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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1238 - Erik Griffin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

If he hadn't been getting laughs as a high school basketball coach, Erik Griffin may never have gone back to comedy. He tells Marc the story of his comedy beginnings, his self-imposed exile, and his stand-up revival that got him back in the game. Erik and Marc also discuss the current environment at The Comedy Store, as everyone tries to find their footing in the aftermath of the pandemic. 

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0:00.0

Fuck the gang!

0:09.4

Alright, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck Knicks?

0:14.8

What the fuck Adelex?

0:17.0

What the fuck Topians?

0:19.2

I don't know. You know how it goes. There's a lot of them.

0:21.8

Over the years, many, many, many, many names.

0:25.6

People used to send me lists of names. Many, many lists.

0:29.3

Very helpful, but I can only get to three or four. Look folks, I'm just, I'm just getting by like the rest of you.

0:35.8

Are you getting by? Is everything alright? It's unclear.

0:39.6

We were talking about it today.

0:41.6

Brendan McDonald's here in town for something. Maybe I'll tell you about. I got a contest winner observing me.

0:47.8

I'm being observed. And we were talking about, where are we at with the rules?

0:53.0

Like, like, some people you go into places, you do, you don't even know if the place, I think in California,

0:59.1

it's up to the place, whether you wear the mask or not.

1:01.9

And then if it says that you do wear a mask, you go in and there's people not wearing masks,

1:05.9

but no one seems to give a fuck. And then there's people wearing masks.

1:08.5

And then there's still people wearing masks outside, which they haven't had to do for weeks.

1:12.9

So I'm starting to realize that like some people are having a little detachment problem.

1:17.0

They're having a little problem. Let them go with a mask. They've gotten used to it.

1:20.6

They like people only seeing half their face.

1:23.4

They like just being recognized by their terrified sad eyes everywhere they go.

1:27.4

So I don't know. I think we're going to have to let this stuff go.

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