Ben Greenman

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Author Ben Greenman joins Rhett from his home in New Jersey to talk about the two books that Ben is releasing next month with Questlove and Steven Van Zandt, his approach to success, and why fear of failure can be a good thing. The two compare the process of writing books with the process of songwriting, and how creative output changes as you get older. Ben Greenman has written both fiction and non-fiction books, as well as many collaborations with musicians including Questlove, George Clinton, Brian Wilson, Gene Simmons, and others. Ben served as an editor at The New Yorker from 2000 to 2014, and as a writer he’s amassed an incredible oeuvre of novels, short stories, and other descriptive works over the span of his career. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.8	That's when they got wheels off.
0:14.0	Shot it up and we ain't gonna starve.
0:17.0	Oh, I like you.
0:18.0	Like it or not.
0:19.6	That's when they got wheels off
0:22.3	In a lot of ways, Ben Greenman is the perfect wheels off.
0:34.1	He and I have been friends for, I don't know, 15 years, something like that.
0:38.8	Is that even possible?
0:41.4	And he is the one of all my friends that when we get together, we have this conversation.
0:51.0	We have the conversation that is the platonic ideal of a wheels-off interview.
0:56.5	It's just creativity, the meaning of life, the meaning of the creative life, the meaning of
1:03.2	the thing that we do, how do we do it, why do we do it? It's always this and it's always fun.
1:10.9	And he makes me laugh maybe more than anybody else.
1:16.5	The way his mind works constantly baffles me because it's just, it's going on multiple levels
1:24.2	at a speed that is unrivaled by anyone else.
1:29.3	I know, no offense to all the other smart people I know, but God, Ben Greenman is,
1:35.2	he is just a force of nature.
1:39.2	I'll warn you right now, if you didn't notice on the running time as it's listed on this podcast,
1:45.8	this episode runs a little long, specifically about three times as long as a normal
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