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Marc Maron is not interested in being just another podcaster in a sea of mediocrity.<\/p>\n
In a new interview, the comic \u2014 who recently announced the end<\/a> of his popular and long-lived podcast “WTF” \u2014 criticized the current podcast landscape as awash in meh.<\/p>\n \u201cThings were better before everyone had a voice,\u201d Maron told the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in an interview published Wednesday. \u201cNow there\u2019s just hundreds of groups of two or three white guys, sitting behind mics, talking about the last time they s\u2014 their pants as adults. We live in a world of mediocre afternoon drive-time radio.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of yammering in makeshift studios. It\u2019s lowering the bar for everything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Maron started \u201cWTF\u201d in 2009 out of his garage, where he interviews guests. Through the years, he has talked to comedians, actors, musicians and even a sitting president<\/u><\/a>. During an episode with comedian John Mulaney<\/a> in June, he announced the show will come to an end \u201csometime in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n Distaste for mediocrity has been a theme for the comic in recent weeks. \u201cThe world has changed a bit and, you know, the sort of uniqueness of whatever the hell\u2019s happening,” Maron said during his appearance last week on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff”<\/a> podcast. “There\u2019s enough people yammering in the world.”<\/p>\n In his latest comedy special, Maron pokes fun at how certain podcast hosts are, in his eyes, pandering to the far right.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Hitler were alive today, I think he\u2019d probably appear on Theo Von\u2019s podcast,\u201d the comedian jokes in “Panicked,” which premiered Aug. 1 on HBO.<\/p>\n In his podcast, Von explores various topics, including his struggles with drug abuse and mental health, with different guests \u2014 who include politicians as well as comedians.<\/p>\n Maron continues by playing out a scene in which the comedian host of \u201cThis Past Weekend With Theo Von\u201d questions Hitler about the amount of meth the Nazis consumed. At one point, Maron impersonates Von blaming the hate Hitler had on the amount of drugs he did.<\/p>\n \u201cWTF\u201d continues with episodes coming out Mondays and Thursdays until it ends in the fall. Maron did not respond to a request for a comment before publication.<\/p>\n