Episode 812 - AJ Mendez Brooks / Fred Stoller

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

As AJ Lee, she was a larger than life superhero who won the WWE women's wrestling championship three times. But as AJ Mendez Brooks, she spent most of her life coping with mental illness. AJ tells Marc why she decided to open up about her struggles now that she's retired from wrestling. Also, Fred Stoller stops by again, this time with some insecurity over the interviews he did for his new book.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.2	The world is a fucking game!
0:09.3	Alright let's do this.
0:10.7	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking years, what the fuckah delix, what's happening?
0:16.2	I'm Mark Maren, this is my podcast WTF.
0:18.7	Welcome to it.
0:20.0	I'm out in the world.
0:21.5	I'm in Chicago.
0:23.3	A city that every time I come to, I like more and more.
0:27.2	I love this city.
0:28.5	I'm in this room in this hotel looking directly across at this gorgeous old old
0:34.8	apartment, but I don't know.
0:36.4	It's a beautiful old building and I have those moments where I'm like, look at those windows.
0:41.2	I bet your life is better in there.
0:45.0	Probably not.
0:46.0	If you've got an iPhone, if you've got access, you have access to that roller coaster
0:51.4	right in the palm of your hands.
0:53.7	Where do you want to go today?
0:55.1	To hell and back?
0:56.7	You got it.
0:57.7	You don't even have to get out of bed.
0:59.8	I'm working on another episode of Easy, that's Joe Swamberg's anthology series on Netflix.
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