Episode 792 - Fred Melamed / Andy Kindler

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFineers, WTFnicks, WTFocrats? What is happening? I am Marc Maron, this is WTF, this is my podcast.
Thanks for being here.
How's everyone doing?
Are you okay? Take a breath. Let's hang out for a little while. Got a good show today. I got an interesting guy. I don't know, you would know him if you seen him, I bet. I think my first real exposure to him was in the Coen Brothers film, A Serious Man. He's an actor, his name is Fred Melamed. And he's currently, you can see him on Maria Bamford show. He's just, he's a big presence and he's, I don't know, I always was sort of intrigued with him. I thought I would get along with him and he came up.
Also my buddy Andy Kindler has some things he's got going on so I thought I'd have him in here for a short chat. Always fun to see Mr. Kindler.
But how are you? I'm okay. I'm having a nice tea in my mug from my Glow Schwag. Glow Season One mug. They were done in two batches. There's a Team Heel and Team Face. I've got a Team Heel. Team Heel, Glow, the show that I did for Netflix about the gorgeous ladies of wrestling will be on Netflix at the end of June. Hold on.
I just shit my pants. Justcoffee.coop, get the WTF blend and get a little something on the backside there. That's a classic ad. Many of you have only been listening to this for a little while, have not heard the actually business-changing slogan, pow, I just shit my pants, that was created in the early days of WTF. I thought I'd do a little throwback. Loved being in Canada, loved being in Toronto. And then here's the weird thing, though. It's only weird to me. The crowds were great. Had nothing to do with them, but the next day when we're flying home, Ryan Singer and myself, I'm on the plane and they have the entertainment system. And in their classic movies, there was only maybe less than a dozen of the classic movie section on the plane options. And one of them was Gimme Shelter.
I mean, what are the fucking odds of that? I told you I just read that book about Altamont by Joel Selvin. I just finished that in Montreal and I get on a plane from Toronto to Los Angeles and that fucking movie is on there that I hadn't seen in a decade. And it's all fresh in my head. The Menace, the Darkness, the insane, bad assity Death of the Sixties mythology right there and I watched it all and man, had quite an impact. I do have to say, I talked to somebody else about this, that I don't think the Rolling Stones ever sounded better than those last couple of songs that they did at Altamont because they had a fuck of a lot to transcend, man. I mean, Jesus.
Some things transcend coincidence and that sort of weird menace between things, when something turns into something else, I've analogized it a bit to what we're going through as a country. There's just a big shift in the culture and the tone and there's something resonant about the shift from Woodstock to Altamont that feels frighteningly familiar, very different, but metaphorically, I think it stands up. Tomorrow night, New Haven, I'll be there. I believe there's still tickets left. College Street Music Hall, tomorrow night, Friday, March 10th, in New Haven, Connecticut. I'll be on Saturday going up to where my girl comes from, the area. Troy, Savings Bank Music Hall, that's March 11th. And then I'm gonna be cruising up to Burlington, Vermont, the Flynn Center on Sunday, March 12th. We're going right back. Came back home to LA for a couple of days, say hello to the cats, monkey, LaFonda, Buster, deaf black cat, scaredy cat, the second, touch base with everybody, went through my mail. It's always weird coming back, especially from Canada. Just coming back, getting off the plane and entering the traffic.