Episode 1664 - Ari Aster

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

As one of the members of the last generation who grew up without the internet, Ari Aster’s movies all deal with the ways our minds are shaped and influenced by forces outside of ourselves. Ari talks with Marc about how he uses the genre trappings of horror, farcical comedy and the American Western to explore themes of trauma, nostalgia, anxiety and humanity in his films Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid and his latest one, Eddington. They also talk about his poet mom, his jazz drummer dad, and why Albert Brooks is one of his biggest influences.

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0:00.0	Hello again, everyone. This is Jamie from Nearly Parents, which is currently brought to you by Starbucks.
0:05.6	Now, Starbucks means great coffee, of course, but it's also one of the only places that I get to
0:10.4	decompress. Find a bit of time for myself and chat to loved ones about the things that really matter.
0:15.7	It's like a warm, welcoming glow when I step inside my favorite Starbucks. Actually, guys, I tell you what, let me pause on this, and I'm going to head out for a coffee.
0:23.7	So if you like coffee, in a great location, then why not do the same and head down to your local Starbucks for the good stuff?
0:31.9	Lock the game!
0:42.7	All right, let's do this.
0:43.2	How are you?
0:43.9	What the fuckers?
0:45.0	What the fuck buddies?
0:46.0	What the fuck, Knicks?
0:46.6	What's happening?
0:47.7	Where are you at?
0:48.3	How are you feeling?
0:51.2	I am going to talk to Ari Aster today.
0:53.3	He's a film director.
0:58.6	He's the writer and director of hereditary, midsomer, and Bo is Afraid.
1:04.1	His new movie, Eddington, is now in theaters, shot in my home state of New Mexico.
1:06.4	Also, Ari Aster's home state.
1:09.1	Challenging movie, man, but kind of great.
1:20.6	It's kind of great to see a movie that is provocative, challenging, and not seamless in a way, not, you know, the narrative of it, the story of it.
1:27.9	It hinges on a story, but it's what happens on the peripheries of the story and the characters within the story and their sort of sub-stories and psychological character defects and pluses that make it very
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