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Marc Maron Blames Himself for the Rise of Joe Rogan

The WTF host said his podcast “unleashed a format that can be used for dubious means, propaganda and pure evil.”

NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Maron implied he was partially culpable for the success of Rogan, the most popular comedian turned podcaster on his latest episode Monday. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC Maron, on the other hand, is a fierce Trump detractor who regularly slams the president—including early on in his Monday episode when he blasted him for his “display of might and power with the new secret police that is ICE,” as the Los Angeles protests rage on. “It’s just interesting to me, in the big picture of what’s happening and what this medium has unleashed, that me and Joe Rogan—we’re both in the system,” Maron said of Rogan, with whom he started doing stand-up at The Comedy Store in L.A. “Two ends of the spectrum of podcasting, coming from the same source... in a now truly apocalyptic landscape.”

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