How Long Gone, a podcast aimed at the “bi-coastal elite”, is moving into the video world.
Amplify Pictures, the company behind HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, and Talkhouse, which distributes the HLG podcast, have teamed up with hosts Chris Black and Jason Stewart to launch a digital spinoff series – How Long Gone Today.
It comes after the pair launched a 2025 year in review special on YouTube at the end of last year.
The series will feature studio-based conversations, guest interviews and musical performances. Guests on the show have recently included SNL’s Sarah Sherman, Hacks’ Robby Hoffman, Olivia Nuzzi, Tom Freston, Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley, Jeff Goldblum and Stranger Things’ Joe Keery, while the likes of Lena Dunham, Bret Easton Ellis and B.J. Novak have also appeared.
The pair launched the podcast in March 2020. Black previously managed pop punk band Cartel before becoming a fashion consultant for the likes of Thom Browne as well as a culture writer, while Stewart, otherwise known as DJ Them Jeans, previously played with the likes of Steve Aoki and is a noted foodie.
The move into video is a longtime coming; the duo signed with CAA in 2023 and have regularly talked about moving into the TV world.
Black and Stewart will exec produce alongside Ian Wheeler for Talkhouse and Joe Lewis, Colin King Miller, Rachel Eggebeen and Luke Esselen for Amplify Pictures.
The series, which will be shot at a news-desk studio in Los Angeles, will be available on YouTube and Spotify Video as well as on Apple soon.
“We could only resist the pivot to video for so long. This approach feels like the right one for us and the audience. A natural extension of the audio podcast that allows us to show up on your YouTube algorithm,” said Black.
“We realized that, with the exception of the pages of The New York Times, New York Magazine, W Magazine, American GQ, British GQ, American Vogue and Vogue Scandinavia, many people have never seen Chris and Jason’s faces or towering bodies. So, we’re out to fix that,” added Ian Wheeler, founder of Talkhouse.