Episode 1026 - Mavis Staples

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As Mavis Staples turns 80 years old, she continues to perform and record with young musicians and producers across musical genres, just as she’s done her whole life. Mavis talks with Marc about her early years as a gospel singer with her family, the stunned reception they received when they started singing R&B songs, and the life-threatening acts of racial prejudice she encountered in the Jim Crow South. Mavis also details the important moments she shared with her father Pops Staples, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bob Dylan. This episode is sponsored by Starbucks Tripleshot Energy.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks?
0:14.8	What's happening?
0:15.8	This is Mark Marrent.
0:16.8	This is my podcast.
0:19.0	WTF.
0:20.0	I'm still in Burlington, Vermont.
0:22.8	Theoretically, I would have gotten home yesterday if you're listening to this Monday, but I'm
0:26.8	here on Saturday doing this.
0:29.0	I don't know why I've decided to do that time, fuck with time thing with you to tell you
0:34.0	exactly the process, but I think it's kind of interesting.
0:37.1	Like, you know, God forbid, I maybe, you know, all of a sudden this afternoon in Burlington
0:41.4	decide, hey, you know, maybe I'm going to go off the grid.
0:44.9	Maybe I'm going to relapse on alcohol and just live my life in this small park that's
0:50.1	here in Burlington that seems to accommodate people who have given up their life.
0:54.6	Just maybe that'll happen and then you'll have this intro and you'll be listening to it
0:59.0	Monday and think everything's fine.
1:01.2	And then like, where's Mark?
1:03.0	So now you kind of know God forbid, I don't think it's going to happen.
1:06.7	But if I'm not around Thursday, somebody checked the park in Burlington.
1:11.6	It seemed like a comfortable place to kind of casually spend the rest of your life outdoors.
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