Laura Swisher

Los Angeles

Producer at Maximum Fun

Producer at FANTI

Producer and developer of podcasts for @MaxFunHQ. (https://t.co/9dKWMit0mq)

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Episode 386: One of Them Days

Jan 24, 2025 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes Did Keke crush it and SZA sizzle?! This is but one question on this week’s show. Another? Plus, “Drea, Alonso and Kevin bring on “Bring It On”” is a sentence that makes little to no sense. It will make more sense after you listen to the episode. Fine. They reveal the female buddy comedies that made each of them LOL. But literally made them laugh out loud. What’s GoodAlonso – Electronic Frontier Foundation article Mad at Meta?
Episode 385: “Hard Truths” with Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Jan 17, 2025 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes With a city in flames, four individuals come together to confront Hard Truths. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“The Good Place”, “Killing Eve”) joins us from London to talk Mike Leigh’s latest film “Hard Truths”. Wildfires have claimed historic Hollywood landmarks. And movies that capture the locations they’re set in perfectly.
Alison Rosen’s Fowl Life

Sep 4, 2024 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes Of course you know Allison Rosen because she’s your best friend. How could you not know the host of the podcast Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend? Alison spent her childhood being friends to a great number of birds, including baby chicks that grew into chickens, baby ducklings that grew into ducks, and a quail named Robert who pretty much just stayed a quail named Robert.
Rhett Miller: Please Don’t Call Disc Golf ‘Frolf’

Aug 28, 2024 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes 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 calling it Frisbee golf.
Helen Hong and Chicken Husbandry in South Central Los Angeles

Jul 17, 2024 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes 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.
John Moe Meets Salem Sue: An ND Road Trip

Jan 10, 2024 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes 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.
Rob Harvilla’s Open Mic Setlist Circa Late 90s

Jan 3, 2024 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes 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’s, in Ohio.
Linda Holmes and the Malcontents of Melrose Place

Dec 27, 2023 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes 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.
Neil Gaiman Will Not Name His Sourdough Starter

Dec 20, 2023 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes Neil Gaiman is perhaps least-known for his interest in SCOBY-s (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast), but that will no doubt change now that this episode has aired. Gaiman is a bestselling author whose books (American Gods, Coraline, Good Omens) often turn into movies or TV series.
A Clockwise Tour of Wales with Ben Partridge

Dec 13, 2023 | maximumfun.org | Laura Swisher

Episode notes Benjamin Partridge is the host of Beef and Dairy Network podcast, which is a very funny comedy program described as “The number one podcast for those involved or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds.” It is a program here on the Maximum Fun network.