Episode 1137 - John Legend

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

John Legend is a multiplatinum recording artist, a winner of the coveted EGOT, a loving family man and, as Marc found out in this conversation, a tremendously nice guy. The combination of John's talent and his kind disposition is what makes him the type of artist who works with a wide variety of collaborators. John talks about how collaboration defines his professional career, from his first gig working with Lauryn Hill to his new record Bigger Love. He also discusses his marriage to Chrissy Teigen, his work on criminal justice reform and his relationship with Kanye West.

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0:00.0	F**K THE GAME!
0:09.3	Alright, let's do this. How are you with the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck, Nick? What's happening?
0:15.7	I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast.
0:18.9	WTF.
0:20.9	Welcome to it.
0:22.9	What'd you do for the 4th of July? Did you go crazy? It didn't have that.
0:26.6	I don't know where you live, but the vibe out here in the LA area with the fireworks was that
0:34.6	this might be the last 4th of July ever. I don't know what you were feeling, but the urgency, the chaos, the sheer length...
0:44.6	Like generally I go to a 4th of July party, but this year it wasn't so much as a party as it was.
0:51.6	It was just 8 of us up on the hill, same place, my buddy Dan Towson-Gen, 8 of us. Distanced, masked for the most part up on the hill, watching the f**king chaos.
1:05.6	Never seen more fireworks over Highland Park. And if you've been listening to me for years, you know it's a bit of a thing.
1:13.6	But this year was like, this is it, man. This might be the last time we ever fking get to blow this shit up like this. Let's fking do it.
1:23.6	Today on my show on this show, the one you're listening to, I'm going to talk to John Legend.
1:29.6	That guy is the nicest guy in the world. And publicly he's the nicest guy in the world. You see him, you feel better.
1:35.6	It's like seeing some sort of Buddha or like beacon of light. And sure enough, he's kind of like that. Kind of like that.
1:46.6	I enjoy talking to him, maybe he feel better. Cause it's very difficult to sort of just deal with this full on brain f**k of this current moment in history.
1:59.6	It's just relentless, relentless. And it just every, it just feels more and more out of our control because of the mass popularity of stupidity.
2:11.6	And believing in entitlement based fairy tales or dumb dumb Christian eschatology or fascist visions of white monoculture and or just f**k it.
2:26.6	Fk it. Fk it all. I can definitely understand that last one a little and a little bit of the entitlement based fairy tales one.
2:36.6	Fk it. It's just, I can't, I know a couple people that got the bug now. A couple of comics went out and did the work and got the fking virus.
2:50.6	Checking in with them to see how that's going. And I'm sure to say, hey idiot, how you feeling dummy?
2:59.6	I, oh, by the way, I left you hang on, I got the COVID test back on Wednesday night, but too late to put it in the,
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