Episode 1534 - Neal Brennan

**Marc Maron** (0:01)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFniks? What's going on? It's Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it. I know that the sound is a little bouncy. I know that the room I'm in has a bit of bounce to it, but this is where it has to be done. I'm not home, I'm away, I'm in New Mexico. I've been here for several days, probably the longest trip I've taken back home in a bit.
How are you doing, what's going on with you? Everything all right? Today, I'm going to talk to Neal Brennan.
Now look, Neal Brennan's been on in the past, okay? There was this one episode we did a while back that he insisted that we do not air it. We had a fight about that. It was something about how I interacted with him. And you know, I understand it. I understood it in time. I don't think he was wrong.
It's weird what you do understand in time and in retrospect, you know, you behave a certain way and you don't think there's anything necessarily that bad about it. Or you kind of dig in and say like, no, that's not true or whatever. And then, you know, after, you know, five years to 40 years to maybe 50 years go by, you're like, you know, maybe I, maybe I was kind of an asshole. Maybe I did, I did behave badly. Man, what can I do about it now?
Not much. Own it, accept it, make amends where possible. But we worked through all of that. We did it actually on a live episode of WTF in, it was way back. It was like episode 287
And then he came back when he did his special three mics. He finally decided to come back and do another full WTF talk. And that was on episode 917 That one we were, he was okay with it.
This one, this particular episode today is a little different. It's more like, it's one of those episodes where it's just two comics, two friends just hanging out, talking about life, talking about our problems, talking about his new Netflix special, which is called Crazy Good, Neal Brennan, Crazy Good, which he talks about life and his problems.
And there's a sort of interface, an interaction, a symbiotic thing. I don't know if it's necessarily always proactive, but we've sort of grown to know how we engage, and it's pretty deep.
There's a lot of similarities, so this is a pretty, it's a good conversation.
It's a thoughtful fucker. Thoughtful fucker, that Neal. Sorry, my chair's making noise. This week, I'm in Montclair, New Jersey on Thursday, May 2nd at the Wellmont Center, Glenside, Pennsylvania near Philly on Friday, May 3rd at the Keswick Theater. And Washington DC on Saturday, May 4th at the Warner Theater. Then I'm in Munhall, Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh on May 9th at the Carnegie Library Music Hall. That haunted place. Cleveland, Ohio on May 10th at the Playhouse Square, Detroit, Michigan on May 11th at the Royal Oak Music Theater. You can go to wtfpod.com/tour for all my dates and links. And those links will take you right to tickets. Yeah, and you can come. You never know when this is gonna be the last one. Obviously, I haven't made any specific announcement, but because of the shooting of this TV show I'll be doing for Apple with Owen Wilson, I'm gonna move some dates. And there's a possibility I'll be moving them till after the election.
And that possibility, because some of those dates are in the South, I've had to tell my manager, my booking agent, to, well, look, we'll see what happens in November. And if it's still safe, if the divided nature of our country hasn't gone to such an extreme where there might be entry checks at certain states, I will see how that unfolds. Everybody will see how it unfolds. And it's sort of a pressing thing, isn't it? I mean, I've kind of detached in a way. I mean, I read the news, but I'm just trying to maintain some stability around what I can and can't do things about.