Brian Greene

No Mark Maron, no commercial break.

No Mark Maron, no Joe Rogan.

No Mark Maron, no Dax Shepard.

He was a pioneer.

Theo Vaughn.

He truly was a pioneer.

And I think he was even like maybe earlier that way earlier than Serial was even on.

Like Serial is like the noted podcast that kind of made podcasting a word that everybody knew and that people that all of a sudden started downloading podcasts.

And Mark was doing it before that.

So Mark announced today as we're recording this in the morning, he announced on his Instagram.

that it's time.

He is burnt out.

He does not find, I'm putting words in his mouth, but the joyfulness of showing up every day and having these conversations is not there anymore.

And he feels, in his words, incredibly accomplished.

So after 1600 episodes, what else is there to say, really?

And when you had, you know, Obama and I don't know who else he's had.

He's had a bunch of people.

Yeah.

When you've had all these famous people on and you pick their brains, they've even written books like taking insights from all of the episodes of the WTF show.

um and his producer i think the guy's name is andrew together they said to each other and they've said this on the show before when we're done we're done like when it's no longer the thing it's no longer the thing and we'll just move on and uh he made an announcement and it said andrew and i have come to the conclusion at the same time that we're done it's just it i think he's in that new show with um owen wilson that's on about like the oh the golf yeah