Hey, I'm Daud Tyler Amin.

And I'm Am Powers.

We are an editor and a critic at NPR Music.

And we're also friends who love digging into music histories and thinking about how songs can change over time.

And we're doing that on a new show.

We're totally nerding out about the songs that just stick with us and why.

Find our first episode in the All Songs Considered Feed on October 23rd.

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.

Music It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

So I want to start with a personal story.

So like 16 years ago, I had only been living in Los Angeles for like a year and a half, two years.

And I got an email from a comedian who had been a guest on my show.

And I had met him once or twice otherwise.

We maybe occasionally interacted online. He had been a radio

host in New York City. He was moving to L.A. and he wanted to do a podcast out of his garage.

And so he just basically asked me, what stuff do I need? Then like maybe the next week, I went over to his

house for a couple hours and helped him set it up. That comedian was Mark Marin. That show was

WTF. Lock the gate!

WTF, which may stand for a phrase I can't say on NPR, ended its 16-year run earlier this month.

During that time, Mark talked with Paul McCartney, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, and twice with Barack Obama.

Obama was actually Marin's final guest. And if you've heard of the show,

the odds are you've already heard about why the show mattered. WTF got millions of downloads

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