Episode 1483 - Dan Soder

**Marc Maron** (0:01)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck, Nick? This is Marc Maron. This is my podcast, WTF.
This is your show. It's your show, people. Those of you who listen, it's yours.
It's mine, but I share it with you. If I didn't do that, what would it be? Just me talking to myself and inviting people over to get me out of my head. So it's your show. And today, I talked to Dan Soder, the comic, funny guy, good guy, big personality, talks what he knows. And I don't think we'd ever really, we never really met, maybe we had briefly, but this is the first time we've talked. He has an HBO special called Dan Soder, Son of Gary. It was from 2019 It's sort of what got me locked in to what he does. And he's funny and he's going to be on the show today. So look, let's get a few things out of the way, because I mentioned a restaurant I go to here in Glendale quite often, because I think it's great. It's basically a Middle Eastern food, but I said it was Persian and it's not. It's Lebanese. That place is Scaffs. It's over on Verdugo. And the last time I was in there, they had heard I mentioned it. And now of course I feel bad because I said it was Persian. I'm not even sure what Persian food is, to be honest with you. It's probably somewhat similar, but it's Lebanese and it's the stuff. You know, they've got the falafel, they got the baba, the hummus, tahini. They make a great foul, the cabbage salad and the meats. That's not my bag anymore. I just want to straighten that out. Not Persian, Lebanese, Scaffs. There you go. Tickets go on sale for my 2024 tour this week. Here's where I'll be coming from January through June, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Maine, Boston, Providence, Rhode Island, Terrytown, New York, Atlanta, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, Montclair, New Jersey, Philly, Washington, DC., Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Charleston, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina, Vancouver, and Seattle. There's a presale that starts this Wednesday, November 1st at 10 a.m. local time for each venue. The password is all in.
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Couple of ongoing stories. On Saturday night, I was honored at a grief support organization.
I was honored by Our House Grief Support Center, which is an amazing organization that provides grief support for families and for individuals at all levels of grief throughout grief.
And I was honored this year at their gala, and I was given the Good Grief Award for my work in publicly talking about grief on both the public and the private level. And I was honored to be part of the podcast, and obviously my last special. And it was interesting for me, because I didn't know about this organization when Lynn died. I had no idea, and I kind of hammered away at it myself in the way that I thought one does. And it was during COVID, as some of you know. And unfortunately, after she passed, it was hard to be with people. There was no memorials. There was some Zoom, Shiva type of things. And a lot of people reached out. I felt supported, certainly. But it was difficult. And had I known about this organization, maybe I would have sought it out. Because it is something that happens to everybody, and it's something that if you don't process thoroughly or process at all, it could bring you down from the inside. But I thought it was kind of interesting that I was being honored for being hilariously sad at a grief support organization. And I think I could probably look at this as a lifetime achievement award. Because if you look at it properly, and I think it's not that big a stretch, I think I've been hilariously sad my entire career. So I'm gonna look at it as a lifetime achievement award. The Good Grief Award from Our House. If you wanna donate to them, you can check it out. It's ourhousegrief.org. If you could use their services or would like to support their mission, which is really to support people, individuals and families in all stages of grief. And it was amazing. Now, not to, like I wanna make sure I frame this properly because it was a first in my comedy career. Because I knew I had to go up and accept the award, say some nice things, but also I'm a comedian. So I believed I was expected to do a little bit of jokes. And those kind of gala things where people were eating big round tables, not an easy gig, but I knew I needed to drop a couple of jokes. And I'm being totally honest with you, this is a first, that before I went on, there was many sort of speakers and some honors throughout the night, and then there was dinner. And then they brought up a mom and her three children who had lost a husband and a father to talk about the center and then me. So it was probably the heaviest transition I've had to deal with in my career, but a powerful evening nonetheless. So moving on right into it, the refrigerator problem.