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Black People Love Paramore

Casters on Casters: Sequoia Holmes, Ella McLeod, and Dimitry Pompée

Black People Love Paramore

Sequoia Holmes

Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

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. Three different coasts are represented in this episode. Recording from Los Angeles is Sequoia Holmes (Black People Love Paramore) on the West Coast of the U.S. Dimitry Pompée (Eurovangelists) joins the conversation from the D.C. area on the East Coast. And nearly 4000 miles east of him, is Ella McLeod (Comfort Creatures) from London. The trio share what it's like behind the scenes, how they got into podcasting, and what they all have in common. Plus, the various challenges they've encountered making their shows. 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 and Produced by Laura Swisher for Maximum Fun.

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0:00.0

Hi y'all. It's Sequoia and I just wanted to wish everyone a happy first day of Max Fun Drive.

0:07.6

MFD is the absolute best time of year to support Black People Love Paramour because we go all out to create fun content like what you're about to hear right now.

0:19.3

MFD will run until May 1st, but if you want to support Black People Love Paramore or other shows

0:24.5

on the network today, help us kick off the drive with a very strong start.

0:29.6

Just visit Maximumfund.org slash join or click the link in your episode notes.

0:34.9

Black People Love Paramore.

0:36.4

You guys, the listeners are the best listeners in

0:40.3

the world. I appreciate y'all down real bad. Enjoy the show. Bye. Welcome to Casters on Casters.

0:51.3

Conversations about the art and craft of podcasting with the masters of the medium, the magicians of the microphone, the titans of tightening up silences.

1:04.0

On today's show, Dmitri Pompeii, you're evangelists.

1:09.0

Sequoia Holmes, black people love Paramore, and Ella McLeod comfort creatures.

1:16.6

So why don't we start by telling everybody what Max Fun shows were on just in case we've got some cross-pollination happening and people don't know who one or other of us is. So I'll go first. I'm

1:29.5

Ella McLeod. I am the co-host of comfort creatures. I co-host with the gorgeous, the inimitable,

1:36.0

the perfect Alexis B. Preston. And we talk about creatures great and small, mythical and real.

1:42.9

We are generally just like a cozy time. We're a warm cup of

1:46.9

tea on an autumnal day, even though it's not autumn right now. I kind of wish it was. We're a very

1:52.4

autumn coded podcast. So if that sounds like your cup of tea, pun very much intended, we might be

1:59.9

for you. We do need more of that in the world. That's absolutely true. I think so. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a great place right now. We're trying to bring the kind of the golds and the, the burgundy's to how we're all feeling. What, what do you guys do? Who are you? Dmitri, you go ahead. Tell them who you are. Thank you what? Thank you, Sequoia. I appreciate that. I'm Dmitri Pompeii. I'm one of the hosts of

2:21.2

the Your Evangelist podcast alongside my brilliant improviser comedian pals, Oscar Montoya and Jeremy Bent.

2:28.0

Probably know Jeremy from Mission to Zix as well. We are a show all about the Eurovision

2:32.7

song contest, an annual competition in Europe

2:35.4

to find the best song that each nation has to offer and find out what the best song in Europe is.

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