214: Mal Blum
I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
Night Vale Presents
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mal Blum joins John and Joseph to talk about making a living as an artist and their relationship with fans.
Check out Mal Blum’s latest album, Pity Boy, here: https://lnk.to/Pityboy. And for more Mal, go to malblum.com.
The Mountain Goats’ In League With Dragons is out now on Merge Records. Get it at mergerecords.com/in-league-with-dragons. For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com.
From Night Vale Presents. Produced by Christy Gressman.
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| 0:00.0 | Isn't it weird to not see somebody for like two years and then see them at a recording studio? |
| 0:04.8 | Oh, that's actually, it happens to us a lot. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, yeah, a lot of the people I'm friends with I see when I work with them. |
| 0:12.2 | Like almost everyone involved with Nightville. |
| 0:14.0 | I mean, I live out in the woods, so. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm not usually, other than Jeffrey who lives near me in the woods, |
| 0:20.0 | I don't usually see most of them unless we're doing a night ago. |
| 0:23.0 | Are you guys at houses new each other? |
| 0:24.0 | We're about 40 minutes apart. |
| 0:25.0 | He's across the river from me. |
| 0:27.0 | How Jeffrey lived in Texas? |
| 0:28.0 | No, Jeffrey's from Texas. |
| 0:29.0 | Has not lived in Texas since college. |
| 0:31.0 | I know. I don't know anything about anything. |
| 0:32.0 | I know a lot of people who leave Texas who are not going back. |
| 0:34.0 | I think Jeffrey has a fondness for Texas but I don't think he's going to go back. |
| 0:38.0 | I do think is what one of the places if you're from there when you get out it's like I have a theory about this |
| 0:43.4 | being the size of Texas it's like it takes so long to get out of Texas in a car that if you |
| 0:47.5 | manage to do it and you're from there then you don't have to be get |
| 0:50.7 | trapped again it's true California is big but it's always narrow. |
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