252: Niko Stratis (Author / Culture Writer): Life As a Western
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy welcomes author / culture writer Niko Stratis
On this episode, Jeremy and Niko talk audiobooks, Dwight Yoakam, your parents' records, Radiohead, great concerts, Silverchair, record store aesthetics, Weird Al Yankovic, bands in the Yukon, Serial Joe, music at the grocery store, her book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want to know what my favorite record store is in this entire goddamn country? |
| 0:05.8 | It's one of here at Records in Watertown, Massachusetts. |
| 0:09.0 | You might say to yourself, what do I care? |
| 0:11.5 | I live in Boise. |
| 0:12.8 | I live in Fort Worth. |
| 0:13.8 | I live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:15.2 | What good does that do me? |
| 0:17.3 | Well, I'll tell you, they have a fully operational web store that gets updated with incredible |
| 0:22.8 | secondhand records every Wednesday. I myself have gotten into quite a bit of trouble every time |
| 0:28.6 | they post what's available online. Not only are they very rare records. They are very reasonably |
| 0:34.1 | priced. And if you have no interest in secondhand records at all, they also sell |
| 0:38.5 | new records. And here's the exciting part. Listeners of the show get 10% off their orders. So if you |
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| 0:52.9 | off. And if you spend more than 100 bucks, you get free shipping. |
| 0:56.4 | Head on over to want-to-hear at records.com and follow them on Instagram for updates. |
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| 1:33.3 | The First Ever |
| 1:35.3 | Podcast Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
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