Episode 960 - Richard E. Grant / Brian Posehn

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTFuddies, WTFuckians? I don't know why I'm focusing on you. How's it going? What's happening out there? The paperback of Waiting for the Punch is now available in stores, folks. Or you can go to marcmaronbook.com and order a copy from wherever you like to order books. Also, the Across the Divide event. The Across the Great Divide event is tomorrow night, Friday the 19th. I'm going down to the Ace Hotel, I'm hosting the thing. I gotta get that together, the hosting, what kind of funnies do I wanna make. Then I gotta bring up all the acts, including Bob Weir, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Jimmy Vovino, the musical director. He's cajoled me, talked me into playing a song that I played with him before, but Slash is gonna be sitting in on that song as well. I discussed this with you before. I'm going in, I'm going full throttle. I practiced a bit. I know I got this problem with my arm and my fingers, my other hand, my picking hand, the nail is seems to be not falling off. I can hold the prick, a prick, woof.
Let's not assess that too deeply. I can hold a pick pretty well, pretty well. You know, I got the strength back in it. So I'm gonna go in, I'm gonna do it. But boy, did I have a waffling, I just was waffling confidence wise all day yesterday. You know, when you get that slight sinking feeling, you know, a slight heaviness in the heart, maybe your stomach feels a little pulled upon, a mild kind of tinge of the depression that just makes you feel like you're not good enough to do anything. Yeah, I had that for a few hours. And then I just leaned into the guitar and I'm just sort of like, get it out, get it out, man. Worked on my stand up a bit.
Yeah, I have a bit of a, that's where it came from. You know, like I can't just admit that like, hey man, I'm a little nervous about this shit coming up. I'm a little scared. You know, I got to play guitar with Slash. I got to host a big event with some big musical acts, which, you know, should be fun, but I'm just sort of like, oh fuck, what am I gonna do? And then I've got, I'm going to New York to shoot the Joker movie with De Niro and Joaquin with that scene, and I'm like, oh my God, that should be, but I'm excited about it, but I have to assume that somewhere under the excitement and the actual feeling of groundedness around this stuff, there exists the ever flowing well spring of fear and insecurity that I keep underground. It's a subterranean well. I put some concrete over the hole that it used to flow through into my being, but every once in a while, it'll just, there'll be a little fissure. There'll be a fissure and then it starts seeping out. They just like this, the fluid, you know, you can't do this, you're not gonna pull it off. Don't pretend like you're, you can handle this. You suck. Just a little, just kind of oozing out of this fissure.
I'm excited is what I'm trying to say. I can't wait to do the stuff I have ahead of me.
You know, things are tough in the world. My world is okay. I got some opportunities. Looking forward to it.