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Go to quints.com WTF for 365 day returns plus free shipping on your order. Then that's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com WTF to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com 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. Welcome to it. Look you guys, today on the show I'm gonna talk to Gillian Bell. She was my co star in Sword of Trust. That was Lynn Shelton's last movie. She was a writer on SNL before being in movies and shows like Workaholics, Brittany Runs a Marathon and Eastbound and Down. But she has just directed her first feature, Summer of 69, which is not about 1969. It's a reference to the sexual position. Let me just get this out of the way. Los Angeles I'm back at Largo for an 8pm show next Tuesday, April 22. Then I'm at Dynasty Typewriter on Saturday, April 26 and again on Tuesday, April 29. Toronto I'm at the Winter Garden on Saturday, May 3 for two shows. Burlington, Vermont I'm at the Vermont Comedy Club for two shows on Monday, May 5 and one show on Tuesday, May 6. Those I believe are all sold out. But there might be tickets surfacing, I don't know. Portsmouth, NH I'll be at the Music hall on Wednesday, May 7th. Then I'm in Brooklyn, New York, for my HBO special taping at the Bam Harvey Theater on May 10th. Two shows there. Go to wtfpod.com tour for all of my dates and links to tickets. Yes, do that. So look, you guys, I don't know, you know, I brought this up, must be five, six weeks ago, that eventually the President would defy the courts, and that's happening. And then we would be in a bona fide constitutional crisis. And that has arrived. Here we are. This is it. This is the precipice. I don't know what the recourse is of the Supreme Court over this deportation ruling or the lower courts with theirs, whether they're gonna find the President in contempt or not. But this is what was gonna happen, and I assumed it would happen. And now it's happened, and we are in a true constitutional crisis. Cause I don't know really what the recourse is for the courts to take the President to task. There's nobody in the orbit in terms of advisers or people with positions of power in the Justice Department or in the executive branch that will tell him he can't do this and he's going to do it. And then ultimately, if there is no recourse, the government that we have or had is no longer functioning. It's no longer America as based in constitutional democracy. So how are you? Good morning. Welcome. What are you gonna do about it? What are we gonna do about it? I mean, look, I get focused on these, you know, I'm starting to go into deeper dives. It seems that outside of the mania and sociopathic autocracy of the president, that you have these people within the administration who, you know, Trump is not smart. He's not. He's a dummy. And so, you know, he's being operated and, you know, go poke around, take a look at Russell Vaught in the Office of Management and Budget, because I think that guy is an engine. And of course, Stephen Miller, the deputy Chief of staff, is that what his position is, in charge of policy? Yeah, that guy, he's out there doing it. But, yeah, I mean, if you want to get more definition around it, I know people don't, you know, stay checked in. There's a lot of other people, you know, working on this. But what did we do? What do we do? Well, I just spent an hour and a half playing guitar deeply trying to find a riff to. To use for my special. I have been, you know, on the fence about how to handle my cat, Charlie, in terms of medicine. I'm deciding now, and I Think I talked to you about it before, that. That I think I'm going to take him off the Prozac. I actually think that Prozac is making him more aggravated. I'm just gonna have to ride it out. This is my feeling. I'm going to talk about this with the same urgency I talked about the constitutional crisis. That's. That everything in my mind happens at roughly the same frequency, and sometimes it can't get out from under it. I mean, the cats. And I've talked about this a bit, but I do think that my brain generates as much personal crisis as possible to counteract the. The macro political and environmental crisis at hand. So if I can match it, I can at least keep it in the house. You know, like, I can see what's going on in the macro and the big picture, but I can go like, I got some stuff going on here. You know, my cat is aggravated and they're uncomfortable. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna deal with this, and then I'll check in with the other stuff later today or every five minutes, however it works for you. But I do. I've had many cats before in my life. Some people are telling me to call Jackson Galaxy. I don't know that guy. But I do have a sense of what's going on. I mean, when I go and I think I went away too much this last time, the vacuum, the power vacuum creates, you know, a dominant struggle. And I've got Buster and Charlie, who are, I think, more or less the alphas. Sammy's kind of a moron and was pretty severely punked out by Buster. So they have a very cute gay relationship. Gay marriage to a degree. But I find that Sammy's like, he's gonna go to wherever the tough guy is. So that creates a little friction. But I think me being away so much has put Charlie in this position to where he's gonna fight it out with Buster to be the king of the house. And then I come home and he's fighting with me. This little fuck is taking me on, and I'm like, dude, that's not gonna. It's not gonna go well for you. And then I medicated him. You know, just like a small authoritarian leader in my house. I'm like, if these fuckers aren't gonna like me, I will repress them. I will suppress them. I will put this little fucker on medicine so he can't function the way he wants. And then. I don't like that part of me. I don't like that so, but, but also like having cats for so long, they're just gonna have to figure it out. I got one more trip to do and it might be a little dicey, but I got some gabapentin and I'm just gonna try, try to wean them off this Prozac and, and let them figure it out, because they will figure it out. I've had so many cats, I know that this has happened before. I just freaked out because there was a lot of shit involved, literal shit, and just a lot of insanity. Three male cats. Kit keeps telling me like, we'll get a female and balance it out. I'm not gonna just keep adding cats to the problem. You can't just keep adding cats to the problem. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace and we've come a long way with our website thanks to Squarespace. 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As I said, I worked with her on Lynn Shelton's last movie, Sword of Trust. We had a good time. And she's directed a movie. It's called the summer of 69. It'll be on Hulu starting Friday, May 9th. And this is me talking to Jillian Bell.