Episode 1245 - Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin's love of music led him to help popularize hip-hop, rejuvenate artists' careers, and leave his mark on literally thousands of popular songs. But there was a point in his youth where Rick pu...
19 Jul 20211h 32min
Episode 1244 - Rick Ingraham
Comedian Rick Ingraham is a Comedy Store institution. But he's also the last of a system that was in place going back to the ‘70s, where young comics were baptized and raised in the rites and rituals ...
15 Jul 20211h 31min
Episode 1243 - James Murphy
LCD Soundsystem is one of the hippest, most beloved bands of the early 21st century, but its frontman says he's spent a lifetime being uncool and no fun. James Murphy talks with Marc about the persona...
12 Jul 20211h 34min
Episode 1242 - John Swab
John Swab could have been a real world version of the characters from his films who are casualties of addiction and criminality. But his desire to create art and his natural talents won out and set hi...
8 Jul 20211h 17min
Episode 1241 - Danny Trejo
There are Hollywood tough guys and then there's Danny Trejo. No need to front when you've lived a life of crime, drugs, and prison as explicitly as Danny has. But as his new memoir highlights, Danny w...
5 Jul 20211h 38min
Episode 1240 - Steven Soderbergh
There's a reason Steven Soderbergh's movies are always so unlike whatever movies he's made before. He tells Marc his goal is to take things that have worked in other contexts and turn them into someth...
1 Jul 20211h 7min
Episode 1239 - Quentin Tarantino
The pandemic forced a lot of changes on all of us, but for Quentin Tarantino, he was already undergoing a huge change right as the pandemic started: He became a first-time father. Now with the release...
28 Jun 20211h 26min
Episode 1238 - Erik Griffin
If he hadn't been getting laughs as a high school basketball coach, Erik Griffin may never have gone back to comedy. He tells Marc the story of his comedy beginnings, his self-imposed exile, and his s...
24 Jun 20211h 12min
