The JV Club with Janet Varney

Why not treat yourself to the human joy that is Hey Riddle Riddle’s Erin Keif? If you don’t yet know this hilarious, kind, incredibly talented improviser and actor, you should!

Unbox your 18th century-era pink powdered wig and throw on your ripped collarless Flashdance sweatshirt for this time-bending chat with the sublime Sarah Marshall.

It’s Jennie Kwan (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”)! This week, Jennie and JV dig into Jennie’s teenage years in the LA area (& their mutual obsession with the history of LA overall), the “runner’s high,” and the Titanic... without so much of the sinking part.

This week JV is joined by Dani Green, a member of the fantastic Nashville-based band, Birdtalker!

No better way to start the New Year off right than with the simply dynamite Bonnie Gordon (Star Trek: Prodigy)!

From the recent live show at LA Podfest, Janet is joined by a couple of great beards and the wonderful men sporting them: Charles “Chuck” Bryant (Stuff You Should Know) and Timothy Omundson (Galavant, Psych), and one spectacular woman who happens to ALSO look great with a beard: Natalie Morales (Parks and Rec). Settle in and nibble on your candy necklace for an hour of stories and songs!

Put on your 70’s platform shoes! And then take them right back off again because those things are PAINFUL! From the ‘burbs of New Jersey to the busy streets of New York City, it’s the most wonderful P.J. Byrne (“The Legend of Korra,” “Big Little Lies”), who talks Bolin, voting, and so much more!

What a vibrant, funny, unique and awesome person to have in your ears! It’s Jordan Crucchiola, who peps JV up with talk about her many cool podcasts, including Maximum Fun’s very own “Feeling Seen,” along with tales of all the different kinds of relationships - and different types of intimacy - we can have with the people we care about. Plus! Bake those tomatoes! Wonder at those years! Saus that Lito!

It’s summer in December with this week’s dynamic guest, Australian TV host, producer and book author Serena DC (“Hollywood Disclosure”), who talks highs, rock bottoms, and living life between and beyond the peaks and valleys. Plus! Serena takes credit for the invention of cheese (that’s the beauty of M.A.S.H.)!

It’s the wonderful Lexie Henning (Ancient Office Hours podcast) this week on the JV Club, bringing with her some really nuanced, really great conversation and thoughts about her own family history and her passion for Ancient Worlds! So get ready to bend some elements and travel into the past, friends!

Breakdance your way through Episode 157 with one of the busiest and coolest guys around, Dante Basco (Hook, Avatar: The Last Airbender), who reminds us that family, curiosity, and the occasional all-night conversation with friends can yield rich rewards. And find out what it means to “know what you know” (then you’ll know)!

This week we welcome the hilarious, bold, candid and great Fielding Edlow (“Bojack Horseman”), who digs deep into the Whit Stillman-y world of upwardly mobile teens on the island of Manhattan, and marital public honesty in the form of “Bitter Homes and Gardens.” PLUS! BONUS! Hear the Podsongs tune written by Frances Luke Accord inspired by their conversation with JV!

Look out, Lizzy Bennet! The terrific Stephanie Katherine Grant (“The Goldbergs”) is headed your way, and she may just sweep up Darcy in the process!

Welcome in the marvelous Merk Nguyen (Ooh You're in Trouble) who chats with JV about the wilds of Washington, the hijinx of Hotel Transylvania, and the dynamic dreaminess of Dragon World, and much more, of course!

Cat Baab-Muguira and JV discuss the high of obsession as a teen when you find an artist (musician, writer, etc!) whose work changes your life