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Marc Maron (0:02)
Folks, we've waited 15 long years for King of the Hill to return to our screens. And now the classic series has arrived on Hulu. Newly retired Hank Hill and his wife Peggy return to their Texas home from the Middle east and realize things look a little different. Bobby's all grown up running a German Japanese fusion restaurant in Dallas and still fumbling through his feelings for Connie. Boomhauer continues to be a hit with the ladies as he takes his business online. Bill's really let the years get to him. And D is, well, you know, Dale is just Dale. Arwen sure has changed as Hank and Peggy try to find their bearings again. But one thing's for sure, the alley guys are right where Hank left them, beers in hand. And Alamos on ice. Same hill, new day. Yep. A whole new season of King of the Hill is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney plus for bundle subscribers, terms apply. Okay, folks, today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Which is the best way to showcase your stuff online. Your art, your podcast, your crafts, you. By helping you make a customizable website. Now, using blueprint AI, build your whole website in just a few steps. Then choose whatever features you want to get the most out of your site. Just like we do with wtfpod.com check out squarespace.com WTF for a free trial. And then use offer code WTF to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. That's squarespace.com WTF offer code WTF. All right. Okay. Yeah, let's do it. All right. Let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck, Nicks? What the fuck wits? What the fuck? Oh, Kratz.
Questlove (1:57)
What's happening?
Marc Maron (1:58)
I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. How's it going out there? How is it going out there? Oh, my God. New York was fucking crazy. I did so much shit there. So many different media hits. Old timey media hits. I went to CNN in the morning and it was almost like there was no one there. It was kind of depressing. The building was kind of empty. Then I went over to the Hearst building and did a thing for Esquire and a thing for Men's Help. Same thing. The building just seemed empty in these offices. Just a lot of empty desks. It was just. I guess that's just where things are at. Was kind of saddening. But oddly, that Hearst building is pretty amazing. And that Hudson Yard building, too, was where CNN is. And some other stuff I think HBO's down there now too. Pretty stunning buildings I've gotten kind of. Sometimes I lock in to buildings I lock into public spaces. And I gotta tell you, man, I can't shut up about Kit Kemp. Yeah, I will tell you about it, I guess in just a second. But today on the show I'm gonna talk to Questlove. He's the co founder of the Roots. He's a six time Grammy winner and a best documentary Oscar winner for Summer of Soul. He's nominated for three Emmys this year, including one for his documentary Sly Lives AKA the Burden of Black Genius, which I watched and I gotta say, it was great. It was great. You know, Quest is one of those guys that you're like, where do I start? Where do I go? But he kind of goes, you just kind of sit down and he'll take it from there. But that Sly Stone documentary was mind blowing. You know, Quest just used him as a portal to explore an entire time period and the impact Sly had on all of music. And you know, as time goes on and a guy gets the reputation of being a fuck up or a guy that just burned it all down, which so I. Did you forget that the phenomenon of Sly Stone was much bigger than the few songs you might know. And the way Quest kind of goes into his work, his psyche, his time, it's the people around him. It was kind of amazing how big he was. And everything just kind of goes by the wayside, you know, everything becomes nostalgia. Everything becomes just a, a YouTube video. Everything becomes, I don't know, just sort of like, hey, that's behind us. I guess a lot of comics are doing this Riad Comedy Festival brought to you by the people that brought us 9 11. Okay. I guess that's nostalgia. Getting their check signed by the guy who buzz sawed a journalist and put him in a piece of luggage. Yeah, I mean, you know, look, right? Money's money, right? I don't know, does anything matter anymore? Back to business, folks. Back to business. I was talking about Kitkamp, first of all. I can't shut up about Kitkamp. And sometimes I get very. I get kind of connected to public space or private space or whatever, but I guess she co owns the Fermdale Hotels and I stayed at the Crosby in New York and I love that fucking hotel. It's a little pricey for me, but we got the HBO rate and they kind of picked up part of it. And I just. The times I've been there. One time DreamWorks put me up there And I stayed at a suite. And I never understood interior design until I stayed at that place. I mean, it was just everywhere you looked, it was just mind blowing. I feel like I've talked about her before, and I don't know that there's any reason to talk about her. I mean, she doesn't need promotion, but every time I stay at one of her hotels, like the Crosby, I just wander around going, like, look at these chairs. It's a totally different fabric on this one than the other one. The walls, the wall treatments have fabrics. Everything's different colors. It seems like it wouldn't match, but it's fucking genius. The aesthetic is, like, totally unique, but grounded in something kind of traditional, almost English. But the colors and the fabrics and the wall treatments and the things on the wall and the chairs and the fucking table. I'm like, I'm having people go over there. I swear to God, when I was over there, Bowen Yang came by because I interviewed him. You'll hear that. But after we talked him, like, let me show you around the hotel. Like, it was like my fucking house. Every room is different. The headboards, the wall treatment, the fabrics on the couches. I can't even look. I'm not telling you to stay there. Just look her up. Look up Kit Kemp Hotels and just look at those interiors and tell me that your fucking mind isn't blown. Just tell me that. Would you Tell me it? This is an ad by BetterHelp. These days, it feels like there's advice for everything. Cold plunges, gratitude journals, screen detoxes. But how do you know what actually works for you? 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Okay, so the screening at the 92nd Street Y was great. A lot of fans came. I watched my special again on a big screen. Obviously the special is out now on hbo, and HBO Max seems to be getting a lot of good features feedback, which I'm happy about. I like hearing about it, but I do like. I like when real critics assess my work. People have really a depth of. Of analysis and thought and reference. I, I enjoy reading it. Even if it's not good. I generally learn something. There's a difference between a piece of criticism and a review. A review just picks these points. It's usually slightly stilted or not at all to the writer's point of view, but it's usually only a few paragraphs and you can you kind of tell what their angle is, even if it's a relatively good review, if they're just kind of, you know, going through the paces. But I will say this. The New York Times. Jason Zinnerman did a beautiful piece, not just about the. The special, but sort of about the weaving of the special with what I do on the podcast. And, you know, he's been sort of on top of my shit for a long time. He knows what I do, he knows my work, and he's been there for a long time. But this is a beautiful piece and a real honor to read it. Catherine Van Arendonck over at Vulture, she also did kind of a sweeping piece about me and the special, but knowing my work going back and sort of like making me even look at things a little differently, that's what I like about a good review. And the Atlantic did a very nice piece. Vikram Murthy, again, people who know my work, who think about my work, who can assess it over sometimes decades. I'm not just tooting my horn about good reviews, but these were thorough so I can learning someone else's point of view. When it's kind of laid out there and thoughtful, it's helpful to me. I don't know how it lands. I don't know how people frame it. I know the way I think it should be framed generally, but by watching it for the umpteenth time. Well, not that many, but probably the fourth or fifth time in a live audience on a big screen, that's when it starts to break down for me. I'm like, know. Then it gets nitpicky, you know, But I, I think it. I think it looked great. But afterwards, after the screening Jim Gaffigan moderated a conversation with me and that was fun. It was fun. And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we are going to put it up for Thursday's show. So thanks for watching it. If you watched it, I know that the Theo Vaughn clip has gone viral. I don't. I'm. I love that bit. I imagine Theo can take it. I don't know. I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was a solid kind of acute busting of balls. But it was a joke and it was funny, so we'll see. But that seems to be getting out there to the right and wrong people. But all in all, when I got home on Saturday, I was wiped out. It was a long bit of press and a long week of press, and I was just kind of beside myself, starting to re. Obsess on, you know, my life on, you know, whatever's, you know, under my toenail, which I think is just a bruise, but I'm probably going to go in and look because people make me paranoid. But now I'm looking at right now. I'm pretty sure I dropped something on there, but I always think cancer.