Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 12 segments
Seth Singleton is a fiction writer who got his start in the world of comics as the lead writer for a children’s comic strip series called Greedy Greg that teaches kids that greed can ruin anything, no…
Seth SingletonGuest
Mike ConneryHost
I am familiar with them by name, but not by ear, and that was really something.
That one, um, that one I remember first hearing in 2004, a little bit after it was released.
I'd actually moved out of town to go to school, and a relationship, and come back pretty much humbled, and had been sharing a place with my childhood friend.
But our paths were diverging, and, um, it was interesting that maybe six years ago, right after my father died in 2020, I found myself recalling that chorus, and I rem- then was able to recall, uh, during that time what it was that was so important to me hearing it in 2004.
I wasn't happy with myself overall, and that was one of the reasons why I was drinking, and I knew that I wanted more in my life, and I was coming up on the time when I would soon stop.
But it was the desire for something better, and that song reminded me of why I'd chosen to pursue writing in the first place.
It was because I had read things that made me feel that way, and when I heard that song and I recognized that the simple, the pure, idyllic message that it offers, one that's very possible, a voice that hopes it's joined by a second that's there to help, and then a third creating something even greater, a mystery of beauty that their voices create, that it speaks about us, um, and a desire to return to one voice.
I want to be able to create something in my writing that speaks to this." I feel like someone who creates this kind of song is listening to a song like "Hallelujah" and saying, "How do I figure out to do my version of that?" Right? And actually, it was interesting after I selected this song and sent it to you, I was reminded, I don't know what caused me to go there, but, uh, in April of this year, my wife had emergency brain surgery.
Um, she went in for a CT scan on a Friday, and by Monday she needed an MRI, and by that following Friday, she went under the knife to remove a, uh, thankfully non-cancerous and, um, benign mass located between the, the sac where our brain floats and the, the wall of our skull.
It was putting pressure on her frontal lobes, and it was about a two-hour procedure, and then it was a couple weeks of recovery.
I am familiar with them by name, but not by ear, and that was really something.
That one, um, that one I remember first hearing in 2004, a little bit after it was released.
I'd actually moved out of town to go to school, and a relationship, and come back pretty much humbled, and had been sharing a place with my childhood friend.
But our paths were diverging, and, um, it was interesting that maybe six years ago, right after my father died in 2020, I found myself recalling that chorus, and I rem- then was able to recall, uh, during that time what it was that was so important to me hearing it in 2004.
I wasn't happy with myself overall, and that was one of the reasons why I was drinking, and I knew that I wanted more in my life, and I was coming up on the time when I would soon stop.
But it was the desire for something better, and that song reminded me of why I'd chosen to pursue writing in the first place.
It was because I had read things that made me feel that way, and when I heard that song and I recognized that the simple, the pure, idyllic message that it offers, one that's very possible, a voice that hopes it's joined by a second that's there to help, and then a third creating something even greater, a mystery of beauty that their voices create, that it speaks about us, um, and a desire to return to one voice.
I want to be able to create something in my writing that speaks to this." I feel like someone who creates this kind of song is listening to a song like "Hallelujah" and saying, "How do I figure out to do my version of that?" Right? And actually, it was interesting after I selected this song and sent it to you, I was reminded, I don't know what caused me to go there, but, uh, in April of this year, my wife had emergency brain surgery.
Um, she went in for a CT scan on a Friday, and by Monday she needed an MRI, and by that following Friday, she went under the knife to remove a, uh, thankfully non-cancerous and, um, benign mass located between the, the sac where our brain floats and the, the wall of our skull.
It was putting pressure on her frontal lobes, and it was about a two-hour procedure, and then it was a couple weeks of recovery.
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