“But it didn’t become real to me until he got here,” Maron said. Soon, security dogs sniffed through his home - he had to lock his beloved cats in his bedroom - and a sniper was positioned on his neighbor’s roof. Last Sunday, the producer led Secret Service agents around Maron’s home and was told to start cleaning out the garage a bit so the president wouldn’t trip over anything.īy the time Maron returned from Hawaii on Wednesday evening, a tent was already being erected in his driveway. Final logistical preparations fell on McDonald’s shoulders, as Maron was on a 10-day vacation in Hawaii for the two weeks leading up to the interview. In May, the interview date was locked-in, and Maron began his preparation - reading Obama’s autobiography “Dreams From My Father” and looking up videos of him as a young man. Eric Schultz, Obama’s principal deputy press secretary, noted it was “unique” for the president to be interviewed in a garage, but said to a pool reporter covering the president that he hoped the interview would allow Obama an opportunity “to take some time away from the sort of daily back-and-forth of what’s in the news on any particular day and really offer listeners the opportunity to have more insight into how he makes decisions, what his day-to-day lifestyle is like, what he’s thinking about in terms of his family, his past, his future - a lot of those sort of personal reflections.” The White House first reached out to “WTF” a year ago, but only suggested the possibility of Obama appearing on the show in March. “He also noticed the postcard I have of two cats having sex,” Maron said, “But said, ‘We can’t talk about that.’”
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