WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

^ schtick

it gets there through AUTHENTICITY

Not sure what I was expecting, but thought it was a kinda boring. Not as cringe-worthy as it could have been at least.

I guess I just imagined Thom Yorke being an unpleasant person to talk to, and he really wasn't.

Listened to the Seth Rogen one this weekend on a long walk--fun one.

That "record making is voodoo magic of authenticity" intro is one of the most punch in the face worthy things I've heard him spout off about. Have to take a break before I listen to the interview.

yeah, I want to send him a paragraph-long email explaining how the music gets on the vinyl. but I also don't want to ruin the *magic* for him.

Each groove is carved by a master craftsman

Thanks for reminding me why I skip the intros.

I always feel bad for his girlfriend whenever he starts talking about his stupid record player (WITH TUBES!) and making people listen to music on it. definitely one of those guys who puts a record on and stares right at you expectantly until you say how great it sounds so he can yell "IT'S THE TUBES!" at you

yeah, he is likely the Alexandra Guarnaschelli of tube-and-vinyl-based sound system reaction judging

The IFC show has been renewed. Oh joy.

(I quit after two episodes.)

now you're going to be forced to watch another 18 of them ;_;

so Maron recounts Cale saying "Are we going to talk about my new album?" before playing the interview where he doesn't actually say that.

I laughed at: "They didn't send it to me." "Who is 'they'?"

that's Maron's "the dog ate my homework"

also he makes it sound like Cale demanded to talk about the new album - when in fact, as you point out, Maron brings it up and Cale almost immediately says "We don't have tot talk about it if you don't want to..."

I love Maron and WTF - but he should seriously consider going down to 1 interview per week.

Why?

so he can dedicate some time to preparing for his interviews

lol like he would do that

ha fair enough

maybe I'm just Maron-ed out

lol "prepare"

I just wish someone who was better versed or gave a fuck could get the musician interviews. Cale is very engaging, despite Marc being his usual unprepared self and riding his pet topics.

someone needs to invent a way to like killfile maron out of his own podcast

i accidentally got caught up listening to the into abt his eating head cheese and feeling bad abt himself for it and i was just like wtf am i doing

he should start talking to nutritionists or dieticians so he really cares abt the interviews

I've started two episodes of this (Fogerty, Stinson) and bailed out early both times.

Both of those interviews are awesome

I hate it, because I'm a fan of most the musicians he's interviewed over time, but he interviews with comics are generally better because it doesn't feel like he's puffing up and fronting. Well, maybe sometimes, just because that's who he is. But he's more at ease with fellow comics.

He's definitely going more for cool anecdotes from the musicians than for deep analysis of craft, though sometimes the musicians get into that despite Maron. Like, in the Cale interview there are a few nice stories about Nico and Lou, but I liked hearing him talk about Houston rap and stuff a bit more.

really I guess I just wish there was somebody other than Maron doing WTF-style long-form interviews with musicians. Sometimes he gets a great conversation out of a musician - I loved Fogerty, Darnielle, Iggy and Stinson among others - but too often I just feel like they could have been a lot better. I think it's more his comfort level than research or knowledge...like when comedian interviews go off the rails a little bit, Maron can bust balls or find common ground but when musicians fluster him he gets all weird.

Tom Scharpling's Low Times podcast seems to be going for a musicians WTF thing but it's pretty hit & miss so far - and the musicians I don't know I find a lot less engaging than the comics I don't know on WTF.

Dave Alvin interview still my favorite of the musician ones.

i saw the live one at just for laughs on friday, it was fun. eddie izzard, seth meyers, tig notaro, some other guys

Bill Hader's story about Martin Kove is awesome.

I've started two episodes of this (Fogerty, Stinson) and bailed out early both times.

― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fogerty starts out rough -- Maron keeps saying "Yeah? Yeah?" to show that he's "listening" -- but gets a lot better about halfway through. Totally worth it.

JF, that story was fucking amazing

I bailed on Hader. Marc was twitching too much for me early on so I said fuck it.

You need that story

i seriously don't even hear that, i guess my brain just filters it out.

xp

Yeah, this is one of my favorite episodes...mostly because Hader is a great storyteller, but it's so loose and casual and Marc isn't really a distraction at all.

I've never cared for Hader one way or the other so didn't feel like putting up with Maron today. Such is life.

Listening to the live WTF he posted Monday... getting a glimpse into Jim Norton's head is fucking terrifying.

that was a fun episode, esp if you're into maron and michael ian black sniping at each other

if only kumail was there

Bill Hader was great, he's such a likeable dude. That Martin Kove story was some A+ hollywood shit

Best not really comedian ones for me remain Stephen Tobolowsky and Todd Hanson. Both are remarkable, both sort of make you want to hug someone.

Todd Hanson's one still cuts me.

Todd Hanson was amazing but it broke me

simon pegg worked @ the same place as fred west!@

has anyone else listened to Maynard James Keenan?

It's p great but Mr Veg totally fucked with my head - I got about halfway through and was telling him about the interview & he's all, 'You know he makes a ton of shit up, right?' and I knew that but I hadn't actually thought about it til right then

and now I'm listening and I'm like, huh. some of this does sound kinda bullshitty.

but wtf I'm enjoying it anyway so who cares