976. - Steven Phillips-Horst

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Chris Black** (0:33)
How Long Gone. Good to hear from you, bitch. It is almost noon here on a flood watch, New York City afternoon. The rain hasn't started yet, but they keep swearing that it's coming, Jason. So I'm preparing mentally and physically.

**Jason Stewart** (0:48)
Okay, so you got a torrential downpour, a biblical flood, an Odessian drizzle?

**Chris Black** (0:55)
Yeah, that's what they're saying, but they've been saying that since 7 a.m. and it still hasn't hit yet. So I'm hoping it pushes off as long as possible because I got some shit I got to do outside. Not like long-term, I just mean commuting, of course.

**Jason Stewart** (1:07)
Okay, you don't have a paddle ball game at the park later.

**Chris Black** (1:11)
Yeah, no, I'm not shooting hoops with my Asian brothers downstairs. I'm just kind of doing my thing.

**Jason Stewart** (1:18)
You just have to be about, you have to go to the place where you buy your soaps, you have to go pick up some of your garments from processing.

**Chris Black** (1:28)
Excuse me, is there anything for Chris Black? I'm here at the processing center, I'm looking for my garments.

**Jason Stewart** (1:32)
There's some cleaning, there's some hemming, there's some tailoring.

**Chris Black** (1:36)
I did drop off some.

**Jason Stewart** (1:37)
Bringing the waste in, bringing the chest out.

**Chris Black** (1:39)
I did bring some clothes to the tailor yesterday. And I did this morning, I had to run Erin for Alex. And I was dreading it, because I had to bring her Rimowa to the repair center, the store to get a repair. And she has the polycarbonate, she has the lighter one, thank God. And she's had it for at least 10 years, the cab driver destroyed the handle, et cetera. But what I learned, Jason, is that it fits side saddle in the city bike basket.
So I was- Joking. You're fucking joking. I mean, obviously it was empty, so that helped, but I was able to-

**Jason Stewart** (2:15)
So you look like damn blood orange rolling down the street in the city bike with a tattered Rimowa in the basket.

**Chris Black** (2:23)
Yeah, it didn't have a small cello in it, so you couldn't mistake me for Dev, but-

**Jason Stewart** (2:27)
It'd be cool if you had the little like, you know, the little stick camera GoPro that they put on top of cars so you can see the whole view. Get one of those set up and then it'll be, everyone's gonna think you're filming one of those videos where it's like, why would you take an Uber to JFK when you could take a city bike?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:43)
Yeah, exactly.

**Jason Stewart** (2:44)
You've got three suitcases duct taped to your legs.

**Chris Black** (2:48)
I was inspired by Casey Nestat to ride a fucking city bike all the way to JFK. But so I get to the Rimowa store, they open at 11, they open on time, I take the suitcase downstairs, the guy says, I'll have it for you in an hour.
And I was like, wow, that's pretty unbelievable. I didn't know it was like that over there. But now that means another task for me to go pick it up.

**Jason Stewart** (3:09)
So you found a way to make an hour long turnover on suitcase repair, kind of a bit of an annoyance. It'd be better if we could just do this another day kind of thing?

**Chris Black** (3:18)
Well, it would be best, Jason, if the great people over at Rimowa would messenger it to the house when they're finished. Because they offered to ship it and I was like, well, UPS down the street is going to take three days. So I might as well, at that point, we should offer a messenger service, but no complaints here. It's all free. It's all covered.

**Jason Stewart** (3:37)
It's all covered. Okay, good.
Yeah, I was just reading right before we came here, gay icon Boy George releases pro-Israel song. People aren't feeling that. Did you know he was so pro? Pro with it or is this a late in life transformation?

**Chris Black** (3:54)
I didn't know that. I guess those words that you just said, I never expected to even hear together, so I'm still reeling from the delivery.
But no, I didn't know.

**Jason Stewart** (4:05)
2026's Boy George releases his new song. Obviously, I'm assuming inspired by Madonna's Confessions 2

**Chris Black** (4:12)
I would have to say that brought him out of the closet, the retirement closet.