Louis CK Interview on XM Radio

[Itslikeimsayin]

From LouisCK.net:

Those of you that have XM Sattlelite radio subscriptions can hear me this Saturday at 8PM on channel 150, on a show called "XM Unmasked" It's an hour long interview of me by a very funny guy named Ron Bennington. We taped it about a week ago in front of a live audience in New York City. So if you would like to hear me running off my stupid mouth about my fat self, tune in during these times on these channels...
Premieres: Sat, 7/12 at 8PM ET | XM Comedy - XM 150
Encores:
Sun, 7/13 at 2PM ET | The Virus - XM 202
Sun, 7/13 from 6PM ET - Midnight ET (cont. loop) | XM Comedy - 150
Mon, 7/14 at 7AM ET & 7PM ET | Laugh Attack - XM 153
Tues, 7/15 at 5AM ET & 5PM ET | Laugh Attack - XM 153
Weds, 7/16 at 11AM ET & 11PM ET | Laugh Attack - XM 153
Thurs, 7/17 at 10AM ET & 10PM ET | Laugh Attack - XM 153
Fri, 7/18 at Noon ET & Mid. ET | Laugh Attack - XM 153

Anyone record this by any chance? Can someone who has XM grab it tonight or tomorrow? I'd love to hear this, but don't have XM.

[Ivan]

Here you go.

[Itslikeimsayin]

Thank you very much!

[st.raw]

great interview! i listened to it several times this weekend when i was on the road.

[Americas Team]

The Ron Lynch story made me laugh.

[st.raw]

that demo tape must still exist somewhere

[Darryl]

Thanks for the info! Good timing for me. A friend is out of the country and I have his XM-equipped car this week.

[darrylduffy]

that demo tape must still exist somewhere

i'm pretty sure ron lynch played it at one of the CDR Anniversary's, 3 or 4. or he at least talked about it and meant to bring it.

[Itslikeimsayin]

I don't remember Lynch playing that at CDR3 or 4, but maybe.

Thanks again, Ivan. I just listened. Great stuff.

[Ivan]

You are very much welcome.

[darrylduffy]

I don't remember Lynch playing that at CDR3 or 4, but maybe.

Thanks again, Ivan. I just listened. Great stuff.

maybe it was 2, looks like at the other ones it was ron lynch & craig anton/the idiots. but i remember hearing him talk about it at one of the anniversary shows.

[Daryl]

Thanks for the interview. Have any other big names been on this program?

[ChrisCubasATX]

Daryl, Patrice Oneal, Jim Norton, Lewis Black, Brian Regan, Jeff Garlon, George Carlin (although Carlin was interviewed by someone other then Ron Bennington).

There was an Unmasked thread at one point that had a bunch of them up for download but that might have been before the crash.

[drieux]

Yeah, it was before the crash. If somebody could post the links to those again, I had only managed to grab about half of them before the site went down, and they were great. The Gallagher one, especially, made for interesting listening. That man is totally insane.

The Louis CK interview is awesome, though. Very good stuff. Thanks for posting it!

[ChrisCubasATX]

The threads still up! Its on page two. Thanks IVAN

[ronlynch]

I don't remember Lynch playing that at CDR3 or 4, but maybe.

I played it at the M Bar at one of the anniversaries. My memory of Louie and the tape is that I knew it was recorded at his place with friends and a lot of reverb. Louie asked me if I listened to the tape. I said, "Yes I did. Did you expect me to think that you were in a club?" Louie: (realizing the jig was up) "Yes. I guess." Me: "Okay, you're on the show next week."

I still have it.

[Dr. Feelgood]

Oh my god I loved the part about considering suicide as a kid just because of the dull physical discomfort of being in a human body. It reminds me of his bit about fantasizing about killing his parents so girls would give him attention in school. Pure Id - love it.

[angryrobot]

Wow, no matter how many interviews I read or listen to with Louis, Patton or Tompkins - they never cease to be fascinating. Great stuff.

[MattRuby]

Great interview. Thanks for posting. Two parts I thought were really interesting below...

1. On surviving failure:

If you can go to places and fail and come out intact, you've got a huge wealth of information. Bombing is much more instructive then [killing].

When you kill, you go, "Hey, look at me!" You don't learn anything. You don't even remember why you killed. "It's cuz I'm great! That's why."

But when you bomb, it's like a murder happened to you. And you've got data. You've got evidence. It's like forensics. You walk around poking things with a pencil and go, "Well, if you hadn't said this after that, it wouldn't have gone so bad." And you learn. You have a huge wealth of information.

2. On how he transitioned from jokey jokes to being more honest onstage:

I decided I'm not going to come up with jokes anymore. I'm not going to think of funny things to say. I'm going to say the things that are gnawing at my head. Any thought that I've been having a lot, I'm just gonna say it.

And all of a sudden a huge amount of lifelong fear was gone. I just didn't care. Even if I got a "whoa" from the crowd, it just didn't matter. It didn't mean anything to me.

And I get away with it for some reason. Some of it is just because I'm very convicted about it. When I say my baby's an asshole and people go "ohhhh," I go, "Fuck you, you don't know my baby. You don't know this guy."

I just felt impervious to criticism. Because I wasn't making jokes, I was just talking. I was just saying how I felt for once. So that was huge for me.