not fun to read. Sure. I feel like you did a good job calmly, which is odd for you, calmly explaining European travel in comparison to domestic.

33:31I mean I think the differences are glaringly obvious but I think it really comes down to Instagram and that's sort of what has made people think they have to go to the most remote place that all their hot friends have gone to and it has nothing to do with actual enjoyment

33:49Jason Stewart:but it is do you think that there's a healthy level of participating in Instagram Olympics Yeah, totally. I do it too. We're all guilty of it. Absolutely. Okay. I mean, 100%. So you think you're doing it at a good, healthy, normal amount? No, I think I'm just as much part of the problem just in different zones than this. Okay. You know what I mean? I don't think anyone, no one that uses Instagram is immune from being an obnoxious piece of shit. That's what it is. That's what the platform allows us all to do. I just think that the vacation specific, and I think it's also very, it's very much a part of our lives and our age demographic and our sort of middle classness.

34:34I think it's our people are doing this more than anyone else.

34:38Jason Stewart:Yeah, I think so. My sister's friends aren't doing this. They're not competing to be like, well, I was in Greece and I was in the most remote island where the olive oil was the best. they're they're posting a video of them having way more fun at the lake that's an hour away from their house literally they're at they're at lake oconey on a fucking pontoon boat drinking beer out of a can being like this is sick this is all i need having a fun time but i mean i understand the i like going places that are pretty so do you but i'm saying after if i fly 19 hours once i see it for 30 minutes i'm kind of good do you think your attention deficit disorder plays a part of that totally totally i just mean that i think if you really are going on a holiday the problem is if you if you do that you don't have the incentivization of participating in the content document documenting other than your hashtag 35 tasteful pics but that's kind of like you said it's in a different category it's a different category of obnoxiousness like i totally you're doing it the way that people did it in in the 60s or 70s or any other decade i make it harder and more expensive myself to be obnoxious but i'm still obnoxious that's the thing do you think we'll have a return uh you know of the analog version of the italy slideshow dump where you gather all of your friends over to your house and project the images on the screen there's definitely somebody doing that right now somewhere i i just don't i i but if you do it on like actual film It doesn't make it different.

36:11I mean, I just don't know if... I guess that vacation is sold to us as a method for relaxation to decompress from work and relax. And I think that what we are now doing is actually the opposite of that.

36:28Jason Stewart:Absolutely. And I think that's the issue. Us going to California, obviously you still travel. It's still annoying. You're still going through security. You still have to rent a car. it's a whole thing but i just think that it is easier and more relaxing at the end of the day for for several reasons yeah you know maybe it's just a mental state thing like i don't know yeah i mean i i agree with all of that it's it's i can get the same feeling going to hawaii yeah and you can get the same feeling going to the keys or or or miami or whatever and it's only four hours away three hours away and i i don't find i'm never blown away by the food in these places i'm happy if i go to miami and i go to fucking walrus rodeo and pastis i'm gonna be happier me chris black is going to be happier than if i go to remote italy and have a guy talk to me about the fucking pasta for an hour before he serves it to me you know what i mean it's like uh yeah that's the it just depends on what you want maybe the jig is starting to be up with with all the like hey just because this food is from italy doesn't mean it's the best you know i think enough time has passed from that but how you were saying where it used to go and travel to relax and now it's the opposite of it where it's time to work it's time to create content it's time to pick out every outfit more than we would normally at home you know it's it's a lot more work and it to me it's the same analogy or like the same way i look at weddings how it used to be a celebration of love and now it's a way to show all of your friends and family and everyone on the internet what candle you would put in the bathroom and what soap is there and your dress and the shoes and the flowers and the food and the pizza well it's a how rich it's always a how rich and how good is my life competition but it's but it's also a taste a taste level and then where you travel and where your vacation shows a taste level like oh you're going to like come off kind of basic shit whatever well you just go to mykonos i actually go to this new island it's a little different and it's not only money based no no but it's but but it's hard because to me it's like i don't care about that i don't need to let people know that i would actually go here instead of here but i think you and i have that same problem where there's other things that people should just do to be like a healthy normal part of you know like you should hang out with your family more or like talk to your relatives or you know you should do this because it's the right thing and i think you should share your life a little bit because it's a right the right thing you know not just because i'm getting the the room for free sure i mean but it helps but i literally watch i mean this is what i mean though it's it's no different like when i'm in laguna i'm on the treadmill and i see two chicks with like fake hermes head scarves and bikinis and bikinis on and they're running a con they're shooting each other content wise as the sun is setting for at least the entire time I was on the treadmill.

39:31So 30 minutes.

39:32Jason Stewart:Yeah. What do you think people were doing before TikTok and Instagram in that situation? They were just like hanging out with their younger brother at the pool table in the lobby. Literally. Like, you guys are fucking stupid. Literally. And then eating French fries, playing video games. Normal vacation stuff. Ride a bike. I mean, you're out throwing a ball with somebody. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I mean, I say this as... And I think, well, all that has to say, we are not enjoying the holiday as much because we don't have the incentive of this is going to be a great, unique opportunity to create content and show off my cool life.

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43:40Jason Stewart:Yeah, definitely. But you look cooler to cool to the right people, but at what cost? A life of sadness. I just don't think that we've just really commodified travel. And like I said, I'm part of the problem. I travel 90 % more than most people. Most of the problem. But yeah, all that is to say, good job with that pulling weeds story. It's a hard thing to express into 1 ,200 words or whatever that was. Oh, less than that. Don't worry. Okay, I don't know. It's hard for me to tell. um yeah i went we were in new york we had a great event with new balance um with our friend genie bouchard two nights back back to back new balance had a great meal shout out to connor and frank and everyone over at nb yeah genie bouchard was an interesting character i i bouchard girls infamous i liked her a lot and i like i said to you last night i think that if if we were out to dinner with her she'd be a real riot if there were no microphones more of a spitfire when you're outside of the corporate marketing but she was ready to play ball with us i think she really she came to the table it was fun talking about maroon 5 and pickleball with her well i mean retiring from professional tennis at i mean she's probably not even 30 i think she's 31 31 to play pickleball which is easier on your body and you keep sponsors as much as a hey to say it it's probably a good idea if you're not winning tournaments if you're not if you're not in the top hundred yeah like i said but at what cost then you're a pickleballer what cost she said she got three houses i think the cost i think she's got she's got costs they are in tax haven cities but i agree with that but you know it just depends on like do you do you how much do you care about the real heads the real tennis heads i think if you're in her people who are staunch never never never picklers like you have a never trumper i think she's we're never picklers accomplished enough as a tennis player probably to be like i don't give a fuck what you think i could see you hating from outside of the club like i'm good i'm i'm rich i'm good looking and also i would say secretly most of the professional tennis players probably dabble in a little pickleball and are kind of okay with it yeah they i think they see it she said this to us and she might be right even though i despise it and think it's so corny it probably does lead people to play tennis yeah but if you're a real tennis head you will want less people playing tennis no but i'm saying like kids and stuff like i'm saying like when you know like if so there's a new bitch that can beat me hell no no i think it's good for the sport make the barrier of entry worse i think tennis is just big enough it doesn't need to get any bigger i don't think that that's how it works i know that's not how it works but i mean everything gets ruined once it gets too big that's just how it goes forever i don't know if that's necessarily true like i don't know if like the is the nfl that different nfl's ruins what when was it ever not ruined like what do you think there's a there's a before and after date there's a before christ and after death i don't think anything that is meant to be that profitable and that appealing to that big of an audience People that have debates about this, they're like, NBA ended in August 18th, 2016, and here's why.

47:06I know there's 30 Jewish guys with a podcast debating fucking the NBA. They know it more than anyone else. But the point is that people just forget that these are businesses, and the point is not to make them feel good. It's to keep them hooked and watching it and spending money on it, which they still do. So it doesn't matter. The joke is on them.

47:25Jason Stewart:But at a certain point, you can get so greedy, and you have to do better than you did last year. Totally. And you could inflate the balloon too much, and nobody wants to play with it anymore. No one is going to stop. Or the fan base gets too embarrassing for the real heads. The fan base for the NFL has been embarrassing since day one. What do you mean? Yeah, but it was just more real back then. It's not. Nothing is real. It didn't have dancing robot 3D visuals. Nothing is real when it's a for-profit, multi-billion dollar company that is trying to appeal to the widest swath of people in the hand.

47:59Jason Stewart:It's the same thing as billionaire logic. At a certain point, you get so obsessed with making more money every year over year. And then you wake up and like, yes, the NBA is doing great. The NFL is doing great. But you're awful. Nobody wants to hang out with you anymore. The problem is people think that whatever they're into should never change. It should be how they want it to be forever because that's how they like it. And that's just not how the world works. Some changes are good. Some changes are bad. Most changes are bad. But I think you have to come to terms with the fact that they're going to happen.

48:32Jason Stewart:Like when you're watching tennis and we now have a laser camera machine to know exactly if it's in or out. And you can contest it. And if it's right, then we'll switch it. To me, that's a good rule. But then there's other shit where it's just like we need the barrier of entry to be difficult. You should be able to kick a baby out if they're crying. That's why people like golf. It's hard. It takes a long time to learn it and get good at it. And the only people that stick around and play are people that really love it. Fishing is hard and tennis is hard and all these things are hard. You have to learn and practice for a long time to pick it up because it feels good.

49:11Yeah, but that's different than watching something.

49:14Jason Stewart:It's true. It's much more fun to play than watch depending on the kind of person that you are. I mean, yeah, it's true. But a lot of people like to watch, Chris. And yeah, it was great. And then we came to Chicago. We're at the Dorf. We're going to go hit RL tonight. What are you going to eat at Ralph Lauren? I don't know. I think I'll have the veggie burger. I can't do another burger. I'm going to have a veggie burger, I think. It's one of the only places I get one consistently. because it has a fun organic patty with green yeah but i have to get it out i don't they put barbecue sauce on i'll fuck with barbecue sauce oh really no i like barbecue sauce i don't like a barbecue chip though i'll just put that on everything right now okay let's see what else we got um we were oh yeah we were talking about trump's hands and and people are are predicting his death date i don't know if we can bet on it yet uh the vegas line but people are saying you know six to eight months early early 2026 maybe i think he'll die in office i think he'll die in office during this term okay i don't i i can't obviously drill down into the exact people are saying he has congestive heart failure and then he's getting these monthly iv like boosters of all this crazy shit and that's why he always has bruising on his hand where they do the IV.

50:38My question is why can't the makeup just be better? There's a lot of great makeup artists in the world. The President of the United States should be able to hire the one that can really blend the foundation with his skin tone. This is where the hatred of Trump

50:52Jason Stewart:They can't get Pat McGrath to do the hand makeup? Look, you got somebody like Trump in office no cool bands want to play the events. No celebrities want to go to anything. thing everyone turns them down everyone says i'm washing my hair that night you know if you're a makeup artist you're either you know you're probably left leaning i mean but you can i mean a donkey could do a better makeup job than whatever like you know himself could have done a better job what i'm saying is that i'm afraid that he might be doing it himself and that's the reason because he's so embarrassed by the whole thing that he just takes care of it himself and he's holding the makeup brush like how a little kid holds a fork he's painting it on he's helping how a guy in fucking nashville eats chipotle yeah i mean that overhand grip you know what i'm talking about okay so he he's hiding it from everyone and they're like hey uh mr president do you think we should maybe we can put a little makeup on the hand cover that bruise and he's like i don't know what you're talking about what bruce he i'm gonna go to my office i'll be out in a few minutes that's exactly what's happening he pulls out the amazon bag that has the little concealer and he he got the wrong one that's definitely what's going on that that's my that's the most reasonable way to look at this honestly or also here's the other option he has such a unique skin color because of his age you mean health jaundice as well as his tanning yeah it's a color he'll go to sephora and they're like, can you match this?

52:23Jason Stewart:And the system error, beep, cannot process. He goes to the MAC counter for a makeover and they say, sorry, we ain't got nothing for you, sir. So that's the closest color they can get to. This also could be right. This also could be totally right. There's so many possibilities and I think that we were wrong. None of them contain a professional makeup artist. That's the thing. There's no professional in the room. Or they sort of, you know, that color perfect black where it's like so black you can't even see it. they they hired mit scientists to create and duplicate the color trump but the problem is the flash lights it up and that's so they didn't think about the effect yeah i didn't think his hand looked like a fk twigs video bro that shit you sent me today what was it was that all points eat what festival was it there's a festival and jason showed me a tweet where it's like twigs plays in nine minutes and there's there's less people there than we're watching us talk to joe eats con this afternoon but i i think that was likely a twigs hater creating some false propaganda i don't it could have been fake news no one wants to see twigs at a festival like i some people do you want to see twigs do burlesque at the box you do not want to see twigs do a festival when the light when the sun's out sun's still out yeah you i don't want to see anyone when the sun's still out twigs needs to be happening at night has to be at night when the dolls are alive but unfortunately you know she's not really at that stage in her career um i thought when i was at your house a few days ago we were shooting some content we're going to be doing a collaboration with a cannabis brand that you know and love pure beauty pure beauty i don't know um and i was thinking like we're in chicago right now and i was listening to the joe budden podcast and they're talking about how good the Chance the Rapper album is.

54:15Jason Stewart:And I was like, this is why I can't trust these guys. But then I thought of a good tagline for this weed is like, this weed is our collab with Pure Beauty is the type of shit you smoke that make Chance the Rapper sound good. That's like, what a selling point. Those guys talking about Chance the Rapper, I literally rewinded. I was like, is this a joke? Are they saying Chance the Rapper put out that? And then they play it. They kept talking about it and then they finally played it. I was like, this is ass. This is as bad as his wife album. This is not. I can decipher no difference. They probably put it on, and then I didn't watch it, but I could hear a guy get out of his seat, take his headphones off, throw them on the ground, just walk around the room like he just saw a supernatural spirit in the room.

55:04Chance the Rapper, we got to take his mic away. We got to take it away.

55:08Jason Stewart:They were like, yo, the wife shit. I love my wife shit was bad but then when his wife uh left him now it's good he inspired he was inspired which is like you know it's it's a bummer that Chance can only create the best art from darkness much like Kanye West another Chicago legend Chance the Rapper is also an industry plant like like he's like an Obama was at his high school graduation because he's friends with his parents type shit I mean we're at the point where logic is cooler now logic's way cooler logic is way cool i would say most people on earth are cooler than chance the rapper i hate to say it i hate to say it while we're in these hallowed halls i would say i'll take lube fiasco over chance the rapper i would too i'll tell you i'll take loop west loop um and they were also they were also discussing something where i was like i can i really cannot take you guys seriously they were mentioning the Big X The Plug album and it's a country music album and they played a song with him and Jelly Roll and it was like the most low IQ music you've ever heard and everyone is just like this is a beast yo this shit is hard sometimes they're glazing the Jelly Roll I fall victim to this I fall victim to this too and you don't but I'm more just like if I said something like that about a song like that it's because I think it's a hit not because I want to listen to it or think it's good they were saying these songs are expensive yeah which is like a dumb thing to say because that's not how it works Big X the plug the label isn't going and paying fucking Luke Combs$500 ,000 they're splitting the publishing like normal fucking people right I mean there could be a finder's fee there could be an upfront fee depending on their relationship with X.

56:59I think everybody wants... I think that those two genres have seen how well a crossover can work. And it's no sweat off Luke comes back to do a day in the studio. Well, it's a lot of sweat probably for Luke comes and Big X to get together.

57:13Jason Stewart:But I guess, I mean, my visibility of Big X the plug is zero because I've never heard his music. So I guess I don't assume him to be a big enough artist to be able to get all these people on spec whenever and do a deal split. But I think he's quietly much bigger than I realized. Yeah, I think he's much bigger. Have you heard his music? I'm sure. I mean, I only heard a few bars on his Jelly Roll song, and I was like, no, this is music for like... There's definitely a point where I would have listened to that when it came out. People in jail in some room. You know what I mean? But I don't really know.

57:49The most I've seen him is clips from Popcast.

57:54Jason Stewart:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me too. it's like music that you listen people listen to when like their kid gets taken away from them it's like that kind of music that's what jelly roll is like throw this on when your kids get taken away from you by the state he's got one he's like i have just the song for this occasion i got one i got one um okay anything else we have here oh one last one um jamila jamil your fave i'm very proud of criticizes serena williams for promoting and being the face of a glp1 weight loss drug and she said there are uh the actress warns of serious health risks and points to williams husband's ties as an investor in the glp1 company straight from pop crave which so now is jamila jamel like more punk than the average bear jamila's calling out somebody that nobody ever calls out it feels kind of punk almost just to take a she needs to go away i mean serena i don't fuck with serena since she married that reddit white boy dork and when she made the documentary about herself that was so unwatchable but she's one of our all-time greats she's an amazing athlete yeah yeah and i do think it's for serena does have ties to the israeli government.

59:18For GLP1, I feel like it's nice to have an athlete that is like, I use this, I'm still able to perform even though she's not playing professionally. Jamila Jamil is... We can get her out of here. I don't care who she comes after. She got a record deal. A publishing deal.

59:38Jason Stewart:Because she's a producer. What's she producing besides tweets? I would like to hear some of her beats. If anybody has a Jamila Jamil beat tape, Please send it to Jason. We want to check it out. Jamila Donuts. Dave, you know that what's her man's name? Mama Blanket? James Blake. I mean, we talked about this a million times, but really one of the best fall-offs of all time. I think Jimmy's got one in him. Once he breaks up with her, like Chancellor Rappers style, once she leaves him, he's going to come out. It's going to be Overgrown Part 2. It's going to be like Blueprint 2. Because you fuck with James Blake.

1:00:16Jason Stewart:First James Blake album had me in my fill-ins. It is fill-ins, Bon Iver level kind of vibe. But it also, that's when he was producing good UK dubstep, like proper, dreary, wandering through a dim, damp forest, smoking and having tea and just being dreadful and mysterious. Great music. I mean, that record is great. I love that record. Yeah, it's good. And then obviously things change. You get the sophomore and the junior and the senior year slump. But I think he's so talented. He's got it in him. He shouldn't have moved to Los Angeles. He should have stayed in the Shire, and that would have kept things moving groovy.

1:01:03Jason Stewart:Yeah, you're probably right. But, you know, when a— I need a 5150 old Jimmy out of Cali. Like, it's time for us to leave. You cannot be hanging out at Delilah anymore. We need to have an intervention with other producers. We need them all to get together. I can't be having my man at like Improv East on a Tuesday. He shows up at home and it's Jimmy Stack, Ariel, Rostum in a circle being like, sorry, bro, you got to go back. We got to get you out of here. Look, we love you. And this is for the best. It can be like a Calvin Harris situation. We'll handle the sale of the house. For now, we're going to have to take away the synthesizers.

1:01:37And we're going to hold on to those until you're kind of ready to use them again. The Nord lead is we're taking it tonight. We're going to take it tonight. We have a storage facility in Burbank. It'll be super safe. It's temperature controlled. But we just need you to kind of. I did. We did. We did log you out of your Logic account. And I'm sorry that. I hate to say this, but we did change your password. And now.

1:02:01Jason Stewart:We changed your Waves plugin master password. I have the iLocks. Don't come for them. I don't even know where they are. Dr. Luke has taken some of your files. he has your dongles in his temperature controlled storage dr luke has your i'll tell you this it's it's it's outside palm springs you're never gonna find it yeah that that's dude god and he's and release it's not like scientology got his claws into him but it's a small light version of that the hollywood beast he's strong enough to survive he's managing fine he's making money he's touring he's making music he's living a good happy life but it is it's stifling his power because he's right he's so talented no he really is he's he's very very talented but you know it's like when scott storch you know went to vegas and he did all the cocaine in the world and just bought rolls royces and forgot where he parked them and shit like he's doing that on a small scale it's a very small scale we gotta yo ice get away from home depot and start moving over to wherever Where do you think Jimmy Blake hang out at?

1:03:10We need to get all these producers back to their home country so they can make good music. We got to get all these motherfuckers out of LA. Let's get... Sia needs to be back in fucking Denmark or whatever. I don't know.

1:03:19Jason Stewart:New Zealand. Oh, she's from New Zealand. Or Australia. One of those. Yeah, one of the other. No, I think that... Deport their asses. There is something to be said about that. Yeah, Trump, do some good in this country. Stop ruining these hardworking people's lives and get these fucking... send dj muster back to chicago wherever he from do do do do drake needs to be in canada only bro if drake if drake was in canada if drake was locked in in fucking bridal path at the crib shooting hoops with the homies if chubbs had the chanel side bag on if baka was out he wouldn't be doing a podcast commercial with bobby no maybe I need to go back to Atlanta get back to my roots yeah touch the home turf I need to hit peach scree I mean when you were down in Laguna Niguel I felt it you could tell my Cali roots you're tingling alright how long gone thank you guys for listening thank you Chicago thank you the infatuation thank you to New Balance we had a big week this week thank you to our team at Brigade you guys rock yeah uh shout out to oh adam killer we saw him at the smoothie shop posted up we got to get adam on the pod yeah that smoothie place in chicago in the old coast that's my shit it really is my shit and everyone who replied to my instagram story about are the donkey brand tortilla chips good most people said they are good oh really a couple people said they're a little too salty they said the consistency of the salt is hit or miss you have the worst reply but most people and gals and non-binary pals howlonggone.com is the website we look forward to more pods this week coming up we have cool guests i don't know if they're going to be as diverse as lee from america and jarvis cocker but hopefully we'll reach more of a singularity this week let me see no i don't know about all that maybe oh yeah okay okay i love i love how we do this every sunday where you're like oh oh yeah yeah we have guests hey man look they're happening on the same days I try to get shit locked in and then I forget about it.

1:05:28That's the fun of it.

1:05:29Jason Stewart:God, I'm sad that we forgot to talk about our cab driver. You can... Give us a couple bars. He was Nigerian, right? Yeah, give us a couple bars. He had this great... No, no, no, no, no, no. You know what I mean by give us a couple bars. Oh, I have to set up what he's reacting to. Okay, got it, got it, got it. So we would talk... He was a preacher. He has 10 kids back home in Africa. He's a driver here. In Chicago, he's lived here forever. We're asking him about restaurants, and he's showing us an African restaurant. I literally learned more than I've ever learned about African food. It was very interesting.

1:06:04Jason Stewart:It's a long drive from ORD to downtown. Our Chicago visitors know that. So we had an hour to kill, and we decided to have a fun convo. And he was saying, you've got to go to this restaurant. It's so good. It's traditional African food the same way I had it from growing up. My mom would make it, and I'm going down the menu, and it'd be like snail stew and but it'd have like a weird name it'd be it'd be like a name that we don't know i'd be like oh what's this and he would say what it is and then chris would learn and then every dish i'll be like what about this one and he would go oh he because and he would he I would just me naming a dish of like oxtails with rice and like spicy sauce.

1:06:53Jason Stewart:And he would be like, oh, I'm so hungry. Like he would get like horny for the food. He was awesome. It was awesome. And I learned a lot. And he was funny as hell. Yeah, he's a boxer, blah, blah, blah. And I was saying like, but you're a man of God. You're a pastor. so you're not able to imbibe in any you know drugs, alcohol you know blah blah blah and by the end of the hour drive he was just saying yeah I like to fuck I got two bitches and my dream is to have them both at the same time I used to grow my own weed and I like to go to the park and put vodka in my coke what's better than that we unpeeled his plantain in just one short hour we had a great time shout out to him thank you Chicago look hopefully we'll be back soon but not too soon we've you know we've been here a lot bye

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