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Last week, Mark Maron announced that she would end with WTF Mark maronHe has been hosting long -running and wildly popular podcasts since 2009. Podcasting has become an insufficient mine Conspiracy-principle protein brothersSelf-appointed self-help gurus, trying to cash in celebrities, true-crown shocks, and Dry-a-Tut News Show. The landscape has changed, and as a man himself Stated earlier this weekThese days the medium is often not a force for good. But Maron – who are doing it correctly, even if it means earning less money – should walk away from the garage with your head.

I have clear memories of being accustomed to oxicopt and listening to hours of podcast every day. They kept me a company because I melted in a beige couch on the fourth floor in my Tribeca Living Room. I reach my purple Nyu basketball shorts, wired headphones, in bottled water, and just let them play. It was the golden age of the medium. Reply to the champs (groundbreaking and underraged), Brett Easton Ellis PodcastAnd Bill boarPodcasts were all in heavy rotation on Monday morning. It was better than turning on television in the afternoon and required less effort than reading a book or magazine; This was the right way to remain engaged between sending emails and using Twitter (during closure).

Marran played a big role in my life at this time. Incredibly, their boomers’ approaches and love of cats did not rub me incorrectly, and I only had to fast through intro. I now realize that this was the first real public thing I had heard of restraint; It was a major part of his story, and it often came with his guests. Of course, they traded the stories of war, but they made it normal and became very open, an approach that got stuck with me, even though subconsciously.

Certainly, he found an US President Barack Obama to come to his garage. But when I think of the biggest interviews of the show, I think Maron and Lewis CK said why their friendship was disturbed, or David Spad told a crazy story about his personal assistant who was attacking him in his house. Through the line of Saturday night Live And the attraction of Maron with Lorn Michaels (slash passion), Norm McDonaldHonesty, Mavis Staples, Larry King, Paul Thomas Anderson, Courtney Love and William Shaton were all memorable for different reasons. I could go; The list of listening episodes is quite long.

Podcasting is a format on which people latch; You become a part of their life. Speaking freely about their own life, relationships, addiction issues and preferences of grocery store, people who stick around. We jokingly jokingly How long did it go All the time (“who were your people?”), And anyone who hears for a second knows about his stressful family, and as he becomes, it has been so popular for so long. He turned on the mic; He passed through real tests and tribulations and shared them with all of us.

I have not heard the show seriously over the years, but Maron undoubtedly paved the way for people like me, and any person who fire Mike to talk to a friend or someone you really respect and make it out to love or hate people. I am glad “Lock the Gates!” Or one of his delicious pre-interview blues re-leaks, but Maron was a supporter, and I have to respect it. I am not sure if I would embarrass myself three times a week, if I did not listen to those formative hours to WTF.