Alice Cooper, Part 1 – “Shock Golfer” – TWP043

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Most people know Alice Cooper as the original Shock Rocker and a foundational pillar in the house of Metal. But few know that his journey into sobriety involved replacing one addiction with a new and more healthy one: golf. At 71 years of age, having played more courses than almost anyone alive, Cooper still plays 6 days a week and once even considered going pro. Join Anson as he picks the decapitated brain of Alice Cooper.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Well, I'm Anson Mount.
0:24.8	I am Brandon Edgians.
0:26.0	And Brandon, you just got back from New Orleans, huh?
0:29.4	Oh, yeah.
0:29.9	Oh, yeah.
0:30.5	Yeah, one of our favorite places.
0:33.5	How could it not be everyone's favorite place?
0:35.7	It's Lucifer's favorite town, they say.
0:38.4	Say no more.
0:39.7	Say no more.
0:40.6	Which I find to be kind of a sad idea in a way that it took him so long to find his favorite city.
0:49.0	You know, like Babylon wasn't good enough.
0:51.6	He's already had a tough time.
0:53.6	You know, being thrown out of heaven.
0:56.0	I mean, he's had a hard life.
0:57.9	Well, as you know, this last weekend, I was at the Philadelphia Comic-Con.
1:02.4	And I have to say, it was a lovely, lovely experience all the way around.
1:07.2	And the best thing about these conventions I've learned is getting to have the
1:11.3	one-on-one experiences with the fans. But a really close second to this is the opportunity to
1:17.2	rediscover your own fandom, your own childhood. So it's Saturday afternoon at the convention.
1:25.3	And a lot of the people there are on lunch break. And I'm sitting at a
1:28.4	coffee table checking my emails when I hear someone on the other end of the table mention my
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