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I Think You're Overthinking It

Jonathan Coulton

I Think You're Overthinking It

Chris Hardwick

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.514.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2010

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Coulton is an hilarious musical nerd icon. If you don't know who he is I am surprised, but this is a good place to meet him. We chat about touring, the crafting of nerdy songs, and leaving safe but boring jobs to pursue unsafe but unboring jobs. PLUS JoCo plays a few songs, one of which is BRAND FRIGGIN NEW. Listen! Now! Really! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0

Now I'm testing it. All I want is for the microphone to get tested. I don't care if it's you who's

1:21.6

doing the testing for me. Do you mind strumming your sweet S-Martin there for a sec, so we can just see how that's

1:26.5

out. I think this will be good. And then we're going to have to sit unnaturally close to each other.

1:38.4

Oh, that's great. Gorgeous. That is how Jonathan Colton does it. Finally, we're recording already.

1:47.3

Great. Colton, thank you for coming up to my hotel room to do the podcast.

1:51.6

You're welcome, please, with your pants at the door. Thank you for having me on the podcast.

1:54.8

I'm very happy to have you here at the podcast. We're actually recording this in the bedroom part of

2:01.0

the hotel room of my seven bedroom suite. Yeah, it's enormous. It's enormous. I didn't know

2:07.3

it was all yours, but you said it was all yours. Yeah, I got the whole top two floors of the

2:10.7

world over story. It's easier because then you don't have people coming and bothering you. Yeah,

2:15.5

yeah. And I just, I like at least a floor separation between me and the plebians. And so that's how I

2:20.8

like to, that's how I like to do this. You can't hear it. You can't hear anybody when they're

2:24.0

doing sex. I did hear some people and they were doing sex the other night. But the problem was that

2:30.7

the dude was louder than the lady. And that's a shame. That was a real shame. It's not what you want.

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