WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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).

hmm i can't find it there. is it only on android?

Maybe? I can only get to it on the mobile app, not the desktop one.

I like the podcast addict app on android

Only drawback of Pocket Cast vs iOS podcast app is that you can't search for a name and find all the podcasts that person has done. More than outweighed by not being a giant piece of shit like the iOS podcast app.

This Julia L-D episode is excruciating, but I'm making myself listen to the whole thing

I figure she'd be a decent interview. Or is it Maron himself that ruins it?

Folks will probably disagree with me, but I feel like Marc's doing fine and trying to warm things up. I don't know if Julia really is into being interviewed.

The new Louis CK one on the other hand is pretty interesting. At least the half I heard. Basically a Horace and Pete making-of.

^^Yeah! I never saw "Louie" but this new thing seems worth a watch.

Mentioned it on the Wire thread - the David Simon one from last week is good.

David Simon is a p serious dude.