Episode 1523 - Eddie Pepitone

**Marc Maron** (0:11)
All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck nicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. How's it going?
What's happening? Today, people, Eddie Pepitone. Eddie Pepitone is here. He's probably been on more episodes of WTF than any other guest 24 times. That's crazy. Oh, I know why, because in the first two years of the show, we did a lot of live ones, and we did a lot of shorties.
But we didn't, I don't know, we never did a full length one-on-one talk with no one else on the mics. So this is a historical day. It's Eddie Pepitone day. Yes. Look, I'm gonna be in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow night.
Well, it's in Buckhead. I don't know if that's sold out or not. Here are the new cities and dates I've announced for my tour this year. I got Asheville, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky and Lexington, Kentucky. Those are from like August 8th through 11th, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, California, August 22nd through 24th, Iowa City and Des Moines, Iowa, September 5th and 6th in Kansas City, Missouri on September 7th, Tucson AZ, September 20th, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Oh my God! October 3rd through 6th, Boulder, Colorado, October 19th, Joliet, Illinois, Skokie, Illinois and Grand Rapids, Michigan. That's in October 24th through 26th. And I just added Napa, California on November 9th. You can go to wtfpod.com/tour for all the venues and for the links to the tickets. And I've got all those dates that are coming up in the next few weeks too.
My God! This is it though. As you know, as I always say, this is probably the last one. Yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen. The shows have been good. I don't mind being out there, but I did get pretty exhausted. The last time I went out there, I don't know what it was, but in looking back on it, in Providence, Rhode Island, I ate at a place called The Plant Factory, and it was good, but they had these onion rings, and they were like heavy, big ass onion rings. And they were just fried and had like a real thick batter to it. They were fucking amazing.
But in all honesty, I do think it took me a week to recover from it, both physically, mentally, energy wise. So I gotta be careful out there. Gotta be careful, man. I gotta be careful on the road with onion rings, with too much fried food. It's the tricky thing about the vegan thing. Sometimes you gotta find the place. And also, hey, thank God, right? Thank God this is my problem now. Where do I find something to eat that's not going to exhaust me or ruin my body? It's a little easier now. At least I'm not doing the drugs, right? Not out there partying. Could you imagine that? At fucking 60, being out there, hitting that shit, the booze, the drugs, I couldn't... Man, this is my 25th year sober. It's fucking crazy. But you know what's even crazier?
Is that I had a wee dream last night, a wee dream. And they're not dramatic. They're just like, but it was one of those dreams where I woke up and I felt like I'd smoked weed. And in that waking consciousness, I was like, have I always been smoking weed? How many times have I smoked weed since I've been sober? Am I living a double life of a weed smoker? And I just remember in the dream, I think it was like, it was more, it's a dated weed dream, because when I did weed, they didn't have it in stores. Like you couldn't just go buy it. Like I've noticed people who smoke weed now, they'll just leave roaches around. They'll put them out in an ashtray like a fucking cigarette with plenty of weed left in it. That's fucking crazy. Back in my day, you smoked that thing down, you smoked that roach down to you, burnt your fingers and there was nothing but maybe a centimeter of resin soaked rolling paper left. And if you were industrious or whatever the word is, you could throw that in a pipe with a half loaded bowl and kind of get that resin hit. But that's old school stuff. But in the dream, for some reason, I was in, I was opened the trunk of a car and there was a roach in there. And, you know, there was a couple of guys with me, I don't know who they were. And, you know, we're just hitting on this roach like it was the last bit of weed on the planet Earth and I felt in my dream that compulsion, that need, like, you know, I got to fucking, this is amazing, I got to smoke this, man.