Episode 743 - Geoff Tate / Nick Kroll & John Mulaney

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTF buddies, WTFers? What the fuck happened here? Oh my God, I had a brain skid.
Right at the beginning, it was jarring. Did it jar you? Like, are some of you sort of hypnotized with the expectation that that thing's gonna go well? That that first three list of WTF people are gonna just drop right into place? Like always, I had that same expectation in that moment. And it went south on me. Right there, right out of the gate.
All right, well, you know who we are. Welcome to the show. I'm Marc Maron. This is WTF, my podcast here at the cat ranch, working out of my garage, which I'm for some reason allowing to be hot.
I just, I turned the air off in the house. I turned the air off out here. I guess I wanted sort of a sweat lodge experience this morning. I wanted to kind of feel it out, get rid of the toxins.
I don't have many toxins in me, but I got a few. You always got a few. I think the toxins can just generate themselves with bad thoughts. It's not all about what you eat or what you put in your body. I have this theory that's probably can be proven or disproven that bad thoughts will make your, will create the chemicals in your body to generate toxins. Of course that's true.
Of course it is.
Why does sickness come from stress?
It's an inside job.
That's right.
There you go. There's an analogy for a manifestation of your own self-destruction, even if you're behaving properly. Why am I sick? It's an inside job. No one had nothing to do with this, but you. It's gonna get you from the inside.
Optimistic, beautiful thoughts for a Monday morning or wherever, whenever you're listening to this. I apologize. Everything's all right. I'm just sweating in my garage and it's fine. I feel OK. How are you doing? You OK? Everything all right with you? Special show today.
Later in the show, I got my friend Geoff Tate in here. He's a funny comedian. We get into it.
Get into some real shit about narcissistic parents. And then in a few minutes, I'm gonna have John Mulaney and Nick Kroll doing their doing their thing. They've got their show Oh, Hello on Broadway. So we'll talk to them about that. But what's going on here? What's going on with me? Tour stuff. I do want to get a couple of dates out. I know I do this, but it is what it is this weekend, September 24th, two shows at the Wilbur. I don't know where we're at, but I know they got to be close to selling out. I hope. I know that we're doing all right. On October 21st, Campbell Hall at University of California Santa Barbara. On October 22nd, Largo here in Los Angeles. October 23rd, the Ice House down the street here in Pasadena.
And October 29th, Brendan McDonald, my business partner and producer, are going to be at the Now Here This Festival. It's taking place in Anaheim. It's like there's going to be like 30 great podcasts, all live and in one place. And well, you guys asked for it. You can now get single day tickets to the festival. It's on October 28th through the 30th. As I said, Brendan and I will be there on the 29th, but the whole festival is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For all of the info, you can go to nowhearthisfest.com for the tickets and whatnot. You can also get there through wtfpod.com. November 4th, I will be at Carnegie Hall. As you know, there's a few tickets left. Seriously, selling well. I'm happy about that, but nervous. I want to push this one to November 19th, Nashville, Tennessee at the James K. Polk Theater. I'm excited to go back to Nashville. I'm excited to eat in Nashville. I'll be at the Vic Theater December 3rd. That's in Chicago. I just have to do this because they're coming up and some of them are rescheduled and I should want people at my shows, which I do. All right. I did have a few interesting moments recently.