Marc Maron announced that his influential podcast, WTF, will end later this year after a successful 16-year run. Renowned for popularizing the podcast medium, WTF has nearly 2,000 episodes featuring candid conversations with celebrities, including Robin Williams and Barack Obama. Williams discussed personal struggles, making his episode historically significant. Obama's 2015 appearance highlighted the podcast's cultural importance at a time when the medium was still gaining traction, proving that podcasts were becoming a credible platform for serious discussions.
Robin Williams was famously always "on," leapfrogging from one bit to the next and almost never peeling back the curtain to give us a sense of his true self.
If there was any lingering doubt in 2015 about the cultural significance of podcasts, this episode promptly erased it.
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