Episode 984 - Sam Lipsyte

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Not only is Sam Lipsyte one of the funniest modern fiction authors, he’s also one of Marc’s best friends, a kindred spirit with whom Marc shares a deep mutual respect and understanding. Whenever Marc is in New York City, he and Sam sit around and talk, going over the pressing questions and answers about the way things are. This is the first time they recorded it for an extended period of time. They get into Sam’s early years with the art-punk band Dungbeetle, how he creates his stories in a manner he calls “moving sideways,” how his life has been enriched by teaching, and why it took him a while to write his latest novel Hark. This episode is sponsored by Comedy Central, Squarespace, Stamps.com, and Deadly Class on SYFY.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking years, what the fucksters,
0:15.7	what's happening, I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast, WTF, welcome to it.
0:20.1	How's it going?
0:21.1	I know I've been doing this kind of the same way at the beginning for years, for years,
0:26.7	but I enjoy the consistency.
0:28.6	I turn on the mic and I hear myself say those words and I'm in it, I'm ready to talk to
0:32.6	you.
0:33.6	And by the way, how is everything?
0:36.5	Are you okay?
0:37.7	Did you get it all done?
0:39.4	You feeling better?
0:40.4	Well, maybe you should like steam a little bit.
0:44.2	Yeah, Nettie pot, did you Nettie pot?
0:46.9	Did you get a flu shot?
0:48.8	You didn't, huh?
0:49.9	Well, I'm not going to say, well who knows.
0:52.7	But you know, I mean, you should probably take one day off.
0:56.5	I mean, you should probably shouldn't be at work today, am I right?
0:59.3	I mean, look at you, you're all covered in snot and you can't breathe and your eyes
1:03.9	are watering and you're touching things.
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