Mark Laita

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859 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Mark Laita - Soft White Underbelly | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 14 May 2025 podcast

I just like, it's so dark and so grim.

I just didn't think an interview of a pimp would be anything, but that one got 100,000 views and I didn't look and then I looked like a year later and it had 100,000 views.

I'm like, I should do more of these.

So then when I started selling the house, or started building the house, I got serious about it and just started shooting every day.

You shot how many videos at this point?

I've done like over 8,000 in five and a half years.

When I was a teenager, just getting into photography, I was fascinated.

We grew up in Chicago.

I'm sure you were downtown all the time like I was.

Oh, yeah.

So you'd go downtown.

You wouldn't see this in the suburbs, but downtown you'd see, at the time, this is 70s, mid-70s, late-70s, you'd see these alcoholics on the street sitting on a bus.

Cardboard.

Yeah, just sitting on whatever with their paper bag with alcohol on it.

And I'm like, what?

Like, I didn't grow up like that.

I didn't grow up like the childhood you had.

I had really solid parents for the most part.

My dad was a little rough at times.

But I'd see that and like, that's fascinating to me.

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