Episode 1171 - David Cross

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck, Knicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast, WTF. Welcome to it.
I assume most of you have been here before. Maybe there's some new people. I don't know why this would be the day that you would check in all of a sudden. But if you're here, welcome. If you don't know what we do here, we talk openly and honestly about the struggles of being a human being on almost all levels. We talk freely and openly about many different things. Vulnerability, creativity, art, work, fear, substance abuse, politics. We talk about everything with people to get to the heart of what people are. I think that's what we do here. So if that sounds good, welcome. If you already knew that's what we did here, well, there you go. Sorry, you know, like what am I doing? You know, what am I doing right now? What am I even talking about right now? Jesus Christ. Tomorrow is like this. It's like I'm beyond stress. I'm post stress. I'm post fear. I'm post nervousness. I'm in some sort of strange paralysis that feels like the present, that feels like acceptance on some level. I know what we're up against. I know all the machinations of the garbage people and what they're going to try to do to steal the country, to destroy democracy. I know all of that. I know how the voting works. I know what we're up against. You know, in the next day or two or next week or next month, we'll know whether American democracy is over or we get new management and try to salvage what's left from the wreckage. So either we'll get that opportunity with new management to salvage what's left of our institutions, our norms, our system of government. We'll be able to salvage that with the new management. You know, perhaps take a responsible approach to this sickness that's leveling the global economy and destroying people. Perhaps we'll get a chance to salvage that with new management, new leadership, or else it will be sold as salvage by the current situation, by the garbage people and the grifters and the con men and the incompetent children put in charge of big bureaucracies that a lot of people depend on who give zero fucks about those people's lives. Sold as salvage. It's a fucking nightmare, but that's the precipice we're on. And I don't know why I've arrived where I'm at today, the day before this election, and go vote if you haven't, for fuck's sake.
There's no excuse not to, really. There's no principle you can sit on for that one. Well, I'm not going to vote because shut up. Before I get too caught up, let's lighten it up a little bit. I made a cake. Anyway, Dave Cross is on the show today. Now, Dave's been on before Dave's an old friend of mine. This is actually Dave's sixth time on the show. He's been on two live ones, two in the garage, one on the phone. But this is actually the first time we've talked to Dave in a while. And he's in this new movie where I think he really puts the work in as an actor. But more importantly, I saw him on TV. I was just flipping around and I've talked a bit about this before. I don't know if it's nostalgia or just taking stock of who we are by going over our past. I was watching Dave Cross on TV on one of his specials, and there was just something so familiar about the way Dave talked and moved and thought.
You know, from back in the day, you know, we kind of started out together. And it made me remember, made me feel, made me know that I came from someplace, that I arrived somewhere else. When I showed up in Boston and I met all these dudes and, you know, I committed my life, my fucking heart to stand up comedy, you become sort of this weird family. It's not necessarily that supportive or whatever, but we were a crew of fucking gypsies and weirdos, you know, bordering on outlaws.