How Long Gone · Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

927. - Chris & Jason

April 6, 2026·1 hr 1 min·5 clips

Christina Hendricks' vinyl DJ set has people freaking out—but is it really that shocking?

The Easter mood comes in sideways. One host blesses the holiday through Cadbury preferences, plastic eggs, and the fantasy of a crisp hundred-dollar bill tucked inside. Reverence lasts about a second. The bit slides into holiday suspicion, Young Dro, pastel polos, and the possibility that every underground rave has a founder hiding somewhere inside it. Jason's outfit becomes the case file. A baby-blue quarter-zip at a rave gets treated like a cultural document, half scene report, half private joke. The stranger part is where the episode gets warmer. A gym detail, especially the second-floor running track, sets off a fuzzy reaction neither host can fully explain. They keep poking at it. The track is a hamster trail, then somehow also a tiny achievement for indoor running logistics. Therapy shows up because of course it does. One host tries to figure out why an 80s gym feature feels so Proustian, while the other mostly wishes he had an answer. Smell memory gets pulled into the mess too. The conversation drifts through scent associations, old feelings, and a joking claim of sensory mastery without ever losing speed. Even a treadmill alternative becomes material for nostalgia, city life, and design talk. Philadelphia briefly enters through a text about something seen there, nudging the conversation toward Lana fandom before the excerpt cuts off. They close with website business, Paul Smith on Melrose for April 15, and one more Easter-rock callback.

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