LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marc Maron is locking the gates on his podcast Monday after 16 years and greater than 1,600 episodes.
The ultimate episode of “WTF With Marc Maron” is anticipated to drop within the morning, however its contents, and the identification of his final interview visitor (or friends) stays a thriller.
In his penultimate episode on Thursday, the 62-year-old Maron stated it was his final from his house studio, however stated nothing else about who may present up for his swan tune.
Maron’s friends are not often if ever introduced upfront. Followers have been fervently speculating about who they may hear Monday. Might or not it’s an leisure large making their first look? ( Bob Dylan?Taylor Swift? ) A extra private selection? (An outdated buddy? His dad and mom?) A reprise of a earlier main visitor? ( Barack Obama? ) Perhaps a mixture?
On Thursday’s episode, Maron selected to go it solo and speak on to listeners as he has for a number of minutes to open each episode.
“We’ve had a relationship for a long time — 16 years,” he stated. “That’s the longest relationship I’ve ever had.”
He acquired emotional a number of occasions as he spoke.
“I’m grateful to have been part of your lives,” he stated. “We’ve been through a lot of stuff together. A lot of breakups. Death. Cats. The world.”
The ultimate episode can be No. 1,686 of the pioneering and influential long-form interview podcast that had humble beginnings in 2009 as a spot the place he labored out his points with different stand-up comedians within the storage of his Los Angeles house that he dubbed “The Cat Ranch.”
For many of its years the present has opened with a fan-composed rock ‘n’ roll theme tune that opens with an audio pattern of Maron in his small function within the movie “Almost Famous” shouting, “Lock the gates!” The tune is called for one in all Maron’s widespread phrases, “Are We Doing This?” One other such phrase, “Are we good?” was usually his final query to friends and is the title of a brand new documentary on him.
Finally, “WTF” turned a media establishment the place authors, artists, musicians, Hollywood stars and political leaders would give him their backstory.
Maron introduced in June that he and longtime producing companion Brendan McDonald had determined to finish the present. He stated there was no specific cause, apart from that he was drained and totally happy with the work they’d accomplished.
