Episode 1155 - Bad Internet w/ Matt Furie, Arthur Jones & Andrew Marantz

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

One year ago, Marc used the Labor Day episode of WTF to find out why so much bad stuff in the world gets birthed in the darkest corners of the internet. A year later, it's only gotten worse. Marc talks with comic artist Matt Furie about how his creation, Pepe the Frog, was appropriated by online racists and Nazis, and Arthur Jones explains why he made a documentary about Matt's quest to reclaim Pepe. Also, Andrew Marantz from The New Yorker joins Marc to help draw the line from Pepe to QAnon and other fanatical online behavior.

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0:00.0	Lock the gates!
0:01.0	All right, let's do this.
0:11.3	How are you?
0:12.3	What the fuckers?
0:13.3	What the fuck buddies?
0:15.0	What the fuck, tologists?
0:17.2	What's happening?
0:18.2	I'm Mark Marron.
0:19.2	This is my podcast, WTF.
0:21.7	Welcome.
0:22.7	How's it going with you?
0:25.0	Are you cooking?
0:27.2	Have you locked your kids in a room?
0:28.9	What's happening?
0:30.8	Are you cleaning up?
0:32.5	Are you okay?
0:33.5	Are you gardening?
0:36.2	Does this help you garden?
0:38.0	I need to get some shit done in my beds.
0:41.8	That doesn't matter.
0:42.8	None of it fucking matters.
0:44.0	What's happening?
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