"Marc Maron drops the 1,686th and final episode of his WTF podcast Monday. "Discussions of death," Williams said after going on one long riff in his improv style. "It's very freeing." He delved into his past thoughts of suicide in a discussion that felt all the more important after Williams killed himself in 2014. Maron re-aired the episode, framed by his own tearful thoughts and memories."
"When filmmaker Lynn Shelton appeared on WTF in August of 2015, it was a good but unremarkable episode. When it re-aired in 2020, its significance had grown wildly. The interview was the first meeting of Maron and Shelton, who began dating and became long-term life partners and collaborators. After her sudden and unexpected death, Maron, his voice quivering, poured out his feelings in an introduction to the old interview."
Marc Maron released the 1,686th and final episode of WTF. The podcast revisited deeply personal interviews, including a Robin Williams conversation about suicide that Maron re-aired with tearful framing after Williams' 2014 death. One episode later entered the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Maron rarely listens to his recordings but heard a clip when Judd Apatow played favorite moments. Barack Obama appeared and reflected on surviving hard times. Maron's 2015 interview with filmmaker Lynn Shelton became profoundly significant after her sudden death, prompting a heartfelt introduction from Maron about grief.
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