It is the finish of an period. Marc Maron has introduced that he and producer Brendan McDonald have determined to finish the groundbreaking WTF With Marc Maron Podcast, with the last episode airing “someday in the fall.”

Maron introduced the podcast’s latest episode that includes visitor John Mulaney, emphasizing that he and McDonald made the resolution.

“This began, you recognize, the outdated storage… simply nobody knew what a podcast was,” Maron stated of the podcast, which is able to flip 16 years outdated on Sept. 1. “I used to be popping out of a horrendous divorce. I used to be wanting to determine easy methods to proceed residing my life.”

He continued, “And when Brendan and I began this factor, all we knew is we have been gonna do it each Monday and Thursday, and there was no solution to earn a living, there was no approach that we knew easy methods to construct an viewers or something. And it was loopy. We have been doing it in a storage at the starting, that was only a storage; it was crammed with junk. And it slowly developed into the present that grew to become what you hearken to twice per week.”

“Sixteen years we have been doing this and we have determined that we had an excellent run. And now, mainly, it is time people. It is time,” Maron revealed. “WTF is coming to an finish and it is our resolution. We’ll have our last episode someday in the fall.”

The choice was one met concurrently, Maron stated, with each he and McDonald realizing “collectively” that they have been finished. “There was no convincing or pushback or arguing,” he added. “We have been finished, and it is okay. It is okay for issues to finish.”

(*16*) Maron and McDonald have maintained their two-man operation since the podcast premiered in 2009, with the GLOW star recording interviews in his storage studio and McDonald producing from Brooklyn. They’ve persistently launched episodes each Monday and Thursday for nearly 16 years.

The Stick actor mirrored on the trials and tribulations of holding a podcast going for over a decade, reminding listeners, “We have now been by way of so much.”

He famous that whereas “a variety of it was not simple… a variety of it was superb. Plenty of monumental issues actually occurred on this present. And this was a present that was began when there have been no podcasts and now there are nothing however podcasts. It has been an unimaginable time in my life and Brendan’s life. We have finished issues that we by no means thought we’d be capable of do. Due to the podcast, my life modified dramatically.”

However all good issues should come to an finish. As Maron shared, he and McDonald are “drained, we’re burnt out and we are utterly satisfied with the work we have finished.”

He continued, “We have finished nice work and this does not imply I am by no means going to do one thing like this once more… for now we’re wrapping issues up. It is okay. It is okay to finish issues. It is okay to attempt to begin another chapter in your life.”

Whereas the actor was grateful for the “connection” the podcast grew to become for him and the folks inside his business and people he’d by no means thought he’d get the probability to fulfill, he admitted that he was blissful to “be capable of finish issues on our phrases.”

He concluded, “We began the present on our phrases, we grew it on our phrases, and we’ll finish it on our phrases.”

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WTF With Marc Maron has grow to be in style for its candid interviews with everybody from Louis C.Okay. to President Barack Obama. The podcast boasts 1,648 episodes in addition to greater than 300 bonus episodes for premium subscribers. Maron’s 2010 episode with Robin Williams grew to become the first one-on-one podcast episode chosen by the Library of Congress to enter America’s Nationwide Recording Registry for preservation in 2022.

Maron and McDonald have been additionally the first-ever recipients of the Governor’s Award by the Podcast Academy for Excellence in Audio at The Ambies in 2021.

Hearken to the full episode of the WTF With Marc Maron Podcast above.