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Hi my name c'ondrae vaughn and i like to rap and i'm going to post some of my song my rap name is Young merse and i hope ya'll like this. social media Instagram https://instagram.com/bigboy_c1257?igshid=1xr5bcqu29vix Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cj.vaughn.90 Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCifQUrnjx_9fEvySWW4-f0g Email wwhitfieldgang@gmail.com wwhitfieldgang@gmail.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/youngmerse/support
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Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping with Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting e ...
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The house team’s focus is a sustainable environment ”from nature to nature”. In our houses, only fully developed wood is used, which replaces the felled forest with newly planted forest. Young forests on the way to growth have a greater capacity to sequester carbon dioxide than older forests that have reduced their capacity, which means enormous benefits for the environment and people.
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Marylou Kelsum is a young scientist about to embark on the journey of a lifetime on-board a first-of its-kind research submarine on its maiden voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. But not long after they get under way, Marylou’s professional dream come true turns into a nightmare. A face appears, looking into her cabin porthole at the impossible depth of 5,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. And worse, she thinks she recognizes the face as that of a fellow crew member. From the mind ...
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Music fans know Rhett Miller as the lead singer of Old 97’s, a beloved band that has released 13 studio bang-up albums over the last 30 years, including 2024’s American Primitive. Disc golf players, of which Rhett is a dedicated one, think of him as a disc golfer, which he is, as I just said. Besides, they’re too busy getting annoyed at people call…
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Here’s the truth, if you’re ready for it: airline miles programs are a convenient way to earn upgrades and passage to exclusive pre-flight lounges but they do require some degree of careful record keeping. So that information doesn’t so much blow you away as blow you gently whilst you stay in place. Todd Barry has been a comedy icon for decades as …
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Previously, on Silo When I Was Young, Mabel met Shiloh Grenier, a ten-year-old hospital patient, who asked Mabel to help find her missing sister, Addison. Mabel decoded a secret message from Addison that said “Three oclock on Sunday.” But which Sunday, and where? Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Phyllis Chen…
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Is this a feat that the beloved author, actor, and host of Maximum Fun’s Judge John Hodgman can actually pull off? Well, no, probably not. There are over 4,600 such islands and he’s only one mortal human. Come on. But will he make a pretty game attempt for a little while and invite you to join his efforts as you drift off to sleep? Oh yes. Oh absol…
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In that he, Josh, the notable comedian and all-around nice guy, GETS his dog, Bizzy. Josh understands Bizzy. Which is important because Bizzy, a pug, is seventeen dang years old. Which is really very old for a dog. As of the taping of this interview and, we hope, the airing of this podcast, Bizzy is still alive and we certainly hope that remains th…
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Previously, Mabel met hospitalized ten-year-old Shiloh Grenier, and her mother Adele. In this episode, Mabel sees her own doctor, and decodes a secret message from Shiloh’s missing sister, Addison. Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Phyllis Chen: Three Lullabies. Performed by Phyllis Chen with A Far Cry Chambe…
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Laura Merli is an acclaimed comedian and TikTok celebrity. Sarah Hester Ross is a comedic musician who has appeared on America’s Got Talent, because she’s from America and has talent. Like so many of us, they are older now than they have ever been but they do remember how things used to be before. Back when they were younger. Travel with them to dr…
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Twice the number of guests means twice the opportunity to fall twice as asleep in half the time. Or something. Michelle Biloon is a Philadelphia-based standup comedian who has appeared on many late night shows and released two comedy albums. Kevin Avery is a comedian in LA and the former head writer on Totally Biased with K. Kamau Bell. John Moe, t…
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You might know the very funny Helen Hong from TV’s Silicon Valley, the film Inside Llewyn Davis, NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, or Maximum Fun’s quiz podcast Go Fact Yourself. If you live in South Central L.A., you might know her as the lady with four chickens in her backyard and a really disappointing crop of snap peas. Helen tells us all about he…
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A young girl asks Mabel to find her missing sister. And time is running out... Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Phyllis Chen, Three Lullabies. Performed by Phyllis Chen with A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra. from Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre. Story by Kathy MacLellan, read by Kathy. Production by John Nolan. Visit o…
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This week, we travel all the way inside the Moe household as host John interviews his wife Jill. She is a bona fide celebrity within the narrow, odd, and passionate world of crop art. It’s what it sounds like: art made out of seeds, leaves, anything that grows. The world capital of crop art is in Saint Paul, home of the Minnesota State Fair and hom…
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Look, we’ll admit right now that this week’s episode is interesting. We’ll stipulate that. David Plotz, CEO of CityCast.fm and longtime contributor to Slate’s Political Gabfest is fascinated by the measures taken around the nation’s capital to prevent a Confederate invasion that could tilt the balance of the war. He details all the forts that were …
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If you’ve watched Conan O’Brien’s shows or Late Night with Stephen Colbert, you’ve probably seen Brian Stack playing a wide range of characters, including Frankenstein and one of the Slip Nuts. He’s been a writer and performer for both shows, which has meant running across a huge number of famous people. Here, Brian counts down his top five celebri…
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What do standup comedy, golf, and skateboarding have in common beside high degrees of difficulty and opportunities to humiliate yourself in public? Well, they have veteran standup comedian Chris Fairbanks, who walks us through the experiences of all three ventures. Chris, one of the hosts of the podcast Do You Need a Ride?!, joins us from his homet…
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Humorist Jenny Lawson collects many things, including: devoted readers of her numerous essay anthologies, acclaim for her brilliant and hilarious writing, taxidermic mishaps, and also dolls, dolls, dolls. We concentrate on the dolls in this episode with more information than you ever sought about Blythe dolls, Pullip dolls, and ball joint dolls. Fi…
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You may have seen Rachel Feinstein perform her comedy on late night shows, on YouTube, and on Netflix for her latest special, Rachel Feinstein: Big Guy. If you’re a firefighter in Queens, you may have seen her in her own home while you were stopping by to attempt some home repair at the behest of her husband, also a member of the FDNY. She walks us…
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You may know the very funny and talented actor Nate Corddry from one million television programs and movies he's appeared in over the years, including Ghostbusters, Mom, The Daily Show, and Yogi Bear. You may not know him as a high-level player of a style of baseball played with dice, pencils, and pads of paper, yet that is exactly what he has been…
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Yes, toys are delightful and fun and even exciting. But for our purposes, that might all get a little TOO exciting. We’re here to put you to sleep after all. That’s why Emily, co-host of Maximum Fun’s newish Free With Ads podcast, will go into detail on exactly how to clean the various action figures in her rather sizable collection. A lot of the t…
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The path from Silicon Valley computer programmer to rising star in standup comedy is not one that’s well traveled. Nor is the opposite path for that matter, where one leaves behind a world of headlining clubs and making specials to write code in a cubicle somewhere. But Richard Sarvate, former programmer and current standup, is a trailblazer. He fi…
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New York's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is 13,700 feet long. Comedian, Rifftrax star, and MST3K alum Bill Corbett is at most six feet long, maybe even a little less. Still, Bill has a lot more to say about the bridge than the bridge can say about him because bridges can't talk. Bill's funnier too, by a lot, whereas the bridge has its own strengths lik…
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When Julia Duffy is not filming something to entertain and delight you, chances are she’s reading a book. It’s generally non-fiction, often historical, and in one notable recent case, it was all about a tiger. Don’t worry, there isn’t enough action in her detailed descriptions of these books to keep you awake at night. It’s more like Julia, who sta…
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Yes, that headline can be confusing. Read it slowly. We’ll wait. Lindy West is an acclaimed author, podcaster, and all-around funny person. Her best-selling book, Shrill, was adapted into a series for hulu starring Aidy Bryant. Lindy finds it relaxing to surf through YouTube videos of expert gamers performing “speedruns” through popular games, espe…
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Mabel unravels a hidden plot behind the series of suspicious romantic picnics at Princess Louise Falls. Additional voices by Rosemary Nolan and William Ballik. Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Songs BB 68, arr. for string quartet, performed by A Far Cry Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio …
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Ray Ellin, according to Wikipedia, is a comedian, talk show host, producer, writer, and director. According to Sleeping with Celebrities, he is also a fairly fanatical devotee of the television series Little House on the Prairie and he discusses it freely, openly, and in great detail on our latest episode. He’s so into the show, Ray hosts the Wild …
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Mabel suspects that a series of romanic picnics at the Princess Louise Falls could have sinister overtones. Additional voices by Rosemary Nolan and William Ballik. Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Antonín Dvorák: Two Waltzes, Op. 54, performed by Musicians from Marlboro Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Songs BB 68…
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Honestly, we haven't had that many people on our show who have started entirely new religions. Most of the time, if someone wants to be religious, they simply follow one of the existing faiths that are out there in the world in great abundance already. But Marsha Warfield, who played Roz the bailiff on the classic sitcom Night Court and who appears…
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The hilarious Rob Haze, a rapidly rising star in stand-up comedy, has loads of sneakers. Really a disproportionate amount of sneakers compared to the cubic footage of space he lives in. He doesn’t go into great detail on every single pair he owns in this interview, mind you, but he does provide enough information to lull you into a sleepy state wit…
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Dickey Simpkins loves breakfast. So much so that this Australian wallaby started a blog about breakfast, which led to a podcast about breakfast, which is now one of the most popular podcasts in the world. This is that story. We would like you to support Sleeping with Celebrities during the Max Fun Drive. To make this prospect more appealing to you,…
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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, …
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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 ap…
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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 f…
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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,…
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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 …
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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…
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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 t…
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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 appea…
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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 ac…
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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 ar…
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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 stilt…
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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 fut…
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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 v…
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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,…
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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…
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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 …
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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 oth…
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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. …
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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 …
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A sensational discovery could be a perfectly preserved 3,000 year old mummy, or much more recent foul play. Music from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, www.gardnermuseum.org Chopin: Nocturne for piano No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1, performed by Cecile Licad, piano and David Anderson: Four Short Pieces, performed by DaXun Zhang, double ba…
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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 cu…
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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 t…
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