Hey, Joseph Fincare. A few months ago we shared the first episode of my new podcast,

I only listened to the Mountain Goats. It was, I think, a very good episode,

but it was also one where we were figuring a lot of stuff out both within how we were doing

the conversation and in how we edited it. And so I wanted to check in with you here

with episode 10 of our podcast, our most recent episode, and one that I think better represents

where this show ended up going. Enjoy. This is the notebook that I took to Ireland on the,

I mean, it was before Tallahassee was out, but the first time that we went to a Peter I went over there.

And then here's the original lyric too, which is in wonders. Oh wow. It has, I mean,

this is what's really wild about some of the songs from I was Texas. I don't think there's

a previous draft of that. I think that's the amount of correction that went into it.

You've got one line, no, turn line crossed out and then like one word crossed out.

Invent has been changed to I learned because I think I noticed I was going to need to invent

somewhere else. So there's that, and there's also the fact that though now I'm superstitious about

pen colors and I won't write in blue or red. I will only write in black ink. Interesting.

And this is pretty clear back then. I was like, I don't care. Oh wait, no, there must have been

a previous draft. You know how you can tell? I am healthy. I am whole, etc. So there must have

been a previous draft somewhere else. I know there's a song that I never got written called

You and your Latin jazz. Like that one. Yeah, I think this notebook went through a bunch of

different iterations like it was at one point. Yeah, then it becomes a, then it becomes a

essentially a notebook. It went through like this one was around for four albums and there's still

a lot of blank paper in it. It feels weird. If I take one of these old notebooks and start writing

new songs in it, it feels bizarre even though it's just paper. I hate writing longhand and so all

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