John Popper
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Podcast Appearances
Because he's thinking, you can see on his face, I'm never going to see my kids again.
I'm going to have to shoot somebody.
And that was the bad part.
So, you know, we basically just had to pay a shit ton of money.
You say you picked up the harmonica at 14, but you really didn't start playing until 16.
You mean you were practicing for two years?
I had it.
You know, I didn't really play it.
I played it right away.
I could play songs on it.
But, you know, it was fun.
But I wasn't really like, wow, I want to do this for a living.
Mm-hmm.
And then when I saw the Blues Brothers, that was around 16.
And then I was like aggressively, I want to do this.
Right.
And that's when something started changing.
And, you know, I was still kind of interested in being a comedian.
But the Blues Brothers led me to Paul Butterfield, you know, because someone said, Dan, it sounds like Paul Butterfield.
So I'm like, who's Paul Butterfield?