Episode 712 - Joe Wong / Doug Stanhope

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fucksters? What the fucking nears? How's it going? This is Marc Maron. This is my show. This is the podcast WTF. If you were wondering, if you are trying to listen to some other podcast, you've made a mistake, but maybe you should hang out for a minute, or a few minutes, or however long it takes me to get through this business. I hope everything's going well with you. Today is Thursday.
If you're listening to it, the day it comes out, this is Thursday. Just a reminder, maybe that's helpful to some of you. Maybe you downloaded this thing and you were lost. I'm telling you, man, right now I barely know what fucking day it is. And I guess that's a luxury perhaps. Perhaps it's a mental ailment. I'm not sure what the fuck is going on with my brain right now. Today on the show, Joe Wong.
Joe Wong's a guy I've heard about for a while.
He's a Chinese American comedian who does shows in China and can do stand up in Chinese. It's just a world that I have no idea about. And I was excited to talk to him. Also today on the show, we're going to talk to Doug Stanhope for a minute about his new book, Digging Up Mother, A Love Story, which is available now.
I want to thank everybody for coming out to the Trippany shows. They've been going well.
Because I'm dealing with a sort of a new, I'm trying to deal with a new way of looking at things.
What is my life like now that a lot of the things I used to be fucked up about are unfucked?
And it's exhausting because there's part of me that's sort of like, what do I sound like when I'm not angry?
You want to know what that sounds like? Here, I'll give you an example. Here's what that sounds like.
Gee, I think I'm done. I think I'm done with everything. I don't see the point of doing much of anything if I'm not angry. So I can't, seriously, I have quit comedy like three times this week already, but that's ridiculous. There's got to be, like, I've got to be able to embrace and open and move through it, but these shows, the Trippany have been good. Themes are starting to reveal themselves. People are enjoying the shows. Thank you. I don't know if there's tickets left, but I'm going to be doing it for a few more Tuesdays through June. You can also go to wtfpod.com/tour to, to see where I'm coming. I'm doing dates in July, a lot of dates in July and throughout the fall. So yeah, like things are, things are, are okay. I'm exercising, which I don't know. I don't feel great. I don't know. These people that say that they exercise and they feel great. I exercise this morning and I feel exhausted. I, the day's going to be difficult now and I'm aggravated. I, it's not, that's, is that the desired result? Is it?
And my, my stray cats have disappeared now. They're not dead. We all know scared he's gone, but it's scared he too comes and goes. Deaf black cat apparently has moved on and shows up sporadically now. And now I just got a big bag of cat food. Now I'm not even a good cat guy anymore.
They got to go somewhere else.