Bobbi Althoff’s podcast success story is much different than Marc’s podcast success story. In fact, the concept of a podcast is very different than when WTF got started. Bobbi explains how she grew up in a chaotic environment where money was hard to come by and, after becoming a mom in her early 20s, she found viral fame by sheer force of will, as well as a guest appearance by Drake. They also talk about the grind of the content creation machine, the mental health drain of social media, and fame being an economic engine. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jeez, that's a lot of yapping. Today on the show I talk to Bobby Althoff. I'd like to talk to you about her, if I could, because it's an interesting thing. Look, I'm a bit out of the game in terms of keeping up with... Whatever youth culture is or whatever the cultural momentum is to make us all part of youth culture. If there is even a culture that we can kind of frame as that.
But Bobby Althoff is somebody who, you know, I scroll. I have a problem. I have a scrolling problem. And she pops up occasionally. Maybe you've seen her. She does these... I don't even know if they're snarky, but she does these very intentionally awkward interviews. with a lot of black entertainers.
But maybe you've seen the one of her and Drake, where she has this disposition that's very kind of subdued and a bit pointed. And maybe you've seen her. She's got long hair. But I saw her do a bit with my friend Andrew Santino and my friend Bobby Lee. And I was kind of curious about her. I didn't know if she was a comedian or where she fell in the world. And I don't know a lot of that.
I don't know most of the people that are stars on TikTok or YouTube or Instagram. I don't know who these people are. I always assume, I'm always surprised when people are like, oh yeah, I sold out an arena. What are you? What do you do? I do conversations with my dog. I'm like, I have no idea who you are, but congratulations, I guess. But Bobby, I was curious about her.
I think it was driven initially by the fact like, well, I mean, if Bobby and Santino talk to her, I mean, why am I not part of this party? Why am I not part of what the kids are doing? Where's my time? But I did find her kind of curious. And I don't know a lot about this new landscape of show business. I do know that it's shifted.
I do know that there's a new kind of tribalized show business that revolves around YouTube podcasts and comedians and right-wing garbage. I know that somehow or another we live in a time where old school mainstream show business has contracted. into something that seems confused and without relevance in a lot of ways through streamers and whatnot.
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