In June 2025, Mark Maron announced that he would end his favorite interview podcast WTF with Mark Maron After 16 years and 1,600 episodes. The show became a head for Maron’s ability to get remarkable figures. The then President Barack Obama To Late Robin Williams To open and share the intimate details of your life, and will be remembered very much.
While only one is WTFLong -term listeners do not require total damage for intimate celebrity chat, here are 12 tips for other podcasts that can help fill the zero.
Blindboy podcast
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If you are craving interviews that feel that they are happening in the dark, status corner of the pub at 2 o’clock, Blindboy podcast Distributes. He dismisses guests with his real humor and gentle curiosity, then takes them into raw, weak conversations that come up like medical sessions. It is strange, it is intelligent, it is deep human. Not all episodes are interviews, but all episodes have moments that feel academic, philosophical and heart -filled. Blindboy attains the hearts of his guests in such a way that no one else can do – and it is clear that he is only interviewing those with whom he really wants to talk.
Kelly Korigan Miracle
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Quick an episode of Kelly Korigan Miracle It is like dialing your smartest, most fun, most testing friend. In each episode, Kelly mixes the curiosity, vulnerability, and the rare honesty that makes you feel that you are doing evolution. It is part therapy, part storytelling and all heart. Kelly has a gift to ask questions that go beyond the surface-interviews often feel more like soul-level check-in than media soundbights. Kelly is not far from hard subjects (loss, abortion, aging parents), but is still able to make you feel a bit better about being, calm, and human being.
Death, sex and money
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Anna sales started Death, sex and money After realizing other interviews in 2017, the shows often avoid the most interesting questions yet the most difficult about human nature. So he started a show just about this – episodes go to places when no other show will go when it comes to death (Anna talks to a person whose father has stopped eating and eating voluntarily, End her life), sex (Why a woman quit her daughter -in -law marriage), And money (this author’s favorite episode, An interview with someone who stolenAnna is benign and direct, encourages his guests to talk openly about the stuff that we were asked not to bring to the dinner table.
How to fail
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Asking someone what has gone wrong in their lives is perhaps the fastest (and most uncomfortable) path to intimacy. On every episode of How to failJournalist Elizabeth Dey asked his guest to take us through three failures, which they have experienced again defined them as events that help them help better people or live a better life (ultimately, at least). Elizabeth creates a magical chemistry with all its guests, including the choice of Faebe Waller-Berge, Mo Gavadat and Brain Brown. Focus is not hack or tips, but unpacking mistakes and regrets that they are capable of removing people, and how.
I feel the same
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Award winning writer Michel Mizung Kim’s mission is to see people-his podcast I feel the same Are all big, dirty questions that we usually don’t ask loudly, like “Why are so many Asian women with white people?” And “Do I really want to sleep forever with a person?” Thinking We can do hard things Or Death, sex and moneyBut a row leads through the lens of the Korean American woman who leads with radical vulnerability.
Hang well with ammy poler
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Good hag Is silly and fun and falls in less deep moments than WTFBut the clarity of Amy Poiler and honesty with her guests make this podcast particularly intimate and most other celebrity interviews contrary to podcast. It seems that you did not know like a heart from late night heart that you needed. There are weak moments secretly – you show for laughter and live for unexpected emotional truth. If you are in podcasts that feel like a friend, then gently (or slowly) are pulling the curtain back, this is for you.
Blocks
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If you are craving interviews that are beyond the general celeb promo, then Neel Brainon Blocks Is a lin-linse. It is not just funny – it is inconveniently honest. Brainon asks guests to share emotional “blocks” that plays with their lives (think: shame, ego, addiction), and which reveal the disclosure seems more like therapy than a talk show.
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Medicine for black girls
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But Medicine for black girls, A licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford involves mental health, personal development, and discovery the small changes that we can become the best possible version of ourselves, with the experience of women of color at the forefront. Whether it is understanding the subject work, friendship, money, or seasonal emotional disorder, Dr. Joy is to explain these experiences through a black lens.
Where should we start?
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But Where should we start?Famous psychiatrist Esther Perell lets you have a fly on the wall inside your office to evcely in the counseling session of a real doubles. You will hear everything about their relationship- every raw and intimate details. Esther’s advice is both philosophical and reflective, dynamic and attractive, and direct but gentle. He is a solution-oriented, focusing on helping these couples, who come to him for help with infidelity, desire and divorce.
But
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If you are craving interviews that feel like a warm cup of tea to calm the fear of your existence, But Your go-to. Christa Tippe does not just ask questions-she invites people to bring their whole soul into conversation full of un-Guggle-SAP questions about faith, sorrow, happiness and meaning of life.
Easy talk
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But Easy talkSam Fragoso has a conversation as a thoughtful, long -term conversation that does not feel like an interview, but dives deep into the minds of his visitors, activists and politicians. (Sam first goes with General Z Congress to discuss his fight for gun reforms. Date of chicken shop.) Each conversation has a legend arc. Sam is curious and sympathetic, he does his research, and he is interested in not only the simple answer, but the whole story.
From now on
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From now on A former model and current talent is hosted by Scout Lisa Philips, who navigated the complications of the entertainment industry. Lisa is also a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, significantly, significantly,. This podcast dives the headfield in stories of misconduct and recovery. Avoiding a sympathy, Lisa is the right host. Although it does not look like a true crime or investigative podcast on the surface, it has had a real -world effect: because of this, many women have been beaten in the same way by the same man who has come forward, and credited the show to give them courage.
