Episode 1186 - Sam Tallent

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Sam Tallent felt compelled to write a book about the guy he was afraid to turn into. As a comedian plying his trade on the road, Sam did enough one-nighters and heard enough horror stories from other comics to know there's a path to ruin while going from club to club. Marc is also familiar with that path, which is why he connected so strongly with Sam's book, Running the Light. Marc and Sam talk about the book's fictional (but all-too-real) protagonist Billy Ray Shafer, as well as the actual rogues and borderline criminals they've met in their industry. Sam also explains what it was like to bet on himself and publish the book on his own.

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0:00.0	Lock the gate!
0:09.4	Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck, buddies?
0:14.1	What the fuck, Adelix, what's happening, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy the things.
0:20.1	Hey, eh, eh, yeah, I have a good thing. Have a good thing, you guys.
0:25.5	Open the things.
0:26.8	I'm doing nothing for Christmas, zero.
0:30.6	The only thing I remembered about Christmas, generally speaking, this time of year in the past, was that everything quieted down and it felt a little desolate and lonely.
0:39.7	Well, guess what, it's been almost a fucking year of that, so no difference, really, from where I'm sitting.
0:47.2	Uh, I'll probably eat some bad things. That's what, enjoy the bad things you put in your face.
0:52.8	Merry Christmas, I'll be getting nice present.
0:54.8	Look, I don't, look, I don't want to be edgy. How's it going, man? I hope you're doing okay.
1:00.5	I don't think that I express, perhaps, enough gratitude to you folks, to the people that listen, to the people that reach out to me.
1:10.6	I want to do that now. I want to do it right now.
1:14.7	Okay, I want to tell you that how deeply, and I'm serious, I appreciate all the emails that have been sent to me in light of what I've been through this year.
1:23.9	Uh, all the emails that, that state how much, what I do makes a difference in people's lives.
1:30.1	I want to thank you for the presence, for the cards, for everything.
1:33.1	I swear to fucking God, people, the God I don't believe in.
1:37.5	I swear to fucking Santa. He's not real either.
1:40.7	I swear to fucking Satan. Well, that might, he, he knows, he knows where I live.
1:48.2	But I'm tremendously grateful to all of you for being in my life, and for reaching out to me in my time of a profound sadness.
1:59.4	And for, you know, listening to this show on this Christmas Eve, and I really don't think I could have made it without you.
2:08.0	I, I came here first.
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