Only one episode of WTF remains after this one and it will not be recorded in the garage. So with this being the final WTF episode taking place in Marc’s sacred space, it’s only appropriate that he close things out himself, directly addressing everyone who’s been on this ride with him for the past sixteen years. This show started with Marc on a microphone, first in a radio studio, then at the Cat Ranch in Highland Park, as well as many remote locations all over the world, before winding up in this garage where Marc turns that microphone on one last time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Full Episode
All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck Knicks? What's happening? I am Mark Maron and this is my podcast WTF. Welcome to it for almost the last time. This will be the penultimate. Is that how you say it? Penultimate episode of this show. We have one more show to do. That will be on Monday. That will not be recorded here in the garage.
And this one, I just wanted it to be us. I wanted it to be in the garage with just me and all of you. Me and you, we've had a relationship for a long time. A long time. 16 years. That's the longest relationship I've ever had with you. And if it hasn't been that long for some of you, you'll get the feeling. Get up to speed. Go spend 16 years with me. You can do it online.
But on some levels, I understand... that this is like a breakup, I guess. I don't feel it in that way. I know that some of you are sad. I'm sad. It's a big change for me, but sometimes you have to move on. And I know you don't have a say in this, and I apologize, but that's sometimes how these breakups go. But the truth is, is that we've certainly all come a long way together.
I got an email today or someone reached out on me. She'd been listening to me for 16 years and she started when she was five because her parents used to make her listen to me in the car and she hated me. Because I was just this annoying kind of grumpy grown-up. And somehow or another, now that she's in her 20s, she's come around to understanding the grumpiness. But that's crazy.
Yeah.
That people have grown up with me. That people have started with me in their teens, in their 20s, even in their 30s. And they're now in their 40s now. And their entire lives have changed. And I've been there. I've been talking to you. I appreciate the gravity of that. People are coming up to me a lot right now and saying, I'm going to miss you. I don't know what I'm going to do without the show.
You were always with me. I get people emailing that... they've taken me all over the world with them. And I, again, I appreciate the weight of that. And I'm grateful to have been part of your lives. I really am. You know, I have to make sure that I say that because I don't always think that way. I don't, I'm just sitting here in this garage by myself.
I'm surrounded with homemade sound panels that a kid made for me. I've got some tchotchkes and bullshit on the desk here. I walk out here from my house and I do this. I'm just talking out. I'm talking out. I don't know where it all lands, but over the years and certainly in the last few months, it's been very moving for me to hear how much
of what I do and what we did here, the conversations, the stories, my life has had an impact. It's profound. and humbling because I rarely think about that. I mean, it's been a long time since I thought about like how many people are listening or it's been a long time since I, I've listened to a whole podcast. So my experience with this is I'm just sitting out here.
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