John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats on This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
Sound Opinions
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats discusses his new book, "This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days" and his new album "Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan" with Sound Opinions producer Andrew Gill.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this bonus episode of sound opinions. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Jim D. Regattis. |
| 0:04.5 | Today, I am here with Andrew Gill, our longtime much-loved producer. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, Andrew. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:12.0 | You know, before we go any further, I want to say thank you to one of our Patreon donors, Marjorie Smith from Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:20.1 | We really appreciate the support we get from our Patreon members. |
| 0:25.3 | And, of course, they get to hear. |
| 0:28.3 | We try to let them hear everything we do at least a day early, you know, before everyone else. |
| 0:34.3 | But they're an integral part of this operation. So we couldn't do it without people |
| 0:39.4 | like Marjorie. I am so glad you got to do a thank you for once. And it's not just me and Greg |
| 0:44.9 | because it is, you know, you and me and Greg and Alex and Max, we all appreciate this support. |
| 0:52.4 | I can't believe still that we get away with this, given that 99.8% of all podcasts have no support. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah, yeah. It's enough to ask someone to listen to your podcast, you know? |
| 1:06.2 | Yes. |
| 1:06.3 | The fact that people not only listen, but also want to give us their money to help us make it is amazing. |
| 1:13.8 | Carmel has this recurring saying that podcasts are a cry for help. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, you know, they are a form of folk therapy, maybe. |
| 1:24.6 | You can say it's true. |
| 1:26.3 | That's true. |
| 1:27.4 | Well, so, Andrew um you got to have another |
| 1:29.8 | chat uh well you didn't chat with him the first time Greg and I did but I know I did I did |
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