Episode 1074 - Mike Sweeney

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Mike Sweeney tried on several different careers before becoming the head writer for Conan O’Brien: trial lawyer, standup comedian, warm-up comic. But it’s a miracle he was able to do any of them after growing up in a violent, unpredictable household. Mike tells Marc the truly shocking circumstances of his early life, as well as the better days doing comedy in New York City, the highs of Late Night on NBC, the chaos of Conan’s Tonight Show days, and the many hats he now wears in the Conan Empire. This episode is sponsored by Zoro.com, Stamps.com, and Pepsi.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.1	How are you?
0:12.1	What the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck tucky-ins?
0:17.0	How's it going?
0:18.2	This is it.
0:19.2	I know this is a slow week for many people in terms of work.
0:23.1	I think people are kind of shut down, they're shut off, they're getting ready to go, they're
0:27.1	preparing mentally to sort of land in the chaos that they come from.
0:33.7	To sort of go back, go back into it, go back into the vortex, put on your psychic helmets
0:42.0	to enter the world of your childhood, or maybe not.
0:46.4	Maybe you're like, no, you know what, not doing that, just gonna have Thanksgiving
0:49.7	by myself or with my family, my family, the one I'm trying to, my family, the corrective
0:56.8	the family that corrects it, the thing that I made to stop the madness.
1:04.7	I made these children to stop what you did.
1:09.0	Look at me, I'm yelling at nothing, these kids will never see that.
1:14.0	You did this and these kids, right kids?
1:17.5	Right?
1:18.5	Daddy's okay, right?
1:21.0	See, I'm not gonna be the same kind of person, what are you laughing at?
1:26.5	I'm not gonna be the same kind of person you were, I'm fixing it.
1:30.5	This is the tone of a person fixing something.
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