Episode 1342 - Dana Gould

**Marc Maron** (0:12)
All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTFniks, WTFasonics, WTFuplets? You look, it doesn't matter. How's it going? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it. Are you okay? I'm okay. I'm excited today because, well, it's yesterday, but you're listening to it today, but it rained yesterday in Los Angeles in the middle of the night. And once I realized the city wasn't being bombed, or it wasn't an earthquake, it was just thunder, and just astounding thunder and weird lightning, and then just a downpour. And any time water pours from the sky onto the Southern California ground, I'm fucking ecstatic, because it just feels like everything is kindling, waiting to be ignited. When I just looked outside, when I looked outside, at first it was just lightning, and I'm like, oh, this is it. Everything's gonna catch on fire. The whole goddamn thing's gonna go up. And then the water just came down.
Oh, it took everything I had not to go outside and dance around in the rain. Well, the primary obstacle is not being struck by lightning naked in my yard and wet, but so exciting. And the ground just sucks it up, just absorbs it, like an old sponge that hasn't been, hasn't had water in it for a year or at least for a decade. Just an old dry sponge.
And my friend Dan and I, Dan from Gimme Gimme, we had a hike planned at 730 and was still kind of raining. We're like, fuck it, let's go. Get up on that mountain. It's all wet. And all the green stuff that's kind of hung in there is all green, real green. And even the wet kindling, that's what it all smells like. That's what LA smells like after it rains. Dusty, wet kindling, because that's what it is. But I was thrilled. I was thrilled that it fucking rained. Oh, God, I can't even tell you. Today on the show, Dana Gould is here. You know, he was like on during the first year of the podcast.
And then he's been back for a couple of short ones over the years. But, you know, I just saw him recently up in Vancouver, and we sat down and we talked over breakfast. It was me and him, James Adomian. It was just like old timers now, just, you know, contemporaries. And we just had a good time, got some laughs, telling old Boston stories. And I just thought like, why not let's have him on? He's also someone who thinks about comedy a lot, and he's a good person to talk to about the evolution of comedy, which is sort of a topic going on with me right now.
So I had old Dana back. I had him back. Look, I'll be in Las Vegas, you hear me? Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday and Saturday, July 15th and 16th at Wise Guys. In Los Angeles, I'll be at Dynasty Typewriter for two shows, Saturday and Sunday, July 23rd and 24th. I'll be at Just For Laughs in Montreal for my gala. On Saturday, July 30th, I'll also be doing solo shows up there. On July 28th and 29th, more to come on those. Then I've got tour dates coming up in August and September in Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky, Lincoln, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Tucson, Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, Boulder, Colorado, Toronto, Ontario, correct? You can go to wtfpod.com/tour for all dates and ticket info.
The last time I talked to you is before my Charleston show, which went great. It was kind of a crazy show, right? Am I right to think I didn't talk to you? Because I recorded on Sunday for Monday, right? Yeah, before the Charleston show, which was Sunday night, which was Father's Day, and it was a very crazy show.
Some guy brought his 13 year old kid to the show, and I could see almost everybody in the room, and that can go either way. But I told him right out of the gate that it was not very responsible parenting, and that I'm not going to pull any punches. And then I made fun of his father relentlessly, which I think he enjoyed. The father was a real fan of mine, but still a little bit irresponsible. And then at some point he left during the show, and I was like, do you need someone to take you home? Are you okay? Is this situation okay for you? I think your father is probably out front crying on the phone to your mother. How did that end? That kind of stuff. Is there anyone here from Child Protective Services? So is good time, a lot of fun riffing with the child in the room. But it's a difficult balance because if you draw too much attention to the kid, people are going to be self-conscious about laughing at some of the stuff. And I found out after the show, there was a guy sitting up front, older guy, not older, a little older than me, and a woman who didn't seem, who seemed to be sort of shocked by a lot of what I was saying, though laughing, and he seemed to be a real fan. And I took a picture with that guy after.