Discussion: Obama To Sit Down With 'WTF With Marc Manon' Podcast On Friday

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I am so disgusted with Obama I don’t want to hear another word he has to say.

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interesting…please explain…

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Holy crap.

I have been listening to Marc Maron for years and could not be more excited to check this out. If you’re not familiar, I’d recommend his recent interview with Terry Gross as a primer on who he is. I strongly suspect someone in the white house heard it and decided this was a good idea.

Before starting the podcast, Maron was told by his manager he could not book him anywhere, leading Maron to consider suicide in his garage. Instead, he began interviewing people there, and with decades in comedy was able to tap into a wide rolodex of working comedians. His important early shows include his confrontations with Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook. He then started getting major guests like Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Louis CK, and over a couple years sat down for long-form interviews with other leading voices in comedy.

These conversations are not traditional show business interviews. They are extended conversations that cover everything from the interviewee’s upbringing, why they chose comedy, an overview of their career, their approach to comedy now, and how they feel about the world in general. Beyond that, Maron will regularly chime in with his own stories to provide context or insight from his own life.

There is no interviewer I’d rather see the President sit down with for an extended interview. This is tremendously exciting for me.

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Cue right-wing outrage about Obama doing this while people are killed in churches. Seriously, some hater will say it if they have not already.

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I don’t listen to Maron’s podcast, but I did hear portions of his interview with Terry Gross, on Terry’s show. Just on general principles, I’m stoked that a) a garage podcaster scored an interview with POTUS and b) this particular POTUS is with it enough that he’ll sit down with a garage podcaster.

For a chuckle, imagine any of the GOP candidate clown car doing this. Probably The Donald* could pull it off, but only because Maron as a professional comic could play off of Trump’s buffoonery.

*Not technically a candidate, yet; no FEC filing

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well I bet you were all gooey in your sponge bob underoo’s when george bush and his boss dick cheney were in office screwin the american people