Episode 1156 - Martin Short

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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My name is Marc Maron, this is WTF, my podcast. All right, look at it, what's going on?
All right, let's do this.

**Martin Short** (1:49)
Wow.

**Marc Maron** (1:49)
I don't know, man, is it the time of day? How are you, what's going on? What is happening? Nothing good. Nothing fucking good. What are you gonna do with that? Holy shit. You know, I don't wanna say that I told you so, because I'm not really an I told you so kind of guy. But I gotta be honest, man, looking back at my last special, which I recorded ago, like in October, where I said, what has to happen? Does the sky have to catch fire? Does the sky have to catch fire? The sky is on fire. I'm not happy that I told you so, but I guess it did have to catch fire.
I don't know what's gonna happen with that in the special. You know, it doesn't, there's a lot of different angles on it. There should only be one, but people are fucking incomprehensible. People are fucking incomprehensible. It's not my line, it's from Michael Clayton, Sidney Pollock.
People are fucking incomprehensible. Use whatever options at your disposal that you have to maintain your sanity.
Not that I think that clarity is that necessary because it's pretty fucking daunting, the clarity. I don't think being dumb or shallow or ignorant or detached is, I don't think that's good either. You're gonna have to shoulder the clarity. How do you shoulder that if you have it? I mean, shit is fucked up. And yet we knew that he knew, Woodward's book comes out, we knew, I mean, I knew that he knew, but now it becomes painfully clear that this kind of mass murder through negligence to meet political means, is what's happening. And no matter how many people cry for justice, the system and the state and the entire country is unfixably broken. We live in a failed state.
Now, however your life is or whatever is okay or whatever you're scraping together for yourself, I mean, that's what's happening. I just want to make sure we all acknowledge that. Now, what can you do? Do you feel powerless? Yeah, we can vote.
Hope the voting works.
If you want to watch my special for a little painful relief, get giddy people, get ready, get active, get laughing.
It's gotten to the point where I've pushed through to the other side. It is so fucking apocalyptic, so fucking dystopian, so insane this goddamn evil clown show that we're living through that I've gotten to the point where I'm like, oh my God, it's fucking terrible. And there's seemingly no way out. Your brain hits a wall. You can't speculate. It's only gonna go in the burning garbage. There's no speculating. There's no hope.
No matter what happens, it's fucked up. And at some point you're just like, oh man, oh man, this is fucking crazy. It's really happening.
Apocalyptic giddiness. That is anger, mixed with fear, mixed with hopelessness, mixed with sadness. And you just kind of let it press down on you until your heart feels the weight.
And all you can do is kind of go, oh shit.
Hope you're managing okay. I hope you're using every option at your disposal to maintain your sanity. And someone added this and I think it's true, unless it's at the expense of someone else's sanity. I mean, let's not drain the people we love to the point where they don't know what's up. You can't just use someone. You can't just sit there and be like, oh, this is fucked, this is fucked, this is fucked, we're fucked. And they go, no, it's gonna be okay. It's not gonna be okay. No one can tell me it's gonna be okay. No, it'll be okay. We'll get through it. I don't know if we're gonna get through it. I don't know. I don't know if we're gonna get through it. We're fucked. We're not fucked. We have today and we have now and we have this and we have all the love and everything. It's like, it doesn't fucking matter, man. It doesn't fucking matter. It's fucking over. No, I mean, just take it easy. It's gonna be okay today. Let's just stay in the day. Fuck the day.