John Roderick
Co-Host of Road Work
John Roderick is a singer, songwriter, journalist, and raconteur based in Seattle, Washington. John's best known for his extensive eyeglasses collection, his luxurious facial hair, and his career as the man behind the critically-lauded indie rock band, The Long Winters.
John Roderick has hosted 262 Episodes.
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Episode 10: The Parts You Don’t Need
October 29th, 2015 | 1 hr 43 mins
John and Dan talk about existential crisis, young coyotes, spirit quests, acid trips, Buddhist awakenings and the 4th Jhana, getting robbed, animism, talking to trees, long walks, and the vagaries of human experience.
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Episode 9: The Hill People
October 23rd, 2015 | 2 hrs 8 mins
John and Dan talk cover tremendous ground, from grammar rules to Libertarianism and Marxism, restrained chaos, things you can do in a restaurant, Benghazi tweets, getting punched by strangers, wearing the wrong baseball cap, american tribalism, and travel
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Episode 8: Sacred Meanings
October 8th, 2015 | 1 hr 33 mins
John and Dan take an investigative look at fashion, talking about contrast-collar dress shirts (so-called "lawyer shirts"), playing against one's type, a prison of denim and cotton, cutting your own hair, modern-day uniforms, dressing like a space cowboy,
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Episode 7: Working Out with Logs
October 1st, 2015 | 2 hrs 25 mins
Dan talks with John about his internal world, finding succor, peccadilloes, creating peak art, Nick Drake, the garbage robot, space barges, wasp sports, the Rocky 4 Model™, working out with logs, a chronology of the rockies, and the power of amateurs.
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Episode 6: Nebbishy Vulnerability
September 24th, 2015 | 2 hrs 1 min
John and Dan talk about monetizing the pizza rat, criks, shanty towns, survival bags, pocket knives and switchblades, when to use a machete, the stockpiler impulse, the line between necessity and luxury, owning 24 blazers, the perfect spork, feather aller
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Episode 5: Barf. Doesn't matter.
September 17th, 2015 | 1 hr 46 mins
John gets a speeding ticket and talks with Dan about automonmously piloted cars, instant messaging, being cocooned in neato, how social media may lead to the genesis of a sentient Earth, breaking Juan Gomez' Burton Woody, living in words, philosopher king
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Episode 4: Pie from a Stranger
September 2nd, 2015 | 2 hrs 3 mins
John and Dan talk about the search for automotive parts in junkyards, taking pies from strangers, the tendrils of insecurity, the cruelty of absence, emotional threats, a trip to Istanbul, clogged feeds, and the concept of giving.
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Episode 3: I Now Declare This Mall Open
August 26th, 2015 | 1 hr 41 mins
John talks with Dan about his recent performance with Fiona Apple, the events which took place on July 25, 2008 at the Westfield Southcenter mall, and their musical "first-times".
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Episode 2: Trading Sandwiches
August 19th, 2015 | 2 hrs 5 mins
John and Dan talk about fixing cars, metal shop, handheld football games and pacman watches, exploding cigarettes, wearing vests, Wonder Bread Star Wars trading cards, sandwiches, square pizza, owning a thermos, smoking, varmint infestations and deaths, a
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Episode 1: Scrambling Eggs
August 13th, 2015 | 1 hr 54 mins
John Roderick and Dan Benjamin talk about rituals and routines, the privilege of being big, being introverted, stoping at stoplights, bad neighborhoods,
making graveyards and fluffernutters, crumbling of bones, and making eggs.