The Best Interview I Ever Had

Marc Raco
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Compelling, hilarious, and revealing conversations with then people you want to hear from, and those you didn’t even know you needed to hear from. Podcaster, comedian, entertainer, and entrepreneur Marc Raco makes sure every interview is the best one, to inspire, to entertain, and to inform you.

Episodes

  1. Klarity - Big Influence, Bigger Moment, Biggest Inspiration

    10/09/2023 · BONUS

    Klarity - Big Influence, Bigger Moment, Biggest Inspiration

    One of the most incredible interviews was with Klarity (@klarity — a.k.a. Greg Davis Jr.), He's a comedian, actor, producer, entrepreneur, and global social media powerhouse. In this must-hear 2018 interview, with Marc Raco and then cohost Danielle Beckmann in front of a live audience, Klarity bears it all: why I Love Lucy and The Power Rangers both influenced him so much, how he found his true calling, the riveting movie-moment-like, near-death  event that transformed his life trajectory, and the touching reason why his mom is his biggest inspiration as a performer.

    19 min
  2. Comedian Shaun Latham - Whatever It Takes to Be a Success

    10/04/2023 · BONUS

    Comedian Shaun Latham - Whatever It Takes to Be a Success

    What’s the most important ingredient in the recipe to making it as an entertainer, aside from talent? How do you grow as a comedian from simply telling jokes to having your comedy develop into an extension of your real self? What are you willing to do to succeed? No joking around, these are all questions answered by popular comedian, actor, and at the time of this 2019 interview, host of the former Barstool Sports show "20 Dollar Chef", Shaun Latham.  Shaun’s humility, appetite for learning and growth, his grounded nature, and appreciation for his journey and success so far, are all unmistakable

    10 min
  3. Character Actor Alysia Reiner - Playing an Iconic Character on a Hit TV Show

    09/22/2023 · BONUS

    Character Actor Alysia Reiner - Playing an Iconic Character on a Hit TV Show

    If you ever watched the pop culture phenomenon show "Orange Is the New Black" which ran for seven seasons on Netflix, you will remember the very colorful antagonist and later anti-hero character called Fig -  who transforms from executive secretary to prison warden. Fig was expertly played by actor Alysia Reiner. who has appeared in many other movies and shows, including the film "Egg", which she both produced and starred in. While in the final season of OITNB, she opened up about what Fig means to her, the difference between playing a bad person and being one, what it means to be a character actor, how this character in such an iconic show has impacted her daughter’s future, and how she was able to find the character of Fig, so different from her true self, again and again when she returned for each new season of filming. It’s a special look behind the curtain of when a successful actor plays an iconic character on a hit TV show.

    21 min
  4. Angie Kardashian - Why The Good Kardashian Cooked for 103 Firehouses After 9-11

    07/25/2023 · BONUS

    Angie Kardashian - Why The Good Kardashian Cooked for 103 Firehouses After 9-11

    She’s known as “The Good Kardashian.”  To know Angie Kardashian is to love her, to appreciate her, to admire her. And she’s earned it, as this incredible story reveals. Angie was in the wing of the Pentagon 1 month before it was destroyed in the 9/11 attack, being honored for her community support of the Marine Corps. She was in the Twin Towers days afterwards.  Angie was determined to do something to help in the wake of 9/11. She sold her successful restaurant, flew across the country to New York City, and spent the next two years cooking meals, feeding, and entertaining thousand of firefighters in over 100 firehouses, almost entirely at her own expense. When she ran out of money, she got a job, so she could keep being there for those first responders. When she finally went home, she became a flight attendant, and has become one of the most popular in Jet Blue’s fleet, with more than 10,000 personal contacts. And after all that selflessness, and sacrifice of career  and fortune, her one goal if money was no object is remarkable. In this 2013 interview with Marc Raco, Angie's commitment to helping others brings her to tears, and her extraordinary story might do the same for you.

    24 min
  5. Katsura Sunshine - Rakugo and the Universal Appeal of Traditional Japanese Storytelling

    07/17/2023 · BONUS

    Katsura Sunshine - Rakugo and the Universal Appeal of Traditional Japanese Storytelling

    Rakugo is the Japanese art of comic storytelling with stories that have been passed down from Master to Apprentice. This art form has 800 current masters, but what makes Katsura Sunshine special, at the time of this 2020 interview,  is his standing as the only non-Japanese master. In this excerpt, the Canadian traditional Japanese Rakugo comic storyteller, theatre producer, and television personality who has performed Rakugo on Broadway and in London's West End, shares why Rakugo works with universal audiences, the fastest Rakogo story you’ll ever hear, reveals why he always gets compared to Vaudeville performers, and how a complicated set of rules keep the art form both easy to understand for the audience - and funny.

    7 min
  6. 2X Grammy Winner Lucy Kalantari - Sounds Like I'm Not an Imposter

    07/10/2023 · BONUS

    2X Grammy Winner Lucy Kalantari - Sounds Like I'm Not an Imposter

    What if you’re a musician, and you just won the biggest award that the world can offer: a Grammy Award? What would this mean to you? Would you feel validated? Would you wonder what you could possibly do to top this? Would you second-guess yourself whether your work was really worthy of this honor? Singer and songwriter Lucy Kalantari, whose artistry and producing work in music for children has led to two Grammy Awards, kept it very raw and real in her 2019 interview with Marc Raco and then cohost Danielle Beckmann. Lucy shared a rare behind the scenes look into what it means to be recognized as an artist at this level, including her reaction to her first nomination, why the response of her community mattered so much, why she had to re-listen to her album after her nomination, dealing with imposter syndrome, and what winning has meant to her as an artist.

    12 min
  7. Actor Ato Essandoh - Blaming Martin Scorsese for the Greatest Thing That Ever Happened

    07/03/2023 · BONUS

    Actor Ato Essandoh - Blaming Martin Scorsese for the Greatest Thing That Ever Happened

    What’s it like to work with the iconic director Martin Scorsese? Just ask big-deal actor Ato Essandoh. You’ve seen him most recently with a recurring role in the hit series The Diplomat, as well as Chicago Med, Altered Carbon, Away, The Code, and even X-Men Dark Phoenix, among many other notable roles. In Marc Raco's 2020 interview with Ato, he shared a mesmerizing story  about one of his most memorable moments from many film and television productions, when he was, against all odds, being directed by Martin Scorsese in the TV series Vinyl, set in the 1970s (completely under the impression he had been cast only because the real guy wasn’t available). And, Ato says, it was the single greatest thing that ever happened to him.

    13 min
  8. That Eric Alper - Starstruck, Funny, and Keeping It Fresh in The Music Biz

    06/27/2023 · BONUS

    That Eric Alper - Starstruck, Funny, and Keeping It Fresh in The Music Biz

    Eric Alper is a Canadian Freelance Music Publicist, SiriusXM Host, and self-named Shameless Idealist with a loyal Twitter fanbase. In Marc Raco's 2020 interview with Eric, he revealed what inspired him about the music business and who left him star-struck, how talent keeps it fresh when they get the same questions again and again, and how humor intersects with the work he does.

    8 min
  9. Judy Gold - Why Comedy Must Not Have Rules

    06/27/2023 · BONUS

    Judy Gold - Why Comedy Must Not Have Rules

    Comedian, writer, producer, author, podcaster, and actor Judy Gold holds nothing back about challenges for stand-up comedy in today's politically correct, and political, climate. In this explicit excerpt from her 2020 interview with Marc Raco, she ferociously rallies for freedom of ideas on comedy.

    8 min
  10. Trailer

    SEASON 1 TRAILER

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    Every conversation brings the listener the most meaningful and valuable look inside the most important stories a guest can share. Sometimes it’s simply all about truly listening, and sometimes it’s about asking questions no one has ever asked before. With one hope: that the guest will find that every interview "is the best interview I ever had" -- and so will you.

    2 min

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Compelling, hilarious, and revealing conversations with then people you want to hear from, and those you didn’t even know you needed to hear from. Podcaster, comedian, entertainer, and entrepreneur Marc Raco makes sure every interview is the best one, to inspire, to entertain, and to inform you.

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