BONUS The Friday Show - Special Edition: The Marc's Special Special
Guest:podcasts have helped standups in getting the audience to understand what they do.
Guest:Like, you know, he said he used to come out there with notes and like get resistance to it.
Guest:You know, he'd walk out there with like his note pen and people are like, the fuck is this guy?
Guest:Is he not prepared?
Guest:It's shit, you know?
Guest:And now it's like people get it.
Guest:They're like, oh, that's his stuff.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Hey, Chris.
Guest:Hey, Brendan.
Guest:Did you pick your name up yet?
Guest:Because it had been dropped.
Marc:Oh, wow.
Marc:We're going to be talking about this.
Marc:All right, sure.
Guest:So, I feel like I have to set this up very specifically because, you know, I was at Mark's taping of his HBO special, and we could talk all about that, all the details, but I do think, I feel like the highlight...
Guest:the highlight was between the first and second shows.
Guest:I went, I was in like the, the, the, the back of the theater.
Guest:I was kind of watching from the wings.
Guest:And when it ended, I went out front of the theater because I, I knew people who were there.
Guest:I wanted to see them as they were leaving.
Guest:And
Guest:I knew that, you know, I'd go in and talk to Mark in between.
Guest:I also knew that I'd have a chance to, you know, be there when he comes off stage for the second show.
Guest:You know, I didn't have to do that twice.
Guest:So I was like, it's all right.
Guest:I can talk to people I know here and then head backstage.
Guest:So I did that and went backstage.
Guest:By the time I got backstage, Mark was already there with guests.
Yeah.
Guest:OK, I come up behind him.
Guest:I see he's talking to people.
Guest:And I noticed I obviously unmistakably one of those people was David Byrne from Talking Heads.
Guest:And what I realized, though, knowing that David Byrne was there, I knew that somewhere in the vicinity was our listener, Darcy.
Guest:I know that Darcy wrote to us and said, I am friends with David Byrne and I'm going to be going to the show.
Guest:So I went up right behind Mark, only saw David Byrne, didn't see anybody else.
Guest:And I, you know, kind of tapped Mark on the shoulder, was like, hey, great job.
Guest:And he was like, oh, look, it's Brendan.
Guest:And he turned around and there in like the doorway was a woman who was identified as Darcy.
Guest:And now, interestingly, I didn't realize this, you know, as she's been writing into us, but I've met Darcy before.
Guest:She's from the Bay area.
Guest:And I met her when Mark and I did our book tour with,
Guest:We did a book event at, uh, the Alamo draft house in San Francisco.
Guest:Oh, wow.
Guest:And, and Darcy was there as part of lit quake.
Guest:So, so we had met before she said, I no longer looked like, uh, a young boy, uh,
Guest:probably because of all my gray hair, which I probably did not have six years ago, seven years ago, whenever that was.
Guest:And so that was a, you know, immediate, immediate impression.
Guest:But I was thrilled to meet a fan of this Friday show.
Guest:And I will say, I, I didn't do this intentionally.
Guest:I wasn't like being, I wasn't being dismissive or, or impolite, but I, I said hi to David Byrne, but then I wanted to talk to Darcy.
Guest:I did not really, I mean, I look, I love David Byrne.
Guest:He means a lot as an artist to the world, but I didn't have much to say to him.
Guest:I don't personally know the man.
Guest:So I was interested in talking to someone who communicated with us.
Guest:And so Darcy and I were talking, we're talking about this Friday show.
Guest:And she said, she really likes listening to it.
Guest:And she says, you guys are so great.
Guest:Chris is so great.
Guest:Chris Lopresto.
Guest:And then she says to David Byrne,
Guest:He and his friend, Chris Lopresto, who's your full name again.
Guest:This is crazy.
Guest:They do a show on the bonus feed.
Guest:And then Mark is like, ah, Chris.
Guest:Chris is a great guy.
Guest:Salt of the earth guy, that Chris.
Guest:Yeah, Chris.
Guest:And all I could think, I'm standing there, I'm like, wow, David Byrne is hearing a lot about Chris Lopresto right now.
Yeah.
Guest:So, yes, I mean, I don't know how much it sank in with him, but I don't know.
Guest:Maybe he's a new subscriber.
Guest:Maybe right now David Byrne is listening to this and he knows that you are the one that was given so much praise in front of him the other night.
Guest:But I will say it was a thrill meeting Darcy.
Guest:It's a it's a it is frankly I said this mentioned this to her.
Guest:I still am kind of like perplexed that people listen to this.
Guest:So it's even funnier when you meet people and they like have a relationship with it.
Guest:They're like, oh yeah, listen to that every Friday.
Guest:That's really weird and great to me.
Guest:Do not intend that.
Guest:So super cool and great to meet you, Darcy.
Guest:And I'm also very happy that you talked up Chris to your friend, David.
Guest:And I hope you both enjoyed the show.
Marc:Can I just say...
Marc:I woke up on Sunday to your text saying you were talked about by name to David Byrne.
Marc:And that was the first thing I saw after I woke up in the morning.
Marc:I took off my hair.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:And I was I was just like, what?
Marc:Exclamation point.
Marc:And you just reiterated this story.
Marc:And can I just say, Darcy, who is, I'm just assuming she is a beautiful person inside and out.
Marc:And thank you so much.
Marc:I can't believe that she actually said the words, oh, I love Chris.
Marc:But what really stuck out to me was Marc Maron behind my back saying,
Marc:saying Chris is a great guy.
Marc:I mean, I don't know.
Marc:I don't think of myself as a great guy.
Marc:Yeah, we're trying to fix that here, buddy.
Marc:I know, but the idea that...
Marc:Like, unprovoked, without me being there.
Marc:Like, someone said that about me.
Marc:Even Darcy, who says that she loves me.
Marc:Like, it brought a tear to my eye.
Marc:It was emotional.
Marc:Like, that is...
Marc:Unbelievable and a great way to start a Sunday.
Guest:I'll just say that.
Guest:It also lets me know that, you know, not just you, but probably everyone in this world should hear more often the nice things said about them.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:like you saying, like, I can't believe anyone would say that.
Guest:That's all I ever hear when you're brought up.
Guest:I've never, ever once in my life heard your name brought up and people be like that fucking guy, you know, it's like, it's always like, Oh, Chris, he's the nicest guys.
Guest:And you have no, you have no regard of that.
Guest:You don't, you, you don't see that in yourself at all.
Guest:So it's like, it's definitely one of those things, man, people should see that more often.
Guest:I remember when I turned 40,
Guest:I had a birthday party, which you were at and people like filled out a book, like, you know, Hey, here's a book, send, write a message for Brendan.
Guest:And I, uh, you know, got home and, you know, just after a great party, had a great time.
Guest:Everyone was, you know, it was thrilled, thrilled to see all these people from different areas of my life there.
Guest:And,
Guest:But it was just like, I felt good.
Guest:It was a good time.
Guest:But then I sat down and I read this book.
Guest:I read like what everybody wrote.
Guest:And I literally remember like closing the book after, you know, getting to the last page of what was written.
Guest:And I cried like nothing I have ever cried before.
Guest:Like just uncontrollable sobbing and heaving tears because I couldn't believe all these things that were
Guest:written there like I was just it was it was I looked at it and thought I get all this I understand this I accept it it wasn't like I didn't trust it but I was like I
Guest:it's it doesn't it didn't compute to me that it was the actual thoughts of people until that moment you know and uh yeah i think we should tell each other that stuff more because it doesn't like it's all well and good that anyone thinks that at any given moment about another person but like as you displayed and as i displayed that night as i read that book you're not aware of it if necessarily if it's not said totally
Marc:Totally.
Marc:And, you know, it brings me – it reminds me of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Marc:There's a scene at the end of that movie where he's finally seeing the tiger shark.
Marc:And everyone – no one says anything.
Marc:They just reach out and touch him because he's seeing the shark that ate his friend.
Marc:And, like –
Marc:It's just a beautiful moment.
Marc:And like, it's just powerful.
Marc:And yeah, it is just, it was a very touching thing.
Marc:And I thank you for sharing that story to me personally.
Marc:And now to our audience, our audience, your audience.
Marc:And seriously.
Guest:It's our audience, pal.
Guest:Your name came up too.
Marc:It's crazy to me.
Marc:Yeah, just I am floored and overwhelmed with emotion, honestly.
Marc:It is such a delight.
Marc:And I'm also just so happy that Mark's special happened and it went so well.
Marc:Like, it seemed to go without a hitch.
Marc:Actually, there seemed to be a hitch that seemed to unlock the whole special.
Yeah.
Guest:Yeah, well, which one in particular are you talking about?
Marc:Well, the one where – so let me see if I'm getting it straight because I've listened to a couple of different accounts.
Marc:So Mark stumbles on a moment or a couple of names and everything and you clock it.
Marc:And then I love this series of events of you having to go to Sam Lipsight and then Mark's manager and then everything.
Marc:So, you know, kind of like a, just the, just, you know, dominoes that have to happen.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It was like, it was like Albert Brooks in broadcast.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yes, 100%.
Marc:And so did they stop the show right there?
Guest:Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Guest:It was, you know, wait until it was done and then go do a retake.
Guest:You know what I mean?
Guest:And yeah, I mean, like, and Mark was like, you should have just said it directly to me.
Guest:I would have gone right out there.
Guest:And which is funny because, you know, Stephen, the director, went and said it to him and Mark was like, oh, fuck.
Guest:All right, fucking fine.
Guest:You know, like...
Guest:Now, you're asking me to believe one of two things, and I can't believe both.
Guest:Either that he's telling me that he wouldn't have done that to me, which I believe, or he's telling me, well, you should have just told me that, but then he would have yelled at me in the moment.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Fuck.
Guest:Are you fucking kidding?
Guest:So I believe either one.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But yeah, it kind of, I think, you know what actually I think that moment did is it unlocked it for him.
Guest:As he said, if he does it again, he'll basically adopt the,
Guest:the structure of what he did when he went out there to do the retake, which was, so he goes out there, he says to the, um, the, the guy running stage, I don't know if his direct title is stage, uh, manager, but it seems like it, that seemed like what he was doing.
Guest:A guy named Paul who used to, um,
Guest:who used to run the curtain at Conan, uh, late night with Conan O'Brien, you know, basically the guy who was like the curtain puller when the guest comes out.
Guest:And so Mark has this like, you know, 30 year relationship with this guy, just standing behind curtains, uh, which he was doing again.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And he brought him out and said that to the crowd, uh, which, which was what was cool about this moment.
Guest:So he says to Paul, okay, give me, uh, my zins.
Guest:Cause I have a bit
Guest:I didn't want to do on the special, but I could go do it out there right now.
Guest:And I could tell what he's going to do is try to like rev up so that he doesn't just walk back out on stage and do a retake, you know?
Guest:And so he, he goes back out there.
Guest:He sits on the stool.
Guest:He does the Zins bit.
Guest:And then he's just literally like, anybody had any questions?
Guest:Got any questions?
Guest:And he's doing like Q and A with the audience.
Marc:Was this before the first or was this before the second show?
Guest:Both tapings are done.
Guest:Oh, okay.
Guest:And he's now like,
Guest:We've told him you should redo the first 90 seconds of the special so that we have it clean.
Guest:And he goes out there and does, he said a half hour, I think it was more like 15 minutes, but you know, it was, it was a different vibe.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And then when he got into a thing that that audience has now already heard, it was literally a retake of the bit they heard at the beginning of,
Guest:they still were authentically laughing at it.
Guest:You know, it's like, I feel like he, he revved them back up.
Guest:Like, you know, you just kind of slowly make an engine purr and then you gun it.
Guest:Like that's what he did.
Guest:And I feel like he learned that about doing it.
Guest:If he does it again, you know, if he does another taped special to do that, to do that before even the first one, right.
Guest:Go out there and rerecord.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Now, what I will say, and I don't think he kind of explicitly went through this on either episode this week or all three episodes.
Guest:There was a moment in the second show that I think the second show was clearly the better hour, but there was a really big flub.
Guest:And it was that there's a part, I would say, I don't know, within the first eight minutes of the set that is, you know, contextually, it works in that first like 10 minutes, like the stuff he's talking about in that 10 minutes.
Guest:Then he has a bit where he talks about how he had to give up a certain, or he was being told to give up a certain soy milk brand because the company is not progressive.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And he that comes up way later as a callback to he's talking about watching a Hitler documentary.
Guest:And he talks about learning that Hugo Boss made the outfits for the Nazis.
Guest:And he's like, yeah, no, that Hugo Boss, like same one that people in this audience right now are wearing.
Guest:And they made outfits for the Nazis and nobody cares.
Guest:And he's like, meanwhile, I'm fretting over a soy milk that I use.
Right.
Guest:so it is important to that joke working or else you have to lose the joke right right so at about like the half hour mark after something totally unrelated he's like oh you know what i fucking skipped a bit he's like don't worry i'll do it now that's why this is taped we can put it wherever and then i think because it was in the wrong spot yeah
Guest:He totally, without realizing it, fucked up the joke, fucked up that bit about the soy milk.
Guest:He's supposed to say something about this brand and how they are, you know, he really liked the, the soy milk, but then people wrote into him and told him it's not a great company.
Guest:And he looked it up and he's found sure enough, they're like really religious to the point of like supporting pro-life causes.
Guest:And he was like, ah, I don't know, you know, and it goes through the whole conundrum.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And when he does that bit that comes out fine when he did it there, he goes and he does like it was not even a stumble.
Guest:He was not aware of it.
Guest:He's like, and I did my research.
Guest:I find out they're really religious and they support pro-choice causes and blah, blah, blah.
Guest:And.
Guest:like the whole audience now nothing gets a laugh right right the whole audience is like wait what oh no like nobody thinks he does he that mark is against pro-choice causes it's like they know he fucked up yeah and they're like it's like you could and also now we've told them before the set do not shout anything out don't say anything to it but you can feel everyone being like i want to tell him right i just want to help him out
Guest:But interestingly enough, because he had done this thing where he kind of like jacked that bit and put it in the middle.
Guest:So now the bit, the bit goes over poorly, right?
Guest:Like it doesn't get the laugh that he wants.
Guest:And he doesn't realize it's because of that pro choice thing.
Guest:He thinks it's just because it's out of sequence.
Guest:And he goes like, Hmm, guess that bit is better if it goes where it's supposed to go.
Guest:And now everybody laughs and he's like, all right, well, that's why we do two shows.
Guest:Cause now this one's a fucking chaos fest.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But the interesting thing was it kind of wasn't.
Guest:And from that point on, the energy of it got all kind of amped up because I think people were now like, whoo, what's going to happen?
Guest:It's all weird.
Guest:And it wasn't.
Guest:It went like the same way the first show went.
Guest:But the energy was like a little more like spiking.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Like you could feel people were more like something.
Guest:And it was like a little lesson he learned was like, yeah, sometimes you can just like if like, you know how he's been talking about wanting to just do the bit, just do the show.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Do the hour and 10 minutes and not deviate, which is what his instinct is.
Guest:His instinct is always to like drive off the beaten path so that you can make fun things happen.
Guest:And if you're trying to get it in, in this timeframe of one hour, 10 minutes, don't do that.
Guest:But I think he learned there, like, yeah, sometimes if you do that, even if you're not intending to use it, it can help with the energy.
Guest:And it definitely did.
Guest:It helped with the energy of that second show.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I mean, it sounds like it's a it's like a roller coaster where like in the roller coaster, they're like, oh, shit, something something bad happened.
Marc:Hang on, guys.
Marc:And then the roller coaster just keeps on happening.
Marc:You know, there's like this adrenaline.
Marc:We're like, oh, my God, this we're not supposed to be seeing this or doing this and we're doing it.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:And we're just about to survive.
Marc:So yeah, really interesting.
Marc:I love it.
Marc:Did you go with Mark to the Bam Harvey Theater, which I think I've been to.
Marc:I think I saw a play there.
Guest:Yeah, you've probably seen plays.
Guest:They do plays there.
Marc:Yeah, okay.
Marc:Yes, I've been there.
Marc:It's a lovely theater.
Marc:But did you see the Rothko?
Marc:Fucking Rothko gets so much play on this podcast.
Guest:I mean, you'll see it.
Guest:It's fully integrated into the scene or into the stage set of this bit.
Guest:I mean, okay, so the interesting thing, I don't know, you know, he mentioned this, but if I can maybe help paint a better picture of it, like the inside of this theater looks like it's dilapidated.
Guest:It's like exposed concrete.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right?
Guest:Right.
Guest:And it's just like you're just it has like a rebar in it sticking out and stuff like it looks like you should have renovated it.
Guest:But instead of renovating it, they didn't.
Guest:They made the renovation around the deteriorating structure on purpose.
Guest:Like it's their artistic thing.
Guest:vision of the theater and so it has a real interesting look um and like the the uh the the columns that buttress both sides of the stage the like gold flake is coming off of them and stuff and they haven't repainted it like so it looks like a um a place that like you know clearly all the seats are are nice and they're they're all new
Guest:yeah the seats are new like that's the actual renovation is like stuff for your comfort but the look of the place is like oh this is like this this this place is um you know has been gutted and no one did anything with it or something like that right um
Marc:Uh, so I think that's why something had to like Pompeii or something, right?
Marc:Like, it's like this like ruin that, that you're just kind of in also, by the way.
Guest:So Mark, Mark goes around and does all these, you know, uh, um, location scouting for, for the wondering about this.
Marc:What was the scouting?
Guest:Like, you know, any New York theater, you know, he did the last one at town hall.
Guest:And he said, I don't love doing it there because it's the space is a little compromised for what you need to do with cameras.
Guest:So you block out a lot of seats because you need that jib camera.
Guest:And, you know, he just was like, it feels too much like you're in a television taping.
Guest:Like there's no.
Guest:way to kind of hide from that and he wanted to be in a theater that was more like you're in a theater and there just happened to be cameras around or whatever like minimize the idea that there's a taping that's always his kind of goal and purpose with these things is like i don't want people so heightened about the fact that we're taping something because then they'll react differently right and
Guest:Right.
Guest:And he went and did all this location scouting and then he just loved this BAM theater because the, you know, the, the, the space is, is unique and he, you know, fitting for him.
Guest:Like he's, you know, Oh, look at this.
Guest:It's like, it's like old and decaying.
Guest:And he, you know, he likes the idea of it.
Guest:That theater, for whatever reason, is the second most expensive venue in New York.
Guest:Second to Madison Square Garden.
Guest:Get the fuck out of here.
Guest:You can literally run anywhere else cheaper.
Guest:Radio City.
Guest:King's Theater?
Guest:Yeah, the King's.
Guest:No kidding.
Guest:Cheaper than this place.
Guest:oh my god so like listen listen i don't know how it resolved itself i don't know who put the money up for it but somebody did because they okayed it and it happened and it's like this this special not only does it have this outlay of like the second most expensive theater in new york to run but then also he's like can i also buy a taylor swift song please
Marc:Seriously.
Marc:Holy shit.
Marc:Man, Max or HBO Max, as it's now called, is getting their money's worth.
Marc:Hopefully they're going to have to market the shit out of this thing.
Guest:I guess.
Guest:Well, yeah, I don't know.
Guest:Again, I'm not going to pretend like I was involved in any discussions.
Guest:I don't know where these things wound up, what the offsets are.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:All I know is everyone was happy.
Guest:No one was like, this fucking busted us.
Guest:There's no complaints.
Guest:But there was absolutely some creative accounting that had to go on to figure this out.
Marc:That blows my mind that Bam Harvey is the second most expensive venue in the city.
Marc:Yeah, weird.
Marc:That is bizarre to me.
Marc:Like Beacon Theater.
Marc:Like I can name so many theaters where I'm just like, oh yeah, of course it's huge theater, but Bam Harvey for some reason.
Guest:Also, if anyone at Bam wants to write in and dispute that, I mean, that was, this was something I was told and you know how those things go, right?
Guest:It's like, like, you know, oh yeah, I heard this is the, you know, the oldest thing in New York.
Guest:And you find out like, it's like from the fifties or some things.
Guest:So I have no idea that that's actually true.
Guest:And I want to stipulate that.
Guest:I was told it's the second most expensive venue, second to Madison Square Garden.
Marc:Man.
Marc:So did you go with Mark on the scout, you know, this location?
Guest:No, I did not.
Guest:I mean, he talked to me, he asked me what I thought of that place.
Guest:I told him it's great.
Guest:But no, I didn't go to any, any,
Guest:shoots like that i mean that that goes back to the initial thing of me not wanting to you know just overstep balance yeah make a ruling and say hey uh redo that last do that first bit yeah because i you know don't i'm not on the payroll of this special hbo's not giving me any money i'm not my name it won't be in the credits right so it's like it's not there's
Guest:that's not my, my place to do any of that.
Guest:It would not be my place to do location scouting would not be my place to do any of that.
Guest:But as someone who works with Mark and, uh, you know, as I have said many times, you know, tries to protect him from himself and, uh, you know, looks out for his professional wellbeing.
Guest:Um, uh,
Guest:i just thought like he's not gonna want the first 90 seconds of his special to have a flub in it he's not he's gonna be pissed yeah so like fix it there's no there's no harm in fixing it yeah like what like even if the audience sits there stone cold silent you have the laughs from the first time like you don't have you you can use whatever you want right yeah so so just fix it it's tv make magic happen right
Marc:I just found it funny that you kind of poo-pooed the fact that you're his right-hand man.
Marc:I mean, he literally trusts you with his life.
Marc:I get it.
Guest:I didn't poo-poo it.
Guest:I thought it was amusing.
Guest:But it's like, it's also, it's like that because, yes, that's fine.
Guest:But that also, like, he has a manager that's paid to manage him.
Guest:He has the director of this show that is paid to direct the show, full production, right?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And it's like, that's fine that I'm the right hand person in his mind.
Guest:But like nowhere on the chain of command have they acknowledged that.
Guest:And they nor should they.
Guest:I'm not.
Guest:It is.
Guest:It is.
Guest:I have no regrets about how I went about doing that.
Marc:So, so did the, so in hindsight, or I guess, you know, after the fact, did the director clock that and just note like, you know, themselves, like, did they know, okay, he needs to redo that afterwards or this was just completely new?
Guest:No, Stephen came, came to like, you know, he, he walked out into the, like, basically the, the hallway where we were watching the monitors of,
Guest:There was a room in the downstairs backstage area that had all the switching, where the direction of the show is happening, the production command center, control center.
Guest:And then out in the hallway, we were watching monitors that just were for watching.
Guest:There was no decision-making happening out there.
Guest:But that's where I was sitting.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And he just came out.
Guest:David went in the control room to talk to him.
Guest:And he came out and he was like, so you think he flubbed that?
Guest:And I was like, yeah, he did.
Guest:It's not in any real bad way.
Guest:But why not get it again?
Guest:And he was like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Guest:It's fine.
Guest:So it's not like...
Guest:it was any stressful decision.
Guest:I think they were stressing it a little bit when he didn't just go out and redo the 90 seconds and decided to do, you know, 15, 20 minutes.
Guest:And this is on like, you know, union clock time and they had to get everybody out of the theater.
Guest:So like that I get, but, um,
Guest:You know, the actual redoing of it, you do that at anything special.
Guest:I've seen it happen a dozen times.
Marc:I've seen it on The Daily Show when I used to go to tapings of The Daily Show.
Guest:Exactly, Conan, anything like that.
Guest:They do it all the time.
Guest:Oh, we have one thing we need to do.
Guest:You know, we got to get this into commercial tighter.
Guest:So just go back and say this again.
Marc:Right.
Marc:By the way, Mark brought up John Oliver because of the special.
Marc:I watch John Oliver every week and I'm just amazed because I can never see the cut.
Marc:Like he is talking and says so much and there's never a cut.
Marc:I'm always amazed at his last week tonight.
Guest:Well, they do give – they have clips sometimes that run full score.
Marc:And I am clocking it each time.
Marc:It's just a weird thing that I do now.
Marc:It's just like I'm looking to see the seams in things.
Marc:But yeah, it actually got me thinking.
Marc:I actually sought out the John Oliver clip of Mark almost dying on the plane.
Marc:And I watched that whole bit.
Marc:And it kind of got me sad that like –
Marc:Like Mark just, you know, has this material and then it's out there and then he just boxes it up and puts it away.
Marc:It's kind of crazy to me.
Marc:Like, and I get, I know it's like a comedian's thing, but like, has any comedian ever like just gone through their old material and brought stuff back?
Guest:85, 90% of them.
Marc:Oh, no kidding.
Marc:So it's like commonplace.
Guest:Very common.
Guest:I mean, especially more back in the day when it was much more about like, you know, you could be a comedian and that's like your full life gig in, you know, in the 80s and 90s.
Guest:And, you know, that's the thing that you make all your living on is being, because there's just so many, there were the boom, there were so many outlets for comedy.
Guest:And yeah, they just did everything all the time.
Guest:I remember one time going to see...
Guest:Jon Stewart do a standup hour at like the Westbury in Long Island.
Guest:And I think this was around like 2002 or so.
Guest:And he basically did the entire hour of his, the HBO special of his that I remember seeing from like 1996.
Guest:Like there was like nothing new in it.
Guest:Nothing?
Guest:Very minimal.
Guest:Like he basically just did an HBO special that he, I guess, hoped everyone forgot.
Guest:And I was like, I know this word for word.
Marc:What is he doing?
Marc:Oh, wow.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Oh, wow.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So I guess that's why Mark just puts that stuff away.
Marc:But it's like that airplane bit's pretty great.
Guest:I think it was Louis really who made people start to think you had to do that.
Guest:Really?
Guest:Because he did it like out of principle.
Guest:He was like once a year, one year for the bit and then it's dead.
Guest:And he would change his stuff every year.
Guest:And I think everybody started to feel like, you know, they had to live up to that.
Guest:I guess Louie does that.
Guest:I got to do it too.
Guest:Amazing.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:I'm surprised it's so sudden.
Marc:But I'm glad Mark is going to be at the comedy store on, you know, he was there on Thursday.
Marc:I saw a, what do you call it?
Marc:One of his stories was advertising that he's there for the originals.
Marc:And yeah, I guess on Friday as well.
Marc:So hopefully that person who wrote in.
Marc:I know.
Guest:I felt bad, but I, you know, I tried to get that last minute PSA out there.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I love that you remembered that.
Marc:And I was like, oh, shit, I can't believe he's going to go and do that.
Marc:So, yeah, I'm happy about that.
Marc:And I hope that person got tickets at the comedy store to see him.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:You know, the comedy store, you know, I go whenever I'm out there in L.A.
Guest:And, you know, if Mark is there, I'll just go with him.
Guest:And I'll go if he does two sets, I'll go see both sets.
Guest:One time I was there, he did three sets and I went and saw all three.
Guest:Oh, wow.
Guest:And it's great.
Guest:It's a great time.
Guest:The comedy store is a great time.
Guest:Um, you know, if, if there's one person you didn't like, you'll like the next person and it's, and it goes fast and both rooms are kind of cool and a different vibe.
Guest:And, um, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's definitely like a good, like if you've listened to this show for any period of time and you've heard people talk about like comedy history and comedy clubs and that, like the comedy store more than any other place I've been, that includes here and LA and
Guest:Um, and, you know, probably anywhere else in the country, which, you know, are smaller or franchise clubs, the comedy store is still the one that feels the most like what anyone who comes out here and talks about, like the old comedy clubs of the seventies, you know, and they kind of like, you know, uh,
Guest:The era of the, you know, the rise of the comic pre-boom.
Guest:That's what it feels like.
Guest:It still feels like that.
Guest:It feels like this separate thing.
Guest:It's not Vegas.
Guest:It's not Broadway.
Guest:It's not, you know, a nightclub act.
Guest:It's not a, you know, it's not, you're not going to see music.
Guest:You're not going to see vaudeville.
Guest:You're going to this very specific thing, live comedy.
Guest:And for some reason, that place is the place where it feels the most like that.
Guest:You don't feel that other places.
Marc:Interesting.
Marc:I got to go back to the special.
Marc:So for you, were you nervous?
Marc:Were you like worried that this whole thing might go sideways at any moment?
Guest:No, no, no.
Guest:I don't have those nerves with it.
Guest:Well, first of all, I mean-
Guest:Mark's done this plenty of times.
Guest:I also cannot overstate the fact that I was not involved in this production.
Guest:I was there for like me and Lip Sight were like, you know, Mark's support animals that day.
Guest:That's it.
Guest:So we're there for that.
Guest:But like I look around, I know every person there is a professional.
Guest:They're all doing their jobs.
Guest:There's no way this thing's going to go off the rails or get fucked up, especially with two tapings.
Guest:No way.
Guest:So no, I had no nerves.
Guest:In fact, the only thing that was slightly concerning, it wasn't concerning because I thought it was going to be like, I'm not superstitious.
Guest:I didn't think it was a bad omen.
Guest:But prior to the show, prior to the first show,
Guest:And Mark was so calm and like nothing had happened that usually there's something, there's like one thing.
Guest:Like it could be that like they didn't send the right water.
Guest:They sent me this.
Guest:I don't drink this.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Wait, wait, wait.
Guest:What kind of water does Mark drink?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:I'm making it up.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:Sorry.
Guest:What winds up happening is that becomes a thing where he can channel his anxiety, right?
Guest:So he's like, oh, fuck.
Guest:I'm going to fart on stage because they gave me this hummus or whatever.
Guest:who knows yeah but i'm waiting for that kind of thing to happen yeah and like an outlet to release that sort of yeah so he goes he goes on stage to do like full wardrobe check with lighting he's fully in his wardrobe hair hair you know done and everything and so now he's going on stage you know this may be an hour and a half before they start letting people in yeah and before he's you know has some food or whatnot
Guest:Oh, wow.
Guest:So you're there that whole time, huh?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I went by, you know, it was like a seven o'clock show.
Guest:I came by like five o'clock just to, just to chill, you know, you gotta get, you know, keep, keep that.
Guest:That's the, that's the precious time, right?
Guest:It's like, because up until that time, he's done all this stuff, you know, sound checks, lighting checks, wardrobe checks, all this stuff.
Guest:But then he's going to have two hours to sit around and that's where things can go pear-shaped, right?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So we, you know, I get there, he has just done the wardrobe check and his, the shirt that he's planning to wear for this thing, it's like a button down.
Guest:And when he sits, the buttons bunch up a little bit and you can literally see through and see skin, you know, like.
Marc:Oh, I hate that, yeah.
Guest:Right.
Right.
Guest:So somebody points that out to him and he's like, Oh fuck, you know, like, and I'm like, okay, here it is.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:There's the thing.
Guest:Here's the thing.
Guest:And you know, he mentioned this on the bonus episode.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:There was no one there to do wardrobe for him because he came with his wardrobe.
Guest:And, but there, there was someone to do grooming.
Guest:Um, you know, she did his hair and makeup and that, but there was a, an in-house person that,
Guest:at the bam harvey theater who is the wardrober the amazing the dresser and that's why that place is so uh expensive exactly i actually bet that's part of it is that like they probably have these union rules because it's a it's not just a rock venue or something right it's a theater right so part it's it's got it's it's in full service
Guest:It's with multiple, like, so you've got the stagehands union, you've got the actors union, you've got, you've got all these things that stipulate, you must have this, you must have this, you must have this.
Guest:And so she's there.
Guest:She's a, she's, she's a, you know, card carrying person who's got to be there when there's a live show.
Guest:And she says, I can fix that.
Guest:And he's like, oh, really?
Guest:She's like, yeah, just put little, you know, take those little plastic black snaps like like, you know, that you that are invisible to the like they step behind the fabric.
Guest:It's not like a snap with a button on the front.
Guest:It's just behind.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So in between all of his buttons.
Guest:In each one, she put a little black, fastened a little black snap that just kept the whole seam closed, right?
Guest:Amazing.
Guest:So then he sat down and it was fine.
Guest:That went away in like 10 minutes, right?
Guest:Wow.
Guest:As an issue.
Guest:And that was the one point where I was like, oh no, what happened to our thing?
Guest:Like our...
Guest:We lost our thing that will channel the energy.
Guest:What are we going to do now?
Marc:That's what powers the engine.
Guest:Exactly.
Marc:How are we going to do this?
Guest:Thankfully, though, as we've been saying over and over again, he was okay.
Guest:I was surprised, man.
Guest:Because even from Bleak to Dark, which was said he'd done a lot of times, he felt it very strongly.
Guest:It was a lot of stuff that was very personal to him.
Guest:I had no doubts that he was going to nail that material.
Guest:But I remember him fretting over it beforehand, like, ah, I don't know how I'm going to make this an hour and 10 minutes.
Guest:It's an hour and 40 minutes.
Guest:I'm so used to blah, blah, blah.
Guest:Nope, not once this time.
Guest:He was just there.
Guest:Wow.
Marc:And I love that he credits his radio experience for being like, I can just do it on the dot.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:You know, I just think that was great.
Marc:And you're so right that once this is out there and when does it come out?
Marc:July at some point.
Marc:End of July.
Marc:Awesome.
Marc:Like, you just know it's going to get through the algorithm and people are going to clip it and the Taylor Swifties are going to, you know, get it.
Marc:And, yeah, I am really excited to know if Taylor Swift, it's going to be on her radar.
Marc:Look, maybe she's heard it already, but, like, it would be pretty cool if she –
Marc:responds to it in some way.
Marc:Like I'm fascinated to know what she thinks of it.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I know that they are, he already used the, the picture of him falling on his face on that hill.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Uh, he used it as the album cover for, from bleak to dark.
Guest:I still think I'm going to suggest this to them when they're in post, they should just run the end credits over that picture.
Yeah.
Guest:Totally, totally.
Guest:That's good.
Guest:That's like, especially because that's the closer bit.
Guest:You've just heard it, right?
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:That would be a great crescendo.
Marc:Yeah, for sure.
Marc:Oh man, I'm so excited because I saw this set back a year ago at the Wellmont.
Guest:But you know what's really interesting, dude?
Guest:I was saying this to him.
Guest:I'm like, what's going to happen to like...
Guest:all that stuff that was in this, that's no longer in it.
Guest:And he's like, I don't know.
Guest:Like it's probably done.
Guest:And that's weird.
Guest:Cause like there's, there's like half of the stuff you've seen is just not in this special.
Guest:And they, and I, maybe he'll come up with it again.
Guest:Maybe not, but it's probably not.
Guest:It's probably just like, it'll go away.
Marc:That, that to me is wild.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:That huge.
Marc:He can put – he has all this material.
Marc:It's like Prince having a whole, like, vault of shit that we've never heard of.
Marc:And, like, if I just so happened to be in New Jersey a year ago in 2024 and I just so happened to hear this 30 minutes of, like, comedy and never again.
Marc:Like, that's wild to me.
Marc:Like, like, I don't know, like he should, he should kind of bring some stuff from the, from the editing, uh, you know, uh, floor.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I, I couldn't even really tell you how it broke up.
Guest:Like it just, it's like just naturally some things fall away.
Guest:Some things, you know, are, are inserted.
Guest:I mean, he does 10 minutes, 15 minutes on television.
Guest:the fires you know and so that's like within the last few months i think what was that january right so like that's a that's he's been working this stuff out for a year and a half and that's like a large portion of this act and it's it's new i
Guest:Amazing.
Marc:And I can't believe he got a punchline just like last week, like two days before the special.
Marc:That is fucking cool, man.
Marc:And I also, man, I thought about this when you guys were talking and I just, I love like talking shop, like what you guys do.
Marc:you know, did in that bonus episode on Tuesday was so fun to, like, hear, like, the behind-the-scenes and just, like, not nitpicking.
Marc:Nitpicking is the wrong word, but it's, like, just, like, picking up on sort of your favorite sort of things and just running with it.
Marc:It reminded me of, like...
Marc:This last week, I got to go to a critics screening for the new Mission Impossible movie.
Marc:I was a plus one from our buddy, Chris Rosen.
Marc:And I'm there with a friend of the pod, Matt Singer.
Marc:And I'm looking around.
Marc:I'm like, man, I'm like that couple in the rounders who walk up to the table.
Marc:And I'm the sucker right now.
Yeah.
Marc:But like, but the entire next couple of days, I'm just texting with Matt Singer and Chris Rosen about this new movie.
Marc:And I'm just like, oh, I love this.
Marc:I love talking about like this shared experience and these moments.
Marc:And like, that's what you and Mark were doing.
Marc:And I just, I loved being a fly on the wall.
Marc:And I'm so glad you guys recorded that because it was so fun to be in that room talking to you guys or, you know, listening to you guys talk about it.
Marc:It was really fun.
Guest:Yeah, someone else wrote in about that.
Guest:So basically, same thing.
Guest:This was from Lauren.
Guest:She said, just a note about the bonus episode processing the special taping.
Guest:So, so great.
Guest:This is what I want from all my favorite comics.
Guest:Hearing you guys talk about specific jokes, what got a big laugh, what didn't work, etc.
Guest:is so fun for us comedy nerds.
Guest:I watched Mark work out this material for the past two years in L.A.
Guest:And I'm so excited to see what actually makes the cut.
Guest:And it's funny because then thanks for that, Lauren.
Guest:But, you know,
Guest:that's really like the DNA of this show.
Guest:Like, I mean, I, I have my own feelings about like a lot of like a standup comedy introspection and how it's some of it is, is pretty self-indulgent and, and highfalutin for something that doesn't need that.
Guest:But at the same time,
Guest:I do acknowledge that like, you know, part of it's, it's, it's no different than like, uh, watching inside the actor's studio or listening to, you know, Roger Deacon's podcast where they talk about, you know, his, his movies, you know, whatever.
Marc:Or that dinner for five show from.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And so it's like,
Guest:That is a big reason why people came to the table for this show in the very first place, 16 years ago, was they were like, oh yeah, I do like these comics and I kind of want to hear them talk about how they do this.
Guest:And that was an interesting thing.
Guest:Mark mentioned it to, I think it was Carol Liefer on the episode Thursday, was like, podcasts have...
Guest:helped stand-ups in getting the audience to understand what they do like you know he said he used to come out there with notes and like get resistance to it you know you'd walk out there with like his note pen people like the fuck is this guy is he not prepared it's shit you know and and
Guest:And now it's like people get it.
Guest:They're like, oh, that's the stuff.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:100%.
Marc:It's true.
Marc:And like, yeah, this pod, like, it's just so great to like be under the hood and hear what is happening.
Marc:you know, behind the scenes and what, what the comic is thinking.
Marc:And that's what, that's the, that's the good shit that, uh, that I'm here for all the time.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Oddly, I think it's now like expected for people.
Guest:Like that's what they're like, well, you know, great.
Guest:I watched your special, but can I hear you talk about your special?
Marc:Yeah, yeah, totally, totally.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:Well, I had a great time with this, and I'm sure everyone else did.
Marc:I'm so excited to see the finished product.
Marc:I'm guessing there's editing that has to happen, and I'm so glad that –
Marc:he doesn't have to kill any bits like that the the the idea of having to and i guess he's done it in the past right where he's come over where he had to like kill a bit and it you know who knows if it takes the entire structure of the special have you ever edited a show with him or like i've edited one of his albums right which album was that
Guest:This has to be funny.
Guest:And that was the same thing.
Guest:It was two shows.
Guest:So I had to find the best stuff from the two.
Marc:And was it stressful trying to parse out or take out a piece?
Guest:No.
Guest:No, it wasn't stressful.
Guest:It was more like, you know, what you do is you kind of go through it or this was what I did for that one.
Guest:And I would think the process is probably pretty similar if you are dealing with anybody where the show... Now, you know, what's interesting about that was that was for a CD only.
Guest:That wasn't a filmed special.
Guest:And so...
Guest:You know, there's nothing about that where they say you have to come in at this time.
Guest:It's a CD.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And so, you know, they would like it to be more than an hour and they would like it to be, you know, not so much that it can't fit on a disc.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Right.
Guest:But so I just kind of had to use judgment with it.
Guest:Like this now feels like a full special.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I do remember there were there were chunks I took out like 12 minute things that I was like, this isn't going to make it in.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Guest:But so that's kind of what you do is you just plot it out first and go, how's this whole thing going to fit together?
Guest:And then basically listen to them side by side, each bit, each corresponding bit and go, okay, this was better the first hour.
Guest:This is better the second hour.
Guest:This is this and then that.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I remember with that, there was a lot of flipping.
Guest:It was like, this worked here, this worked there.
Guest:I mean, like the, the title of the album, this has to be funny.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Was an ad lib that happened one show.
Guest:Oh, no.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So, so, you know, like I had to use that one.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And, and so like, that's like the fun of it as an editor is putting together that, that type of structure.
Guest:It's like, how are you going to get the best one thing out of two things?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I mean, but it kind of sounds like a house of cards.
Marc:It's like, if you take out the wrong thing, the whole thing sort of like, you know, falls flat.
Marc:Oh, yeah, for sure.
Guest:It could be if you're not careful with it.
Guest:Yeah, that's fascinating.
Marc:One other thing I want to say about the flying bit that Mark, you know, still has a flying sort of phobia.
Marc:Yeah, it's a little different now.
Marc:Now he just pictures everyone dead right away.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:He, I kind of want Mark to watch episode by episode the rehearsal.
Guest:Oh, he is.
Guest:He's watching it.
Guest:Oh, he is.
Guest:He's watching it.
Marc:Fantastic.
Marc:Because I think what Nathan Fielder is doing this season is like the highest concept comedy that I've, that I've seen.
Marc:Like it is, it is transformative television.
Marc:It is really fascinating.
Marc:I would love to hear Mark's take on this shit.
Guest:Oh, I just randomly got a text from him the other day.
Guest:No kidding.
Guest:Yeah, this was Tuesday.
Guest:It's just kind of like in the morning out there in LA.
Guest:And I just get a text from him.
Guest:Fielder is a real genius.
Guest:Yes!
Guest:100%.
Guest:I'm so glad.
Guest:All I said was, I heard he's doing some insane shit on that show, and he just wrote, very.
Marc:Yeah, it is the highest of concepts.
Marc:It is brilliant stuff.
Guest:Did I tell you we saw him at Tom Sharpling's wedding?
Guest:no no wait when you were dressed in uh in your alligator outfit yes exactly and uh and and he's like the most normal to do you know so canadian he's like the most normal guy you'll ever encounter like there's nothing you couldn't you couldn't talk to him and walk away thinking like well he's as you know he's kind of touched he's a unique guy you know whatever no just like totally normal it's
Guest:To the point where I was like, there's got to be a little bit of a put on here because we've tried to get him on the show many times and it's been turned down many times.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And it's like once, even twice, I'm like, okay, that's like the artist has nothing to do.
Guest:The talent has nothing to do with that.
Guest:It's just like the publicist was like, couldn't make the scheduling work.
Guest:They didn't even get it to him.
Guest:But like, we've literally been trying to get him on since Nathan for you.
Guest:So that's like 12 years ago now.
Guest:yeah or whatever and it's just never happened and i just at some point you give up because you're like they don't want to do it they like and he's he's not he's one of those guys who probably doesn't want to reveal too much about his process or whatever this or that or just himself yeah yeah and so we're standing there talking to him and mark says like well you know one day you could do this on the podcast i don't know why we're not doing it and he's like oh i've never been asked to do your podcast no we were both like bullshit that's a big fucking lie like
Guest:We both of us were like, whoa, no way.
Guest:We were, you've been asked so many times.
Guest:And he was like, I don't know.
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:I've never been asked.
Guest:I'm like, you are fucking with us.
Guest:That's the other thing.
Guest:That guy, you just can't trust him.
Guest:You can.
Guest:Andy Kaufman-esque, man.
Marc:He is very, very tight there.
Marc:Oh, that's great.
Marc:That is great.
Guest:I will say I watch maybe like once every two months.
Guest:I watch that clip of him with the convenience store guy.
Guest:You drink your own pee?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:That might be the funniest thing I've ever seen on television.
Yeah.
Guest:That five minutes, that might be the funniest thing I've ever seen on television.
Guest:I've seen a lot of funny stuff on television.
Guest:I, I can't, I can't, I have to stop thinking about it right now.
Guest:Cause if I keep thinking about it, I'm not going to finish this show.
Marc:By the way, Nathan For You comes up in the rehearsal season two, and it is a rabbit hole of delight.
Marc:It is amazing what happens where he just mentions the show, and then it just spirals from there.
Marc:It is quite a scene and setup.
Marc:It is brilliant shit, man.
Guest:I've told you that the guy from the first season who does the trivia has done guest trivia at the movie trivia night that I go to.
Marc:Oh, no kidding.
Marc:At Nighthawk?
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:That's amazing.
Guest:He is that guy.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:He's not an invention of the show.
Marc:Nope.
Marc:Crazy.
Marc:Real guy.
Marc:Crazy.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:Man, that's great.
Marc:You drink your old pee?
Marc:What was it?
Marc:What was it also?
Marc:It's like, oh, my grandson's pee.
Guest:My grandson's pee.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:If you eat, it doesn't have to be grandson.
Guest:Any kid under age of five.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:that's the only time ever that i that nathan even comes close to breaking which is amazing to me like he's listening to that guy and he's like what are you talking about and the guy keeps going and he's like i have never heard of that yeah
Guest:i'm gonna have to watch that as soon as we're done holy shit oh man that's great well listen i do have aside from uh nathan for you as a public recommendation i do have two other advisories to bring up here uh because of things that have come in from listeners cameron wanted us to know something he says fellas
Guest:Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed still airs in New York City in the year of our Lord 2025.
Guest:No way.
Guest:On Channel 2 at 1.30 a.m.
Guest:Oh, wow.
Guest:I am a chronic insomniac, so I get a bizarre joy out of waiting for dead people and Obama jokes to show up.
Guest:Unbelievable.
Guest:Because, yeah, I'm not sure they've made another episode since, like, 2012.
Guest:No way.
Guest:So it just circulates.
Guest:Still floating around out there, yeah.
Marc:Wow, that's crazy to me.
Marc:I've got my bunny ears and DVR.
Guest:Yeah, there you go.
Guest:Joe had a question and I did hunt around and find this for you, Joe.
Guest:He said, listening to the Samantha Crane episode, Mark mentions a Native American music collection, but I don't think the title of the record was mentioned.
Guest:I'd appreciate if you could forward me the title.
Guest:I cannot do that, but I can say it right here on the air.
Guest:Also, Samantha Crane mentioned a radio show from Minnesota that sounded very interesting that was Native American music related.
Guest:And that's called Watika Radio with Justice Broken Rope, which is the greatest name.
Guest:And Watika is spelled W-A-T-H-E-C-A.
Guest:So you can Google that.
Guest:I'll put a link in the episode description.
Guest:The compilation of...
Guest:I did not know.
Guest:I asked Mark.
Guest:I texted him and I didn't think I was going to hear back from him before I went to air with this.
Guest:But he did text me back.
Guest:And that is called Native North America, Volume One, Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966 to 1985.
Guest:It's a box set put out by Light in the Attic Records.
Guest:So I will also put a link to that.
Guest:The artist they talked about quite a bit is not on there unless he is in some band.
Guest:And I don't know that, but he's not on there as a solo artist in the track listing.
Guest:And that was Jesse Ed Davis, who is a guitarist and pretty prolific guitarist.
Guest:uh solo songwriter um so uh those are the things that they talked about in the samantha crane episode i'll have links to that stuff in the episode description along with a link to our comment page where you can always send in your questions your thoughts your ideas your topics
Guest:Whatever you're thinking about when you're listening to us here on the Friday show.
Guest:It's been a pretty Mark heavy week because of all the festivities that went down with the stand up special.
Guest:I guess we'll we'll wind up doing this again, Chris, because, you know, Mark's got his documentary premiering here in New York.
Guest:City and yeah there's some good stuff on the horizon also for you next week here on WTF another return guest long time past WTF guest and someone who feels like she's been in the kind of fabric of the show for a long time even though
Guest:I think her episode aired in the 100s, a very long time ago.
Guest:But Sarah Silverman, back on the show for the first time in years.
Guest:And also Peter Wolfe on Thursday, who was from the Jay Giles Band and kind of a rock and roll zeleg, has been around and in places with just about everyone under the sun.
Guest:He put out an autobiography about
Guest:that has just rock and roll stories up and down.
Guest:And Mark got a real kick out of him.
Guest:I think they talked for a pretty long time.
Guest:So you can expect that next week.
Marc:Is that going to be a Sonic playlist that I'm going to have to do?
Guest:Oh, you're going to be working all the time.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Punching the clock.
Guest:uh some other uh return guests coming up that are all on the uh on the booking list right now and they have not been recorded so i'm not going to i'm not going to open my big mouth and let you know who they are are you excited though uh oh yes i i will keep my big mouth shut and you can wait and see who those guests might be uh when they come on uh and until then
Guest:I am Brendan, and that is Chris.
Guest:Peace.