Marc Maron is not interested in being just another podcaster in a sea of mediocrity.
In a new interview, the comic — who recently announced the end of his popular and long-lived podcast “WTF” — criticized the current podcast landscape as awash in meh.
“Things were better before everyone had a voice,” Maron told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. “Now there’s just hundreds of groups of two or three white guys, sitting behind mics, talking about the last time they s— their pants as adults. We live in a world of mediocre afternoon drive-time radio.”
“A lot of yammering in makeshift studios. It’s lowering the bar for everything,” he added.
Maron started “WTF” in 2009 out of his garage, where he interviews guests. Through the years, he has talked to comedians, a