Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. But there's part of him that would be fine with it all going away. Marc and Ta-Nehisi talk about the impulse to pull back when things start to get good, the burden of being treated as a representative for a larger community, and the reason Ta-Nehisi finds Black Panther so relatable. They also discuss two of Ta-Nehisi's biggest influences: James Baldwin and David Carr.

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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 fucking ears, what the fuck
0:14.8	adelix, what's happening?
0:16.8	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast.
0:19.4	Welcome to it.
0:20.4	It's called WTF.
0:21.7	Have you been here before?
0:23.2	Welcome back.
0:24.2	How's the new year going?
0:25.6	What day is it?
0:26.8	Day four of the new year?
0:29.9	Two days in and the guy who is in charge of planet maintenance just tweets out that he's
0:42.5	got a bigger nuclear dick than the Korean guy.
0:47.2	Two days in.
0:48.5	What a fucking colossal, global embarrassment we're living through.
0:55.3	Make America great again.
0:56.9	How about make America irrelevant and sadly dumb again?
1:02.7	Oh my god.
1:05.3	Happy new year.
1:06.3	I hope you're doing okay.
1:08.6	Four days in.
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