Sean is passing out tired here.

We're at zero bars.

In the last episode, Ben Blackwell said that 2000 was a crucial year of connections for Jack and Meg White,

and the biggest component of that was their first real tour out to the West Coast and bag.

Yeah, they'd played some shows out of town.

They hadn't even done those dates with pavement that we talked about last season, but this

was the first real tour, an extended run where you're out in the world for weeks at a time.

It can feel lonely and overwhelming, and it can feel life-affirming and exhilarating.

You know, the tour would be a catalyst for some relationships that still last to this day

and would provide the first inklings that, as we talked about in the last episode, the White Stripes

might, might, exceed Jack and Meg's modest hopes at that point.

I'm Sean Cannon from Thirdman Records and Nevermind Media.

This is Striped, the support of BBC DJ John Peel and the addition of booking agent Dave Kaplan, who put together the White Stripe's first big excursion out into the world, which took place from June 10th to June 30th in the year 2000,

three full weeks out on the road.

Having an agent put together your very first substantive run of shows is kind of a big deal.

I mean, we already talked about how tough it can be to find an agent this early on,

and also the advantages of having a good agent

in the first place. But even with that kind of leg up, it's not like the band had grandiose

expectations for this tour. In fact, there might not have been any at all. I don't think there

was any legitimate expectations just because they'd never done anything like it before. They'd

never been gone for more than three days. I mean, there's earlier like three-day jaunts in

2000. But I don't think there could be any realistic expectations. There was like they knew what

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