985. - Jerry Stahl

**Chris Black** (0:00)
Jason, we're at the age where we've attended a lot of weddings, not only our own, but friends, family, et cetera, et cetera. And the through line, unless they hire you, is shitty music.

**Jason Stewart** (0:10)
Yeah, the cross-section of people who can DJ a wedding well and people who are cool, very small, so much that you would have to throw a dart at a dartboard and hit a bullseye just to find them. And luckily we did, Chris.

**Chris Black** (0:23)
Thank God, and dart works with actual musicians and artists, many of whom have their own careers and tour in bands like Leon Bridges, Taylor Swift, The Dare, Serenity Carpenter. I could go on and on. Dart DJs use vinyl and are cool in a way that your friends would be, not in a dated Vegas performer type of way, and they have an in-house stylist so they don't show up looking like shit.
Shout out to Pete for that one.

**Jason Stewart** (0:47)
Dart can do intimate stuff to huge celebrity events as well. Hiring Dart feels like hiring your very talented friend who happens to be a DJ.
Dart is for people who actually like music with 14 years in the biz. Tons of experience. I've worked with them. Highly recommended. So if you are getting married or you have any type of cool event going on and you need a good DJ, they got you. Hubs in LA, SF, Austin, New York, Chicago, all over the place.

**Chris Black** (1:14)
Dart, like throwing a dart, dashcollective.com. That's dartcollective.com. Email Michael at dartcollective.com and tell him that Chris and Jason from How Long Gone sent you.
How Long Gone. Beautiful Tuesday in New York. Let's start off with rain. The sun is shining. A lot to talk about today, Jason. I mean, the world's just moving at a breakneck pace. I don't know how you're able to keep up when you're in Sea Ranch, one of the most relaxed places on planet Earth.

**Jason Stewart** (2:03)
That's the thing. When I'm here in the ranch, I don't have to keep up, Chris. I get here fast, I take it slow. I'm unplugging from my device. I'm only checking it instead of like every minute, it's like every four minutes.

**Chris Black** (2:16)
I've perfected a new method and it added three minutes to my check time, so it's looking good.

**Jason Stewart** (2:21)
The amount that your little asshole unclenches after just 90 seconds of device free living. Of course, I got my headphones on, I got my iPad and then the Samsung flat screen is open, of course, but phone's staying in the pocket.

**Chris Black** (2:37)
I know you bring your portable monitor with you as well. I see a lot of my TikTok consultants using, so I just wanted to-

**Jason Stewart** (2:44)
TikTok consultant, you say?

**Chris Black** (2:45)
There's this guy that hits my timeline, and he's like a chubby, probably 28-year-old half-Asian guy who lives in Texas, and he does the, he eats like shit and travels like shit, but he documents it, and it's just so, it's like, he's staying at a hilt, and then he gets six towels from the front desk to cover the floor to pad his feet, and then he wears a workout shirt that's too tight and eats pad time. It's the best, it's so good, it's so good.

**Jason Stewart** (3:13)
Okay, so he just carpets his cement flooring with towels from the lobby, and then he eats pad time with the shirt that's too tight. I like this.

**Chris Black** (3:23)
Well, his whole thing is like, he honestly, I think it's like, I don't know where he works, but one of those big consulting firms, he's in a different city literally every day, and he rents a car, and he just sorta, he sets up his room, but it's great, cause he like sets up the bathroom, and he has like the shittiest, like Kmart apothecary. He does everything that like rich girls do, but he does it with shitty stuff, and it's better, I think. I think it's actually better.

**Jason Stewart** (3:48)
Yeah, I mean, it's important to know that we can live the same exact lifestyle with shittier stuff and less money, and you know, style is in quotes, but actually that reminds me, we were walking, doing a little beach path walk, couldn't be more serene, you know, there's groups of quail hopping around and a little morning fox peeking its head around, we're living right on a golf course, but we go around a little bend, and there's just these, you know, cliff after a cliff of breathtaking views, sweeping up emotionally, and then you look to the other side, and there's somebody who's got the standing desk set up on the balcony, and they are- Bro. They're sort of doing their power, power using of some application of some sort, but just, you know, waking up, getting my horizontal light coming at me off the ocean, and then I can get my vertical monitor going, and I can, my clod agents are tackling the day.