Billy Corgan
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In the 30-plus years since Billy Corgan hit it big as the lead singer/songwriter of The Smashing Pumpkins, he’s become many things including the owner of the National Wrestling Alliance, a father and a husband, and an outspoken advocate of free speech through appearances on divisive podcasts hosted by Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and Bill Maher.
Proving to be both eloquent and controversial, Billy is now hosting his own long form interview podcast called "The Magnificent Others" where he interviews music industry heavyweights like Tom Morello, Sharon Osbourne, and Gene Simmons.
On today’s episode Leah Rose talks to Billy Corgan about his approach to interviewing, why he rejected the alternative-music ethos in the 90s, and the subset of his fanbase that he calls “Siamese zombies.”
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | In the 30-plus years since Billy Corrigan hit it big as the lead singer-songwriter of the Smashing Pumpkins, |
| 0:16.0 | he's become many things, the owner of the National Wrestling Alliance, NWA, a father and a husband, |
| 0:22.6 | and an outspoken advocate of free speech through appearances on divisive podcasts hosted by |
| 0:27.4 | Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and Bill Maher. Proving to be both eloquent and controversial, |
| 0:33.4 | Corrigan is now hosting his own long-form interview podcast called The Magnificent Others, |
| 0:37.8 | where he interviews music industry heavyweights like Tom Morello, Sharon Osborne, and Gene Simmons. |
| 0:43.7 | On today's episode, Leah Rose talks to Billy Corrigan about his approach to interviewing, |
| 0:47.6 | why he rejected the alternative music ethos in the 90s, and the subset of his fan base that he calls |
| 0:53.0 | Siamese zombies. |
| 0:57.5 | This is Broken Record, real musicians, real conversations. |
| 1:06.9 | Here's Leah Rose with Billy Corrigan. |
| 1:09.3 | You can see the full video of this interview on our YouTube page, |
| 1:12.5 | YouTube.com slash broken record podcast. |
| 1:16.1 | So I was thinking about this. |
| 1:17.7 | This is actually a really exciting time to talk to you because I'm super interested |
| 1:23.1 | about your approach to your podcast. |
| 1:26.7 | And it's especially interesting for me because this is actually |
| 1:30.8 | something I can relate to. And, you know, I feel like when I talk to musicians, I find what they |
| 1:37.7 | do absolutely extraordinary because I cannot do any of it. But this I can sort of like, you know, |
| 1:46.9 | sort of understand how you might be feeling around these things. So I'm really curious about your approach to interviewing, because |
| 1:51.4 | you've been interviewed for over 30 years now. So when you decided to take on this project, |
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