![]() ![]() How did Maron, a 51-year-old, twice-divorced, childless standup comedian with late-90s indie hipster facial hair and a penchant for lumberjack shirts, come to be interviewing the leader of the free world in his garage? To understand that, you have to go back to 2009, the year he started the WTF podcast: a twice-weekly encounter with fellow comedians, actors and directors. “Getting around that would be challenging.” “I knew that he would have a narrative on almost everything,” says Maron. He was worried, too, that his usual interview style – an intimate, conversational shooting of the breeze which relies on an upfront emotional connection – would not work on a media-trained public figure practised at politely dodging uncomfortable questions. Being in his house on his own when all his neighbours knew Barack Obama was coming to visit was giving him the creeps. He had good reason: the following day, if all went according to plan, he would be interviewing the president of the United States of America for an hour-long podcast recorded in his garage in Highland Park, Los Angeles. His two bamboozled cats, Monkey and LaFonda, were hiding under the bed. A large tent was in the process of being erected over his driveway. That morning, 50 secret service guys were being briefed in his living room and a sniffer dog was sweeping his house for bombs. It hadn’t been an ordinary day up to that point. Specifically, he was worried that someone might have tampered with his fusebox. T was the evening of Thursday 18 June and Marc Maron was worried. ![]()
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