988. - Nick Axelrod

Chris Black (0:18)

How Long Gone. I'm on TJ Time, and he is far, far gone. Los Angeles, California, it's already, it's already touching 85 at 8.45 in the morning. You've been up since 6, getting it in, TJ.

Did you get any sleep in Delta 1, or was it a toss and turn, be honest?

Jason Stewart (0:35)

I slept for, you know, it's a 10-hour flight. I slept, I got a good 37 minutes of Zs up in there.

Chris Black (0:42)

Okay, so you can't, no matter what, you can't knock out.

Jason Stewart (0:46)

No, no, no, I can sometimes, but I've never been able, I mean, I don't think I've slept for more than maybe like four hours total on a flight.

Nick Axelrod (0:53)

Yeah, fair enough, fair enough.

Jason Stewart (0:54)

Regardless of the total length, but I mean, after here, yeah, we did the festival, we woke up the next day, did that podcast and then packed, went to the airport, and then I was editing the pod on the plane, and then I uploaded it in the Sprinter to the hotel, checked in, took a shower, walked across the street to Cafe Kitsune for a double espresso.

Chris Black (1:26)

Oh, do you have a, do you have matcha?

I'm surprised. Yeah, that's Cafe Kitsune low key in places like that. The coffee is kind of nice.

Jason Stewart (1:37)

My cappuccino is excellent. I have no complaints here, and I was thinking like Cafe Kitsune, it's been around, you know, the clothing company has been around for a long time. They've had their ups and downs in terms of-

Chris Black (1:50)

The label, the label, the record label?

Jason Stewart (1:51)

The record label as well, which features a Them Jeans remix of a Childish Gambino song on one of the Kitsune compilations.

Chris Black (2:00)

Jesus Christ, you could have kept that to yourself, big bro.

Jason Stewart (2:03)

No, that one, bro, that was one of the remixes where I actually got fucking paid.

Chris Black (2:07)

Okay, well that's, look, I'm glad that you got paid, but I know that money is long spent, and the association of Childish Gambino is not worth 1,500, to you at this point, I would assume, I would assume.

Jason Stewart (2:19)

I think it was more than that. I think I may have, there's a small chance I did make Les Residuals off of that remix. No lie, I mean, so more than 1,500 euros, but less than 150,000 euros, that's for sure.

Chris Black (2:41)

Can I ask, I mean, obviously your memory is kind of shot from just aging and drugs, but what is the, do you remember what you added, took away from this Childish Gambino? I don't know any Childish Gambino songs except for the bad one. Well, they're all bad, I'm saying the popular bad one.

Jason Stewart (2:59)

Yeah, it's been some time, it has been some time since I went back.

Chris Black (3:05)

Was it a shuffle? Was it a re-edit? Was it a, you know what I mean? Like, where do we classify it?

Jason Stewart (3:09)

I think it was more of a minimal downgraded, you know, it's cut, you know, trim the fat, you know. We stripped it. It's a re, it's a stripped down re-imagination.

There's a, what was it, that, you know, that party rub and tug?

Chris Black (3:25)

Yes, yes.

Jason Stewart (3:26)

I remember they would do remixes and they would call, they'd be called re-rubs, where you're like, what's going, you know, like we just made it.

Nick Axelrod (3:33)

That's good, that's good. That's really good.

Jason Stewart (3:34)

We made it just kinda, it says everything that you need to say, but.

Nick Axelrod (3:38)

Yeah, yeah.

Jason Stewart (3:38)

Yeah, I was looking, but like Kitsune, like the label was big, the clothing label was big, and I was looking it up. There's 35 cafes and 70 clothing stores worldwide. That's kind of crazy.

Chris Black (3:51)

I know, the cafes do very well. And the cafes are, when you're in certain parts of Europe where they don't, like, the fourth wave is not available in every corner, a Kitsune is a port in a storm.

Jason Stewart (4:05)

Right.

Chris Black (4:05)

That I have, you know, cause Paris, there's Dreamin Man, and there's other shit, but like Dreamin Man's the one that I always go to. But if it, there's more, obviously there's more Kitsune. There's like, you know, probably five of them in Paris. Oh yeah.

Jason Stewart (4:18)

If not, if not more. It is a beacon in the dark, like you said, because, you know, Paris, you know, unless you want duck confit, chocolate or dim sum, that's kind of, you know, those are the three things that you can eat in Paris.