Maroons are the descendents of escaped slaves.
Maroon's been a band since eighth grade.
Marooned in Realtime is a perfect example of writing around the edges of it.
"Marooned on an island." Lexi: And I like just going with the dramatic.
Maroons who were um self- liberated slaves in Jamaica who joined the British Army and who brought to sarian to make
Marc Maron went from being like, you know, Mark Maron-- who was no slouch doing stand up-- but all of a sudden,
Then Marooned in Realtime was, came out, a couple of years after that.
I was humming "Dum Maro Dum" for ages.
And they're Maronite, so it's one way of cooking.
And they got marooned on the South China Sea.
You've been with Maroon 5 for a long time.
You probably know Maron.
So these Maroons, were the people who would come down from the mountains.
And the Maroons said, OK, we promise.
They sort of became marooned in that part of Greenland.
In the case of Marooned in Realtime, it takes place 50 million years from now.
Gretchen: Red maroon. Male audience member: Is that a thing against HBS?
mean Joel marowitz talks about ruin and I think that's a big piece of this too is that we need the ruin as well as
How many people know what Maroons are in the northeast Amazon?
I don't know-- blink-182 and Maroon 5, you know what I mean?
But when he called about the Maroon 5 thing, I was like, well, this is different.
And it might have been like Mark Maron and Jim Norton.
always serve them with either marona almonds or dates or Quint paste and that was basically it and those three
Now understand but um Mark Maron was doing it so we thought hey we'll give it a shot sure yeah actually we we had our
So the two most famous Maroons who you would be familiar with, are probably Bob Marley, and Marcus Garvey.
So they're sort of marooned along Cooper's Creek for their lack of ability to find water in the desert.
And the troops were just effectively marooned in a sea of people, and they had to withdraw and they went back to their barracks.
We're not actually gonna talk about Marooned in Realtime unless you'd like to.
And the fun thing about writing Marooned in Realtime is, I have a small number of humans who essentially have using that spherical thing you see there.
I like to call that red maroon.
prior gaming experience some research by J marolas and Alan Fischer um in the
mistake to let's say hurt the Maronite Christian uh uh
Y compris quand elle était malade à Casablanca au Maroc.
And then on the next island they had a guy marooned with an unlimited library for five years-- I'm not suggesting this as an experiment.
Hodgman um listen to mainly comedy shows I like Mark Maron show a lot um I listen
Go ahead. Vernor: about Marooned in Realtime.
Tangerine Dream, Giorgio Maroter, Evangelist, Bladerunner soundtrack. Like all the influences sonically were coming
We have plenty of that at HBS >>Lexi: So maroon also has multiple meanings.
and the little vericated eggplant as well and then you get maroon okra and if you had okra everyday or kohlrabi greens, I'm not sure, has anybody cooked kohlrabi greens?
And we were actually able to find the first campsite established by the first Maroon when he escaped from slavery.
Also, you're touring with Maroon 5 currently.
How do you feel about doing your solo thing and also the Maroon 5 both at the same time basically?
You might not know that he's actually responsible for hits like "Sugar" by Maroon 5 and "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber, as well.
But you'll notice that there's a big forest here called Marojejy.
So you have a chemist and a physicist and a economist who are marooned on a desert island.
And I have to confess, Jerry Marotta, who played on "So," drums as well, I met once-- I used to play in a band.
I feel like comedians have gone the other way between like Louis CK and Marc Maron and Maria Bamford, and even in the movie realm like Judd Apatow, where its become more personal
Now. I've put up the cover of Marooned in Realtime.
I have something very important that I wanna show you." And they popped into his maroon Bentley and drove out of London into this kind of warehouse
And on the right, you see Ken with a Matawai Maroon woman teaching her to make her own map of her own tribal lands.