For about six months now, Sound of Young America editor Nick White and I have been working on a secret project. Now, the secret can be revealed… please welcome WTF with Marc Maron, the public radio series!
We’ve taken the hundreds of episodes of the WTF podcast and boiled them down to what we think is ten hours of exceptionally compelling radio. We’ve chosen the best stories and the best guests and made a ten-episode public radio series, produced by Marc, Nick and me.
Thanks to the kind support of Torey Malatia and Ira Glass, our first station commitment came from WBEZ and Chicago Public Media. We’ve got lots of other stations on tap, but feel free to let your station know it’s available on PRX and that you love it. We hope that stations will air it this summer and early fall all over the country. (It was Torey and Ira’s insistence, by the way, that led us to keep the name “WTF”.)
If you want to hear the show, you can check it out, share it and review it on PRX. Our goal was to capture what makes WTF special and communicate it to folks who aren’t comedy nerds – or even necessarily comedy fans. I think they sound wonderful.
Here’s the first episode:
And here are the great promos Ira made out of the kindness of his (very kind) heart: