“I think if Hitler were alive today, he’d probably appear on Theo Von’s podcast,” Marc Maron jokes toward the end of his new HBO special, Panicked. He then proceeds to imitate a half-baked, drawling Von, archbishop of the dudebro podcaster, softballing questions about drug use to a hypothetical Hitler. “On our podcast,” he snarks in an earlier moment, “we can bravely speak power to truth, now that truth can no longer defend itself.”

When Marc Maron announced he was ending his longrunning, highly influential interview show WTF with Marc Maron, it might have seemed surprising that the comic was giving up his hard-won platform. But while the podcast’s relevance had faded, a recent take-no-prisoners press tour raised Maron’s profile again. In something like a political and cultural crusade, M

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