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Marc Maron (0:01)
So it's happening, people. The Bad guys, and I'm one of them. Get ready for the Bad Guys 2 from DreamWorks Animation. I love being Mr. Snake. It's one of the more fun jobs I've had in show business. I like working with Craig Robinson, Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, Natasha Leone on this one, everybody. It's just. It's a blast. Especially when we can all get into the same room and kind of work it out together. Natasha plays my love interest in this one. I tell you, it is kind of an exciting thing to have parents who know me from me say that their kid loves Mr. Snake. I'm crossing generations with my Snake voice. Yeah. Get tickets now for The Bad Guys 2. In theaters August 1st. Lock the gate. All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the Buddies? What the Nicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. How. How are you? Are you okay? Is everything all right? I. I've been talking about this anxiety, and just. I. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you anymore. You know, it just manifests in. In weird ways. But God knows, my cats have been part of my life for a long time. Different sets of cats, and I just can never quite manage to relax around these goddamn cats. And I assume that it's just a projection of my larger inability to feel like I have any sort of control over the world, over my life, over anything else. I don't know. I just get very. I just wanted to. Why can't I just have normal, relaxing cats ever? So today I talked to Jackson Galaxy, you know, out of need more. More than anything else. All right. He's a cat behaviorist. He was the host of the Animal Planet show My Cat from Hell and is the author of several books on cats, and I've been hearing about him for years. You know, people are like, you got to talk to Jackson. You gotta talk to Jackson. He'll. He'll. He'll help you out, you know, I want a fucking miracle, man. Some people are getting on me saying that, you know, I can't, you know, rehouse Charles, Charlie Beans, Roscoe, that. You know, it's my responsibilities, my kid. Someone wrote, he's not. He's not your wife. He's a kid. But, like, I just. I'm starting to feel like he would be happier in a single cat home with a lot of people. He just likes people. Yeah, I know he likes me. He's very Attached to me, but he doesn't give a fuck about the other cats. And, you know, it's getting violent over here. And I'm out in the world doing all this press and doing all this stuff. Bad Guys is opening in August 1st, and my special comes out August 1st. They just picked up Stick for another season. And I'm like, I. I'm. I'm at the edge of a fucking nervous breakdown over here. The show. This show is ending. A lot of changes. I'm sure that's having an effect. I'm sure that, you know, I'm processing that or not at a, you know, a fairly deep level. But I. I just want some peace in my house. And there's nothing but tension. There's nothing but feline tension, you know. And Charlie is violent towards Buster. Like, you know, I. I don't know that cats kill each other, but they're both beat up pretty bad. Charlie's got like a, you know, a gouge, a teeth gouge, you know, on his arm. And I feel little scabs on both of them. And I just want peace in the house, man. I'm just. I'm on edge. And I know, like, people are like, dude, they're just cats. You know, kids, like, they're just cats. You know, it'll resolve itself. It's not, you know, I gotta. I guess I gotta get more human contact. I don't know. But, like, in my brain and in my life, there's just so much going on. So much of it is overwhelming, so much of it is scary. And you just want the cats to be there. I guess if I wanted something to love me unconditionally, I should have got dogs, but they're even more responsibility. I just can't figure out how to ease this situation. You want it to ease with time. And it's just. I think all my cats represent a different part of me, you know, that again, anthropomorphizing, maybe projecting, I don't know. But I think, you know, Buster is a pretty sensitive guy. You know, kind of avoidant, but sensitive. And, you know, wants love. And Sam is kind of a doof, you know, he doesn't, you know, quite know how to receive the love. And I'm not sure he wants it, but occasionally he does. And he's awkward. And Charlie just. He loves people. Anybody. Anybody walks into the house, he loves them. But when I go away, it's just all hits the fan, you know, he's not all over the place. But I get back and, you know, they get into these fights where, you know, Buster is screaming and pissing and shitting, and it's like a nightmare. And I don't know if you people know my history with cats. I imagine some of you do. First cat I had was Butch. Female cat, Butchie. That was given to me by my second wife before we were married. And I love that kitten. And I moved to LA with that kitten. I drove that kitten in a car with a plant that it liked to sleep on. I had a potted plant in the back because he liked to sleep on it. Like she gives a shit. And we're staying in hotel rooms and we're going through all that anxiety of driving a cat across country with a truck that broke down. And Pennsylvania, an hour and a half outside of New York. Oh, God. And we got the cat here, and we thought we should get another cat for Butch. And so we went to this shelter and there were all these sad old cats at the shelter. And I picked this one orange cat that seemed out of its mind that already had the name Boomer. And I realize now, you know, in retrospect, having dealt with ferals, that it was just a feral that ended up at a shelter. So very difficult to socialize. And he just. He became a problem. He pissed all over everything when I moved into the house. And eventually became an outdoor cat. And eventually fucking disappeared, of course. Very sad. When I think about this, it's all sad. And then there were the alley. The Alley Cats of Astoria. Saved a feral litter. Meanie, hissy monkey, LaFonda. The mom got them all fixed, had them all in the house. They destroyed the house somehow. Monkey and La Fonda made the cut. I gave away the other one, the other one ran away. I lived with them for years, and they were half feral. But I remember when Buster came in. When Buster showed up on the doorstep, few months old, maybe two months, freaked out. I think he was a kitten that got away. I don't think it was a complete feral, but there was a period there when Monkey was ailing, you know, and LaFonda was. LaFonda was a mean, crazy, unpredictable cat, but I loved her. But Monkey was not doing well. And Buster as a. Like, at the same age, Charlie would just try to beat the shit out of him. So I guess it's a thing, but it's very upsetting. Then there was Moxie, who ended up with my ex wife, who she brought into the fold. Very smart cat, that Moxie. I don't know what happened to Moxie. I think Moxie ended up In Seattle. But, you know, Monkey and La Fonda, you know, ran their course, got kidney failure, and I had to put them down. And then I had just Buster, and it was just me and Buster for a while, and that was great. And then kid knew a woman that she worked with who's like, there was a litter at the grandparents or whatever. And then I end up with stupid Sammy, who was a cute kitten, and now he's still pretty good cat. He's got his own vibe. And then somehow or another, some feral mother had a bunch of kittens next door over here and was moving them around. And Charlie was under the steps, like, two, three weeks old. And I thought, like, I can change that cat's life, and. And now I have, and he's a spoiled little. But I love him. He's a good guy when he's a good guy. But I just, you know, you can't. There's no way to break up a cat fight. And it's just a goddamn nightmare if they're focused, if Charlie's locked in on Buster, and I scare them apart, and then he'll just go chase him down again. It's just too much, man. And on top of that, you know, my brain is shredding. Like, I'm. I'm really not in a great place mentally or emotionally for a lot of reasons that are probably, you know, valid, but nothing I'm unable to compartmentalize. And all this shit's raining down on me all at once, and it's like it's crushing me. I've been here before. I've been through a lot of. You all have been through this with me, but God damn it, it's just a. It's just a drag. But I guess life is like that, right? And my. My problems as a guy with no kids and a bunch of cats is pretty low on the scale of things to really worry about. But it all. You know, it all adds up. Anyway, this is where I'm at today. Where are you at? I'm all right. I'm spiritually sound. I am. What am I even saying? What am I even saying? My brain is on fire. Gotta play music later. Been rehearsing. That's been a pretty good thing. You know, Doing new things when you get to a certain age is a little daunting, you know, And I've been playing guitar a long time and playing with people on and off for the past few years, but never feeling the confidence, Always choking on stage. And, you know, I just got to remember, dude, you got to Put your hours in. So I'm working with a new group of musicians this time and we're actually rehearsing and we rehearsed last night for a few hours and it felt pretty good just to do that process, but it's just so kind of scary to embark on a creative thing that, like, look, I play by myself and it's fine and I'm okay, but, you know, just to really do it and put the songs together and, and work them and, you know, make decisions around them and trying to get my voice so, you know, I, I can sing, you know, from my stomach with a certain amount of confidence. It's just, you know, you know, some people it's just like, well, that sounds like a fun thing to do. You know, it's not. I want it to be fun, but it's not going to be fun until I feel confident doing it. You know, it's the same thing when people tell me to, you know, play golf. I mean, come on. I mean, how much do you have to suck before you even get kind of good? So at this age, you got to kind of gauge the amount of time, if it's even possible to get to a place where it's fun because you're good enough at it. I'm at odds with myself and it happens and I guess it'll pass, but it's been a few weeks, you know, where I'm just consumed with this. I can't get out from under the, the weight of the anxiety and the dread. And I was okay for a while. But I also realized today that another, another thing is, is like, outside of the podcast ending. Yeah, I just, I just dumped an hour, 10 minute special. I just been working on that. I've been working on that for years, year and a half. And this is that feeling, you know, you're at, you're at square one with a new hour and I never know where it's going to come from. And, and I'm just sort of like, is that gonna happen? You know, there's just that party of, that's like, let's just hang it up. Just stop. It usually comes and I'm kind of, you know, I'm, I'm doing funny stuff. I'm getting up there and I'll let you know how it goes. I'm okay, man. I'm okay. And hopefully, you know, this talk with Jackson will, will level me off and maybe you can listen to it. Maybe you need these kind, this kind of help. I don't know. But before I, I bring him on. I'll be at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in conversation with Jim Gaffigan on Thursday, July 31. That's for the premiere. We're going to be premiering a little a day early the. The. The special. So we'll watch the special and then Jim's gonna talk to me. That'll be nice to see Jim. You can go to wtfpod.com tour for links to tickets. And then August 1st is a, is a big day. That's when my special Marc Maron Panicked premieres on hbo, streaming on HBO Max. And that's also the release date for the bad guys 2. Also, the season finale of Stick is now streaming on Apple tv. Does it, did that just make you anxious, all that stuff? I mean, the work is done still. Then there's the wave of anxiety from that. The special dropping. All right, look, I'm not gonna drag you guys down. I'll be all right. And it was fun talking to Jackson Galaxy. You can check out his YouTube page and JackSongAlaxy.com and this is me having a chat with the cat daddy. Hey, folks, I'm not the kind of person to chase trends, especially with clothing. I, I know what I like and I want stuff that fits right, feels good, and actually lasts. That's why we're sponsored by Quince. Quince has the kind of stuff you'll actually wear on repeat. Breathable flowknit polos, crisp cotton shirts, and comfortable lightweight pants that work for both weekend hangs and dressed up dinners. 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