Emma Straub

And I mean, there was his voice, which is so identifiable to me now.

But at the time...

because it wasn't connected to music videos or visuals of any kind, I really had sort of no idea who was in this band.

And there was such a range of actual music too.

Like I loved how much of it there was.

He was going to do a hundred.

He was going to do a hundred, but then that seemed like too much.

So he stopped at 69.

So they put out the follow-up record to 69 Love Songs, which was called I. And they were going on tour and they said, oh, well, come on tour, come on tour.

Because basically Claudia had previously, or they'd had other friends who sold the merch sometimes.

But, you know, I was there and I knew everything and knew everybody and they all liked to have me around.

So they invited me.

Yeah, to sell the merch.

And to sort of be like a helper.

Okay, so I was excited, trepidatious, but excited until we got there.

And then I was like, oh, no, no, this is a horrible disaster for several reasons.

So number one, I don't like to stay up late.

Number two, I don't particularly like to count things.

Like math.

Math is really not for me.