WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
By Marc Maron
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Description
Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day - WTF? He'll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head.
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ExplicitEpisode 810 - Kevin Bacon | Kevin Bacon started his career with an awkward experience on the set of Animal House. Then his fear of becoming a major star after Footloose led him to self-sabotage. It wasn't until he rejected Hollywood's idea of being a leading man and... | 5/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 809 - John Michael Higgins / Maria Bamford | John Michael Higgins is instantly familiar to audiences after seeing him in the Christopher Guest movies and Pitch Perfect and so many other films and TV shows. But he and Marc discover in the middle of their conversation that they actually... | 5/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 808 - Wendi McLendon-Covey / Al Madrigal | Wendi McLendon-Covey may have found success with The Goldbergs and Bridesmaids but the Hollywood lifestyle was never her thing. As she tells Marc, Wendi lived at home with her parents until she was 26, worked at a hotel in Anaheim while she was... | 5/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 807 - Mark Mothersbaugh | Although Mark Mothersbaugh co-founded Devo, he didn't think it was a band at first. To Mark and his bandmates, Devo was an art movement. Mark sits down in the garage to talk about his upbringing in Akron, attending Kent State... | 5/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 806 - Mark Lanegan / Mac DeMarco | Mark Lanegan is the soft-spoken elder statesman of the '90s Seattle grunge scene. Marc Maron talks with the former frontman of Screaming Trees and finds out how Mark went on to collaborate with a wide variety of artists, from Guns N' Roses... | 4/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 805 - Walter Hill | Poor health kept Walter Hill out of the Army in the '60s, but that twist of fate led him into filmmaking during the tumultuous end of that decade. Walter tells Marc about being there for the major shift in cinema during the '70s, making his... | 4/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 804 - Amanda Peet / W. Kamau Bell | Marc is a fan of Amanda Peet when she's playing funny, quirky characters, like in Togetherness or Brockmire, and when she's cold-hearted and mean, like in Changing Lanes or Syriana. He finds out in person if those two sides of Amanda come to... | 4/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 803 - Baron Vaughn / Moshe Kasher | Baron Vaughn knows that growing up without a father and sharing a bunk bed with grandma can ignite the comedy spark. He tells Marc about being a latchkey kid watching cable TV and drawing inspiration from the black... | 4/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 802 - Michael Chiklis / Kurt Braunohler & Lauren Cook | It turns out Michael Chiklis and Marc went to Boston University at the same time, but soon after school Michael got cast as John Belushi in the movie Wired, which almost ended his career on the spot. Michael talks about how he... | 4/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 801 - Anne Hathaway / Aimee Mann | Marc tries not to fanboy out too much with Anne Hathaway in the garage. While he attempts to keep it together, they talk about her path from party girl to motherhood, the lessons gleaned from messed up relationships, dealing with the aggressive... | 4/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 800 - Jeff Ross | For the 800th episode of WTF, Marc welcomes back the show's very first guest, Jeff Ross. Just as WTF evolved since that first episode in 2009, Jeff evolved from the Roastmaster General to a comedian using his talent as a put-down artist in order... | 4/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 799 - Jason Zinoman / Hank Azaria | New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman is the one person analyzing comedy from the most prominent journalistic platform in the world. So naturally Jason and Marc would want to talk about the nuts and bolts of creating... | 4/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 798 - Paul Beatty / Jackie Kashian | Marc was blown away by author Paul Beatty's celebrated novel The Sellout and wanted to know how a writer can turn a stew of ideas about identity, race, pride, language and representation into a provocative and hilarious book. Paul visits the... | 3/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 797 - Paul Shaffer | Paul Shaffer takes Marc down the path that turned a piano-playing kid from Canada into a keyboard-for-hire who became the bandleader for the famous Toronto production of Godspell. And from there, the dominoes fell, as Paul joined the SNL... | 3/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 796 - Reza Aslan | Religious scholar Reza Aslan has spent his life studying the facts and misconceptions about belief and the evolutionary reasons people need to believe in something larger than themselves. Beginning with his family fleeing a religious... | 3/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 795 - Paul Rust / Dax Shepard | Actor and writer Paul Rust knew how to be funny as a kid growing up in Iowa and struggling with OCD. But he tells Marc it was his knack for taking intense, borderline-unspeakable risks on stage when he got to LA that caught the attention of... | 3/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 794 - Louis Theroux | Filmmaker Louis Theroux once tried to make a documentary featuring Marc but he never used the footage. Marc's been puzzled by that ever since, but when you look at the subjects of many Louis docs - addicts, criminals, hate mongers, pornographers -... | 3/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 793 - Kevin Nealon | Kevin Nealon is trying a new approach to life in order to be less of a people pleaser and to allow himself some anger from time to time. But Kevin is able to keep that anger at bay while he tells Marc about heading to LA during the '70s... | 3/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 792 - Fred Melamed / Andy Kindler | Fred Melamed is instantly familiar, not only because of his scene-stealing performances in the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man and Maria Bamford's Lady Dynamite, but because he is an indelible New York character. But that familiarity came with... | 3/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 791 - Eugene Levy | Eugene Levy brings more than five decades of comedy history from north of the border into the garage. He tells Marc about his early days as a college student in Canada hanging out with Martin Short, Ivan Reitman, and Catherine O'Hara,... | 3/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 790 - Jennifer Coolidge | Whether you see her in Christopher Guest's movies or on 2 Broke Girls or as Stifler's mom, Jennifer Coolidge is always a unique comic presence. She tells Marc how she put her wild New York City cocaine days behind her to come to LA and join the... | 3/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 789 - Raoul Peck | Filmmaker Raoul Peck spent more than a decade putting together the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, a powerful film illuminating the words and life of writer and social critic James Baldwin. But as Marc learns in this conversation, Raoul’s... | 2/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 788 - Norah Jones / Pete Holmes | Singer-songwriter Norah Jones can float between multiple genres of music with ease, whether its jazz or standards or country or acoustic pop. That's not surprising when you consider how she was influenced by her Texas roots, her early piano playing,... | 2/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 787 - Trae Crowder / Lena Dunham | Comedian Trae Crowder does not shy away from his Southern upbringing, in which he saw economic devastation and drug abuse lay waste to several generations around him. But in defiance of the stereotypes some might assign to him, Trae finds... | 2/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 786 - Will Arnett | Unfolding world events are messing with Will Arnett and Marc as they sit in the garage, but they won't let the existential terror stop them from tracking Will's path and finding out how growing up in Toronto, getting kicked out of school,... | 2/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 785 - Ryan Adams | Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams knows there's a stark difference between the way he views the work throughout his career and the popular perception of it. Whether it's his years in Whiskeytown or his song New York, New York becoming a... | 2/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 784 - Steve Jones / Jed Maheu | If Steve Jones was going to start a band after a troubled upbringing filled with petty crime, it makes sense that the band wound up being the Sex Pistols. Steve takes Marc through the formation of the band, the rocket ride to the top and the... | 2/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 783 - Bill Paxton / Dylan Brody | If Bill Paxton hadn't suffered from rheumatic fever when he was growing up in Texas, he might not be in show business. Bill tells Marc some great stories about some of his most memorable work in things like Weird Science, Aliens, Big Love and his... | 2/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMarc Spitz from January 2014 | From Episode 466, this is Marc's conversation with author, playwright and music journalist Marc Spitz, conducted in two parts. Marc Spitz passed away on February 4, 2017. | 2/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 782 - Joe DeRosa / John Hodgman & Jesse Thorn | Marc had prejudged comedian Joe DeRosa. He thought he was a Philly tough guy who wouldn't want to have anything to do with a guy like Marc. Now that they're friends and realize how similar they are, they can commiserate about the insecurities and... | 2/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 781 - Robbie Robertson | Robbie Robertson is in the garage to give Marc the full lowdown on the history of The Band, from its origins as a backing group to its final bow with The Last Waltz. Robbie talks about being with Bob Dylan when he went electric and dealing with the... | 1/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 780 - Jonathan Daniel / Nick Thune | How did an '80s glam metal bassist become one of the most prominent music managers in the industry, representing Sia, Weezer, Train, Courtney Love, Fall Out Boy, Lorde, and many others? Marc hears one of the most unlikely stories of show... | 1/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 779 - Martin Landau | Martin Landau is an Oscar-winning actor with a lifetime of work on film, TV and stage. But he's also one of the foremost educators on his craft. Martin takes Marc through his early days in New York City at The Actors Studio studying... | 1/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 778 - Martha Kelly / Bruce Talk with Pashman | Comedian Martha Kelly told Zach Galifianakis she cannot act. That didn't stop Zach from casting her as one of the leads on his show Baskets, but Martha's insecurity plagued her throughout life and, as she tells Marc, probably had... | 1/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 777 - John Larroquette | John Larroquette knows that people still identify him most strongly with Night Court, and he's okay with that. John believes things would have been different if he hadn't made his character, Dan Fielding, endearing beneath his cynical exterior.... | 1/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 776 - Roger Corman / G.J. Echternkamp | Roger Corman made hundreds of films and gave huge opportunities to filmmakers who became the best Hollywood has to offer. Now, at 90 years old, Roger joins Marc to look back at his career of high concepts and low budgets. Plus,... | 1/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 775 - James Hetfield | Before James Hetfield formed Metallica, his musical awareness was shaped in equal parts by classical music, Aerosmith and the desire to kill disco. James talks with Marc about the band's continued growth, his recovery from not only addiction but... | 1/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 774 - Martha Plimpton / Laurie Kilmartin | Martha Plimpton says she learned how to act on the job. She talks with Marc about her childhood roles in movies like The Goonies, how those paved the way for her work on Broadway, and what she does to overcome crippling stage... | 1/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 773 - Bruce Springsteen | Marc leaves the cozy confines of the garage and heads to New Jersey (where else?) to talk with The Boss. Just two Jersey guys hanging out, talking about dads, depression, fear, fulfillment and the future. Bruce tells Marc how and why he... | 1/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 772 - David Bromberg | Singer-songwriter David Bromberg is a human bridge between at least a half-dozen different styles of music. David and Marc talk about the pivotal evolution of modern music, as folk transitioned into rock, and all the people David worked with over the... | 12/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 771 - Sammy Shore | Marc makes a pilgrimage to Las Vegas for a sit-down with Sammy Shore, a comic with a long show business life that doesn't quite have the ending he planned on. Sammy tells Marc about starting his career as Shecky Greene's partner, becoming the opening... | 12/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWTF Uncovered #5 - Live at Now Hear This | It's not entirely accurate to say this episode has never been heard by anyone before. About 700 people were in the room at the Now Hear This podcast festival in Anaheim this past October to hear Marc and his producer Brendan McDonald reveal the... | 12/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 770 - Derek Trucks | A lot of former child stars have been in the garage, but Derek Trucks wasn't so much a child star as he was a prodigy. At the age of nine, Derek was a guitar wizard. He talks with Marc about avoiding the pitfall of becoming a novelty act and... | 12/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 769 - Annette Bening | Annette Bening attributes her longevity in acting to stopping when she wanted. She talks with Marc about being able to put the brakes on her career when dealing with the responsibilities of parenting. They also talk about privacy, winning... | 12/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWTF Uncovered #4 - The Lost Marc and Tom Show | Every so often Marc gets together with Tom Scharpling of The Best Show to figure out life's big questions. They record these conversations and release them as The Marc and Tom Show. This one was recorded almost four years ago and was never... | 12/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 768 - Billy West | Comedian Billy West is a master of voices and one of the preeminent voiceover artists working today. Billy tells Marc about his need to escape into characters while growing up in a chaotic home. It was a retreat from reality that led to... | 12/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 767 - Casey Affleck | Casey Affleck says he doesn't want fame or stardom. So how's he handling it now that the spotlight keeps getting hotter? Casey talks with Marc about growing up in Massachusetts, maturing as an actor, living in the public eye, having kids, dealing with... | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWTF Uncovered #3 - Jerry Lewis | In September 2016, Marc recorded a conversation with the legendary Jerry Lewis. Until now, no one has heard it other than those in the room. This was supposed to be a full-length episode of WTF, but the interview was compromised and there were no... | 12/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 766 Shane Mauss | Comedian Shane Mauss saw his career gathering steam only to stall out and make him feel like opportunities were passing him by. Then an accident that left him with two broken feet coincided with another journey. One that involves... | 12/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 765 - Dana Carvey | As Dana Carvey puts it, he gave a Heisman to fame, essentially putting himself on the sidelines of showbiz for 15 years. Dana and Marc talk about the string of events that happened after SNL and Wayne's World that prompted Dana to reevaluate what's... | 12/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 764 - The Handsome Family / Sam Pollard | Gothic folk duo The Handsome Family meet up with Marc while he's in Albuquerque to talk about American roots music, carnival sideshows, meeting your heroes, and dealing with bipolarity. But first, documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard joins Marc in the... | 12/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 763 - Joe Matarese | Comedian Joe Matarese has struggled with bouts of rage, anxiety and paralyzing indecisiveness. As he tells Marc, Joe is correcting these problems through medication, therapy, help from his wife, and inspiration from one particular... | 11/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 762 - Scott Fagan | Singer-songwriter Scott Fagan created a beautiful album in 1968, called South Atlantic Blues. But things didn't go the way they were supposed to. Scott talks with Marc about why the album and his career fizzled, how they were both resurrected,... | 11/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 761 - Michael Shannon | Michael Shannon cuts a pretty intimidating figure on stage and screen. The combination of his Southern upbringing and his early-career immersion into the Chicago theater scene probably accounts for much of his intensity. Michael and Marc talk... | 11/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 760 - Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain / Andre Royo | Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain wrote a book that changed Marc's life. On the 20-year anniversary of 'Please Kill Me: An Uncensored Oral History of Punk,' Legs and Gillian tell Marc why they wrote it in the first place and why it still resonates... | 11/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 759 - Lin-Manuel Miranda | Lin-Manuel Miranda is not only the creator of Hamilton and In The Heights, he's also a long-time WTFer. So he's well prepared to get into everything with Marc during a visit to the garage, including his multicultural upbringing, his early... | 11/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLorne Stories - A WTF Special Presentation | Marc Maron presents a definitive collection of stories about Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, as told by past WTF guests. Hear Lorne Stories from Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poelher, Rob Riggle, Jason Sudeikis, Norm... | 11/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 653 - Lorne Michaels | In the history of WTF, Lorne Michaels is talked about more than any other person. Now he is finally a guest. The man behind SNL goes through it all, from the reason he started the show back in 1975 to the reason he keeps doing it. Meanwhile, Marc... | 11/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 614 - The President Was Here | From the minute the Presidential motorcade pulled away, Marc began recording his reaction to the momentous event that just occurred in his garage. Hear Marc's ongoing reflections in the aftermath as well as a discussion with WTF producer Brendan... | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 613 - President Barack Obama | Marc welcomes the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to the garage for conversation about college, fitting in, race relations, gun violence, changing the status quo, disappointing your fans, comedians, fatherhood and... | 6/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Marc the shark!
Progressive humor from a neurotic genius.
This is what podcast should sound like
Maron has a brief but notable background in radio so his podcast sounds professional. It's entertaining, there is variety in the format, great guests, Marc's insights are intelligent without being pretensious. As a comic he has always maintained an indy-style integrity and with his podcast, nothing has changed.
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I love Marc Maron! Five More Words... In a super gay way! Keep up the good work buddy!
