In short
A travel-and-lifestyle recap from Chris and Jason’s Las Vegas trip, centered on a Fountainbleau stay and Contramar Cantina/Contramar restaurant events, plus detours into TSA stories, fashion/people-watching, spa/sauna culture, and car/drug jokes.
Guests
The episode features hosts Chris Black and Jason (no additional guests named). Them Jeans appears briefly as a guest/arrival mention, and Gavin DeGraw is discussed as a performer at the event.
Guest backgrounds (mentioned)
Them Jeans is described as joining “fresh off” ~48 hours in Las Vegas. Gavin DeGraw is a mainstream singer-songwriter who performed live at the rooftop VIP lounge.
Key claims
Contramar in Las Vegas successfully sources high-quality tuna despite ingredient-travel concerns. Vegas VIP mixers have eccentric, uniquely dressed wealthy attendees. Group “sauna rave” trends are like “pickleball” and will likely fade. TSA agents’ secondary screening can be triggered by unusual carry-on contents (e.g., multiple half-used bags of flour).
Notable examples
“Miami Slice” (named as a wordplay), a “body” logo tracksuit/athleisure sighting, Contramar’s multi-course menu (tostadas, steak, pork shank, fish with red/green salsas, desserts), spa aromatherapy/massage choices, and Gavin DeGraw’s piano trio sing-alongs (including “Country Road”).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOVegas Adventures
0:46 to 3:35
Chris and Jason share their recent experiences in Las Vegas, including flight details and airport experiences.
“I remember that Reddit, but I haven't been on in years.”
People Watching in Vegas
3:36 to 7:51
Discussion about the unique crowd on their flight and observations about the people in Vegas.
“And how did her and not to be crude, but how did her titties look?”
Contramar and Mexican Cuisine
7:52 to 12:21
The hosts talk about dining at Contramar in Vegas and their experience with the food and drinks.
“Okay, so there's interesting characters at the mixer.”
TSA Encounters
12:22 to 14:03
Chris recounts a humorous encounter at TSA involving a woman and her unusual suitcase contents.
“So you're saying that she was - It's no Adam and Steve.”
Discussing TSA Experiences
14:03 to 15:46
The hosts share their humorous and frustrating experiences with TSA.
“oftentimes you see people going back to, to their, to their country to bring stuff for their family.”
Observations on Travelers' Bags
18:04 to 19:24
The hosts reflect on the surprising contents of people's luggage at the airport.
Brunch at La Fontaine
19:24 to 20:06
The hosts describe their brunch experience and the ambiance at La Fontaine.
Smoothies Named After Musicians
20:06 to 21:08
The hosts discuss quirky smoothies named after musicians and their flavors.
“You want the gunna lion's mane and peach smoothie, or do you want the peso pluma smoothie?”
Creative History of a Lean Smoothie
21:08 to 23:09
The hosts reminisce about creating a unique smoothie called Peaches and Lean.
“I love, yeah, I think a lean flavored smoothie that early in the morning.”
Exploring Las Vegas Activities
23:09 to 24:48
The hosts discuss the challenges of finding activities in Vegas between meals.
“Anyway, all right, so you were able to have breakfast.”
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Spa Day Experience
24:48 to 26:16
The hosts share details about their spa day and the treatments they chose.
“You want up or down or into Cussativa or whatever with a lemon-ginger hybrid.”
Bros Bonding at the Spa
26:16 to 28:00
The hosts humorously critique the bonding behavior of men in the spa's lounge.
“There's actually a Vietnamese liquid like this that we sort of call beetle juice because it sort of smells like if nail polish was made out of crushed up beetles.”
The Sauna Experience
28:00 to 29:19
Explore the nuances and bonding experiences in sauna culture.
“and then they have a little, the relaxation station, the reboot lounge.”
Trends in Group Saunaing
29:20 to 31:22
Discuss the rise of group sauna activities and their implications.
“I hate the steam I have no interest in the steam It gets all up in your sinuses No I don't care I'll do it if they don't have a regular dry sauna, I will steam.”
The Case Against Phones
31:23 to 33:18
Consider the impact of phones on relaxation and social interaction.
“I think it will be a trend that is fleeting.”
Tiger Woods' Car Incident
33:19 to 35:39
Analyze the bizarre circumstances surrounding Tiger Woods' car accident.
“For an older gentleman, maybe it's a way to relate to a younger gentleman without having to jerk him off.”
Car Choices and Substance Use
41:35 to 42:00
Examine the relationship between car types and driving under the influence.
“Just like the type of person who's more likely to be driving on pills.”
Choosing Cars Based on Substance Use
42:00 to 43:35
Exploration of how drug and alcohol use might influence car choices.
“It's tough because obviously there's different tax brackets.”
Dining Experience and Celebrity Performance
43:36 to 46:47
Description of a lavish dinner and a surprise performance by Gavin DeGraw.
“Just something to think about, you know.”
Reflections on Vegas Trip
46:48 to 48:45
Discussing the ideal length and experience of a recent Vegas trip.
“and he'll play a verse of this thing and one guy will pick up the little guitar and he did Country Road, John Denver.”
Gift Card Spending Experiment
48:46 to 50:03
Narrative about the experience of freely spending a gift card.
“And when you refer someone to their doctor and they sign up, they send you a...”
Reviewing a Fashion Documentary
50:04 to 55:58
Discussion of a fashion documentary focused on designer Mark Jacobs.
Discussion on Film Ratings and Emotional Impact
56:00 to 57:25
Exploring personal reactions to a recent film and its emotional resonance.
“How would you rank this film with McQueen and Dior and I?”
AOC's Controversial Campaign Spending
57:25 to 58:47
Debating the implications of AOC's spending on ketamine therapy with campaign funds.
“As a director, she should have pulled it out of him.”
Cultural Commentary on Pandemic Content
58:47 to 1:00:28
Discussing the cultural reception of Bo Burnham's special and Fiona Apple's music.
“to do that is the most AOC shit of all time.”
Praise for Drewski's Creative Process
1:00:28 to 1:02:24
Highlighting Drewski's artistry and the investment behind his comedic success.
“That's the difference that he makes because when he's finally done and we're ready to start rolling, he literally just walks out and the sparklers go out and he just waves at the crowd.”
Chrisley Show Insights and Social Commentary
1:02:24 to 1:04:28
Discussing the new Chrisley show and Todd Chrisley's revelations post-incarceration.
“been another gift that you couldn't write this if you wanted to.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:17How long gone Chris Black, New York City beautiful day outside Jason that the hoopers are hooping the ping pongers are ponging it's actually called table tennis what did you say? I apologize I didn't see Marty Supreme you know that Them Jeans is joining us just fresh off a quick 36 hours in Vegas is that correct?
0:40Jason Stewart:something like that it was two nights technically 48 hours in LV no Pharrell I know that all of our listeners out there are going through TSA woes the pre-check the she check the they check all of it is tough six hour waits down in houston but burbank to vegas you know that's that's real flying right there i was happy to to fly with our our friends at southwest if it means i didn't have to go to a major airport it was that your first time is that your first because i've flown southwest one time before and it was i believe it was the exact flight you're speaking of a burbank to vegas situation i've done i've done this run many a time it's the uh it's the stripper and dj express to vegas yeah it is it is an interesting it is an interesting crowd on that plane if i if i remember correctly did you see any um working gals on the flight or were you trying to keep it cool because you were with your your wife you want to just kept your kept your eyes down chill chill chill chill chill chill chill no i didn't i didn't see any um workers on this run they're getting harder and harder to spot though as i get older you know what i mean it's you don't know who's just a common hood rat and who's a working gal you know what i mean hood rat i would say common influencer i think that's the real i don't know i can't tell the bad babies from the crack babies you know what i mean yeah of course yeah that's it one of my favorite kodak songs actually last night we i saw a bad baby type in the uh in the hotel kind of you know kind of floating around the food court she wasn't over at mother wolf or one of the prestige flagship locations you know she's maybe grabbing a slice from miami slice a new york style pizza slice um coincidentally but hold on hold on you're telling me miami slice is a restaurant serving new york style pizza but named after the city of miami not known for pizza i think it's a it's a play on words on on the television show Miami Vice that maybe wasn't fully thought through.
2:46Quickly, do you remember Miami Subs? I remember that Reddit, but I haven't been on in years. Why? No, it's a great restaurant. It was a great submarine sandwich restaurant that did the rare fries available with sub. Was this only in Miami or was that just the name? Oh, that was just the name. It had a Miami theme to it, of course, as far as the look goes.
3:11Jason Stewart:you can get a little let me get a turkey provolone with a little iguana iguana meat on the side miami grill formerly miami subs grill an american privately held restaurant chain based in the united the u.s state of florida of course 30 locations majority of our miami day broward and palm beach shout out to all of our miami listeners i diz i know you're tuning in uh but the but that you could also get wings and um subs fries burgers heroes cheese steaks it had it all bro and the subs were were banging well banging anyway hopefully there's a coup you saw a prostitute instead of a philly cheesesteak but anyway yeah and she wasn't a prostitute but she was she was dressed like a like a bad baby type but it was a cool thing it's sort of like a it was a matching set of like a sort of you know some leisure wear sure in the vein of a juicy couture track suit this is nighttime or daytime this is nighttime okay it's nighttime you know this is a this is the formal going out tracksuit.
4:07Jason Stewart:And how did her and not to be crude, but how did her titties look? They were doing what they were supposed to do. I guess I'm asking on the scale of... I can't wait to the CEO of Fountain Blue Hotel listen to this episode. Were they, well I guess what I'm saying is were they about to pop bad baby style or were they normal? No, no, no. They were tastefully done. Size appropriate to the rest of the frame, but I haven't even got to the good part the um it was like a matching set and it was a camouflage surrealist pattern that sort of featured burgundies dijons and browns kind of like dune like earth tone colors which was like it caught my eye an earth tone palette yeah i don't see much athletic wear in that shade well especially in you know camo in that shade of these sort of like christian girl autumn type colors but But the real kicker, sometimes on the rear end, it'll maybe display a message, a word, a logo, a Trui logo, some Avisu, or just maybe the classic Juicy, a Sporty and Rich, whatever it may be.
5:13Jason Stewart:This one just said the word body. Wow. White letters across the ass, just body. Because she was in... I wish I knew because. I mean, obviously the clothes are on her body, but also I believe that means that she is body positive and confident in saying that she is giving body while wearing. I think so. Okay. Yeah. It was sort of body card, not declined type of energy. Okay. I like the confidence, especially if you're trying to pull a whale, a big baller over there in Miami. Sure. In the high stakes area. Did you notice any gentlemen taking notice? She was with a fella. Yeah. Oh. He looks like the kind of guy who maybe has appeared on Adam 22's podcast.
5:57You don't say. Okay. Okay. So you're saying the girl in the body suit was with a guy who had a neck tattoo and possibly a gun on his person. That's right. That's right.
6:10Jason Stewart:The type of guy you don't want to see in the valet come 3 a.m. You know what I mean? No, no. Yeah. Valet is where it goes. All right. So Fountain Blue, I've never stayed there. What's the report? How was it? It was great, man. loved it it was it was dazzling we we went we went out because they opened uh contramar cantina contramar the famed restaurant in mexico city sure populated by you know everyone has been there even you've been there right i have been there so but you're saying black to dua lipa they are able to get that level of tuna in las vegas that's amazing that's a feat all in it's all all in itself but you know i i've heard yes woes of restaurants not being able to get the ingredients that they need, you know, in and out, Erwan.
6:53But Contramar, they figured it out.
6:54Jason Stewart:Contramar has figured it out. Yeah, I mean, nowadays, like with fresh fish and the way it travels, you know, somebody will say, like, I don't trust eating fish in a place that's not a coastal town or whatever, but. Yeah, like, what, so archaic. They're not really, truly archaic. They don't know the food ways of how our, you know, our A5 Wagyu and our sushi-grade bluefin tuna. Don't get me started on food ways, Jason. We only have an hour, okay? This shit was flash frozen two weeks ago, whether you're getting it to Manhattan, Las Vegas, or Glendale. Sure, sure. But yeah, all the ingredients were there and popping.
7:30Jason Stewart:There's two events. Friday was the opening party where you sort of get all the Vegas VIPs, the owners, the investors, high rollers, shark types. And everyone who's like that in Vegas is very eccentric. trick oh yeah no that's so crazy yeah they found they all have a lot of money in the ugliest clothes that have ever been stitched together it's a fascinating group but i i feel like it's gotten better but it's more entertaining to watch and see just because because at least everyone has like a unique personality and you're like oh there's like an old like billionaire guy and he's wearing like a cowboy hat with like a single rose like embroidered on you know just like weird shit or just like I'm wearing snakeskin ostrich boots with my tuxedo and everyone is at least interesting and it's not just like the same old LA billionaire uniform that we're so used to seeing.
8:24Don't talk about Viore like that. Okay, so there's interesting characters at the mixer. What was TJ sipping on? Were you having Mexican cocktails or were you going Margarita? Si, si, si.
8:39Jason Stewart:Yes, Chris. Yeah, luckily we had some friends in from Mexico City. Maureen, our friend and fabulous photographer was up in there as well as our friend Pao, who's the most fun Mexican dude I've ever met in my entire life. Dresses the coolest. That's saying a lot because the Mexican people are fun as hell. Were these experimental? They brought in a DJ that was also from Mexico City. She was playing on these cumbia remixes of you know cool songs one of them being britney toxic that i'll probably put at the end of this episode but wow i'm surprised i figured mexico city djs at this point were just white guys from brooklyn but you're you're telling me they found some local talent that could really they found the one mexican left in mexico city and they gave her a job she's like no i actually don't have any airbnb properties no i i just dj i just i'm focused solely on dj no airbnb only usb only My USB stick.
9:39Jason Stewart:All right. Yeah, so we got a little turnt up. We got a little twerkelated at that mixer, you know, a little six to ten. You know, the palomas and the margaritas were flowing. Some finger food bites, you know, little Contramar classics reimagined as a hors d 'oeuvre. Trepas. Oh, hold on. Are you talking? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. So instead of a tostada, we were having tostaritos. Oh, my God. I knew it. How could they make it cuter? Because I know that you're like, how are they going to work with that sope? So you can just kind of pop up there. Jason, I was just about to ask you how they did that.
10:16Okay, good to know.
10:16Jason Stewart:Is the density of that vehicle going to travel? Yeah, I'm with you all the way on that one. Because sometimes I know that air pressure on Southwest can fuck up a sope. So I was making sure that they were able to get the density. Wow, speaking of, you just reminded me of something I'm very glad that we remembered. we were we were coming through tsa um on the way back home and there was a woman it was she was kind of uh i guess she could be maybe referred to as a diner goth mom you know okay sure different shades of blues and purples in the hair you know probably has a lot of hoarding going on at the home you know just sort of looking the mess and she got her bag pulled off into secondary custom inspection you know what's it gonna be you know the glock is it the 19 is the is it the what's gonna happen and the obvious the it was like a burgundy kind of shitty tj maxx looking suitcase and she was with her like kids like in her family so and inside the suitcase it was just like it was just a bunch of shit it was just like stuff in plastic bags and you know garbage shopping about you know like an old target bag with a hat in it just like yeah just a whole bunch of shit but multiple and i think this is why she got pulled off multiple bags of all-purpose flour like a bag of like kroger flour that was like three quarters of the way empty oh it's saying okay so these were these were these were these were multiple bags of all-purpose flour which is a white powder in in various amounts and volumes and capacities sort of strewn about inside this woman's suitcase alongside her toiletries and socks and underwear.
11:56I'm surprised that you, of all people, would shame someone for being an independent baker because I think that it's important.
12:04Jason Stewart:Especially as somebody who's fighting for gluten rights. Whenever I see another AP flower shouty, somebody who's not going down the dark roads of whatever it is. For me, it's nice to just hear flower. Tarot root flower. It's just nice to hear the word flower used properly instead of talking about marijuana. Thank you. That's honestly, that's all I'm happy about. So you're saying that she was - It's no Adam and Steve. She was - Exactly. So she was traveling with hella half-used flour, and obviously that threw a red flag up to our brain-dead TSA agents, who are not getting paid, thank God. But what, okay, what is the - What do you think - What honestly do you think that - I mean, I don't think anyone's - I mean, what on earth could she be doing?
12:45Like, what is your actual guess on what the use is? All jokes aside.
12:48Jason Stewart:Honey, I spent my whole 38-minute flight pondering that. I was like, was she reusing the flower sacks as a storage container for something? That's where she keeps her spare change or her beads for her DIY beading project. But you're saying that the - Are there just sunflower seeds in there? Did you see an unpaid TSA worker dip his pinky in and do a nummy? No. No, what I saw was an unpaid TSA worker open this diner goth's suitcase, look at all that shit, and look down, and then look up at her, and look back down and just like, god damn it. Yeah, I don't get paid enough for this. I don't get paid enough.
13:36Jason Stewart:I don't get paid, period. This is too much. Also, this is Sunday morning, 6.37 a.m. as well. This is okay. So this person is, yeah, this person is going from Vegas to LA. It's not like they're going, cause you know, sometimes you see people, let's say there's a big group going to, to Africa. They're bringing back all kinds of shit. No, she could have been flying anywhere. Air France flies direct from Las Vegas to Paris, France. But I guess I'm just saying that, that oftentimes you see people going back to, to their, to their country to bring stuff for their family. They'll be bringing, they'll be bringing a bunch of shit that looks really normal to, uh, you know, shit you just can't get.
14:13Jason Stewart:Oh, macadamia nut chocolates from Hawaii. That's exciting. Just shit you can't get. But if you're going from... Got some olive oil from Greece. I just have a feeling the diner goth was not going to Paris, is my guess. Just based on what I know. Las Vegas is an international airport. It's a hub. She's outside of Boulder right now. There's no question. But this is an interesting conundrum. And I think that the thing about... I mean, I hate TSA. TSA is second to cops to me. I hate them. I think they're useless. They're all dumb. And we should abolish them. but if we're going to have to have them, they could at least be a little more friendly.
14:49Jason Stewart:Okay. We should abolish them and replace them with ice. Exactly. Yeah. Give everybody a job. They can just muscle you down. Get rid of all of them. But my point is that when you see someone, the most fascinating part about TSA is obviously you're in line, your fingers are crossed hoping. My bag gets pulled, I would say, every time at this point, either because I've asked them to hand check film or because I have podcast equipment that looks like a bomb. Yeah, whereas I never get my shit pulled, and I always have drugs in there. I always get pulled. So I'm often standing over there watching other bags get opened, and I feel like when they open my bag, I feel like an adult.
15:29My shit is folded. My shit is organized. I'm not using cubes like a white chick from Instagram, but I'm also not stuffing it in there like a skateboarder moving with trash bags. You know what I mean? So it's like I'm somewhere. I feel good about it. Yeah. But the way that people...
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20:52That's an awful lot of cream. That's an awful lot of lion's mane. You want the gunna lion's mane and peach smoothie, or do you want the peso pluma smoothie? It's a tough choice. I don't know what. The Percocet con tajin.
21:11Delicious. I love, yeah, I think a lean flavored smoothie that early in the morning.
21:17Jason Stewart:I've already made a lean flavor smoothie. I would say over 10 years ago, I remember there was a – this is a collaboration between friend of the show and ex-guest, Shlomo, DJ Shlomo. Of course, one of the greats. And the restaurant Oinkster in Eagle Rock, our friends, Fred and Max, also friends of the show who are listening right now. Hey, fellas. And then we designed a smoothie called Peaches and Lean, and I made a graphic design to the custom styrofoam cup in the style of a Shlomo kind of we did it, you know, 2014 real trap shit. This is coming back to me a little bit, for better or worse. So you were only involved in the creative direction.
22:04You weren't involved in the test kitchen. No, I was.
22:08Jason Stewart:Oh, you were? Okay. Do you remember if the smoothie was good or not? Of course. I would never put my name on something that's bad, Chris. That's a lie. We've done this podcast too many times. All right. So what do you remember it being good then? Yeah, it was good. It was good. What was, what brought the, well, of course I understand the peach. I'm asking, I'm asking what could bring the walkie flavor to this. Like what is the, what is the walkie? I'm trying to remember where the walkie. You could see where I, you could see why I'd be interested in that part and not the peach part. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:40Jason Stewart:I was a step ahead of you on that one. I'm going to have to dig deeper into the archives on some of my earlier recipes. I don't know what else. All right. We'll find your moleskins that are half graffiti, half recipes. I'm going to go. I won't be able to. I'm going to elderflower extract or something like that. We'll see. I feel like in 2014, it was maybe a little more rudimentary than that. Not to take away from your palate, just to take away from where we were as a culture. It was a splash of palm wonderful. Yeah, definitely a splash. There's definitely a little palm in there. That might have been too pricey.
23:11Anyway, all right, so you were able to have breakfast. But see, what's interesting about Las Vegas is that eight hours between gym, breakfast, and dinner is, if you don't want to go to a day party, it is a challenging time because there's only so many times you can go to the Chromeheart store. You know what I mean? There's only so much. There's not a lot to do.
23:33Jason Stewart:Well, luckily, no, I know exactly what you mean. I'm glad I have a super answer in the chamber but it was crazy in the hotel in the Fontainebleau like you're in the casino you're smoking a cig having your fucking rum and coke next to the guy on the ventilator or whatever and there's Gucci store, Bottega store Alia store, Rick Owens A Wang, Missoni every single brand you know huge YSL like outlet boutique all that stuff so that we were able to get our shop on. But during that time frame between La Fontaine Branche and Contramar dinner. Yes. Spa day. Yeah. Okay. I was DMing with Wes, DJ Diplo, saying he was over across the street at Encore Beach Club.
24:21Jason Stewart:I was hitting him up for guest list, but it just didn't come through. He said, I'm sorry, you're with your wife? Don't come over here, bro. Don't cut. No, he was, I was like, I got a couple chicks. And he's like, okay. I was like, well I have one gay guy too and he's like okay it's Anker Beach Club I go on at 315 alright it's them jeans plus three your point of he sent me my full ROL he's like okay so your point of contact when you arrive you're gonna wanna text his name is Patrick you're gonna wanna text Patrick when you arrive and he'll get you right to your table and then one more question Reposado or Silver let's do this
24:59oh shit alright it's my day so what appointments did we do collectively i i'm sure that you guys chose different disciplines no we no no we it was
25:10Jason Stewart:it was really facial or massage we both got a massage you know hit a little eddie winslow right before get a nice little shower going face down but this was you know the the bed is heated and it's adjustable for how long it was long enough for me pause and i was able you know a little bump up in the knee. We love a knee bump up. It was all juiced in. You pick out your aromatherapy flavors. You want up or down or into Cussativa or whatever with a lemon-ginger hybrid. That's the most Asian thing you've ever done. Lemon-ginger? That's a dressing flavor, bro. That is not what I want to smell. I'm getting rubbed down.
25:52Jason Stewart:I went for the Sichuan Gylon rub. What the fuck? You're a freak for that. Yeah, I was like, no, I don't want bergamot. No franken... Is there a shrimp paste that we could bring out? These are fine, but I'm looking for something a little more fragrant that can really wrap my nose around. Do you have anything else? Something that'll maybe set off the smoke alarm. Do you get the three alarms, Szechuan, for me to... You don't want this, white boy. Wow, okay. There's actually a Vietnamese liquid like this that we sort of call beetle juice because it sort of smells like if nail polish was made out of crushed up beetles.
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26:33Jason Stewart:But it's like this crazy, rare, delicacy flavor, sort of like a saffron or something like that. Is it good if used correctly? Yeah, it's like a very, it's like such a crazy flavor that's very divisive. It's like the Ortolong or all these other kind of crazy shark fin soups or these exotic things where the flavor is perverse. Yeah. And it's really only for true eaters who are psycho and want to be spit on and stuff. Sure. Taking on a journey. Yeah. Just like, are you doing it like a durian or whatever? Are you doing this to show off or do you really love it? We'll never know kind of thing. but it's like a little it comes in like a little like a coke vial size thing like a baby so powerful it has to be yeah yeah and you literally put one drop of it in whatever you know your soup or whatever thing that you're eating and it just like completely changes the whole perfume into like this i'm trying to remember because it wasn't there that one perfume that kind of like people thought smelled like like nasty shit but then some people were like turned on by it you remember what i'm yeah definitely definitely yeah i mean there's there's several like that like some people like oh nine nine out of ten people think it smells like rotting flesh and one out of ten people like you could put it on and like this you can control that person's life if as long as you're wearing this scent yeah it's a powerful it's yeah it's if you love it you love it and if you hate it you hate something like that something like that but yeah so hit the spa after the massage was great and then they have a little, the relaxation station, the reboot lounge.
28:06Jason Stewart:Of course, of course. They had the co-ed and then they had the bros only. No, I'm bros only. I got to watch this. We got March Madness on the screen. Got a Diet Coke going. Are you kidding me? Yeah. I watched that. When we were in Vegas, the same thing happened and I was in there and I was like, I have never, I feel gay every day, but today in this room, these guys are all making friends and I'm just disgusted by it. I'm like, you fucking loser. Stop talking. It was like college football. I'm like, you guys got to stop. You don't need to be – it was too much. It was too much. Yeah, I mean, it's not easy for guys to bond.
28:41Jason Stewart:Sometimes you just have to mutter college names under your breath or else you'll just – Ohio State. No, for real. That's literally what was happening. The Ohio State University. That's literally what was happening. Ohio State. Roll Tide. Roll Tide. The dudes only section I preferred Since I have an infrared sauna in my house It's a little I'm not trying to swag But it's just part of my story My journey that I'm revealing to you When I do visit a place that has a steam I always just spend all my time in there Because I never get the steam It's always such a dry heat I hate the steam I have no interest in the steam It gets all up in your sinuses No I don't care I'll do it if they don't have a regular dry sauna, I will steam.
29:34But otherwise, steam is too wet. It's too wet.
29:38Jason Stewart:Okay. Yeah. Water, the steam does get too wet. But they had in the co-ed area, they had a co-ed super sauna where they were able to do the sauna rave tricks where they have the person who has the towel and they wave. Yeah, they did this at the Kulm. And when I was in St. Moretz, they did this. And it was awesome. Actually, dude, he fucked me up. Because it was just me and this hot real estate guy from Munich. It's kind of like getting a lap dance, right? No, it wasn't. It was just more tricks. They brought in a giant ball of ice that was scented and put it on, and it melted. And they fanned. they used the towel to fan it like you know whatever Greek style but it it wasn't that performative it wasn't over the top Cirque du Soleil it was more just I'm gonna hit you in the face with heat okay good over and over and it was great I guess there's ways to do it cool and tastefully and then there's ways to fuck it up you can do it in a DJ Harvey way or a John Summit way of course but I mean I had an epiphany that the sauna like that is sort of like pickleball to tennis like your We're taking this thing that has existed for decades, hundreds of years.
30:58Jason Stewart:It's been perfect. Just stick with that. We can just go in the sauna and sit there quietly, maybe mutter something under your breath to another man. That's it. We don't need to have a co-ed group party with a boombox and lights and fog machines. Well, you know the disease of group saunaing has taken the world by storm. It's been written about. There's five in New York every weekend that are opening. And it's the pickleball of sauna. It's the pickleball. I think the rejection is real. And I think that it is not going to. I think it will be a trend that is fleeting. I don't think it's going to stick around.
31:35And I'm sorry for all the investors that got in on that. But I just don't. It just ain't for me. And I don't think it's for a lot of people.
31:41Jason Stewart:It's interesting because I would say on the age range of all the other people I was sharing the sauna with, I was sort of in the middle. There's older guys, some younger guys, whatever. in every guy young and older than me we're we're sort of talking about the fact like how crazy it is that we are in this space like you you're sitting in this steam room for you know 14 minutes and how crazy it is that you don't have your phone and you're like this is like real true relaxation like no phones no nothing i'm like guys like is it really this bad out there yeah it's funny you brought that up. I just finished before we started.
32:20There's this guy, Cal Newport, who's a fantastic writer. There's in the New York Times saying the Sunday opinion section.
32:25Jason Stewart:I think I got a Cal book somewhere over here. You do, you do. Separate from your phone, embrace critical thinking. Your thoughts should be your own. And it's basically like, he cites this great example, which I'd never realized. He's like, you know, before the 60s, exercise wasn't a thing. It was basically for athletes in the military. And then we realized how good it was for us. And we made it this huge priority and now it's such a part of our lives we don't even think about it and he's like that we have to stop using our phones basically we have to stop like you don't like we have to do the same thing like this is as serious as like eisenhower having a heart attack right you know what i mean it's like we have to stop or it's going to be really bad and i i think he made an interesting case for it because i'd never thought about the exercise example right obviously i wasn't alive but i you know i just was i was like oh that that really does make a lot of sense that that was one at one point a thing for like athletes in the military only and then it became part of society but yeah those 14 minutes for those guys i mean look man i mean look i'm part i'm part of the problem too i'll yeah i'm like you're like bro you're like a 60 something year old guy who's been alive most of your life has been without social media endless feed scroll yet it has got its claws in you so deep that you are you know professing to a stranger how crazy it is that we're just For an older gentleman.
33:40Jason Stewart:Hanging out with our thoughts. For an older gentleman, maybe it's a way to relate to a younger gentleman without having to jerk him off. You know, it's a thing to bond over in the steam room. But yeah, I mean, that is. He got racist quick too. Wow, really? Yeah, he lives in Rancho Cucamonga. I was like, I'm in Glendale. He's like, oh yeah, I do a lot of deliveries out over there. And I was like, yeah, it's crazy. A lot of bad drivers. And he's like, yeah, and the worst, Chinese. Okay, Tiger Woods is not Chinese. First of all, that's fucked up. And I didn't want to talk about Tiger like this. Oh, was it a Tiger joke this whole time?
34:12Jason Stewart:It went straight over my head, like one of his drives. Tiger is the best. I can't believe that someone can do this this many times. It's amazing how rich he is and how he cannot help himself but have a couple of Vicodin and a couple of fucking screwdrivers and get behind the wheel of an all-new Genesis. It's great. How do you, Jason, have you? Well, what kind of car is this? It's nice. We've both driven drunk a lot. I've driven on all kinds of drugs. In that part? I've done every. Flipping a car is hard. Like, wrecking a car is not hard. Flipping a car over, even a midsize Genesis SUV, that is like you have to be really getting after it.
34:56Jason Stewart:Yeah, we've all scraped a little corner here, dinged a curb there. But to get your car rotating on a different axis against gravity. but but i was thinking and also apparently he blew a 0.0 and still got the dewey so yeah he must have just been kind of pilled off his gourd but i was i was looking at the photo and i was like the the like tiger he almost doesn't he comes out almost on top above the range rover car corporation because uh you know you've got this car that is unscathed not a scratch on it it looks perfectly detailed, just drove off the lot or whatever, yet somehow this top-heavy vehicle has managed to flip over on its side.
35:45Jason Stewart:It seems like a bad advertisement for Range Rover, but also... No, it's literally a Genesis. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. I'm going to pull this up right now. He contractually has to drive a Genesis. That's why I'm saying this. He has a deal because he's wrecked another... This is why it's funny because he's wrecked another Genesis. I know, I know. Yeah, it says Genesis. Yeah, it's because he was... The other fucked up part, he was like course ready. Like he was going to hit balls. Like he was going to the golf course to participate in a tournament. No, it's a range. I'm looking at it right now.
36:17Jason Stewart:I'm looking at it right now. Are you sure you're looking at the one from two days ago? Are there Florida plates on it? Or are there California plates on it? Oh, I can't. Hold on. Now I'm looking at a great graphic where it seems to be 2021 is a Genesis. 2009 is a Cadillac and 2026 is a Range Rover which is pretty awesome and he's flipped two of three from what I can tell from this image and I remember when SUVs first came out a lot of people were afraid of how they were top heavy and easy to flip over, you would hear about it all the time oh that expedition, be careful with it so he managed to flip this thing not a scratch on it, he walks away perfectly so it's almost like he did some type of crazy magic trick to get it to do that.
36:59Jason Stewart:I think he must just be taking corners hard. He must be going 80 around a corner. There's no other way to flip a car. I don't care. Unless he's doing some MIA video shit, it's pretty much impossible. Or you get up on the curb on a stunt car thing where they get him going sideways. Yeah, I just don't understand. Something from the Fantasy Factory. I do think it's cool that he is... I don't know, man. Look, I'm not proud of how much I've driven on pills and been nodding out at the wheel. Luckily, I was mostly alone like Tiger. But usually when you're under the influence like that, you are driving laughably carefully because you know that you're fucked up.
37:44That's the other thing. I think the ego of being Tiger Woods allows him to maybe hit the gas a little harder around turn three.
37:51Jason Stewart:Yeah, I think it's that mixed with his dopamine receptor are so blown out that I feel like him safely driving to the golf course and saving home is so boring and so just a waste compared to the high stakes energy. There's so many waitresses. There's so many white waitresses left. You know, did you see this video? So there's like on that golf show on Netflix, it was really good. There was like a talking head. It was like a golf journalist from Barstool. I don't know if you've seen this. I don't know his name. and he has this video where he's to camera and he's like crying about Tiger doing this because it just and he's trying to say that he's so famous that driving himself is the only time he has alone could be and that that is why he continues to do it which is not I mean the video is amazing because this guy is acting like his grandmother died it's fucking amazing but it is and it's not a bit he's being no it's not a bit he's a golf nerd who like Tiger Woods is his hero and I mean this is the only the tiger woods substance abuse problem is the only thing that makes makes him interesting because golf is the most boring thing to ever exist but i am how he keeps coming back the thing is he will come back and he will win another tournament like this will not this will be a minor uh speed bump no pun intended in his in his life yeah i saw i saw a tweet that sort of encapsulated that saying every two years tiger woods either wins a master's tournament or dies in a car crash it's amazing it's honestly amazing and it feels i was talking to cooper about this this morning he was like it's crazy because like like our dad's let's say generation like they he was the greatest athlete to ever live there was no and now we just think of him as a drunk driver and that was black that was back when a lot of them weren't super keen on a black golfer winning all these awards no definitely not definitely not and golfers are also i mean they can be drunk it's not an athletic sport it's a skill you know it's a different it's a different game but i i just i i don't know man Just look at our man, John Daly.
39:51The goat. The only winner.
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41:47Jason Stewart:Because you know when Nicole Richie was going backwards on the 134, it wasn't the Camry Hybrid. It was likely a Range Rover of a certain shade of pink or white. Well, I think it depends on the user, man. It's tough. That's true. It's tough because obviously there's different tax brackets. Maybe a pill driver of means, we'll say. Yeah, I would say, I mean, I think a person of means is reaching for a Range Rover no matter what. So if they also like Xanax and Vicodin, then that makes sense. I'm trying to think of what, because I'm trying to think of what would be like the alcoholic's car. You know what I mean?
42:19Because, again, it's all like an upper middle class alcoholic. Is it a Volvo? You know, like what is it? The landscape is always changing, yeah. It's constantly changing. And they're introducing new models. Like your version of an alcoholic would have been a Scion. You know what I mean? and now we've moved into... I mean, obviously, Volvo feels like a great option because they're known for safety. Volvo does feel like a good pill driver's car as well. Known for safety. Great. The XC90, great looking car. You know what I mean? Great looking car.
42:48Jason Stewart:Like, I'm so high on benzos, I'm probably going to crash. I should get a Volvo. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't think... I mean, it would be cool to know if there's anyone out there who's literally choosing their make and model of car based on what drugs and alcohol. they do and I want I want to because I think that like drug dealers would pick cars that are inconspicuous but still pretty nice you know what I mean you get a new you get a new car a little plane jam with a little something under the hood exactly exactly it's not going to be flashy it's not going to be you're not going to get the candy paint job you're not going to put rims on it you got to keep it stock you know what I mean I think that if you're a real no neon at all okay you're saying I cannot put a Rockford Fosgate in the back you're saying I cannot fit a sub in the trunk Yeah, I think that somebody's making these decisions, and I wonder which way they're going, what their checklist looks like when they're hitting the dealership.
43:40Just something to think about, you know. Okay, so wait, I'm sorry. When did the dinner happen Saturday night? You had the big contramar, the sit-down.
43:48Jason Stewart:Yeah, and then the sit-down sort of press PR dinner last night, a lengthy meal where we had, you know, basically ate the whole menu, five different tostadas, steak, pork shank, the fish with the red and the green salsa. Had a very nice kind of Mexican cream corn situation going on. You know, five different desserts, the strawberry meringue pie, the banana tart, a chocolate tamale, you know. And then you get the little coffee cocktails at the end with the 43 liqueur. I mean, it was like a four-hour. It was like some Noma shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was good. And then we were ushered upstairs to the poodle room.
44:29Jason Stewart:their private VIP lounge on the rooftop of the hotel and we're treated to a live performance from Gavin DeGraw. I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. I mean, when you told us that Gavin DeGraw was performing, I instantly went on Apple Music and listened to that song and was like, damn, this motherfucker had one. That song was fucking huge and he had a couple. He had like two or three more, yeah. And he played them all for you last night. And my final question as far as Gavin goes, was he or was he not wearing a pork pie hat? He was wearing a PPH, yes. Do you think he's hiding something or do you think it's a style choice?
45:12Jason Stewart:I think Gavin's been bald since... Oh, three? Since George W. Bush was in office, yeah. Did you get to build? Because I talked to Becca. She said, she was like, oh, I met Jason. It was so great, blah, blah, blah. and then I was like, okay, Becca's one of the greats, but I'm like, but did Jason get to build with, did Jason get to build with, with Gav? No, no, he had, he had a detail of security that made whatever Shappell's got look like a little kind of kiddie operation. Gavin DeGraw playing three songs on a piano with six giant fucking former NFL players around him. No, no, no, I'm just kidding.
45:48Jason Stewart:I know. He's kidding. He didn't have any security. I know. But he had, he was playing with three guys. Oh, he had a little trio. He was on, He was on the grand piano, and then he had two guys on piano and one guy on acoustic guitar, no drums. And he was kind of doing a lounge singer in the round kind of vibe. Did it work? Yeah, it worked a lot. I mean, everyone in the room is just like people in their 50s who are rich as fuck with the Hermes bag that looks, you know, she got the wrong Birkin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just like, oh, the size and the color, just like. I always forget also that there's a kind of person that is just sort of like excited by live music because it's not a part of their life at all.
46:28Jason Stewart:As long as they know the song that is playing, yes. Yeah, but I just, I always, I love that. That that is possible because I am, I am the, obviously we are the opposite of that. We might even be fatigued by live music at different points in our lives. So to be 50 and rich and just be like, oh, I know this one. And having the time of your life, that's, that's a, honestly, that's pure. And the good part about Gavin and why he's still doing well in his career, despite not releasing a hit in 23 years, he knows that he has two songs that this crowd of drunk rich people will know. So the rest, we're doing covers.
47:03Jason Stewart:We are the champions. He's doing sing-along songs. Smart. Okay. So he's doing karaoke up there. He knows exactly what he's doing. and he'll play a verse of this thing and one guy will pick up the little guitar and he did Country Road, John Denver. Don't get me going on Country Road. I would have taken a mic. I would have taken a goddamn mic. That shit gets me choked up every time. The best part about it, he'll do that, but he'll do the intro, he'll do the verse, he'll do the chorus, and he'll wrap it up. And then on to the next one. He's like a DJ. He knows when to mix out. Just like Eric Deluxe over at Live on Saturdays.
47:40Jason Stewart:He knows exactly when to get in and out. He's an open format acoustic performer. Big room open format acoustic performer. All right. So do you feel like this Vegas trip, do you feel like it? Because I feel like a Vegas trip is always about getting the exact amount of time. And it's very easy for it to be too long and arguably very easy for it to be too short. This sounds like you might have reached the equilibrium. It was truly perfection. Yeah. Like go out, get a little drunky, have some indoor cigs. do the whole thing in bed at midnight, wake up the next day, a little hangover, spend all day at the spa, get all schvitzy.
48:20Jason Stewart:You're good. You're back to business. Have a big, long meal. Dinner was at 530. Gavin, you know, watch Gavin for 15 minutes. He does his three covers in I Don't Wanna Be. And then, you know, smoke a little J in the parking lot valet. We're in bed, wake up at 6am. I'm back in my house at 9am that is couldn't be more ideal that is great and thank you to our friends at Becca for not booking me out of LAX praise Jesus honestly they're great she's one of my favorite and it's not because she's southern but it really helps that just it calms me her voice calms me in a way that makes me feel very good yeah the way when I hear a woman from Orange County speak I say mama mama I start looking for a teat I had a weird okay so yesterday I received a I referred someone to my doctor, Mike Carragher.
49:14And when you refer someone to their doctor and they sign up, they send you a... Wait, what's your caregiver's name? Mike Carragher is his name. Sorry. So I give him... Yeah, I got you. I tried to avoid that. So they send you... When the referral comes through and the person signs up, they send you a$250 gift card as a thank you. so I've gotten a few of these over the years
49:39Jason Stewart:are these gift cards to his doctor's office? no no they're gift cards it's like a visa you can use it anywhere so I was kind of like oh this is funny I'm like I'm not going to use this on anything that I should I'm not going to buy something I would normally buy you're not going to pay your light bill with this one no I want to blow this all today Saturday afternoon in New York City but not on meals like on stuff you know i mean i'm like let's just blow this shit so alex and i were going to some galleries uptown we went to zittimer's i was able to go through like for a listener zittimer's is a old pharmacy right yes but it's they have everything you know all the beauty products it's sort of it's low it's not as overrun as ceo biglow right now with white women trying to be carolyn beset but it's in that they they sell headbands there so it's fucked um so you know whatever we get some we get some you know whatever we get some stuff there um i'm able to get a new high-end toothpaste um etc oh my god i still got some more money but the problem is i'm embarrassed to use this thing because it looks like it looks like you're trying to scam someone you know and it's it's like these you know 80 year old women so they don't know what's going on so it's the perfect it's the perfect crime i get in i get oh a visa i've heard this one there's no there's oh my god a visa card so we get we we're in and out of there pretty well you go into the little zaza shop me like oh this guy's moving packs is this is this a dirty card exactly they yeah this is a dirty card so i'm i'm and i'm like i try i'm like alex will you like will you use it because i feel like they'll be nicer to you and she's like no you fucking loser do it stop being a pussy she's like i have a reputation in this town yeah literally so i bought so i buy her all this shit i get toothpaste she gets she gets some fucking you know some body cream this some that you know whatever she's she's got the all she got the a b lotion and you're you're a little toothpaste i got a 16 toothpaste you know what i mean i was i was eyeing a 65 deodorant but i was able to back off of that even with this funny money so then i'm like all right we gotta spend the rest of it and i'm like what would alex like more than a trip to happier grocer so i i hadn't been there in in a long time obviously you know we live pretty close so we stopped there on the way home and we get we get four sides to for so we get a a three pieces of tofu like four pieces of tofu, I guess, but you know, small, you know, you can imagine the, the, the sort of small brick size, um, two leafy green salads, one bitter, one green goddess and some delicious, uh, purple potatoes.
52:08The potatoes went Barney mode and they were, they were mashed with a, with a bit of garlic. Wow. Okay.
52:15Jason Stewart:Sounds like we're really kind of fiber maxing, digestion maxing here. What do you think this, what do you think those four sides hit, hit, hit for? don't say 37 try 60 try 60 so i'm i'm like i gotta spend this card i'm piling stuff in i'm trying to get alex her favorite almond almond chocolate milk they have there when you could have got a just a nice new york slice there i could have gone to lucia next door i could have i gotta go there's a new industry right near me so anyway i go up i go up there i swipe this shit and it's like how much you got to come out of pocket for for these bitter greens this is the most embarrassing part like a dollar 35 so i had to see i so so then we the the food is pretty good i'm happy with it but i was like wow what all right let me get 57 on this visa and let me get 119 i was splitting the payment i have your grocery but i was thinking to myself now what if i what if i did this every weekend for myself as a treat what if i gave myself a hundred dollar let's to go a little smaller,$100 gift card.
53:20And I spend it like this as a, as a way to make myself feel free, you know, and like, like un, unhinge myself from the, from the heavy weight of monetary restrictions and thinking about where my place is in the world when it comes to finances. What if I just, what if the unlock is a gift card that you spend freely like a child after their birthday? Right. And I, you know, I was, I was, it was a fascinating experiment and I got nothing out of it but i just wanted to you know i wanted to tell you about it no it reminds me because people say
53:49Jason Stewart:like you know what adults don't do play we don't play anymore right but we don't play but this is your you you know number one spender mr loves to buy this is your version of play is just having you know it's it's the version of your your dad giving you 20 bucks at the mall and saying you know go exactly go get a fucking wetzels and go see a movie kid you know keep the change you filthy animal get me out of here exactly and i i did we also saw the mark and sophia movie it was a full day yesterday oh wow um and i i had to go to the movie theater um which uh is not my favorite thing but at least it was angelica um and i did i you get some protein protein popcorn i got some protein popcorn protein water um and just kind of wash that down with a protein soda so it was a it was a nice i just if you it's nothing happens in it it's like kind of pointless but it like looks cool you know which is so it's a sophia coupler movie got it yeah but it's like usually i guess i guess mark jacobs has lived such a crazy colorful life and has been like i didn't know this i didn't i didn't know this at all louis vuitton didn't make clothes until they hired him they only made bags and accessories i had no idea yeah i had no idea wow so mark jacobs showed up he's like i know this is psycho but like close it's they came to him but i mean but they can't but it's just such a crazy i didn't know i basically there was like a few tidbits in here that even a person who's followed this for a long time i was like oh i didn't know that's fucking crazy sure and okay but the the just it's sort of like this guy's lived such an insane life he's like obviously been sober you know whatever blah blah blah and they just don't really get into that at all because that's not what it's about but that's kind of what i wanted do they get into his fingernails at all i mean he has them uh in the in the show but it's cool because they do like a montage of all of his sort of like celebratory you know the show is over the designer comes out and waves the audience and it's it's he's really gone through an amazing uh amount of look of looks in his in his career like everything from like a guy that looks like us to like 12 inch platform ruby red you know with a a lady jacket like it's the range is honestly incredible and i i found him pretty open but he's not super eloquent which is also interesting hotter like he it's almost like it's been his job for so long he doesn't feel the need to romanticize it at all like it's sort of just like we do this shit and like we do it whatever amount of times a year depending on where i'm working and what collections you know it's like that kind of thing he is vaping he's he's merely a tradesman he's vaping like a fucking monster he's vaping more than shod could only imagine and he doesn't have a little slick more than shod from shod magazine from shod magazine he doesn't even have he doesn't He ain't slick with it.
56:34He's got one of those turbo joints. He doesn't have some little sexy shit. You know what I mean? He's got some push to start shit. He's got the push to start. The push to start, for sure. It's got a little motor in it.
56:45Jason Stewart:How would you rate this? How would you rank this film with McQueen and Dior and I? Where is it sitting in? Those two masterpieces. Oh, this is third, for sure. For sure. Yeah. But I think that it is - How many times did you cry? I did. I was unfortunately not brought to tears. But I didn't know. I mean, his dad was an agent. His dad was an agent at William Morris, too, and died young. There's some interesting stuff. I was like, well, CIA? There's some interesting stuff. No, they don't call anybody. There's some interesting stuff in it, but I guess I just, I don't know. I wanted a little more emotion from the man himself, I guess is what I would say.
57:22Well. Can't win them all.
57:23Jason Stewart:I blame Sophia for that. As a director, she should have pulled it out of him. I think sometimes when you're so close to the subject, it's harder. Yeah, what was I going to say? You know. Oh. Did you see that AOC got caught? I read this in the New York Post. AOC broke the law by spending$19 ,000 in campaign cash on ketamine therapy for personal use. I mean. Does this make you like her a little bit more or is it just like so cliche that she's doing ketamine therapy with campaign funds? I love when politicians misappropriate campaign funds because I just think that's like the fun of that job is thankless, especially if you're her.
58:00like you are she is i mean she's beloved by you know david cho types but she is reviled by by many
58:07Jason Stewart:well i guess my question is because because of that does her being a quote can i have the nitrous please ask ho after all does that endear you to her and the other people who might naysay her a little bit more does this make her a little more no because it means human and and relatable instead of like the teacher's pet no she's still a teacher's ketamine therapy is still teacher's pet behavior if you really you know what i mean if like if you're really gonna try to fix something just go to regular talk therapy like let's not like if you're there's nothing more like upper middle class like new york la coded then i'm gonna fix my problems with ketamine therapy even if it i'm sure it works you know i'm not doubting the effects at all right but the impulse to do that is the most AOC shit of all time.
58:56I like when people fetishize her yabos though. It's hilarious. It's just hilarious when, I don't know, man. A yob is a yob at the end of the day, Chris. Did you see this? There's some tweets going around sort of about like, remember when we had to pretend this was good during the pandemic? And there's one that I'm sure that it came up recently and it showed Bo Burnham inside. his special has been catching some flack on the world wide web
59:25Jason Stewart:so along hung in the rafters next to Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters we have Bo Burnham's inside special Fetch the Bolt Cutters I'm a Fiona Apple lover Fetch the Bolt Cutters is unlistenable fucking garbage music Bo Burnham I don't care about either way so it doesn't offend me that his special became popular. But is this, I don't remember it. Is this the one he sings in the whole time? Yeah, I think so. He has little GoPros set up in his home studio and he makes beats and sing songs, but they all flow into each other in a weird, cohesive way. If I remember, I haven't watched it since COVID, but the best part was Melissa off Dumar owning that on vinyl.
1:00:13Hilarious. Amazing. I mean, amazing. Amazing to just be like, I love it so much.
1:00:17Jason Stewart:i need on vinyl i respect that honestly it's it's powerful absolutely um we should talk about drewski a little bit what are you talking about i mean he's once again hung himself in the rafters big boy somehow he's able to stay up there i mean there's not really much to be saying to be saying about it but other than a bravo the shit where erica erica kirks in his comments he's like bitch i didn't say anything about you so that means you chose to you know it's about you because you know is true and grok or grok thought it was her like he did such a like somebody posted a photo no i didn't know grok ever got it right no grok always gets it right what are you talking about but but grok thought it was her so uh that's so that's so fucking funny it's so funny he's so good he's so good and i just think that we need to not that we here at how long gone we constantly put respect on his name but i also think that the the fact that he's coming out of pocket to do that like that is just him spending his own money to be in hair and makeup for 10 hours to do that because it's so funny is just we we have to respect that no one does anything because they want to anymore i mean honestly and we're we're victim we're victim of this to an extent too when you monetize your entire life and you have to make a living being yourself it's tough to invest in yourself when you don't know if something will come back even when you're drewski even when you're rich yeah and i guess you just kind of do it on a shoestring until you can get to that level but I think his formula for success, it really seems to be that work beforehand, investing the money in the set direction, the hair, the makeup, all that stuff.
1:01:53Jason Stewart:That's the difference that he makes because when he's finally done and we're ready to start rolling, he literally just walks out and the sparklers go out and he just waves at the crowd. All he does is just walk into frame and do the thing. In this instance, he doesn't have to do shit. It's all pre-work. Yeah. You're absolutely right. It's a 12-hour shoot day. We filmed for 30 minutes. It's so good. It's so good. No, you're right. We got the whole thing done. The fact that this has also been a chance for him to reveal his white grandfather has been another gift that you couldn't write this if you wanted to.
1:02:29It's just too good. It's a real ace up the sleeve right there. It's really an ace up the sleeve. It's really an ace up the sleeve.
1:02:34Jason Stewart:Bravo. Oh, yeah. I was going to complain about when people send you their email and they just type their name and then they type out at as in A-T instead of the at. Who did that to you? We'll bleep it out because we've been collecting email addresses recently for Paul Smith. When people are like, oh, what's your email address? It's Jason space Stuart space A-T space Gmail. and you're like bro you know i'm gonna copy and paste it like just it was it was friend of the show cord jefferson cord you know better you're a goddamn writer for cord you're a writer for a living for god's sake come on cord cord come on all right well he can do better i think he knows he knows that he's better than that and he just he chose to maybe he was it was a decision he was just trying to troll you a little bit we didn't think about that could be well what's up now cord now i just outed you on spotify and apple we're using our platform for evil bitch how about that before we go I wanted to say there's a new Chris Lee show on Hulu that kind of oh cause he's out right free the guys that unpacks the family drama post jail pre and post jail it's a dark tale but I was able to watch three episodes yesterday so I'm still getting into it but just for all the Chris Lee heads out there I just want to put you on notice if you missed it or if you don't have a Hulu subscription or whatever that there is some new stuff out there you're monitoring the sitch?
1:04:00Well, I just wanted you to know that Chrisley's are feeding the streets yet again, as God intended.
1:04:04Jason Stewart:Has he made any epiphanies or realizations or any announcements about his sexuality yet? No, but he sort of endeared himself to the African-American community because he came out of jail and was like, hey, it is fucked up in there. I'm getting special treatment as a white guy. And I saw it firsthand, and now that I'm out, I'm going to work to change that. As a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, I am going to do what I can. And people are just like, damn, Todd really about it. And I kind of, you know what? I've known Southern guys like that where you think that they look racist and then they're absolutely not because they're just, it's just, you can't help it.
1:04:44It's like his face.
1:04:45Jason Stewart:I mean, they say, you know, we've said British are gay, Southern are gay, you know, the racists are gay. It's tough. It's a fine line. Yeah, there's always a fine line. How Long Gone, howlonggone.com is the website. We're back next week with one of the most, a whiplash guest lineup, maybe that we've never seen before, Jason. Chris, we keep saying that every month. No, no, no. This is, no. This month, the last couple weeks has been Women in Power. This is more like how on earth are these two people both available to you? Just based on their disciplines. Yeah, only who else could do this? Popcast, maybe?
1:05:23I will say the second guest definitely is a fan of the first guest, but maybe not vice versa. You know what I mean? That's all I can say.
1:05:30Jason Stewart:Wow, chestnut checkers. That's all I can say. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you to Las Vegas and Becca PR for hosting my dear friend Jason Stewart. Thank you to my doctor for that$250 gift card that I was able to blow yesterday in small businesses in Manhattan. We'll be back next week with more podcasts. Thank you for listening.
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