Thundrous and well-deserved applause for the White Strives.

100% that would be the ultimate goal would be just barely doing well enough at it that you didn't have to go to a day job.

And that to me was just like this unattainable insane thing.

And it seemed like they might do that.

You heard that little bit from Thirdman Records co-founder Ben Swank right there

before we said goodbye at the end of last season.

When we left off, it looked like Jack and Meg might just realize their wildest dreams of scraping by as an underground band.

But as we're about to find out, maybe their dreams weren't wild enough.

I'm Sean Cannon from Third Man Records and Nevermind Media.

This is Striped, The story of the White Stripes.

Season two.

Just in case you need a little refresher of how we got to this point,

or if you missed last season altogether for that matter,

here's a quick recap.

Now, you can skip forward about a minute and a half if you don't need it,

otherwise buckle up.

If you were watching a fancy prestige TV drama right now,

this is where you might hear.

Previously, on Striped.

The Cass Corridor was the most notorious, dope neighborhood in the country.

I guess saying it was like the Wild West is pretty accurate.

Maybe like May 96, I remember Jack saying to me, he was like, me and Meg just started jamming together.

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