Episode 820 - Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon / Jim Florentine

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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Let see if you catch them all.
What the fuck buddies? What the fucking ears? What the fuckabillies? What's happening?
Appreciate your family, your friends and food, and try to do the right thing for other people, for strangers. Be empathetic. Be open hearted. Don't be a dick. Stay off Twitter as much as possible. Get off of Facebook if you can.
Breathe. Go enjoy a flower. Cook some things. Do some cooking.
Pet a cat.
That's the list for today.
Hold on. Comedy store is calling me. Hello?
Hey buddy, what's going on?
Yeah, put me in for Saturday, both rooms. Thanks man.
The idea that I had about taking a break from comedy is it doesn't seem to be happening. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's okay. Enjoy life if you can. Try to temper it. Stay involved. Do what you can, but don't let it destroy your entire disposition. Is that all right? I got kind of a big show today, so I'm not going to ramble on too much. I'm going to talk to Jim Florentine, the comedian. I don't know, he just wanted to stop by and I guess talk about rock music, so we did that. It was fun. He's like a metalhead. I'm not quite a metalhead, but we meet somewhere in the middle. And he was just hanging out and he wanted to come over. It's always nice to see Jim. After Jim, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon are here. Now they're married and they have a movie coming out.
The Big Sick opens in New York and Los Angeles on June 23rd. It's going to expand on the 30th and throughout July. But this is a big movie. Judd Apatow produced it. It's about their relationship. Now, some of you know Kumail from Silicon Valley from The Meltdown. I've known him for a long time. He's been on this show before, but I don't know how many of you know that we had sort of a problem that was actually depicted in season three of Maron episode one, two, three, four, five, Mad Mark, where I lost my shit on Kumail and Emily at The Meltdown here in Los Angeles. I just snapped and lost my shit.
It was not good behavior. It was a few years ago already, but I didn't know if we had cleared it up. So there's a little bit of that coming up. Also, Kumail is in our book, Waiting for the Punch, available now for preorder wherever you buy books or at wtfpod.com. But this was a kind of old school WTF in that I had to open with an apology.
And this is for years ago, man. And I wanted to make sure we were cool. But I do remember being a little jacked up on caffeine. I remember going to the Nerdmelt to do the Meltdown show. And what happened, I don't know if I described this to you, is that, you know, it's hosted by Jonah and Kumail. And I was waiting to go on. I had to be somewhere else. And they were going on and on. And I was oozing my shit. And I got up on stage and they got off. And I took a few shots, a few parting shots at the two of them.
And then I got off and Kumail said, you know, you can't make fun of me on my show. And I think I said, you fucking baby. What a fucking baby, you fuck. And then I threw a shit fit and I said I wasn't coming back.