Episode 1246 - Sovereign Syre

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Sovereign Syre and Marc have been friends for several years, sharing career paths in comedy, podcasting and writing. Now, as she ventures for the first time into the fraught process of pitching and selling a television pilot, Sovereign and Marc talk about her life leading up to this moment: Her painfully shy early years, her turbulent home life, her academic exceptionalism, her years lost to drug addiction, her entry into the world of adult entertainment, and the leap of faith she took to exit that world.

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0:40.4	All right let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck
0:45.6	Knicks? What the fuck Topians? What's happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast WTF. Welcome to it.
0:54.2	What's happening? What is happening? Are we okay? How's it going? What time is it? You guys gotta go.
1:02.0	You're gonna hang out for a minute? How much time you got? You got a little bit? I got a my friend
1:07.2	a sovereign sire is on the show today. I've known her for years. She's open for me many times. She's
1:15.6	funny. She's sharp. She's a writer. She's a I don't know how to like it's an interesting conversation
1:21.5	to have because of the way people see porn. Like how do you see porn? You know it's a job.
1:30.5	It's a job and it's a it's a specific type of entertainer. That's what I'd like to think of it
1:36.8	as. It's a very specific type of entertainer. You got to be all in. You know to do that type of
1:42.9	entertaining. But for the last year or so she's been primarily only fansing it. But she's been working
1:50.1	on this pilot and working on this show idea with my old buddy Pete Berg who's been on this show
1:56.2	and they've been fleshing it out and she opened for me a couple of weeks ago at Dynasty Type
2:01.2	writers. So yeah. So this is it. I don't know how you feel about porn. I don't know where you're
2:06.6	you know whether you know how do you frame it man? I personally I was brought up on old school porn.
2:13.6	So I you know I saw it too young. I judged myself against it. I've talked about this before
2:19.6	many times. I don't necessarily think porn is great to see when you're 15. Because then you're
2:25.1	sort of like you know it's you've got a a barometer by which to judge yourself and your sexual
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