WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

He does it almost any time he talks to black Americans; I was just being amused to see how quickly it happened, not being shocked in any way.

#boomerlives

Maron needs to post to ILM

please no

Quite enjoyed his End Times show or whatever it is called. Funny dig at Rogan included.

^ Maron's 2019-shot, most recent stand-up show, End Times Fun on Netflix.

I enjoy the guitar players Maron talks to, especially because most of them are favorites of mine, too. But damnit if he doesn't fanboy his way out of a better interview way too much. Mike Campbell, obviously still busted up about Tom Petty's demise a couple years earlier, was so gracious and patient with Maron's "Yeah." and "RIGHT?!?!?" interjections. Cool talk with a lot of guitar geekery, but I just feel like it could have been better if Maron could take the fan hat all the way off.

Tim Allen appears to be the most blithely stupid man to ever be interviewed on this show.

dumb enough that it's worth checking out?!

same question, I was considering skipping this ep. i liked his interview with Michael K. Williams, it was cool to hear them both geek out about meditation and talk about "the program". and I'll give Marc a little credit, re some comments upthread, he totally copped to having a thing where he starts imitating the cadence and voice of people he talks to after awhile.

dumb enough that it's worth checking out?!

No.

trying to craft a joke about tim allen being asked "who are your guys?" but it's the police

only if you missed having a christmas break conversation with your conservative uncle

its funny bc it takes zero effort to imagine marc in the 90s just brutally ripping tim allen onstage, the rednecks who that show must be brain damaged from power tools, etc

Was the Kevin Morby thing just on Instagram and not a pod?

Yeah, I don't typically watch his daily insta posts, but he did chats with Kevin Morby and Sadler Vaden on Sunday and both were fun and totally informal.

Oh! I love Morby!

its funny bc it takes zero effort to imagine marc in the 90s just brutally ripping tim allen onstage, the rednecks who that show must be brain damaged from power tools, etc

Maron sets up in the intro about how they don't get into politics, he didn't seek the interview but it was pitched to him and he wanted to talk to someone who totally built a character in brick-wall roadwork etc, but after talking for 45 minutes iike someone's who's merely too dumb to consider that people outside his family or employees exist, Allen responds to Maron trying to blandish him ("you're an old-school conservative, not a right-wing nut-job") by popping a forehead vein and screaming "I HAVE NEVER USED A ROAD NOR ELECTRICITY SINCE I GOT RICH. MY TV SHOWS ARE NOT AVAILABLE VIA LEGAL STREAMING SERVICES. TRUMP 2024!!!"

Morby gives me devendra banhart vibes that I don't enjoy

or Scott Fagan?

which maron would like

Good interview with Eddie Murphy. In Maron’s comedy-industry wheelhouse, and Murphy seems to enjoy himself.

Murphy came alive briefly here and there when they could connect on specific memories of dudes or places - feel like it would have gone much better in-person.

Landed Hunter Biden!

eww

obligatory who are his guys post

George Soros

Thanks for this revive. At this point I only listen to WTF when there are interesting guests - and it looks like there are some appealing recent chats.

what are the odds that mark has read the hunter biden book

The show notes say that reading the book "made Marc want to talk with him."

(I haven't listened.)

Kristin Hersh is a great interview. I've read one of her books (Rat Girl), but I think this is the first time I've ever heard her talk freely at length and she's fascinating.

does she talk about Vic Chesnutt?

His name comes up a couple times, but never in depth.

Love her so much.

Liked the Jackson Browne interview. Maybe it especially worked in its way because Maron wasn't very interested in Browne's music, was much more curious about the people around him and the scenes he was in.

Oh that sounds appealing. I used to be so into this but it got samey for me. Whenever I listen to a guest I'm really interested in, though, I'm glad I did. Two or three a year is the right amount for me.

I've lost track of how many times Bonnie Raitt has come up in these episodes, and how glowingly connected guests speak of her, and he still hasn't had her on the show. Maybe she said no lol

Not at all to disparage Maron at all for enjoying the spoils of his years of hard work, but I did not expect to look up the new speakers he bought (as discussed with Rubin) and see that they cost $29,000.

I wonder what his Hoffman forums user name is.

Honestly though, Rubin came across as way more likable than I expected.

I liked how he flipped it on Marc and needled him about "artists always claiming their latest work is the best".

https://s.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/prod/2021-07/28/6100acb08346ba7488536b27/6100acbed66d5900017664ab_1280x720_FES_v1.jpg

Don't know he has to act all that much, but man he really does look like Jerry Wexler in the wardrobe.

Maron put up the repeat of his Michael K Williams interview from Feb today

such a good conversation, really worth a listen

Really enjoyed the Clooney and Kenneth Branagh eps this week. Maron doesn’t get too much in his own way, especially when Branagh’s rough upbringing short-circuits Maron’s judgments. Both guests are gracious guys in a way, and that goes a long way.

Both of them seemed naturally chatty, so Maron was mostly just rolling with it. I actually found Branagh a little too intense/amped up, though not without an amiable charm.

Maybe it has been going on for awhile now and I've only just noticed it, but it's wild to see clickbait articles being generated from this podcast. The latest being a People headline that popped up on my news feeder, "Idris Elba Thought He Was Shot Making American Gangster", sourced solely from the brief aside that Ridley Scott made while talking about American Gangster.

For approximately a full hour, the latest episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast goes absolutely swimmingly. The episode’s guest, Sam Elliott, rumbles on amiably about all manner of subjects, and he seems to be building a genuine rapport with Maron. And then, almost as a closing afterthought, Maron asks Elliott: “Did you see Power of the Dog?” And then everything went to hell.

“Yeah, you wanna talk about that piece of shit?” Elliott growls. Maron laughs a stunned “Oh no”, and then Elliott proceeds to give the weirdest take on a film that may have ever been spoken aloud.

“There was a fuckin’ full page ad out in the LA Times, and there was a clip, and it talked about the evisceration of the American myth. And I thought ‘What the fuck? What the fuck?’ … What are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bowties and not much else? That’s what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like, running around in chaps and no shirts. There were all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie.”

At this point, Maron steps in. “I think that’s what the movie’s about”, he suggests, not incorrectly.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/02/can-someone-explain-to-sam-elliott-what-the-power-of-the-dog-is-about-and-what-movies-are

Never meet your heroes

Did his publicist quit yet? Just an absolutely stupid way to shoot yourself in the foot.

sometimes you eat the bar

Some really good recent eps - i always love the comedian talk, remind me of why i got started with this

sam jay
mike o'brien
caroline rea
guy torry
adam ray ok even

liked his take on the Slap, too.