Episode 1667 - In Conversation with Jim Gaffigan at 92NY

**Marc Maron** (0:09)
All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTFuddies, WTFnicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. What's happening with you? What is going on? Well, I'll be honest with you.
In preparation for the departure of my social life in the form of this show, I've realized that I'm gonna have to kind of get that somewhere else. It's a very weird thing about what's going on inside of me, I think. I think the inner child idea, though, a little hackneyed and probably played out is somewhat real. It's an interesting model because I do believe there's part of me emotionally that really hasn't really evolved that much since I was probably 13 or 14 And at some point early in college, I decided to permanently lock that kid in a cage and just be different varieties of monster until I leveled off into a wiser, more tamped down version of my adult self. But there is this need for me to let that kid out a little bit, breathe and get on board. I had this very weird moment after everything that's gone on over the last couple weeks, just everything that I've been doing and showing up for, publicity, the special dropping, just all the stick being renewed, all the stuff that would generally overwhelm me and does to the point of massive anxiety. There was a moment where I was standing in front of my house, and I think this was some other part of me, some younger part of me. There was a younger part of me standing there inside of me, who was like, how do you even pull this off? Whose house is this? How did you do this? Is that your car? And I'm like, yeah, dude. I don't know exactly. I'm sorry I kind of, you know, kept you out of it. But yeah, this is what we're doing. This is who we are now. This is the life we're living. And he's like, Jesus, that's fucking crazy. And I'm like, yeah, it is. I have no idea. I don't know if you helped or not. Did you? He's like, I don't know. I mean, sometimes I had dreams, but it didn't exactly look like this. But yeah, good for you. And I'm like, good for us, dude. Good for us, I guess. So that's sort of what I'm dealing with. In other words, I went to a meeting the other night for the first time in a long time. I know there was a few people there. They're a little concerned at my apparent dryness. I'm talking recovery racket talk here. So I'm like, well, that's one way to get what you need, because there is part of me that's sort of like, when I get stressed, there's a real part of me that's like, why doesn't somebody help me? Why doesn't somebody do this? Why isn't, why doesn't somebody make this better? Where's my mommy and daddy? Well, your dad's got dementia and your mom's down in Florida. But I thought like, well, there is help and you know where it is. So why don't you go, go to one of the secret society meetings, re-open those neural pathways, connect the fucking vibe, talk about the isms, you dry fuck. So that was good. Let's see if I stick by it, stick with it. I'll stick by it, but I gotta stick with it. Gotta go. Today on the show, we have a unique thing. This is a talk with Jim Gaffigan that was recorded last Thursday at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. First, there was a screening of Panicked, then this talk with Jim, including audience questions. So we thought we'd share that. Me and Jimmy catching up, doing the thing, the old timer thing, a couple of old comics, medium old, coming in medium warm, not coming in hot, coming in lukewarm. That's what's going on on the show today. Bit of a cat update, you know, I've done everything I can in order to try to ease Charlie's anxiety and aggression and insane temperament. I've done everything I can. I did fellow ways in every room. I played with him until he was panting and exhausted. I played some weird channel, Rumschlag or something, where it's just almost ambient and neoclassical music. And to no avail, he's still just locked in, and all he wanted to do is beat the fuck out of Buster, which makes it a very sad house. So I'm trying the Prozac again at a smaller dose, and it's fucking a pain in the ass to give this cat medicine. I know that's not unusual, but these people that have cats, we'll just mix it in with the food. I'm like, you don't have my cat. I've got to hold this fuck down and squirt it in his mouth, and then he hates me for longer than you think. You know, kids are like, no, they just remember that, the act, not you. And I'm like, I don't know, seems kind of pissed off. But we're a couple of days into it and something's happening. I think when I did it with him last time, I had a higher dose and it just knocked him out. Now he's just a little loopy and kind of surprised and confused. He still seems to want to go after Buster, but not with the intensity or focus that he had before. So I don't know, I'll try to stick with it. I'm not going to project. He doesn't seem to like me as much as he used to because something about the Prozac is diminishing his intense need for my attention. I'll deal with that. I've been in relationships like that before. Usually it gets the other way around.