Maybe if you...squint a little.
What do you do when you feel like you’ve become a lightning rod for life’s first-world inconveniences (e.g. expensive car repairs, debit card fraud, and soul-crushing, insomnia-causing heartache)? Well, I don’t know how you deal, but one way I find solace is popping in the old ear buds and listening to my favorite podcasts.
Topping my list:
The Ricky Gervais Show
This American Life
RadioLab
And you guessed it:
WTF with Marc Maron.
To kick off spring break, my friend and I braved the traffic to watch a live WTF show at the cozy Steve Allen theatre awesomely located in the Center for Inquiry in Hollywood.
Because my friend isn’t struck by the same crippling timidity that I am, she kindly introduced us to the man in question, who was nervously snacking on bland popcorn and pacing the venue. Of course, afterwards, I thought of saying something cool like,”See? Asians do like listening to you!” Instead, I flashed the default smile and let out a shrill “Hi!” At least I think I did. I temporarily blacked out.
Nevertheless, the show was amazing, Marc was charmingly acerbic and neurotic, and his interactions with all the guests (Ari Shaffir, Pete Holmes, Craig Robsinson, and Eddie Pepitone) had me forget about all of life’s woes.
Although the audience was a random mix of bespectacled hipsters, buttoned-down seniors, comedy nerds, actual nerds and everything in between, I could tell by the way we slapped our knees and guffawed at Pete Holmes yelling “DADDY!” at an annoyed Mr. Maron, we were all in it together. These were my people.
