WTF Uncovered - Patton Oswalt

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Okay, folks, well, this is our special Friday thing that we're going to be giving you every Friday through the year end. These are specials. These are special episodes of things that you've never heard before. There's no way you could have heard the one I'm gonna play for you today. There's no way because my producer sent me an email saying he had some stuff that no one's ever heard before. He found it in a box under his bed, some stuff, some disks that represent me a decade ago. So I don't know exactly what they are, so I'm gonna call Brendan McDonald right now and get the low down.
And also to ask him, I'd like to know if I'm okay with whatever the hell this stuff is.
So let me call Brendan.

**Brendan McDonald** (2:15)
Hello.

**Marc Maron** (2:16)
Hey, Brendan.

**Brendan McDonald** (2:18)
Hey, man.

**Marc Maron** (2:18)
It's Marc. Hey, so all right, so I got the email. So what are these unheard bootleg recordings you have of me?

**Brendan McDonald** (2:30)
OK, well, these are like, it really is no one other than maybe one other person who has ever heard this stuff. And I did not know that I had these. I'm serious about that. Like people might think that I'm just making that up. I did not know they existed.
I thought that I had given them over to somebody, but I just found them in a shoe box, literally in a shoe box. They were discs from 2006
When you and I went out to LA, you were heading back home after two years stint at Air America. And we were set up to do a show out in LA for the local Air America affiliate there. We thought it was a gig that was just going to be set up for us.

**Marc Maron** (3:16)
Right. Yeah, we thought we were. That was the that was the Siberia gig. That's like, yeah, you have a show in the middle of the night.

**Brendan McDonald** (3:25)
Right. Preempted by Clippers games most of the time.

**Marc Maron** (3:29)
Yeah, that was the worst where we were doing it live, but we had to wait for the basketball game to end and we'd just be sitting there waiting to go on the air.

**Brendan McDonald** (3:37)
But in order to get that show, I don't even know if you remember this, but I'm sure you remember that guy Don Martin, who was the program director there.

**Marc Maron** (3:46)
Horrible person.

**Brendan McDonald** (3:48)
Yeah, he hated you.

**Marc Maron** (3:49)
Yeah, hated me because of his love for Stephanie Miller.

**Brendan McDonald** (3:54)
Yes, you had kind of tried to do a little radio war with Stephanie Miller, trying to do what radio jocks do, and he did not take kindly to that. Stephanie didn't take kindly to that either, or you two have since made up.

**Marc Maron** (4:07)
Yes, we have.
Don and I are not good, though. I've not reached out to him. I've not heard from him.

**Brendan McDonald** (4:13)
That's not surprising. We thought we were going to go there. We thought that the Air America people had set this up. We thought, okay, great, we're going out there to do this show on the Air America affiliate. Well, Don Martin wanted none of it. In fact, not only did he make us kiss the ring, he made us create pilot shows to be heard only by him, where we had to basically put our best foot forward and make a show that this guy could listen to.