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There are only a few garages more famous than Marc Maron’s little garage in Los Angeles. For the past eight years, he’s invited everyone from Barack Obama to Cindy Crawford to step inside the garage to record deeply personal, unscripted conversations for his podcast, “WTF with Marc Maron.”
Now, Maron has put his two-bedroom, one-bath home on the market for $749,000. He’s moving his homegrown podcasting empire to a two-story, Craftsman-style house a short drive away, the New York Times reports.
That should give one lucky superfan—and Maron has many—a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy a piece of broadcast history: the “Cat Ranch” itself. Maron owns multiple cats, and his signature sign-off, “Boomer lives!” is a reference to a cat he owned that escaped and never returned.
Exterior
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Entrance
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Originally built in 1927, the 932-square-foot Spanish-style bungalow is located on an otherwise unremarkable street in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood, just a few blocks from Occidental College. It opens to the living room and dining room, with its single bathroom, less than 20 steps away down a short hallway.
Dining and living room
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The house packs plenty of personality into its diminutive size. Large windows let lots of natural light into the living/dining room, which includes the home’s original, adobe-style fireplace and wide, tiled hearth. There are hardwood floors throughout, and tile in the bathroom and kitchen.
Kitchen
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Maron turned one of the home’s two bedrooms into an office with wire storage shelving. Maron’s bedroom has room for a queen-sized bed, side table, dresser, and little else. The bathroom has double sinks, and a combination tub and shower with a shower curtain.
Office
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Bedroom
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Bathroom
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Deck
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But the home’s real draw is its standalone garage, which has two doors that swing open to let guests in. It’s filled to the ceiling with memorabilia and books, and Maron’s electric guitar, which he sometimes plays on his show. In the middle of the room, there’s a table with recording equipment and two chairs—one for Maron, and one for his guest.
Podcasting studio
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In 2015, Maron scored his biggest interview yet, inviting President Obama on to talk about racism, gun control, and poverty. They recorded their conversation less than a week after a white supremacist shot and killed nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, SC, and Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president.
Marc Maron and President Barack Obama
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Ahead of the interview, Secret Service agents swept Maron’s house for bombs, made him move anything that the president could trip on inside the garage, closed off Maron’s street, tented his entire driveway, and stationed a sniper on a neighbor’s roof. The episode garnered more than 1.7 million downloads within a week of being released.
Maron bought the house in 2003 for $375,000. He’s talked about moving the show to a new house in the past, but said he didn’t want to lose the intimacy of his little garage studio.
“I don’t know why this garage changed my life,” Maron said in a 2013 episode of his show, according to the New Yorker. “This is a magic place. I don’t understand why what happens in here happens.”
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