“On some levels, I understand that this is like a breakup.” So said Marc Maron on his podcast last week, monologuing in his garage for a final time. WTF With Marc Maron wrapped its 16-year run yesterday; the comedian interviewed Barack Obama, a conversation recorded in Obama’s office. The chat was something of a victory lap for Maron, who made headlines for interviewing the then-president 10 years prior. (Back then, the pair met on the host’s home turf.) But, always conscious of WTF’s defining emotional intimacy, he also made sure to give his listeners one more unfiltered stream of consciousness.

“I live for connection,” he said during the penultimate episode. “I live for it because I need it to know that I exist.” Maron chased this desire for nearly two decades, his podcast charting his

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