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(Wil and Dave talk about the movie Spectre)

Wil: Even by James Bond standards, like, most of his sexual advances on women, like if they did not end in that woman being into it -

Dave: They’re rapey.

Wil: They’re very rapey. Do you know what I mean? Like they’re saved by the fact that there’s an unspoken consent, but here’s what there is never: spoken consent.

Dave: (laughs)

Wil: See, they’ve never been able to nail a Hulk movie. You know, like every time they try to reboot it, it never quite works.

Gareth: Yeah, it’s too complicated.

Wil: Here’s what they do: They make a Hulk comedy. So it’s like, it’s a Dave Anthony-style character and the Hulk is just constantly getting angry.

Gareth: Like when they made Teen Wolf a drama — now we’ll make Hulk a comedy.

Wil: Right!

Gareth: I would definitely see that. “You ever have one of those days?”

Wil: Yeah, it’s just Hulk on the train on Twitter, reading something— “AAARGH!” He’s hulked up.

Discussing Dave’s son’s soccer team.

Dave: There’s one kid who — his parents are like, “He’s really good. He’s really good. He was on a team last year, he’s really good.”

Wil: His parents said that, or he is really good?

Dave: His parents said that. And he’s so hilariously— he just doesn’t pay attention. Like, today I had to yell at him and go, “Stop waving your, what are you waving your arms at?” All the play was happening on the field and he was just on the other side, like, doing pantomime, making shapes with his hands… Like, it’s that kind of stuff that doesn’t happen in a normal soccer game.

Wil: Well… Yet.

Dave: [laughing] One time, I had to stop two players from making a play date in the middle— so, there’s a soccer game going on and two of them have just stopped, and they’re like, “I want you to come to my house. Can you come to my house on Thursday?” “No, you come to my house! I have a slide!” and they’re just sitting there talking, and I’m like, “You guys, there’s a soccer game going on!”

Wil wants to know what the writing process is like on Maron.

Dave: We… There are… one, two, three, four… so, five writers and Mark. And we go in, and usually Mark has an idea from his past or something that kinda loosely happened, and then we start talking about a story that we could turn it into. And then we all split ‘em up and write ‘em. It’s pretty basic. [Wil cracks up] There’s nothing that exciting about it.

Wil: Welcome to the world’s shortest episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio. “So, uh, Mark just comes up with some stories from his life and we just, like, write ‘em up. And then, uh, they get some people in who they pay, I assume; they say the words. They pay me, I say some of the words. I dunno, it’s like… We write the words and we say the words… They film the words… Mark publicises the words… If they give us another season, we get to write more words. ’S great, though, show biz. I’m an artist.” [Dave cracks up]