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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 13 chart positions in 13 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · Improv#1175K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · Improv#1335K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · Improv#1335K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Improv#1485K to 30K
- 🇲🇽MX · Improv#1971K to 10K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
22K to 105K🎙 ~2x weekly·317 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
45K to 209K🇺🇸14%🇬🇧14%🇨🇦14%+10 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
18K to 84K
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He's Got a Coma (Jamel Johnson / Amir Dean)
Jun 15, 2026
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Jun 1, 2026
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We Improvised This Podcast (Chris Martin / Mike Castle)
May 15, 2026
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SNEAK PEEK: The International Waters Cultural Exchange 01 (Are You Being Served? / Beane's of Boston)
Apr 30, 2026
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Mayo of Justice (Myq Kaplan / Ed Morrish)
Apr 28, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/15/26 |  He's Got a Coma (Jamel Johnson / Amir Dean) | This week, our friends Amir Dean (Lady Bushra) and Jamel Johnson join Dave for some Pride/World Cup anthems. historic LA landmarks, and the final season of our countries. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/26 |  The Blue Stuff (Josh Gondelman / Gareth Gwynn) | This week, our friends Gareth Gwynn and Josh Gondelman join Dave for some seagull voice acting, cryptid PR training, and barber shop themed cocktails. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 |  We Improvised This Podcast (Chris Martin / Mike Castle) | This week, our friends Mike Castle and Chris Martin join us for our inaugural IW Notable Sound and Film Warehouse discussion, foodstuff advertising, and name doppelgängers. | — | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | SNEAK PEEK: The International Waters Cultural Exchange 01 (Are You Being Served? / Beane's of Boston) | The IW gang meet up for the inaugural Cultural Exchange! | — | ||||||
| 4/28/26 |  Mayo of Justice (Myq Kaplan / Ed Morrish) | This week, our friends Myq Kaplan and Ed Morrish join us for new national anthems, bear suit crimes, and sexy condiments. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/26 |  BONUS: Little Red Vervet (Allan McLeod / Jordan Adika) | Happy MaxFunDrive! To celebrate, we're dropping our pilot episode of International Waters 2.0 with Allan McLeod and Jordan Adika! If you like what we do, please consider becoming a member of Maximum Fun! | — | ||||||
| 4/20/26 |  Casters on Casters: Dave Holmes and Riley Silverman | 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. In this episode, we have host Dave Holmes and International Waters writer Riley Silverman dishing on what makes a good IW guest, versus a... not-good one. Plus, the Jimmy Pardo of it all. 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 Christian Dueñas and Produced by Laura Swisher and Hannah Muroz for Maximum Fun. | — | ||||||
| 4/15/26 |  Vinegar is the Best Food (Libby Watson / Steven Ray Morris) | This week, our friends Libby Watson and Steven Ray Morris join Dave for some songs about the Moon, weird children's television programs, and strange social media posts. | — | ||||||
| 4/1/26 |  Solid State Towel (Jeremy Bent / Siobhan Thompson) | Welcome to International Waters 2.0! We're kicking things off with our old friends Siobhan Thompson and Jeremy Bent! We get into some sea shanties, Eurovision talk (obviously!) and make some new rules for the bathroom. | — | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | International Waters 2.0 Sneak Peek! | Yes you read that right, we are bringing back International Waters! We'll have a full episode ready for you soon, but for now enjoy this sneak peek at a future episode with Jordan Adika and Allan McLeod! | — | ||||||
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| 3/2/26 | ENCORE - More Than an Uncle | Well hello! We are still hard at work on Troubled Waters but in the meantime we thought it'd be fun to share one of our old faves from way back in the International Waters days. Take a trip down memory lane with Helen Hong, Nick Rutherford, Jameela Jamil, and Romesh Ranganathan | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 |  The NoHo Special! | It's finally here. For MaxFunDrive 2025, we promised to make the Troubled Waters North Hollywood Special. Did we know what it was when we said that? Not at all! We're Walkin' About North Hollywood and talking about our favorite landmarks, architecture, weirdo stories, and hey maybe even a love connection! | — | ||||||
| 1/1/26 | UNLOCKED: Troubled Waters x International Waters Throwback Special | Our friends and former writers for International Waters, Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan join Dave for a throwback episode where we play some of our favorite IW games from back in the day! | — | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  A Very Troubled Waters Holiday Special | This week, we are replaying some of our favorite holiday segments from previous Troubled Waters eps. Featuring Alison Rosen, Jacob Givens, Mike Castle, Joey Greer, Des Bishop, Joel Stein, Danielle Perez, Jessica Sele, Drennon Davis, and Shawn Carter! If you liked these segments, check out the full episodes in our archives! | — | ||||||
| 12/1/25 |  Camera vs T Shirt | This week, our friends Devan Joseph and Noah Friedman of No Such Thing join Dave for some holiday rebuses, terribly named carols, and awful Christmas presents. | — | ||||||
| 11/17/25 |  Wet Bag vs Red Claw | Our friends Amber Nash and Dimitry Pompée join Dave for distorted music trivia, strange Trader Joe's foodstuffs, and trivial confessions at the Thanksgiving table! | — | ||||||
| 11/3/25 |  Women vs Women | This week, our friends Jenny Zigrino and Caleb Zeringue join Dave for some Taylor Swift chord progressions, alien trivia, and Dr Seuss/Decemberists lyricism | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 |  Romero vs Osgood | This week, our friends Teri Gamble and Anastasia Washington join us for our annual Troubled Waters Halloween Spooktacular! | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 |  Lapture vs Rapture | This week our friends Jack Lawler and Douglas Widick join Dave for Time Warping, gangster/social media star names, and wrestler movie star trivia. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/25 |  Softball vs Shenanigans | This week our friend Mary Houlihan and Ben Katzner join Dave for some fun in the sun as we say goodbye to summer! | — | ||||||
| 9/2/25 |  Reed Richards vs Mr. Mxyzptlk | This week, our friends Jordan Morris and Meghan Fitzmartin join Dave for Riverdale musicals, New Yorker cartoon captioning, and some good ol fashioned comic book knowledge bidding. | — | ||||||
| 8/15/25 |  Cowabunga vs Make Haste | This week, our friends Mary Kate Wiles vs Sean Persaud join Dave for some comic strip theme songs, film adaptations, and memorable quotes from Agnes van Rhijn. | — | ||||||
| 8/1/25 |  Alaska vs Martha | This week, our friends Denise Winkelman and Bobby Dolan join Dave for some half hearted apologies, body swapped trivia, and Weird Al polka covers. | — | ||||||
| 7/15/25 |  Wild Ol' Woman vs World Ol' Games | This week, our MaxFun friends Tom Lum and Christian Duguay join Dave for lesser known Superman/Fantastic Four cohorts, Oasis and Green Day song trivia, and Pixar sequel pitches. | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | Dicey Waters: A Troubled Waters Special | During the 2025 MaxFunDrive, we promised yall if we reach our support stretch goal, we'd make a special D&D episode! Well, we reached that goal and got right to work. Join Dave Holmes, Riley Silverman, John-Luke Roberts, producer Christian, and special guest Austin Taylor of Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries on a rip roaring musical adventure! | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
13 placements across 13 markets.
Chart Positions
13 placements across 13 markets.