How Long Gone · Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

909. - Chris & Jason

February 23, 2026·1 hr 4 min·6 clips

What is a 'mojo compound butter' and why does it sound like something that holds wood together?

Sunday starts in Charleston. Delta cancellations and Diamond Medallion calls stretch the trip home, so Chris turns the delay into a running status report. Manhattan can wait. Blizzard rumors, a Wednesday morning landing, and an alleged 18 inches become weather coverage by way of personal inconvenience. Hockey slips in for a minute. USA beating Canada only comes up after treadmill time at Ethos and skinny run-club guys caring too much. Then the episode wanders into the kitchen, where it clearly wants to live. A stray corn-on-the-cob image kicks off a kitchen-gadget tangent that basically becomes dinner. Waffle technology gets a full inspection. The air fryer, the Ninja ice cream maker, and the vertical waffle iron all become little household flexes. The format is stupid in the right way. Jason explains a stand-up waffle iron with complete buyer confidence and almost no firsthand experience. Chris keeps needling him. The appliance sounds useful and faintly insane, like countertop gear auditioning for a launchpad. Bar Di Bello in Silver Lake shows up as the source of the waffle intel, mixed with parent-gift logistics and kid breakfast culture. Nothing gets reviewed, exactly. The fun is hearing two hosts over-certify one small object until it starts to feel like a lifestyle position. Near the end, listener reactions to a Tom of Finland party-flyer post give them one last check on how far the joke can go. Then they bail fast: website, next-week promise, outro music, no soft landing.

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Canceled flights, gym talk, waffle irons, and listener blowback become a sharp, casually abrasive study of modern taste.

Chris and Jason turn a stranded travel day into a loose study of inconvenience, taste, and social performance. The episode opens in Charleston, with canceled Delta flights, Diamond Medallion help-desk purgatory, and a Manhattan blizzard stretching the return home into a…

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