Episode 1218 - Yo-Yo Ma

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Yo-Yo Ma remembers a moment in his childhood where it all began to make sense. As a seven-year-old prodigy, he was playing cello in front of an audience that included two U.S. Presidents. But it was an act of kindness and respect from the actor Danny Kaye that helped Yo-Yo look at the world in a different way. He also tells Marc how he found the meaning of art and culture in the Kalahari, why he developed a friendship with Mr. Rogers, and why he chose the title “Beginner's Mind” for his new musical narrative project for Audible.

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0:00.0	Lock the gate!
0:09.3	Alright, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies?
0:13.8	What the fuck, Nick? What the fuck areistas?
0:18.0	What's happening? I'm Mark Marren. This is my podcast. I'm just trying to make a lot of extra
0:22.4	mic noise. How's that? Is that good? Is this enough? How about some... Yeah, go creaking? How's that?
0:28.0	Is that good? Brendan, you're getting this? I just want to make sure there's a plenty of extra
0:32.4	mic noise for my producer and for you people to know that I'm active. I'm an active adult. Look at me.
0:38.8	Moving the... Yeah, it's going all over the place up and down.
0:43.0	Active. Is this the wrong time to be doing exercise? Hey, take it easy. It's fucking relax.
0:50.4	We're going to get through this. A few of us are. Most of us are. Maybe. Some of us are. Maybe most
0:57.8	of us aren't. I don't know anymore. Yo-yo Ma is on the show today. Yeah, yo-yo Ma. The cellist,
1:08.4	yo-yo Ma. The world's preeminent cellist. He's also a United Nations messenger of peace.
1:15.7	Talk a little bit about what that means. And he has a kind of memoir out right now. He's
1:20.4	calling it a musical narrative that combines a narrative about his life along with musical
1:25.6	compositions. It's titled Yo-yo Ma Beginner's Mind and It's Unaudible. Okay? Yo-yo Ma.
1:34.8	Prodigy genius. Preeminent cellist. It was weird, you know, what I get in my head about people.
1:45.5	I think I've talked about this before. Approaching an interview. I get an idea in my head about
1:50.6	somebody. I put them in a place in my mind. A pedestal, off a pedestal. I think about their work.
1:58.1	And I think about what they do. I make assumptions about who they are. But it's sort of an interesting
2:03.3	thing happened to me when I was talking to yo-yo Ma. And there's some sort of evolving understanding
2:07.8	I'm getting about. The magic of performers. I don't know if it's a respect it's developing.
2:14.4	It's interesting. I can't quite put my finger on it. But you know, I've been talking to musicians
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