Episode 830 - David Remnick

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

David Remnick is a seasoned journalist, an accomplished writer and a proud amateur guitar player. But he's also the gatekeeper of an American institution as editor of The New Yorker. Marc and David talk about the versatility of The New Yorker's content, from poetry to fiction to investigative reporting and more, and how the current political and cultural climates demand our engagement with all aspects of art, literature and information.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.1	["Mumbling Claw music playing"]
0:09.3	All right, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers?
0:12.2	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.3	What the fucking ears?
0:14.8	What the fuck public ends?
0:16.2	What the fuck, crats?
0:18.2	What the fuck, Nicks?
0:20.4	What the fuck areistas?
0:22.7	All right, okay, what's happening?
0:24.3	There's some days where I think, like, am I still doing that?
0:27.6	It's sort of an evolution of a thing.
0:29.5	I used to do back in the day on the radio.
0:33.1	Keeps going, keeps going, keeps holding, you know that you get into these patterns, you
0:38.4	take these forms, you get into these habits, they become a signature thing, and then one
0:43.7	day you hear yourself doing it, and you're like, wow, I'm still doing that.
0:48.0	Am I a recording device?
0:49.9	Well, at Cording William Burrows, yes, that's what the brain is, just a fairly complicated
0:56.0	but primitive, but highly, highly sophisticated recording device.
1:02.4	Series of repetitions that comforts us.
1:05.0	Anyway, let's not get too deep or down some sort of rabbit hole right out of the gate
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