WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

yeah i remember the voice thing became a pretty gross running joke with him and corolla on loveline where they'd put the caller on hold and try to guess at what age and how many times she was molested. i remember thinking "maybe these two should stop doing this show, it's turning them into monsters"

jesus

jimmy vivino making me v happy rn

xxpost my memory of that was that it was v much carolla-driven, re: making a game out of guessing abuse within a short timeframe

but it's been a long time since i listened

The whole section about Dr. Drew's early involvement in the AIDS crisis, and how that directly led to a call-in show for talking aloud about sex, was especially interesting.

Mulaney: You saw my worst show ever.
Maron: (alluding to some other show he saw....which, ouch!)
Mulaney: No, I'm talking about Aspen.
Maron: I was there?
Mulaney: You were the host.

I just found that whole exchange funny.

Vivino interview contained some excellent Jersey lore

man Maron's tone in some of that Mulaney interview, it's like old bitter Maron was waiting in the wings to come out gunning for the young successful new guy. not overt, but just the timing of the questions...jeez

like boom STRAIGHT into how long he's been sober with no leadup

I'm enjoying the conversation and I think Mulaney's great but I felt a bit embarrasssed for Maron that he still can't help doing that

Have listened to half this Dr. Drew thing and it's totally living up to my expectations. A Platonic example of the interaction where guest says "I don't really want to talk about _____" and Maron says "yeah but we're gonna" and then somehow they do.

I don't really spend any time at all in the Dr. Drew-verse, so I didn't realize until a couple days ago that his wife Susan has her own radio show that focuses on psychics and mediums and astrology and alien abductions and shit. That's...odd.

whoa. had no idea.

O_o

How many times has Maron hate listened to today’s BS Report?

what's a BS Report?

ok googled nevermind, (it's a podcast that got a lorne michaels interview< right?)

JULIA SWEENEY BITCHES

Julia Sweeney seems like such a fun person to be around.

I haven't been listening for a month or so and am catching up--what's with all these "hey look, so and so dropped by to lug their new shit for 20 minutes" openings? Mankind, Sporkful guy, Paulie Shore, guy from Community

Plug

I don't know, I'm kind of getting tired of 90-100 minute WTF episodes. I can't take that much Maron. Having said that, I'd be happy with more Mankind appearance in general, dude is so great.

It's a source of income that's preferable to the eight millionth Stamps dot com ad read imo.

I've never heard a 20 minutes Stamps.com ad

I fast forward past all that shit

In the Rhett Miller interview, he mentions that his parents continued supporting him while he was a struggling comedian and I lost all possibly sympathy for his bitching about his parents.

That's just my own bias. I hate Stamps.com.

better stamps.com than the adam & eve ads. i don't need to hear marc talking about vibrating things i can put inside myself or my partner while i walk to work, cheers.

The whole exchange between Rhett and Marc about the suicide attempt was pretty funny, paraphrasing obvs:

Rhett: Yeah, it's not something I like to talk about a lot.

Marc: So how'd you do it?

xp

"Maybe you need to buy something to stuff inside one of your holes!"

skip that shit!
WTF Podcast Intro Poll

the intro to the Chrissie Hynde episode (with Maron screaming about coffee and nicotine) is very skippable

Gaffigan's visit before Martin Starr was fantastic as always.

so this podcast is now officially sandwiched between 2 guitar center maron jamgasms, huh?

Is the chrissy Hyde interview a good listen?

It wasn't the most comfortable interview I've ever heard, and I couldn't tell if it was because Marc was too eager or if Chrissie had an agenda, but I kind of didn't enjoy it. Also, they found a way to bash disco for a little bit, so fuck'em both.

All I could think listening to the Hynde interview was, "jeesh, and people thing Jann Wenner is an old rockist asshole". Does Chrissie always come across as such a close-minded traditionalist? Or was she having an off day? Her choice of words during the whole disco thing was a little eyebrow-raising too.

I thought Maron was the one bashing disco mostly, she was trying to talk about reggae. He was also angling to bash punk as being "all about the fashion" but she ignored it. He really is the most textbook rockist tube amp dude ever.

I don't think he knows what he is, because I still see him posting his record buying results on twitter and he's getting into a lot of varied and different stuff. Old habits die hard, though.

He's been trying to get into hip-hop lately. Shouldn't be too long until he declares the Roots are the best at it.

he's been posting about the box of black metal a friend sent him. Apparently he's pretty into it.

To that end, I would love to hear him interview Questlove.

I thought Maron was the one bashing disco mostly, she was trying to talk about reggae.

Maybe I misconstrued what she was saying, not about to go back for another listen, but when she was talking about how African-American music, post reggae, gained this "smash and grab" mentality and leaving out spirituality, I thought it was a little icky sounding.

Yeah, it was that phrase exactly that made me go o_O

ew.

I've never really listened to many interviews with her though, so maybe that's par for the course. It just struck me that, during a WTF musician interview, it was the guest making me more uncomfortable than Marc.

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4YzDtEIUAEfXSP.jpg

oh jesus I forgot the "smash and grab" bullshit, you're right, that was nuts

I love how people are talking about Maron's growing musical appreciation like he's a teen in their extended family instead of a middle aged celebrity

*only teens are allowed to grow their appreciation of music**

a teen in their extended family

this feels more accurate actually.

i was on the 'have to listen to every episode' train for a long time but haven't felt like listening in awhile. there are enough good podcasts now that were inspired by his model but feel fresher (probably because they have better taste in music and haven't run for hundreds of episodes).

What are some other good ones Jordan? I need a couple of new podcasts.