The Hook - Episode 9

You

are hovering and smothering.

You're all up in my personal space.

You completely disregarding The disgruntled look on my face Your proximity

Is far

too close to me And you should know We need a boundary Your inability to read a room.

Look for the social cues when I step back from you.

To tell me your story I'm good right here You are hovering While I'm discovering Your rationale for standing trying to dominate could you sincerely not know research has shown most intimate relationships stand one to two feet apart this is factual At four feet, four colleagues.

Eight more, four strangers.

When in doubt, go with CDC guidelines.

I'm wandering away.

It feels so entitled to stand so close to me.

unsettling Covering.

just stay there for just a second so man thank you for that song you know every week I get up here and I tell people before we even start taping I'm like hey come up here and you really want to play a song that's going to evoke some emotion something that's funny something that's sad blah blah blah and as amazing as the songwriters we've had come up here have been we just have not had any like songs that are entertaining that are funny you know and even though but i wouldn't even call that a funny song i mean it is a funny song but it's not it's like funny in that john prine sort of like uh mode where it's like funny because it's true exactly it's like a commentary and uh we've all been there right um and man Like, I can see why the voice was like, we got to get this.

We got to get Sarah Golden on here.

I mean, incredible voice.

There's, like, I love the texturing in it, too, because you can do so much with that.

I mean, just kind of to my country heart, there was, like, just enough of a country warble in there that, like, really endeared it to me.

But also, you can just go there.

Wherever you want to go, you just go and...

And then you created a song that takes you there.

So, and I say this all the time, that's such a great value in songwriting is like knowing how to maximize your voice and absolutely did it in that song.

Great stuff, man.

Great stuff.

So my biggest questions for you is like, you know, cause I went back and I was looking back at your past history and there's obviously like a, you know, 12, 13 year history blank spot, so what happened?