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I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

217: Maureen Johnson

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Writer Maureen Johnson gets loopy with a very tired Joseph and John on today’s episode.

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was really and fucking Christopher Street. I mean like places of profound historic importance

0:06.0

Everything's fine you guys but the thing is is like but LA like go see where Steamboat Willie was first drawn in LA.

0:14.7

It's like a law office.

0:16.1

It's like, how did you know?

0:18.7

No, LA is legendary for paving over its history, right?

0:21.5

But I think that's the difference is LA never had an attachment to history.

0:24.7

New York, New York used to give a shit and then it stopped.

0:27.1

LA never cared.

0:28.1

That's the whole point of the West Coast, is like to say there is no history here,

0:32.0

it's all new.

0:33.0

Basically I found out they're like you could have a lemon tree in your yard.

0:36.4

I'm like moving.

0:37.9

We rented a house.

0:39.2

We rented a guest house and we had an orange, a blood orange, and a grapefruit tray just out on our patio.

0:46.0

I just find that so exciting.

0:49.0

I went out, when I was on tour, I was out somewhere in California, Arizona, and we were in like, they put us in like a double tree

0:54.4

or something, but they had a fruit tree in the yard.

0:56.5

And I was like trying to get these dinky oranges out of it.

0:59.6

I spent half the time almost falling over the balcony,

1:01.8

trying to get an orange this big just because I could.

1:04.4

It really like I grew up in a culture where you didn't need to buy avocados because all of your

1:11.4

neighbors with avocados were like I have a hundred

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