Comedian Marc Maron has said previously that Florida weirds him out. His swing through Tampa and Orlando this past weekend only reinforced the feeling, as he later explained on his podcast WTF With Marc Maron.

“The audiences were tremendous, great audiences ... but despite that, my opinions of Florida have not changed. S--t went down. Weird s--t went down,” Maron said on the latest episode, in which he interviews Ronan Farrow. “Florida is Florida, and if you know what I’m talking about, you know what I’m talking about.”

It started in Orlando — “I don’t know if it’s a real city. I think it’s just some sort of corporate mirage that people go to have fun on.” — where Maron described a woman who, out of nowhere, caused a distraction during his set when she “just started singing loudly some sort of song that is sung at soccer games.”

“I don’t invite those moments, but if they happen — always kind of exciting, man. That’s hands-on comedy," he said. "You don’t always want to do big room babysitting, but occasionally you have to.”

Maron headed to Tampa the next day, where he walked around downtown to kill some time.

“I don’t want to judge, but it looks like it halfway happened," Maron said of Tampa. "It looked like there was an attempt at some point in time to kind of make it hip, to do something with downtown and it might have happened for a month or two or maybe a year, but it’s definitely on the other side of that.”

He was also confused by the “literally hundreds” of people wandering around in period costumes, wearing suspenders and smoking pipes while looking at their phones. They were apparently taking part in some sort of app-driven murder mystery game.

Maron praised the beauty of the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts and said his show there was going great until a couple sitting up front started arguing loudly enough that it distracted him.

A while later, “the audience gets weird. ... I look down and realize the man in that couple is standing against the lip of the stage looking at her. Like, they’re having a thing. He’s up, visible to the rest of the crowd,” Maron said. “I have a show to do ... now I’ve got to deal with your marital problems?”

Maron asked the woman what was going on. She said the man was drunk, and that she’d bought him the tickets for Valentine’s Day.

“It started getting deep,” Maron said. “I was like, you’ve got to go resolve this issue. ... She literally pushes her man out of the room. ... I was so relieved. ... She took care of it."

But another audience member interrupted the show moments later to ask if his daughter could come down from the balcony and take one of the seats the couple had vacated.

Maron said sure, and said he received a “beautiful ... emotional” email from the man the next day thanking him for creating a memory with his daughter, who was set to move out of the house the next day and make him and his wife empty nesters.

Maron said that aside from “a couple of wooers, which I don’t love,” the Tampa show got back on track and went well, and that he’d be happy to come back again.

“I’m still wary of Florida, but I know I have people down there. ... I’m happy I came, and I’m happy I went.”

Maron begins talking about his Florida trip at the 1:22 mark in the episode, which you can listen to in the player above.

Maron said he’s approaching the last few shows of performing the material he did in Tampa, which he’ll retire when his new special End Times Fun comes out March 10 on Netflix.

Nationally touring comedians have an interesting history with Tampa audiences.

Amy Schumer, who’d previously joked that Tampa was a “horrendous” city where she’d had a one-night stand in her book, had audience members walk out on her show at Amalie Arena after she made political jokes.

David Cross found the audience so disruptive during a show at the Straz Center that he stopped performing in the middle of a bit.

Comedian Chris D’Elia described his experience after performing in Tampa around “stupid” Gasparilla on his podcast Congratulations.