Episode 800 - Jeff Ross

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFsters, WTFineers, WTFadelics, WTFnavians, WTFareacans, WTFtuckians, WTFminsterFullers, WTFlberryFins, and the list goes on. I can't go through it all, but I thought I'd do a little more than usual at the beginning to make this episode a bit special because it is a marker, but after a certain point, markers as good as they are, how many, you know, what are you going to do? Wait, we're all getting older, right? And the show today is the 800th, 800th episode of WTF. 800 episodes. Astounding. We do different, we've done different things at these milestones. And as the time goes on, they become, you know, they just become another day. But you do want to to mark it because it is sort of an astounding thing. Let's get into the what we're doing here today in a second. Let me first get out that, you know, I've got a few tour dates coming out. And I always like to have you guys and gals, you people, you folks, I like you to come.
I'm doing I'm going to be in Boulder, Colorado tomorrow night at the Boulder Theater. I'll be at the Paramount Theater on Saturday in Denver, Colorado, the Aladdin Theater in Portland on April 21st and 22nd. They added a late show in Portland on the 22nd on the Saturday. I believe there's still some tickets for that left. Milwaukee, that needs a little love. Come on, Milwaukee, April 27th at the Pabst, the Orpheum in Madison, Wisconsin. Let's go Midwest. All right, April 28th, the Pantages Theater. I'll be shooting my special for Netflix on April 29th on April 29th in Minneapolis. There's two shows.
I believe those are selling well, but that second show, let's go. May 12th, Philadelphia at the Miriam Theater and May 13th, DC at the Warner Theater. Not many tickets left for that DC show and the Phillies going good. They're all going really good, but that one, man, that one in Milwaukee. What is it? What I do to you, Milwaukee?
Where we at?
800 fucking episodes. That is crazy. Today on the show, my guest is Jeff Ross.
And that's for a reason. And I'll tell you what it is. Jeff Ross was actually the very first guest on WTF. It was a different show then. Now I would like to tell you that as of today, WTF has been downloaded more than 330 million times. That's a lot of times. That's a lot of downloads, man. The first episode we did was recorded at the end of August in 2009 And we posted it on September 1st, 2009 Now where we were at, we had hijacked the studio at the Old Air America.
Me and my producer and business partner, Brendan McDonald, were out of work because they canceled the streaming video show we were doing on there. So we wanted to throw something together and we had done radio together. Me and Brendan had been working together in some form or another since 2004 So we were like, let's figure out this podcast thing. Now we didn't really have a plan at the beginning.
Not unlike I enter most conversations, there was no plan for the show other than we wanted to feel it out, figure something out. There were three segments on the first episode. There was a story about feeling morally justified stealing Stevia from Whole Foods, which also became an essay in my book.