Zach Woods | Senses Working Overtime with David Cross | Headgum

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[@itmeurdad]

I'm so glad Zach got the opportunity to interview David 😄

[@joachim595]

Almost half way through now. Will Zach be talking ever? These self absorbed celebs are horrible.

[@travdog8]

sometimes ya gotta mix it up and he did great!

[@misenheimer_music]

The Lewis Black interview was the same thing. David asks a question, Lewis gets maybe 3 words out before David launches into a monologue.

[@Smoochie71804]

Zach Woods is a great guest on every pod

[@eldr1ntravvv]

This isn't Zach's podcast?

[@pet00lia]

100% agree

[@sharonk2949]

Never heard of him before this but he is so funny. Loved this podcast

[@yeoldesam]

Probably the first guest to immediately sit down and David didn't get to do the traditional ‘awkwardly give the guest the option to choose their seat’, but in true David Cross fashion he made it awkward anyway. Great bit.

[@hobbes4583]

Great save by cross. He has a sense of jokiness.

[@TheOldHippiebilly]

I don't know what it is, but somehow the guest ALWAYS thinks they sat in the wrong place and awkwardness invariably ensues.

[@mikowl5713]

Him immediately going to "I'm gonna start breaking stuff" had me dying

[@TheShamescoStillLovesYa]

This bit says more about comedians than they could say themselves. What it must take for them to get on stage. I need to see an experiment with non-performers. I bet we would all just sit in the couch right away.

[@bobsonny]

How is it awkward to give the guest a choice of seat?

[@brandonsingleton5598]

This is probably my favorite episode of this podcast. Love Zach, he's hilarious, but also so warm and compassionate. Not looking for his next words. Just listening intently.

[@AxeMan808]

Also, while David wasn't looking, Zach swapped the chairs' MEANINGS and became the interviewER.

[@lmenahan]

Zach seems like such a genuine, thoughtful guy. Really enjoyed this episode.

[@erickatesar6044]

Zach Woods, you flipped the script. You seem very emotionally intelligent. Lovely.

[@johnhogan8327]

Something I love about this podcast that you don’t see elsewhere is how David will effortlessly force the guest to interview him

[@Roxas6662]

It's beginning to seem like Bertcast hahaha

[@ksif03]

@@Roxas6662except I much rather listen to Cross talk about himself.

[@brockhaltiwanger8748]

I absolutely love Zach Wood or Woods 😂 incredibly thoughtful, eloquent and gracious, and his sense of humor is one of a kind

[@occiferkodi]

Zach did such a great job interviewing David

[@lovetrioni]

I really liked how David talked about his childhood. Not everyone has a great childhood and he has grown to a wonderful and successful person❤

[@brianchappell4054]

Has he?

[@occiferkodi]

Yeah but he’s told the same story across several other podcasts. It was weird he did it again when supposed to be interviewing Zach lol

[@activistmalpractice]

David Cross: "Hey Zach, wanna come on my podcast?" Zach Woods: "Sure! What are we gonna talk about?" DC: "Childhood stuff." ZW: "You mean my childhood?" DC: "Well..."

[@jamesmneal8692]

This is a great episode. This is a great candid Zach Wood or Woods interview. It shows how kind, intelligent and curious of a person Zach is. David is so unapologetically open and honest. I respect both of them so much.

[@logancade342]

Watching celebrities immediately crumble into existential panic from not knowing where to sit is the most fascinating and hilarious opening bit for a podcast.

[@shiftyslc]

6:00 Amber absolutely slayed the room without being there. Incredible.

[@willtuck]

David's childhood life is essentially an indie film that probably already exists.

[@stephenthut9500]

Zach is hilarious. Hey man, I love your stuff. If only he could have been asked a question in the first 30 minutes.

[@nancya7289]

Zach's beautifully complex. His voice sounds relaxed, accommodating, chill -- then his vibe rapidly oscillates to a surreal kind of dark anxiety; all of a sudden he's offering up fellatio. St. Zach: Our Gangly Gentleman of Fraught Compassion. Both David and Zach shine with intelligence and a humor rooted in acknowledging uncomfortable truths. They refuse to turn away from every days of cruelty, then use their wit to manage the implications of what they see. "Show me a rich kid I'll show you a good kid." The inflection, the laughter --the perfect ending to a weirdly touching pod.

[@trainspotter360]

This is my favorite show about young people and their companions.

[@hobbes4583]

I want to call in to this show but it's pre-taped.

[@scottlarock7924]

Great word salad from Zach, including, "Lubricates my exit . . . " Good, grimy language for a grimy situation. Also, another example of how a true improv performer uses those skills in other facets of life.

[@travdog8]

amazing Aura read after the (genuinely riveting) dad talk

[@maxismadnice]

Can Zach be my therapist?

[@DipshizMcGee]

For a couple of months the “It’s Not Funny” album was stuck in my car’s CD player. It never got old and I still have it in the armrest console. Thank you for your honesty from a long time fan.

[@miles6910]

i guess it worked out well that david got the couch.

[@scottlarock7924]

Now David can call his memoir, Coal Miner's Father.

[@timsilva_]

YES! These two are both in my top 5 favorite comedians, so happy to hear them chat!! Just a few minutes in and I’m already enjoy the ride 😎

[@KVonnegut]

Zach Woods is such an impressive person. Astute, tactful, intelligent, hilarious, generous, sincere. There are some people out there who are on the level with people like Jackie Gleason and the old greats and this dude is one of them.

[@ryleehaye]

This is a certified banger

[@robinmagnusson3188]

The interesting part of this episode is just how clear it is that David and Zach fits great comedically and could probably riff off of each other for an hour straight, but instead they keep it as real as they possibly can. As someone who grew up with the alcoholic violent jailbird version of the charlatan father in the wind I very much appreciated this episode.

[@kurb1980]

One of the best ones David great introspective and being so open

[@chopchop3458]

Loved Zach in Avenue 5! This is my first time seeing him talk outside of that hilarious show. Seems like a really great person!

[@dr.cornwater2886]

I'm sure Zach won't ever see this but he is responsible for the funniest thing I've ever seen. The bit in Silicon Valley where he insults Dinesh's gold chain made me pass out I laughed so hard. He also spells Zach correctly👍

[@GinoZump]

27:22 welcome back 38:49 aaaand we're back

[@accidentalfire1727]

Bring back Avenue 5! Fantastic episode, couldn't stop watching.

[@ksif03]

Growing up I always felt like I was the only one with a less than stellar dad. Really enjoyed this episode, even the parts that made my eyes water.

[@mooseb.1172]

finally a podcast with guests i like, a host i love!

[@kirstenkk6493]

I'm 59 and have just found this year through Ancestry DNA testing that I have about 8, maybe 10 siblings spread around the U.S. my father was stationed at Ft. Mead when my mother met him and got pregnant. And as it turns out he was quite the player. It's never too late in life to be curious.

[@BRLambert4]

3 years ago 23 and me, a gift from my husband, was a shot in the dark to see if i could find any relation on my fathers side. I didn't even have a name my whole life and after my mom passed away, i let go of any lingering guilt i felt for some reason. I would have been happy with any relatives bc my mother was raised in an orphanage in 1960/70's Philadelphia, so my family tree had two leaves lol. I have a half sister who is a few years older and a half brother and were juat a few months apart and we grew up minutes from each other. My biological father was on 23 and me because One of his relatives had recently discovered that my father had a secret sister he had never known about and so he got his DNA test as well. I had always known that my father had no knowledge of my existence at all but he was very open and welcoming. Within the same year he found out about his secret daughter, and subsequent secret grandchild in son-in-law. Early in my adulthood I'd moved several states away from where I grew up so it's not been easy finding ways to connect. I will say as a kid who grew up not seeing anyone related to me to share any resemblances to, One of the standout moments of this journey was seeing a picture of my paternal grandmother about 10 years younger than I am right now, And it was like looking in a mirror. The resemblance is all anybody remarked about for quite a while. Sadly she passed before this discovery was made, But from what I've learned she was a very strong woman who was married to a cop and then her two sons became cops too I'm pretty sure she was the toughest of them all. Sorry for this rambling story it's just not very often there's somebody who has a similar experience that understands kind of how crazy it feels

[@josef2012]

Wow!

[@sloanekuria3249]

If Zach Woods is still looking for instruction I'm sure an arrangement can be made. We all need good strict boundaries from time to time! Thanks for the pod, boys.

[@draon16]

Good shit! I love Prof. His Live shows are so much fun.

[@nobodyimportant8859]

I asked my parents that same question about Santa when I was a kid. They told me he was magic and could just go through the keyhole, and that confused me even more.

[@the_fat_ghost]

I had no idea David Cross had such a dysfunctional childhood. I only know him from TV and don’t typically follow the personal lives of celebrities or public figures. I’m going to pick up “I Drink for a Reason” and check out his standup. I can’t imagine how anyone would be able navigate the psychological damage done by his father and would love to learn more about how he was able to do that and get some exposure and empathy for a life that is completely alien to my own. I don’t typically read memoirs or autobiographies but his will be extremely compelling.

[@fukuuu]

Check out Gary Vider's new podcast. His dad was a sociopath.

[@the_fat_ghost]

Will do- thank you!

[@AdamCooperWood]

I'd still subscribe to this podcast if Zach Woods was the guest every week.

[@Odb718]

Zach Woods played the 2nd best character ever written for TV, Donald "Jared" Dunn. Right in front of David Cross' Tobias Fünke. Both are out-shined by the late, great, Nicholas Colasanto's Coach on Cheers. Two of THE~ best to ever do it.

[@nocafeine]

I feel like i was just a fly on the wall of a David Cross therapy session😂😂

[@Mostlyharmlesspod]

I honestly put this on hoping for a more light hearted episode. I had just finished the a Jake Johnson episode and was looking for something in that flavor. This was the furthest thing that i could have expected from these two. I love it on so many levels while also needing to add to some of the stuff i have to talk to my therapist next week!!

[@uncletom356]

I will continue to absolutely love established actors/comedians have panic attacks about what ugly sofa/chair to sit.

[@bobsonny]

Damn. The chair and sofa look fine

[@Alexvidwork]

Zach Woods: "Wow... wooooow" lmao

[@ryanbradley4718]

When the guest picks their seat, David immediately knows whether he is going to interview or be interviewed.

[@markpenfield5314]

Your pod went straight to my favorite. Thanks The 1 with your father-in-law was Brillant. Plug it relentlessly

[@markpenfield5314]

The Book

[@johnnydriver5046]

Zach is such a fun, intelligent interview

[@myriotact1]

Love Zach. Thanks Dave, for the great guests.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

"You could be missing out on the best sex of your dumb life." Lmao, best blue chew ad read ever

[@AMHAPPY]

2 of the best ever!

[@fukuuu]

That canary riff. 😂

[@Kidzelda0]

"Dad talk" was fuckin good. Def can't relate 😂😂

[@chriskind]

Great episode. Thank you for sharing those stories.

[@THECHADM1971]

such a great ep! how I love Zach Woods- the best!

[@Warlord_Hyperion]

These two are funny as hell together.

[@andrewmasseo51]

“All about himself” is the quote of the interview.

[@colonialstraits1069]

Kerning is the space between individual letters and characters in text, to be printed.

[@nate3721]

Love u david. Thx for sharing ur past that shaped u into the man u r

[@nomad913]

Favorite episode so far.

[@anactualmotherbear]

This was another really sweet, cute interview. I loved it.

[@rothloaf1980]

David's dad tales and the blunt spiked monkey mom experiment hit my narcissist parent trauma button. Oof... glad my blunt spiked mom is dead. But now I understand why David's comedy speaks to me. Hell, I even tore shit up like David and Jon Benjamin when I drank...

[@andrewislas7742]

Zach gets the best intro award thus far

[@fwboyd3]

Hey David, during the Blue Chew promo, you mentioned that "the best part" was "it's all done online". I was thinking the best part was different.

[@Grimmy616]

Does THIS David guy always talk so much? (big fan)

[@jbird6216]

"You can sit anywhere but that's my seat." David Cross

[@GoodGolly.MissLolly]

I never knew Zach was this charming

[@nightingale2424]

Zach is so naturally funy

[@gregbackus6117]

that ad drop was compelling

[@robmcrae702]

I watch for the fashion.. those outfits!

[@jordanwait7264]

Love Zach!!!! This is a fantastic episode

[@brianmariano4793]

God damn I love this podcast

[@mrbrokenpretzels5433]

David’s “Cadavers” hat 😂

[@nightingale2424]

A traveling salesman for women’s bathing suits is honestly the funniest things ever

[@CancellerPalpatine]

Great chat

[@TulaneAve]

Another episode of David invites interesting people to his pod to listen to him tell long-winded, self-indulgent stories.

[@closedmouth]

often the same story to different guests, in the same level of detail and digression. I don't know why i keep listening, it's like a car crash

[@kusc717]

That was fun.

[@amward6]

Not quite the level of joviality and mirth that occurs when you witness an imprisoned elephant urinating all over an elderly congregation of gawkers, but that episode was pretty funny.

[@culpablecruz]

Its fine guys his 7year old daughter works for the Coal Mine’s HR Department

[@hankpink6274]

Two of the funniest motherfuckers out there imho (talking about zach and amber on the phone, unfamiliar with the hosts work)

[@activistmalpractice]

"Oh, get out, Skeleton Man!"

[@jamesblackmon7235]

Cross on the Couch

[@sharonk2949]

I bet the apartments he lived in was Shadowood near beau Rivage. I lived close by in apartments call Shangri-La in Chamblee. My father was also a traveling salesman with no money for us lol also had affairs. It was the times I guess

[@elig2714]

Zach Woods is fiendishly fucking funny!!

[@randosavich]

My favorite part of this podcasts is knowing how bad David hates doing ad reads…

[@deptofdesign]

Geez. That's a heartbreaking story, Dave.

[@seancolton6310]

Hahah this is the best thing

[@prestonk.m.9259]

I didn't read the full list, but were the following albums not inluded: Blond by Frank Ocean, The Chronic or 2001 by Dr. Dre, MBDTF or 808s&HB by Kanye, Kid A or the Bends by Radiohead, Take Care by Drake, anything by The Kinks, Head on the Door or Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by the Cure, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain or Wowee Zowee by Pavement, 1989 by Taylor Swift, Clarity by Jimmy Eat Word (that one is just rhetorical and more for me), Songs From the Big Chair by Tears for Fears, The Cars by The Cars, In Utero by Nirvana, Dirt by Alice in Chains, RATM or Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine? I could go on and on but the time it took me to type this question, I could have already read the entire Paste list. I'm still curious though.

[@dannyxuco]

Not the same but hearing David's stories about his dad reminds me of The Slums Of Beverly Hills a bit.

[@vulcan4705]

Oh hell yeah

[@xkxxxx]

Was this before Claregate?

[@Thekozmonautu]

I don’t need blue chew after that reading. I’m hard.

[@kdubbin513]

I cannot find the movie they were talking about. May-dawan...wtf?

[@robertbrown1409]

Matewan, West Virginia

[@ChPeRo]

Anyone else see Mel Brooks’ Frankenstein monster in Zach’s face? Who plays gene’s part

[@ericpiche2999]

I just got my Blue Chew. Does my girlfriend have to chew it or can she just swallow it?

[@mikevanderheiden]

Are there ads in this episode too? Asking for a friend.

[@brianbrown7982]

holy shit his dad was actually from Leeds

[@delongpredannon]

I have not watched this yet, but I am going to assume that this will be funny.

[@delongpredannon]

update. It was exactly what I hoped. We need a show with these two together