Episode 1681 - Jimmy Pardo

**Marc Maron** (0:09)
All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFniks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it in the home stretch here. How's everybody doing? You okay? Today on the show, Jimmy Pardo is here. Now look, Jimmy has been podcasting since 2006, and he was one of the guys at the beginning when we started WTF that I knew was out there, I knew him, I knew his comedy, I known him a long time, and he was doing Never Not Funny, which was a show that had a lot of influence on us in terms of how to do a podcast, how to perhaps monetize it or what the options were at the time. But he was there with a small group of us that were part of the podcast and community. He was on WTF back on episode 102, as well as a couple of live episodes, but it made sense to have him back on here in the homestretch because he was one of the guys, one of the gang of the original podcasters. And again, I always have to qualify that by saying, there were other podcasters. There were podcasters years before us. I'm talking about the community I came up with. It's weird when so much time goes by that all of a sudden the people you came up with, that's a long time ago. I mean, I was at the comedy store the other night, night before last, and David Tell came by. And I've known David Tell, we started roughly at the same time in New York. I've known him going back to, what, 89? Is that possible? 35, 36 years, I've known David Tell.
I spent a lot of time with David Tell. We were both hammering away at the same dream, me and him and Ross and Silverman and CK and Todd Barry, others, many others. But I don't see Dave that much anymore. And I saw him last night. We see each other in passing and he's not a huge talker, but it really becomes kind of moving as you get older in this life, as people have passed, as people have fallen away, as people have had their own troubles in their own lives. And seeing Dave, it was great. It's always great to see Dave. I never know if he's going to talk to me for very long, but that's been the way it's been for our whole life. But, you know, we were out back and around in front of the club and there's a few people gathered around chit chat and he says, come on, take a walk. And we had a little catch up and it was, it's very sweet. It's very sweet to get to a certain age with your life committed to one thing and realize there are people who knew you at the beginning, who were there with you at the beginning, even if you've lived totally different lives, you don't see each other very often. And just that moment of like, hey, still alive, huh? Still at it. Here we are. Look at us. How's your mom? How's your health? What have you been doing? Yeah, I saw that thing you did. That was great. It just, it becomes deeper and more touching as time goes on. It's not competitive. It's not, you know, in any way detached aside from the time spent apart, but, but it really becomes sort of like, we are still here, brother, and we're still doing the thing, and you're holding up well. I'm holding up well. I'm glad you're okay. The final batch of WTF Cat Mugs go on sale tomorrow. These are the mugs I give to my guests and they're handmade pieces of art by Brian Jones. You can get one tomorrow starting at noon Eastern. Go to wtfmugs.co. Also, the documentary Are We Good opens next week, October 3rd in New York and Los Angeles. I'll be at some of the screenings here in LA as well as the Vancouver Film Festival. There are special screenings around the country on October 5th and October 8th. Go to arewegoodmaron.com to see where it's playing and get tickets. The Kickstarter for the graphic novel WTF as a Podcast is still going on and we're still pushing to get everyone who orders a book, a special Box Brown Design WTF trading card. And if we can get over 250 grand, everyone gets a framed set of our four trading cards. Me, Boomer, Monkey and La Fonda, the original crew. Go to z2comics.com/wtf.
And if I could at this moment, I'm not going to make this screening, but I just want to draw attention to the fact that the movie Springsteen, Deliver Me From Nowhere, is showing at the New York Film Festival this weekend. And if you didn't get a chance to hear it over the summer, you can check out the episode I did with Jeremy Allen White, who plays Bruce in the movie. So the Bruce movie, how did you feel about it?