How Long Gone · Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

925. - Naomi Fry

April 1, 2026·1 hr 16 min·7 clips

Chris reveals Jill Biden was 'looking good' at a high-profile party, leading to wild speculation about her relationship status.

Spring is briefly behaving. The opener starts with balcony-door wording, then hops to birds, hoops, heat relief, wildfire weather, blue ice magna, and MCT coffee without asking any topic to settle down. A stray comment about holding a 25 turns into fake concern over whether the host means a weight or something worse. The pace stays clipped, dumb, and sharp. Soon the room is on white bags, leaky products, road cosmetics, and whether a white vial could ever read as classy. Then comes the packet guy: a young British gentleman traveling around, trying packet in different countries, and rating it. Everyone knows it is bleak. Everyone is still interested. That opens the cleaner part of the conversation. The guest says she is taking a social media break because constant checking makes her feel scattered and strange. The hosts immediately start investigating the disappearance. Twitter and Instagram searches turn up nothing, so the break becomes both news item and compliment. Archive dread shows up right on time. They worry about posting history, old John Mayer birthday wishes, Instagram deactivation, and Twitter's 30-day return window, but nobody lets it get too heavy. The best part is how every honest point arrives dressed as a bit and still leaves a mark. The ending snaps back to music: a Them Genes remix or reimagination of Pursuit of Happiness, stems, acapellas, Jacques Green, club-fire predictions, and a King Cudi salute. After all that, the goodbye feels warm and loose.

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A loose, funny culture hang about logging off, preserving the archive, and missing the noise anyway.

Naomi Fry drops into How Long Gone for a shaggy, funny check-in on platform fatigue, social habits, and the little rituals that fill the day around them.

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A co-host went dark on Instagram and Twitter; now the other is grieving the missing posts.

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