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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1109 - Kathy Valentine

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Kathy Valentine is in one of the most famous and profitable female rock bands ever but she’s really taken to becoming a writer. That's because she’s got a lot of stories to tell. Kathy talks with Marc about her new memoir that chronicles her early life and the peak of The Go-Go’s. She explains why the band fell apart after their period of success and tells Marc how the bandmates recently strengthened their bond with each other. Kathy also compares notes with Marc about finding the gift of forgiveness in sobriety. This episode is sponsored by Ozark, Season 3 on Netflix and The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon on Spotify.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, a new season of Ozark is coming to Netflix on March 27th. This season, the birds are

0:06.5

in deeper than ever before. It's six months later, the casino is up and running, but Marty and Wendy

0:13.1

are fighting for control of the family's destiny. Marty preaches keeping the status quo while Wendy

0:19.6

plots expansion. But when Wendy's brother Ben comes into town, everyone's lives are thrown into chaos.

0:27.0

For the birds, if there's no way out, the only way is all in. Ozark returns to Netflix on March 27th.

0:36.3

Okay, let's do the show.

0:47.6

All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the

0:52.4

fuck? Nareans? How's it going, man? Women, children? You letting your kids listen to this? How's it going?

1:01.6

I, um, I'm okay. The quarantine thing is pretty solid. We're dug in. We're dug in over here.

1:08.9

I've just started saying we, because there's been an issue that we're going to get into in a minute.

1:13.9

Today on the show, I talked to Kathy Valentine, who is a bonafide go-go. A go-go. I talked to a go-go.

1:21.6

And I think people really got to remember just how fucking huge the go-go's were. I mean, they were the first kind of

1:28.8

big-ass mainstream, all-on, full-on rock band. Women. All women. And they were the real deal, man.

1:40.1

I remember, I remember that record. Kathy Valentine, the bass player, who was actually a guitar player

1:48.1

before she went into the go-go. Still plays guitar, obviously. She's written a book called All I Ever Wanted.

1:53.8

It comes out next Tuesday, March 31st. It's good. It rock and roll story. But you know, it's also about

2:02.5

self-realization, about dealing with, you know, one's parents in the past. I mean, it's just, she

2:08.5

lived quite the life because her mom was sort of a free spirit type back in the 70s, late 60s.

2:16.9

Parents were divorced. I don't know. It was good. It's Texas, Austin, Texas. All the makings

2:23.2

of a good memoir. But I'll talk to her about that in a bit. But how are you guys holding up? I mean,

2:31.0

it's becoming pretty clear that there's a movement within the government, within the country that

2:40.4

really thinks that money's the most important thing. And we should all be willing to lose our

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