Ep 356 Magoo
Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast
Andy Frasco
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andy Frasco and Nick welcome rising bluegrass troublemakers, Magoo, to the World Saving Podcast for an interview that starts unhinged and then gets genuinely heartfelt. The conversation opens with tour-life, stories about the "rock band" era (opening for Buckcherry, shiny pants, chaos, ego, and bad decisions) before sliding into what really shapes musicians: sobriety, heartbreak, and the moments you realize you can't keep "sending it" forever. There's also an insane story about one of the members of the band getting attacked by a bear.
Magoo gets into the turning points, festival misadventures, waking up in the wrong place, chasing the wrong people, and learning the hard way that the band comes first. From there, the episode dives into identity and craft: how bluegrass overlaps with metal and jam music, why improv is such a huge part of their live show, and how you translate that energy into a studio record without losing the magic.
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| 0:00.0 | I was in a rock band. |
| 0:01.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:01.8 | We were opening for Buck Cherry, touring. |
| 0:04.3 | Holy shit, awesome. |
| 0:06.1 | And you know what's involved with that. |
| 0:09.6 | Like what? |
| 0:10.0 | Cocaine and drugs. |
| 0:11.4 | Yeah, tequila and blow. |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.8 | One night stands. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.4 | Sounds like the bluegrass scene, too, though. |
| 0:17.0 | To me honestly. |
| 0:18.0 | And like coming out on stage with the shirt off and the shiny pants and just basically |
| 0:22.9 | just, like, swinging dick and... |
| 0:24.8 | Hold on. You, like, had the whole outfit? |
| 0:27.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:31.5 | All right. And we're live, Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Andy Frasco. How's your heads? Has your minds? How is your New Year's going so far? Big show tonight we got Magoo. Big, this band's kind of getting some buzz. Hi, Nick. How you doing, by the way? I've even heard of them, and they're a bluegrass band. You don't listen to Bluegrass. You don't give two shits about Bluegrass. No. No, that's fine. They're fun to rile up because their fans are so traditional. So if you kind of make fun of it, we talked a lot about, we talked about heartbreak. We talked about, I thought it was fascinating. |
| 1:11.8 | They don't know struggle. We talked about, they got, uh, what a mammoth book that signed them, got them on a big tour and they don't know any shitty shows yet. You know why? Because the manager's girlfriend was way into them. It's all you got to do is get a manager's girlfriend to like you. they did talk a little bit about |
| 1:27.7 | she said the bluegrass |
| 1:29.1 | this is the bluegrass scene |
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