Marc Maron is considering what life will look like after the podcast as the end of the Wtf With Marc Maron Podcast.
Speaking after the screening of the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday from Are we good?, A documentary on Maron attacking the loss of her partner Lynn Shelton and trying to channel his sorrow in his work, Maron was questioned about giving herself as much to the public via his longtime podcast, his comedy specials and even on his Instagram. Maron had announced earlier this month that the podcast would end this fall after 16 years.
“I put it a lot there. And I can manage it, and I can be graceful about it. And I don’t know what it will be like not doing it twice a week,” said Maron in reference to the podcast. “And I don’t know which part of this is my own need or my need to connect. But I can feel the weight of the abandonment of these people who have written over the years: “You saved my life”, I became sober because of you, “I did not kill myself”. And there is a part of me that is like “are they going well?
Tony and Pulitzer’s playwright, Tracy Letts, a friend of Maron, directed the Talkback, who also included documentary director Steven Feinartz.
“It’s a little too much, Tracy, that’s what I say, and I think I deserve to try to understand how to live my life not with intimacy, but without this responsibility a little,” added Maron.
Wtf was one of the most broadcast podcasts since its launch on September 1, 2009 and included interviews between Maron and famous figures such as Robin Williams, Keith Richards, Nicole Kidman and former President Barack Obama. The episodes, directed in the Garage de Maron, also offer a revealing look at Maron’s own life, with the host often speaking of his personal life, his pet tickets and resentments and relations with the guests of the series.
He announced the end of the show on June 2, saying that he and his partner producing Brendan McDonald were “burned” after making two shows each week for 16 years.
In the talkback, Maron added that he had not started the podcast in order to earn money or create content, but that he was trying to create a connection with each guest and to have “an empathetic conversation with someone on whom they are”. He added that it was also his “damn social life”.
“It meant the world for me and has really changed my feeling of me and my feeling of being a person,” he said.
“All these things I do have fueled whatever my particular creativity. And I’m sure I’m not going to disappear after the podcast,” said Maron. “But the objective will now be to understand where to channel this creativity.”
In the short term, this will include another HBO Comedy special set to be released in August and the new Apple show StickAlongside Owen Wilson.
