Reissue: Frank Turner

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week on The One You Feed we have Frank Turner.

In honor of Frank's new record we are re-releasing one of Eric's favorite interviews. This was the 22nd interview of all time for The One You Feed.

We will be back with a new episode next week.

Frank was a singer in a hardcore band, Million Dead. When they broke up he started out on his own with an acoustic guitar. He has released five solo albums, two rarities compilation albums, one split album and five EPs. His seventh studio album Be More Kind was recently released

In This Interview Frank and I Discuss…

The One You Feed parable.
The feeling that there is never enough time.
The importance of friendship in feeding your good wolf.
His role as a CALM Ambassador.
Building a community around music.
What punk rock meant to him as a kid.
Staying connected to his values of openness and community as he gets more famous
Music as a refuge for those that don’t fit in.
Music that he turns to to feed his good wolf.
Writing the press release for John K Samson’s latest record.
The challenges of alcohol and drugs.
Getting older and the changes in identity that come with that.
His love of dogs and his amazing “dog policy” at shows
His forthcoming record.

Frank Turner Links

Frank Turner Homepage

Buy Frank Turner music on Amazon

Frank Turner on Twitter

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I definitely have a balance personally between the design to kind of get up and write songs
0:04.2	and do things and go out and engage with the world versus the design to sit on my sofa
0:07.7	and eat crisps and watch boring Kelly and hate the world.
0:18.1	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:20.1	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:24.7	Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true and yet for many of us
0:31.7	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity self pity jealousy or fear.
0:39.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:45.6	But it's not just about thinking our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative
0:51.5	effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving
0:57.0	in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:10.5	Welcome to the show. Our guest today is a singer songwriter from England named Frank Turner.
1:16.0	To date Turner has released five solo albums, two rarities compilation albums, one split album and five
1:22.4	EPs. Turner's fifth and most recent studio album Tape Deck Heart was released on April 22nd, 2013.
1:29.7	In addition to playing the Olympics opening ceremony Frank sold out Wembley Stadium which for
1:34.8	those of you who don't know is extremely large. And so Eric why did you want to have Frank on the show?
1:42.7	Because Frank is one of my all-time favorite singer songwriters. I love his music when we came up with
1:49.9	the idea for the show. He was probably the first person that I thought of that I wanted to have on the show.
1:56.2	Well let's check out the interview. Here it is. Hi Frank welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.
2:01.5	Thanks for joining us. I'm really excited to have you on today because your music for me is one of those
2:07.6	places that I turn to pretty regularly for comfort and inspiration. And I think you're writing some of
2:14.0	the the music these days that probably talks most about the you know the challenges of being human
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