Episode 738 - Laura Albert & Jeff Feuerzeig

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Whether you know the story of JT LeRoy or not, you certainly haven't heard an episode of WTF like this. First, Marc talks with filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig about documenting the rise and fall of literary phenom JT LeRoy, a celebrated young man who was later revealed to be the creation of Laura Albert. Then Laura joins Marc in the garage to explain what gave birth to her infamous alter ego and to provide some insight into her life.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what the fuck
0:15.2	cras-denators, that was some- that was when someone sent me and it just dropped into my
0:20.0	head.
0:21.0	How's it going?
0:22.0	This is WTF.
0:23.0	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast.
0:25.1	Welcome to it.
0:26.1	I've got a lot of info on this show.
0:30.8	There's a lot of things going on with me.
0:32.1	There's some changes that some people need to know.
0:35.8	I'm not trying to hold you here, but you should probably hang out.
0:40.8	Today on the show, it's a very compelling couple of guests.
0:45.8	We have Jeff Ferzig and Laura Albert.
0:49.6	Now, you probably don't know those two.
0:52.0	Maybe you do.
0:53.0	Jeff made a doc, a while back, I believe called the devil in Daniel Johnston.
0:59.6	That was a great documentary about a very interesting troubled man who made some fairly
1:04.2	amazing music.
1:07.0	He's done another doc on the J.T. La Roy phenomenon.
1:11.8	I don't know if you know about that, but I'll explain it to you more in a minute.
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