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1003. - Dylan Jones

How Long Gone

October 2, 2026

Dylan Jones is a journalist and author. He edited GQ in the UK from 1999 to 2021, as well as i-D and Arena. He’s written several books, and his newest, Table Hopping, is out in time for Christmas.

Speakers Chris Black, Jason Stewart, Dylan Jones

TopicsSociety & Culture

Chris Black (0:18)

How Long Gone. Bonjour, Jason.

How's it going, bro?

Jason Stewart (0:23)

What up, un petit bitch? It's going well. I was just, uh, just, uh, I was just, uh, just, uh, I was just, uh, just signing my Apple hardware loan agreement right before we got on here. I was just checking the fine print.

Chris Black (0:35)

Oh, I'm sure you had your, I'm sure you had your magnifying glass out for the free phone agreement.

Jason Stewart (0:40)

I know you were going over that. The team took a look at everything, just kind of go through it, you know, due diligence. They call it over here, but I've noticed cause they're like, what kind of phone do you want? What color phone do you want? And that's pretty much it. You know, we decide how many gigabytes of storage you get and et cetera, but they also threw in a case, a cross body strap and a wrist strap.

Chris Black (1:05)

Oh, I didn't, I don't think I got the wrist strap, but the case, the Apple case is nice. I never think to buy one cause I just, I don't know, I just don't, but it's nice. It's got like a...

Jason Stewart (1:14)

Cause Batman don't use iPhone case. I do, I use... No shade to our case users.

Chris Black (1:19)

I use a case, bro, I don't give a fuck. I don't...

Jason Stewart (1:21)

Well, I said Batman, Batman.

Chris Black (1:22)

Oh, oh, okay.

Jason Stewart (1:24)

I'm sorry.

Chris Black (1:24)

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Jason Stewart (1:26)

I hate to be the person to tell you this right now, Chris, but you're not the baddest man.

Chris Black (1:30)

Okay. That's bullshit coming from you. And she's just FYI.

Jason Stewart (1:35)

Take one to no one, bumma claud.

Chris Black (1:37)

Okay. Sure.

Jason Stewart (1:38)

Take one to no one.

Chris Black (1:39)

Got it. Thank you. Thank you for that explanation.

Jason Stewart (1:43)

Yeah. The call is coming from inside the dance.

Chris Black (1:46)

Yes. No, of course. Of course.

Jason Stewart (1:49)

So what's up?

Chris Black (1:51)

Oh, you know, just been all over. The weather is really nice today, so I was fucking hitting the lime hard as hell.

Criss-crossing the river. But no, I didn't, I just, I had lunch.

Dylan Jones (2:02)

It is fun riding it over the river, isn't it?

Chris Black (2:04)

It is fun. Yeah. I had a nice lunch. And then what else did I do? Did a little shopping, kicked the tires on some local retail establishments. Wow.

Jason Stewart (2:12)

Okay. So you're just on holiday then. That's nice.

Chris Black (2:14)

I mean, it's, the thing is nobody's up for the first, you know, at least half the day here. So if you make, you know, if you make quick, Who up?

Jason Stewart (2:21)

Nobody.

Chris Black (2:22)

Who up? Literally nobody. So, you know, you can go check out the La Mer store and get, you know, and there's eight people on there and they tell you that like, we don't have a sales associate for you. So if you need anything, just they really didn't want to let me in.

Jason Stewart (2:35)

Really?

Chris Black (2:35)

I was like, dude, it's just they want every store now, every, every designer store wants to assign you a salesperson when you walk in the door and they want to follow you around like a fucking hound. And it's like, dude, these shirts are expensive. They're not that expensive. You know what I mean? I'm not an Hermes, I'm not a Prada. I can afford a LeMare shirt if I want a LeMare shirt. You don't got to follow me around like I'm going to rob the place.

Jason Stewart (2:55)

But you can tell them to ski daddle though, right?

Chris Black (2:59)

I mean, yeah, but it's not, they don't like it. They're not breathing down your neck, but they're just hovering.

Jason Stewart (3:04)

Yeah, they're letting it be known that if you have any questions, you need to size, they're just, you're shot away.

Chris Black (3:10)

But I saw, don't worry, there were several Asian families that were buying enough for the rest of us. So it's totally, luckily I wasn't the focus of the-

Jason Stewart (3:19)

Maybe that's the reason why they assign that, because people just come in, it's looky-loos like us, and then, like you said, a Chinese lady who's like, I'm about to spend $18,000 right now, I'm on FaceTime on three different phones, I'm gonna need multiple sales associates, who wants the big fish on the line, who wants it, who wants it?

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