Episode 713 - George C. Wolfe / Daniel Nazer

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

George C. Wolfe is a giant of American theater - directing, producing, and writing some of the most important works of the last 25 years. Fresh of seeing George's latest musical, Shuffle Along, Marc finds out what George wants audiences to take from the experience of live theater. Plus, Daniel Nazer from the EFF stops by to update Marc on the fight against the podcast patent troll and what needs to happen next.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.7	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking here is, what the fucking
0:14.1	delix, it's me, Mark Marin.
0:16.6	I host this show, this is WTF The Podcast.
0:19.2	Welcome.
0:20.2	If you're new, as I see some of you are at times, I'm looking around.
0:24.9	Welcome.
0:25.9	There's a lot of, I think, are we officially a rabbit hole yet?
0:29.9	When does WTF become a rabbit hole?
0:33.9	Let's say I am, if you're just getting in, you want to go over to howl.fm and go down
0:41.3	the rabbit hole of the complete archive.
0:46.0	So pretty exciting show today, in my mind, we've got George C. Wolf on the show today, who
0:52.7	is an amazing and important theater producer and director.
0:58.5	I went to see his new show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921
1:04.3	and all that followed, which is based on an old play, Shuffle Along, and that play is
1:11.4	sort of within the play with some of the songs, but it's put into a different context,
1:16.4	it's deconstructed to explore the impact of that play and the careers of the people that
1:21.1	were involved in that play.
1:23.0	And it was pretty fucking phenomenal for me, because there was a lot of history there
1:27.4	than I would not have ever known.
1:29.5	And there was also a lot of explaining and historical context for trends and in dance,
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