Marc Maron

And I think if you remove the judgment tone from desperation and you apply it to your life, the definition of desperation is

is a state of despair, typically one which results in a rash or extreme behavior.

Yeah, I'll take it.

I'll take it.

At the beginning of this show, I was in a very bad place.

My career was in the toilet.

And there was really nowhere to go from where I was.

I'd been through a lot of shit.

I'd been through two divorces.

One that was dramatically and traumatically heartbreaking and costly.

I didn't have a way forward really with comedy that made sense.

I'd already been at it a long time.

I was in my 40s.

And rash or extreme behavior.

The extreme behavior...

See, even that definition has the connotation of something that could be negative.

But the rash or extreme behavior that I took part in, in my desperation at that time, was to do something totally different.

Look, I knew I could be on these mics, but the extreme behavior was like, we're going to do this thing because we have access to this technology to put it out there.

And we don't know where it goes from there.

There's no money involved.