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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 831 - Randy Newman

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Marc believes - and many agree with him - that Randy Newman is an American genius. One person who's not so sure is Randy himself who, after half a century as a recording artist, 13 solo albums, 23 soundtracks, six Grammys, two Oscars and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tells Marc he still doesn't think he's done enough. They talk about Randy's early albums, his struggles with songwriting, his film scores, his latest album Dark Matter and his legacy in American music.

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0:00.0

Fuck the game!

0:01.2

Fuck the game!

0:09.4

Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuckin' ears, what the fuckin' ruse!

0:16.6

Uh, what the fuck good, Delix, what's happening on Mark Marin, this is my podcast WTF.

0:22.8

Thank you for uh, for tuning in, for making the choice.

0:26.9

for hanging out with me and my mind and my guests and my mouth and my weird

0:33.3

lisp and the moving loss in my mouth on occasion. I gotta get off them again.

0:40.0

I think my body is turned on them. So it's not having the same effect anymore.

0:45.0

Randy Newman is on the show today and I can't tell you what a honor it was for

0:50.1

me to have him in here because I love him. I love his work.

0:55.6

I've always liked him as a person when I was a kid. Obviously I don't know him.

1:00.3

I didn't have never met him before but but he was one of the first guys that

1:05.7

really blew my mind when I was turned on to his music by a kid I used to write a bus

1:09.3

with and I think I had the first records I had were good old boys and sail away.

1:13.7

And I was must've been in junior high and I was just sort of like, man,

1:18.3

this stuff is beautiful. It's poignant. It's cutting. It's funny. It's I just I loved him.

1:24.6

And I always have loved him. And he used to appear on Letterman. He was hilarious.

1:29.9

And I just tell you that for years I've been trying to get him on this show and you're

1:33.7

going to hear it today. And I think I managed the fanboyness.

1:38.1

This was not a, you know, an all out fanboy interview I was engaged and interested

1:44.0

and you know, and it wasn't just me, you know, being beside myself.

1:49.2

Yeah, man, I'm all right. I'm out there. I'm doing the comedy. I'm doing the new stuff.

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