During his new highly anticipated HBO stand -up, Marc Maron joked by saying that he was “not afraid of dying”, in a single condition – a very specific song by Taylor Swift must play.
Marc Maron: panicked Arrived on Friday and the actor told an “imminent death experience” that occurred one day when he hiked. He explained: “It was a fairly hard hike” with a “steep slope especially for 150 minutes”, and one day, the worst happened: he passed out after making a section of squat.
“For years in the middle of this section, I said to myself:” It’s incredible that I did not pass “,” he said. “But I passed this time.”
Maron explained that during this period of his life, he cried the loss of his partner, Lynn Shelton. “What is interesting about sorrow is that when you are at first, it consumes.
During this period of mourning, he decided to participate in the hike, and although he was on his way to the adventure, he began to “wonder, like:” Why is Taylor Swift so popular? ” And then a part of my brain is like: “Well, why are you just listened to?” “”
His interest in the celebrity of Swift led him to download Midnightthat he noted “was the album at the time”. Maron remembers having gone by hiking and listening “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” to the album.
“And then halfway through the mountain, this song lights up,” he said, starting to play the opening verse, to which Swift sings, “no word appears in front of me the next day.”
“It’s already sad,” joked Maron and continued to play the track until his chorus. “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,” she sang, who directed the Stick Actor to shout: “Oh my god!”
“So now, I’m crying. I cry auditable. I go hiking on the hill and I sobbed aloud, but I put it just in rehearsal because I want to feel the sensations,” he recalls the moment of specific mourning. “I’m just hiking and I say to myself:” Oh my God is terrible. And then I look and I am like, oh no, then I go up and I say to myself: “Oh damn!” I’m just going down.
When Maron came back from the fainting, the first thing he heard was quickly singing the opening line of the track.
“She’s going,” goodbye, goodbye. “So, you know, I realized what happened.” And I have this very deep achievement, this feeling. I just thought at that time, like, like, like, like, like, like I’m not afraid of dying because it’s nothing. I do not think, I am no longer afraid of dying as long as it happens quickly and I have time to put this song. “”
Last Friday, Maron teased that a piece of the Grammy Award prize winner would be presented in Panic During an episode of Good podcast. To ensure that it would be able to include the bit with the song in the Special stand-up, he enlisted the help of his friend and the frequent collaborator of Swift, Jack Antonoff.
“I know Jack Antonoff enough to send him a text, and he is the co-author on [‘Bigger Than the Whole Sky’]”Said Maron.” I said, “I don’t know what is appropriate or how to do that, but we lack money on this thing. It will probably get out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about this song or talk to Taylor? »»
The music producer directed the actor in the right direction to acquire the right license to use, and he was able to include the song in his special – for costs of $ 50,000.
“It was doable. It was tight, but because of ticket sales for the special, we were able to get this song,” he said. “I think the other was that it was up to a minute,” he added, explaining that he had paid to use only a minute of the track. Maron noted: “If I had done the minute later, it would have been more money.”
Maron’s panic comes in the heels of announcing the end of his WTF with Marc Maron Podcast After 16 years. The last episode of the longtime podcast will be released later this fall, although an official date has not yet been established.
