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♪ I was trembling with goose flesh ♪
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♪ First time I prayed
to speak in tongues ♪
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♪ I saw it comin' ♪
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♪ And I tried to run ♪
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♪ But now I make it up as I go along ♪
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♪ I store my flaws in
other people's heads ♪
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♪ Then I question what they know ♪
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♪ The cloud of witnesses ♪
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♪ Hover above you like a ♪
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♪ A pillar of smoke ♪
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♪ Singin' stories, whisperin' jokes ♪
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- [Robert] From NPR News,
this is All Things Considered.
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I'm Robert Siegel.
- And I'm Michele Norris.
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David Bazan was once known as the first
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cross-over Christian indie-rock musician.
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His band, Pedro the Lion, sold hundreds
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of thousands of records.
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- [David] Hey, how's it going out there?
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(people cheering)
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- [Michele] Then Bazan
began questioning the God
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he sang about, alienating
many of his fans.
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Now, he has a new album
out under his own name,
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and recently, he went on a solo tour,
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playing in living rooms.
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Clay Masters, from member
station, NET Radio,
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caught up with Bazan on the road.
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- [Clay] It took Bazan four years after
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Pedro the Lion broke up to
write his first solo record.
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In that time, it seems, he was overwhelmed
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by his break up with God, and
he started drinking heavily.
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The questioning of God
isn't something new for him,
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it dates back to early
Pedro the Lion records.
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Many music critics
called Curse Your Braches
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Bazan's break up with God.
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Bazan hopes people who buy it will respond
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to his honestly regardless
of what he might believe.
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For NPR News, I'm Clay Masters.
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- [Ann] And so, there's two
games that are specialty , so.
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But I think there's three or four games
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that you'll be home for.
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So that'll be cool.
- That's great.
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Well when I'm home, I
wanna take him to the
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batting cages a bunch.
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- [Ann] Yeah.
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Yeah, your dad said that he's
progressively getting better.
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- Great.
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- [Ann] Yeah.
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- That's so great.
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Okay, sorry, I'm turned around.
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- [Ann] That's okay, I'll just let you go.
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I don't know, it just feels like,
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I'm so close to you, I'm
tellin' you I'm missing ya, so.
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- I'm missin' you too.
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- [Ann] Okay.
Love you.
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- I love you.
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- Bye.
- Bye.
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♪ Other side ♪
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♪ Of the road ♪
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- Mara Liasson, NPR News, Washington.
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As the Republican nominating battle
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moved into the fall with
the two outsider candidates,
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Donald Trump and Ben Carson,
still on top of the polls,
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the frustration of the other
establishment candidates,
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is growing.
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- [Man] One of the many
surprises this election year
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has been the support
Donald Trump has received
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from conservative, evangelical
voters in the primaries.
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To build on that support,
Donald Trump met with
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hundreds of evangelical
leaders in Manhattan yesterday
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and he suggested that they not pray for
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the country's current leadership.
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- I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and
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we lived a half a mile from the church
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that we went to and that my dad worked at
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and the school that I went
to was a part of that church.
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Every single person in my...
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- From like Kindergarten?
- Yeah.
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Kindergarten to sixth grade.
- Okay.
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- Every single person
in my extended family is
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Christian and the same kind of Christian
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that we were, Pentecostal,
Assemblies of God.
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And certain kinds of evangelical
Christianity, specifically,
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there's this push for your
faith to be integrated
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in your person, in your identity,
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and it's not some separate
ornament to your life.
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It's like the fundamental thing, and so,
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that was the mindset that
I kind of grew up with,
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was that this is, it
just permeates everything
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and I enjoyed that.
I mean, there's like a
feeling of fidelity to it
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that just, you know,
just made you feel good.
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(insects buzzing)
(soft music)
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What's up?
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Hey, how's it goin'?
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- I'm Micah.
- Micah, how are you?
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- [Micah] Yeah, I've seen
you up in Columbia before.
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- Oh right.
- Big fan.
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- [David] Thanks man.
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- What's up man?
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Brian.
- Brian.
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- This is my house.
- Right on Brian.
- Thanks for playing.
- Thanks so much.
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- [Brian] Do you want a beer or anything?
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♪ Hello again ♪
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♪ Oblivion ♪
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♪ But it's no good to complain ♪
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♪ Of fatigue and existential pain ♪
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(soft acoustic music)
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♪ On a six week solo drive ♪
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♪ While your friends work nine to five ♪
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♪ What really threw me off ♪
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♪ Is that all these years I thought ♪
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♪ I'd work it out ♪
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♪ Did you sing it like it is ♪
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♪ 'Cause you really thought
it would pack 'em in ♪
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- [Man] You're so welcome.
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Take care of the kiddos and yourself.
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- [Brian] Thank you so much, dude.
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Good luck on the rest of your tour.
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- [Man] I can't believe he came, dude.
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It's been a pleasure.
- Thank you so much.
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These are the download cards.
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And then there's seven inch packs.
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- How much?
- 20 for the vinyl.
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These are each 10, and then
the pack of seven inches in 35.
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- Okay.
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- [David] And I take
cards if that's helpful.
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- Oh yeah?
And that is.
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Then I'll take the vinyl and the seven.
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- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
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- This is awesome.
- It was a great show.
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(soft music)
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- [David] Before inventing
house shows, you know,
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I was at the pawn shop all the time
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with my gear in pawn to make ends meet.
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And once we got house shows figured out,
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I had never went to the pawn shop again.
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But all of a sudden, I'm on
the road all of the time.
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I recently realized I was
gone two years and nine months
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of my son's first five
years on Earth, over half.
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And I've been right on
that line for too long.
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Like, how much can my marriage withstand?
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A couple of years ago it became clear
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that our marriage really can't stand
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this amount of time away.
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And watching it crack and
seeing it could be over soon,
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I gotta get home more.
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- [Nils] What time is it for you?
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- It's after midnight.
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- [Eleanor] We're at 9:36 right now.
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- I know, I'm at 12:36.
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What are you doing, Nils?
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Hi.
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- [Eleanor] I hate him so much right now.
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- He's just looking for love.
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I'll be home in a minute.
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- [Eleanor] In a minute?
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In a minute?
- Mhm.
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- I love you so much.
- I love you too.
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I miss you guys.
- I miss you too, dad.
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- How are dealing with all of that?
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(laughs)
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- [Ann] I'm gonna go.
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- Pew, pew, pew, pew.
- All right, bye.
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- I love you guys.
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(soft music)
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You have to be really
crafty about logistics
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and how to make the day to day work
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and where to shave things off, you know,
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hotel rooms or staying with people.
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You know, there are
just like a hundred ways
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to figure out how to do it.
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Being middle aged, having
kids, trying to justify
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this weird choice that
you made when you were 19
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and that all of your buddies
either got rich doing it,
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or have given it up.
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And so you're trying to
justify all this stuff
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and it's easy to lose
faith, but if you're finding
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that spark, if you're finding that thing
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that made the White Album
just flip your chemistry
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when you were in eighth grade.
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And you're not Paul
McCartney or John Lennon,
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but you're doing something that connects
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your brain that same way,
then you can keep going
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for a long time.
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So that's the trick.
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If Pedro had put out another
record and it was really good
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and well received, that was the moment
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where it was gonna change, you know?
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There had been a string of close buddies
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that had been in the band and were now
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not in the band anymore.
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There was some sort of failure
in each of those instances.
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They didn't have enough
ownership or whatever.
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It just didn't work, repeatedly.
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All this was happening
during the realizations
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I was having about Christianity
and the Christian narrative
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and how it was all kind of falling apart.
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I was, you know, just a
bundle of contradictions
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and so I just thought,
well I just need to lean
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into all those contradictions just
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to be the mess that I am about this stuff.
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I mean, Pedro the Lion was
a really beautiful thing
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and it was really working for a time,
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and when that couldn't
work, I just thought that
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something is wrong,
something about the premise
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of this thing is flawed
and you need to walk
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away from that premise, whatever that is.
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And to me, the name of that
premise was Pedro the Lion.
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I couldn't write anything.
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I didn't know why it wasn't working,
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and I didn't know what I was doing wrong
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and so I killed it, and along with it,
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I effectively killed my livelihood,
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I mean, my career basically,
to try to find out
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why this was happening
and get some clarity.
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Just driving around, playing solo shows,
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trying to think through it and give myself
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some time to figure it out
and then maybe by the time
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I put out my first solo record,
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I would be in a position
to have a band again.
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For me to be allowed to
continue to do this work
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of songwriting and interacting with people
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and putting out records, while
I've been figuring this out,
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really, really helped me.
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(soft music)
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Where is it?
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Through here?
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- [Yuuki] Third floor.
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- With this method of
touring, people didn't know
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what to expect and so, I
got to define what it was
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and so it allowed me to
be myself more frequently.
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It was grounding for me.
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It was a pure form of the thing.
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There's no lights, there's
no stage, there's no pomp.
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You're right there, on the same scale.
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If it was at a rock club, it
wouldn't work the same way,
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but you're in this place
that you've never been,
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they've never been before.
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Everybody was just off
balance and open and so
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that was when I started
seeing vulnerability
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as the antidote to all this
anxiety and self loathing.
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It was really helpful
to take the problem out
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of my head to sort of
interact with that work
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over and over again and the profound
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and vulnerable way of singing.
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What it does to your brain when you sing
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something that you know and
that you love, it heals you.
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ Oh, oh ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ Oh, oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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(audience applause)
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I'm called Dave Bazan,
this is Yuuki Matthews.
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Yeah, do y'all have any questions
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at this point in the show?
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It's kind of early,
but, maybe you curiosity
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has already been stirred, who knows.
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Okay well, we can talk later, also.
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We have got a couple more
songs that we can play.
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(laughing)
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What is the definition
of what couple means?
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- Two, right?
- Two?
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- [Woman] Three.
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- Or three.
- Isn't a few
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three or more?
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- Yeah but when I say go grab
couple me a couple of beers,
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I do mean three.
(audience laughs)
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- Are you surprised that
people who are religious
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are still very big fans of you?
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Does that bother you or--
- No.
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I care about what happens
with Christianity.
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I want it to get better.
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I want it to quit shittin'
the bed so consistently.
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So when I hear that, that
there are Christians whose
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faith is of the sort that you can sit
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and listen to me blabbing
on for nine minutes,
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to me that is a good sign.
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In regards to, whoever is
going to like this music
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is gonna like it.
I can't stop it, and
I would never want to,
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'cause I got a few in my family.
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(audience laughs)
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(soft music)
(people chattering)
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I find myself interacting with people that
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we have different worldviews,
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but I'm trying to find
common ground and I say,
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when you say God's kingdom,
what do you think about?
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And they say, oh well
justice and these things,
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and I was like, me too.
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I think that's important too.
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Let's join together and do that.
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Because partially, you're
scared of burning in hell
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for all eternity, me just 'cause
I think it's a great idea.
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But let's do it, you know wat I'm saying?
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The fruit on the tree, that's the thing.
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People can claim all kinds of things,
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but what's the fruit,
you know, in the end?
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That's the myth of a powerful movement
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like American Evangelical Christianity.
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That there is one way
to think about a thing.
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That the interpretation
that seems universal
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is the real thing.
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And so in the end, I realized that I was
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challenging nothing more
than an institution.
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(soft music)
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I think my brain always was
kind of deconstructing things,
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even as like a kid.
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Seventh grade, I remember
we were at this church
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in Lake Havasu City, Arizona,
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and it was Fourth of July and my dad
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was the music pastor
this church and they had
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a color guard that came in and had flags
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and I think fake guns,
walking up the aisle,
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and we sang a bunch of patriotic songs.
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And I remember thinking, like,
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I think these guys are
getting some things mixed up.
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I wouldn't have known the world conflate
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but that you're conflating
two things with one another
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that don't go, that aren't the same thing.
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That day I mentioned it to my dad, like,
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yeah, I don't think
those things go together.
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His response was, "Oh, interesting.
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"Tell me more about that."
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(cars passing)
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(tense music)
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Yeah.
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What did she do in that last race?
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Was it an IM?
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Did she do okay?
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Two seconds?
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Oh man, that's so great.
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Oh, that's so good.
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(drill whirring)
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♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
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(soft acoustic music)
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(audience applause)
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You all wanna talk about anything
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at this point in the show?
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- [Woman] So the Whole EP
was one of the first albums
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that I listened to by you.
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It's a lot different.
- It is different.
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- [Woman] Than what you
have recently produced.
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What made you so bitter?
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- Whoa, I'm not even a little bit bitter.
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(audience laughs)
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I changed a lot since the
time I was 18 until now
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and I just did it in front of people.
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- I have a question.
- Yep.
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- [Audience Member] Are
you tired of talking
about Christianity?
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- Oh no, it's so fascinating.
(audience members laugh)
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Christianity is still
creating so many problems
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all around us, like I'm
dying to talk about it.
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Dying.
(laughing)
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(soft acoustic music)
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- Growing up in church,
listening to Christian rock
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and this and that, or even somebody
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who was like, within the church.
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As soon as you found out that
somebody left the church,
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you're done, I'm never
listening to your shit again.
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- Yeah, right.
- I find, you seem to be
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an anomaly, which is a positive thing.
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That you do this and you
have this large majority
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of your fan base are still young believers
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that still continue to support you
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and they're here tonight.
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And you're the only person
that I think I can name
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that has that type of support.
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- What I hope is happening is that there
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is a space, more of a middle ground,
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for people to remain
Christian, and for their faith
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to become faith and
not a militant sort of,
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you're either with us or against,
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like an othering kind
of thing where there's
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a vulnerability to actual
faith that isn't just, like,
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a club that you're beating people with.
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- Right.
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- Would you say that there's
stuff that's out there
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that you've written and
that you used to believe in
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that you don't believe in anymore?
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- Yes.
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- And, um, so people
find this music by you,
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and they're like, oh
this is David Buzan, but,
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is it really?
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- It's David Buzan from
a certain point in time.
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At any given point, it's
always been totally in earnest
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so yeah, I changed my
mind about certain things,
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but it was genuine at the time.
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- That's understandable.
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- Sure.
(woman laughs)
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I think it's commendable.
- It's very commendable.
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(soft acoustic rock music)
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- [Justin] In the same way
that is often communicated
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of you, this sort of like, departure.
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- [David] Departure.
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- Or stepping out.
- Yep.
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- Those words don't connect emotionally
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with what you believe or
feel like is a place for you
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in a broader cultural context.
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- I don't believe in the Resurrection,
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I don't believe in the fall, I
don't believe in the trinity.
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I don't know if there is God at all,
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but I know that document pretty well
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and I see a thread in
it that one could follow
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and the fruit of one's
life and one's community
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and everything would be
something really different
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that what we see in America.
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There is this thing that I think,
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if we all pay a little closer attention,
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could go better than it's
going and so if I can help,
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then I'm gonna.
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I am participating in a
larger Christian tradition.
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That's what I was born into,
that's the language I know,
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that's how I understand ethics.
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I'm a son of Evangelical Christianity
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and I'll never not be that.
(soft music)
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In high school, God was church.
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And then once I got out of high school,
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I realized that I wanted to
take my faith more seriously
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and for me, that meant having a
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more regular devotional time.
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Reading more and more books, praying more.
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I would try to spend an
hour or two every day
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reading the Bible, doing some
Bible study devotional book,
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praying, and trying to sin less.
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To do Christianity in the most devoted
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and thorough way that I knew how.
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I always thought that I was gonna be
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a pastor when I was growing up.
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It was just in my head,
eventually I'll probably
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be a pastor, like start a
church or something like that.
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♪ You came from heaven to earth ♪
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♪ To show the way ♪
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♪ From the earth to the cross ♪
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♪ My debt to pay ♪
The first time I ever
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played guitar in front of anybody,
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I was leading the two and three year old
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Sunday school class and like, you know,
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if you're happy and you
know it, clap your hands.
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And then shortly after
that, in 10th grade,
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I started writing songs of my own.
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And then when I started writing songs,
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I thought that this is what I wanna do.
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I just wanna write these songs
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and drive around and sing 'em, you know?
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Thanks for being here.
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♪ And all the way to grandma's house ♪
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♪ I stayed on the narrow path ♪
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♪ My younger brother wandered off ♪
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♪ Deep into the woods ♪
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♪ Bitten twice by rattlesnakes ♪
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♪ Tangled up in poison oak ♪
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♪ He fell down and broke his legs ♪
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♪ Into a great ravine ♪
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♪ When I arrived at grandma's house ♪
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♪ She had made us tea and cake ♪
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♪ She asked me where my brother was ♪
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♪ And I said I don't know and ate ♪
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- [Man] NPR's Sarah McCammon reports
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from Richmond, Virginia.
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- [Sarah] Since the band's
inception, Pedro the Lion
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has always towed the
line between indie rock
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and Christian music.
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One of the things that stands out to me
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as I hear even some of
your very early work
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as Pedro the Lion, a lot of these songs
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are riddled with uncertainty and doubt
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and criticism of religion.
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And so this has been a
long process for you.
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What do you think made the band
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so successful in the early 2000s?
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What is it that resonated with people?
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- I don't totally know, but I can guess.
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I think there is an
earnestness that I wrote with
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and an openness with
which I sang about doubt
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and faith at a time when I don't really
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think that was going on much.
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I think I did it in such
a way that it wasn't
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slogans or trying to convert anybody.
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It was just me trying to
process what was going on
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inside my head, and I guess
that worked for some folks.
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♪ When I get to heaven ♪
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♪ I'll be greeted warmly ♪
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♪ Surrounded by the angels ♪
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♪ As Jesus takes my hand ♪
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There was a sense early on that, like,
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there's a version of Christianity that is
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kind of pure and based on
scripture that the people
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in the culture that I'm a part of
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are just barely paying lip service to
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and that was a lot to think
about forever until I was 28.
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My thinking was more reform
the church, just be better.
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(audience cheering)
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Thanks a lot.
509
00:29:13,530 --> 00:29:16,170
There's a lot of different
factors that come to play
510
00:29:16,170 --> 00:29:20,070
and have caused a pretty
severe ghetto of thought
511
00:29:20,070 --> 00:29:23,370
and creativity and artistic expression
512
00:29:23,370 --> 00:29:25,120
in the Christian church.
513
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,280
We should be creating things
that are risky and new,
514
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,060
attempting to sloganize the gospel I think
515
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:34,280
degraded it to the point of
making it the most unprofound
516
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,250
thing that there is so I
just encourage you guys,
517
00:29:37,250 --> 00:29:39,017
throw off the shackles
of Christian culture
518
00:29:39,017 --> 00:29:43,671
and the Christian industry--
(audience cheers)
519
00:29:43,671 --> 00:29:47,350
And attempt to do something
that's not down or whatever.
520
00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:50,900
I wanted to be able to
be a band that was on
521
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,880
general market record
labels and Tower Records
522
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,970
and play in clubs.
523
00:29:54,970 --> 00:29:57,930
Not play churches, not
have my records distributed
524
00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:00,310
on a Christian label
and not having them sold
525
00:30:00,310 --> 00:30:01,840
only in Christian bookstores.
526
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,020
I wanted out of that subculture...
527
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,030
musically.
528
00:30:09,030 --> 00:30:12,190
I wanted to just sink or swim by my merits
529
00:30:12,190 --> 00:30:15,610
if I was allowed to do
that in the world at large.
530
00:30:15,610 --> 00:30:17,220
When It's Hard to Find a Friend came out,
531
00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:18,590
that's exactly what happened.
532
00:30:18,590 --> 00:30:21,740
It got critical acclaim
and got played on the radio
533
00:30:21,740 --> 00:30:24,140
and played in rock clubs with bands who
534
00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:25,610
we didn't know from church.
535
00:30:25,610 --> 00:30:28,360
That's exactly what I wanted
was just to be allowed
536
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,380
to be out of the bubble and just be,
537
00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:35,123
and just hock my wares the best I could.
538
00:30:35,980 --> 00:30:37,688
(audience clapping)
539
00:30:37,688 --> 00:30:40,849
Does anybody have any
questions at this point?
540
00:30:40,849 --> 00:30:44,128
- [Man] How important is Jesus to you?
541
00:30:44,128 --> 00:30:45,326
- That's like a private conversation.
542
00:30:45,326 --> 00:30:48,600
- I'm sorry man.
- That's all right.
543
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,600
I'm gonna ask for a different one, yeah?
544
00:30:53,703 --> 00:30:56,953
(soft, tinkling music)
545
00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:06,010
It wasn't until after
high school that I really
546
00:31:06,010 --> 00:31:10,210
had the bandwidth to start
to really take it seriously
547
00:31:10,210 --> 00:31:11,680
and so then I went to Bible college
548
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:16,330
and just epiphany and
paradigm shift after epiphany.
549
00:31:16,330 --> 00:31:19,460
And then some of these
deeper questions started
550
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:22,250
to come up where I had realized that I had
551
00:31:22,250 --> 00:31:25,880
not ever evaluated the
fundamental truth claims
552
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,360
of Christianity and
that I was just sort of
553
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,010
rolling along with
these premises that were
554
00:31:31,010 --> 00:31:33,840
un-sort-of-substantiated at the root
555
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,780
of my entire system of belief.
556
00:31:35,780 --> 00:31:39,780
And I thought, well it makes
sense that if I'm gonna
557
00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:42,530
really do this right, I
need to evaluate those.
558
00:31:42,530 --> 00:31:45,630
The faithful response to them
is not to hide from them,
559
00:31:45,630 --> 00:31:48,993
because these questions can't hurt God.
560
00:31:52,570 --> 00:31:55,010
I certainly was reading the Bible a bunch,
561
00:31:55,010 --> 00:31:58,140
like trying to read it like
I had never seen it before
562
00:31:58,140 --> 00:31:59,870
where I didn't have a
bunch of assumptions.
563
00:31:59,870 --> 00:32:02,540
But I was just like, really reading it,
564
00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:05,900
and so as I mulled it over more and more,
565
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:10,270
it just seemed less
and less likely that...
566
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,800
That the picture of
God that I has accepted
567
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,083
from Christianity was true.
568
00:32:21,870 --> 00:32:25,010
I think hell was one of
the first things to go,
569
00:32:25,010 --> 00:32:28,060
and errancy followed pretty soon after.
570
00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:30,283
Original sin came up pretty quick.
571
00:32:31,330 --> 00:32:36,330
Moving from assuredness to anything else,
572
00:32:36,610 --> 00:32:37,860
no matter what it is, is,
573
00:32:40,605 --> 00:32:41,805
is pretty destabilizing.
574
00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:47,780
At that point in time, the way
that my faith had developed
575
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:50,430
and the way that God
functioned in my brain,
576
00:32:50,430 --> 00:32:51,550
it was the same as me.
577
00:32:51,550 --> 00:32:55,530
I mean, it was like this
God was inside of me
578
00:32:55,530 --> 00:32:58,920
and knew me intimately,
knew all of my thoughts.
579
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,037
I was losing this tremendous
resource, a friend,
580
00:33:04,810 --> 00:33:09,003
a confidant, somebody who
made my identity what it was.
581
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,100
While I was doing all that processing
582
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,040
and falling away in kind of slow motion,
583
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,673
I would have the impulse to
like, pray to God about it.
584
00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:29,580
And then other times,
I felt the strong need
585
00:33:29,580 --> 00:33:32,360
to just guard myself against any kind
586
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:37,190
of sentimentality or God, really,
587
00:33:37,190 --> 00:33:38,590
and so then I would do that.
588
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,990
Sometimes both things would
happen in the same day.
589
00:33:46,220 --> 00:33:50,810
There were a few moments,
one of which I was in church
590
00:33:50,810 --> 00:33:52,880
and it was Christmastime
and we were singing
591
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,880
all of these really rad,
old hymns, Christmas carols,
592
00:33:58,370 --> 00:33:59,870
and I was doing the work.
593
00:33:59,870 --> 00:34:04,530
Like, you know, one stanza of lyrics,
594
00:34:04,530 --> 00:34:06,940
I would sing and I would think to myself,
595
00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:09,030
I believe that, that's real.
596
00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:10,453
And the next stanza,
597
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,350
you know I was doing like a line item veto
598
00:34:13,350 --> 00:34:16,240
of these songs and really doing the work.
599
00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:19,180
Just sitting there and
engaging and wrestling with it,
600
00:34:19,180 --> 00:34:21,760
and it was cathartic and it felt like,
601
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,970
it felt right to me, and then I sat down
602
00:34:24,970 --> 00:34:29,060
and the guy who was speaking
spoke and I hated him.
603
00:34:29,060 --> 00:34:34,060
I hated every moment of, it
was just so unserious to me.
604
00:34:34,650 --> 00:34:37,170
It was like pandery and
just was the epitome
605
00:34:37,170 --> 00:34:39,220
of what I wasn't interested in.
606
00:34:39,220 --> 00:34:41,667
I'm sort of wrestling with
this and then he says,
607
00:34:41,667 --> 00:34:43,520
"Okay, now we're gonna take communion."
608
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,020
And I thought, I can't take communion.
609
00:34:46,020 --> 00:34:49,610
I'm so not in community with this.
610
00:34:49,610 --> 00:34:53,900
Like, I've just sat here
and judged it so negatively
611
00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:55,890
for 30 minutes.
612
00:34:55,890 --> 00:34:58,980
I hadn't been to church,
more or less, for years,
613
00:34:58,980 --> 00:35:02,130
but I had never not taken communion.
614
00:35:02,130 --> 00:35:06,310
And I had just, as they
started passing out the omens,
615
00:35:06,310 --> 00:35:07,470
I just stood up and left.
616
00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:08,933
I just, I can't.
617
00:35:08,933 --> 00:35:11,970
I just told my wife, I was
like, "I'm gonna be in the car."
618
00:35:11,970 --> 00:35:14,230
And what I did was I walked down to a bar
619
00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:17,370
and had a shot and a beer and kind of had
620
00:35:17,370 --> 00:35:19,800
my own little communion ceremony.
621
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,653
And then we went to lunch and I just,
622
00:35:23,010 --> 00:35:26,640
I stayed in the car and just
sobbed for like 40 minutes
623
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,580
and then met them in lunch,
it was already going.
624
00:35:31,580 --> 00:35:34,470
And I was devastated, I just thought,
625
00:35:34,470 --> 00:35:35,540
it felt like...
626
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,600
Yeah, it was gradual, but
there were these moments
627
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,660
where there was big shifts.
628
00:35:44,660 --> 00:35:47,967
And that was one.
(rock music)
629
00:36:01,263 --> 00:36:06,248
♪ Wouldn't it be ♪
630
00:36:06,248 --> 00:36:08,831
♪ So wonderful ♪
631
00:36:17,066 --> 00:36:22,066
♪ If everything were ♪
632
00:36:26,217 --> 00:36:28,717
♪ Meaningless ♪
633
00:36:36,393 --> 00:36:39,643
♪ But everything is so ♪
634
00:36:46,582 --> 00:36:51,582
♪ Meaningful ♪
635
00:36:55,210 --> 00:36:58,877
♪ And most everything turns ♪
636
00:37:04,393 --> 00:37:09,393
♪ To shit ♪
(rock music)
637
00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:19,001
♪ Rejoice ♪
638
00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:23,647
♪ Rejoice ♪
639
00:37:23,647 --> 00:37:28,647
♪ Rejoice ♪
640
00:37:33,302 --> 00:37:37,969
♪ Rejoice ♪
641
00:37:37,969 --> 00:37:42,116
♪ Rejoice ♪
642
00:37:42,116 --> 00:37:44,283
♪ Rejoice ♪
643
00:37:49,903 --> 00:37:52,320
(rock music)
644
00:38:42,152 --> 00:38:47,152
(wind blowing)
(soft music)
645
00:39:00,783 --> 00:39:02,790
I think I continued to
kind of wrestle with it
646
00:39:02,790 --> 00:39:05,070
for a long time, and in
some ways, I still do.
647
00:39:05,070 --> 00:39:07,880
I mean, you know, God ridden me of God,
648
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,250
it's a powerful idea.
649
00:39:10,250 --> 00:39:12,743
And was it just the false,
650
00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:16,430
you know, deity that I was shedding,
651
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:19,110
and there's a real deity
652
00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:23,100
that looks totally different in the
653
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:24,320
nooks and crannies somewhere?
654
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,156
In the dark matter, you know?
655
00:39:27,156 --> 00:39:28,239
I don't know.
656
00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:30,970
It feels impossible most of the time,
657
00:39:30,970 --> 00:39:35,633
but sometimes, so yeah,
it was very painful.
658
00:39:36,590 --> 00:39:38,960
The loss and the grieving
and all that stuff
659
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,623
were really pretty real and profound.
660
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,960
Particularly when I attempted to suspend
661
00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:55,710
my belief that God
existed, I didn't know that
662
00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:57,670
it was happening at the time,
663
00:39:57,670 --> 00:39:59,930
but only could kind of put it together.
664
00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:03,873
But man, that habit of drinking,
665
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,683
as much as we were,
666
00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:14,490
was real bad.
667
00:40:14,490 --> 00:40:16,910
It was a dissonance, I think, that my mind
668
00:40:16,910 --> 00:40:17,743
just couldn't deal with.
669
00:40:17,743 --> 00:40:20,940
I was just looking to
get, I was just looking
670
00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:22,797
to lose time, I just wanted to,
671
00:40:24,270 --> 00:40:26,713
to blackout for a while....
672
00:40:29,470 --> 00:40:33,140
As confused as it was, even at the time,
673
00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:35,640
my identity was still based a lot on
674
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,500
some form of my faith.
675
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:39,630
- [Marianne] Some of your
songs now that you talk about
676
00:40:39,630 --> 00:40:42,993
as being more autobiographical,
talk about drinking.
677
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,450
How is that sort of path gone?
678
00:40:45,450 --> 00:40:47,370
I mean, have you...
679
00:40:50,020 --> 00:40:53,310
- Well, in Pedro the Lion...
680
00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:59,740
Well, then let's talk about drinking.
681
00:40:59,740 --> 00:41:01,600
- [Marianne] Yeah, maybe we should.
682
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,000
'Cause you've actually
made it a little bit
683
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,600
of a public issue.
But then you tend to make some of your
684
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,240
private stuff pretty public.
- Yeah.
685
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:10,243
- [Marianne] And, um...
686
00:41:10,243 --> 00:41:11,580
- Mhm.
687
00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:16,580
These habits that, at the time,
weren't particularly dark,
688
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,260
but they were, then,
it just was that habit
689
00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:24,010
was a place when things did
kind of turn a little dark.
690
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:30,900
Then, you know, drinking
15 or 20 a day wasn't
691
00:41:32,970 --> 00:41:36,240
an expression of all the good
things that we were feeling.
692
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,100
It turned into an expression of all of
693
00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:39,803
the bad things that we were feeling.
694
00:41:41,385 --> 00:41:45,120
(soft, melancholy music)
695
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,650
On that tour, I think,
was the moment when things
696
00:41:47,650 --> 00:41:49,010
really started to shift.
697
00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:51,653
My drinking was at kind of an apex.
698
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,251
We haven't checked in yet.
699
00:41:55,251 --> 00:41:56,312
We're in the band Pedro the Lion,
700
00:41:56,312 --> 00:41:58,254
we checking in right now.
701
00:41:58,254 --> 00:42:00,322
- [Man] Oh man, this is crazy.
702
00:42:00,322 --> 00:42:01,240
- [David] I can't believe that not even,
703
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:03,309
I mean, Cody's the only
one that's been here.
704
00:42:03,309 --> 00:42:05,060
- I've never been here.
705
00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:07,230
- You know I've never seen this one.
706
00:42:07,230 --> 00:42:09,140
- And once we got onto
the festival grounds,
707
00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:11,890
I switched to a jug that I had prepared,
708
00:42:11,890 --> 00:42:15,330
poured like a third of the
water out of this gallon jug
709
00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:16,970
and filled it up with vodka.
710
00:42:16,970 --> 00:42:18,790
We had to be to the
festival grounds because
711
00:42:18,790 --> 00:42:20,420
I had an interview and
it was with this guy,
712
00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:22,750
Andrew Beaujon, who was writing a piece
713
00:42:22,750 --> 00:42:24,072
for the Washington Post.
714
00:42:24,072 --> 00:42:29,905
Whatever you want.
There's the uh, they're short
of the hospitality trait.
715
00:42:29,970 --> 00:42:31,120
I mean, he's a grown person.
716
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,980
He could tell a drunk
person when he sees one,
717
00:42:33,980 --> 00:42:36,930
and he also could tell
that I was drinking out of
718
00:42:36,930 --> 00:42:39,310
a water jug that was a lot of vodka, so,
719
00:42:39,310 --> 00:42:42,270
that was part of the texture
in his piece was that.
720
00:42:43,657 --> 00:42:46,160
And so, later I think,
once the piece came out,
721
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,850
maybe a week or two later,
that was when Cornerstone
722
00:42:48,850 --> 00:42:50,650
realized that I had been on the grounds
723
00:42:50,650 --> 00:42:54,145
and I was hammered and
drinking on the grounds,
724
00:42:54,145 --> 00:42:55,695
and that's expressly forbidden.
725
00:42:59,390 --> 00:43:04,000
In a way, I have, I'm
living a double life.
726
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,720
I mean, I have these two
very different spheres
727
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:09,863
that I'm existing in
at almost equal times.
728
00:43:10,950 --> 00:43:12,161
- [Ann] Who is that?
729
00:43:12,161 --> 00:43:13,483
- Is it all the way zoomed?
730
00:43:18,635 --> 00:43:20,741
- [Ann] Who is that Eleanor?
731
00:43:20,741 --> 00:43:23,574
(Eleanor babbles)
732
00:43:25,417 --> 00:43:28,640
- There was a lot of room for me out here,
733
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,650
especially if I'm on solo tours
734
00:43:30,650 --> 00:43:32,490
and I'm staying in hotels.
735
00:43:32,490 --> 00:43:34,130
You know, after the show is over,
736
00:43:34,130 --> 00:43:36,250
after I've done my job for the day,
737
00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:38,950
there's five or six hours that I just have
738
00:43:38,950 --> 00:43:42,290
completely to myself,
and so that was a factor.
739
00:43:42,290 --> 00:43:44,740
Like I would just go back to the hotel
740
00:43:44,740 --> 00:43:46,990
with a bottle of booze
and a six pack of beer
741
00:43:46,990 --> 00:43:51,223
and kind of say good
night while I was still
742
00:43:51,223 --> 00:43:53,350
a little bit reasonable.
743
00:43:53,350 --> 00:43:55,173
No one even knew about it.
744
00:43:56,521 --> 00:43:59,480
(soft acoustic music)
745
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:04,371
♪ When I woke up the next morning ♪
746
00:44:04,371 --> 00:44:09,371
♪ You looked right through me ♪
747
00:44:10,390 --> 00:44:15,390
♪ Through your eyes, cryin'
I could finally see ♪
748
00:44:18,250 --> 00:44:19,910
I would just keep on and keep on
749
00:44:19,910 --> 00:44:23,320
until I just was passed
out and throwing up.
750
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,330
There was no voice in my head that said
751
00:44:25,330 --> 00:44:27,260
it's time to stop tonight.
752
00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:30,970
I had really crossed a line that made Ann
753
00:44:30,970 --> 00:44:32,380
feel pretty unsafe.
754
00:44:32,380 --> 00:44:37,160
She was scared for my safety and my life,
755
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:42,050
so she got really upset and
asked that I stop drinking
756
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:48,183
for a time or whatever.
757
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:50,790
And I was getting ready to leave on tour
758
00:44:50,790 --> 00:44:53,283
and I remember it being really hard.
759
00:44:57,580 --> 00:45:00,003
And I did call her and say,
760
00:45:01,087 --> 00:45:04,280
"May I please just have one drink?"
761
00:45:06,331 --> 00:45:11,048
♪ When I called you from Atlanta ♪
762
00:45:11,048 --> 00:45:16,048
♪ You refused to speak ♪
763
00:45:16,910 --> 00:45:21,035
♪ Not three days sober ♪
764
00:45:21,035 --> 00:45:26,035
♪ Beggin' for a drink ♪
765
00:45:26,286 --> 00:45:31,286
♪ I said please baby,
please baby, please ♪
766
00:45:31,564 --> 00:45:36,564
♪ I said please baby, please ♪
767
00:45:36,905 --> 00:45:41,905
♪ I said please baby,
please baby, please ♪
768
00:45:42,104 --> 00:45:47,104
♪ I said please baby, please ♪
769
00:45:50,105 --> 00:45:55,105
♪ Those two pairs of big, blue eyes ♪
770
00:45:55,745 --> 00:46:00,745
♪ Stare me down, watch me fall ♪
771
00:46:01,652 --> 00:46:06,034
♪ What makes a man realize ♪
772
00:46:06,034 --> 00:46:10,201
♪ That he is about to lose it all ♪
773
00:46:16,617 --> 00:46:20,700
Once I was able to kind
of make some peace with
774
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,650
leaving Christianity and just being myself
775
00:46:24,650 --> 00:46:26,163
and owning my own thoughts,
776
00:46:28,030 --> 00:46:30,483
the really intense,
777
00:46:31,410 --> 00:46:36,410
sort of seed of that
compulsion to get blacked out
778
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:41,300
just kind of went away and then I was just
779
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:44,290
a guy with a drinking problem.
780
00:46:44,290 --> 00:46:48,123
But it wasn't this hopeless
spiral that it had been.
781
00:46:49,236 --> 00:46:51,620
And that's taken a lot of years to sort of
782
00:46:53,670 --> 00:46:56,080
negotiate with, that, you
know, maybe somebody else
783
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,670
would've just stopped
drinking all together.
784
00:46:57,670 --> 00:47:02,360
I did not do that, but yeah,
it's not a problem anymore.
785
00:47:12,932 --> 00:47:15,349
(soft music)
786
00:47:59,450 --> 00:48:02,330
- [Debbie] Who should decide
what the state flag is,
787
00:48:02,330 --> 00:48:03,860
or is not.
788
00:48:03,860 --> 00:48:07,620
Debbie Elliott, NPR News,
Jackson, Mississippi.
789
00:48:07,620 --> 00:48:08,720
- [Woman] One of the
groups that helped push
790
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:12,510
Trump over the top in Indiana
was white evangelicals.
791
00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:14,710
The question is, now that Kasich and Cruz
792
00:48:14,710 --> 00:48:17,700
are out of the race, will
Republican evangelical voters
793
00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:20,723
coalesce around Trump
in the general election?
794
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,707
- Hi.
- Hi again.
795
00:48:23,707 --> 00:48:25,012
- Thanks for having me back.
- Yeah.
796
00:48:25,012 --> 00:48:26,916
Thanks for comin' back.
797
00:48:26,916 --> 00:48:31,916
♪ All the fallen leaves
should curse their branches ♪
798
00:48:36,316 --> 00:48:41,316
♪ For not letting them decide
where they should fall ♪
799
00:48:47,088 --> 00:48:52,088
♪ And not letting them
refuse to fall at all ♪
800
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,616
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
801
00:49:01,616 --> 00:49:04,284
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
802
00:49:04,284 --> 00:49:06,367
♪ Oh, oh ♪
803
00:49:11,910 --> 00:49:15,620
(audience applause)
(cheering)
804
00:49:15,620 --> 00:49:16,929
- [David] Hi, hi, hi.
805
00:49:16,929 --> 00:49:18,647
You guys wanna talk about anything?
806
00:49:18,647 --> 00:49:19,480
- I have a question.
- Yeah?
807
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,160
- [Woman] Do you realize
the amount of people
808
00:49:23,382 --> 00:49:26,192
that are recovering evangelicals?
809
00:49:26,192 --> 00:49:28,187
How do you feel about that,
that kind of follow you?
810
00:49:28,187 --> 00:49:30,080
- And the answer to that
question could be kind
811
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:31,800
of loaded, like yeah, everybody needs to
812
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,400
stop being Christian or whatever, but,
813
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,150
I certainly don't feel that way.
814
00:49:35,150 --> 00:49:38,100
So people who are allowed to sort of land
815
00:49:38,100 --> 00:49:40,510
where their brains
really are in their life
816
00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:42,720
and in their kind of view of the world,
817
00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:43,660
it just makes me happy.
818
00:49:43,660 --> 00:49:46,840
I feel like history, as
it's unfolding everyday,
819
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,200
it's forcing a lot of people to really
820
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,357
pay closer attention to
what's going on in the world.
821
00:49:52,357 --> 00:49:54,370
And how their faith relates to that
822
00:49:54,370 --> 00:49:56,170
and how their faith
relates or doesn't relate
823
00:49:56,170 --> 00:49:58,350
to the teachings of the thing that they
824
00:49:58,350 --> 00:50:01,633
ostensibly ave faith in.
(soft music)
825
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:08,300
I didn't want to write "Curse
Your Branches" like it was
826
00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:11,020
but what came out was
all these tunes about
827
00:50:11,020 --> 00:50:12,820
can the pot say to the potter,
828
00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:14,561
why have you made me this way?
829
00:50:14,561 --> 00:50:16,820
And it wasn't until people
started talking to me
830
00:50:16,820 --> 00:50:18,750
about how they understood the record
831
00:50:18,750 --> 00:50:20,710
that I realized what was really there.
832
00:50:20,710 --> 00:50:21,970
You know, there were a lot more people
833
00:50:21,970 --> 00:50:24,760
in that gray area than
I thought were there.
834
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:29,083
It was one of the 10 best
records in Christianity Today,
835
00:50:29,083 --> 00:50:32,410
and I just, it blew my mind.
836
00:50:32,410 --> 00:50:35,880
- Now I'm in my mid-30s
and I know that there
837
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,710
is a large generation for
which you spoke to that kind of
838
00:50:39,710 --> 00:50:44,710
spiritual space that was hard
for many of us to express
839
00:50:45,750 --> 00:50:48,350
really clearly and succinctly.
840
00:50:48,350 --> 00:50:52,590
So I'm curious how you
recognize your place, kind of,
841
00:50:52,590 --> 00:50:55,727
in that space in this
big transition that many
842
00:50:55,727 --> 00:50:58,377
of us are going through.
843
00:50:58,377 --> 00:51:00,700
And we find you on tour yet again.
844
00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:03,480
- I sing these songs in people's houses
845
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,350
and at rock clubs and things and
846
00:51:06,740 --> 00:51:10,140
officially that's what I have to offer,
847
00:51:10,140 --> 00:51:13,420
and Twitter rants, you know.
(audience laughs)
848
00:51:13,420 --> 00:51:14,330
Here's what I would say to that,
849
00:51:14,330 --> 00:51:16,840
I feel like the little things that we do
850
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,210
that we don't think matter,
I think the evidence is
851
00:51:19,210 --> 00:51:21,740
all around us, that
especially when we kind of
852
00:51:21,740 --> 00:51:25,680
fudge those things, it matters, you guys.
853
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,130
How do collapses like the one
854
00:51:27,130 --> 00:51:30,170
we're experiencing now
of judgment, happen?
855
00:51:30,170 --> 00:51:33,203
It's those lapses in the little things.
856
00:51:34,134 --> 00:51:35,180
You pee on the seat and you don't
857
00:51:35,180 --> 00:51:39,250
wipe it up in a public space?
(audience laughs)
858
00:51:39,250 --> 00:51:42,247
The aggregate is computing,
you know what I'm sayin'?
859
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,620
Everybody's still suffering.
860
00:51:45,620 --> 00:51:46,580
Why so much suffering?
861
00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:47,413
It's unnecessary.
862
00:51:47,413 --> 00:51:49,690
We have the resources to not suffer
863
00:51:49,690 --> 00:51:52,491
if we just wipe the seat.
864
00:51:52,491 --> 00:51:54,908
(soft music)
865
00:51:56,357 --> 00:52:00,115
(people chattering)
866
00:52:00,115 --> 00:52:03,450
- I went from a solidly
Pat Robertson Christian
867
00:52:03,450 --> 00:52:06,920
to a liberal, 'cause I'm
gay, I came out 10 years ago.
868
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,190
To an agnostic, to a
full on atheist humanist.
869
00:52:10,190 --> 00:52:12,433
So, it's been a long journey.
870
00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:14,333
- You're welcome.
871
00:52:14,333 --> 00:52:15,403
- I miss church.
- Yeah.
872
00:52:16,380 --> 00:52:19,540
- But I won't go back to
a church that tells me
873
00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:20,860
that I have to believe in something
874
00:52:20,860 --> 00:52:25,520
that's beyond nature or
that is condemning of things
875
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,690
that I know aren't bad.
- Right, are not bad, yeah.
876
00:52:28,690 --> 00:52:30,110
- It was a spiritual nourishment,
877
00:52:30,110 --> 00:52:32,180
and if I had this every week,
878
00:52:32,180 --> 00:52:33,380
not necessarily from you.
- Yeah, right.
879
00:52:33,380 --> 00:52:34,703
From various places.
- But just in general,
880
00:52:35,740 --> 00:52:39,604
I would be a more invigorated human being.
881
00:52:39,604 --> 00:52:42,220
- So then that's how you reconcile, like,
882
00:52:42,220 --> 00:52:44,250
what you're doing with what you're doing,
883
00:52:44,250 --> 00:52:46,950
is by touching people
and talking like this.
884
00:52:46,950 --> 00:52:48,000
- [David] Yeah, yeah.
885
00:52:49,470 --> 00:52:51,100
- [Man] Yeah, I'll be a
more active human being
886
00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:52,936
because of what I experienced tonight.
887
00:52:52,936 --> 00:52:53,769
- That's all I wanted.
888
00:52:53,769 --> 00:52:55,640
Hey.
- Hey, thank you, thank you.
889
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,144
- Thank you so much, I
really appreciate it.
890
00:52:57,144 --> 00:52:59,240
- Yeah, thank you for coming, cheers.
891
00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:00,730
- Come back sometime.
- All right.
892
00:53:00,730 --> 00:53:02,320
- You're doing good work.
- Thank you so much.
893
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:03,270
- [Man] I'm sure you know.
894
00:53:03,270 --> 00:53:04,413
I hope you know.
895
00:53:06,828 --> 00:53:10,078
(soft, tinkling music)
896
00:53:15,748 --> 00:53:16,898
- [Nils] No, not exactly.
897
00:53:16,898 --> 00:53:20,748
No, not exactly.
(David chuckles)
898
00:53:20,748 --> 00:53:21,595
- [Ann] What is it then?
899
00:53:21,595 --> 00:53:24,770
- Almost exactly.
- Measure it.
900
00:53:24,770 --> 00:53:26,500
- Sometimes there's music in the world,
901
00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:28,060
there's a lot of music
that when you hear it,
902
00:53:28,060 --> 00:53:30,380
it's possible to think that everything
903
00:53:30,380 --> 00:53:33,850
is okay with the world and I don't want my
904
00:53:33,850 --> 00:53:35,540
music to be like that.
905
00:53:35,540 --> 00:53:37,290
I feel like when you hear my music,
906
00:53:38,672 --> 00:53:40,840
even if you really enjoy
it and are sort of like
907
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,260
lifted up by it, that there
should be some sense of like,
908
00:53:44,260 --> 00:53:46,510
there's a wrinkle in
there that means, like,
909
00:53:46,510 --> 00:53:48,260
it's the Men in Black, or whatever.
910
00:53:49,450 --> 00:53:51,650
Until everything is okay with the world,
911
00:53:51,650 --> 00:53:54,330
there's always gonna be
that wrinkle in there
912
00:53:54,330 --> 00:53:58,300
that it's just not, it's not
okay to give the impression
913
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:00,463
that everything is fine, like half mast.
914
00:54:02,357 --> 00:54:05,607
(soft, tinkling music)
915
00:54:08,140 --> 00:54:10,970
The values that I think are what
916
00:54:10,970 --> 00:54:14,490
makes Christianity worth while are missing
917
00:54:14,490 --> 00:54:16,950
from the politics, it's just not there.
918
00:54:16,950 --> 00:54:20,570
And that's compassion and care for poor
919
00:54:20,570 --> 00:54:22,540
and people who can't care for themselves.
920
00:54:22,540 --> 00:54:25,650
All of the minor Prophet
books and the Old Testament
921
00:54:25,650 --> 00:54:28,850
are about God getting
mad at Israel because
922
00:54:28,850 --> 00:54:30,380
they have forgotten their obligation
923
00:54:30,380 --> 00:54:32,163
to the poor and to justice.
924
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:35,900
They're theoretically connected to this
925
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:38,800
source of power and wisdom and love that
926
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,400
would be able to help them come out on
927
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,740
the right side of a lot of this stuff.
928
00:54:43,740 --> 00:54:47,760
On Jesus side of a lot of this stuff.
929
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,201
But it's not working, so.
930
00:54:51,201 --> 00:54:53,890
And it's there, right
there, for people to see
931
00:54:53,890 --> 00:54:57,136
if preachers were to preach that.
932
00:54:57,136 --> 00:55:00,575
♪ Surprise, they took your money ♪
933
00:55:00,575 --> 00:55:03,107
♪ They ate your kids ♪
934
00:55:03,107 --> 00:55:08,107
♪ And they had their way
with your wife a little bit ♪
935
00:55:09,103 --> 00:55:11,749
♪ While you wept on the porch ♪
936
00:55:11,749 --> 00:55:14,987
♪ With your head in your hands ♪
937
00:55:14,987 --> 00:55:18,637
♪ Cursin' taxes ♪
938
00:55:18,637 --> 00:55:20,771
♪ And the immigrants ♪
939
00:55:20,771 --> 00:55:25,771
♪ 'Cause you're a goddamned fool ♪
940
00:55:26,212 --> 00:55:31,212
♪ You're a goddamned fool ♪
941
00:55:32,628 --> 00:55:37,628
♪ You're a goddamned fool ♪
942
00:55:38,812 --> 00:55:41,562
♪ And I love you ♪
943
00:55:42,956 --> 00:55:47,956
♪ Of course I do ♪
(soft acoustic music)
944
00:55:56,172 --> 00:56:01,057
♪ I love you ♪
945
00:56:01,057 --> 00:56:03,974
♪ Yeah, I love you ♪
946
00:56:06,780 --> 00:56:09,220
- [Woman] It was an election for the ages.
947
00:56:09,220 --> 00:56:11,720
Donald Trump broke all the old rules
948
00:56:11,720 --> 00:56:13,960
of presidential politics
and made an almost
949
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,990
clean sweep of the American rust belt.
950
00:56:15,990 --> 00:56:17,500
A lot of different kinds of people
951
00:56:17,500 --> 00:56:19,160
helped elect Donald Trump.
952
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,080
White working class voters, yes,
953
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,760
but also some Hispanics, white women,
954
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,150
and an overwhelming number of
955
00:56:25,150 --> 00:56:27,080
white Evangelical Christians.
956
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,740
About 80% of white evangelicals voted
957
00:56:29,740 --> 00:56:32,830
for President Donald Trump,
despite Trump's three marriages,
958
00:56:32,830 --> 00:56:34,490
his anti-immigrant rhetoric,
959
00:56:34,490 --> 00:56:36,560
and accusations of sexual harassment
960
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,430
and assault from multiple women.
961
00:56:38,430 --> 00:56:41,320
The continued alignment of
many leading evangelicals
962
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,680
with Trump has caused some to question
963
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,973
whether their movement has lost its way.
964
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:51,620
- If there's any question that we've been
965
00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:54,260
doing Christianity fundamentally wrong
966
00:56:54,260 --> 00:56:56,920
in the United States
for our entire history,
967
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,630
I don't think that
there, if there ever was,
968
00:56:58,630 --> 00:56:59,750
there just can't be none.
969
00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:04,190
In the face of this cry
from the black population
970
00:57:04,190 --> 00:57:07,860
that again, you guys, it isn't fixed yet.
971
00:57:07,860 --> 00:57:10,983
And the response from
Christianity is Donald Trump?
972
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:17,040
It's, it's pure sadness.
(tense, dramatic music)
973
00:57:21,730 --> 00:57:24,060
Until the election, I
was under the impression
974
00:57:24,060 --> 00:57:27,939
that the white American
church was not a lost cause.
975
00:57:27,939 --> 00:57:31,320
I thought I saw it maturing and evolving
976
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,303
and even if I couldn't
participate as a believer,
977
00:57:35,332 --> 00:57:38,910
I wanted to be a helper in
that process if I could.
978
00:57:38,910 --> 00:57:42,820
But the fruit that showed
up on the tree was,
979
00:57:42,820 --> 00:57:45,760
for me, very much the
cut the damn thing down
980
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,090
and throw it in the fire kind of fruit.
981
00:57:48,090 --> 00:57:52,193
It's not a pruning issue,
it's just the wrong seeds.
982
00:57:54,690 --> 00:57:56,910
I've heard so many people say
that no matter what happens,
983
00:57:56,910 --> 00:57:58,150
I'm not changing my mind.
984
00:57:58,150 --> 00:58:00,363
It's all worth that Supreme Court seat.
985
00:58:01,350 --> 00:58:04,890
It represents only abortion to them and
986
00:58:04,890 --> 00:58:08,450
if somebody believes the
ends that they're going for
987
00:58:08,450 --> 00:58:12,400
justify the means that
they're using to get there,
988
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,380
that is idolatry.
989
00:58:14,380 --> 00:58:17,530
I mean, most of Christianity is apparently
990
00:58:17,530 --> 00:58:19,123
cool with that way of thinking.
991
00:58:23,170 --> 00:58:25,570
For everything Christians
claim to believe,
992
00:58:25,570 --> 00:58:29,760
the election, I think, laid
bare what they actually believe.
993
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,210
They reliably work
against the best virtues
994
00:58:33,210 --> 00:58:34,930
of their traditions.
995
00:58:34,930 --> 00:58:37,860
The people that taught me
how to be a decent person are
996
00:58:37,860 --> 00:58:38,933
losing their minds.
997
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,320
That's where I came from, and so it just
998
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,693
hit like another deconversion experience.
999
00:58:48,410 --> 00:58:51,303
I don't totally know how to proceed still.
1000
00:58:53,255 --> 00:58:56,588
(tense, dramatic music)
1001
00:58:59,178 --> 00:59:03,555
♪ We turn to go ♪
1002
00:59:03,555 --> 00:59:07,970
♪ The angel shone ♪
1003
00:59:07,970 --> 00:59:12,970
♪ Said don't go back to Harod's throne ♪
1004
00:59:16,298 --> 00:59:21,298
♪ Take the long way ♪
1005
00:59:21,660 --> 00:59:24,493
♪ Around the sea ♪
1006
00:59:34,317 --> 00:59:39,317
♪ Take the long way ♪
1007
00:59:39,647 --> 00:59:42,397
♪ Around the sea ♪
1008
00:59:52,283 --> 00:59:57,283
♪ Take the long way ♪
1009
00:59:57,617 --> 01:00:00,367
♪ Around the sea ♪
1010
01:00:18,693 --> 01:00:21,276
(cars passing)
1011
01:00:23,430 --> 01:00:25,326
- Isn't it pretty?
- I like that.
1012
01:00:25,326 --> 01:00:28,890
It is just--
- I wanna get it framed.
1013
01:00:28,890 --> 01:00:31,856
- Well it's weird to figure
out, like, what it is.
1014
01:00:31,856 --> 01:00:35,010
- [Woman] Mhm.
1015
01:00:35,010 --> 01:00:37,359
It's cool.
- [David] It's really neat.
1016
01:00:37,359 --> 01:00:38,763
Beautiful brain that guy has.
1017
01:00:43,592 --> 01:00:46,592
(people chattering)
1018
01:00:56,994 --> 01:00:59,411
(soft music)
1019
01:01:00,650 --> 01:01:01,780
- [Jonah] So you have a new record.
1020
01:01:01,780 --> 01:01:02,643
- I do.
- I guess, do you feel
1021
01:01:02,643 --> 01:01:05,106
like you get something out of
making yourself vulnerable?
1022
01:01:05,106 --> 01:01:07,117
'Cause it seems like that's
the direction you're moving.
1023
01:01:07,117 --> 01:01:08,440
It's like, from a band and now it's just
1024
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:09,650
you standing there, and now it's just you
1025
01:01:09,650 --> 01:01:11,800
sing songs about your family by yourself.
1026
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,560
- Yeah, I think so, I mean
I think slowly I've been,
1027
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,350
I've been looking for that because
1028
01:01:17,350 --> 01:01:19,040
there's a lot of emotional pain.
1029
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,020
I wrote about it on the whole record.
1030
01:01:21,020 --> 01:01:24,890
So much of the drag in
my life that has hurt
1031
01:01:24,890 --> 01:01:27,730
my relationship with
my wife or just affects
1032
01:01:27,730 --> 01:01:31,233
on my career and my family,
and you know, myself.
1033
01:01:35,170 --> 01:01:36,843
That I don't, sorry...
1034
01:01:40,495 --> 01:01:42,912
(soft music)
1035
01:01:45,811 --> 01:01:49,647
♪ Somewhere else ♪
1036
01:01:49,647 --> 01:01:54,647
♪ I have kids who love
to splash in the waves ♪
1037
01:02:01,537 --> 01:02:06,537
♪ Who take the boardwalk by storm ♪
1038
01:02:09,123 --> 01:02:14,123
♪ And eat pizza all day ♪
1039
01:02:16,867 --> 01:02:20,367
♪ And digging in the sand ♪
1040
01:02:28,175 --> 01:02:33,175
♪ Shooting with straws ♪
1041
01:02:33,978 --> 01:02:36,895
♪ And rubber bands ♪
1042
01:02:46,423 --> 01:02:50,090
♪ I'm wishing you were here ♪
1043
01:02:57,727 --> 01:03:00,994
(audience applause)
Well thank you so much.
1044
01:03:00,994 --> 01:03:02,137
What's that?
- How are the kids?
1045
01:03:02,137 --> 01:03:03,540
- The kids are doing great.
1046
01:03:03,540 --> 01:03:06,137
Seven year old decided that last week
1047
01:03:06,137 --> 01:03:08,071
he'd ride a two wheeler by himself
1048
01:03:08,071 --> 01:03:11,277
without training wheels.
(audience cheers)
1049
01:03:11,277 --> 01:03:13,320
We waited a long time for that.
1050
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,075
- [Woman] Were you there for that?
1051
01:03:15,075 --> 01:03:16,653
- Nope.
(audience laughs)
1052
01:03:16,653 --> 01:03:19,900
It's okay, here's my theory on that:
1053
01:03:21,064 --> 01:03:22,997
I just want it to happen.
1054
01:03:22,997 --> 01:03:26,260
I don't have to be there for it,
1055
01:03:26,260 --> 01:03:29,157
although it's important that
he knows how excited I am,
1056
01:03:29,157 --> 01:03:30,263
and I think he does.
1057
01:03:32,104 --> 01:03:33,258
(soft music)
1058
01:03:33,258 --> 01:03:34,480
- [Ann] Yeah it's feeling, um,
1059
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,130
this one's feeling long to me.
1060
01:03:37,130 --> 01:03:37,963
- [David] Yeah.
1061
01:03:38,918 --> 01:03:43,344
- Like kind of, I don't
know if it's just 'cause,
1062
01:03:43,344 --> 01:03:45,670
I don't know if we're just tired.
1063
01:03:45,670 --> 01:03:48,780
We're gonna go up to Art
Darlington art show today.
1064
01:03:48,780 --> 01:03:51,470
Gloria's got stuff on display.
1065
01:03:51,470 --> 01:03:53,997
- Oh yeah, she's really
good at that stuff.
1066
01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:57,247
- [Ann] Well I'm gonna take them first.
1067
01:03:58,310 --> 01:03:59,590
- All right.
1068
01:03:59,590 --> 01:04:01,450
- [Woman] Talk to you later.
1069
01:04:01,450 --> 01:04:03,867
- I love you.
- Love you, bye.
1070
01:04:04,884 --> 01:04:07,301
(soft music)
1071
01:04:18,684 --> 01:04:21,486
(child chattering)
1072
01:04:21,486 --> 01:04:23,593
All right, shug, let's see you start here.
1073
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:29,913
Yes.
(soft music)
1074
01:04:37,266 --> 01:04:42,266
Hurray.
(soft music)
1075
01:04:50,500 --> 01:04:51,350
How do you start?
1076
01:04:54,290 --> 01:04:55,123
Two hands.
1077
01:04:56,662 --> 01:04:58,222
There you go.
1078
01:04:58,222 --> 01:04:59,072
How do you start?
1079
01:05:02,290 --> 01:05:03,850
Leg over, uh huh.
1080
01:05:08,182 --> 01:05:11,265
Uh huh.
(soft music)
1081
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:17,187
Now take off.
1082
01:05:21,790 --> 01:05:23,510
Okay, stay to the right.
1083
01:05:23,510 --> 01:05:25,817
Stay to the right, you got it.
1084
01:05:27,130 --> 01:05:29,547
(soft music)
1085
01:05:49,670 --> 01:05:54,560
- The sands are just racing
through the hourglass.
1086
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:58,180
Eleanor, she lives in
our house for 18 years,
1087
01:05:58,180 --> 01:06:00,600
like she's two thirds of the way there.
1088
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:04,810
And I've been gone for half
of it, and it's not okay.
1089
01:06:04,810 --> 01:06:06,760
It's not getting easier.
1090
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:07,963
It's getting worse.
1091
01:06:11,150 --> 01:06:12,800
The cracks are showing all over.
1092
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,773
I have to rework this whole thing.
1093
01:06:17,430 --> 01:06:19,640
And I'm looking at all this
time that I've put into
1094
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,580
these musical relationships that I've had
1095
01:06:21,580 --> 01:06:23,110
with people that just haven't worked out
1096
01:06:23,110 --> 01:06:25,280
for one reason or another.
1097
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,610
And honestly, with all
the good and all the
1098
01:06:27,610 --> 01:06:32,040
fun and joy that I
experienced with that stuff,
1099
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,600
it feels like I'm trading
that fun and that joy
1100
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:38,103
and whatever benefit that was for
1101
01:06:38,103 --> 01:06:40,200
the fun and joy that I could
have been having with my family
1102
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,430
because if I just had
never invested in that,
1103
01:06:42,430 --> 01:06:45,213
I would be only out 75 days of the year.
1104
01:06:46,250 --> 01:06:48,100
I would've been able to
work with Nils on his
1105
01:06:48,100 --> 01:06:50,490
batting the first year that
he was in little league
1106
01:06:50,490 --> 01:06:51,710
where he didn't get a hit.
1107
01:06:51,710 --> 01:06:54,160
I could've helped more, but
I couldn't 'cause I was gone.
1108
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,290
I didn't realize I was trading that for
1109
01:06:57,290 --> 01:07:00,560
driving my daughter to swim
every morning like I have
1110
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:02,720
in certain summers where we just have
1111
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:04,500
this really sweet time.
1112
01:07:04,500 --> 01:07:07,570
And her getting to kind of be herself.
1113
01:07:07,570 --> 01:07:10,360
You know, I'm out here on I-95 again
1114
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:11,473
instead of doing that.
1115
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,283
I like it out here, but not that much.
1116
01:07:17,367 --> 01:07:20,784
(soft, melancholy music)
1117
01:07:25,210 --> 01:07:28,340
My wife and I are growing old and we're
1118
01:07:28,340 --> 01:07:30,823
only growing old together half way.
1119
01:07:32,150 --> 01:07:33,883
That doesn't feel very good to me.
1120
01:07:41,090 --> 01:07:46,090
I wasn't all wrong, but
there was a miscalculation.
1121
01:07:49,488 --> 01:07:54,488
Yeah.
(soft, melancholy music)
1122
01:08:26,954 --> 01:08:31,954
(rain pattering)
(soft, melancholy music)
1123
01:08:52,576 --> 01:08:54,743
(humming)
1124
01:09:08,295 --> 01:09:13,295
♪ A sinking feeling has
been lurking at your door ♪
1125
01:09:21,236 --> 01:09:26,236
♪ That it is real, you can't deny ♪
1126
01:09:28,803 --> 01:09:31,636
♪ You must ignore ♪
1127
01:09:32,533 --> 01:09:34,700
(humming)
1128
01:09:39,238 --> 01:09:40,071
You go to bed then.
1129
01:09:40,071 --> 01:09:42,220
You got you jim-jams on?
What'd you guys do today?
1130
01:09:43,460 --> 01:09:45,643
So did you do chapter three yet?
1131
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,210
Well, I gotta finish packing up.
1132
01:09:49,210 --> 01:09:50,800
Love you too, kiddo.
1133
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:51,633
Mwah.
1134
01:09:55,106 --> 01:09:59,901
♪ Sing like the angel ♪
1135
01:09:59,901 --> 01:10:04,901
♪ That you know you'll never be ♪
1136
01:10:07,134 --> 01:10:11,217
♪ And try to pin the blame on me ♪
1137
01:10:12,530 --> 01:10:14,233
Everybody have a good time?
1138
01:10:16,310 --> 01:10:17,603
Wish I was there.
1139
01:10:18,620 --> 01:10:20,530
It's scary to me because
I don't even feel like
1140
01:10:20,530 --> 01:10:22,590
I can take full
responsibility in what happens
1141
01:10:22,590 --> 01:10:24,430
at the show because there's just aspects
1142
01:10:24,430 --> 01:10:26,850
of my emotion that I can't modulate.
1143
01:10:26,850 --> 01:10:30,550
I can't come back from the
verge of tears feeling.
1144
01:10:30,550 --> 01:10:33,053
I don't know that I've
ever felt lower in my life.
1145
01:10:35,566 --> 01:10:40,566
♪ The heart that beats inside your chest ♪
1146
01:10:43,115 --> 01:10:48,115
♪ The awful need ♪
1147
01:10:48,567 --> 01:10:53,567
♪ It burns with holy fire ♪
1148
01:10:55,114 --> 01:11:00,114
♪ Righteousness and greed ♪
1149
01:11:03,355 --> 01:11:07,951
♪ Sing like the angel ♪
1150
01:11:07,951 --> 01:11:12,951
♪ That you know you'll never be ♪
1151
01:11:15,027 --> 01:11:20,027
♪ And try to pin the blame on me ♪
1152
01:11:22,596 --> 01:11:26,699
♪ Like the angel ♪
1153
01:11:26,699 --> 01:11:31,699
♪ That you know you'll never be ♪
1154
01:11:34,303 --> 01:11:39,303
♪ But you still try and pin the blame ♪
1155
01:11:41,187 --> 01:11:43,187
♪ On me ♪
1156
01:11:44,909 --> 01:11:47,076
(humming)
1157
01:11:56,615 --> 01:12:01,615
(people cheering)
(clapping)
1158
01:12:03,853 --> 01:12:06,853
(people chattering)
1159
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:15,343
Watch the batter, bud.
1160
01:12:16,703 --> 01:12:17,536
Oh.
1161
01:12:17,536 --> 01:12:19,000
- [Eleanor] Hey dad, do you have money?
1162
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,450
I'm gonna go get mom and pretzel and just
1163
01:12:20,450 --> 01:12:23,053
have a few bites of it 'cause I'm hungry.
1164
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,269
- [David] You want a couple of corn nuts?
Are you doing all right?
- Not right now.
1165
01:12:27,269 --> 01:12:29,167
- All right, good.
- I have gum.
1166
01:12:29,167 --> 01:12:30,817
- [David] Great, good to hear it.
1167
01:12:31,925 --> 01:12:33,792
Get back over to your spot.
1168
01:12:33,792 --> 01:12:36,070
- [Child] Let me hear your music voice.
1169
01:12:36,070 --> 01:12:39,112
- [David] Okay, I'll play it right now.
1170
01:12:39,112 --> 01:12:41,523
- [Child] Okay.
- [David] On your mark, get set.
1171
01:12:42,822 --> 01:12:44,380
(child laughs)
Do you hear it?
1172
01:12:44,380 --> 01:12:47,270
- No.
- Oh man, it's so good.
1173
01:12:47,270 --> 01:12:49,680
(children laughing)
1174
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:52,140
Hey, sit down you guys.
1175
01:12:52,140 --> 01:12:53,690
That was my fault coach, sorry.
1176
01:12:56,990 --> 01:12:59,990
(people chattering)
1177
01:13:01,272 --> 01:13:04,060
Almost.
(clapping)
1178
01:13:04,060 --> 01:13:06,460
Oh man.
- Good try, Nils.
- I love that guy.
1179
01:13:06,460 --> 01:13:09,010
He's always the last out
when the bases are loaded.
1180
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:10,873
Poor guy.
1181
01:13:12,802 --> 01:13:15,802
(people chattering)
1182
01:13:16,881 --> 01:13:19,631
(water spraying)
1183
01:13:32,891 --> 01:13:35,296
(leaves rustling)
1184
01:13:35,296 --> 01:13:37,546
(laughing)
1185
01:13:40,963 --> 01:13:41,796
You ready?
1186
01:13:43,202 --> 01:13:46,785
(soft, upbeat piano music)
1187
01:13:54,107 --> 01:13:56,857
(birds chirping)
1188
01:14:04,699 --> 01:14:08,282
(Ann and David chattering)
1189
01:14:10,906 --> 01:14:13,656
(birds chirping)
1190
01:14:18,186 --> 01:14:20,603
(soft music)
1191
01:14:23,055 --> 01:14:25,000
- [Ann] Go ahead and go.
1192
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,670
- When I stopped drinking, I started to be
1193
01:14:27,670 --> 01:14:31,573
able to see myself more clearly
and the things around me.
1194
01:14:32,610 --> 01:14:37,050
Right away, I was aware of a
very overwhelming loneliness
1195
01:14:37,050 --> 01:14:42,050
and I realized that my
native spot as a human
1196
01:14:42,420 --> 01:14:45,760
was behind the wheel of
a car, on an interstate,
1197
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:48,390
somewhere in the United States, alone.
1198
01:14:48,390 --> 01:14:51,610
If you just picked any
moment in my life at random,
1199
01:14:51,610 --> 01:14:54,108
the odds were that that was
what I was going to be doing.
1200
01:14:54,108 --> 01:14:56,491
♪ I climb the rock ♪
1201
01:14:56,491 --> 01:15:00,139
♪ Still make my home ♪
1202
01:15:00,139 --> 01:15:02,910
That was the basic unit of my career.
1203
01:15:02,910 --> 01:15:06,930
It all reverted back to,
I play solo house shows.
1204
01:15:06,930 --> 01:15:11,690
And solo house shows were
amazing in the sense that
1205
01:15:11,690 --> 01:15:14,730
I could interact with
fans in a totally new way
1206
01:15:14,730 --> 01:15:17,200
and to continue to do this work
1207
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,113
while I've been figuring this out.
1208
01:15:22,337 --> 01:15:24,754
(soft music)
1209
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,140
And so I was looking
down the barrel of just
1210
01:15:36,140 --> 01:15:38,690
kind of doing the back half of my life
1211
01:15:38,690 --> 01:15:43,623
as a solo traveler primarily
and that killed me.
1212
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:50,130
Sitting with that just
really brought me to my
1213
01:15:50,130 --> 01:15:52,360
lowest place that I had been.
1214
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,060
I hit bottom, basically.
1215
01:15:54,060 --> 01:15:59,060
In 2016, I'm on tour playing
these club shows solo.
1216
01:16:01,950 --> 01:16:04,140
It just caused me to start
asking myself questions,
1217
01:16:04,140 --> 01:16:05,810
like okay, well then what's it gonna be?
1218
01:16:05,810 --> 01:16:07,420
Like, if you had a million bucks,
1219
01:16:07,420 --> 01:16:08,690
it's kind of like that question.
1220
01:16:08,690 --> 01:16:10,962
Like okay, if you could
anything, what would it be?
1221
01:16:10,962 --> 01:16:12,580
And it's like, I wanna be in a band.
1222
01:16:12,580 --> 01:16:15,090
That's what I've always wanted to do.
1223
01:16:15,090 --> 01:16:17,990
I love playing solo but that wasn't what
1224
01:16:17,990 --> 01:16:18,823
I set out to do.
1225
01:16:18,823 --> 01:16:21,570
You know, when I sat and
dreamt of what I wanted to do,
1226
01:16:21,570 --> 01:16:24,490
I didn't picture myself alone in a car.
1227
01:16:24,490 --> 01:16:26,900
I didn't picture myself alone on a stage.
1228
01:16:26,900 --> 01:16:30,170
It was drums and it was bass
and it was electric guitar
1229
01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:32,460
and that's what I wanted.
1230
01:16:32,460 --> 01:16:34,795
That's what I've always wanted to do.
1231
01:16:34,795 --> 01:16:37,628
(soft rock music)
1232
01:16:43,410 --> 01:16:46,450
I asked myself, what's the
way that you have access
1233
01:16:46,450 --> 01:16:49,070
to right now, to do the band thing?
1234
01:16:49,070 --> 01:16:51,270
And I realized when I
was a kid how I did it
1235
01:16:51,270 --> 01:16:53,360
was I wrote the drum
parts and the guitar parts
1236
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,520
and the bass parts and I wrote the vocals
1237
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:59,583
and I had people play them.
(soft rock music)
1238
01:17:00,874 --> 01:17:04,533
♪ I saw in your bedroom ♪
1239
01:17:04,533 --> 01:17:08,843
♪ The drawers had been emptied ♪
1240
01:17:08,843 --> 01:17:11,670
I had to return to the process that I knew
1241
01:17:11,670 --> 01:17:14,800
and that I had been
personally successful with.
1242
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,910
That's where I had come
from and so I thought, okay,
1243
01:17:17,910 --> 01:17:19,360
I gotta find my way back to that.
1244
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:23,313
And it was a revelation, it
was just like riding a bike.
1245
01:17:25,370 --> 01:17:28,000
It felt like home.
1246
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,660
It also felt a lot like Pedro the Lion
1247
01:17:31,495 --> 01:17:34,220
and it occurred to me, oh, this is Pedro.
1248
01:17:34,220 --> 01:17:37,630
And as soon as that clicked,
it really felt like home.
1249
01:17:37,630 --> 01:17:41,383
Like a bunch of myself
just came right back to me.
1250
01:17:42,515 --> 01:17:44,932
(soft music)
1251
01:17:56,270 --> 01:17:59,410
Everything clicked into
place and I had a vision
1252
01:17:59,410 --> 01:18:02,340
for the future of the
way that the band sounded
1253
01:18:02,340 --> 01:18:04,950
and for the way that
the shows were gonna go.
1254
01:18:04,950 --> 01:18:07,470
I had people around who
were willing to do a band
1255
01:18:07,470 --> 01:18:08,560
like that with me.
1256
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,860
Coincidentally, Pedro the Lion,
because it was a brand name
1257
01:18:11,860 --> 01:18:14,540
that I had developed for a
decade and that people knew,
1258
01:18:14,540 --> 01:18:18,930
would allow me to go out on
tour and play fewer shows
1259
01:18:18,930 --> 01:18:20,580
and make a similar living.
1260
01:18:20,580 --> 01:18:24,170
Instead of being six weeks on,
six weeks off all year round,
1261
01:18:24,170 --> 01:18:25,940
I could be three weeks on tour
1262
01:18:25,940 --> 01:18:28,930
and 10 weeks home and do
that four times in a year.
1263
01:18:28,930 --> 01:18:31,050
That would revolutionize my life
1264
01:18:31,050 --> 01:18:34,760
and my ability to connect with my family.
1265
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,520
- [Man] A little less, check check.
1266
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:37,353
That's fine.
1267
01:18:37,353 --> 01:18:38,441
- [Woman] Any questions?
1268
01:18:38,441 --> 01:18:40,350
Anyone have any questions?
1269
01:18:40,350 --> 01:18:42,657
Well thank you for being here, enjoy.
1270
01:18:42,657 --> 01:18:45,500
- [Audio Engineer And
Man] Five, four, three,
1271
01:18:45,500 --> 01:18:46,333
two, one.
1272
01:18:47,511 --> 01:18:48,580
- [Man] And roll out.
1273
01:18:48,580 --> 01:18:50,420
- It is 90.3 KEXP.
1274
01:18:50,420 --> 01:18:52,640
My name is Troy Nelson and we have some
1275
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:56,900
Pacific Northwest legends in
the KEXP live room right now.
1276
01:18:56,900 --> 01:19:00,260
I am very, very pleased
to bring to all of you,
1277
01:19:00,260 --> 01:19:01,400
Pedro the Lion.
1278
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,440
Thank you so much for
stopping by and doing this.
1279
01:19:03,440 --> 01:19:04,780
- Yeah, thank you for having us.
1280
01:19:04,780 --> 01:19:05,613
- Absolutely.
1281
01:19:05,613 --> 01:19:07,494
So you have reformed?
1282
01:19:07,494 --> 01:19:08,800
- Yeah.
- This is exciting.
1283
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:09,830
- It's pretty fun.
1284
01:19:09,830 --> 01:19:11,740
- You're playing three nights in Seattle
1285
01:19:11,740 --> 01:19:12,600
at The Tractor.
1286
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:14,937
You have a busy 2018 ahead of you,
1287
01:19:14,937 --> 01:19:18,120
and 19, and 20, and beyond, I'm sure.
1288
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,463
- If the universe will, as they say.
1289
01:19:21,510 --> 01:19:23,090
- Well thanks for all
the years of great music
1290
01:19:23,090 --> 01:19:24,740
and looking forward to many more.
1291
01:19:26,057 --> 01:19:28,807
(acoustic music)
1292
01:19:29,677 --> 01:19:34,677
♪ I shut off the radio ♪
1293
01:19:34,724 --> 01:19:39,724
♪ To fix my eyes on the road ♪
1294
01:19:39,851 --> 01:19:44,619
♪ Pushed past the window glass ♪
1295
01:19:44,619 --> 01:19:49,597
♪ And let it flow ♪
1296
01:19:49,597 --> 01:19:54,597
♪ How wonderful, how strange ♪
1297
01:19:54,866 --> 01:19:59,768
♪ How invisible the change ♪
1298
01:19:59,768 --> 01:20:04,557
♪ Everything's staying the same ♪
1299
01:20:04,557 --> 01:20:08,026
♪ Except my brain ♪
1300
01:20:08,026 --> 01:20:11,563
(people chattering)
1301
01:20:11,563 --> 01:20:14,070
♪ All the way ♪
1302
01:20:14,070 --> 01:20:16,041
- Yeah, I got it.
1303
01:20:16,041 --> 01:20:18,723
(humming)
1304
01:20:18,723 --> 01:20:20,430
(soft acoustic music)
1305
01:20:20,430 --> 01:20:21,903
This is gonna be fun.
1306
01:20:23,535 --> 01:20:26,535
(people chattering)
1307
01:20:28,615 --> 01:20:29,954
Do you wanna come back?
1308
01:20:29,954 --> 01:20:31,570
- [Ann] No, I think I'll just right here.
1309
01:20:31,570 --> 01:20:32,520
We're just gonna park right here.
1310
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:33,353
- [David] Sounds good.
1311
01:20:33,353 --> 01:20:34,786
- I love you.
- Love you.
1312
01:20:34,786 --> 01:20:37,595
(kissing)
1313
01:20:37,595 --> 01:20:38,873
(people chattering)
1314
01:20:38,873 --> 01:20:43,210
♪ Postpone the unavoidable ♪
1315
01:20:43,210 --> 01:20:47,710
♪ And prolong the pain of being alive ♪
1316
01:20:51,470 --> 01:20:52,303
Let's go.
1317
01:20:58,750 --> 01:21:03,750
(audience cheering)
(clapping)
1318
01:21:13,688 --> 01:21:15,222
Hello everybody.
1319
01:21:15,222 --> 01:21:17,070
(audience cheers)
1320
01:21:17,070 --> 01:21:20,888
Okay, so, we're called Pedro the Lion.
1321
01:21:20,888 --> 01:21:23,090
(audience cheers)
1322
01:21:23,090 --> 01:21:26,967
And this is very nearly the
20th anniversary of a show,
1323
01:21:28,340 --> 01:21:32,010
my very first club show ever in Seattle,
1324
01:21:32,010 --> 01:21:37,010
here at The Tractor, in 1997.
(audience cheers)
1325
01:21:40,890 --> 01:21:43,023
Any questions at this point in the show?
1326
01:21:44,620 --> 01:21:45,453
What's that?
1327
01:21:45,453 --> 01:21:46,680
- [Woman] Are you going to
do more living room shows?
1328
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:48,070
- There will be more living room shows,
1329
01:21:48,070 --> 01:21:49,480
but it will be a minute
1330
01:21:50,480 --> 01:21:55,080
because we're trying to
do a thing where I make
1331
01:21:56,370 --> 01:22:01,370
a slightly better living
and stay home more also.
1332
01:22:01,735 --> 01:22:04,568
(audience cheers)
1333
01:22:06,740 --> 01:22:11,413
No, I only tell jokes from
stage when I'm blackout drunk,
1334
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:16,310
and uh, not tonight.
(audience laughs)
1335
01:22:16,310 --> 01:22:19,050
I've done that for years
on end and that wasn't
1336
01:22:19,050 --> 01:22:21,060
as cool as this, I don't think.
1337
01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:22,740
- How do you like your band?
- For real.
1338
01:22:22,740 --> 01:22:24,388
What's this?
- How do you like you band?
1339
01:22:24,388 --> 01:22:25,240
How do you like playing with a band?
1340
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:28,653
- Well, playing with a band
really feeds my soul, man.
1341
01:22:29,790 --> 01:22:32,490
All these shows sold real quick
1342
01:22:32,490 --> 01:22:35,393
and that was really fun for us,
1343
01:22:36,350 --> 01:22:41,350
because we didn't know
what was gonna happen.
1344
01:22:42,220 --> 01:22:44,310
And uh, thank you so much.
1345
01:22:44,310 --> 01:22:45,810
I'm really glad to be back playing
1346
01:22:45,810 --> 01:22:48,413
Pedro the Lion songs as Pedro.
1347
01:22:49,310 --> 01:22:52,887
And Sean Lane and Erik Walters,
we're all very grateful
1348
01:22:52,887 --> 01:22:57,887
that you came to the show.
(audience applause)
1349
01:22:58,934 --> 01:23:01,351
(rock music)
1350
01:23:03,692 --> 01:23:08,692
♪ All the way to grandma's house ♪
1351
01:23:08,970 --> 01:23:13,970
♪ I stayed on the narrow path ♪
1352
01:23:14,327 --> 01:23:19,327
♪ But my brother wandered off ♪
1353
01:23:19,444 --> 01:23:23,490
♪ Deep into the woods ♪
1354
01:23:23,490 --> 01:23:28,490
♪ Bitten twice by rattlesnakes ♪
1355
01:23:28,512 --> 01:23:33,512
♪ Tangled up in poison oak ♪
1356
01:23:33,683 --> 01:23:38,683
♪ He fell down and broke his legs ♪
1357
01:23:38,851 --> 01:23:42,942
♪ Into a great ravine ♪
1358
01:23:42,942 --> 01:23:47,942
♪ When I arrived at grandma's house ♪
1359
01:23:48,154 --> 01:23:53,143
♪ She had made us tea and cake ♪
1360
01:23:53,143 --> 01:23:58,143
♪ She asked me where my brother was ♪
1361
01:23:58,336 --> 01:24:03,336
♪ And I said I don't know ♪
1362
01:24:04,024 --> 01:24:06,191
♪ And ate ♪
1363
01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:09,834
(rock music)
1364
01:24:19,147 --> 01:24:21,564
(soft music)
1365
01:24:34,758 --> 01:24:38,541
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1366
01:24:38,541 --> 01:24:41,041
♪ Cha cha cha ♪
1367
01:24:41,909 --> 01:24:43,390
(cheering)
1368
01:24:43,390 --> 01:24:45,923
I still find myself
reaching out for something.
1369
01:24:48,020 --> 01:24:50,720
It really doesn't feel
like my consciousness
1370
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:52,560
is a closed system.
1371
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:54,060
Things feel connected somehow.
1372
01:24:56,030 --> 01:25:00,753
And I don't know, I don't
know why or how come,
1373
01:25:02,460 --> 01:25:04,350
but I know what it feels
like and it doesn't
1374
01:25:04,350 --> 01:25:06,340
feel like a closed system.
1375
01:25:06,340 --> 01:25:07,940
So I don't know what that means.
1376
01:25:09,333 --> 01:25:10,430
At a certain point, I thought,
1377
01:25:10,430 --> 01:25:13,870
what if the divine is just
balance and harmony itself?
1378
01:25:13,870 --> 01:25:18,870
That in harmony, that's where
you experience transcendence.
1379
01:25:19,130 --> 01:25:21,950
Whatever metaphysical reality is that
1380
01:25:21,950 --> 01:25:24,150
is the thing that's
happening all around us.
1381
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:29,213
Harmony is wanting to be had.
1382
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:32,460
Ways of interacting with other humans
1383
01:25:32,460 --> 01:25:34,970
just waiting to be unlocked.
1384
01:25:34,970 --> 01:25:38,100
And in a way, crying out to be unlocked.
1385
01:25:38,100 --> 01:25:41,790
Justice just waiting to be balanced.
1386
01:25:41,790 --> 01:25:45,240
I've had impulses to put
a name on it at times
1387
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:47,470
and I just thought, no man.
1388
01:25:47,470 --> 01:25:50,800
Not because I don't wanna arrive anywhere.
1389
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:53,930
Not because I don't wanna understand.
1390
01:25:53,930 --> 01:25:56,610
But because it just
seems like that's where
1391
01:25:56,610 --> 01:25:59,543
you get into trouble. (chuckles)
1392
01:26:01,587 --> 01:26:04,004
(soft music)
1393
01:26:39,559 --> 01:26:41,809
You have that one cup of...
1394
01:26:46,433 --> 01:26:48,850
(soft music)
1395
01:27:28,317 --> 01:27:33,317
♪ It goes ♪
1396
01:27:35,629 --> 01:27:40,629
♪ On and on ♪
1397
01:27:43,328 --> 01:27:48,328
♪ It goes on ♪
1398
01:27:51,073 --> 01:27:56,073
♪ On and on ♪
1399
01:27:59,585 --> 01:28:04,585
♪ It goes ♪
1400
01:28:06,552 --> 01:28:11,552
♪ On and on ♪
1401
01:28:14,302 --> 01:28:19,302
♪ It goes on ♪
1402
01:28:22,541 --> 01:28:24,874
♪ On and on ♪
1403
01:28:31,133 --> 01:28:33,550
(rock music)
1404
01:28:38,086 --> 01:28:43,086
♪ Right here ♪
1405
01:28:45,853 --> 01:28:50,853
♪ I'll be ♪
1406
01:28:53,445 --> 01:28:58,445
♪ 'Til I can ♪
1407
01:29:00,791 --> 01:29:03,791
♪ No longer breathe ♪
1408
01:29:08,444 --> 01:29:10,861
(rock music)
1409
01:29:17,937 --> 01:29:21,187
(soft, tinkling music)
1410
01:29:27,052 --> 01:29:32,052
♪ You blew all your inheritance ♪
1411
01:29:34,164 --> 01:29:39,164
♪ And now you're trying
to pin the blame on me ♪
1412
01:29:41,684 --> 01:29:46,684
♪ I could write you off to easily ♪
1413
01:29:47,417 --> 01:29:52,417
♪ Except a hundred million
other people agree ♪
1414
01:29:55,260 --> 01:30:00,260
♪ So you kick and scream
to get your way again ♪
1415
01:30:04,450 --> 01:30:09,450
♪ But the writing is on the wall ♪
1416
01:30:12,302 --> 01:30:17,302
♪ Any minute you'll on to your reward ♪
1417
01:30:19,386 --> 01:30:24,386
♪ And someone else is
gonna make the call ♪
1418
01:30:25,173 --> 01:30:30,173
♪ In these strange negotiations ♪
1419
01:30:34,493 --> 01:30:39,493
♪ Man they really are getting me down ♪
1420
01:30:42,107 --> 01:30:47,107
♪ Strange negotiations ♪
1421
01:30:49,202 --> 01:30:54,202
♪ Feel like a stranger in my home town ♪
1422
01:30:57,175 --> 01:31:02,175
♪ Strange negotiations ♪
1423
01:31:04,812 --> 01:31:09,812
♪ You got me looking for a way around ♪
1424
01:31:10,263 --> 01:31:14,346
♪ All these strange negotiations ♪
1425
01:31:18,426 --> 01:31:20,843
(soft music)
1426
01:31:27,467 --> 01:31:31,932
♪ Oh ♪
1427
01:31:31,932 --> 01:31:36,932
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
1428
01:31:36,991 --> 01:31:41,991
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
1429
01:31:44,475 --> 01:31:49,475
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1430
01:31:52,161 --> 01:31:57,161
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
1431
01:31:59,597 --> 01:32:01,680
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1432
01:32:08,503 --> 01:32:11,753
(soft, tinkling music)
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