Episode 516 - Leonard Maltin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A lot of things in Leonard Maltin's life were unexpected. He never expected to become a ubiquitous American film critic. He didn't expect to be entrenched in show business after spending his formative years revering it. And he definitely didn't expect to become a comedy podcast legend. Leonard and Marc talk about how these unlikely things came to be.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Oh my god, let's do this.
0:11.1	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuckin' ears, what the fucknix,
0:15.1	what the fucks the bulls, what the fuck a hallix.
0:17.2	I am Mark Marin, this is WTF, I'm sort of sweaty.
0:20.3	I don't know what's going on, man, I don't know what's going on with my ears.
0:23.0	But if anyone can identify with the ears humming and popping, you know, sort of a lot,
0:28.6	and a bit of sinus pressure,
0:29.6	I'd like to identify with you, I'd like you to reach out to me and say, yes, I know
0:32.9	what that is, this is what I had.
0:34.3	See, I will self-diagnosed by consensus, I'm not beyond that.
0:38.9	Alright, so let's move away, let's move out of my sinuses and into what's at hand, which
0:44.9	is today I talked to Leonard Malton, yeah, the Leonard Malton, the guy with all the books,
0:50.3	with the beard, the guy with the movies, with the rating system, the guy that is the
0:54.9	barometer of the short form review.
0:58.6	Well, talk movies, but more like, where does he come from?
1:01.6	Where does a guy, you know, he's an older guy.
1:03.9	What made him, man?
1:05.4	He is a movie lover.
1:07.3	It was not his agenda to become Pauline Kale or Andrew Saras.
1:15.0	I had a few Cayet de Cinemas, I had a few of those waiting around.
1:18.2	My grandma's neighbor was a huge film buff who had just 30 years of film magazines of all
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