Louis Theroux
speaker
6,783 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4 Aug
Louis Theroux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I see.
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I think we got something here.
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Is it fair to say Beastie Boys were the first white rappers to blow up?
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Why is that?
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You were balking slightly or jibbing at the notion that you became super commercial.
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Nevertheless, you really did, didn't you?
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You became huge, almost to the extent where you got imprisoned by a certain version of yourself, a media depiction, which to begin with, it sounds like you lent into a bit.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the signature anthem, which is still huge.
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I don't know if you feel like you're proud of it, if it dogs you, if you ambivalent or what your feelings are, but fight for your right to party, which was probably my first exposure to your music.
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You know, I watched this Spike Jonze documentary slash live show, filmed live show, where you talk about that.
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And one of the through lines for the film is this idea of
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you maturing and attempting to escape from what became an oppressive label of being this sort of party frat boy band.
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And what I hadn't appreciated was actually partly that original iteration was tongue-in-cheek, like that you were sort of playing up.
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Obviously, I knew it was playing up, but I didn't realize it was almost intended as a satirical take on frat boy culture originally.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then it got blurry.
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I think you even give a quote where you go, we didn't know what was a joke and what wasn't a joke.
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The lines became real blurry.
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Do you want to say anything about how that all gestated?
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