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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Marilu Henner | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Chicago meets Chicago as Billy Corgan sits down with Marilu Henner to unpack her highly superior autobiographical memory (H.S.A.M.) that can turn a Tuesday from 1972 into a living scene and why her story is bigger than a party trick. From her Logan Square roots (beauty shop in the kitchen, dance school in the backyard), the champions who changed her path, Taxi’s 112 episodes, 112 Friday parties, open-door table reads, and Andy Kaufman’s singular orbit. The pair connect feeling to art including the rain-slick Chicago moment that helped spark “1979.” Old Hollywood drifts through, the Andrews Sisters’ precision harmonies and Burt Reynolds’ desert circus in Cannonball Run II before the conversation lands on health, longevity, and service. Subscribe to the Magnificent Others YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BillyCorganTMO?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Took measurements, 300 measurements of my brain and found nine areas ten times larger than the normal brain.

0:06.0

What's unfortunate is in watching some recent interviews with you,

0:10.0

I feel like they're not really getting at your story as much as they're getting it's sort of your gift.

0:14.0

One of the theories I have is always that you don't become a success in this business

0:18.0

until someone champions you or falls in love with you.

0:20.9

And I don't mean romantic love.

0:22.4

Just believes in you.

0:23.3

Yeah.

0:23.9

And like Jim Jacobs, he's the one who pushed me in the direction of Greece.

0:28.6

Wow.

0:29.4

And 112 parties.

0:31.5

We had a taxi party every single Friday.

0:34.7

We were the cool kids on the Paramount campus.

0:37.5

You're talking like a rockster. This is how we talk.

0:41.8

So, here we are. Here we are. Both Chicago.

0:46.3

Amazing. In the land of dreams here in Los Angeles. You don't get to meet that many Chicago people.

0:50.8

Well, not many people get out of Chicago, but we'll get to that. And there's a reason why most people don't get out of Chicago. We'll get to that too. Okay. So April 6, 1952? Yes. Babies born in the Year of the Dragon are considered to be the luckiest and destined for the most success in life and are ambitious, confident, and have a strong sense of justice and fairness.

1:12.9

Well, that describes me to a seat. Does it? You know, I don't know. I'm asking you.

1:17.4

You know, it's funny. It's my uncle lived, I lived in Logan Square in Chicago, right on Logan Boulevard.

1:22.5

And we had a dancing school in our backyard and a beauty shop in our kitchen. And my uncle was the neighborhood

1:27.8

not only astrologist, but he also taught art at the Catholic grammar school next door. So we were

1:32.7

big on astrology. So I didn't even know about the dragon. I just knew that I was in Ares and all my

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