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    Marc Maron's taking risks to get the story

    by Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2017 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Asking someone how they do what they do is standard for an interview show, but when Marc Maron started his podcast in 2009, his approach had a harsher edge. A comedian with a stalled career who had just been fired by Air America, Maron wanted to know the secrets of other comedians' success. Underlying each interview was "Why you?" And more pointedly, "Why you and not me?" He sounded like the Salieri to his old friend Louis CK's Amadeus - but he wasn't even Salieri.

    Ironically, that pain and frustration connected with listeners - perhaps we all feel like

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