Visit the Most Primal, Teenage Part of Yourself with Maggie Lyons

5/20/202614 min

Maggie Lyons is a creative producer living in LA. Read her essay The Comfort Playlist of Teenage Faves™️.

Listen to her nostalgia playlist here.

Aaron's advice originally aired back in 2022.

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Clips

First 90 seconds

Zach· Host0:00
Hey, it's Zach. Today, a weirdly helpful trip down memory lane. To start, Maggie, I thought I, I would try something.
Maggie Lyons· Guest0:09
Yeah.
Zach· Host0:10
Are you willing to just close your eyes and listen to things and react to them?
Maggie Lyons· Guest0:17
Um, yeah.
Zach· Host0:19
[laughs] Great.
Maggie Lyons· Guest0:20
Okay. [upbeat music] Freshman year, the beginning of high school, MTV2, 9/11.
Zach· Host0:35
[laughs] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, this, this is fun. Not the 9/11 part, but you know what I mean.
Maggie Lyons· Guest0:41
[upbeat music] Female rage. [laughs] I actually did a dance performance to that song in high school.
Neko Case· Soundbite0:51
I let the beast in too soon. I don't know how to live without my hands on a stone.
Maggie Lyons· Guest0:58
Ugh. So sad.
Zach· Host1:03
It could make me cry right now.
Maggie Lyons· Guest1:05
Yeah.
Zach· Host1:06
It literally did. It brought a, a- Mm-hmm ... one, it brought a tear to my eye.
Maggie Lyons· Guest1:11
Yeah.
Neko Case· Soundbite1:12
Goldenrod and the 4-H dime. The things I- Uh, let me do one more ... kinda found out you had cancer of the bone.
Maggie Lyons· Guest1:21
Just beautiful, wistful, heartbreaking... Ugh, these songs, I just