WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

WTF with Marc Maron is one of the shows that proved long-form podcast interviews could work, years before most people knew what a podcast was. Maron launched the show in 2009 from his garage in Los Angeles and built it into something legendary over the course of approximately 1,686 episodes. The final episode featured a conversation with Barack Obama, which tells you everything about how far the show came. Maron's interview style is raw and deeply personal. He famously records in his garage, creating an intimate atmosphere that guests respond to in ways they do not on more polished shows. His conversations with comedians, actors, directors, writers, and musicians often go to emotional places that catch both Maron and his guests off guard. The final run of episodes included Matt Groening, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Hamill, Spike Lee, Jeremy Allen White, and Regina King. The show concluded in October 2025 with a 4.5-star rating from nearly 29,000 reviews. While no new episodes are being produced, the massive back catalog remains available and is absolutely worth exploring. Maron and Rogan both came from the stand-up comedy world and pioneered long-form podcast conversations around the same time, but Maron's style is more introspective, more neurotic, and more emotionally exposed. If you appreciate when JRE conversations get genuinely deep and human, WTF's archive is a treasure.