mini Apr 20, 2026 00:29:01

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[0:00] Hello! Welcome to the MaxFunDrive. Happy first day. I'm here. I'm Dan McCoy, and I'm with...
[0:08] Stuart Wellington. If you are a fan of The Flop House, this is the best time for you to
[0:13] support your favorite show, us. And during this time, we're going to be putting out some bonus
[0:20] episodes. We're trying to put out some of our best episodes. In fact, we are releasing episodes
[0:26] where we are torturing each other with the worst movies we can make the others watch. It's going
[0:30] to be so much fun. And, you know, this is a little treat at the beginning of the drive,
[0:37] so we hope you enjoy it. Flop House listeners, of course, are the best listeners on the planet.
[0:44] Thank you for supporting us, and enjoy the show. And if you can, head over to
[0:48] maximumfun.org join to support The Flop House. Welcome to Casters on Casters, conversations
[0:58] about the art and craft of podcasting with the masters of the microphone, the titans of talking,
[1:06] the rulers of remote recordings. On today's show, John Hodgman and Jesse Thorne,
[1:15] the Judge John Hodgman Show, and Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington of The Flop House.
[1:24] This is Casters on Casters. So why don't we clap at the turn of the minute?
[1:32] Let's hold, hold, Dan, hold. Let's do it at 10 seconds past the minute.
[1:36] Okay. Give everyone a chance to get their clapping hands limbered.
[1:44] And let's make sure we leave that in because this is Casters on Casters, all about podcasting,
[1:50] the tips, the tricks, the techniques. I'm John Hodgman. Here's your host, founder of Maximum
[1:56] Fun, co-host and co-creator of the Judge John Hodgman Podcast, as well as co-host and co-creator
[2:02] of Jordan & Jesse Go, as well as creator and host of Bullseye, among many other endeavors.
[2:09] To introduce our other guests, it's Jesse Thorne.
[2:12] Hi, John. Thank you for having me here on Casters on Casters. Glad to do it. I'm a caster myself,
[2:17] so I'm the perfect person to be on this show with you, a caster, and with us are two other casters.
[2:23] You truly sound like AI right now. That was pretty amazing.
[2:28] Yeah, I could hear the sixth finger.
[2:29] I am so pumped to be here right now on Casters on Casters. Thank you for this opportunity.
[2:37] From the Flophouse Podcast, Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington. Hi, Dan and Stu.
[2:41] Hey.
[2:43] Casters does sound cooler than podcaster, but it still sounds very uncool.
[2:49] Well, the idea is for it to sound like ... It's supposed to be like actors on actors. That's the
[2:55] idea. What our goal ... The MaxFunDrive is starting as this show drops. Our goal for this is to give
[3:03] you guys a little peek behind the scenes about what we do, why we do it, how we do it, and we're
[3:11] doing it by convening a round table of probably the four greatest podcasters of all time. That'll
[3:17] be me, Stu, Dan, and John. I'm sitting in for Adam Carolla.
[3:26] The folks who are listening to this on the Flophouse feed, of course, know who Dan and
[3:31] Stu are from the Flophouse, but for those who might be listening on the Judge John Hodgman
[3:35] feed, tell us what the Flophouse is all about. We used to say we watch a bad movie and then we
[3:43] talk about it. Then over the years, I became increasingly guilty about feeling like we were
[3:50] not only one parasitical making fun of things, but also I didn't want people to get the idea
[3:57] that we prejudge because, honestly, sometimes we end up liking things we watch. Now we say it's
[4:07] a podcast where we watch something that was a critical or commercial flop and see what we think.
[4:15] And you heard Dan reset there, listener, which is a critical tool in podcasting when you find
[4:21] yourself sort of just saying, now, hang on, I'm going to retake that. So you just heard Dan McCoy
[4:27] reset there, a critical tool in podcasting. When you lose your train of thought, you get it back
[4:31] again. You give a clean edit to the editor. In our case, Judge John Hodgman, it's A.J. McKeon. Who
[4:36] does the editing over in your podcast? So our producer and editor is Alex Smith, who goes by,
[4:44] he is also an entertainer in his own right, who goes by the name Howell Doughty. He's a
[4:51] longtime friend, best man at my wedding, in fact. And yeah, he's great. Our producer,
[4:57] Jennifer Marmer, is actually on the line. She's hosting the StreamYard recording we're using to
[5:02] record this. And I find her presence very comforting, even though I can't see her,
[5:06] just to know that she's there. Yeah, it is nice. Nice to have Dan around always.
[5:12] Um, let me ask you guys a question. How do you pick a movie for the show?
[5:17] We used to, in the early days, we would literally go to a video store.
[5:22] Yeah. Wow. Which is why we kind of settled. What was the one on Flatbush Avenue, Dan?
[5:28] I mean, it was obviously long, long gone. It was in Clinton Hill. I don't remember the name of it.
[5:38] I just remember going in there and being an adult man renting Bratz the movie and thinking,
[5:46] I've been put on a list. Yeah, yeah. The watch list is in effect.
[5:50] But then, you know, at this point, we are able to use both our media literacy and our
[6:00] pop culture kind of finger on the pulse to figure out what people are talking about.
[6:04] Mm hmm. And then we do it several months later.
[6:08] Yeah. And then there's also a little bit of crowd sourcing. You know, we'll have
[6:12] friends or friends who might work as critics or just listeners who will reach out to us and be
[6:18] like, you got to do this one. And then we check to see if it's as close to 90 minutes as possible.
[6:25] Yeah, that's the best. You know, this suggests a question to me, and maybe Jennifer Marmer
[6:31] has more of a hand in this. But how do you know what a good conflict is to talk about
[6:36] on your show? How do you select that sort of thing?
[6:39] Yeah, great question, Dan. I'm John Hodgman from the Judge John Hodgman podcast. And
[6:44] Jesse Thorne came to me less than 18 years ago, but not very many years less,
[6:51] saying, would you ever do a judge show as a segment on Jordan, Jesse Go? And I said, yes.
[6:57] And we had so much fun doing it that we created this podcast together where
[7:01] real people essentially call in with real, usually domestic disputes about,
[7:07] I don't know, Jesse, what? Well, we just like a guy wants to put a door in a door place.
[7:11] Mostly people write in about dishes related matters.
[7:14] A lot of dishwashing style conflicts in homes. It's true. And then, you know, probably one of
[7:23] our most iconic episodes was the Bat Brothers episode. Two brothers in a house in Kansas,
[7:28] wasn't it, Jesse? Yeah, it was in Kansas. In fact,
[7:30] it was not very far from where my grandparents grew up, in Iola, Kansas.
[7:36] And they had a bat problem in the house, and one of them wanted to figure out a way to let the
[7:40] bats out of the house, and the other one just wanted to smash them with a dictionary that he
[7:44] kept by his bed. And the question was, which is the better way, John?
[7:48] They were getting into the bathroom. He kept the dictionary by the toilet.
[7:52] The bat room? Thank you.
[7:55] To me, the most distinctive part of the Bat Brothers, and the part that I always emphasize
[8:00] in the telling, and probably should not be emphasized, is that they bought this house
[8:04] to save money. To me, the bats getting in is less remarkable than that if you live in semi-rural
[8:12] Kansas, you can buy a house to save money. They bought this house for like $40,000 or something.
[8:19] At least that was true in 2011 or 2010 or so, when we heard that case. That was one of our
[8:26] original cases. When you mentioned Bat Brothers,
[8:28] I initially assumed you were talking about Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco,
[8:31] but those were the Bash Brothers. Yeah, that's the Bash Brothers.
[8:34] So basically, people either fill out a form on the website, or they send an email to
[8:41] hodgeminutemaximumfund.org. John is actually the one who does the initial pass on that
[8:50] email inbox, right, John? Well, traditionally, that is true.
[8:54] Although I will say that one of Jennifer Marmer's huge responsibilities, and the one that she meets
[9:02] ably every week over and over again, is finding and pre-interviewing the litigants,
[9:07] the potential litigants, before they ever turn their microphones on, so that we know
[9:12] that we're going to have a good and lively and fun conversation. Consequently, we've really never had
[9:19] a dud. But I would say that Jennifer, I've been meaning to ask Jennifer about this for a while,
[9:23] because we're getting litigants through now over the past, I would say six months or so,
[9:28] that I don't ever remember laying eyes on the emails. So she's finding folks that I've never
[9:34] seen, so we've got to give her credit for that. Yeah, she calls people and she probably talks...
[9:40] Randomly. Yeah, random telephone numbers.
[9:42] She's down at the docks ruffling some feathers. She goes to the bathroom, she gets the bat phone
[9:47] book, and she calls people and talks to them. And we're looking for different things. One of
[9:54] the things is just like, are they chilling fun? Are they comfortable talking to her,
[9:58] just because sometimes people might be...
[10:00] too nervous. And also like the nature of the dispute, are there distinctive, interesting
[10:07] things about their dispute that might be fun to talk about? And, you know, other like more
[10:13] subtle things that listeners might not expect. I mean, the dispute has to be real. It has to
[10:20] be a real dispute between the people. But certain types of stakes freak listeners out.
[10:29] So we have to be careful to avoid those. So it is like a, it is a needle that has
[10:34] to be threaded by Jen and John. I don't really participate in this part of the show,
[10:39] which is to find people who actually care about the thing that is the dispute in question.
[10:46] Both of the parties are willing to come on and understand what they're getting themselves into.
[10:52] And also that that conflict is something that is manageable within the tone of the show, right?
[11:01] Yeah, it is a cozy show. I'd be very perturbed if I listened to it and people are
[11:05] genuinely mad at one another. I sometimes like when I'm explaining it to a stranger,
[11:11] like the easy thing to say is, oh, it's like Judge Judy or something, because formatically
[11:15] it is like Judge Judy, right? Then I say, but it's usually between people that love each other.
[11:21] And want to resolve their conflict amicably. And a judge who's interested in not just
[11:27] shouting at the people, but understanding them. I think that's unfair. So that brings up an
[11:33] interesting question. I've always wondered, do you model yourself after a specific TV judge?
[11:39] Or is there a TV judge that you aspire to be like? Or a real life judge that you've appeared before?
[11:45] Yes, thank you.
[11:47] Well, my first and foremost inspiration is Judge Melitta Bullinger,
[11:53] Justice of the Peace in Cold Spring, New York, who married my wife and I.
[11:58] That's cute.
[11:59] I don't remember her at all. I'm really surprised I remember her name. She did a great job.
[12:03] We're legally married, so good job.
[12:06] No complaints.
[12:07] But honestly, there's a bit where I always say, I think I've heard everything I need to make my
[12:13] decision. I'm going to be in my chambers. I'll be back in a moment with my verdict,
[12:17] which is a direct ripoff of Judge Wapner. I remember watching The People's Court as a kid
[12:23] and loving him, just like, yeah, I heard enough, bye. I'm just like, whoop.
[12:28] We have a specific judge hero, right? So like Judge Wapner, whatever, whatever.
[12:33] Our specific judge hero is actually a Judge John Hodgman Listener, who is a real judge,
[12:38] Raquel Montoya Lewis. She is a judge on the Washington State Supreme Court.
[12:44] And when she was appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court,
[12:48] and she is, among other things, the first Native person on the Washington State Supreme Court,
[12:53] one of the first state Supreme Court justices who is a Native person in the entire country,
[12:59] Judge Montoya Lewis sent us an email because we had stopped printing our settled law poster
[13:06] and said, I want one for my chambers. Can you make another one for me? And we said,
[13:12] yes, we can send you the file. You can go down to Kinko's.
[13:18] And we got to meet Judge Montoya Lewis when we did a show in Washington State. She came
[13:22] and actually guested on the show. And it was just, it's totally amazing to think of
[13:28] a real life, and she's incredibly principled and caring justice who really gives a hoot about
[13:38] making the law work for human beings. And it is incredible to think that our weird, dumb show
[13:44] would be something that a person who actually does this for a living treasures, right?
[13:49] Like the idea that a real judge actually likes us is mind-bending. And also that she totally rules.
[13:57] It's not just that she does it for a living, but she went through years of presumably expensive
[14:02] schooling, made a lot of sacrifices, had to break a lot of barriers in the legal profession
[14:09] to get where she is, as opposed to me, which is, I'm just a white guy. I was like, yeah,
[14:12] I'm a judge now. One of the things when I listen to The Flophouse that I always appreciate is,
[14:22] you know, obviously, Dan and Elliot have worked in the entertainment industry for a very long time.
[14:28] And Stu, you went to college with Dan.
[14:33] Credentials. They call them credentials.
[14:37] But like one of the things about The Flophouse is that it really seems to understand a fundamental
[14:43] thing about filmmaking in particular, but the entertainment industry in general,
[14:48] which is that every film, like every notable film is made by 200 or 300 hyper-competent people that,
[15:01] you know, you can't be on a set. Like the times that I've been on a set, the thing that awes me
[15:06] is how good at their job every single person is, because if anyone messes up, it messes everyone
[15:13] else up, right? And that there are all these super competent people working on a film,
[15:19] and sometimes it comes out bad. And that's just the nature of it, because there's so many moving
[15:26] parts. It's so hard to make it come out good. Like if it comes out good, that's just like an
[15:32] extraordinary confluence of skill, good luck, good ideas, whatever, whatever, whatever.
[15:38] And your show is pretty generous about that. Like I feel like it understands this truth that
[15:44] everybody who's worked in the entertainment industry has worked on a lot of bad things,
[15:47] because sometimes it just doesn't work out. Yeah, no one wants to do a bad job.
[15:52] And sometimes you just gotta have work. Like these are people who
[15:56] work for a living, and I think that it kind of frustrates me sometimes that I think people who
[16:02] have had no experience of it, treat it as if every decision is an artistic one, when a lot
[16:09] of the decisions are like, I haven't worked for a while, I need my health insurance or whatever.
[16:14] But I appreciate that you say that. Honestly, I'd do anything to be in a bad movie.
[16:19] Yeah. Yeah.
[16:23] Anytime I hear people come up, like, how could they do that? I remember thinking very vividly
[16:28] in like 2003 or something like that, there was this controversy in comedy nerd internet circles
[16:36] about the hyper principled David Cross being in an Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel.
[16:42] And it was like, if you were offered a part in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie,
[16:46] would you say no? I would be like, I'll buy my own plane ticket. That sounds great.
[16:52] Sure. What am I? Am I a chipmunk? I'll do it.
[16:55] I would have myself surgically transformed into a chipmunk Tusk style.
[17:00] I'm turning my head backwards and bagging up my pants so that I can be a hip hop chipmunk.
[17:07] I want to mention, by the way, it is the first day of the MaxFunDrive.
[17:11] So if you're a fan of the Flophouse, or you're a fan of Judge John Hodgman, we are supported
[17:17] by your direct support. That is like what makes our work possible. So please go to
[17:22] MaximumFun.org slash join. We want to have a big start to the MaxFunDrive. We've got so much
[17:27] stuff for the next two weeks planned. It's going to be such a great time. John and I are streaming
[17:32] every day. We're doing a live show at the end of the drive that is streaming free to everyone where
[17:38] we're going to settle disputes between MaxFun hosts. It's going to be jam packed with great
[17:43] stuff. And we'll have regular episodes for you during this time as well. But MaximumFun.org
[17:48] slash join is the place to go to become a member of Maximum Fun. And that is your direct support
[17:54] for our show. I think sometimes people are like, oh, why am I supporting Maximum Fun when I want
[18:02] to support my favorite guys? I like that impression. Thank you. I really can't emphasize
[18:09] enough. You are supporting us directly. Maximum Fun supports our work. I'm not the owner of
[18:17] Maximum Fun anymore. I'm a member of the co-op. So I'm technically an owner, but I'm not the owner
[18:22] of Maximum Fun anymore. They support our work. But when you go to MaximumFun.org slash join
[18:29] and join, you are directly supporting the podcasts that you listen to. So please go
[18:35] to MaximumFun.org slash join. Podcasting can be a lonely job, even if you're talking to your
[18:41] friends all the time. It's really true. And not only having the
[18:48] organizational and logistical and producorial support that Maximum Fun offers, it's just a
[18:54] bunch of nice people. It's a collective. You remember how the monkeys all lived in one house?
[19:00] You know what I mean? Well, that's Maximum Fun. There's a fire pole at Maximum Fun HQ.
[19:05] I feel like I've always been drawn to communities and being part of building
[19:11] a community, whether it's by opening neighborhood bars or in my Warhammer hobby.
[19:18] But that was one of the things that I was really blown away at how welcoming the Maximum Fun
[19:24] community was when we joined and how easy it was for us to integrate and get involved with people.
[19:31] And it's just been really cool. It felt like a really easy way for me to get more direct
[19:40] feedback on the show, about the show, which was really cool. And everybody was really thoughtful
[19:46] and welcoming. It's great. Wait, you feel good about getting feedback about the show?
[19:52] I mean, that's the thing. When we started doing the show,
[19:55] it was so long ago. And I feel like I came from
[20:00] West and when I moved to New York, I worked in a hobby store around teenage boys.
[20:05] So I feel like I had a relatively limited world view and one of the things about doing
[20:11] the show was that there was those moments where I realized we would get feedback from
[20:17] listeners that are not teenage boys or men just like me and I was like, oh wow, like
[20:23] there's a whole world out there and everybody was so like kind of gracious and kind with
[20:31] their feedback and it, I don't know, it helped me grow as a person.
[20:38] I've met so many different types of people through doing the show in a way that like
[20:45] really expands my world view in a healthy way, I think, and also helped me learn how
[20:52] to like interact and be gracious with people just in terms of like I'm a neurodivergent
[21:01] guy raised by a neurodivergent brother in part.
[21:05] You know, I've been like kind of a shy guy who is awkward around new people and whose
[21:11] warmth reveals itself slowly and I think that learning how to like be out there in the world
[21:21] and interact with new people who may know me but I don't know them has been very wonderful
[21:29] and healthy for me.
[21:31] Actually, like that suggested a question.
[21:33] I don't know how much time we have but I wanted to ask you guys, your show involves...
[21:38] Well, we're out of time, Dan.
[21:39] Thank you.
[21:40] That's one of those things that happens in podcasts where you just hit a hard post.
[21:44] Now, what was your question?
[21:45] Yeah, I see.
[21:46] I'm getting feedback from Jennifer here.
[21:48] She says, Dan is talking.
[21:50] Wrap it up.
[21:51] Yeah, she's just riding the cough button the whole time.
[21:58] I love talking to our listeners.
[22:03] I would talk to a MaxFun listener any day of the week.
[22:07] I'm so glad when anyone talks to me about the show out in like the real world.
[22:12] However, as I suggested, maybe I'm not like the most natural with strangers and you have
[22:19] a show built around interacting with new people every week.
[22:23] How does one do that?
[22:25] Explain.
[22:26] Well, I mean, I think that obviously we mentioned that Jennifer sort of does the cold calling
[22:33] first.
[22:34] Yeah.
[22:35] So, you know, we feel quite comfortable that the people we're going to meet are fun and
[22:39] interesting and enjoyable but also we feel quite comfortable because they usually tend
[22:45] to be listeners to the show and like your experience, I like the listeners to the show.
[22:51] Like, you know, as someone who has had my mug plastered on various TV shows and small
[22:57] movies and so forth, I always enjoy when someone comes up and goes, loved you in that one scene
[23:02] in Pitch Perfect 2, which happened, by the way, at the Optometrist the other day.
[23:07] Oh, wow.
[23:08] That was exciting.
[23:09] You know what I mean?
[23:10] But I don't want to sit and have a conversation with somebody and I'm not making a promise
[23:14] to MaxFun listeners that I'm going to sit and have a conversation with you every time.
[23:19] But if when someone comes up to me and says, like, I'm a MaxFun member, I'm like, oh, hey,
[23:24] thank you.
[23:25] I think we have something in common here and that we both support this enterprise that
[23:28] we believe in.
[23:29] And also, I admire your taste.
[23:32] And I want to echo something that I think you said, Stu, which is that like meeting
[23:36] all these people both on the podcast and sort of in the world of the listenership has made
[23:41] me a much better person.
[23:43] For sure.
[23:44] I mean, my knowledge of the broader way that people live is so much more enhanced.
[23:54] And my wife, as a whole human being in her own right, was like, you're a much better
[23:56] husband now than you were.
[23:58] Not that I was bad.
[24:00] But the listening and the understanding and the empathy that the litigants show each other
[24:07] and the listeners show to us have really, I mean, if you go back and listen to some
[24:11] of those early episodes, I'm really quite a judgy asshole.
[24:16] And I'm much less so now.
[24:18] I thought that was the comedy premise of the show.
[24:20] Like, I want to be clear, as the guy who thought up John as a judge, I thought it was funny
[24:25] for John to be a judgy asshole on the show and encouraged it for comedy.
[24:31] John's daily show persona was also a little more aggressive.
[24:34] So it made sense, you know, I think sort of he'd done that before where he was bedeviling
[24:40] people.
[24:41] I'll say something that's a real comfort to me is, obviously, unlike you guys, I work
[24:47] in the office at MaxFun.
[24:49] Like I'm there close to every day, right?
[24:54] And I look around at the two dozen-ish people that work there, many of whom I hired, right,
[25:01] when I was still the owner of the company.
[25:04] And when you were still 12 years old and they were babies.
[25:10] I look around at these people, I'm like, I'm so lucky to work with these lovely, wonderful
[25:17] people who work here because they care about touching people's lives.
[25:23] There's not a cynical, you know, let's exploit people person in the entire MaxFun office
[25:30] of dozens of people.
[25:32] I get frustrated about things in my office because I work in an office and I'm a human
[25:37] being.
[25:38] But I also find myself thinking, if I'm frustrated with something or something, whatever, just
[25:44] normal office stuff, I think like, oh, but how great is that person that I'm frustrated
[25:51] with?
[25:52] I love them all, you know?
[25:54] And so I know that is a great comfort to me that I'm part of this group of people who
[26:02] are both the podcasters and the behind-the-scenes people who are so dedicated to making something
[26:09] special to touch people's lives, even if it's something dumb.
[26:12] Jesse, I'm getting word now from our producer, Jennifer Marmer, and an employee owner of
[26:17] MaxMunFun, that we need to wrap it up soon, but she has some pickups for us.
[26:23] It's a little behind-the-scenes, casters-on-casters exclusive.
[26:28] We're going to do some pickups, which is where we go back and we say something again,
[26:34] but better, or maybe answer a question we didn't answer before.
[26:37] Now that our open, bleeding hearts are on display for everyone, we're out of time, so
[26:45] I will, one more time, say please join MaxMunFun, MaxMunFun.org, slash join.
[26:51] Go to MaxMunFun.org and check out all the cool stuff that's happening over the next
[26:54] couple of weeks between April 20th and May 1st for the MaxMunDrive, because we're all
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[27:06] in gratitude to you for supporting us.
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[27:12] slash join.
[27:13] Dan and Stu, thank you for talking with us.
[27:17] We really appreciate it.
[27:19] The name of their podcast is what again?
[27:22] Don't Remember.
[27:23] The Flophouse Podcast, baby.
[27:26] Flophouse Podcast.
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[27:42] What a pleasure to hang out with my friends, our friends.
[27:45] And I want to thank you guys for kind of taking the reins and hosting this, and John and Jesse,
[27:50] what is your show?
[27:52] Again, Don't Remember.
[27:54] Jesse and I co-created and co-host the Judge John Hodgman Podcast, available every Wednesday
[27:59] on MaxMunFun and full video episodes are available on YouTube at Judge John Hodgman Pod, where
[28:05] all of our live streaming will be happening as well.
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[28:39] Dan, it's two things for being our friend.
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[28:42] Oh, thanks.
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Description

It's MaxFunDrive. And here, for the first time, we give you an exclusive look (well, listen) at the craft of podcasting: presenting Casters on Casters.

Stuart Wellington and Dan McCoy are joined by their pals Jesse Thorn and John Hodgman of the Judge John Hodgman show, for a very fun, and funny, conversation about podcasting. In this very important podcasting event, ALL the tricks of the trade will be revealed. Plus, can podcasting make you...a better person? Yes. Yes it can. How? Listen to find out!

If this glamorous, in-depth journey into what makes your favorite hosts tick inspires you, support them by joining as a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Edited by Marissa Flaxbart and Produced by Jennifer Marmor for Maximum Fun.

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