Transcript
Peter Wolf (0:01)
Hey, folks, I've been a cat dad for a long time. Longer than I've been doing this show, in fact. And us cat dads, we don't always get a lot of attention. Maybe it's because people think we're just biding our time until we get a dog. But we're cat dads, and we're proud of it. And one way we get big attention from our cats is when we've got treats for them. That's why temptations, America's number one cat treat brand, is calling 2025 the year of the cat dad. They're celebrating all the guys who are loved by their furry companions, especially when they've got a pocket full of temptations. Ready to go? Show some love to the cat dad in your life and tag your fave with hashtag catdad sighting. Give some love to cat dads everywhere. Yes.
Marc Maron (0:53)
All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck? Nicks? How's it going? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. What is going on? What is going on with you? Seriously? I mean, what is going on with you? Just tell me. Or just at least tell yourself. Do us all a favor. I'm sorry. You just what, are you just exercising? How are you? Is everything all right? I'm okay. I'm o. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. A lot of different angles on that one. Today on the show, the. The magnificent Peter Wolf is here. I didn't know what to expect. Peter Wolf, the singer and songwriter and former frontman of the J. Giles band. Yeah, there was a couple Giles records that I listened to the fuck out of. I mean, when Freeze Frame came out. Oh, man. Yeah. In the early stuff, nothing like the Jay Giles band. They're the fucking Jay Giles band. But this is Peter Wolf. He's a. You know, he's of that band, but he's so much more. He wrote this book called Waiting on the Moon. Now, this thing is kind of great because it is a memoir to a degree, but it's really a bunch of essays about the people he's met in his life. Some people who. You know, there's connections there, like when he was in Cambridge. It's just he's one of these guys that's kind of like almost like a Zelig in terms of where he was at certain times before he was in Giles and the relationships he had with, like, Muddy Waters and some relationship he had With Van Morrison. Before Van Morrison was Big John Lee Hooker, you know, intellectuals in the Harvard Square area and then on throughout his life. Just all these different encounters with people. And it was kind of a fascinating, fascinating little moments and portraits of himself and his relationships, even if they're in passing with these people that, you know, some of us all know. I know I'm getting old to say, you know, we all know them, but I, I don't know. Like, most of the references I have were of a generation before me, but doesn't matter. It was kind of interesting and, and, and fun to talk to Peter. So that's happening. I do want to tell you the documentary about me. If you don't get enough of me here. The documentary Are We Good? Is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City next month. There are two screenings. Saturday, June 14th at 5pm that's at the OkX Theater on Chamber Street. Then Sunday, June 15th at 5:30pm it's screening at the Village east on 2nd Avenue and 12th Street. You can go to wtfpod.com tour. There is a ticket link there. So you can. You can knock that out. Come, come. I know some of you just saw me perform. Come know more about me than you ever need to know. And see a lot of my, you know, there's a lot of. There's a lot of shots of the cats. A lot of shots of me pulling my pants up. That seems to be what my life is about. Pulling my pants up and talking to my cats and doing standup comedy and talking to you people. So the cats, you know, I don't want to leave anybody hanging. I know there's a narrative here about Charlie's issues and Buster. Well, here's what's going on. Since I've been home very consistently for a few weeks now, the hierarchy seems to have leveled off. You know, the king is back and people are behaving appropriately. There's a little, you know, Charlie's excitable, but he's not being hostile. You know, he's punching at Sammy a bit and he's playing with him, and he's punching at Buster just a little bit. Everything seems to have leveled off. They're, they're, they're sweeping. They're sweeping on my bed. Everything is okay. It's okay. I was the missing piece. It was my absence that was causing the power vacuum. And now the power is back, baby. And everybody falls in line. Though Charlie's still very erratic. I don't know if you know this, but I have Those things that you can. I don't know if they're drying racks, but you can unroll them on top of the sink. It's like a rubber grating. And I have them over all the sinks in the kitchen because Charlie, given the opportunity, will pee in the sink. And it happens pretty quickly. I turned my back. I was washing some stuff and I unrolled, or I'd rolled up one of the little rubber grates, and within seconds, Charlie was just peeing in the sink. Just sitting there looking at me, peeing in the sink, directly into the drain. So what was I going to do? I let him finish and then I washed it down. But, yeah, so Charlie, you know, he's a surprising cat, but that wasn't so surprising. It just. I turned away for a second and he's peeing in the sink. Worse things could be happening. Another little bit of information that I got, you know, I don't know how many of you. Sammy, I don't know what to do with Sammy I'm going to bring to the vet because he needs a yearly checkup. But I just. Occasionally he shows affection and he's very awkward with it, and he.