1000. - Grace Ives

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Chris Black (0:50)

All right, how long gone?

Chris Black, I'm coming to you from the Four Seasons in fucking Silicon Valley. SF Chris is in the building. But more importantly, this is the thousandth episode of How Long Gone, Jason. Make some noise for yourself.

Jason Stewart (1:08)

Yes, yes. Congratulations to us. Even though officially, unofficially, the Ghanis are our award show on 10 days ago, that was sort of our 1000th episode in terms of making it a big deal. But the way that we do it over here, we crank out three episodes a week. Regardless of what is going on in the world, you guys need entertainment, you're commuting, you're working out, you're walking the dog, whatever it may be, we're here for you, we're going to give you shit.

It's another day at the office for us, right, Chris?

Chris Black (1:42)

It's another day at the office for us, Jason. That's what I would like to remind everyone.

SPEAKER_4 (1:45)

Ain't shit changed.

Chris Black (1:46)

Ain't shit changed.

Jason Stewart (1:48)

Tongue kiss her other tongue, skeet, skeet, skeet, water gun.

Chris Black (1:54)

Woo, Jason said he's got his bars today.

Jason Stewart (1:58)

I'm on Tucci mode for 1,000.

Chris Black (2:01)

Not Tucci mode.

Jason Stewart (2:02)

Yeah, I made a pour over coffee right now, and I was about to do my sidecar of milk, just a nice cold glass of milk. And then I was like, you know what, I'm going to reach for the David vanilla protein instead. See what that do in my mouth.

Chris Black (2:15)

Good for you. I hope you're stuck.

Jason Stewart (2:16)

See how David tastes in my mouth?

Chris Black (2:18)

I bet the stomach going to be doing backflips. So be careful with that, boy.

Jason Stewart (2:22)

No, this is my pre. This is my pre-pre.

Chris Black (2:23)

Okay. I don't want the bubble guts for the thousandth. That's all I'm just saying.

Jason Stewart (2:28)

Damn shit. As soon as we've started getting four digits on the board, you started acting different. You have never discussed bubble gut.

Chris Black (2:35)

Bro, you switched up on me, bro. No, no, no, I would never.

Jason Stewart (2:39)

When we hit the 1K, you switched up. Actually, I was listening to a friend of the show, Neil Brennan, his podcast. And we've talked about him before. He seems to have changed the name of his podcast to something else. I forgot what it is.

Chris Black (2:53)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You listened to the Dan Soder episode?

Jason Stewart (2:56)

Yes. And I was listening and noticing that he or his podcast producer or his social media manager or whatever, somebody in and around him and his team said, what if we start adding the sound effects every, let's say, four minutes on this podcast hosted by a millionaire in his 50s?

So I guess my question is, is he too old to be doing that? Will every pod in the future have sound effects like that moving forward? Can you imagine Howard Stern having the sound effect on when he drops a fucking truth bomb?

Chris Black (3:37)

Yes, he's too old. Yes, it will continue.

It doesn't really bother. I noticed it too, but I sort of zoned it out, I think. Once I sort of clocked it and reconciled it, I just kept it moving, but it does seem like a choice has been made. I will agree with you on that part.

Jason Stewart (3:55)

And when does it end? You know, like when you're reading, like I'm gonna be reading Ari Emanuel's memoir, is there a point in the future where like the audio book will have the, every time he like says like a dope bar that normally you would highlight in your chapter and say, wow, what a great sentence or a paragraph. And now unless the fa sound effect happens to let us know that a bar was just dropped, a bomb was just decimated, then are we gonna be able to even know how to react?

Chris Black (4:28)

You're saying we need that to even know how to react because we're so fraud. I mean, there's some possibilities there.

Jason Stewart (4:35)

If we continue down the path, unless we fight back, of course, in an ecoterrorism kind of way. Unless we destroy the machine, the pha machine.