WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1605 - Ask Marc Anything: A Full Maron Special Presentation
Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Marc’s been answering listener questions on the Fulll Maron bonus feed for two and a half years. This is a collection of Marc’s answers from across the first 18 installments of the Ask Marc Anything bonus series. It’s like Marc is the guest and the listeners are interviewing him. He gets into questions about Adam Sandler, Taylor Swift, Jon Stewart, the lost David Fincher episode, other interview podcasts, Cheech & Chong, standup lingo, sandwiches, sobriety, relapsing, and more.Click here to watch the video Marc mentions in the episode, featuring John Montagna creating the WTF theme song. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: Who is Marc Maron and what is this episode about?
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks? What's happening? What's going on? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. Welcome to the year 2025. What a year it's going to be, I foresee. I don't know how you're feeling. I don't know what you did. How was your New Year's? Did you go out? Did you stay in? Did you ruminate?
Did you despair? Did you make resolutions? Did you celebrate? Did you get fucked up? Did you get sober on the day after? What was that? Yesterday? Wednesday? What day is it? I'm tired of this holiday time. I'm always thinking it's Sunday when it's like Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. What did you do? Are you okay? Are you saddling up for the new year? Are you buckling up for the new year?
Are you standing at the edge? Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 Can't be good, but today's okay. How's that? Future's not looking great, but I'm having a good hour. Huh? Right? Well, look, I hope you got through safely. I hope everything's alright. I didn't do much. I don't usually do much. I certainly don't work. New Year's. I gave that up a long time ago.
I was feeling a bit under the weather, so we just kind of hung out and watched a Mike Lee movie. I've been watching a lot of Mike Lee movies. That guy is the master. Every fucking movie, all the way back. I can't even, I can't tell you really a better movie than his first movie in a lot of ways. Bleak Moments.
He is a master of exploring and depicting the human condition with honesty and poetry and not the sort of jerk around of a story. Who needs a story when you just have the ebb and flows and tensions of human beings interacting with each other honestly? He's made some bigger movies, but man, yes, I'm going to talk to him. So I've been loading up on Mike Lee movies and that can go either way.
Many of them are not what I would call uplifting. They're honest, but they're not uplifting. Let's talk about movies, but let's do some business first. Happy New Year. Did I say that already? We'll do what we can. Look, today... One of the regular things we've been doing since we started the full Marin Bonus Feed in 2022 is a series called Ask Mark Anything, me being Mark.
So today's episode is made up of a collection of my answers to listener questions. It's basically like I'm the guest on today's episode and you folks are interviewing me. And just in case people are wondering why we do episodes like this around the holidays, there are a few reasons, I will tell you.
For one, people are out of their routines during this time of year, so regular listening gets disrupted. And so things will get back to normal next week. And also, it's not a great proposition for guests. If someone's coming on because they're promoting something, they don't want their episode to air when people are out of their listening habits.
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Chapter 2: What were Marc's New Year reflections?
having my own show, doing stand-up comedy, directing some episodes of that show, playing music, acting in movies, and, well, obviously this podcast, but that was an outlier. I didn't expect this to happen at all. So I guess I have achieved exactly what I wanted to,
I don't know if hoped is a good word, because I'm not sure I have framed it properly most days, that I feel like I could have not done more, but gotten more attention. So that hope didn't happen and it's probably better off. Since you're currently in a relationship with a woman in her 30s, do you ever worry that you could get stuck with a kid? Well, you know, it's something we discuss.
And Kit is really pretty clear about not wanting kids. We're both very involved with animals. When I met her, she worked at an animal shelter. She just got a new kitten, Maven, who's a half-sibling of Charlie. And we've talked about it, but I'm pretty clear that I don't want them. And she... Ja. Have you been asked why you're never happy?
I'm asked that question all the time and each time I'm genuinely offended. Well, I've done jokes about that. I mean, I don't know what happy is. It's like, are you happy? I never really saw happiness as a goal. And I guess a lot of people do. I'm aspiring to okayness. So I've gotten that question plenty of times in my life. I don't know if I get... Okay. Okay.
Well, where it comes from for me is almost paralyzing insecurity and also from that comes paranoia and from that comes self-consciousness and from that comes projection in terms of what you think other people are thinking about you, because a lot of times they're not thinking about you at all.
But generally I'm a lot harder on myself and I think people see me in a way that I see myself, which is not always great. but they don't really see that. The friends I have see me for who I am and the good parts of me because usually I'm comfortable to show those parts with those people.
But I think all that stuff comes from just, you know, not tremendous parenting or given a sort of grounded sense of self. You're always going to be a little paranoid, a little hyper imaginative about your impact on things and people and also just tremendously self-conscious. So it's sort of a curse.
But as I get older, I also realize like, yeah, I'm definitely not as bad as I think I am or as awkward and fucked up as I think I am. And also many people only see, you know, the part of me that is genuine. And there's more of that lately. So I don't know. I have a little more self-acceptance. Yes, I don't think it's like waking up in the middle of the night.
But after a stand-up show or after something on the podcast, I have to kind of accept that I said it and live with the decision. Usually I don't regret it, but I don't always know why I do it. And I do feel a little exposed by it. But that is... A big part of how I do what I do inside your comedian brain. What is the difference between you standing on stage trying to make a live audience laugh?
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