Death, Sex & Money - John Prine Wanted to Be Normal
Death, Sex & Money
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šļø 6 June 2018
ā±ļø 25 minutes
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Summary
John PrineĀ hasĀ been in the music business for 47 years, and at this point, he's fine being a self-proclaimed "oddball."
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| 0:00.0 | I get people actually stop me on the street now going, |
| 0:03.0 | who are you? |
| 0:03.7 | Don't I know you? |
| 0:05.6 | I mean, they don't say, hey, you're John Price. |
| 0:08.4 | They want me to tell them who I am. |
| 0:10.5 | What do you say? |
| 0:11.8 | I go, no. |
| 0:13.7 | No, no, I'm not him. |
| 0:18.6 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:21.4 | Look, I got a gun out there in my purse. |
| 0:23.5 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:26.9 | You got a wife somewhere. |
| 0:27.8 | You remember that? |
| 0:28.8 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:30.9 | Well, because we have the money right now, sir, you see the parking meters running outside. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm in a sale. |
| 0:38.6 | John Prine is 71 years old, and right now having the best album sales of his career. |
| 0:45.5 | His new record is called The Tree of Forgiveness. |
| 0:48.2 | We talked in New York just as it was coming out. |
| 0:51.1 | Last night, we ate a really swanky restaurant here in New York City, and I'm a meat and |
| 0:56.8 | potatoes guy, but they served me something to look like a baby hedgehog, right, with liver |
| 1:03.1 | worst inside of it, but it was pretty darn good and pretty expensive, too. |
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