WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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For serious, today's Bobcat Goldthwait episode was crazy good.

looking forward to it, he was really funny on the live episode he was on

The Bobcat one is great because of Bobcat; I'm pretty much over Maron at this point. I figure if I listen to one a month from now on I won't want to strangle him.

What are some of the better episodes IYO? I tried the Janeane Garafolo one, which was pretty good, but then lost interest after playing the Sara Silverman ep in which she seemed about as bored with Maron as I was.

Maybe I should revise my policy of choosing podcasts for babe factor.

i think the louis ck episodes are generally seen as the best ones

The Maria Bamford one is my favorite.

^yah otm xxxp. maron was so hung up on the 'bobcat voice' character that it got p annoying

recent good ones: dino stamatopolous, stephen tobolowsky, dave foley, most of the live ones

lol @ maron and laura kightlinger deciding to call up lous ck in the middle of the podcast. so awkward (he picked up but was busy and annoyed, of course).

i have a dumb question

in the theme song, what is the thing that sounds like "and i'm not guilty here"?

i don't think that's what he's actually saying but it's what i always hear

Ed Helms playing bango! Mike DiStefano is essential listening. All the old school guys. Stewart Lee, duh, considering he is the greatest of all time. The Apatow ones.

I can kind of get why Maron's persona is an obstacle for some people, but I've been a fan of the guy for so long that it's almost impossible to be annoyed by him now (though there are definitely still occasions where I'll be thinking "okay, let's move ahead...").

Some of my favorite guests have been Stephen Tobolowsky, Maria Bamford, Adam McKay, Louis C.K., Judd Apatow, and Patrice O'Neal.

n/a do you mean El Chupacabra saying Double-U Tee Eff?

ha ha maybe? it seems odd that i would be that far off but ???

Dino stamatopolous one was alltime classic and listening to it got me into Moral Orel which is beyond brilliant. Also Starburns.

the Pardo one was great. funny and a lot of great nuggets about how comics approach their craft.

Loved, loved loved Bobcat today. The stuff about his Dad, his crazy biker brother, Kurt...love him. Maron doesnt grate on me anymore, I tend to focus on the guest

The joke about Michael Jordan's dad and Kurt the only one laughing-- A+

Also loved the reason he's called Bobcat (basically as an FU to someone else).

I loved the story about their idea for the All Apologies video idea, with JFK assassination and the pie, and the tour manager saying they can't be in the same room anymore.

Wasn't Kurt really into SNL, at least as a teenager?

My all-time favorite wtfs:

Louis CK
Paul Scheer
Maria Bamford road trip
Janeane Garofalo
Stephen Tobolowsky
Joe Mande

Enjoyed Laura Kightlinger confirming what I thought about Todd Barry (funny but he goes to far in dealing with hecklers to the detriment of the rest of his set, or at least he has the 2 times I've seen him in person). Enjoyed the Robin Williams and Carl LaBove episodes a lot, and his subtle skewering of Bobby Slayton was great.

Anyone other than me pay to upgrade the app? Only really worth it to be able to listen to the old episodes.

Ed Helms seems like a sweet dude, but I think because of that, he didn't really gel with Maron, who seems to need his guests to be more darkly confessional to fully engage with them. Also Helms seemed sort of surprised that Maron hadn't seen Cedar Rapids and didn't know what it was about.

I got to listen to most of the old ones before he created the app, so just use the app for the new eps now

Robin Williams was great, i forgot that one.

otm. also helms doesn't really seem comfortable talking about himself at all.
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Yeah Ed Helm is a sweetheart

Yeah, that was my Ed Helms takeaway. He's uneasy talking about himself (and at least 10 minutes before the interview was over, I was hoping they'd take a break so he could go outside and get some fresh, non cat-infected air).

Laura Kightlinger's childhood sitch = whoa! She seems like a bro, though, and I'd kick it with her.

Just heard Marc Maron on the CBC lately and that spurred me to download a bunch of these and have been enjoying what I've heard though my big complaint is the sheer amount of often-pointless yammer at the beginning of each episode.

The Louis CK ones aren't available in the iTunes feed (they just fell off the bottom I guess) but you can still download them if you search for them in the cached versions using Google search.

Fast forward

Anyone who's just now getting acquainted with Maron needs to hear his Not Sold Out stand-up album from 2002. The ones since then have also been funny, if slightly more self-loathing, but the set that comprises Not Sold Out is masterful.

Fast forward
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic)

Yeah, I guess. Might get to that. I find that I'm listening to a lot of these when my hands are incapacitated (cooking or something) so not always an option, and thankfully so far it hasn't been TOO irksome. Though we'll see after I have 20 of them under my belt!

seems like a sweet dude, but I think because of that, he didn't really gel with Maron, who seems to need his guests to be more darkly confessional to fully engage with them.

I was suprised at how well the Stephen Tobolowsky ep went because of this - Maron didn't dig for any of the painful stuff Tobolowsky's talked about, but just let himself get caught up in the guest's storytelling ability and say some "wow"s at his IRL bloozzzz-rock encounters

My favorite ep so far was W. Kamau Bell & Dwayne Kennedy talking about race and comedy. I could've listened to a couple more hours of that.

Patrice Oneal & Mike DeStefano (RIP) are the 2 best I've heard.

have no idea what greg fleet looks like i just assume hes superhans from peep show

he kinda looks like a middle-aged smackie whinnyingly asking you to lennim twenty bucks

The two-parter with Mencia is sort of different from the rest of the podcast but is AMAZING -- Marc Maron, Comedy Detective, and the case of the Ripped-Off Jokes -- the whole thing has the intensity of those scenes in the interrogation room from Homicide: Life On The Street

live wtf from brooklyn was very funny especially chuck klosterman.

Greg Fleet on today! <3

Oh no, Andy Dick on Thursday. I may skip that one.

yeah that's going to be weird and awkward... I may have to listen in stages

I still blame him indirectly for Phil Hartman's death, so unless his hour with Marc is some kind of self-flagellating apology fest, I'm not interested.

yeah, and I've heard icky stories of him crashing high school proms and shit...dude is not right

remember maron saying andy dick was someone he didnt have time for as he wouldnt take responsibility for his actions (think it was on joe rogans interview)

Mishna wants nothing to do with WTF the same way Jon Stewart wants nothing to do with WTF. These are people who decided they didn't like Marc (for reasons) and still don't like him now.

Obama? I don't know what there is to talk about. I don't feel like he wants the FINAL final episode to be political.

Stern? He's said on numerous occasions Stern's not one of his guys.

Dylan seems like the only "ungettable" guest he'd save to the end, but I can't say I'd be too interested in hearing him interview Bob.

It's probably just gonna be him and Brendan.

King Charles

"Who were your guys?"
"Oh, Wham!, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club..."

It might not be Brendan, though, because they've had like 3 separate talks about ending the podcast already on the WTF+ feed. Not sure what else they could squeeze out of a talk like that.

So yeah, I have no clue.

72 minutes of him sitting silently by Peter Green's grave.

He also did not do the final interview at his house. Which might mean the guest was big enough he had to go to them.

I thought he might talk to Maria Bamford again (he's her biggest fan), but I looked and it's only been two years since she was last on (for the 6th time!). That seems unlikely, I guess.

I suppose it could really go full circle and he interviews Lorne Michaels again and Lorne lets him audition for SNL again.

probably just an hour-long solo guitar improvisation

he is interviewing joe bonamassa at the crossroads

McCartney’s been in the area the past few weeks…

He's already got McCartney on tape tho

from 2018

Before he got big

Idk how it wouldn’t be Lorne for fan service reasons

thats my guess too

Again? Nah.

He’s already talked to Lorne and there’s really no arc there left to complete, I doubt it will be him.

I’m leaning McCartney or Sandler.

idk why it would be McCartney a second time. Sandler possibly, but what connection does Marc even have to Sandler that would make him final-episode-worthy?

This is gonna be someone he either knows very well or someone he's been trying to get for a long time.

Maybe Lorne if Lorne plans to announce this is his final SNL season, but would Marc want to get upstaged on his own finale?

I was thinking Jon Stewart would be interesting

so any guesses on the final interviewee?

i was always hoping he'd interview Rogan (or we'd get a contentious final talk with Jon Stewart), but these wouldn't make sense for a swan song (yesterday)

Mishna wants nothing to do with WTF the same way Jon Stewart wants nothing to do with WTF. These are people who decided they didn't like Marc (for reasons) and still don't like him now. (seven hours ago)

I was thinking Jon Stewart would be interesting (one hour ago)

pretty sure it's going to be Shaggy 2 Dope

Gallagher 2

maybe Andy Kaufman is finally going to come out of hiding after 40 years

Cmon Gallagher 2!

It's Obama.

Obama 2 Dope?

Totally pointless, Obama informs us about his guys every year anyway.

For those of you who can't get enough Maron, he was on this week's Blank Check with Griffin and David, discussing the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.

Huh, I guess Obama makes sense because anyone who only knows the littlest bit of info about WTF or Maron knows it's the podcast with the Obama interview.

Five minutes in to the self-help word salad: does this billionaire-polisher say anything interesting at any point?

not particularly

honestly good riddance

maron is also on blank check this week talking about a serious man. the blank check boys talked about recording a wtf but I don’t see the episode. is there a subscriber only level? i haven’t listened to wtf in like a decade so forgive my ignorance

WTAF feed

uh, i- i think you'll enjoy it

the blank check boys talked about recording a wtf

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall them saying that on the Serious Man episode. Or was it somewhere else? Hard for me to imagine that Maron would want to interview them, especially since he appeared not to have been familiar with Blank Check.

If they ever did anything with WTF it would've been on the bonus feed (it began a few years ago as supplemental wrestling content with Brendan and Kris and Marc would show up and do things sometimes, but it ended up becoming more about movies and further context about the week's main feed episodes).

I realize Marc is polarizing, and the podcast is too. ILX is no different in that respect. But this guy has been a significant part of my entertainment diet for over 30 years, and especially the last 16 due to the podcast reliably releasing two new episodes every single week with no breaks (not even after Lynn died!). Even though I didn't get much out of today's Obama finale, I guess he ended the show the way he wanted to. And he's not running off to live in a cave or anything, he'll still be around, but he's been in my earholes between 2-3 days every week (and occasionally 4 when he'd join the Friday show on the bonus feed for some reason). Late night appearances, stand up cds and specials, Air America, and so on. He's never been too far off my radar. So yeah, I'll feel his absence and I don't love that.

I fell way off with my Maron listening, mostly because I don't really have the attention span for his parade of mid-tier comedians, but always tuned in to hear a musician I was into or even vaguely curious about. I too am sad he's retiring at least from this format.

oh and about him not being familiar with Blank Check- I think that's it right there really, he was probably spending an ever-increasing amount of his time/logistics interviewing people he hasn't heard of and doesn't care about.

he was probably spending an ever-increasing amount of his time/logistics interviewing people he hasn't heard of and doesn't care about.

He and Brendan said the decision to end the show was in part aligned with when their current contract was coming up for renewal, but that it had been bandied about for a while before the public announcement was made. I have to think one of the biggest "what are we even doing?" moments had to come last December when he interviewed TikTok celeb Bobbi Althoff. He obviously gave zero fucks, and I'm sure most of the audience did as well.

I wouldn't mind if he became like a Rick Beato/Guitar Moves thing, lets have a couple hours of Marc riffing and "riffing" with guitar players he admires.

What a cursed idea

Next on Black Mirror: What If Beato But Worse

it would also be ok if he did a celebration of guitar concert, with like 20 guitar players jamming at the end, a la Clapton's Crossroads Festival

it would also be ok if he did a celebration of guitar concert, with like 20 guitar players jamming at the end, a la Clapton's Crossroads Festival Glenn Branca

Your Guys Festival

There you go

I think there's a good chance--particularly since he's doing animated kids movies--that there will be an AI Marc Maron voice that will continue to be used long after he's gone. Maybe even a resurrected WTF where AI Maron interviews historical figures.

Are We Goodchella

Who were your AI's?