WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

im still waiting on the sedaris episode.

Did he mention that he has a john cale interview in his pocket?

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He definitely told Iggy that Cale was wearing athletic shorts when he was interviewed so is have to say he has it in the can.

goddamn hoarder PONY UP DAMMIT

withholding makes powerless people feel empowered

jerks

xxxpost the Julie Klausner podcast w/ D. Sedative was really good

Baha spellcheck SEDARIS

I figure there have to be several levels of urgency that determine when these interviews get dropped

1. There are the people doing publicity for a time sensitive property whose publicists ask for a specific time for the interview to go up
2. There are the "get" interviews with people Maron is excited about. These go the front of the queue so that Hardwick doesn't get them first
3. All the other people who can get slotted in whenever

xp lol I thought that was a slam.

There's a Nick Cave interview in the can too.

you're just fucking with me now

TELL ME YOU'RE KIDDING

Maron referenced it several months ago.

i downloaded the kristen schall ep bc i like her a lot but haven't listened to it yet, is it an ok one?

Made it five minutes into the Rogen/Goldberg one before I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.

Iggy Pop ep is good, I'd love to hear WTF w/ Henry Rollins.

oh hey that exists and I think I've listened to it

Yeah, the Rollins one was a couple years back, but it was pretty enjoyable iirc.

The Kristen Schaal one was pretty light and fluffy, but it came to light that she was a ska kid at one point in time and it rubbed some of her shine off.

I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.

about a decade back I was in a band with a guy who laughed just like rogen. I quit that band.

really enjoying iggy
hearing him talk about music is such a treat. like in that fat possum doc.

nick cave in the cat palace. wow

MM: I just interviewed Thom Yorke.

WCP: Wow. You haven’t posted that one yet, have you?

MM: No. They’re all a little different. Some are more aware than others. I’ve got a Nick Cave coming up.

WCP: I had an interview scheduled with him once but he cancelled and I never got to do it.

MM: He’s not easy. He’s difficult.

*cough* pot *cough*

When I had John Cale on, that was fuckin’ impossible, dude! The guy’s been around for 40 years or longer. I’m not that familiar with his solo stuff. I don’t have Paris 1919. I took the interview because I could, and because I wanted to talk about the fuckin’ Velvet Underground and producing The Stooges.

So I’m listening to all this stuff, trying to cram it in. I talked to him for like an hour and 15 minutes, and was very forthcoming about The Velvet Underground, about production, about noise music. Then he asks, “Are we going to talk about the new album?” And I’m like, “No, I didn’t get it, dude. They didn’t sent it to me. I haven’t heard it.” I just had to be honest. And he looked at me like, You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I didn’t know what to do. So I seized that moment and asked him, “Well, what did you do differently this record?” It was the right question to ask. It was better because I was honest. He had to explain something to me about his process. So it worked out.

jesus

Seems like Maron says "No one sent me a copy" all the time. Are publicists really that shitty or is that Maron's "a dog ate my homework"?

Unless the interview was pre-release that's no excuse. Spend 30 seconds to find a legal stream on the net. Do the fucking work or you deserve to get called on it.

This is a problem now if he's interviewing people who are on any kind of publicity tour and are just there to plug something.

I'm not sure I really care if he's done the research - the unpreparedness is kind of his thing, no?

sometimes it's fine and just his style, sometimes it's like jesus at least read their wikipedia entry

the nick lowe one really suffered from that, i thought

It works fine when he has a guest who's up for talking about whatever or who can go for an hour with one question, or people he already knows. But as he branches into interviews with musicians who aren't that familiar with his steez it could become a thing. It didn't with, say, Huey Lewis because he was just a talker. Kerry Kinney called him out pretty hard in her interview for not knowing that she was in a rock band for years.

It's kind of a drag that he's getting more and more people who're there specifically to plug something.

i really liked the danny lobell one recently. i'd never heard of him but it was nice to have someone on who's still struggling and figuring things out, and a little bit frustrated by it. also fun to hear him (as someone who also had a comedy interview project) analyzing previous wtf interviews.

Listening to Cheech & Chong right now. I love that half the stories are about Bobby Taylor.

i've kinda skirted a lot of the musical/celeb ones cause of the negativity here but the couple music interviews i heard where he knows his stuff - cf the iggy pop one, which he's great on, ie just familiar enough w/stuff like we will fall & their detroit antecedents, &c - are really satisfying. iggy interview is so dope.

Marc does a great job of getting out of Cheech & Chong's way. Nice change from his dominant style.

Loved sedaris on bookstore employees

I've got Sedaris coming up next. Looking forward to it.

listening now and the intro is making me very uncomfortable. I do not need to know his bathroom habits.

"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah." - Marc Maron

The Sedaris one was good.

I think that's the best ending of a WTF interview I've ever heard.

^ Sedaris

the Nick Cave was a bit more open and cheerful than I've heard him in other interviews, though of course Maron had to do an assholish intro.

One of MM's bad interviewing habits is his need to ask a question and then try to answer it before the guest can (one of countless examples: "What albums did you record in Berlin? Let Love In? The Good Son?") or to inaccurately finish his guest's sentences for them. It seems to come from a radio fear of pauses. It creates unneeded tension as the guest has to correct Maron and risk coming off as annoyed.

loved Cheech & Chong!

Cave had some funny Neubaten stories. I don't know what Maron's problem with him was exactly, but Cave seemed like he was having fun.

The Nick Cave one was bad. Marc needs to at least read people's wikipedia page so he doesn't blunder his way through their backstory. So frustrating that he won't do the minimal work he would expect from a host if he was on the other side of the mic.

I thought Cave did a good job of working gracefully around Maron's painfully obvious ignorance, which makes Maron's characterisation of him as "a bit difficult" doubly irritating. Cave would have been entirely justified in being very difficult indeed if he wanted to - it was seriously amateur-hour stuff from Maron, who's usually a bit better at papering over the cracks in his knowledge.