Episode 537 - Rivers Cuomo

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is the subject of much rock and roll lore, and Marc wants to get it all on the table. Why did Rivers decide to go to Harvard just as Weezer was taking off? What was he really doing when he dropped off the grid after the failure of Pinkerton? And did he really become celibate? Rivers gives the answers and tells Marc how he feels about the many myths that surround him.

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0:00.0	Lock the gate!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.6	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fuck sticks,
0:14.4	what the fucks to bulls, what the fucking deluxe, what the fuckaholics?
0:18.9	I am Mark Marin, this is WTF Welcome.
0:21.6	Welcome to the show.
0:22.7	I am here, I am a different person now.
0:25.2	I am a 51 year old man.
0:27.9	I am a 51 year old man.
0:30.3	My birthday was on Saturday and you know, I am feeling it.
0:37.2	I don't want to admit that I am feeling it, but I am feeling it a little bit.
0:40.1	I don't know how I am feeling it exactly, but I do know that almost immediately I was
0:45.2	at LA Podfest and some pictures were taken with me and I was looking at the pictures differently.
0:50.8	I was seeing a not a bad looking and not an unfit man, but a middle aged man, a 51 year old
1:00.2	man, something just gave way.
1:01.7	And I always knew this would happen.
1:04.1	It is a matter of perception, but I have to be honest with myself.
1:07.1	You know, there is that moment in a president's career, especially a younger president.
1:13.6	And not, look, I am not comparing myself to the president, I do not have that kind of
1:17.0	responsibility.
1:18.0	I do have a garage to manage and I do have some things to clean up, but I am by no means
1:23.1	comparing my job or task in any way to the president.
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