Are We Good?

You know...

...if you don't listen to what he's saying,

how he says it, is fucking tedious.

See, do we need that in the documentary or we don't?

But it's his craft.

That's what makes him great.

I'm just trying to start trouble.

That's all.

You're gonna destroy me

with this stupid movie

that I let you do that I'm resisting

because you're annoying.

So, like, what's gonna happen is by the end of this,

you're gonna hate me, you're gonna be like, "Fuck him.

I'm gonna post all this nasty shit he said

about everybody on YouTube,

or on my personal Vimeo."

Anyone doing drugs in the '80s anymore?

Okay. I'll hang out with you guys later.

Here we have Marc.

I met Marc in the early '80s.

That's, uh, that's me, of course.

And I was one of a handful of people,

there weren't many, uh, who could tolerate him.

Oh, God. What?

It's not that sick. Is it?

Marc is his own worst enemy,

which is why we enjoy him

because he also acknowledges that.

For 15 years of my life, I used to smoke,

I used to drink, I did drugs.

I used to eat lard right out of a can occasionally.

Please welcome the very funny Marc Maron.

He's probably underrated, to be honest.

But he's not an arena act.

Imagine an arena full of people,

you're just like, "Good night."

Oh.

Good morning.

Marc's having a bad time all day.

Then gets on stage

and completely owns the audience.

I'm a 51-year-old man,

twice divorced, I have no children,

and I live with two cats.

And it's fucking amazing.

Talk about the podcast, it's like a thing.

Well, it's much like this show, only a much smaller production

that takes place in my garage.

It was born out of complete desperation and failure.

Here, I, uh, had these fortune cookies

left over, let's open them.

I got "Good things are coming to you

- in due course of time." - That's great.

Yeah. It's taking a while.

When he started WTF, I think he was pretty broke.

It didn't seem like any--

it just seemed like a waste of time.

Then the president was in my garage.

- What did you wear? - Just a plaid shirt.

- That sounds right. - Yeah.

Apparently, he's very successful.

But when he talks about being an actor, I'm like, "What?"

Luckily, I've never seen anything that he's been on.

Come on!

What do you got? What do you got?

Lock the gates on these fuckheads!

I just thought it'd be good for my act.

For your act? Didn't you hear what happened on the subway?

- Some clown got killed. - What is it like

when you have someone tell you, "I wrote a role just for you"?

Uh, that it might be not that challenging.

Sounds perfect.

Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron, let's hear it.

How are you? Are you guys okay?

Do you have enough toilet paper?

Do you have enough food? Are you self-quarantined?

Probably gonna be shut down another three months.

Nothing's ever gonna be back to normal again.

There's not gonna be any live shows for probably a year.

Lynn figured out how to, um, freeze leafy vegetables

for the long haul.

Um...

it's been a rough few days, man.

The girlfriend's been ill,

cat's not doing great.

But we're getting it done, taking care of it.

Okay. Hey, it's Marc.

I imagine most of you know

that, uh,

that Lynn Shelton died,

um, Saturday morning.

She was my partner, she was my friend,

and I loved her.

And she loved me, and I knew that.

And I don't know that I'd ever felt

what I felt with her before.

I do know, actually, I did not, I have not.

I was definitely a better person

when I was... engaged with her.

I was better in Lynn Shelton's gaze.

Oh. I'm just like having a hard time figuring it out.

I forgot how to do this.

This is the thing I forgot how to do?

Come on, man. Come on, dude.

I mean, what the fuck did it?

Like, I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

I mean, how does this happen now?

Does this happen to everybody? Sure, sure. Okay.

Maybe it does. Maybe it does.

Crapos.

Come on. This piece of shit.

Boom.

Fuck this.

Now I'm all sweaty.

What am I gonna do out there?

What's the plan?

Hey, if we hit one shitty one, what we gonna do? Who cares.

- It doesn't matter. - Do you know?

Better off, right?

Better off to tank it?

Please welcome to the stage, Marc Maron!

You know, within a month of being here in the pandemic,

I'm like, "Uh, maybe I don't need to do stand-up

anymore because I don't fucking miss it."

And that was followed by the thought of like,

"I think I'm all better." So, like...

I don't know. Like, I really don't know--

Like, I feel, like, challenged

to, you know, discuss, you know, grief somehow

because I've been dealing with it

and it's difficult, you know?

I lost, uh, a person I loved

at the beginning of the pandemic.

Uh, you know, three months in, she got a, you know,

weird blood disease that no one knew about,

so like at least she was, you know, an original.

I don't know how to talk about

some of this stuff that I went through.

I don't even know if it's appropriate to do it,

but I'm okay.

Mm.

You know, uh, the weird thing is,

when somebody you love dies, you know, it's horrible.

But what's really going on is like, "I'm gonna die."

So, you know, that's how it goes.

Right?

Um, where am I going with all this?

Yeah. I-- you know, look.

You know, uh,

I know a lot of you, uh, have been here for me

and supported me, and I-- and I appreciate it.

And I-- and I do think I've gotten

a little hard around it,

you know, as this thing evolves

and I can find, uh, some form of, uh, courage

to discuss it in a thorough way.

Um, may-- maybe it'll help people.

But I don't know how to do that quite yet,

so I'm just, uh, going for the laughs.

What?

Did you call me?

Whoa.

I had a dream, man. I had--

Lynn came to me in a dream last night.

It was always-- it's always good to see her.

She's like kind of half laughing

and I just, I grabbed her cheeks

and I held her face right up to mine,

and I said, "I miss you."

And she said, uh--

she walked away towards that door in the kitchen

and she said, um...

and she said, "It's real. It's real."

Anyway...

Do some music for the thing.

All right. Let's do this. Hmm.

How are you, What The Fuckers,

What The Fuck Buddies, What The Fuckniks?

What's happening? I'm Marc Maron,

this is my podcast. Again, thank you

for all the positive feedback

for, uh, our canceled comedy episode.

These anti-woke guys and gals

are just fucking hacks.

Now if they can't get work

or they can't get over on a crowd,

it's because "it's just too controversial," you know?

"Hey, man, I'm not getting work because of what I have to say."

No, probably not.

Maybe you're just not fucking funny.

You're not thinking your own thoughts,

you're a hack.

With an excuse for why you're failing.

Anyway, how's everybody?

Are you struggling with grief, relationships, stress,

or having trouble sleeping?

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