Episode 7: Special Guest Sean Nelson Favors Fruit Jerky

Sean Nelson with Frizzelle backstage at the Moore Theatre circa 2010.

Sean Nelson is a writer, actor, musician, and Seattle icon (though he would refuse the moniker, and lives in Nashville now anyway).

He is known for writing what Rolling Stone calls the best song of 1998, and if you’re wondering where you know him from, it’s probably this:

Harvey Danger formed at University of Washington in the mid-1990s, and the bass player was Aaron Huffman, who went on to become the art director of The Stranger from 2006-2015.

Aaron is the blond guy on the right in this still from the “Flagpole Sitta’” music video.

Sean and Christopher both contributed to this remembrance of Arron published in 2016.

Also discussed on this episode: Sean’s thoughts on the late-career reemergence of Joni Mitchell, whom Sean wrote a book about once.

Published in 2007.

Also on this episode:

• Frizzelle talks about why he loves the new memoir Molly by Blake Butler

• Jake and Sean talk about the film Skinamarink

• Sean laments the popularity of words like “impactful” and “iconic”

• Jake and Sean compare their Spotify Wrapped top 10s for 2023

By the way, Sean literally brought a bag of Dick’s to the podcast studio:

Sean Nelson eats Dick’s as Jake looks away.

We recorded this episode December 26, 2023, but as you can tell we’re pretending — not at all successfully — that it was already 2024.