922. - Adam Goldberg

Speaker A: All right, uh, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it 3 times a week. Jason, does that sound familiar to you? Speaker B: We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place.

Speaker A: All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Speaker C: Hello and gone. Speaker A: It's a beautiful, chilly Tuesday afternoon here in New York City. Jason, right before we jumped on, our mutual friend David Choe sent a link to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Doing a cover of Frank Ocean on late night television where he alternates between the bass guitar, the instrument he's famous for mastering, and the trumpet. I don't know if you've seen this or not, but it's, it's, uh, the biggest takeaway for me is that Flea has made enough money for everyone, you know, on the business side of his career where he can have a 30-piece orchestra on stage, on television, while he does his like jerk-off solo project where he plays trumpet a little bit.

And that is— that's power to me. Speaker B: That's the equivalent of, uh, of Jay Leno just buying, you know, like flying, uh, like a Whirlybird contraption around Burbank, or, you know, a 17th century choo-choo train going down the metro line or whatever. It's the same. It's like, I got so much bread, I'm so chill with myself. I'm just gonna like do cool stuff that the young version of me would want to do. And real pepperheads know, really, real, real chili daddies, real, real habanero hoppers know that Flea's first instrument was the trumpet.