Marc Maron

But nonetheless, over the course of those first few hundred episodes, I started to

open up and started to learn how to have these conversations and also speak to you directly at the beginning, which was very important.

And this was never a for-profit endeavor.

I was adverse to even having ads on it.

I thought, you know, that would ruin it, man.

We got something pure here.

It wasn't even a punk rock sensibility.

I just thought it would ruin the integrity of the thing.

So, you know, we set up a donation site and I was in my house with I had a roommate at that time, Stosh, and she was helping me pack envelopes to send swag out to people that gave a little money.

It was like it was all hands on deck.

It was urgent.

It's always urgent.

This was urgent.

when I got up to do this, but it was always just about me on this mic and it still is.

You know, I walk away from this, I walk away from a guest interview and it's in the past and I don't even think I always realized the impact of it or how it's going out there.

I long ago stopped wondering about how many people are listening and all that.

And I was just showing up to do this work, you know, with a certain sense of urgency.

It just was life or death, urgency and the need for connection so I could exist in the world.

But it was always about these mics.

That old studio was a magical place, and people would come to look at it.