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What’s the Deal with How Much Francisco Ramos Likes Seinfeld? The Show, I Mean.
Episode 183
The title of hilarious comedian Francisco Ramos’s new standup special, Still Learning, is not about his constant absorption of new information about …
4 hours ago
Lauren Weedman, From Hacks, Loves Rocks, May Be Sisyphus
Episode 182
As the slightly unhinged, or maybe more than slightly, mayor of Las Vegas, Jo Pezzimenti on HBO’s Hacks, Lauren Weedman leaves a hilarious and unforg…
1 week ago
Exploring the Washington Wizards, the NBA’s Most Ambien Team, with Jamel Johnson
Episode 181
Jamel Johnson is a DC native and has been following the Wizards his whole life. He’s seen the rise and fall of Gilbert Arenas, the arrival and depart…
2 weeks ago
Jesse Thorn Has More Thoughts On Menswear Formality Levels Than You Do, Probably
Episode 180
Maximum Fun, the network upon which you hear our program, was founded by one Jesse Thorn, who continues to host an improbable number of podcasts on t…
3 weeks ago
Know Your Extraterrestrials with Elliott Kalan
Episode 179
The universe is full of all sorts of alien creatures, we just know it. Problem is, they’re far away and, like us, possibly too stupid to invent reall…
4 weeks ago
Ryan Miller of the Band Guster Enjoys the Ordered Verticality of Lists
Episode 178
You are reading something that was written in paragraph format, with complete sentences, grammar, nouns, and verbs. That’s not how Ryan Miller of the…
1 month ago
NPR’s Glen Weldon Talks The Silmarillion and That Ought To Put You To Sleep
Episode 177
You have to be a slight J.R.R. Tolkien nerd to watch the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings film series. They’re long, there’s three of them, and it hel…
1 month, 1 week ago
Sondre Lerche Takes On A-ha and Soothingly Reads Fjord Names
Episode 176
When you’re a Norwegian musician, you get used to hearing a lot of the band A-ha, the biggest ever to come out of the Nordic country shaped like an a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa and NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben Talking Field of Dreams
Episode 175
We have to imagine that the life of an NPR White House Correspondent does not consistently feel relaxed, homey, sentimental, and warm. But you know w…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Let’s Go to Trader Joe’s with Dan Mintz. That Will Be Nice.
Episode 174
Dan Mintz is an actor, comedian, and writer with a new standup special, Well-Rounded Entertainer, premiering soon on YouTube. Dan is best known as Ti…
2 months ago