Episode 923 - Bob Balaban

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Bob Balaban was born into show business and he didn't even know it until he was 10. The ubiquitous actor tells Marc how his immigrant family came to Chicago at the turn of the century and broke into the movie business, eventually winding up in charge of Paramount Studios. Bob also talks with Marc about Charlie Brown, Midnight Cowboy, Altered States, Christopher Guest, Francois Truffaut, and his many roles in film, stage and TV, including his new show Condor.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fuck
0:14.6	adelits, what's happening?
0:16.7	I'm Mark Marren.
0:17.7	This is my podcast, WTF.
0:19.1	Welcome to it.
0:20.1	If you're new to the show, thanks for coming.
0:23.2	It doesn't always sound like this.
0:24.4	I'm in a hotel room and I've become fairly sensitive to sound lately.
0:28.9	I don't know if that's a sign of aging or what, but my taste buds and my hearing has become
0:34.0	a bit more acute.
0:36.0	My vision is not as good as it used to be, but whatever the case, I'm self conscious about
0:41.6	the sound of them in a hotel room, as I said.
0:44.1	Did I say it?
0:45.1	See, that's another thing that happens when you get older.
0:47.4	I'm in Saratoga Springs, New York, going to Saratoga's Painter's Family, going to
0:52.7	visit.
0:53.7	She's got a little thing, she's got a meeting in a museum up here.
0:55.4	It's very pleasant up here.
0:57.4	It's been a rough few days.
0:59.7	I'm getting a lot of email about the passing, the death, the suicide of Anthony Bourdain.
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