The JV Club with Janet Varney
Summary: Remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager? And remember how some things haven't really changed that much for you since then? Join proud dork Janet Varney as she explores the highs and lows of the bygone years with some of her favorite women as they talk their way through the terrible teens into adult-lescence. Warning: This Podcast Contains Sincerity.
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It’s JV’s first guest who has had— and fully recovered from, yay! — the thing that’s keeping us all on our toes this year. Celebrate the good news with Pallavi Sastry (What Are Friends For podcast).
Twin Peaks! Black Dahlias! Breakfast burritos! This week JV geeks out with one of her podcast host crushes, Dr. Shiloh (L.A. Not So Confidential), who talks police reform, psychology, cheerleading, L.A. noir, and generally proves that she’s every bit as cool as JV suspected she would be!
If you don’t already adore this week’s guest, Negin Farsad (Fake the Nation), YOU WILL BY THE END OF THIS EPISODE! Dish on the coolest uncool Palm Springs local hangs! Rummage vintage in Tennessee and end up answering questions about 9/11! A conversation about current political divides that is actually upbeat! It’s all right here for YOU.
This week marks the 400th new episode of The JV Club! To celebrate the occasion, JV was incredibly excited to be joined by someone who was a huge inspiration during her late teens: Jonatha Brooke.
Blogging at work, Flagging at school, and how to carefully pick which horror movies you jump into during a rousing game of M.A.S.H. with this week’s guest, comedian/writer/actor/podcaster Halle Kiefer!
This week JV reconnects with her audition buddy, comedian and actor Melinda Hill (“Inappropriate”).
So many other important lessons come this week from comedian Jess Salomon (The El-Salomons), who talks cilantro, triathlons, and Quebec City and so much more.
Writer, artist, and games producer, Libby Ward talks Tucson deserts with a very excited JV, but more importantly shares her values of inclusion, diversity, teamwork and love.
This week brings us the talented Nashville-based musician Eloise Alterman, who chats with JV about the glorious Stevie Nicks, the perfect vanilla sheet cake, and being just grown-up enough to know you’re just young enough to make big moves.
This week’s episode welcomes the utterly delightful Becca Scott (Good Time Society), whose intelligence, humor and compassion will somehow make you believe in all of humanity! Plus, a dip into Victorian times, partially in honor of the RPG where JV and BS first met… as tiny British orphans.
The luminous Daralyse Lyons (the Demystifying Diversity podcast) joins JV and brings with her an honest, reflective, and delightful conversation about “otherness.”
This week is very special guest, author Anna Cox whose new book is entitled "I Keep My Worries in My Teeth." Anna and JV talk about the book, Anna’s teenage years in curlers and more!
JV and delightful YA author Maurene Goo (“I Believe in a Thing Called Love") chat about the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and growing up first generation Korean American.
JV has the pleasure of speaking with reporter Amelia McDonnell-Parry who's covered cases like those of Freddie Gray and Keith Davis, Jr.
It’s the sublime Naomi Ekperigin (the fantastic Couples Therapy podcast, "Broad City”) on this week’s ep of the podcast (episode 389 if you’re keeping track! Zowie!).
