Episode 789 - Raoul Peck

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Raoul Peck spent more than a decade putting together the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, a powerful film illuminating the words and life of writer and social critic James Baldwin. But as Marc learns in this conversation, Raoul’s own backstory of living under dictatorships, studying across four continents, and learning how to engage activism through art is just as important in understanding how to respond to the world today.

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0:00.0	F*** the game!
0:01.2	Wish you a success!
0:09.2	Alright let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fucking years? What the fucksters?
0:15.4	How are you?
0:16.9	I'm Mark Marin this is WTF. This is my podcast.
0:22.0	You know it's um
0:25.2	sad
0:26.8	Sad day. As I tell you this, I learned that Bill Paxton, the actor, passed away because
0:40.8	of complications during a surgery. And the guy was just here. He was just here. He was
0:51.1	sitting across from me in the empty chair that I'm looking at right now just a few weeks
0:56.3	ago. It was episode 783. It was just a couple weeks ago. He was right there full of life.
1:08.3	I was so excited to talk to that guy. I didn't know him, but I was sometimes I get very
1:14.0	excited to talk to people in here because I love him. I love his work. I love all his
1:19.9	work. He seemed like an intense, great guy. He was. He was a very gracious, giving lit
1:27.5	up human being over there. Just sitting there. Excited to be here. I was excited to talk
1:32.9	to him. And now he's just he's gone. Life is so fucking fragile. You just don't know what's
1:44.8	going to happen. And it's just it's just it's tragic. But I tell you, I'm glad I had
1:53.0	that time with him. Like so many of the people in here, like all I'm looking for is to
1:59.2	connect with a human being. And that guy was just full on force of nature, human being,
2:07.6	wounded, decent, excited, passionate, talented guy that we all know from all the movies.
2:18.4	Just fucking awful. It's just so sad. But that life is just so horribly surprising sometimes.
2:30.8	And I'm in shock. And I just I barely knew the guy. I had one conversation with him. I
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