Alice Cooper, Part 2 – “Rock’n’Roll Vaudeville” – TWP044
The Well
Anson Mount & Branan Edgens
4.9 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Rock legend Alice Cooper shares a surprising and touching story about one of the most interesting connections ever to come out of Hollywood: his friendship with Groucho Marx; and about how their respective work wasn't all that different.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Anson here. |
| 0:02.1 | Just a quick note to let you know that this episode contains some strong language and adult themes, |
| 0:06.5 | which were kind of hard to cut around this time. |
| 0:08.8 | So we don't have a beeped version for you. |
| 0:11.6 | And that means that if you have children in the room, |
| 0:13.7 | this might not be the episode that you want to listen to right now. |
| 0:17.8 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Music to right now. Okay, here's the show. My show is a rock vaudeville. |
| 0:38.8 | So Groucho would come to see the show, and he'd go, oh, it's vaudeville. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to The Well, I'm Anson Mount. And I am Brandon Etchens. |
| 0:55.1 | And today we're bringing you part two of my interview with the King of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper. |
| 0:59.6 | If you haven't listened to our first part, make sure you go back and listen to that before you listen to this one. |
| 1:05.5 | But, Brandon, as I was interviewing Alice, this interesting little tidbit popped up in the conversation that |
| 1:12.5 | even more than hearing that Alice was a semi-pro golfer this one blew me |
| 1:19.3 | completely sideways and this is maybe the coolest friendship Hollywood |
| 1:26.7 | friendship I've ever heard of in my life because it is so shocking and perfect at the same time. |
| 1:33.1 | And I'm just going to go ahead and play it for you. Here we go. |
| 1:35.8 | What is the craziest round of golf you've ever played? |
| 1:42.2 | I played with Groucho. |
| 1:43.6 | What? |
| 1:44.7 | Groucho was a good friend of mine. |
| 1:46.0 | He played with Groucho Marx? |
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