Sleeping with Celebrities

A special sneak preview of this year's MaxFunDrive bonus content, "Let's Talk About the Weather"! Join at the $5 level to listen to the full episode. We rounded up a lot of our guests, friends really, from Sleeping with Celebrities and asked them one simple question: How's the weather where you are? Now you can enjoy weather updates, some lengthy, some brief, some hilarious, some rather dry, from...

Arden Neely was a muskrat who worked as the assistant manager at a coffee shop. They had to start work very early in the day but wanted to go see rock concerts at night. How did they manage this tricky sleep conundrum? Listen and find out. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting...

He's best known as the leader of the popular and influential band the Mountain Goats and as a best-selling author, but John Darnielle should also be recognized for his exhaustive knowledge of tea. You know, the beverage. Tea. John details some of his favorite varieties of teas that you won't find on the shelf at your local grocer but that you can find if you send away to this one guy on the intern...

Anson is a bit nervous for his high school reunion, which is happening at a Marriott hotel on Space Planet. Will people be nice? Will he be seen as successful and popular? Well, he ends up going and it turns out mostly fine. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting mini-sodes of u...

In this very special episode, our host John Moe tells the story of the now-ubiquitous board game Rooms & Complications and how it was invented one rainy day in Canadaburg, Canada by two siblings who used WordPerfect. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting mini-sodes of unscripte...

In this very special episode, our host John Moe meets up with his friend Jill - not his wife, Jill, a different Jill - and they try to find somewhere to get tacos. It’s a little harder than they thought but it turns out okay. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting mini-sodes of...

Here is a bedtime story about Leonard, who is a sea turtle living a pretty okay life. He has two friends in Julia and Boris. He has a coral reef to swim around in. But he has a job in mind that he'd like to have. Will he finally pursue his professional goals? We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charmin...

Here is a bedtime story about Norman, who is a pangolin, but a very specific pangolin. Norman is a pangolin who works as a database administrator and has a yearning to learn to dance. You can hear about him doing so and making a friend. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting min...

You might know Alan Tudyk as the star of the SyFy series Resident Alien or the groundbreaking series Firefly . You might know him from the films Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story , 28 Days , or A Knight's Tale .  It’s possible also that you know Alan Tudyk from his robust participation in the yardstick collector community because the veteran character actor has a rather enormous collection of these...

Here is a bedtime story about Nadine, a duck who works with a lot of other ducks to operate a farm in Finland. It's hard work so she gets tired. Because of course she does. She bakes bread. We'll tell you all about it. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting mini-sodes of unscrip...

We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you, we are charming you by presenting mini-sodes of unscripted bedtime stories, drowsily invented and told by John Moe. This one is about a town in Texas where everyone wears stilts, except for one person who wears smaller stilts with large feet attached. Go to MaximumFun.org/j...

It’s the annual Max Fun Drive and your chance to support Sleeping with Celebrities . To celebrate, host John Moe presents a short, unscripted bedtime story about an owl who works in the important position of municipal government in central Nebraska. The main character was suggested by our listener Alex and we welcome your ideas for characters in future mini-sodes. Go to MaximumFun.org/join , choos...

This special network wide event is a celebration of The MaxFunDrive! If you’d like to support podcasts you love for just $5 a month and get bonus gifts in the process, go to maximumfun.org/join .  We’re kicking off the most exciting time of the year for the MaxFun Network with a trivia game show featuring hosts from tons of great podcasts. J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong from “ Go Fact Yourse...

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating , a fellow podcast here on the Maximum Fun network, is about just what the title promises, mundane parts of life that are very compelling upon closer examination. But we don’t want to compel you into staying awake here on our show. So when we booked hosts Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin (at the request of listener Alec, whom we thank), we were happy to hear them talk...

If you happen to be one of Steve Almond’s children, you already know about the Dad Compactor. Because Steve isn’t just a best-selling author ( Candyfreak , All the Secrets in the World ) and beloved podcast host, he’s a household appliance. Steve won’t stand for wasted food, you see, and so the Dad Compactor reuses and reinvents foodstuffs in ways you never thought possible or even wise. Doze off...

You might have seen Oscar Montoya as one of the stars of the acclaimed TV series Minx or heard him as one of the hosts of the acclaimed Maximum Fun podcast Eurovangelists . Or maybe, just maybe, you’ve noticed him in the rice aisle at the supermarket, carefully examining the selection and putting a surprising amount of thought into rice, as he does so often in life and as he does in this week’s ep...

Technically, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor and Cecily Knobler are not and have never been part of the lineup of the band Barenaked Ladies. But in their own way they feel like the band is at least part of them. These best friends host the podcasts Rose Pricks and Bored A.F. and Stefanie is the author of a remarkable number of books, dealing with, among other topics, parenting and sobriety. They love Baren...

Dessa is many things but mostly she’s a cake decorator. For our purposes for this episode, at least. Oh sure, you may know her has a brilliant musician, rapper, poet, and occasional guest host on public radio. You may have heard her work on  Welcome to Night Vale  or heard her in action as part of the Doomtree collective or on The Hamilton Mix Tape . But we think her real passion is doing up those...

John-Luke Roberts is a comedian, actor, and podcast maker and he's from England so you know his voice is going to be pleasant to hear. John-Luke created and hosts Sound Heap, a very funny podcast about a podcast network taking on the daunting task of making too many podcasts. Sound Heap is joining the Maximum Fun family this month and to celebrate this fact, John-Luke stops by our show to talk at...

Laurie Kilmartin is a veteran comic, a best-selling author, and an Emmy-nominated writer for Conan. She is also a newly minted anime fan, coming to it initially as a pandemic bonding activity with her 17-year-old son. He tricked her into enjoying animated violence, sexy wizards, and the occasional bit of cannibalism. Laurie also asks the big pop culture questions: How did Daryl from The Walking De...

Sandeep Parikh is well known to anyone who followed the web series The Guild, where he played Zaboo. Sandeep is a writer, producer, director, and comedian in Hollywood, where he also, very importantly, serves as president of his local homeowner's association. It is this role that he explores in meticulous depth in a soothing interview that gently tackles the legal dispute between Sandeep's souther...

Jason Pargin has taken care of writing seven novels, including John Dies at the End and the new Zoey Is Too Drunk For This Apocalypse. But he's only taken care of one pet bunny rabbit and his name was Rico. Rico the rabbit. Jason explains to us, at sleep-inducing length and snoozable levels of detail, some of the myths and facts about bunny husbandry, including that you shouldn't feed them carrots...

In this very special episode of Sleeping with Celebrities, the celebrity is the host. John Moe is the host of Depresh Mode, author of The Hilarious World of Depression , and, in fact, host of this very podcast as well. He talks to himself and to you as he travels across North Dakota from Bismarck all the way to New Salem just to see an enormous fake cow. Yep, you'll doze off to a luxurious sleep a...

Rob Harvilla is the host of the hit podcast 60 Songs That Explain the 90s and author of a book of the exact same name. But before he was regaling his listeners with his thoughts on music of that era, Rob was living in that era and making music of his own. Or rather, making music of somebody else's. You see, Sleepyheads, Mr. Harvilla was an open mic musical performer in his college days, in the 90'...

Linda Holmes is a best-selling author and one of the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. But you know what an hour is that wasn't always happy? Melrose Place. Oh, it's true. Melrose Place was a nighttime soap opera in the 1990s and it told the stories of the residents of a fictitious apartment complex in Los Angeles where everyone's lives were complicated. The people were complicated, the relat...