About this episode

Ryan Miller of Guster discusses his love for lists and shares insights about music and parenting.

You are reading something that was written in paragraph format, with complete sentences, grammar, nouns, and verbs. That’s not how Ryan Miller of the beloved band Guster likes it. Ryan enjoys lists. Likes reading them, creating them, and relying on the whole idea of ordered verticality. He tells us about the extensive playlist of songs he always keeps handy for his kids, how this list has been around for many years, how it has seen some editing with certain artists losing favor and being dropped, and how there is no Guster on that list. Ryan also fills us in on which bands and artists are really nice people so you can listen to them with confidence. Ryan doesn’t tell us which bands and artists are real jerks (he says there are very few of them) because that might cause you to lose sleep. Take an ordered approach to dozing off with our Ryan Miller episode.

People in this episode

Host: John Moe

Guest: Ryan Miller

Topics covered

• music
• lists
• parenting
• bands
• interviews

Keywords

• Ryan Miller
• Guster
• music lists
• parenting playlists
• bands
• interviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Guster

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