Veteran comedian Marc Maron recently shared that he had to fork over a hefty sum to the reigning queen of pop, Taylor Swift.

In his new HBO special, Maron jokes he’s fine with dying—as long as a specific Taylor Swift song is playing. Marc Maron’s Panicked debuted last week, where he shared a “near-death experience” from a hike. He said, “It was a pretty hard hike” with a “steep incline for like 150 minutes,” and revealed he passed out after a squat stretch.

“For years in the middle of that stretch, I said to myself, ‘It’s amazing I haven’t passed out,’” he recalled, per The Hollywood Reporter. “But I did pass out on this one particular time.”

Maron shared that he was navigating a period of profound grief following the loss of his partner, Lynn Shelton. “The interesting thing about grief

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