Modern Wisdom · 2025-11-06 · 87 min · 16,817 words

Is Having a Boyfriend Cringe Now? - Rob Henderson - #1016

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I miss the uh I miss the Cambridge recording studio, the dark hovel that you used to be in. Yeah, I think we've recorded in every single place I've lived in, yeah, since my start at Cambridge. So I I was living in this, yeah, it was a hovel, like a like the smallest dwelling I'd ever lived in. Smaller than the barracks in the Air Force, believe it or not. It was a shoebox.

And it was such a stepdad. Like I f because when I was living in New Haven in undergrad, like I was getting a stipend from the GI Bill. I had a pretty nice apartment. It was spacious, high ceilings, but Cambridge required all the postgrad students for their first year to live in their res, you know, in their college. And I was like, oh, you know, it's Cambridge.

It's gonna be grand, it's gonna be Hogwarts. And I get there and it's a shoebox with a a like a a single bed. And a tiny little desk and that's where you and I recorded the first uh one for Modern Wizard. Well, it's it's I think it's very important for you to keep your feet on the ground. I don't need to get too big, too big for your boots.

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