Marc Maron: "You're kinda like a cat"

Summary

Episode Summary: Marc Maron: "You're Kinda Like a Cat"

Release Date: June 5, 2025
Podcast: The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff
Host: Bobbi Althoff & Studio71

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1. Introduction to Pet Dynamics [00:00 - 04:46]

The episode kicks off with a lively exchange between Marc Maron and Bobbi Althoff (Bobby) centered around their experiences with cats. Marc shares a relatable anecdote about his cat biting his hand, leading to a humorous discussion about feline behavior.

• Marc Maron [00:37]: "Look, when they bite you for real, you know it."

• Bobby [01:13]: "I love that he took my spot."

Their conversation delves into the differences between cat and dog personalities, with Bobby expressing her difficulty in relating to cats due to allergies and their independent nature.

2. Cat People vs. Dog People [04:46 - 07:47]

Transitioning from pet behavior, Marc and Bobby explore the dichotomy between being a "cat person" and a "dog person." Marc reflects on his upbringing surrounded by dogs and his eventual transition to cat ownership.

• Marc Maron [07:30]: "I don't really think I'm a cat person."

• Bobby [10:13]: "That's why I don't like cats."

They discuss the inherent differences in how cats and dogs interact with their owners, highlighting the loyalty and neediness of dogs compared to the more aloof nature of cats.

3. Personal Stories on Pets [07:47 - 18:05]

Marc shares heartfelt stories about his past pets, including an orange cat with one eye named Butch and the challenges of fostering feral cats in New York.

• Marc Maron [16:00]: "They had kidney failure and they were six."

• Bobby [12:00]: "I think that's the important."

The conversation touches on the emotional aspects of pet ownership, including the sorrow of putting a beloved pet down and the responsibilities of caring for multiple cats.

4. Judaism and Veganism [18:05 - 28:35]

The dialogue shifts to more personal territories as Marc discusses his Jewish heritage and decision to adopt a vegan lifestyle for health reasons. They explore the nuances of Jewish identity and the motivations behind Marc's veganism.

• Marc Maron [14:21]: "Genetically, like 99. Culturally, 95 actually. Religiously? 0ish."

• Bobby [15:03]: "Why the French bulldog when you can have a cat?"

Marc recounts his journey to veganism, prompted by a colonoscopy that revealed high cholesterol. He shares his experiences experimenting with plant-based diets and the challenges he faced.

• Marc Maron [18:24]: "So I figured this is the time to do, like, I'm pure. So now I'm not gonna put any meat in me."

5. Allergies and Health Discussions [28:35 - 43:46]

Bobby reveals her allergy to cats, sharing a personal story of a severe allergic reaction that affirmed her aversion to feline companions. Marc provides insights into the nature of allergies, emphasizing the immune system's role.

• Marc Maron [28:34]: "At some point an allergic reaction is your body saying, 'Go yourself.'"

• Bobby [23:37]: "I just went over to my friend's house, and her cats rolled over me."

The conversation also touches on peanut allergies and their severity, adding depth to their discussion on health and personal experiences.

6. Reflections on the Podcast Industry and Aging [43:46 - 58:35]

Marc and Bobby engage in a candid conversation about the podcasting landscape, with Marc reflecting on his long-standing presence in the industry. They humorously discuss generational gaps and the challenges of staying relevant.

• Marc Maron [38:15]: "I'm the OG Pod, right? Like, you invented podcasting."

• Bobby [57:00]: "I guess once you're 30, you're pretty old."

They also touch upon themes of aging, relationships, and personal growth, intertwining humor with sincere reflections.

7. Lighthearted Banter and Conclusion [58:35 - 62:00]

The episode wraps up with playful banter about adopting cats from a shelter, the quirks of pet ownership, and humorous exchanges about personal habits and relationships.

• Bobby [60:20]: "You're getting canceled now."

• Marc Maron [61:12]: "You got it."

Their interactions highlight the chemistry between Marc and Bobby, blending humor with genuine moments of connection.

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Notable Quotes:

• Marc Maron [07:30]: "I don't really think I'm a cat person."

• Bobby [10:13]: "That's why I don't like cats."

• Marc Maron [14:21]: "Genetically, like 99. Culturally, 95 actually. Religiously? 0ish."

• Bobby [15:03]: "Why the French bulldog when you can have a cat?"

• Marc Maron [18:24]: "So I figured this is the time to do, like, I'm pure. So now I'm not gonna put any meat in me."

• Marc Maron [28:34]: "At some point an allergic reaction is your body saying, 'Go yourself.'"

• Bobby [57:00]: "I guess once you're 30, you're pretty old."

• Marc Maron [38:15]: "I'm the OG Pod, right? Like, you invented podcasting."

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Conclusion

In this engaging episode, Marc Maron and Bobbi Althoff navigate a blend of personal anecdotes, humorous exchanges, and thoughtful discussions on topics ranging from pet ownership and allergies to veganism and the podcasting industry. The chemistry between Marc and Bobby offers listeners both laughs and relatable moments, making it a worthwhile listen for those interested in candid and entertaining conversations.

Transcript

[Marc Maron]

He's all right. He just wants food. Let's go. Let me have him for the shoe. Are you guys recording? Yeah.

[Bobby]

Well, it sounds.

[Marc Maron]

Ow.

[Bobby]

Don't say that. What? Which one? What did he do?

[Marc Maron]

He just bit it out of my hand. He's like getting all of them here. Don't be so slow.

[Bobby]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The one. The one is right by me. The. Oh, my God. Okay, I got to go. Got to go. That one.

[Marc Maron]

What do you think he's gonna do?

[Bobby]

He attacked you.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, but it wasn't.

[Bobby]

I think he's gonna come up and swipe me too.

[Marc Maron]

It wasn't violent.

[Bobby]

It was. It was loving kinda. I don't want to lovingly be it.

[Marc Maron]

Look, when they bite you for real, you know it. Okay, like, you. Like. I have had incidents with my cats. If they get freaked out, like they think something's threatening and they bite you, it's. I got an infection once in my hand that I didn't even know was like a problem at all, but it was from a bite. It was funny because it was someone on Instagram Live that saw it, that saw my hand and said, you should go get antibiotics because that's his specific kind.

[Bobby]

What was it?

[Marc Maron]

It was just an infection from their mouth.

[Bobby]

I love that he took my spot.

[Marc Maron]

Okay, there he goes.

[Bobby]

There you go.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. You know, it's a certain type of person that thought. What deals with cats?

[Bobby]

Yeah, I don't think I'm the type of person that deals with cats.

[Marc Maron]

No?

[Bobby]

No.

[Marc Maron]

They freak you out.

[Bobby]

I'm a little bit allergic.

[Marc Maron]

Really? What's going on now?

[Bobby]

No, it's. If I start touching my face after.

[Marc Maron]

I touch, then what happens?

[Bobby]

My eyes just like, swell shut.

[Marc Maron]

But that seems like good. A good reel, that seems. I didn't rub your face and by. It's just a cat. He's a.

[Bobby]

He's. Why? What does he want, though?

[Marc Maron]

He thinks you have food.

[Bobby]

I don't. There's nothing there.

[Marc Maron]

It's so funny. Cuz you're. You're. You're kind of. I think you're like. You're like a cat. You're kind of obnoxious and.

[Bobby]

Is that what.

[Marc Maron]

Okay. Yeah. And, you know, hard to like.

[Bobby]

I'm going to stand up.

[Marc Maron]

No, come on, just go.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

Just move.

[Bobby]

Oh, I don't. I don't want to be the one that moves him, cuz. What is that? Oh, my God.

[Marc Maron]

What? That.

[Bobby]

That one is haunting me.

[Marc Maron]

What's up, buddy?

[Bobby]

If he swipes you again.

[Marc Maron]

He just thinks I have food. Oh, see, that's nice.

[Bobby]

He's gonna bite you.

[Marc Maron]

Okay.

[Bobby]

All right, buddy.

[Marc Maron]

Just sit down. He'll move.

[Bobby]

I'm. I will not sit by him.

[Marc Maron]

But that's. He's gonna move.

[Bobby]

Do. Do you think he looks like he wants to hurt this guy?

[Marc Maron]

No, this is just cat stuff. They're just all weirdos. I have an orange cat who's like, really kind of dumb.

[Bobby]

Is it. Is. Is that a thing? Our orange cats dumb?

[Marc Maron]

I hear that's a thing.

[Bobby]

Yeah, that's a pretty.

[Marc Maron]

I've had a couple orange cats.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

There you go.

[Bobby]

Oh, God.

[Marc Maron]

No, this one's fine. Look at it. Just sit down.

[Bobby]

Let me just sit in this.

[Marc Maron]

You're bigger than they are.

[Bobby]

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[Marc Maron]

You good?

[Bobby]

Yeah. I'm just really scared. No one's gonna.

[Marc Maron]

No, it's not gonna. Not unless you touch him or threaten him somehow. It's gonna be all right.

[Bobby]

I regret ever putting.

[Marc Maron]

What?

[Bobby]

What the was that?

[Marc Maron]

What happened?

[Bobby]

Something hissed.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, well, there's 50 cats in here. Maybe it was a cat.

[Bobby]

That. That's what they do before they attack. Or do they just do that? Just.

[Marc Maron]

No. Who knows? Like, they might just be communicating with each other. Like. Haven't you ever hissed?

[Bobby]

Yeah. No. No.

[Marc Maron]

To get rid of somebody.

[Bobby]

You do that?

[Marc Maron]

No, cats do that. I thought maybe it was that cat went to myself. That one. Yeah, that one's trouble. I'm not in a bad way.

[Bobby]

What do you mean, not in a bad way? Destiny, don't. Don't. He just. Don't do that. Destiny.

[Marc Maron]

No, he's not. Come on, you guys. Don't you have cats? Do you have cats? You have cats? You. He does. What the hell's wrong with you people? Do you have a dog?

[Bobby]

I have three dogs.

[Marc Maron]

Three dogs. So you're like a dog person. You're like a needy person.

[Bobby]

What do you call a cat person?

[Marc Maron]

A person that respects boundaries and is willing to, you know, accept the challenge of having a pet that may or may not like you.

[Bobby]

I don't.

[Marc Maron]

On any given day, I don't want.

[Bobby]

To speak down on cats because it feels like the wrong place to do that.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. They're listening, and I'm not.

[Bobby]

I would not say anything mean about them. I'm just saying they're not for me. And that one's really close to your foot.

[Marc Maron]

Again, it's not like a shark. You're talking like we're in some sort of lion cage.

[Bobby]

Okay. Can you show the camera what he did to you so that.

[Marc Maron]

He just hit me with his paw. It's not like there's going to be a lot of people out there. They're like, what? Why did. Just relax. It's a cat.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

What do you think's gonna happen?

[Bobby]

That.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, but that. Wow. I'm glad we're doing this here. I don't have to do anything. You can just.

[Bobby]

I'm just scared of that cat. Do you understand? None of the other cats are scaring me.

[Marc Maron]

Okay.

[Bobby]

That one in particular feels a little.

[Marc Maron]

Bit like that guy. He seems like he. I like, like you.

[Bobby]

I. I think. Is that the old man one?

[Marc Maron]

No, no. I don't know where that one is.

[Bobby]

I really like the cross eyed one.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, the orange one?

[Bobby]

No.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, the old man one I think has cross eyes. I think that's him on the garbage can.

[Bobby]

No, no, no, there's.

[Marc Maron]

There's one real cross eyes.

[Bobby]

No, fl. Fully cross eyed. I didn't know that they came cross eyed.

[Marc Maron]

They come all kinds of ways. That's what's interesting about cats is like each one of them are. They're just weirdos. Every one of them is a weirdo. They're pretty weird and they're their own unique weirdo look. Like, what even happened there?

[Bobby]

I wonder?

[Marc Maron]

What.

[Bobby]

How long have you been a cat person?

[Marc Maron]

I grew up with a lot of dogs. I grew up with old English sheepdogs. You know the big hairy ones?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Like my dad was into take showing them. So my whole childhood is just like covered in hair and like all over the house and. Yeah, it was a lot. I have five old English sheepdogs over a period of time.

[Bobby]

So then you decided never to get a dog again? Just cats.

[Marc Maron]

Then a girlfriend gave me a cat.

[Bobby]

Wow.

[Marc Maron]

Butch. That was the name of that cat.

[Bobby]

Did she take it when she. When you broke up, Are you guys still together?

[Marc Maron]

No, we moved out here with it. That was crazy. We had this cat in a U Haul. It was. He. He had a congenital problem. He passed away. So then it's sad. I just can't have a dog with my lifestyle. And you got to walk on cats. You put a box out, you say hi to him every once in a while and. But I'm not really. I don't think I'm fundamentally a cat person.

[Bobby]

What do you mean, a cat person?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, I don't think I'm really a cat person.

[Bobby]

What do you mean you're not a cat person?

[Marc Maron]

Well, I don't really talk to cats like cat people do. You know, like, you're probably nice to your cat, right? Like, hey, how you doing?

[Bobby]

You don't talk to yours.

[Marc Maron]

No, I'm like, what's going on? How's it going?

[Bobby]

I feel like you're a dog person, probably. Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

But for years I always got these cats that were always nervous and I. And I couldn't understand it. I was like, why do I always get these up cats? And then I realized it's like it's me. When you're like, hey, how you doing? A cat's like, what's. Why.

[Bobby]

Yeah, yeah. Is that what's happening right now?

[Marc Maron]

No, no, I don't I. Like, I'm not a cat whisperer. I mean, it's like, if I was, they'd be all over me. But they don't.

[Bobby]

If you were.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

They would be, like, swiped your hand.

[Marc Maron]

I don't know. I would imagine that many. Like, this guy's great. It looks like he's blind in one eye and he's an orange cat.

[Bobby]

Are these. They're up for adoption?

[Marc Maron]

Yep.

[Bobby]

Oh, my God. I didn't even notice that. Yeah, this is just that. Oh, my God.

[Marc Maron]

He's all right. He's like, you know, he's been through some.

[Bobby]

He's been through a lot of.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

I don't know how much time he has.

[Marc Maron]

No, he's all right.

[Bobby]

Are you okay?

[Marc Maron]

He's all right. I have an orange cat that's like a.

[Bobby]

How do you pet a cat? Okay.

[Marc Maron]

Just put your hand up to him back first and let him smell it, see what he does.

[Bobby]

He rolled.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

I mean, he rolled his eye.

[Marc Maron]

Huh?

[Bobby]

He rolled his eye.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. I don't think that's an unusual reaction to you, is it? Generally speaking?

[Bobby]

Thank you, Mark.

[Marc Maron]

I mean, like, I think. I feel like you're so simpatico with cats.

[Bobby]

Do you? Do you feel like that?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. But I don't think you're a cat person. I think you're probably like a cat. It's kind of judgmental and wary of people, and it takes a lot to get you to be comfortable.

[Bobby]

Get me a cat. I feel like we would be best friends.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. You just sit there and look at each other and just try deciding.

[Bobby]

Actually, isn't it opposites attract? Female. That's why I don't like cats.

[Marc Maron]

Well, dogs are good because they have to like you.

[Bobby]

Do they?

[Marc Maron]

Kind of.

[Bobby]

I mean, I think dogs have different personalities, too.

[Marc Maron]

I think they do, but the. The. The thing they all share is they need you to. To, like, they want to like you.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. You just like. Oh, she told.

[Bobby]

That's why I like dogs. Yeah, Kids are like that, too.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, you got, like, a couple, right?

[Bobby]

Yeah, we've got, like, six.

[Marc Maron]

No.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

You have six kids.

[Bobby]

I started young.

[Marc Maron]

You do not have six kids. I talked to you before. You have, like, four. Two.

[Bobby]

Four.

[Marc Maron]

You do not have four kids.

[Bobby]

I just put two up for an option while we were talking here.

[Marc Maron]

Did you bring them here down with me? They're in a cage over there. Your kids?

[Bobby]

Yes, that's them right there.

[Marc Maron]

They made an exception for you. We'll put our kids in the cage.

[Bobby]

Yeah, that's what happened.

[Marc Maron]

I Imagine kids are like kind of a hassle.

[Bobby]

Kind of a hassle? Yeah, they're a lot of a hassle.

[Marc Maron]

I couldn't have kids. Same reason I can't have dogs.

[Bobby]

You physically could not have kids or you chose not to have them?

[Marc Maron]

I chose not to have them.

[Bobby]

Why?

[Marc Maron]

Because they're just always like, help me.

[Bobby]

They do that a lot.

[Marc Maron]

You know, it's just a lot of help me. They do, yeah. And like, you don't want to help them.

[Bobby]

What if I brought my kids here and they said, help me, what would you say?

[Marc Maron]

I'm not an. I mean, I would. I'd go, what do you need? And if they said, you know, something reasonable, I would try to help them. I'm not. I like kids for a couple of days.

[Bobby]

Okay. You just didn't want the right.

[Marc Maron]

But my fear is if I had them all the time, that eventually I'd be like, just leave me alone. That happens sometimes, but not always.

[Bobby]

Yeah, that's the important.

[Marc Maron]

But how do you know if the one time you're like, just. Just give me a minute, that that breaks their brain and they're for.

[Bobby]

That could happen.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Might have already happened.

[Bobby]

I hope it didn't.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, me too.

[Bobby]

I think that every mother has to.

[Marc Maron]

My mom.

[Bobby]

Your mom did what? Told you to go away?

[Marc Maron]

No, from what I understand, my brother used to cry all the time.

[Bobby]

It's annoying, right?

[Marc Maron]

So she used to just lock him in a room.

[Bobby]

That's. That's illegal with.

[Marc Maron]

Well, this is a different time.

[Bobby]

That should have been illegal.

[Marc Maron]

I mean, not like, you know, in a crib or whatever. She wasn't like denying them food or anything, but just not to deal with.

[Bobby]

The crime under the door or something.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, turns out, yeah, he was lactose intolerant. So the poor kid. I don't know, I don't think she knew better. She was like 22. She was like your age when she had me. How old were you when you had the kid?

[Bobby]

22.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Yeah. It did not turn out well for either of us, so I really hope.

[Bobby]

Oh my God.

[Marc Maron]

Excuse me. Were recording. Yeah. And turned. What it made my brother into was one of these guys that was always looking for some sort of spiritual answer.

[Bobby]

Did he find and.

[Marc Maron]

Huh.

[Bobby]

Did he find the answer?

[Marc Maron]

Comes and goes. You know, he walks into one thing for a while and then.

[Bobby]

Like what? Like religion.

[Marc Maron]

He got pretty Jewy for a while.

[Bobby]

Are you Jewish?

[Marc Maron]

Why do you say it like that? Can you change the tone on that a little bit? Listen, like, maybe like you Jewish.

[Bobby]

Are you not like, are you Jewish? I just feel like if you're not Jewish, you shouldn't say. Say what?

[Marc Maron]

You just said Jewy.

[Bobby]

I feel like that's illegal if you're not Jewish.

[Marc Maron]

I'm Jewish. I have complete right and license to say Jewy or like Jew.

[Bobby]

I don't have the right to say any of that. So. So I'm not going to.

[Marc Maron]

I was just. Well, you kind of did. You're like, are you. Are you Jewish? You have a Jewish name. You could lie.

[Bobby]

I was married to someone who was Jewish, but he left me cuz I wasn't Jewish.

[Marc Maron]

Is that true?

[Bobby]

No.

[Marc Maron]

Was he Jewish?

[Bobby]

Yeah, that's where my last name comes from.

[Marc Maron]

That's why I thought you were Jewish. I was so disappointed when you're on.

[Bobby]

My podcast and you found out I wasn't Jewish.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, I was like, this would be great. She's we'll Jew it up. And there was.

[Bobby]

That feels wrong to say even though you're Jewish. Well, I'm not even going to repeat you.

[Marc Maron]

Well, I defy any Jew to come after me for saying Jew it up.

[Bobby]

How Jewish are you on a scale from 1 to 10?

[Marc Maron]

Genetically, like 99. Culturally, 95 actually. Religiously? 0ish.

[Bobby]

There are a lot of ways you can be Jewish.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Can you explain them to me? Because I live in a Jewish neighborhood.

[Marc Maron]

Like. Like Orthodox Jews?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, well, that's like. That's the far end of the spectrum.

[Bobby]

Okay. You're not in terms of.

[Marc Maron]

No. Am I wearing yarmulke?

[Bobby]

You. You could have taken it off.

[Marc Maron]

Not if I was orthodox.

[Bobby]

What if you were just semi orthodox?

[Marc Maron]

Nope. You gotta. You gotta wear the. Gotta wear the.

[Bobby]

That's what it's called?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Kipa or yarmulke. Wow, we're educating today. That's good. I experienced. There was a mold issue last night.

[Bobby]

What'd you do?

[Marc Maron]

Went to dinner at a friend's house.

[Bobby]

And they fed you mold?

[Marc Maron]

Nope. But they had bought some fake cheese. Because I'm a vegan.

[Bobby]

You're vegan?

[Marc Maron]

Do you always ask questions like it's an attack?

[Bobby]

It is.

[Marc Maron]

You're vegan.

[Bobby]

I'm shocked. Okay. Because you just drink this and it has. It has meat in it.

[Marc Maron]

Has what in it?

[Bobby]

Meat.

[Marc Maron]

It has animal fat in it. Yeah, I'm not crazy vegan, but I'm vegan.

[Bobby]

Good thing you're not crazy vegan because that has.

[Marc Maron]

It doesn't have anything.

[Bobby]

10.

[Marc Maron]

Look at this guy.

[Bobby]

Beef stock or something. Bone stock.

[Marc Maron]

Does it really?

[Bobby]

No. Oh, that'd be crazy though. Huh.

[Marc Maron]

It'd be gross to have an energy drink. That's.

[Bobby]

How long have you wait? I have a problem. We're telling a story.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, well, they bought some high end cashew cheese and it had just some little mold spot on it. Like the regular cheese just cut it off. Right. Because cheese is kind of mold. So there was a big conversation as to whether or not mold on cashew cheese is the same. But we, I, I manned up, I cut off the mold and I ate it.

[Bobby]

I don't think that, I don't think that works the same.

[Marc Maron]

I don't either, but I took a chance.

[Bobby]

Are you okay?

[Marc Maron]

I don't know.

[Bobby]

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[Marc Maron]

For nearly 30 years.

[Bobby]

So we know the difference between done and done well. Hire high quality [e-mail]. i feel like we should get back to the fact that you're vegan.

[Marc Maron]

Okay.

[Bobby]

Why?

[Marc Maron]

How long you want the old man's story?

[Bobby]

Has it been forever? Is it that old the story, or is the story more new?

[Marc Maron]

No, it's been a couple years.

[Bobby]

Looking at Nick, that's not even your camera. Look at your camera if you're gonna look somewhere. Stop taking my camera.

[Marc Maron]

Sorry. I've been in show business half my life, and I still don't know where my camera is.

[Bobby]

That's embarrassing.

[Marc Maron]

Why did I go vegan? Cause. All right, so I had slightly high cholesterol, and I was curious, like, the whole story.

[Bobby]

How. How long ago was. I Set the date.

[Marc Maron]

Almost two years. So here's what happened.

[Bobby]

That's it?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, but I've eaten enough meat. You know, I've been alive a long time. I've eaten all the meats.

[Bobby]

Yeah, you're good.

[Marc Maron]

Plenty of them.

[Bobby]

You don't need anymore.

[Marc Maron]

But here, I'll tell you the true story. I got a colonoscopy.

[Bobby]

Thank you. No.

[Marc Maron]

So I got a colonoscopy, and I.

[Bobby]

Wish I could unknow that.

[Marc Maron]

Well, wait till you get one.

[Bobby]

Continue. Continue your story, Marcus.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, well, I don't have ass cancer, which is a plus.

[Bobby]

That's. I'm proud of you.

[Marc Maron]

But when you get a colonoscopy, you get. You drink this stuff, and it cleans you all out. Look at that guy.

[Bobby]

To come in.

[Marc Maron]

Okay, so listening cleans you all out. So I figured this is the time to do, like, I'm. I'm pure. So now I'm not gonna put any meat in me.

[Bobby]

Wow.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. So I started the vegan thing to see if I get my. My blood numbers down, and I did it for two weeks, and it worked. It went down and I did it for another month, and it. It. It leveled off. It's still not perfect, but it made a big difference. So I'm like, I can do this. And I just. And I like to cook, so I. I just do the vegan.

[Bobby]

What do you make? Vegetables.

[Marc Maron]

There's a lot of. Yeah, there's. But there's possibilities.

[Bobby]

Vegetable shaped as meat. What do you make?

[Marc Maron]

No, you can. What do you eat?

[Bobby]

I eat like. We're not asking what I eat, Marcus.

[Marc Maron]

Do you eat, like, chips?

[Bobby]

Yeah, I know those are vegan.

[Marc Maron]

Do you eat like. Like, what do you. What kind of like. Like, 1997 person are you. Are you, like, d. Gummies? Gummy bears?

[Bobby]

Weed gummies?

[Marc Maron]

No, no, like, regular gummies?

[Bobby]

Like, who the eats gummies?

[Marc Maron]

Like, people who are young and. And women a lot. Like, the. Like the. The gummy stuff. Am I wrong?

[Bobby]

That's so weird. And not.

[Marc Maron]

Is it weird.

[Bobby]

Do you Eat gummies? Like, do you eat gummy bears?

[Marc Maron]

Anybody in here not gummy bears? Like those. What are the worms called?

[Bobby]

The gummy worms. Sorry.

[Marc Maron]

You eat those different. Anybody? Yeah, it's just not my style of candy. But what do you eat? Do you cook?

[Bobby]

That's a tough question.

[Marc Maron]

No, it's not.

[Bobby]

It is.

[Marc Maron]

It's not a tough question. You. Do you put things in a pot or a pan?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Maybe make a sandwich that's not really cooking. You put things in a pot, you're.

[Bobby]

Going to take away the things I make and tell me they're not cooking?

[Marc Maron]

Sandwich is not cooking.

[Bobby]

I feel like it kind of is.

[Marc Maron]

Really? Do you cook like, real food? Are you a good cook?

[Bobby]

There's no way I can be if I want to.

[Marc Maron]

There's no way. Okay, well, like, what do you cook? Like, I'm going to do something special. I'm going to grill the sandwich.

[Bobby]

I never say that I order it.

[Marc Maron]

Okay.

[Bobby]

Oh, she's coming up.

[Marc Maron]

Hi, buddy.

[Bobby]

This one, see, she. You know what? She doesn't look like the other cats, but she still doesn't look super friendly.

[Marc Maron]

So vegan food, Like a lot of chickpeas. I like chickpeas. I like tempe, I like Satan. I like brown.

[Bobby]

I was vegan, too.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, you're just holding out on me. You're trying to. Why are you not vegan anymore?

[Bobby]

Well, it was only for a week. It's really hard to vegan mark.

[Marc Maron]

For a week you were vegan?

[Bobby]

Maybe. Maybe on and off for a couple months.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Like here and there. I dabbled in it.

[Marc Maron]

What do you mean? Some days you didn't eat meat and that means you were vegan?

[Bobby]

Sometimes I would have dairy.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Like I would put parmesan cheese on my vegan meal. And then I. That's no longer vegan.

[Marc Maron]

I like the vegan thing, but it's not. I'm not. Not righteous about it.

[Bobby]

You're not? I feel like when I think about it too much, I would like to be vegan because I don't like how they treat animals.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Because if I just don't think about it, then I can eat it.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. I had I before I went vegan when I was eating a lot of meat. Cuz I got, you know, you do a show and people send you.

[Bobby]

Yeah, well, they send you.

[Marc Maron]

All right, so. Are you bored?

[Bobby]

I'm listening to you, Marcus.

[Marc Maron]

They sent me a Traeger grill. A smoker. Like a Traeger smoker?

[Bobby]

Yeah, like a.

[Marc Maron]

They put pellets in and Smoke it.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

So I felt you. That Traeger, they sent you a smoker, so I had to smoke everything big. Like cowboy steaks with the big bone, ribeyes with the bone in chickens, smoking briskets and stuff. And then one day, I was looking at a bone in ribeye, and I could not separate it from the cow. Like, it wasn't just a steak. It was like. This was like.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Heart.

[Bobby]

Did you eat it still?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Bobby]

You don't have to die in vain.

[Marc Maron]

I didn't have an ethical crisis at that moment, but now that I'm vegan, I feel better. I think, you know, I am better than you because I'm.

[Bobby]

There you go. I agree. No, I feel. I think that I'm a horrible person because I eat meat.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, I think so, too. Among other reasons, I think.

[Bobby]

No, I think that's just the only bad thing about me. You know what's happening to me right now? I was like, why am I getting so congested? And I am feeling a little allergic, but I'm okay.

[Marc Maron]

I'm waiting for the eyes to swell shut.

[Bobby]

They are. Can you see them at all? They're getting watery. I can feel it.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, my God. I didn't know you were allergic.

[Bobby]

I. You know, I actually thought maybe that was a madeup allergy of mine. I just have never around cats, but when I was younger, I had one experience with a cat.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

So my whole life I've lived telling people I'm allergic to cats, but then I didn't think. I actually, you know, it was one of those things.

[Marc Maron]

What was that experience that you had?

[Bobby]

I just went over to my friend's house, and her cats rolled over me. And then I couldn't open my eyes anymore after the day. And then my throat started to get really itchy.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, good.

[Bobby]

That was good.

[Marc Maron]

That's happening now.

[Bobby]

Yeah, but I'm fine.

[Marc Maron]

Are you allergic to anything else?

[Bobby]

No, no.

[Marc Maron]

I don't have allergies.

[Bobby]

I don't think that's nice.

[Marc Maron]

What else is on your mind?

[Bobby]

Do you think that it's. I. I was talking to my friend, and it's. It's crazy. People are allergic to peanuts.

[Marc Maron]

That's a bad one. That would suck because they could die.

[Bobby]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Marc Maron]

Could you imagine? Just, like. That's why they're so crazy at restaurants. Like, do you have any allergies? Because they don't want somebody to go.

[Bobby]

Any moment unless they're on a plane and they smell a peanut, they're gonna die. Could it's a crazy, but I don't.

[Marc Maron]

Think it's that sensitive.

[Bobby]

I feel like sometimes it is.

[Marc Maron]

I think they just stopped doing peanuts on planes because they didn't want to have any possibility of a lawsuit. Oh, you're really going.

[Bobby]

I'm not.

[Marc Maron]

One time Ed Helms. When I interviewed Ed Helms, you know, the comedic. Comedic actor at my house, he was allergic to cats.

[Bobby]

And what happened?

[Marc Maron]

He was wheezing. He was wheezing and he's congested.

[Bobby]

That's crazy.

[Marc Maron]

But I wouldn't end the interview.

[Bobby]

I'm happy that you wouldn't. We should sit here the rest of the night and just see what happens to me.

[Marc Maron]

I want you to rub your face.

[Bobby]

Can you imagine if I did? I feel like I probably have or else I wouldn't be experiencing what I'm experiencing right now.

[Marc Maron]

Oh. But anyway, so my friend had a peanut allergy his whole life, and then it went away.

[Bobby]

How do you figure out it went away?

[Marc Maron]

You go get checked.

[Bobby]

Oh. I thought he was just.

[Marc Maron]

You can outgrow allergies apparently. But we. He was my radio producer.

[Bobby]

I also grow into allergies.

[Marc Maron]

I know.

[Bobby]

So knock on wood, because I feel like you're gonna get some allergies now.

[Marc Maron]

I think I might maybe a mild, like. I don't know, like peanut. I don't know if I have a peanut problem or it's just Whole Foods. I don't. Now everybody wants attention.

[Bobby]

It just wants to break out of that cage.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. But anyway, so he. His peanut allergy went away, so we did all these segments of him eating peanut stuff for the first time. It was pretty exciting. That sounds exciting to watch a guy eat a Snickers for the first time in his life.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

That's a big day.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Snickers is.

[Bobby]

I'm proud of him. That's the worst thing he could have picked as his.

[Marc Maron]

He ate everything. Peanut butter. Snickers.

[Bobby]

Snickers are nasty.

[Marc Maron]

Are they?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Why would you say that?

[Bobby]

They taste gross. Maybe.

[Marc Maron]

What kind of candy bar do you like? If you like, say Butterfinger. I don't believe anything.

[Bobby]

Reese's. Is that how you say it's just. Got it. Reese's.

[Marc Maron]

Reese's. Reese's. Reese's Peanut Butter cups.

[Bobby]

I like those.

[Marc Maron]

Do you like peanut butter cup ice cream?

[Bobby]

I just like peanut butter in general.

[Marc Maron]

Me too.

[Bobby]

Peanut butter and chocolate. You can't have chocolate.

[Marc Maron]

Not unless it's vegan.

[Bobby]

Like Reese's.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

You can't eat those.

[Marc Maron]

I know. It's sad.

[Bobby]

They're not vegan.

[Marc Maron]

That's a sad thing.

[Bobby]

You haven't had one?

[Marc Maron]

No, not since I've been vegan. But I've had peanut butter.

[Bobby]

You could try a dark chocolate one. Yeah, it's disgusting.

[Marc Maron]

I can make my own. I can just get a vegan chocolate bar and spread peanut butter on it. Put some sugar.

[Bobby]

No, that's nasty.

[Marc Maron]

Okay. What.

[Bobby]

What is wrong with you?

[Marc Maron]

Just waiting. I'm just meditating. I think I'm.

[Bobby]

Do you meditate?

[Marc Maron]

No, do you?

[Bobby]

You should.

[Marc Maron]

Have you tried?

[Bobby]

No, but I feel like if anybody should meditate. Do you?

[Marc Maron]

I tried it.

[Bobby]

Why? Why you stop trying?

[Marc Maron]

Cuz it made me anxious.

[Bobby]

Then you were doing it wrong.

[Marc Maron]

No, I wasn't. I was doing it perfectly right.

[Bobby]

As someone who's never meditated in my life, I know you were doing it wrong. Cuz everybody tells me I would do.

[Marc Maron]

The app, you know, I'd breathe and then like clear my head and just, you know, focus on the breathing. And then when everything quieted down and I was in that place of like sort of meditative bliss, I was like, ah, I gotta get out of here. I need some things going on.

[Bobby]

Oh yeah, I don't like meditating.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, it's just boring. Did you try it?

[Bobby]

I've. I've. I don't know if I could say I really tried it.

[Marc Maron]

But you're willing to say people tell me to meditate?

[Bobby]

Yeah. They're wrong. I'm dying right now and I just touched my face. That was crazy.

[Marc Maron]

You did it.

[Bobby]

Yeah, but I didn't touch my eyes. And that's really what's important. I don't understand how allergies work. What's wrong with me?

[Marc Maron]

I think it's a immune. Immune. Immune system thing.

[Bobby]

What do you mean?

[Marc Maron]

I'm not a doctor.

[Bobby]

Well, just. You're old, so you should know a lot of things.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, I don't know the exact.

[Bobby]

I just feel like with age comes knowledge and you should have the knowledge of this because I know that you've been around a long enough time to ask this question to someone.

[Marc Maron]

At some point an allergic reaction is your body saying, go yourself. Do. Never put this in my body again.

[Bobby]

Why can my body not handle things that other people's body can and vice.

[Marc Maron]

Versa because, well, you know, you have.

[Bobby]

Problems and you say that to everybody who has allergies.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

I think there's some. I don't know.

[Bobby]

I can't believe you're getting canceled now at 70 years old and you made it this far in your career without it getting canceled.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, for saying you have problems with. People with allergies. Have problems.

[Bobby]

Probably.

[Marc Maron]

That's like.

[Bobby]

I feel like that's very offensive to people with allergies. I am going to start the movement to cancel you for that.

[Marc Maron]

I think we. I think in the context. And this is like the. What they all say.

[Bobby]

I think they.

[Marc Maron]

You know, the. Cancel the people that are getting canceled.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

I think it was a joke.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

I don't think you really have problems to cop out. I think you have allergies.

[Bobby]

I think you should give an apology to the camera right now. But you have to cry. I have to write you a little speech. It has to be a whole.

[Marc Maron]

I apologize to all of you that have allergies, and you know that you can't enjoy things that normal people enjoy because your body reacts the way they do. And I. And I'm sorry if I implied that, you know, there's something wrong with you. There is, but it doesn't imply anything about you. It's just bad luck.

[Bobby]

That was horrible. Oh, my God. What is it doing? Oh, it's playing with me. I thought that was.

[Marc Maron]

That was a bad apology.

[Bobby]

Yeah. You're still canceled.

[Marc Maron]

Hold on. Some of my best friends have allergies, and I think that was about sealed it and that. And they're. They're just regular people. And I don't judge.

[Bobby]

Sitting by me right now. What has. And he's just sitting by me right now.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, that's a good color cat. I like ginger cats.

[Bobby]

That one that's been behind me.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, no, no, that's. I haven't seen that guy. One of my old cats was that color. Boomer. He disappeared.

[Bobby]

Did you name him after yourself?

[Marc Maron]

No, he came with that name because I got him at it. I just. I'm barely a Boomer. Barely.

[Bobby]

That's crazy. You are.

[Marc Maron]

I know. It is.

[Bobby]

What does that feel like when people are like, okay, Boomer? Did I say that to you?

[Marc Maron]

They. They do, but it doesn't apply. I'm like, I made that. I'm one year.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

Boomer One. What are you even.

[Bobby]

I'm on the cusp.

[Marc Maron]

Of what?

[Bobby]

Of Gen Z and Millennial.

[Marc Maron]

I'm on the cusp of Boomer and Gen X. Right.

[Bobby]

I've never even heard of Gen X.

[Marc Maron]

Isn't that Gen X? Isn't that a thing? Can we check?

[Bobby]

It's just, like.

[Marc Maron]

Pretty sure I didn't make it up.

[Bobby]

Older. Oldest.

[Marc Maron]

That's right. There are boomers that are, like, 70 something.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

The original Boomers are like the old hippies I'm 61. So there's a boomer that's like 10, 15 years older than me. Like 64 is the end of the boomers. I'm 63. Year 1963 was the last boomer. And then you're 64 begins the next thing.

[Bobby]

How old are you?

[Marc Maron]

61.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Marc Maron]

What are you.

[Bobby]

Sorry you don't have that much time left.

[Marc Maron]

Well, maybe that's. I think you should get canceled for just saying I'm gonna die because I'm 61. Huh?

[Bobby]

You're just gonna. You're getting there. Look, they're coming for you.

[Marc Maron]

They're a little early.

[Bobby]

I'll tell them to circle around and there'll be time.

[Marc Maron]

I'm sorry, it's not done yet. Just circle.

[Bobby]

He's got a few more minutes in him before he just.

[Marc Maron]

So I'm gonna be.

[Bobby]

Actually, shouldn't be talking about this because.

[Marc Maron]

You are at the age where people die.

[Bobby]

No, no, no. Where you're gonna. You're gonna die in the next like 30 years. And then they might resurface this clip where we talk about this and they're gonna be like, oh, she, she.

[Marc Maron]

It was a week before.

[Bobby]

Okay, don't say that. You're not gonna die in a week. Stop it. Oh, God. Now you're gonna die next week.

[Marc Maron]

No, stop it.

[Bobby]

I knocked on wood and look, all the cats are coming. I don't want you to die.

[Marc Maron]

Thank you.

[Bobby]

I don't know about you, but I do know you gave me a mug and I really.

[Marc Maron]

Right.

[Bobby]

I really appreciate people who give me mugs.

[Marc Maron]

But not just a mug. Like a handmade mug with your cats on them. And me. My face is on there too.

[Bobby]

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[Bobby]

I tried to use it once.

[Marc Maron]

Do you have trouble with a mug? Is that your generation? Like, how does this work? Is this a handle?

[Bobby]

There was an issue. My sister broke it. No. Oh, she was trying to pour something in it and she. What happened? Lexi, tell the story of the mug. Go ahead. What happened to the mug? Made a little cracking sound.

[Marc Maron]

It made a cracking sound.

[Bobby]

So then we got scared and never used it again.

[Marc Maron]

Was it hot?

[Bobby]

Yeah, it was really hot. Oh, my God. Is there a cat in there?

[Marc Maron]

Oh, I'm sorry. But you heard it like, oh, my God. Is that jarring?

[Bobby]

Yes, Mark.

[Marc Maron]

Cats play with my cats are crazy.

[Bobby]

Okay, listen, Aren't mugs supposed to have hot things in them?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, I don't know what the deal was. It was probably the glaze, but that's not. I've never heard that before. Some people have used those mugs made by that guy for decades now. Let me ask you a question.

[Bobby]

What's your question?

[Marc Maron]

How's this going?

[Bobby]

What would you ask that?

[Marc Maron]

Because I don't know what you expect or what you're doing.

[Bobby]

Nothing. What is it saying? No, Expectations? No. Disappointments. I expected nothing of you, so I can't be disappointed.

[Marc Maron]

That's so weird, because I felt the same way. I. I was almost not going to come.

[Bobby]

That's crazy. I almost wasn't going to come to your house when you had me do your interview. But guess what? I showed up. And then you made my sister sit outside on your porch.

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

I was rude.

[Marc Maron]

Was it? I'm sorry. That's who we usually. But I didn't know you were going to bring an entourage.

[Bobby]

It was a person.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, it's an entourage.

[Bobby]

That doesn't count as entourage.

[Marc Maron]

One person is an entourage by definition. I feel like it's not for a very unpopular person. One person is an entourage.

[Bobby]

I have. You made my sister sit on your porch.

[Marc Maron]

It was nice out, though, wasn't it?

[Bobby]

She had no phone and was. Had no wife.

[Marc Maron]

What problem is that? How is that my problem?

[Bobby]

You know?

[Marc Maron]

Why do you take your sister's phone away whenever you do things together?

[Bobby]

Because I don't want to find out. Yeah. I don't want her to find out that there's, like, a life outside of me.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Because then she might perhaps leave. But you locked her on your porch, so.

[Marc Maron]

Locked her on my porch? What does that even mean? She was locked outside in the day, free to go wherever she wanted.

[Bobby]

Hey, I didn't.

[Marc Maron]

I didn't want anyone in the room with us.

[Bobby]

It's okay.

[Marc Maron]

Because I wanted you to focus and act like a person.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

And I didn't know if that was going to happen.

[Bobby]

Did it.

[Marc Maron]

It did. I thought it was a very good interview. I've said it to my producers a couple of times. When he's like, I don't want to put this up. Yeah. I'm like, you have to. It's really good. He's like, I don't want. I don't even want to listen to it. I'm like, just listen to it. She's different than you think.

[Bobby]

I know. And my team was like, just go. On his podcast. I know. Nobody knows who he is. Just go.

[Marc Maron]

I was like, he used to, though.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I was like, damn.

[Marc Maron]

Back in the day.

[Bobby]

I guess I'll go.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Out of respect.

[Bobby]

Out of respect for my elders, for.

[Marc Maron]

The podcast industry and the podcast industry.

[Bobby]

You are. You are the og.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

So I heard.

[Marc Maron]

I'm the og. Yeah. To the point where we still just do audio. Huh?

[Bobby]

You're the OG Pod, Right? Like, you invented podcasting.

[Marc Maron]

Well, I was there, I think, at the beginning of what is modern podcasting. Yes. But Yeah, I thought that interview went well. And, you know, people will listen to it. Like, not people that, like, know who you are.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

But there'll be a whole generation of.

[Bobby]

Like, you know, boomers who listen.

[Marc Maron]

Boomers. Maybe a little younger. They'll be like, this will be interesting. Maybe I'll look this woman up, but. Because you're so different.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

You know, on my podcast, they're gonna go like, I want to see her stuff. And they're gonna be like, oh, who the is that? Yeah. What is she even doing?

[Bobby]

She's even more beautiful than I thought.

[Marc Maron]

I wasn't where I was going.

[Bobby]

That's what I. Where I was going.

[Marc Maron]

I. I can see that.

[Bobby]

That's where I went.

[Marc Maron]

You have to believe what you got to believe to, you know, get by every day.

[Bobby]

That's okay. No, I think I know that you're in love with me.

[Marc Maron]

A little. Not a lot. Just a little.

[Bobby]

I thought you were gonna say no.

[Marc Maron]

No, no. I was. I find I wouldn't say I'm in love with you, but I was like, exactly. She's doing a thing. And I. I appreciate it.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. We had a good conversation.

[Bobby]

Are you looking to be a grandfather? I have two kids. Do you want to take that role on in your life?

[Marc Maron]

Well, are you proposing to me?

[Bobby]

I didn't say a stepdad.

[Marc Maron]

Right. So how would that work? How would I. You just think I can hire a grandfather?

[Bobby]

No, you can. You're like. You're like a father figure. What the was that?

[Marc Maron]

They're cats. They make noises.

[Bobby]

Why did it make that noise, though, in particular?

[Marc Maron]

Was he throwing up? Oh, a little. Yeah. They have hairballs and stuff. They get pukey cats. Do you want to hear a funny story?

[Bobby]

Do I. Yeah. Okay.

[Marc Maron]

A cat story.

[Bobby]

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we're not doing cats. There's no way.

[Marc Maron]

No way. What?

[Bobby]

He's making that much sound during my podcast. That's so disrespectful.

[Marc Maron]

Listen to the beeping sound. That's actually a cat. It's weird if they're around technology a lot those times.

[Bobby]

It's crazy. Let's hear your story.

[Marc Maron]

Okay. I don't even know why I can tell you the story, because I've been doing it on stage, and it's still. Burn it.

[Bobby]

Burn it. What do you mean?

[Marc Maron]

Well, it means, like, if I do the joke here. Tell me it, then. You know, it's just. It's weird.

[Bobby]

If it makes you feel any better, I guarantee the people who buy tickets to your shows are not the same People who watch this.

[Marc Maron]

Well, the, the story is like, I have this cat Charlie, who's like, you.

[Bobby]

Know, is it a real story?

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

It was a. A revelation. So I got this cat, he likes to play with those, like those scrunchie balls. Like you throw the ball and he'll play with it. I like to watch him play with the ball. Right.

[Bobby]

They're setting me up. They're setting me up.

[Marc Maron]

They're throwing food over here.

[Bobby]

Not like my feet. Oh my God.

[Marc Maron]

They're all.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

Okay. Wow, this is really. Some people have this many cats.

[Bobby]

I know.

[Marc Maron]

I dated a woman that had nine cats.

[Bobby]

You still dated her?

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

After you. Did you break up with her when you found out she had nine?

[Marc Maron]

No, no.

[Bobby]

That's not a lot of cats.

[Marc Maron]

She's the one that introduced me to this place.

[Bobby]

Oh, God.

[Marc Maron]

I fostered a cat at this place once.

[Bobby]

Oh my God, that one's so pretty. Is that the. That's the one I was telling you about. Right behind you, the old one.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, no.

[Bobby]

Cross eyed one. Look at how cross eyed.

[Marc Maron]

Hey, I just. She just hears the food.

[Bobby]

I don't even think she can see.

[Marc Maron]

So anyway, I think she can hear this cat.

[Bobby]

We gotta just give her. Oh, should I steal one from one of these scary cats? Tell the joke.

[Marc Maron]

It's a story. It's not.

[Bobby]

Tell the story. You said you tell it when you're standing up.

[Marc Maron]

So the cat likes to play with the little balls and I throw the ball. I like to watch him play with the ball and sometimes he'll fetch it. But no matter where I play with him with the ball. In my house. You saw the house? Pretty big house. No matter where I play with him with the ball, within like six minutes it's going to end up under the stove. I don't even know how. So I was on my knees, you know, with a broom handle and with the iPhone, light, trying to get the ball out from under the stove. And the cat was just sitting there and I realized, oh my God, he likes to watch me play with the ball. This is a nice moment. It's funny. You're just stopping the laughing.

[Bobby]

That's just cute. That's funny.

[Marc Maron]

It is funny. It's cute and funny.

[Bobby]

But dude, is that. Are those the type of jokes you tell?

[Marc Maron]

Only when I'm trying to break up the. The dark stuff you tell.

[Bobby]

Dark stuff?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. So like if I'm here.

[Bobby]

Something dark.

[Marc Maron]

No. Like if I'm doing heavy stuff about.

[Bobby]

Heavy about why?

[Marc Maron]

Whether it's politics or my life or like, weird, darker jokes. I. Sometimes I feel like, well, the audience needs a break. I'm going to tell the cute cat joke.

[Bobby]

That's cute.

[Marc Maron]

And then it breaks it up.

[Bobby]

They're like, okay, politics, cat. That's religion.

[Marc Maron]

Yes, exactly. That's how it works.

[Bobby]

Do that real quick. Just give us an example.

[Marc Maron]

No.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

No.

[Bobby]

Yes.

[Marc Maron]

I already did the cat thing. I can't break it up.

[Bobby]

Try again. We're going to cut the cat thing and put it in between the two horrible things you're about to say.

[Marc Maron]

I don't say anything horrible. And I'm not going to test you to test jokes on you.

[Bobby]

They're testing it on the audience.

[Marc Maron]

No, because then I. I do a joke and then you do this sort of like.

[Bobby]

And then I'm your worst case scenario for an audience. That's right. If you can break me, you can break anybody.

[Marc Maron]

But you push. You'd fight it so hard.

[Bobby]

I'm not gonna fight it. Go ahead.

[Marc Maron]

I'm not gonna do any jokes. I'm not doing jokes.

[Bobby]

That's so rude.

[Marc Maron]

I know.

[Bobby]

Give me a joke.

[Marc Maron]

I'm not gonna give you a joke.

[Bobby]

Fine. Tell me how to write one so.

[Marc Maron]

I can give jokes you do like. Have you wrote a joke you like? So I was doing this, and then this happened, and then a surprise ending.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, it's just like A plus B equals, like. Oh, I didn't see that coming.

[Bobby]

That's the.

[Marc Maron]

Okay, let me try the basic joke.

[Bobby]

Should I do one?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, please. It's hard.

[Bobby]

It is hard.

[Marc Maron]

I don't think you're cut out for it.

[Bobby]

I don't think so either, but I give you props, but I feel like I can. Give me a minute. You know how the. I feel like when they stand up there, they're like, so.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby]

So last week.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Did. Are they made up stories that comedians tell, Are they real, all of them? I feel like they're made up.

[Marc Maron]

No, I think they're not made up usually.

[Bobby]

Really?

[Marc Maron]

They happened, but they might not have happened last week.

[Bobby]

And they're exaggerated.

[Marc Maron]

I don't know if they're. Yeah, of course. Well, they frame it so it's funny. But, like, when a comic says, like, yesterday, I was. Yeah, it could have been years ago.

[Bobby]

That's a lie then.

[Marc Maron]

No, it's a joke. Other liars, well, they want to make it fresh. They want to make people like you go, is that real? Did that really happen to them?

[Bobby]

So yesterday, yeah, my mom was giving birth to me.

[Marc Maron]

What's the punchline? You're you're living it.

[Bobby]

And then I was born.

[Marc Maron]

That's hilarious.

[Bobby]

Did you believe that? That was yesterday.

[Marc Maron]

I gotta say, I did not.

[Bobby]

What do you. What's your. What's on your hand?

[Marc Maron]

Which part?

[Bobby]

What the. Why does it say that?

[Marc Maron]

Why do you think it says that? Try to put it together.

[Bobby]

And it's on your middle finger. That's crazy. Mark.

[Marc Maron]

Try to put it together. Why would I be wearing a WTF ring? Come on, you can do this. Come on.

[Bobby]

I don't understand what you're trying to help me get to.

[Marc Maron]

It's the name of my podcast that you were on. Wtf.

[Bobby]

Well, now I know you didn't. Called wts.

[Marc Maron]

What. What is this called?

[Bobby]

I feel like I'm not going to tell you right now because you're not going to be nice.

[Marc Maron]

You just dismissed my entire life.

[Bobby]

Not your whole life. You've lived a lot of it. The podcast is relatively new.

[Marc Maron]

15 years.

[Bobby]

But when you've been alive for 100. And then 15 years is just such a small. Sure, yeah.

[Marc Maron]

So what's. What's this one called? Is it called Tedious with Bobby? Whatever your last name is, don't act.

[Bobby]

Like you don't know. You said you were in love with me three seconds ago, but now I.

[Marc Maron]

Said I was kind of in love with you. Let's not go overboard. I was being nice because I thought maybe it would help whatever the this is.

[Bobby]

Okay, well.

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

WTF does that stand for what it normally stands for? Do you have some spin on it for you?

[Marc Maron]

No. Why? No.

[Bobby]

Why the. Why the French bulldog when you can have a cat?

[Marc Maron]

Is this a separate thought?

[Bobby]

I think that's what your thing could be called.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, why the French. Oh, so you're kind of riffing. I'm giving you, like, why the French Bulldogger? Why?

[Bobby]

I'm asking. There's so many different letters and things I can stand for. I'm asking you what that stands for.

[Marc Maron]

I think it's the basic. Yeah, what the. I think that was the idea. It doesn't really have any relation to the show itself, but at the beginning, when we started it, you just said, what the?

[Bobby]

A lot or what?

[Marc Maron]

No, it was just an idea for the concept, and the concept never really stayed. But the guy who made this, a fan, made this for me.

[Bobby]

I like it. Can I have it? Oh, never mind.

[Marc Maron]

Okay.

[Bobby]

I don't want it. I saw you lick the blood off of your hand, and I was wondering why Boomers do that.

[Marc Maron]

Boomers do that?

[Bobby]

My dad does it too.

[Marc Maron]

What do you do on this blood.

[Bobby]

On your hand, not lick it off, Mark.

[Marc Maron]

Why not?

[Bobby]

That's disgusting.

[Marc Maron]

Is it?

[Bobby]

What do you mean?

[Marc Maron]

It's your blood.

[Bobby]

I guarantee every.

[Marc Maron]

It's not like if you got nicked by a cat, I'd be like, let me just have some of that.

[Bobby]

I didn't think you would do that. Does anybody else in here lick their blood? Ew. What the is wrong with these people, Mark? I don't. I'm around a bunch of weirdos.

[Marc Maron]

Did you ever at any point in.

[Bobby]

Your life, lick my own blood?

[Marc Maron]

No. Like, eat your boogers?

[Bobby]

No.

[Marc Maron]

Mark, are you sure? Just be honest with the people.

[Bobby]

Why you do that?

[Marc Maron]

No, I don't.

[Bobby]

But, like, I wouldn't be surprised because you lick your own.

[Marc Maron]

I've never. I never understood. Never understood it.

[Bobby]

I've watched people do that.

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

From their cars, and I think that's Than.

[Marc Maron]

It's like they're not even. They just. It's like, not. It's just not second nature. They're just like, do it. And I'm like, what? Who would ever do that?

[Bobby]

I don't know. That's disgusting. I don't get why parents would allow it. Somebody to grow up that way.

[Marc Maron]

But it seems to stick.

[Bobby]

I think that might be the worst thing.

[Marc Maron]

But, like, when you're a kid, you're like the booger eater kid. It's always like that kid eats his boogers and then it stays with them their whole life. They just. They're committed to it that much that as a grown person, they're just in their car, like, eating their boogers. I actually had a girlfriend who did it.

[Bobby]

Why do you date so many weird people? You said, twice now I've had a.

[Marc Maron]

Girlfriend that 109 cats.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

And now one boogers occasionally. But I. I asked her, I said, why do you. Why is that still happening?

[Bobby]

Why'd you date her? And you saw her do this?

[Marc Maron]

She's so beautiful. There's nothing. There's something really kind of, like, powerful about a stunning person just kind of casually eating a booger when she thinks no one's watching her. I was like, wow, what she say? It's a whole person.

[Bobby]

She say when you.

[Marc Maron]

When I called her on it. I don't know that I actually ever did. I was sort of like, maybe I.

[Bobby]

Shouldn'T date her because that's disgusting or, no. Why'd you break up?

[Marc Maron]

Well, she broke up with me, but that's all right.

[Bobby]

You let someone who eats their boogers break up with you?

[Marc Maron]

I don't think I framed it like that, but it's helpful. You should like I think I should. Yeah. I think that's a better way to look at that horrible moment in my life, is that I let someone who ate her own boogers break up with me. Why should I be upset? I got lucky.

[Bobby]

That's the lowest of things in the world. Like letting someone who eats their own boogers break up with you. You gotta go back, date her, and break up with her just to just get even. No. So you broke up with the booger eater. You let her break up with you?

[Marc Maron]

I did. I didn't have a lot of choice when in that situation, usually when somebody.

[Bobby]

Want to see her breaking you, you feel that conversation coming and then you jump in and you say, you eat your boogers, weirdo. I'm breaking up with you. That could have ended like that.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, but I, I, I loved her.

[Bobby]

Do you still love her?

[Marc Maron]

No. It's been a long time.

[Bobby]

How long?

[Marc Maron]

It's been like, it's been like 20. It's been all, it's been like 18 years probably.

[Bobby]

Do you think 2007 could possibly watch this? Like, what is the chance that she watches this?

[Marc Maron]

I don't know.

[Bobby]

You know, imagine this. That's why I found out that you knew.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, but I'm not naming her.

[Bobby]

And like, I know, but she's gonna know if she. Because she is the person who eats her booger, she's gonna watch this and be like, there's no way you saw me do that. This is good. This is good for you.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, maybe she'll reach out. She'll reach out.

[Bobby]

No, she won't. She's going to go hide for the rest of her life, change her name, dye her hair. So what she should do.

[Marc Maron]

I think she'll be all right.

[Bobby]

She shouldn't be.

[Marc Maron]

What? Don't. But what don't you do things where.

[Bobby]

People are like, oh, my God, have I drank yours?

[Marc Maron]

I hope so.

[Bobby]

I just almost reached for it. And now I'm wondering, should we advertise for the cats? Should we?

[Marc Maron]

Sanor, this is a, A, a cat rescue adoption place.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Marc Maron]

And they, they are allowed to live. It's like it's part of this sort of no kill sort of situation.

[Bobby]

That's why there's 16 year old cats.

[Marc Maron]

And mean, they just kind of hang out. It's very.

[Bobby]

People put down cats the same way they put down.

[Marc Maron]

That's right. They're animals.

[Bobby]

Do people put down cats the same way that they put down dogs?

[Marc Maron]

The same way?

[Bobby]

Yeah. Like kill them when a dog is by?

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

They do that to cats.

[Marc Maron]

Not when they're bad necessarily, but when. The thing about when you have a pet, it's going to live longer than it would if it wasn't a pet. So when they get sick, you can make a choice.

[Bobby]

I'm not talking about when they're sick. I'm saying when a dog bites people. Put them down.

[Marc Maron]

Yes.

[Bobby]

Do they do that for cats?

[Marc Maron]

No, not that I know of.

[Bobby]

They live. So they just keep them in shelters for their whole existence?

[Marc Maron]

Well, they hope that people kind of like come get them, but like, yeah, they do all right. Got to put up with a lot of other cats.

[Bobby]

Yeah, my little cross eyed one doesn't like the other cats.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, they're like. Some of them you're not even supposed to let out.

[Bobby]

What do you mean?

[Marc Maron]

It says on the cage, don't let me out. You ever dealt with a feral cat? It's crazy. My first, not butch, but the cats I had after that, I didn't know they were feral. It was crazy. Crazy. Like when I was living in New York.

[Bobby]

What does a feral cat do?

[Marc Maron]

Feral cats, if they're out, if they're kittens in the wild and they. And they've already started, like eating on their own, like hunting their food. They're wild animals. They're not like, come here. They're like wild animals. So my first batch of cats in Queens, when I was living in New York, there was a bunch of cats. A mother had had cats in the alley. And there's like five of them. And I thought, well, that'll be fun to have cats. So I trapped them in a shoebox with cat food. I trapped three of them and I brought them into my apartment and they were feral and it was crazy.

[Bobby]

They were just like in your door and look them.

[Marc Maron]

No.1 wedged itself behind the stove. One got stuck on a glue trap that I had for like mice. One was like, you know, it was like. It was nuts.

[Bobby]

What'd you do to them?

[Marc Maron]

I couldn't get them out of the house then, but I thought they'd get better, so I just went to sleep, you know, with them in the house. They. They destroyed an entire couch. Three kittens.

[Bobby]

Did you put them down?

[Marc Maron]

Nope. I kept them. I had someone, you know, forever. Yes. I kept two of them until they were down. Someone. Someone adopted it. I had to put them down. They were. They had kidney failure and they were 6.

[Bobby]

Oh, my God.

[Marc Maron]

16 years old. This is sad. It's terrible. Putting a cat down being that guy that has to walk away from the vet with the empty cage. The worst.

[Bobby]

I've done that with dogs.

[Marc Maron]

So sad. Yeah, the empty casing. Well, when you put your dog down, were you in the room? Did you do the whole thing?

[Bobby]

Oh, my. What's he doing?

[Marc Maron]

He's cleaning himself. Don't you do that.

[Bobby]

He looks like he's about to swipe out of our faces.

[Marc Maron]

No, he's not.

[Bobby]

Why is his foot in the air?

[Marc Maron]

Because he's licking something. They're not like dogs, though. I bet she's not licking his balls. Yeah, he's licking his leg. Right, buddy?

[Bobby]

Oh, he's embarrassed.

[Marc Maron]

No, he's not.

[Bobby]

Oh, my God. I don't think he likes that. Mark, he's looking at you like. Try me again.

[Marc Maron]

That's pretty intense.

[Bobby]

Do you see his face? I don't like him. Well, if you guys want to come adopt a cat.

[Marc Maron]

Yes. What's a Santa door? Right.

[Bobby]

What's it? Would you say it's called? Sand? Santadora.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Santador. S A N san E D apostrophe O R they have a lot of cats down here.

[Bobby]

Some of them have been here for 16 years.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, my. My girlfriend likes old cats.

[Bobby]

You have his current girlfriend?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

And she might be mad that you're in love with me.

[Marc Maron]

I said kind of in love with you in a social way. I don't know why you're hanging on to it. Why is it so important to you?

[Bobby]

I just had to throw that out there one last time.

[Marc Maron]

Well, I thought it was a nice thing to say. Now I'm regretting it. And the love is fading. It's fading fast.

[Bobby]

That's okay. As long as it was there. Then I can reignite the spark.

[Marc Maron]

She wants to open up a shelter for, like, old cats. Just old cats. Yeah. Because sometimes people don't want their old cats anymore and she likes them.

[Bobby]

That's so. That's like an old people home.

[Marc Maron]

Exactly. She wants to open up an old people home for cats.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Marc Maron]

See what happens to me. It sounds very sad.

[Bobby]

That's true. Because you're just gonna deal with them all dying.

[Marc Maron]

I'm old.

[Bobby]

Is your girlfriend old too?

[Marc Maron]

No, she's like, younger.

[Bobby]

How much younger?

[Marc Maron]

36. You're gonna be 36?

[Bobby]

Oh, my God.

[Marc Maron]

What?

[Bobby]

What's the age gap?

[Marc Maron]

Can you do math?

[Bobby]

No, or I wouldn't have asked. What's the age gap?

[Marc Maron]

It's substantial.

[Bobby]

What is it? What? How you're 60.

[Marc Maron]

61.

[Bobby]

36.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, we're grown ups. What are you Judging for.

[Bobby]

Let me just look it up.

[Marc Maron]

Look what up?

[Bobby]

The age.

[Marc Maron]

God, you're gonna do math on your phone?

[Bobby]

61 minus. What did you say?

[Marc Maron]

36.

[Bobby]

That's my whole life, almost. That's crazy.

[Marc Maron]

Is it?

[Bobby]

What do you guys relate to about cats?

[Marc Maron]

Sure, cats is one.

[Bobby]

I guess once you're 30, you're pretty old, so then start a game to date, whatever age.

[Marc Maron]

But, yeah, I. Look, I tell her all the time I'm gonna be, you know, like, really old soon.

[Bobby]

Do you think she'll stick around?

[Marc Maron]

I don't know. I think if I'm a good guy, I'll just be like, you can go if you want. I save some money.

[Bobby]

But you want her to say no, right? You want her to stay forever?

[Marc Maron]

Well, I want her to be happy, so we'll see.

[Bobby]

I hope she doesn't leave you right.

[Marc Maron]

When I get old. Well, that would be sad.

[Bobby]

She already is dating you and you are old.

[Marc Maron]

I didn't. It wasn't like I. I asked. I wasn't looking for a younger person.

[Bobby]

Where'd you find her?

[Marc Maron]

It was during the pandemic.

[Bobby]

Oh. You guys have been together forever.

[Marc Maron]

We're both going some were some rough times and, you know, she emailed me and she sounded like a nice person.

[Bobby]

She emailed you?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Yeah, she knew who I was, unlike you.

[Bobby]

She emailed you?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. What was.

[Bobby]

She has an old soul.

[Marc Maron]

Well, she didn't have my number. She emailed me through the website.

[Bobby]

She could have DM'd you.

[Marc Maron]

That's true. She couldn't. Yeah, but it's okay. It's going good.

[Bobby]

I'm glad it's working out for you. All right.

[Marc Maron]

I need someone to take care of me, you know, when I'm done.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I'm sorry.

[Marc Maron]

It'll be okay.

[Bobby]

She's gonna take care of you and her cats.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. Someone's got to do all that stuff. Let's not make it sad.

[Bobby]

It is.

[Marc Maron]

It's the natural course of life.

[Bobby]

I know. It's just sad that your life is.

[Marc Maron]

Is like that.

[Bobby]

It's coming to an end.

[Marc Maron]

I know. Anybody's could, though.

[Bobby]

I know. That's sad, too, but.

[Marc Maron]

But you're getting old.

[Bobby]

No.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, I know.

[Bobby]

I'm almost 30.

[Marc Maron]

I know. Don't you start to worry about, like, your room?

[Bobby]

Oh, yeah, No. I was looking in the mirror and I saw a wrinkle the other day.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. And I was like, are you gonna Botox and stuff?

[Bobby]

So I used to get Botox and people made fun of me for it.

[Marc Maron]

So now I'm like, what did you get Botox?

[Bobby]

Your forehead.

[Marc Maron]

Your forehead. So you look like a dollar.

[Bobby]

No. So I'm like, what it. So I couldn't move it. And then I'm right here, so I can't do that. Yeah, I'm getting wrinkles right here.

[Marc Maron]

So it just screws with your whole ability to make facial expressions.

[Bobby]

You can't move your face.

[Marc Maron]

That's at all.

[Bobby]

But then people make fun of you. But then I know they're going to make fun of me when they see wrinkles.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah. But, like, it's interesting because, you know, you don't really express much without the Botox. You have, like, two faces. You have that one I like. Like, that one, like, mild, like, and then kind of like. I'm not laughing at.

[Bobby]

Okay. Mark, it was so nice to meet you.

[Marc Maron]

Nice to meet you, too.

[Bobby]

Still don't know what your last name is, but. Oh, I never introduced you. Welcome to the really good podcast.

[Marc Maron]

I'm here with Mark Maron.

[Bobby]

Marc Maron. Guys, you heard it here first. Today we are at a cat shelter.

[Marc Maron]

Not a shelter, panted door.

[Bobby]

But it's not a shelter. And you guys can come here and adopt cats. And there's just like a hundred.

[Marc Maron]

There's a lot of cats here.

[Bobby]

At least 100 of you can get a cat if you look now.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, man. So is this done?

[Bobby]

It's done. You can leave. Do you live close?

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, close enough.

[Bobby]

All right. Go walk home.

[Marc Maron]

Thank you.

[Bobby]

You're welcome. Enjoy your life.

[Marc Maron]

Yeah, you too.

[Bobby]

What's left of it.

[Marc Maron]

Okay, good.

[Bobby]

It has to end awkward first.

[Marc Maron]

It is awkward.

[Bobby]

No, more.

[Marc Maron]

More awkward.

[Bobby]

We're not going to tell you what it means. We're just gonna keep. We're gonna start leaving. Enjoy.

[Marc Maron]

Oh, my God. Why did I do this? I thought it would be. I don't know. I thought.

[Bobby]

What did you think it would be? Because I feel like this is exactly what it is.

[Marc Maron]

I thought it would be kind of like this, but I thought at some point you'd become a person. Okay, well, didn't happen.

[Bobby]

I don't like you so well, believe.

[Marc Maron]

Me, I don't like you now either.

[Bobby]

Good. I'm glad we're on the same page. At least we can adopt cats and live happily ever after.

[Marc Maron]

I'm gonna throw a cat on you.

[Bobby]

That's actually. That's the most up thing anybody could ever do. You're trying to kill me because I'm allergic to that. That's why you're getting canceled now.

[Marc Maron]

You got it.

[Bobby]

Good luck. This is the end of am I.

[Marc Maron]

Supposed to walk away or what?

[Bobby]

I told you this is just whatever happens.

[Marc Maron]

Oh my God. You guys deal with this all the time. This is your job. Your job is to po beside job where I around this monster while she tries to make people uncomfortable.

[Bobby]

Mark, you should adopt one and done. Lawn I've got Let me pick one out for you.

[Marc Maron]

I've got three I'm gonna unlike. Yeah, you're good.

[Bobby]

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