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Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

023 - Carl Newman: New Pornographers

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9609 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Rhett visits New Pornographers frontman Carl Newman's at his home in Woodstock, New York. Carl tells Rhett how he ended up becoming a lead singer, the importance of not letting personal happiness be contingent upon success, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

0:06.2

I'm Rhett Miller.

0:07.7

That's when it got wheels off.

0:10.8

We started up and we ain't gonna stop or sad like you.

0:14.9

Like it or not.

0:16.4

That's when they got wheels off.

0:19.6

How do you all?

0:20.4

Ret Miller here?

0:22.1

This is the 23rd iteration of Wheels Off, a conversation that I have been recording and releasing on a fortnightly basis for the better part of this year.

0:38.0

I love doing this. I love doing this.

0:39.9

I love these conversations.

0:42.0

I love getting the chance to meet and talk to brilliant creators.

0:49.9

I've never made a penny off of this weird thing that I've done.

1:12.3

But I feel like it's one of the most worthwhile things I do now in my life, getting to pick the brains of these cool, smart, driven, funny, sensitive, generous people.

1:13.9

It's a blast.

1:20.9

It's valuable to me in so many ways and on so many levels that I can't help but think it has value to anyone who listens.

1:27.0

So I guess I'm taking this moment to say thank you for listening.

1:33.0

I guess please tell people you know about it.

1:37.0

Do the things on the Internet that help it to bubble up to the top of whatever search engines.

1:47.3

There are that keep the gates of media. Like and subscribe, as the kids say. It is a podcast as much as I load that word,

1:58.6

perhaps for its cultural relevance, and the zeitgeist

2:03.6

that it seems to dominate these days.

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