Episode 809 - John Michael Higgins / Maria Bamford

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers? WTF buddies, WTFineers, WTFsters? How's it going? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast, WTF. Welcome to it.
How's everything? I'm a little sickish. I'm sickly. I'm sickish. Sick, I don't know, man. Woke up yesterday, body was not in check. Shit was not in check. Stuff was going wrong. Little feverish, some stomach issues. Don't need to get too graphic. Felt a little buggy, a little achy. God damn it.
I've been running too hard, folks. Been pushing the envelope and overworking it.
But I don't know, maybe I got a bug. Maybe it'll go away by tomorrow. I hope so, because I got things to do. You know what I mean? So today on the show, John Michael Higgins. Yeah, that guy from all those Christopher Guest movies. Very funny. He lives down the street from me. I had no ideas. I'm surprised we're not hanging out and talking once a week. That is a good time. It was a good conversation. I enjoyed it immensely. And special treat, Maria Bamford stops by because she's got some things going on. Who doesn't love Maria Bamford?
I think every WTF should just be me and Maria Bamford interviewing each other perhaps.
But yeah, so I don't know what's wrong with me. Let me get some business out of the way because it's Marc and WTF related business. And I want to remind you to not forget that you can pre-order the new WTF book, Waiting for the Punch, Words to Live By from the WTF podcast if you go to wtfpod.com or marcmaronbook.com to get it.
I gave a copy to my mom, my mom's. She was in town for a few days. And I'm not attaching the sickness to that at all. I made it through two and a half days and then I got sick. But I'm not hanging that on her.
I think it's just exhaustion and a bug. Wouldn't do that to her. But my mom, get back to the point. My mom took a galley copy of the book and could not put it down. She was just fascinated by it and enjoying it immensely. If you want an advanced copy of that book, you can come to BookCon on June 3rd in New York City. I'll be there with Brendan McDonald talking about the book and you can get a copy before anyone else does and we'll be signing them. So go to thebookcon.com, thebookcon.com to get your tickets. They're 35 bucks right now, but the price will go up in a couple of weeks. And with your ticket, you can see all the other panels and presentations, not just me and Brendan, Jeffrey Tambor, Dan Brown and Margaret Atwood all have panels on the same day. So come down, see us, get a book, see a bunch of great talks. Also, folks, speaking of books, I did what I wanted to mention this because I got the book and I haven't mentioned it, but it's kind of a cool book. It's a very cool book. It's a book I'm in. It's called Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores by New Yorker cartoonist, Bob Eckstein. It's got beautiful illustrations. And then there are these stories from people like me, David Bowie, Terry Gross, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames and more about bookstores. And it's a beautiful book and I would pick it up. I'm in it and I forgot I was in it and I forgot to mention it before. It makes a great Mother's Day gift, so go pick it up wherever you get books, but especially at your neighborhood independent bookstore.