ABOUT ESSENTIALS CONNECT Essential Listening:WTF with Marc Maron WTF with Marc Maron is a writer and performer who has been podcasting since before most people knew anything about podcasts. With over 1500 episodes that have garnered 55 million listens per year, he’s interviewed just but everyone you’ve ever heard of, and a bunch of people you haven’t heard of, initially from his garage. There are so many incredible interviews, you have to take a scroll through them all to choose your favs. These are some of mine: Episode #1584 – Robert Zemeckis Episode #1511 – Ed Zwick Episode #1491 – Albert Brooks Episode #1489 – Taika Waititi Episode #1443 – Ramy Youssef Episode #1438 Amy Sherman-Palladino Episode #1393 – Rian Johnson Episode #1382 – Quinta Brunson Episode #1379 – Armando Iannucci Episode #1371 – Tony Gilroy Episode #1353 – Neil Gaiman Episode #1263 – David Chase Episode #1240 – Steven Soderbergh Episode #1239 – Quentin Tarantino Carl Reiner from 2013 – June 30, 2020 Episode #1134 – Alan Zweibel Episode #1125 – Kenya Barris Episode #1120 and #1095 – Dan Levy Episode #1117 – Barry Sonnenfeld Episode #992 – Yorgos Lanthimos Episode #987 – Aaron Sorkin Episode #969 – Kenneth Lonergan Episode #954 – Gale Anne Hurd Episode #933 – Gus Van Sant Episode #929 – Paul Rudd Episode #926 – Dave Itzkoff/Robin Williams from 2010 Episode #899 – Nell Scovell/Bill Hader Episode #898 – David Mamet Episode #872 – Darren Aronofsky Episode #869 – Greta Gerwig Episode #827 – GLOW Writers & Creators Episode #823 – Kenji Kohan Episode #820 – Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon/Jim Florentine Episode #759 – Lin-Manuel Miranda Episode #754 Ron Howard Episode #734 – Kristen Wiig Episode #725 – James L. Brooks Episode #703 – Garry Marshall/Open Mike Eagle Episode #702 – Rob Reiner Remembering Garry Shandling Episode #681 – Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer Episode #671 – Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Episode #663 – Brian Grazer Episode #662 – Danny Boyle Episode #653 – Lorne Michaels Episode #632 – Peter Bogdanovich Episode #620 – Vince Gilligan Episode #612 – Judd Apatow Episdode #568 – Mike Judge Episode #555 – Norman Lear Remembering Robin Williams – August 11, 2014 Episode #413 – Bill Hader Episode #402 – David Sedaris Episode #389 – Sam Simon Episode #364 – Mike White Episode #358 – Mel Brooks Episode #344 – Jon Favreau Episode #291 – Mark Duplass Episode #280 – Danny McBride Episode #261 – Mindy Kaling Episode #256 – Diablo Cody Episode #252 – Bill Lawrence Episode #248 – Paul Feig Episode #235 – Donald Glover Episode #184 – Jill Soloway Episode #183 – Amy Poehler Episode #179 – Dan Harmon Episode #177 – Garry Shandling Episode #176 – Phil Rosenthal Episode #119 – Adam McKay Episode #103 and 104 – Judd Apatow Episode #67 – Robin William
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