Episode 1127 - G.E. Smith
G.E. Smith started playing guitar when he was four. As he grew up, he liked The Beatles fine but it was really the Kinks and the Stones that grabbed him. Cut to many years later and G.E.’s had the opp...
3 Jun 20201h 9min
Episode 1126 - Jeffrey Wright
Film and television production is on hold, but Jeffrey Wright is using the time to focus on his community. Jeffrey tells Marc how his attempt to help out a friend led him to a Brooklyn-wide effort to ...
1 Jun 20201h 18min
Episode 1125 - Kenya Barris
Kenya Barris retreated from the abusive situation in his childhood home by listening to party records and reading comic books. Those early influences shaped his understanding of who he is and prompted...
28 Mai 20201h 28min
Episode 1124 - Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee says there was a point in her teenage years when she was clearly headed toward a life of crime. Thankfully, that was also the point when she realized she was being an a-hole and things ne...
25 Mai 20201h 13min
Remembering Fred Willard
Marc revisits his 2012 conversation with comedic actor Fred Willard, in which they discuss Fred’s career in improv-heavy films and beloved television projects. Fred passed away at age 86 on May 15, 20...
21 Mai 20201h 12min
Remembering Lynn Shelton
Marc pays tribute to his creative collaborator and romantic partner Lynn Shelton, who passed away at age 54 on May 16, 2020. This episode includes her August 2015 interview on WTF. Hosted on Acast. Se...
18 Mai 20201h 33min
Episode 1123 - Eliza Hittman / Dan Savage
Filmmaker Eliza Hittman talks with Marc about telling the stories of teenagers in ways that feel like the lived experiences of actual teenagers. That’s partly achieved by the naturalistic performances...
14 Mai 20201h 26min
Episode 1122 - Cate Blanchett
Conventional wisdom holds that Cate Blanchett is one of the world’s greatest living performers, but one person who disagrees with that is Cate Blanchett, who thinks she’s pretty terrible most of the t...
11 Mai 20201h 22min
