WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Your mom's not exactly compelling

Improv idea: pretend that you're interesting

Holy shit, Ron Perlman's Brando story from the set of Dr. Moreau is a rollercoaster.

There have been some good ones recently.

Monday is Roger Waters. Does he do interviews often? Will he be a complete a-hole or just moderately gruff?

yea i enjoyed opie a lot

ooh I will def listen to Rog, hope he's in a good mood

I haven't listened to the opie episode yet, I will definitely check that hout -- his Henry Winkler convo was one of my favorites, it makes me happy to know that maron is a big Happy Days dork like me

He was way more mellow than I anticipated.

haven't listened in over a year, i checked out bc it felt like he started to phone it in w/ interviews and his extremely limited scope of knowledge & interests was really getting on my nerves. any A+++ interviews from the last year i should check out?

opie was good. waters and crosby were kind of a double-header of aging rock star self-congratulation.

It's possible that this is not WTF-related, but I'm trying to source this anecdote from an interview I heard a couple years ago and I feel like Maron is the most likely source.

As a youth, the interviewee had wanted to be a radio DJ. His imagined DJ name was "DJ Reason", with the idea that he could use Elvis Costello's Radio Radio in his show bumpers: "They say you better listen to the voice of reason..."

Does that ring a bell for anyone?

doesn't ring a bell, sorry man

Lin-Manuel Miranda today <3 <3

ha ha at LMM saying "You want the musical theatre version of Who Are Your Guys"

I love when he does the Marc and Tom Show

Marc is still pretty annoying but I like the friendship between those two guys.

Marc not realising he was being clowned (affectionately) with "equivalent of Who Were Your Guys?"

yeah that was pretty lol

also Maron busting out his Herod with Lin was a+

which if any of these considered to be The Best? heard and loved Robin Williams, Louis CK, Albini and a few others. any tips for other decent ones? your advice is appreciated!

Michael Keaton

ooh

The Todd Hanson episode gutted me.

Mike DeStefano

That was a good one. I think most of my favorites were from around 2010-2011, before he starting getting all the actors and musicians and the show was mostly comics telling drug and booze stories.

Michael Keaton definitely one of the best. Highly recommend Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Henry Winkler too.

harris wittels one was really good

otm

Yeah the DeStefano one was really remarkable and moving. Highly recommended.

Norm Macdonald one is a favorite. Harris Wittels 3rded.

was Reiner the one who told the bakery story?
also David Spade's surprised me, the whole shotgun under the bed thing.

A lot of the details in Spade's interview had been covered in his appearance on Nerdist a couple weeks prior, but the tone seemed more gritty on WTF.

Bobby Lee one is some harrowing and occasionally funny drug abuse shit

The Gallagher one is great. The guy lacks any self-awareness at all. Its incredible. Also has the great line AWW CMON GALLAGHER as he leaves

The Robin Williams interview was really good too

robin williams is great, yeah

the stewart lee one is good too and notable in that lee's discussion about having sympathy for audiences who don't quite 'get it' seemed to have a lasting effect on marc

oh! Norm Macdonald

Earlier somebody recommended the Robert Kelly episode and that was really great. I knew nothing about him apart from being on Amy Schumer and Louis CK stuff.

listened to the Norm one yesterday, it was pretty good. also listened to the Robin Williams one. it gets real tough at the end when he is joking about suicide.

the two parter with Mencia was like WTF's version of Serial

The Gallagher one is great. The guy lacks any self-awareness at all. Its incredible. Also has the great line AWW CMON GALLAGHER as he leaves

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Maron was on I Was There Too this week discussing his Almost Famous appearance and this came up. I hadn't thought about it in years.

the two parter with Mencia was like WTF's version of Serial

Yeah I love this show but I don't think it's ever scaled this incredible apex again

The Jerry Lewis half-an-interview he posted this week was really good.

Fun to hear Maron asking James Hetfield: "How about Styx, eh? Grand Illusion? Supertramp?"

them singing riffs back to each other was v lol

I enjoyed the Springsteen ep once Maron stopped Jerseying it up

Tull came up in the opening bit, and again during the interview, and it didn't seem like Maron made the Grammys connection either time.

Yeah that was glaring

Ryan Adams interview equally as boring as every Ryan Adams album after Heartbreaker.

Whaaa?

I never really cared for the guy either way, but I dug that interview a lot.

I'm a sucker for "punk skater kid in a small town" stories though. Thought he a painted a really vivid picture of what his coming up was like and it all felt really human and sincere. Was good.

It felt like Maron rushed him past that and Whiskeytown into the shitty 15 years of his career or Adams didn't want to talk too much about the Whiskeytown era.

Whiskeytown seems like it was a mostly shitty situation for him, so maybe he's not into talking about it. I probably wouldn't be.