{"id":588,"date":"2016-06-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-11-09T04:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:35:53","slug":"department-of-tangents-podcast-ep7-comedian-steven-wright-and-music-from-robbie-fulks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/06\/01\/department-of-tangents-podcast-ep7-comedian-steven-wright-and-music-from-robbie-fulks\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Tangents Podcast Ep7 &#8211; Comedian Steven Wright and Music from Robbie Fulks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenwright.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Wright<\/a> for a couple of different publications over the years and always enjoyed the strange and wonderful twists in the conversation. He&#8217;s one of the reasons this podcast and site exist as the Department of Tangents &#8211; some of the most fun I&#8217;ve had is getting off topic with him. I sat down with him in a conference room at one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emerson.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson College<\/a>&#8216;s offices in Boston, and we talked about comedy, music, poetry, and anything else that came to mind. Wright got a lot of the best laugh lines on <a href=\"https:\/\/louisck.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louis CK<\/a>&#8216;s independently filmed show Horace and Pete, and he&#8217;s had a brilliant career in stand-up. And yet, it took a very long time for Wright to be okay standing in front of people telling jokes. That&#8217;s part of where his deadpan delivery comes from. He would also like you to know that the universe is underrated.<\/p>\n<p>Stick around after the interview to hear &#8220;Alabama At Night&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robbiefulks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Fulks<\/a>, who will be on the podcast June 15, talking about his new album, Upland Stories, the inspiration he drew from journalist James Agee, and classic Universal horror films. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4409753\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"640\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/department-tangents-podcast\/id1093377146?mt=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"547\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/itunes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/itunes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"175,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"itunes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to the DoT Podcast on iTunes! 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