Episode 1684 - Matt Groening

**Marc Maron** (0:09)
All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFniks? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it. We're coming down to the wire here. Only a few more shows. I hope you're all right. Are you all right? Today on the show, Matt Groening is here. He's the creator of The Simpsons, which means he's responsible for a global phenomenon and an American cultural institution. I was on episode 653 of The Simpsons. That's season 30 He's also known for Futurama, Disenchantment. And he got him right under the wire here. He will be the last guest recorded here in the garage. I'm going to do one more and that'll be me talking to you directly. Just me, just us. It's going to be just us. And then we have one more after that. This is the longest goodbye ever. But it's important, it's important. I have to go in the house now. I think, what is it with being sick and you want toast? You just want peanut butter and toast. Is that a childhood thing? I don't know. I hope it doesn't upset you that I don't talk for a really long time today. I will on Thursday, but I am under the weather and I have to go run around the fucking city of Los Angeles now and do Q&A's at two screenings of my doc. Let's talk about that, a couple of things. The special screenings of the documentary Are We Good? Around the Country. They happen Wednesday, October 8th. It's currently playing in New York and LA. I'll be at a screening at the Aero here in LA next Friday, October 10th. You can go to arewegoodmaron.com to see where else it's playing and get tickets. I'll be back at Dynasty Typewriter in LA for two shows, Saturday, October 11th and Friday, October 17th. I'll be back at Largo on Tuesday, October 14th and Tuesday, October 28th with the band. You can go to wtfpod.com/tour for tickets. Also, you guys, if I'm going to talk, certainly in the near future, I will do it on Instagram. So you can go follow me on Instagram if you haven't done that. Also, our friend Brian Jones, who makes all the cat mugs I give to my guests, will be part of the Hudson Valley Pottery Tour this month. That's October 18th and 19th. Admission is free to all the studios on the tour. Go to hudsonvalleypotterytour.com to learn more. I've been doing a lot of work around the house trying to make it funner for Charlie. Make it more fun for Charlie when I have him locked upstairs. It's so dumb, waffling about what I'm going to do with this cat. Eventually, we'll move him into his own house out here. But until then, I was sick yesterday and I put together a cat tree and I opened the window. I took a shade off with the screwdriver from screwing screws out of wood and took that down. I want to take it down anyways. Then I screwed the window shut to make sure he couldn't fuck with it. And now he can perch on his new cat tree and look out the window. Yeah, that's so ridiculous. It's so ridiculous how much I tweak out about these cats. Scramble to the vet today. That was a whole other thing, man. You know, Buster's been acting weird and you kind of feel like you know when they're sick. And he was marking everywhere. And I don't know, I thought it was Charlie. And you know, but it comes and goes and then I found like, you know, when you're looking for pee and all of a sudden you're like, oh my God, there's way more pee than I ever imagined possible. Jackson Galaxy told me to get a black light. I'm afraid to even use it. He just fucking peed all along the inside of the curtains, all around the rooms. I was like, what the fuck? And he's on Bussporin. I'm on the Bussporin and I no longer pee on the wall around the house. I mean, why isn't it working for him? Yeah, I was a big peer in corners. No more. It should be working for him. But then I thought maybe he's got a UTI. So I took him to the vet and scrambling because I got some things to do out of town. And you know, I'm scrambling to get everything. I brought Charlie to the vet to see if he might be fucked up with a pee thing because he's peeing in the sink, but he's always peeing in the sink. Then I took Buster in. They did tests. And you know, she didn't think it was UTI because he's marking. But Buster always pees vertically. He always marks. I've never seen him pee normal. But the butyporen should be working for that, right? Anyway, so yesterday I get up, or the day before yesterday, I get an email from the vet. He's got bacteria in his pee. And I'm like, well, I got to go. So I drag poor Buster in there and get him, get him the shot. And I had all these errands to run yesterday and wasn't working out. This is not, none of it's important. We should be here kind of easing out. But it's so weird. I know I've talked about this before, but when I get sick and my body just slows down, I can really tap into stuff.