John Roderick Wiki – John Roderick Biography
John Roderick is an American musician, writer, podcaster, and politician. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist in the band The Long Winters, was formerly a touring member of the band Harvey Danger, and co-hosts the podcasts Roderick On The Line, Road Work, Omnibus, and Friendly Fire.
A search of business records on the Washington Secretary of State’s website shows Jennings and Roderick registered Omnibus, LLC in September 2019. In the filing, under “nature of business,” they described it as “entertainment, arts and recreation.” Jennings and Roderick were both listed as “governors” of the company.
Jennings has defended his business partner’s parenting abilities on Twitter. Jennings wrote, “If this reassures anyone, I personally know John to be (a) a loving and attentive dad who (b) tells heightened-for-effect stories about his own irascibility on like ten podcasts a week. This site is so dumb.” Jennings also joked, “Extremely jealous and annoyed that my podcast co-host is going to be a dictionary entry and I never will.”
Roderick performs in an indie-rock band called “The Long Winters” which formed in 2011. According to the band’s website, Roderick sings, plays the guitar and writes songs. He joked about himself in the bio section:
Widely acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent artists, credited with resurrecting Seattle’s moribund music scene and bringing new life to the rock genre, John also writes his own press bios. A central figure in the Northwest music community, John nevertheless maintains his outsider status by being both dangerously edgy and completely huggable, in contravention of established Seattle practice. Equally talented at almost any instrument, (except guitar, at which he is even more talented), John has made it nearly impossible for any other musicians to find work in Washington State, effectively playing ALL the music that needs to be played. John is also a widely respected journalist, an extensively quoted author and philosopher, a prima ballerina, a cowboy and an astronaut.
John Roderick Age
John Roderick is 52 years old. He was born on September 13, 1968, in Seattle, Washington, United States.
John Roderick Daughter
Roderick currently lives in Seattle with his daughter. In 2017, Roderick was honored with the position of King Neptune for the 2017 Seattle Seafair. Roderick graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington after three decades of undergraduate study.
John Roderick is the musician and podcaster from Seattle who dominated Twitter when he documented his young daughter’s six-hour struggle to learn how to open a can of baked beans. The term “bean dad” was trending on social media and Google as readers reacted to the 23-tweet saga.
While there have been some commenters who defended Roderick’s teaching style, the majority of the responses shared on Twitter have been critical. Many expressed concern that his daughter had been hungry during the six-hour ordeal and slammed Roderick for allowing the child to become frustrated to the point where she was crying.
Roderick at first embraced the notoriety. He updated his Twitter bio to include, “Bean Dad since 2021.” But he has since deleted the account, as well as his Instagram profile.
Roderick Wrote He Was Trying to Teach
So I said, “How do you think this works?” She studied it and applied it to the top of the can, sideways. She struggled for a while and with a big, dramatic sigh said, “Will you please just open the can?” Apocalypse Dad was overjoyed: a Teaching Moment just dropped in my lap!
Roderick explained on Twitter that the saga began on January 1 when his 9-year-old daughter told him she was hungry as he was working on a jigsaw puzzle. He suggested she “make some baked beans” and instructed her to “Open a can and put it in a pot.” The child brought him the can and asked him how to get it open.
Roderick wrote that it quickly dawned on him that he had never taught his daughter how to use a can opener. “What kind of apocalypse father doesn’t teach his kid how to use a manual can opener?!?” But rather than demonstrate or offer a verbal explanation, Roderick encouraged his daughter to try to figure it out for herself.
Roderick turned his attention back to the jigsaw puzzle as his daughter was “grunting and groaning trying to get the thing” before she eventually “collapsed in a frustrated heap.” Roderick said he then tried to guide his daughter along after realizing she had figured out how part of the can opener worked but was stuck on the “clamping step.”
At this point she said, “I don’t want baked beans” and marched off. Apocalypse Dad went into full ‘The Road’ Mode! “Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans.” She screamed “AUGH!” like Lucy Van Pelt. She read a book for awhile.
But his daughter instead told him, “I hate you” before declaring, “I don’t want baked beans.” Roderick wrote as motivation, he told his daughter, “Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans.” She screamed and took a break from the can opener for a while.
The child eventually returned to the can opener and kept trying. As the Twitter thread continued, Roderick detailed his daughter’s efforts and eventually realized that even if she figured out the correct technique, it was possible the can opener might still not work. He wrote, “I’d forgotten how finicky the tool really is, particularly when it comes to the puncture. She had it all lined up! But the cutting wheel is a little wobbly (by design) and you have to really get on top of it to clamp it down. You know the feeling? You can misfire the damn thing!”
But as Roderick wrote, his daughter did finally get the can of baked beans open and triumphantly carried it to the kitchen. Roderick said he congratulated his daughter by “standing perfectly at attention, saluting her effort and ingenuity.”
The Swing-a-Way can opener is a little voodoo doll for us now. It will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life, you can be sure. She knows this too. But this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this.
Roderick wrapped up the Twitter thread by acknowledging that his parenting style could be “infuriating” but that he looked forward to referencing the can opener incident as a metaphor for other lessons in his daughter’s life: “I’m proud of her too. I know I’m infuriating. I know this is parenting theater in some ways. I suffer from a lack of perseverance myself, and like all parents throughout history I’m trying to correct my own mistakes in the way I educate my child. She sees through this. The Swing-a-Way can opener is a little voodoo doll for us now. It will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life, you can be sure. She knows this too. But this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this.”
In the final tweet in the thread, Roderick joked, “The only problem is now she wants to open every f****** can in the house!”
The Can Opener Incident Inspired Social Media Users
Roderick has been known to post remarks on Twitter that can be controversial or read as offensive. The can opener incident has prompted some social media users to share screengrabs of tweets accredited to Roderick dating back to 2012.
For example, @fabricdragon posted screengrabs of tweets Roderick wrote to a fellow podcaster. The tweets included “Would you like me to rape you with my gun?” and “I’m going to rape you the next time I see you. Bad rape, not funny rape.”
Another screengrab shows a response Roderick wrote to a soccer mom who said her children’s team was called “the storm troopers” but that other parents “made us change it because of the Nazis.” Roderick responded, “Jews ruin everybody’s fun.”
@BirdRespecter shared several screengrabs, purported to be from Roderick, that are gaining traction on Twitter. One of the tweets from 2012 appears to have been a commentary on language: “Seriously though, you can say a band is ‘gay’ or a haircut is ‘retarded.’ They are elastic words. N***** is just a slur.”
Roderick also described Adolph Hitler as “entertaining.” In a tweet from 2013, Roderick appeared to be commenting on how the Holocaust could have been avoided if Hitler had been praised earlier in life. “A better plan is to go back in time and really praise Hitler for his part! Buy his paintings! Tell him he’s brilliant!”
Comedian Michael Ian Black is among those coming to Roderick’s defense. Black tweeted Roderick’s old tweets were “obviously jokes, not proof of any abhorrent beliefs.” He added, “I know what it’s like to have Twitter come after you and hold up your jokes as something other than what they are, and I remember that very few people stood up for me, so I’m standing up for John, regardless of his unwillingness to open a can of beans.”