Filling Your Existential Portfolio with Moby

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Ground-breaking musician Moby joins to discuss his sobriety and all that comes with it: humility, serving others, and looking somewhere else beside fame to fill the emptiness inside. His new auto-bio-pic, “Moby Doc,” is in limited release to theaters now. Then, on this week's "With Adorables Like These" Mina Kimes joins with her dog (and podcast co-host) Lenny. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/withfriendslikethese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	Hi, I'm on a merry cox. Welcome to with friends like these. Our guest this week is Moby.
1:12.4	He has been around for a while, and he's known for a few things, including his music and his animal rights activism.
1:20.6	But this interview isn't about any of the things you think you know about him.
1:26.7	This interview is about hitting bottom, getting sober, and what happens when fame isn't enough
1:33.1	to fill the gaping hole inside you. These are all issues that come up in his new autobiographical film,
1:41.1	Mobidock, which is in limited release in theaters. He also has a new album, Reprise, which is made up of
1:47.1	acoustic and orchestral remixes of his own music. I'm going to throw in a content morning,
1:53.3	or discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. But please know, the conversation itself is not dark.
2:01.3	It's pretty hopeful, and it's coming right up.
2:11.9	Moby, welcome to the show. Well, thank you so much for having me.
2:18.1	I saw your movie. I have so many questions. And the first one I want to start with is
2:25.4	you kind of open by saying this isn't going to be just another biopic by some weird musician,
2:30.4	right? So I wonder when you were going into this, what did you want to do differently?
2:38.5	How did you want to make it different? So I had been a documentary judge at the Triedekha Film Festival.
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