Marc Maron is figuring out what to do with all his free time

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Set us as preferred Marc Maron signed off of his podcast for the last time over a year ago the same way he always did.“Boomer lives!”It was an exclamation that paid tribute to his cat.His feline went missing after he moved to L.A.

from New York.These days, Maron is still having conversations with his pets.“Go back in the room, Buster,” Maron tells his cat.

Two of his furry roommates refuse to get along, forcing the comedian to alternate which one gets to roam freely around the house.“It’s my life,” Maron said over Zoom, “but it’s a pain in my a—.”Since ending his show, “WTF With Marc Maron,” the comic has been rediscovering the mundane routines that make up a life.“I do comedy every night, I exercise, I do work around the house, I’ve been reading a lot, trying to fill my head with stuff that makes me smarter somehow, or kind of makes me look at things differently,” he said.“I tend to be pretty busy somehow, but I can make a day out of one or two errands.”After 16 years of booking guests, scheduling interviews and dissecting the existential dread of the current political climate, Maron suddenly has more free time than he’s accustomed to, and needs to figure out what to do with it, a question he’s exploring in a new special he’s filming in December.“We’re considering calling the special ‘Free Time,’” the comedian said.Maron wasn’t sure how ending his podcast would affect his comedic craft or his relationship with stand-up.

It actually took him a few months to re-familiarize himself with being a comic.“WTF” would start with a stream-of-consciousness monologue, and oftentimes those words translated into bits in his act.Without that thread of creativity, Maron is forced to have those conversations on stage instead of talking through them twice a week.“I imagine that the...