WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

He's that dude. I think he said the tube amp cost him 5 grand.

The Neil Strauss interview was not only bearable and pretty compelling. Maron's in a mode somewhere between joshing and bullying, and Strauss is somewhere between guy-who-got-in-over-his-head and opportunist.

and *but pretty compelling

idk I think I'm going to have to New Year's resolve to stop listening to this asshole.

In that Bill Burr lovefest, Maron, the 50-something childless therapybro & 12 Stepping rage-o-holic, breaks out the word "pussified" about parents concerned with bullying.

Fuck this broken shell of a person for as many lifetimes as his dust rises.

Why the hell anyone would listen to Maron and Burr talk to each other is beyond me. I like Maron, but not in that sort of company.

it's very illuminating to hear him trying to suck up to knuckle draggers like Burr

I pretty much stopped listening to Maron like six months ago. Dude is losing the tortured part that balanced out the self-obsession and made him a little more sympathetic to listen to (and possibly as a human being).

holy crap at David Spade's life

GARRETT MORRIS you guys

I'm kind of excited about that.

I came to it with barely an idea of who he is, and left it with less. Except that he did a lot of cocaine for a long while, and I'm inferring from the hour-long catarrhic rattle, cigarettes.

so there IS something you don't know everything about

:)

Michael Moore is good in longform conversation vs. TV soundbites.

man the maron intro is just so unbearable though, the amy schumer thing, i have this awful image of the kind of posture of maron when he is Laying It Down on the mic, it is in some sense derivative of the framing used to portray lester bangs in almost famous, does he realise how much he has just fully come to embody this exact like Conservative Radio Truth Teller archetype

Yeah that Amy Schumer thing was pretty questionable from mr comedy ethics inquisitor

"Some comics you never heard of said some stuff yadda yadda yadda"

lol at marc kicking off his impassioned defence of amy schumer with a tale about how he once put together a total sausagefest of a standup night then magnanimously let her go on cuz she was jeselnik's girlfriend

also this was in 2011 when she was already pretty well-established as a comic and he apparently knew fuck-all about her

Dug the Cintra Wilson/Zach G ep. Two interesting convos for different reasons.

long one w friedkin today

I just caught up on a couple I'd not gotten to yesterday: Flea/Trujillo and Herb Alpert. Maron's musician interviews are definitely less painful now than they once were.

Only partway into Friedkin (2+ hours long), but really into it.

Is that the longest single WTF episode? It's up there, and it really started to overstay its welcome by the end (Jesus stuff), but I loved when Friedkin went off on 35mm print fetishists.

a funny part is how little marc makes of friedkin saying he used to run practice w the 80s celtics! that is amazing & rad but obv marc has no ability to engage w it on any level, which is fine to be fair

I prefer a host who doesn't care about that kind of stuff

Todd Rundgren tomorrow. Should be interesting.

The Herb Alpert one was good and so was the Michael Rapaport one, because they both talked so much that they blocked Marc out.

Friedkin was that way, too. Great interview, like an entire audiobook at 2.5 hours.

lol @ Rundgren geeking out about Melt Banana

caught up with the michael rapaport episode over the weekend, gave up when both guest and host started bitching about divorce and child support payments

I can't believe I made it through the whole Al Lubel interview. The guy was so insufferable that even Marc let out a little fake muffled laugh at one line toward the end of the interview as if to say "get the fuck out of my garage".

That dude's still around?! Man. I remember his bit being like a singing intro to his act and his strongest line was "it's a good thing my parents didn't name me Lou because then I'd be Lou Lubel..."

I've only been dipping in when there's a guest I'm interested in, and I'm very interested in the John Lurie one coming up.

^this delivered imo

really touching seeing his loneliness and need for connection creep out from behind that curmudgeonly wall. his Lyme disease stories were terrifying. can't imagine living with that.

jon lurie ep one of the best for a long time for sure

Maron says a few times in the introduction "We had a dinner together afterwards" and so I was expecting Lurie to punch him out or something.

Today's show blew my mind - I somehow didn't realize that these issues exist for people, or at least that said issues can last an entire lifetime.

The Nikki Glaser one?

(BTW is it now impossible to download this podcast? Looks like there's just a player and no link.

...and close parens)

Yep, that's the one.

And I noticed the same thing about downloads - it seems impossible to do it anymore.

iTunes

I still see the dl links @
http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/

but idk I never try to save them I just stream

I use Pocket Casts instead of the Apple Podcasts app and I vastly prefer the experience fwiw.

I use Pocket Casts for android. It's not perfect, but worth the 3 or so bucks.

I still use an iPod :/

I lost my iPod right after Christmas. 6th Gen Classic. I used it every day for years for all my music and podcasts and everything, with just some shitty $5 case to protect it that apparently rendered it invincible. It's still somewhere in the house, but god knows where.

Player FM for android also works well for me

You should only listen to WTF on pressed vinyl

Do NOT give Marc any ideas, dude.

i use instacast. they've stopped updating the app but it still works & i love it

WTF is on Spotify now fwiw (which is how I've started listening to it).