This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Maybe the last time I went out there was 2005, I was early stages dating this lady.

I went over to her house, she was like, I just had this crazy dream

where you and I were like walking through a field and came upon a spaceship.

And I was like, oh yeah, you want to go there?

And she was like, what are you talking about?

I was like, no, that's a place.

We can go, it's not far.

And we finally saw this place.

She was just like overtaken with how magical it was

to see this thing that just doesn't seem real.

Why are you guys taking us out to the middle of nowhere?

We're going to hang here.

Hey, hey, hey, you don't know where we're going to go.

It's a secret.

I was really lucky to grow up in Ann Arbor. We had great record stores and an art house movie theater and of course

Ann Arbor is the home of the University of Michigan so there was a lot going on for a small town.

But it was a small town and I was a misfit and like a lot of young misfits in small towns I was bored and

disaffected and angry a lot. That misfit is Alex Goldman.

He's a producer at the radio show on the media and he now lives in New York City.

I hated high school, I was a bad student, and most of my friends went to different schools. In fact, although I've gone by Alex my entire life, that's actually my middle name.

My first name is Michael, and for at least half of my high school career, my teachers and peers all called me, Michael.

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