Episode 1655 - Rich Aronovitch

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Many years after a life-changing one-on-one conversation between Rich Aronovitch and Marc in Queens, New York, Rich and Marc are sitting down once again. This time they’re talking about Rich’s new comedy special, his family’s immigrant journey that landed them in New Orleans, Rich’s first experience on the stage under the name Smooth Daddy Johnson, and why Rich went to jail for letting the air out of a police officer’s tires.

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0:00.0	Do you belong here, sitting next to me in the back of a Bell 212 helicopter,
0:06.0	about to give your team the go on a jungle training exercise?
0:10.0	What's your gut saying? Not for you? Turn the volume down.
0:15.0	Or stay here and see how far you could go with leadership training and like anywhere else.
0:22.0	Go, go, go.
0:23.6	Still listening, you belong here.
0:27.1	Army, recruiting now.
0:28.9	Search army jobs.
0:30.2	Hey, it's Grace Beverly here, host of Working Hard, which is currently being sponsored by Compare the Market,
0:34.1	where you can now get personalized car and home insurance deals delivered by Auto Sergei. I'm sure you're all familiar with Compare the Market. You know the meerkats who
0:41.4	compare car and home insurance? Well, now they have a great bit of tech called Auto Sergei. And in a
0:46.2	nutshell, he does the hard work for you when it comes to finding great home and car insurance deals.
0:50.4	He scans for car and home insurance deals and delivers them ahead of your renewal. I absolutely need these types of services to help me get my non-negotiables done efficiently
0:57.6	so that I can focus my time on things that are more important to me, like my daily podcast walk or actually running my businesses.
1:04.1	Just make it simple with personalised deals delivered by Autosurge from Compare the Market.
1:08.6	Prices are generated from information you have provided.
1:11.8	Review before purchasing.
1:14.9	Lock the game.
1:24.3	All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies?
1:28.4	What the fuck, Knicks?
1:29.2	What's happening?
1:30.3	I'm Mark Maren.
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