‘Like losing a friend’: farewell to Marc Maron’s pioneering podcast WTF

<p>After 16 years and almost 1,700 episodes, Maron is ending his show – which changed the face of podcasting. No wonder it’s sparking an outpouring of sadness </p><p>When I discovered Marc Maron’s influential podcast WTF, I was working in a pub. It was a weird time for me. I had just left university and had absolutely no idea what I was doing with my life, so I moved back home and took on shifts as a waitress and chamber maid.</p><p>Podcasts became an escape from my reality of changing sheets on king-sized beds, folding hospital corners and rearranging tiny bottles of shampoo – and none more so than <a href="https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast">Marc Maron’s WTF</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/13/like-losing-a-friend-farewell-to-marc-marons-pioneering-podcast-wtf">Continue reading...</a>