Lock the gate.
All right, let's do this.
How are you?
What the.
What the Buddies?
What the Nicks?
What's happening?
I'm Mark Maron.
This is my podcast.
Welcome to it.
I am in a very quiet hotel room in the glorious city of Chicago, overlooking the big lake.
I can see it from my room.
It's a little cloudy.
It's a little intense.
I don't know.
Intense is not the word.
There's a weight to Chicago.
There's a. I always like coming here, you know,
and my shows this last couple days, they weren't even in the city.
They were out in Skokie and Joliet.