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Our dear friend and talented musician Rostam returns. His great new record, American Stories, is out now. We chat about Chris’s run-moshing in Arizona, hoodless hoodies, him befriending our wives, protecting his wrist strength as a multi-instrumentalist and his very heavy first guitar, queer coating > queer coding, our favorite Beatles, we make him defend Pleats Please, how something bad has to happen in the rock doc, his newfound gym gains, a Stir Crazy celeb sighting, and his potentially controversial merchandise. instagram.com/matsor twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. Halongon. Happy Sunday to you, Jason, the Lord's Day. It is overcast in Los Angeles, but I'll take it. How are you feeling? Speaker B: Yeah, you take it, you little bitch. Speaker A: Take it. Speaker B: It is. Yeah, it's been gloomy. It's been overcast. But you'll notice around noon time, things will really start picking up in terms of sun. Speaker A: I'm familiar with the system here. I just don't. I reject the system.

Speaker B: Well, that's not the— I'm just letting you know, that's not the daily, everyday system. That's just what's happening right now. Speaker A: Okay. Got it. Thank you for getting into your— Speaker B: Sometimes sun happen in the morning. Speaker A: I guess post— Speaker B: And you don't have to wait. Speaker A: Post-Arizona, when I would crack the blinds at 6:30 AM and it was 85. Seeing iguana dying, you know, in front of me. Speaker A: Okay. Got it. Thank you for getting into your— Speaker B: Sometimes sun happen in the morning.

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