Glen Phillips: 9/6/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Glen Phillips is a singer-songwriter best known for his work with Toad the Wet Sprocket. He has a new solo album coming out called Swallowed by the New which you can pre-order by clicking here. Today, Glen & Brian jump right into it and talk about Glen's recent divorce and other catastrophic changes in his life (4:00), writing songs about these difficult moments in life (11:30), and how hope makes its way into his music (25:00). Plus, Glen takes a look at his career and how he's now in the business of reaching less people more deeply (35:00). Also, Brian talks about a letter he sent to Glen when he was having complicated feelings about his success (45:00) and asks Glen about the advice he would give his talented daughter about entering the music business (56:00). Glen ends the show by playing an incredible rendition of a song off the new album, "Criminal Career." Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Leave a Review: itunes.com/themoment The Moment is brought to you by Blue Apron. For less than 10 dollars per meal, Blue Apron delivers meal kits right to your door to make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/MOMENT. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	Hey, we're going to start the podcast in a second.
0:05.1	I just want to say that Glenn Phillips' new album, swallowed by the new, is out imminently and go to iTunes and pre-order that thing or go to Spotify and find
0:17.7	it's a great album and stick around at the end of the podcast Glenn gives us an exclusive acoustic performance of a song off the great new record.
0:28.0	All right, here we go.
0:29.0	Podcast with Glenn Phillips starting now. Now. Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Cobbleman. Thanks for listening.
0:42.0	My guest today is Glenn Phillips, who might know from his band
0:47.9	Towed the Wet Sprocket, Glenn's the lead singer and songwriter, although writes those songs with the band.
0:54.0	He's also made a bunch of solo albums.
0:56.7	But, so Glenn, welcome.
0:58.6	Hi.
0:59.2	He has a new solo album out called Swallowed by The new but uh dude this is weird being
1:06.2	inter yeah just stand to sitting the idea of being interviewed by you I was
1:11.1	I was trying to think about it as I was walking over here because I don't know like I was thinking about this like I've interviewed Levine but that's you know because I'm who I'm with every day and McDermott and Havy and a few of my but you and I have been sort of like family to one another
1:29.5	since I was 21 years old and you were how old in 1989? 89 I was 18. Yeah. Yeah and I was
1:38.8	trying to remember if we met an 88 or might have been 88 might have been 89. So was 22 or 23 yeah I was 17 or 18 and
1:47.0	and although we've lived on opposite sides of the of the country somehow from like when we met, we've never not been in touch.
1:56.3	I was thinking there was like a one year period during fear when your album Fear,
2:02.3	when you were just on the road and there was no internet and I remember we caught
2:05.4	up after about a year you were playing a show in Santa Barbara or something and I
2:10.1	came out and we ended up hanging out and then certainly since then again have never
2:15.3	not been regularly in each others.
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