Marc Maron's 3-Word Response to Ending His 'WTF' Podcast
Marc Maron had a typically succinct three-word response to the news that he will end his WTF podcast in the fall.
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Maron announced the news on the June 2 episode of his long-running show, which featured an interview with John Mulaney. “WTF will turn 16 years old on September 1. Sixteen years, it’s a long time. It’s a long time to do anything,” Maron said during the show’s opening. “All of a sudden, you’re old and you realize you’ve been doing something for a long time. This started in the old garage. No one knew what a podcast was. I was coming out of a horrendous divorce. I was wanting to figure out how to continue living my life. Things were not looking good for me,” he recalled.
Simply put, Maron said: “We’re burnt out.”
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“We have put up a new show every Monday and Thursday for almost 16 years and we’re tired,” he explained. “And we’re utterly satisfied with the work we’ve done.”
“When Brendan and I started this thing, all we knew was that we were going to do it every Monday and Thursday. And there was no way to make money. There was no way that we knew how to build an audience or anything. We were doing it in the garage in the beginning that was just a garage filled with junk. And it slowly evolved into the show that became what you listen to twice a week. Sixteen years we’ve been doing this and we’ve decided that we had a great run and now, basically, it’s time, folks. It’s time. WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision.
“Thankfully, we both realized, together, that we were done,” Maron continued. “There was no convincing or pushback, or arguing. We were done. And it’s okay. It’s okay for things to end…This was a show that started when there were no podcasts. And now, there is nothing but podcasts.”
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Though podcasts had been around for nearly a decade before WTF, Maron’s show was one of the first to garner mainstream attention and is largely credited with launching the current podcast boom. The success of the show transformed Maron’s career from that of a cult standup comedian to a successful presenter and actor, with roles in Joker and on Netflix’s Glow. His next project, the Apple TV+ series Stick, in which he stars opposite Owen Wilson, premieres Wednesday on the streamer. Maron is also the subject of an upcoming documentary, Are We Good?, directed by Steven Feinartz.
New episodes of WTF drop every Monday and Thursday.
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