WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.319 Welcome to Overeducated and Underemployed. I'm 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:06.879 Fettin, and I'm your host. This is just a little 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:09.259 introduction to give you an idea of what to expect 00:00:09.259 --> 00:00:11.179 from the podcast, tell you a little bit about 00:00:11.179 --> 00:00:13.980 myself, and tell you a little bit about what 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:16.260 I'll be talking about on the podcast week to 00:00:16.260 --> 00:00:19.519 week. First things first, some of you might know 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.760 my legal name. I go by Fettin on stage and here 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.059 for a multitude of reasons. It's been a name 00:00:25.059 --> 00:00:27.359 that I've used in one capacity or another since 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.420 I was a teenager. became my name in virtual reality, 00:00:31.579 --> 00:00:34.000 which is where I did a lot of socializing during 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.439 the pandemic and really started performing improv 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:43.079 in VR, virtual reality. Now, I didn't start performing 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.320 stand -up comedy until a couple of years ago. 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.619 I used my legal name at first and then started 00:00:49.619 --> 00:00:54.140 performing that more in VR as well. And now the 00:00:54.140 --> 00:00:57.039 name just stuck. It's a lot easier to use. the 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.320 stage name everywhere than it is to use my legal 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.679 name everywhere. So, I'm Fedden. That's that. 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.239 If you know my legal name, it's no big secret, 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:08.540 but I'm not using it here. I'd prefer that you 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:11.379 didn't either. I'm a historian, philosopher, 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.579 and a museum curator at one point, but I've also 00:01:15.579 --> 00:01:18.780 been obsessed with and involved with music my 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:21.420 entire life. I literally got into everything, 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.200 and I still listen to pretty much everything 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.189 to this day. You're going to find two main formats 00:01:27.189 --> 00:01:30.829 of episodes right now. I will say the format 00:01:30.829 --> 00:01:35.290 of this podcast is fluid. It'll become what it 00:01:35.290 --> 00:01:37.489 becomes. But right now, there's going to be two 00:01:37.489 --> 00:01:39.890 kinds of episodes primarily. You'll have episodes 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:42.549 where it's just me. I expect these to be a little 00:01:42.549 --> 00:01:45.250 less popular than the other episodes, but they 00:01:45.250 --> 00:01:48.549 will typically center around a topic. And I use 00:01:48.549 --> 00:01:51.569 that loosely. It could be a lens to look at a 00:01:51.569 --> 00:01:55.900 bunch of different things. Or it could be a historical 00:01:55.900 --> 00:01:59.500 figure or a historical concept. Or it could be 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:04.299 something as simple as reviewing a set of albums 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:08.300 or a set of movies. I really expect this just 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:10.139 to be an outlet for me to talk about all the 00:02:10.139 --> 00:02:11.719 different things that I'm interested in talking 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.319 about. Hopefully you'll find some of them interesting 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:18.500 too. I do plan to give you pretty accurate descriptions 00:02:18.500 --> 00:02:21.509 of what to expect in each episode, so... I don't 00:02:21.509 --> 00:02:23.229 expect every episode to be for everybody, but 00:02:23.229 --> 00:02:25.550 I do expect that there'll be something for everyone 00:02:25.550 --> 00:02:28.949 here. I do not plan to get political here. There's 00:02:28.949 --> 00:02:31.689 a lot of people that can do that a lot better 00:02:31.689 --> 00:02:34.330 than me. It's not how I want to spend my time. 00:02:34.830 --> 00:02:39.150 Frank Zappa said that politics was the entertainment 00:02:39.150 --> 00:02:41.349 division of the military -industrial complex, 00:02:41.610 --> 00:02:44.289 and I tend to agree with him. When I talk about 00:02:44.289 --> 00:02:47.250 things that have become politicized that I don't 00:02:47.250 --> 00:02:49.840 really believe should be, I'm not going to talk 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:51.479 about them through a political lens. I'm just 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.060 going to talk about them the way they are. I 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:55.939 plan to interview a lot of different people. 00:02:55.979 --> 00:02:58.620 As I mentioned before, I'm a historian. I plan 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:00.699 to take an oral history approach to these interviews, 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.300 so I'm not really trying to press anybody super 00:03:03.300 --> 00:03:06.780 hard or really be journalistic in any sense, 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.939 but really just give people an opportunity to 00:03:08.939 --> 00:03:11.699 tell their story. That being said, this is a 00:03:11.699 --> 00:03:14.060 podcast. I'm not doing traditional oral history 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:16.400 here. And I would say that the interviews are 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.719 inspired by the practices of oral history, and 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.340 I will not strictly attune to those practices. 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.680 There will be times where I interject. There 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.620 will be times where I have discussions with these 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:31.659 people beyond just asking them questions and 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:34.580 follow -up questions. And I think that that's 00:03:34.580 --> 00:03:36.879 far more interesting for y 'all to listen to. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.680 That being said, I do plan to be fairly selective 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.240 about my guests, and I don't intend to... have 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.520 guests that get particularly political either, 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:49.719 unless I'm having a politician or an activist 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.659 on the podcast, then of course. And I will be 00:03:52.659 --> 00:03:55.659 pretty selective about my guests. I don't plan 00:03:55.659 --> 00:03:59.120 to have people that tend to politicize things 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.439 I don't think should be politicized. That being 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.219 said, I'm not going to hide my politics either. 00:04:03.379 --> 00:04:05.360 I think it'll be pretty obvious where I stand 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.099 on certain things just because of the way I talk 00:04:07.099 --> 00:04:09.639 about them. But I'm also not here to debate those 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.319 things. So you can take it or leave it. I'm a 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.199 very progressive person. I believe all people 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.899 should be treated equally or be given the same 00:04:17.899 --> 00:04:20.180 opportunities. I'm not going to get into the 00:04:20.180 --> 00:04:22.639 nuances of that. Sometimes I'll be talking about 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.879 science. Sometimes I'll be talking about history. 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.839 Sometimes I'll be talking about movies, music, 00:04:29.060 --> 00:04:32.420 art of all kinds. Sometimes I'll be talking about 00:04:32.420 --> 00:04:34.660 those things through a particular lens. Sometimes 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:36.939 I'll just be rambling about a particular topic 00:04:36.939 --> 00:04:40.660 or philosophical concept. In a nutshell, I'm 00:04:40.660 --> 00:04:42.379 just not going to politicize science. I'm not 00:04:42.379 --> 00:04:45.680 going to politicize art, culture. Music is inherently 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.420 political. I'm not going to pretend music isn't 00:04:49.420 --> 00:04:51.879 political when I talk about music. The point 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.060 is, this is not a political debate show. I will 00:04:54.060 --> 00:04:57.100 not be covering the news or current events. I 00:04:57.100 --> 00:04:58.959 hope that this can be a break from all that. 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.259 Every podcast has to start somewhere. Luckily, 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:03.959 some of the people I really wanted to interview 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.300 are pretty accessible. and were gracious enough 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:09.920 to grant me interviews without even having an 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.300 episode aired. So I've got a great, killer opening 00:05:13.300 --> 00:05:16.199 lineup for you guys. And I think all these interviews 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.300 are really exciting. You can check out the trailer 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:21.259 for clips of that. And by the time this is posted, 00:05:21.379 --> 00:05:23.060 you should be able to at least hear part one 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:25.480 of the J. Roddy Walston interview. I plan to 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:27.540 conduct the interviews pretty similarly to how 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:31.420 they went so far. That being said, I let the 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:34.879 speaker really direct the conversation. And I 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:36.839 plan to continue to do that as well so it can 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.740 go wherever it goes. I really want to give people 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:44.579 that I think might have untold stories a chance 00:05:44.579 --> 00:05:47.639 to tell their story. I really want to also talk 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.959 to people that may have told aspects of their 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.759 story in all kinds of places to give a different 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.740 perspective. And I think that I offer a different 00:05:56.740 --> 00:05:59.680 perspective. I'm a big advocate for mental health 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.850 and therapy. One thing that I will talk about 00:06:03.850 --> 00:06:06.750 quite a bit is psychology, especially in the 00:06:06.750 --> 00:06:09.889 sense of self -help and things that have helped 00:06:09.889 --> 00:06:12.329 me over the years. I want to give a shout out 00:06:12.329 --> 00:06:16.290 to Lee Baines for inspiring the title. Now, I'm 00:06:16.290 --> 00:06:17.970 not going to pretend that Lee Baines is the first 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:20.389 person to put the two words overeducated and 00:06:20.389 --> 00:06:23.149 underemployed together. He may have been. I don't 00:06:23.149 --> 00:06:26.490 know. The first time it entered my lexicon was 00:06:26.490 --> 00:06:29.709 when I heard it in his song Centerville. Be sure 00:06:29.709 --> 00:06:32.990 to check his music out. He's got some really 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:36.050 important songs. Lee Baines III and the Glory 00:06:36.050 --> 00:06:39.509 Fires is who you want to check out. And I want 00:06:39.509 --> 00:06:41.430 to thank Lee again for inspiring the title and 00:06:41.430 --> 00:06:43.269 giving me his blessing. I'll be giving him a 00:06:43.269 --> 00:06:45.649 shout -out at the end of every episode. So every 00:06:45.649 --> 00:06:49.470 podcast has its start. J. Roddy Walston was doing 00:06:49.470 --> 00:06:51.569 some house shows, and I just happened to see 00:06:51.569 --> 00:06:54.410 a post about it. I reached out to him, we worked 00:06:54.410 --> 00:06:56.449 it out, and I've got to say it was one of the 00:06:56.449 --> 00:06:58.949 best nights of my life. I was a big fan of his 00:06:58.949 --> 00:07:01.250 music already. I will say when I'm interviewing 00:07:01.250 --> 00:07:03.910 people that I'm a big fan of, I plan to acknowledge 00:07:03.910 --> 00:07:06.370 that, but I also will try to be as objective 00:07:06.370 --> 00:07:09.910 as possible when asking them questions. That 00:07:09.910 --> 00:07:11.449 being said, I'm not trying to be a journalist. 00:07:11.509 --> 00:07:14.290 I'm not trying to hardball anybody. But J. Roddy 00:07:14.290 --> 00:07:15.949 Walston and I had a really good conversation. 00:07:16.589 --> 00:07:20.110 Roddy is a really fantastic guy. He put on an 00:07:20.110 --> 00:07:24.290 amazing show in my house. People came from a 00:07:24.290 --> 00:07:27.589 couple hours away even to come to it. He played 00:07:27.589 --> 00:07:31.189 for two hours. But then the next day, before 00:07:31.189 --> 00:07:33.129 he hit the road, he was gracious enough to grant 00:07:33.129 --> 00:07:36.610 me an interview. And that interview, to be honest 00:07:36.610 --> 00:07:38.910 with you, the way it went, I'm so happy with 00:07:38.910 --> 00:07:41.290 it that it shaped how I conducted the others 00:07:41.290 --> 00:07:44.029 who were with people that I knew. I didn't know 00:07:44.029 --> 00:07:46.610 Roddy before that interview. I'd only spent one 00:07:46.610 --> 00:07:49.269 evening with him. I knew his music. Some of the 00:07:49.269 --> 00:07:51.949 other people I interview right off the bat, obviously, 00:07:51.949 --> 00:07:54.569 were people that I have a rapport with. Every 00:07:54.569 --> 00:07:58.470 podcast has its core group of people. And my 00:07:58.470 --> 00:08:01.089 core group of people, I think in this case, started 00:08:01.089 --> 00:08:03.569 with the Drive -By Truckers. And I'm going to 00:08:03.569 --> 00:08:06.029 talk to you for a few minutes about who the Drive 00:08:06.029 --> 00:08:09.470 -By Truckers are. So if you already know, I'm 00:08:09.470 --> 00:08:11.730 preaching to the choir. But the Drive -By Truckers 00:08:11.730 --> 00:08:13.410 have been my favorite band for over 20 years. 00:08:14.050 --> 00:08:16.069 You're going to hear me fanboy out about this 00:08:16.069 --> 00:08:18.189 band, but you're also going to hear a lot of 00:08:18.189 --> 00:08:21.089 different things. I think the reason I bring 00:08:21.089 --> 00:08:25.699 this up is because... First, all of the, even 00:08:25.699 --> 00:08:27.879 my interview with Roddy, the Drive -By Truckers 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:29.899 came up. He went on tour with them at one point. 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:31.319 One of the things I love about the Drive -By 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.860 Truckers is they've turned me on to so much music 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:36.100 over the years. It's not just their music that 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:37.919 I love. It's all the music that they've turned 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.080 me on to. So I really feel like the community 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.940 that's been built around them is something very 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:46.350 unique and special. They're a big part of my 00:08:46.350 --> 00:08:48.149 life. There's going to be a lot of times where 00:08:48.149 --> 00:08:49.710 I bring them up, and so I think it's important 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:51.950 to just be aware of who they are. That being 00:08:51.950 --> 00:08:54.610 said, they get mentioned in almost all of these 00:08:54.610 --> 00:08:56.990 interviews. I have plenty of other types of guests 00:08:56.990 --> 00:09:02.669 planned. I've got authors and editors and all 00:09:02.669 --> 00:09:04.750 kinds of different people. I am really grateful 00:09:04.750 --> 00:09:06.850 for everybody that's given me their time so far. 00:09:07.029 --> 00:09:10.850 I think that we've had fun recording these interviews. 00:09:11.470 --> 00:09:15.740 I will also answer questions. I don't know what 00:09:15.740 --> 00:09:18.159 that means yet. It depends on what kinds of questions 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.759 I get and what ones I decide to answer. But if 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.600 you have questions you'd like me to answer on 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.659 the podcast, you can email me at feddunxr, F 00:09:26.659 --> 00:09:31.580 -E -D -D -U -N -X -R, at gmail .com. Go ahead 00:09:31.580 --> 00:09:34.559 and drop me an email there, and maybe I'll decide 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:37.139 to answer your question on the podcast. I don't 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:39.779 know how often I'll do that. I will be performing 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:44.549 live pretty frequently. I do travel to record 00:09:44.549 --> 00:09:46.909 some of these interviews as well. My goal is 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:48.850 always to meet these people in person, but I'd 00:09:48.850 --> 00:09:51.850 rather talk to them than not talk to them. If 00:09:51.850 --> 00:09:55.330 I can meet them, I'm going to do that. But I 00:09:55.330 --> 00:09:58.330 will meet some of these guests on Zoom, some 00:09:58.330 --> 00:10:01.389 of these guests in virtual reality. I think that 00:10:01.389 --> 00:10:04.029 those interviews will feel much more like the 00:10:04.029 --> 00:10:06.129 in -person interviews than a Zoom call would. 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:08.850 And if it doesn't, then I'll stop doing them. 00:10:09.230 --> 00:10:11.409 I don't want to drop any names just in case something 00:10:11.409 --> 00:10:14.169 falls through. The names that I've announced 00:10:14.169 --> 00:10:16.769 have already been recorded. You can find those 00:10:16.769 --> 00:10:19.769 names in the trailer. I'm Fedden, the stand -up 00:10:19.769 --> 00:10:22.490 philosopher. This is overeducated and underemployed. 00:10:22.769 --> 00:10:25.990 Thanks for checking it out. Check out my website 00:10:25.990 --> 00:10:30.850 at fedden .net. F -E -D -D -U -N dot N -E -T. 00:10:32.350 --> 00:10:34.629 Fedden .net. Thanks again.