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That's squarespace.com WTF offer code WTF. All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck? Nicks, what's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Wtf. Welcome to it. What is going on? I gotta be honest with you. I'm just gonna go straight into it. We don't do this every year because it gets late for me to get this to Brendan before. It's very late there. I'm on the west coast, he's on the east coast. But I did just watch the Oscars. I watched him because if you've been listening to this show for many years, you know that I love them. I grew up excited about the Oscars. I was kind of a film nerdy kid and I just like seeing the movie stars. I like seeing the movies that were nominated for Oscars. When I was in high school, I liked talking about the movies with my buddy Devin, who, him and I were kind of heady, or we thought we were anyways, for high school students and on through college. But the Oscars have a big place in my heart and I've gone up and down with the Oscars over the years. But let me tell you something, this year's Oscars, my pal Conan O'Brien hosted this thing. I didn't know how it was going to go. I never know what to expect. It doesn't seem to be a job that people really want to do anymore. But God damn it, if he didn't just nail the fuck out of it. He was so good. He was so good. I can't even explain it. I'm excited. I had watched him. He came on my show at Largo last week to run some of the jokes. I remember asking if he was going to do a musical number. He's like, no, I'm just going do the jokes and bring people up. But he was underplaying it because that crew, that staff, his people, they really got him loaded up with good jokes. He was on confident and focused and just on fire and really kind of was warm. And it was. It was really one of the best Oscars I've seen in a long time. And I'm a big Kimmel fan as the host of that show, and I always liked the way he kind of underplayed things. But Conan brought something back to it, and he brought something fresh to it, and he made it very present. I'm not even sure how they did it, but some of it had to do with. It was a classy production. I mean, the set was just stunning. It just. It wasn't schmaltzy. It wasn't chintzy. There was not a lot of set pieces. There was a lot of audio, visual effects, and they just nailed it. It had this deco framework, and they had the. The orchestra up behind the stage where you could kind of see it at times in the middle of the screen. It was really. It was a great night of entertainment and honors. I. I don't know. Listen to me. I'm fucking like. I'm like. I'm going crazy here. Let me talk about today's show. Today, Don Johnson, Hollywood veteran guy who's been around a long time, is on the show. You know him from Miami Vice and movies like Tin Cup, Django, Unchained, Knives Out, Rebel Ridge. He's in the ABC series Dr. Odyssey, which is starting its second season this week. So, yeah, I was excited to. To watch the Oscars last night. I. I was. I was in New Mexico, and I'd gone out to see my dad and hang out with him. And then I went over to my friend Dave's house and with his girlfriend Sherilyn, and we watched him on the big screen. And I don't know, I get emotionally moved by the fucking Oscars. I don't know if I feel like it's part of my community now, but I feel like I'm more emotional about it now because I do talk to a lot of people. I wouldn't say I'm in rotation or anything. I wasn't there. But I'm always Curious to see how people handle that job. And he just fucking did a great job. And some of my picks. I was thrilled that Honora won the Best Picture Oscar. That was what I wanted to win. I don't. I wanted it to win because I think it's. It does everything it's supposed to do. It's a really great year for indie films this year. I mean, especially In Nora. But the Brutalist too. I. What my. My picks were really. What were they? I wanted Dinora to be Best Picture. I wanted Brady Courbet to win Best Director. I was kind of thinking that Adrian Brody was going to win, but I kind of wanted Ralph Fiennes to win. I wanted Demi to win. But it's. It's perfectly great that Mikey Madison won. I mean, just how exciting where things. You don't know what's gonna happen. And the movies are all pretty fucking good. And there are surprises. I know that I've gotta see Emilia Perez. I've gotta see the Brazilian film that. What is it? I'm still here. I think that I can accept that. Best Cinematography went to the Brutalist. I'm sorry Brady didn't win, but I think that it got some respect and the respect it deserved, actually, because Adrian won. But the cinematography was pretty fucking amazing. And Sean Baker won Best Director, Best Editor, Best Original Screenplay. And then Best Picture. That's fucking outstanding independent movie made for $6 million. I don't know. And the comedy was good. It wasn't overwrought. There were only a couple really wacky bits. The opening bit was good. Everybody was dressed nice. But that set and that orchestra and Conan just keeping it going. I don't know. And also just the vibe, you know, LA coming out of the fires, you know, show business in general being culturally marginized by monsters. There was no attention paid to the president or to politics, except in a very specific way. When a movie that was a documentary made by a group of Palestinians and Israelis about what's going on there. And they said their piece, which was righteous. And it's just a beautiful thing to have show business and the artists that revolve around film in all elements, not politicizing themselves by taking shots so they could have a night of their own. And also kind of celebrate the community and what it means to put art in the world and the power of it. Adrian Brody said some beautiful stuff about that and about marginalization and about antisemitism and pushing back on hate. They had the firefighters come out and they'd written a few jokes for them. That was pretty funny. So there was the kind of LA community represented, and there was the. The sort of entertainment industry represented and the idea of art having purpose and facilitating some sort of change or at least some sort of salve to hopelessness and bringing people together. I thought it was great. I thought it was great. And I'm very proud of my buddy Conan. We're not that close, but they. But, you know, I know him a long time, but I didn't know how he would do. And he really. He did well. I got choked up a lot during the thing. Just when people win and they don't expect to win. And God damn it, I love that movie Anora, and I love that movie the Brutalist. And they did all right. They did all right. I think Anora was one of the most surprising, entertaining, heartfelt things I'd seen in a long time. Another thing I want to mention is that when Ben Stiller showed up, all I was hoping was that he was going to do a comedy piece. Because despite whatever seriousness he aspires to and achieves, Ben Stiller doing physical comedy is one of the greatest things ever in terms of comedy. Ben Stiller is one of the great physical comedians, and he did a bit and it was great. No one has better physical timing than that fucking guy. So that was a treat. I'll be in Oklahoma City at the Tower Theater this Thursday, folks. That's March 6th. I'll be in Dallas on Friday, March 7th, at the Majestic Theater. I'll be in Houston at the White Oak Music Hall, Saturday, March 8, and San Antonio at the Empire Theater on Sunday, March 9, before I head to south by Southwest that week. Durham, North Carolina. I'm at the Carolina Theater of Durham on Friday, March 21. I'll be in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Knight Theater on Saturday, March 22, in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Charleston Music hall on Sunday, March 23. Then I'm coming to Illinois, Michigan, Toronto, Vermont, New Hampshire and New York City for my special taping. Go to wtfpod.com tour for all of the dates and links and again, get the links from there. So it doesn't. You're not going to a scalper site. And I don't. I don't mean to say this over and over again like people are stupid. And I'm not saying they're stupid, but you can't just Google Marc Maron tickets and get to the right place. So go to wtfpod.com tour to get the. To get the stuff that you need. Speaking of movies, I don't know if I mentioned this, but I went back and I watched Brady Courbet's first film called Childhood of a Leader. And it might be better than the Brutalist. You should see it. I feel like I already told you to do this. But he's a real. A real fucking poet. And he's got a real interesting sensibility. Outside of that, I just want to say that my maternal lineage goes all the way back into the Ukraine, into Galicia, which apparently when my great, great, great grandfather was there, it was an oil boom town. And I'd like to think that my great great great grandfather, maybe even one more great, was working those wells, a Jewish roughneck. And I say this because I stand with Ukraine, politically and genetically, genetically Ukrainian, at least a quarter. And then the other part was close, it was Poland. And then there's some other stuff, Russia, but, you know, the full Ashkenaz spectrum. So, like I said, I've been out here in New Mexico and I was visiting my dad for a few days, or just a day. I spent a day with him and he's still hanging in there. He had a good day with me. We spent a couple hours together. A few hours. He was present and talking. Can't remember what he had for breakfast. But he knows about me, knows about my life. He knows about his life. And his wife Rosie was there. And it's interesting because she has a huge family. Huge. And it strikes me that as a person who doesn't have kids and is relatively disconnected from my extended family, when that's the situation, like I just have a lot less unfolding and seemingly never ending drama in my life. And that seems to be the excitement of some part of the excitement of family and connection. There's always someone to talk about who you love or who you kind of have to accept or not accept, but they're part of your family, for better or for worse. And it just. It's just when I'm around Rosie, she's always talking about this family. And I don't know if I miss it, but I don't have that, that, that. That big connection of constantly being able to. To, you know, who's dying, who's not dying, who's in trouble, who's out of favor, who's got sick, who won an award, whose kid is dancing. It's just like I don't have that. And in the absence of that, it's just really the daily garbage churn of the manifestations of my own insecurities, shame, panic and despair. The four horsemen of my personal apocalypse. And then I just throw in that other trash that comes into my brain. Just throw that into the hopper and see what I come up with. Look, don't. I know. Listen, I'm tired of me too. Believe me, all right? Believe me. But I'm okay today because, well, lately I've been taking, like every opportunity that I can to just be among other people, Just be in real life. Just being like. I went out and I mentioned this before, me and Jerry went out to Cantor's the other night just to be around people in a crowded restaurant who were just, you know, just eating. You know, some of them alone, some of them not alone. Just being around humanity. I was just online at a coffee shop here in Albuquerque and some guy complimented my sunglasses. And the next thing I know, we're just sitting. We're just standing there in line, talking about his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his family, his trips to Venice that he had taken, his Italian roots, his New York roots. We talked about my boots for a while. And that happened in five minutes. People like to talk to people. And even if it's just small talk in a way, it's actually better when it's casual and loose and not driven by ideology and politics. Because that's when you're listening to a self editing recording device and the person's humanity fades into the machine or disappears. But there's some craving I have, and I think it's worth continuing to talk about to get out in the fucking world. I mean, just be out in the world among people. It feels important. And I know it seems small, but it just feels important. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. I bet you know someone who seems like they have it all together. Maybe you admire that person, or maybe you wish you could be as collected as they are. But. 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I want to be evaluated. I need an evaluation. I don't necessarily know what I'm going to do with that evaluation, but I need it because I'm realizing that my propensity to think catastrophically and generate massive amounts of dread and anxiety for myself has been with me for a long time. And now that, you know, things are overwhelming in many ways and I'm getting older, it gets almost unbearable, to be honest with you. You know, it's just every day, every day, the arc of feelings from, you know, self righteous anger to suicidal ideation, I get that's a limited range. I understand that. That's the dark spectrum. On the light spectrum I have fleeting blurts of mania to exhausted peace of mind. But there's, there's got to be some midway. There's got to be some midway. I've got to be able to manage things a little better and it's been a little bad lately. So I'm going to, I'm going to go get a little help. I'm going to go get a little help. All right, I'm just telling you that so, you know, that's what I'm going to do. Okay, look, Don Johnson, Don Johnson is an interesting character because everybody knows who Don Johnson is and he's been in la. He's been around this business for a long time, for a lot of generations. He's got a lot of stories. The Season 2 premiere of Doctor Odyssey is this Thursday, March 6th at 9pm 8 Central on ABC. You can also stream episodes on Hulu. But when I got the opportunity to talk to Don Johnson. How am I not going to talk to Don Johnson? Right here's me and Don Johnson. Look, dude. So you like plants?