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Mick Fleetwood Crashed An Interview With ‘Dreams’ Skater Nathan Apodaca And It’s Wildly Cute

The most wholesome saga of 2020 continues.

by Jules LeFevre  12 October 2020
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It’s becoming hard to imagine how we lived before we knew @420doggface280. The gliding man known as Nathan Apodaca, who cruised into our life on a skateboard drinking cranberry juice and singing along to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’, has become such a source of joy in 2020 that it’s hard to envision our bleak lives without him.

Last week, Ocean Spray — the cranberry juice brand — even gifted Apodaca a goddamn car filled to the brim with juice to thank him for inadvertently creating the best advert for the juice in history. Mick Fleetwood, founding member and drummer for Fleetwood Mac, jumped on his skateboard to recreate the now iconic video.

The video catapulted Fleetwood Mac back into the charts, and their streaming numbers have exploded over the last week. The album ‘Dreams’ came from, Rumours, returned to the charts for the first time since 2013; it was released in 1977.

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And it just gets better: a couple of days ago, Fleetwood surprised Apodaca by joining in on the call while he was being interviewed by the BBC. After talking generally about the runaway success of the video, the host casually asked “Well how about we ask Mick?”, and lo and behold, Mick appeared.

“One, we owe you,” Fleetwood told Apodaca. “It’s such a celebration of everything. I’ve heard you talking about it, and it’s so joyous and fun…I was just led right into it. People around me were going like, ‘Dad, you’ve got to do this, it’s so cool.’ So we did it, and now here we are, talking.”

“It’s such a great story, and it’s so needed,” he continued. “In days that are really challenging… it makes people smile, and I’m so happy to be part of it. Congratulations on a wild, wild skateboard journey that has led us to talking today…I hope Stevie’s watching. She’s going to be overjoyed.”

Apodaca looked overjoyed at Fleetwood’s appearance, and his daughter even snuck into the shot to wave hello to the drummer. Honestly, it’s just a very, very wholesome moment — and we need more and more of them in 2020.

Watch the interview below.