Marc Maron has introduced that he and producer Brendan McDonald have determined to finish “WTF With Marc Maron,” the groundbreaking podcast that helped outline the medium and launched in 2009.

Maron broke the information throughout the podcast’s newest episode to visitor John Mulaney, who was the primary individual to listen to concerning the choice. “‘WTF’ is coming to an finish, and it’s our choice,” Maron stated. “We’ll have our remaining episode someday within the fall.”

The podcast, which is able to flip 16 years outdated on Sept. 1, has turn into one of the vital influential exhibits in podcasting historical past, with greater than 1,600 episodes that includes interviews with everybody from Barack Obama to Keith Richards to Carol Burnett. Notably, Maron’s episode with Robin Williams grew to become the primary one-on-one podcast episode to enter America’s Nationwide Recording Registry.

“It was not some form of troublesome choice, essentially,” Maron defined. “Neither me nor Brendan, who’re the one folks in control of this operation on each degree… we each realized collectively that we had been carried out.”

The present started in Maron’s storage throughout the early days of podcasting, when few understood the medium’s potential. “This began, you already know, the outdated storage… simply nobody knew what a podcast was,” Maron stated. “I used to be popping out of a horrendous divorce. I used to be wanting to determine how one can proceed residing my life.”

Maron and McDonald maintained their inventive independence all through the podcast’s run, with Maron recording in his storage studio and McDonald producing from Brooklyn. The 2-man operation has persistently launched episodes each Monday and Thursday for almost 16 years.

“We’re drained, we’re burnt out, and we’re totally glad with the work we’ve carried out,” Maron stated. “We’ve carried out nice work.”

Maron emphasised that the choice to finish got here from each events concurrently. “We all the time stated, ‘Properly, how do we all know after we’re carried out?’ And I all the time stated, ‘Properly, at any time when Brendan says so,’ and he all the time stated… ‘if Mark, you already know, is completed and we’re completed.’ And fortunately, we each realized collectively that we had been carried out.”

He burdened that ending the podcast doesn’t essentially imply retirement from comparable work. “This doesn’t imply I’m by no means going to do one thing like this once more. Doesn’t imply I’ll by no means, you already know, have talks like I do right here, or some form of podcast in some unspecified time in the future in time. However for now, we’re simply wrapping issues up.”

The podcast will proceed releasing new episodes by way of the autumn, with Maron promising to characteristic “as many individuals on as doable” throughout the remaining months, together with company who could need to seem “now that you already know that is the form of like house stretch.”

“It’s okay for issues to finish,” Maron mirrored. “We began the present on our phrases, we grew it on our phrases, and we’ll finish it on our phrases.”

The information was first reported in Deadline.