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Marc Maron

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“Answer the question why, and that's just life. So I don't, it didn't diminish my catastrophizing, but it did make me realize how fragile life is.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, what it changed was my sense of mortality. It did not change. Tragic loss of somebody you love, that's not my go-to catastrophe. I didn't see that coming at all. I mean, my parents are both still alive, you know. It's not great. But I didn't see what happened to Lynn. There was no way I could have ever seen that coming. You know, when somebody dies tragically, you know, all the other catastrophizing about me and cancer or, you know, what someone's going to say about me or the world or the fires or anything else, when somebody dies, it does make me more scared in relationship because it's happened. But it also sort of makes you realize just how fragile it all is and how there is no real kind of universal order to it. And, you know, there's no way to.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the talk show. Here come the celebrities. It's just people don't care anymore, and they're all chasing quicks for quips of, you know, having interesting people do dumb shit”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Come in. I think it's just the nature of what we talked about before. which is dictated by media platforms, that this whole idea of like, you know, algorithms and what people's attention span can and can't do is it's sort of a, I don't know if it's a catch-22, but it's like even with any streamer you work on, it's like, well, our algorithm says people can't pay attention for this one. And I'm like, but not my people. And if you keep promoting that, they won't. I mean, if something is good, they'll stay in it. I guess the format and the nature of show business has just, again, shifted to entrepreneurs and media bubbles that are self-driven by individuals or tribal entities and that the whole framing of show business being this.”
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“Oh, yeah, yeah, that was a dark time. I tried to help her. She's lost cause. I couldn't do it. There's nothing I could do. With all my years of experience. No, I don't know. I feel with Bill that there is this, and it happens with some of the other boomers, there's this desperate chasing of relevance that changes someone's mind in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate. Outside of his ideas about primarily, I think wokeness I don't know, it's just not for me. I know his joke right, you know, he's got good joke writers who know how to write for his tone. And I've known a couple of those guys, they were comics, and they're good guys, but I can't see past the desperation what he's willing to do to stay in the conversation.”
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“And then just because of the advent of podcasting and the needs of the new publicity environment, all of a sudden Jerry was never shutting up. So everybody saw Jerry for Jerry. And you do what you will.”
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“And I thought that was cool. I think that what happened with Jerry ultimately is that he was really a guy that didn't speak much publicly.”
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“I do a hike out in Glendale sometimes, and then other times I just do intervals on the treadmill at Equinox. I like Equ I'm an elitist.”
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“That's pretty solid boomer shit. But Janine, you know, John, sure, you know, some of the other Gen Xers, you know, Patton. And then there's a bunch of other younger guys, the alt comedy scene for whatever it did was mostly Gen Xers and some millennials, I guess It was an insulated community that was based a lot in kind of snark. And Snark doesn't age well because it doesn't run that deep.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they just, I think there's a part of narcissism that it's like if the world ends at the same time they do, they don't miss anything. And I think Gen X is probably guilty of a kind of the beginning of a terminal uniqueness on an individual level and not so hip to real civic community. Maybe. I don't know. I'm really spitballing. I don't really think in terms of generations that much. I do know that the boomers need to get out of the way.”
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“I think it was probably the beginning of that sort of self-centered entitlement and need to define yourself in a unique way. That was based on music, fashion, you know, bits and pieces of esoteric wisdom from old books and whatnot. I think it was probably, you know, the boomers are selfish in a different way because they built the world. And now as they were looking down the tunnel of death, they kind of want to end it.”
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“He wants it pretty bad. I can't, like, I look, I know what it's like to think you are speaking your truth and to be completely saturated in talking points that you don't know anymore. I mean, I did Air America for a year every morning. And you start to realize, I didn't think this.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt good about. I articulated it well and going into it. I was 100% confident in the set. And I feel good about it. I'm fortunate in that it was received very well, which is not always the case.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, in a way that was like no one can deny my skill set. So as a comic, if I'm going to take on what's going on in comedy in relation to culture and I do it in a funny way, then I've achieved something because a lot of comics are scared to talk about it. They're afraid of audiences. And you just got to really get that ratio into your head. It was $75 million to $77.5 million. Not every room is full of monsters and certainly not in LA. And that there has to be some, you have to have the guts to be a stand-up stand-up and say what you want to say. Again, it's dicey when you sort of take on people in your world, but when it reflects on the world at large in a negative way, I think it's ripe. But to the point, like I...”
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“No, I do, you know, but I still like, I know it. But then when other people don't know it as much as I do, it makes me upset. This one the stuff that I felt like it was really the best work that I've done in terms of from like the risks were different. The last special was about grief at 20 25 minutes. And this one was back to sort of almost a three act structure where I do the political stuff. Then I tell them I want to just be entertaining and I do that. And then I get into personal stuff. But I do feel like... Stuff that I thought needed to get out there. In terms of not this stuff, like you said before, there's a lot of stuff in this special that goes undiscussed. That's gnarly shit and deep shit. But the stuff that landed, I'm okay with because I felt like it was not being said.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. My parents, it's always about the parents. I mean, because, like, if you don't have a voice in yourself that you've evolved because of being emotionally manipulated one way or the other in a negative way by your early experiences, it's hard to have a voice in your head that says good job.”
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“And I was more grounded in this special than I ever have been because I had purpose. Like I always kind of do, but I had a different purpose, both to my audience, to the way I thought about culture and politics, and also to the risks I wanted to take around personal things. A long time ago, I really set out to not talk about anything that wasn't from my point of view because I could own that and no one could take it. And anytime that I'd see similar things, I'd have to sort of like go, well, is it that similar? I'll just lose it. You know, I don't, I want it to be mine. So the risks I took in the last two bits around trauma and around grief were it took a long time to work those out. So I just feel like that I have a confidence in how I do what I do that is much more grounded than it's ever been. But yeah, validation.”
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“Was one of the only special where beforehand I didn't let my brain undermine me for dumb shit. There's some part of my brain that prepares that way. I've got to find something to make me uncomfortable. And it just didn't happen.”
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“I think that And I said it before that for a long time, however long it takes, your comics job is to pretend like they're not afraid. And then eventually the fear will leave you. And that's sort of a big day. And I think in terms of success, just the fact that I was able to build an audience of grown-up people mostly, mostly thinky, creative, disgruntled people. I kind of talk about it in the special. I worry about alienating them, but there's also some part of me that wants to a little. But I think that once I got an audience and I had a freedom of mind that I knew would be received, that it did help my comedy. And I guess that's success. But ultimately, I have been working a long time at this. And I think along with that fearlessness, especially in this special.”
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“And I kind of, I'm okay with that. I was a cranky guy, but I didn't know quite how to make it funny. I don't think I have the real cranky guys who are naturally funny. It's a rare thing, you know, like Lewis Black is good at that. I think, you know, Burr at some time just to sort of put upon, you know, kind of anger that doesn't cross over into intense anger, which isn't fundamentally entertaining, which is where I would go.”
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“Think that Randy Newman once told Lauren Michaels many years ago, and Lauren told Jim Bieterman, who was producing me on a show for Broadway video, there was a streaming show that was before streaming, though. But Randy said I was a verbescent, which is a sourpus.”
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“Yeah, I think I was like, I kind of rode a line. I grew up in towny culture in Albuquerque, but I was from Jersey and I was very compelled towards higher pursuits. I wanted to really be an intellectual. But I do have at some point a rock and roll element. I was never really a nerd. I was more of an awkward person unfocused. I think nerds are awkward focused people and they can find community in that. I was just an uncomfortable guy that knew how to be funny and sort of moved through all different clicks. But it was never that focused. And I kind of took to and still do to a kind of rock and roll sensibility. So it's that combination of that with pretty, I think, I don't like using the word, but neurotic, anxious Jewishness. So it's kind of a hybrid.”
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“I wasn't like sloppy, you know, and a lot of times I didn't do it the day of those shows. You know, I don't think a lot of people think I was on Coke for that HBO half hour at the Fillmore in 95. I was just sweaty. I don't think I was on Coke. I do know on my first Comedy Central half hour, I had done Coke the night before and I didn't sleep well. But I wasn't getting jacked to work.”
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“I want to be out of it by the end. But I also want to Think that if you watch the special, that I do, you know, I do walk a tightrope, but it definitely comes out funny. And it took a lot of time to do that.”
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“Yeah, and I'm pretty like, you know, my empathy has sort of expanded from doing it. And also I'm kind of innately kind of co-dependent in that, you know, I assume that anyone I'm talking to has their shit together more than me and I kind of meld with them and I kind of pick up their vibe. And there are certain times where I'll ask Brendan McDonald, my producer, I'm like, did I start talking like an old Jew when I was talking to Mel Brooks? He'd be like, yeah. And did I start talking a little bit like a black guy when I was talking to a black guy happens. But you know.”
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“Know if they see it as bravery. I think they're out of control. And if they survive, they can frame it. My joke was I don't trust anybody who hasn't lost complete control of their life for a few years.”
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“Eyes cited as a foundational thing, the sort of idea of. The seed of a thought is that one alcoholic talks to another alcoholic about their life and gets out of themselves. So on that premise, maybe. I just feel also that if you have some experience in recovery, you're very used to people being very candid about showing their emotions and vulnerabilities and telling their stories of the most horrible things. It's just part of the community and part of how it works. So on that level, maybe.”
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“Sure, but So how do you get the young people that identify with liberal, democratic or leftist politics to focus on Getting involved in being involved in the government.”
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“Exactly. Of course, of course. And all they had was Bannon and his mystical beliefs, churning out executive orders. But now you have guys that really know all the fucking weak spots of the government who are churning out executive ord”
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“You have to, like you said, have a leader that believes in liberal democracy. And can speak to why it's good, even with creating policy that may undermine businesses, maybe creating policy for the benefit of all, you have to somehow re-engage people with the idea that they have a civic responsibility for those who don't have.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of how I was going to do it. Because, like I said, with that alpha doggy or whatever thing, with the swagger, which is either genuine or just a means for me to confidently, a trick to deliver it, I decided in this one, just go under it, almost be passive about it. Like, hey, everything's great, you know, everything. And then move from that tone because I believed in the spirit of what you're doing here that if I do it like that, people who aren't necessarily like-minded will listen. And I did some of these shows. I had a guy come up to me and like Skokie or somewhere. And I did all that stuff. And he came up to me and said, you know, I think I'm probably the only Trump supporter in here. And I said, did I get it right? And he said, yeah, man. He's crazy.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, these ones I'm trying to figure out if I like them or not. But what I was going to tell you before, sorry, is that like I said before about playing to our audience and having enough skill to kind of take little shots and have that fun moment of like, we are kind of like that. That entering the political part of this last special, I days before I changed the tone.”
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“Yeah, I get Yeah, yeah. And you're left with a bunch of objects. Yeah, sometimes they're great, and you can go back to them. Like boots always seem to come back around.”
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“Got the nice amp. Yeah, I don't spend much money on things, but I did buy that. Yeah, it's a tube amp. Yeah, some people don't love them. But I've got a good stereo set up with some nice Wilson speakers and the Macintosh amp and the Macintosh preamp and Riga 6 turntable and a Hama cartridge. And, you know, I kind of, it's waning a little bit. That's the problem with getting obsessed and not being a fully committed nerd to a thing. Fully committed nerds have one thing and they do their life with that. It dabbles. It dabbles. But when I dabble hard, then when it starts to pass, you're like, I'm going to have to build another structure for these records.”
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“But also, there's a difference between this hyper reality and just sort of like going swimming. So I just think that it's complicated without a unified message.”
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“Well, it just becomes like you're using it as a marker to sort of determine your brand. Everyone is stuck in honoring the context of the social media platform, right? So arguably, if you really want to do it, there's no free speech because you're trying to get onto this platform and get traction with what you have to say in the bits and pieces that you can do it and make it appealing to enough people to get you some sort of recognition so you can get your grift going or move money into the right direction.”
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“I guess, but I'm just economic. Right. So, but that like now it's like I don't want to get more grim. I'll stick with yes, maybe people, you get all these angry dudes. I mean, and then you offer them, I mean, South Park covered it, the second one. Offer them a job. In ice, as non officer guys with guns for big money. And again, then you get into that philosophy thing where they kill part of themselves to serve this because of their self-interest. And I guess that ties in to me with what you're saying about influencers and about that. If you can get... Know them out from under their self interest, which sometimes is just posturing for a particular cause that determines their brand sort of appeal but is rooted in almost nothing. I mean, how do you momentum?”
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“I think it's possible. No, I agree with that. I mean, of course, and historically, it happens. Yeah. You can push back and you can change people's minds if the sadness, the weight of it. But what happens to, like, I've become sort of obsessed with this idea of these, you know, these angry white dudes that you were talking about that were untethered and many of them, the whole sort of angle of Democrats used to be like, they're voting against their self-interest. That used to be the big thing. Yeah, yeah. How does that happen? Because it feels good to be angry. And”
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“No, but I think that in terms of voters and whatnot, if they are still capable of empathy, underneath this mania of grievance validation, then in so much to say as if they're still human, that maybe something will speak to them.”
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“I mean, you don't think like any judge that rules against him is getting like hundreds and hundreds of death threats. I mean, this is straight up, you know, terrorizing shit. So I know we were heading towards hope somehow, but”
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“They're afraid. They're in, man. And they're in over their head And there's real consequences when you push back against your authoritarian overlords. And who the hell knows what they are? Because once you get above Rus Vot, I mean, you've got the tech oligarchs, right? So they're the real ones, whoever's pawned out, Vance is a stooge for those guys, for Elon and Theo and those guys. So once you get above Project 2025 and you get above Trump, then you've got these guys who really seek to destroy the fabric of democratic society. Okay. So if you're on the payroll of that shit and you want to soften up, there's a lot at stake. So it's not just sort of, we've got to say the right thing to these people and change their minds because you don't think Rubio is shitting his pants every fucking day.”
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“I can't forgive it. I can't forgive it. And it's like in the sense that you should have done your fucking homework before you come out and say, this is the guy to your army of kind of minions who look to you for intellectual fortitude and the proper diet and what is real and what isn't real. in a sense it's like they're going to backpedal and they're going to backpedal in relation to what's kind of like moving through manga in general and i don't know that it matters i mean this i think it does”
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“Rogan, and again, those documentaries, which I highly recommend from Elephant Graveyard, Rogan has positioned himself as the arbiter of what comedy is. And the way I framed it in my conversation with Howie was like, how long can you kind of claim the victim mental? Right. It's like my question is it's like you guys won. Woke is dead. What do you got to keep beating these people up for? Some of them are losing their rights. Some of them are being literally killed. Some of them are being deported. And these are all the big funnies for you guys who claim to be victims of this horrible policy. So then why not stop now?”
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“It's subjective. It makes it silly to them. Sure. Right. But it's not going to make it silly to the guys that are brained in that direction. It's not going to make it silly to the believers. And the problem with comedy comedians as news influencers is that now anything any comic says is a representation of their personal ideology. So the ability for them to be objective about humor is gone and they are subjective, which most humor is, to a specific ideological bent. And sure, you can make it as funny as you want. There's plenty of beautifully funny people doing amazing comedy all the time. But they're in the shadow of this momentum of the tribalized comedy, of the, of, you know,”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The way that democracy is supposed to work. But I think it should always be said that what these guys are fighting for is not democracy. And they're shameless about it. They can say that democracy enabled us to vote for that guy, but that was the fucking end of it. And that's the loophole in democracy, is that you can freely elect a fascist. And then who the hell knows what's going to happen, right? But I do feel that they are shamelessly anti-American in their political ideology. And I imagine most of them would own it.”
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“Left-winging or specific marginalized cultures, you know, creating grassroots action by overwhelming Twitter and stuff, that when Trump was campaigning for the second time, that was ebbing, that it would have found a level where tolerance would have maybe reigned because like I believe that in order for democracy to work, if these guys are doubling down on intolerance and hate, that you got nothing to work with. I mean, it used to be like, you know, you'd get a guy who'd be like, yeah, gay marriage, now the gays, they want to get married. It's ridiculous, fuck the gays. And then it passes in a state. And over time, he's like, I don't know. I work with a guy. They're nice. And then it evolves.”
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“And queer stuff Sure, but ultimately, who's getting the big deals? Which shows stay on the air? What do they keep repeating? It's like the bigger audience. That's them saying, like, we got this other stuff and we know there's a few of you. But we're throwing you a bone. So shut up. But the big money's on the ones that you're talking about, that tittillate in a certain way that is not always right-minded. And look, people can say whatever they want. Yeah. Like my belief is that eventually this stuff would have found its level, that ultimately in terms of”
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“So, like, however, you see Trump, you know, he's still a puppet to something that is bigger that he doesn't give a shit about as long as he can be the guy out front. But those guys are the guys that are dismantling the federal government in the name of Christian nationalism. But I think that the way that business, see what you're saying to me feels like that, you know, fascism is good for business Because if you, like Netflix, like Netflix will just co-opt anybody that can take that algorithm. And I think you kind of, I used to do a joke about it. Netflix can become Reichflix very quickly. And I think the pivotal moment was when they had pushback from the trans community about Chappelle, they realized after several days that that community was not going to affect their bottom line at all. And they cut loose.”
2025-08-24 · Pod Save America · Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But most people, like, so what do you got? 75 million vote for Kamala, 77.5. A vote for Trump, and there's 150 people who did what? What are they doing? Who are those people? Are they just floating? Are they the ones that are watching? It's a lot of people. What are they doing? So, and I think that in terms of how fascism or authoritarianism, like, you know, we've got a president who is a thug. So, you know, his way of doing business is like, oh, you got a got a pretty nice university here. Hey, throw anything bad to happen to it. You know, like, that's a nice state for anything bad to happen to it. Maybe you kick into the charity. It's straight up mob shit. But like people like Russ. Yeah, let's vote. I mean, that's the guy that's doing it.”
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“It's predatory Yeah, they have to insulate themselves. But I do still think that outside of just the kind of emaciated world of press and this chasing of clickbait. I do think in terms of the ideological Bend on it is that it's anti-elitism. It's anti-intellectualism. It's anti-expert. I think it's all part of that. I think that Hollywood has been framed as elitists. I think that not unlike with the universities and the intellectual thing was always part of fascism. But I think that Hollywood represents elitism to the right. And I don't believe that's true. I mean, movie stars and movie stars, but I really think that's where a lot of that comes from outside of just quickbaity stuff.”
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