196: Moby | What to Do When Success Makes You Miserable
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Moby (@thelittleidiot) is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, animal rights activist, and author of Then It Fell Apart.
What We Discuss with Moby:- How Moby's illustrious heritage made it imperative for him to write his own memoirs instead of passing the job off to a ghostwriter.
- Why, in his early fifties, Moby has not one but two memoirs under his belt.
- What it was like to grow up as a latchkey kid, impoverished and on food stamps, in the wealthiest city in the United States.
- Why Moby "was so happy" during the time he lived in an abandoned factory on the crack-infested side of Stamford, Connecticut.
- How Moby felt at the realization that he was making more for an hour-long performance than his New York City executive grandfather had made in a year.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger and as always I'm here with my producer Jason to Philipo |
| 0:04.6 | I'm very excited about today's guest love him or hate him |
| 0:08.2 | He's been one of the most defining forces of music especially dance music as it moves into the mainstream from the 90s all the way through today |
| 0:16.4 | He's co-written and produced and created music with David Bowie Billy idle daft punk Brittany Spears new order public enemy |
| 0:22.8 | Yoko friggin Ono guns and roses |
| 0:25.5 | Metallica sound garden even Michael Jackson |
| 0:28.0 | Among others today |
| 0:30.1 | Moby is in the studio |
| 0:32.1 | Actually, I'm in his studio and if you're watching us on YouTube |
| 0:35.0 | You'll see us sitting right in front of his mixing desk and Moby's story is just nuts |
| 0:39.2 | He went from lonely only child to a massive mega star during a time |
| 0:44.0 | He actually thought his career was in decline and wrapping up and his descent into fame and debauchery read something like a motley crew bio |
| 0:51.3 | Or something we'll start early on |
| 0:53.3 | Towards the top of the rabbit hole today and here how he got his first job in music the worst show he's ever done |
| 0:59.6 | dealing with a lifetime of |
| 1:01.6 | debilitating anxiety even as an a list performer as well as how he dealt with being super poor and on food stamps to now being a super wealthy |
| 1:09.1 | Celebrity spoiler alert. He did not do so well with that which makes for some entertaining stories here on the show today |
| 1:14.8 | This is one of my favorite episodes of the show lately |
| 1:17.2 | So I really hope that you enjoy it and I got this amazing guest by networking my little booty off |
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| 1:27.0 | Jordan Harbinger comm slash courses where I'm teaching you how to reach out to people and build maintain relationships |
| 1:32.7 | So go grab that in the meantime enjoy this episode here with Moby when you get to a level like where you are |
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