Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts

4.2 (13)
Comedy
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John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast – the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, which was set up in 2008, with a simple mission statement: “Make Too Many Podcasts,” and Lord knows we’ve been churning them out since then.

Apr 27

Do You Remember Friends?

Do you remember the TV show Friends? Well, you probably don't remember all of it! Luckily, the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network has a show called Rememberama, and this week you'll be hearing several clips of unnamed people remembering that classic 90s sitcom. Host, CEO and "Fun Captain" John-Luke Roberts will also be playing you clips from some other great shows on the network, including: Elty Jom’s Lobberly Interviews Things To Do While You're Waiting I Lived It: My Wife Found Out I Could Speak Diary Of A Tiny CEO Huh I Didn’t Know That: The Murderers’ Hall of Fame ...and more! Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kylie Brakeman, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Joz Norris, Luke Rollason, and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

47 min
Season 5 Trailer

Sleeping With Celebrities: Sound Heap's Elty Jom Teaser

A teaser clip from our MaxFunDrive bonus content this year - a non-canonical collaboration between Sound Heap's Elty Jom and Sleeping With Celebrities, where Elty tells John Moe about his lifelong love of bangs. You can hear the whole thing, plus literally hundreds of hours of other shows' bonus content, if you sign up to MaxFun - just go to maximumfun.org/join/ Presented by John Moe, with special guest Elty Jom. Produced by Ed Morrish, for Lead Mojo productions. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

5 min
Apr 20 · Bonus

Casters on Casters: Jordan Crucchiola and John-Luke Roberts

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, Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen) and John-Luke Roberts (Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts) detail how much the podcasting landscape has changed since they got their starts, and why they aren't likely to win a podcasting Golden Globe. 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. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

21 min
Apr 6

Bury Me In Beans

JLR (John-Luke Roberts) presents another selection of the best pods (podcasts) on the SHIN (Sound Heap Inc. Network) this week. Expect to hear: Auntless Quick Quick Movie Reviews Elty Jom’s Slobbery Dog The Derek Podcast Pitch It In The Shark’s Mouth’s Den The longest-yet episode of If You Had A Cupboard In Your Lower Back, What Would You Keep In It? I Lived It: My Charity Mad Father Got Buried In A Bath Full Of Baked Beans ...and more! Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Andy Barr, Kylie Brakeman, Rosie Holt, Athena Kugblenu, Joz Norris, Luke Rollason, Will Sebag-Mentefiore and Janet Varney. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

43 min
Feb 16

Soap Far Soap Good

Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network CEO slash "Fun Captain" John-Luke Roberts takes a walk down memory lane, back to when this podcast was the only podcast on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network, before getting into it - finely-curated slices of the best podcasts released in the world this week on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You'll hear clips from: Rememberama, where talking heads reminisce about the time that Percy Pigs released an anatomically-accurate spin-offDiary Of A Tiny CEO, with special guest Lyndsay Gott, who has set up a very interesting new training companyThe shortest-ever edition of If You Had A Cupboard In Your Lower Back What Would You Keep In It?Elty Jomb's Lobberly Interviews, with very special guest Kat Bosch...and more! Plus there's an extended listen to this week's Soap Far, Soap Good, the podcast all about bubbleologists. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kate Cheka, Gareth Gwynn, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Jo Neary, Will Sebag Montefiore. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

43 min
Jan 19

The Sounds Of Silence

Sound Heap Inc. CEO and "Fun" Captain, John-Luke Roberts presents a selection of the very best podcasts on the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network this week. These include pods that haven't featured before, such as: Beekeepers Regret ItHer Name's Sue But What Does She Do?Uses Of An OnionThe Sound Of SilenceImagination Airport...and some old favourites like RatathreeillieTherapissedPlus, there's an extended listen to the latest edition of Diary Of A Tiny CEO, where three-inch-tall CEO Tommy Starling interviews the entrepreneur behind "Gruff Grafters", a self-empowerment scheme for dogs. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kylie Brakeman, Paddy Gervers, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Janet Varney. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

43 min
12/15/2025

We Heap Your Sounds

John-Luke Roberts presents another episode made up of our supporters' ideas for podcasts that could be on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You're going to hear: PlatyPlus: a podcast which discusses which features would be good or bad to add to a platypus (Pia)Explaining British Food to Americans (Amy Goldschlager)64 Slices of American Cheese: Hosts and guests run through all the ways they'd use a package of 64 slices of American cheese, no repeats (Kyle McCowin)Plague Doctor Fashion Slapdown: A fun, flirty, leech-riddled recap of the very latest in Plague Doctor Fashion Trends (Mirabai Knight)Bitch-fest: A show where professional dog show trainers complain about the entitled show-dogs they're currently training. (Peter Rowe)Alphabest: The hosts buy and test / consume every item from their local supermarket in alphabetical order and rank them to see whether alphabetical order correlates with qualatative order. (Tom O'Callaghan)No Fact Like A Factoid: Hosts compete to say the most wrong but plausibly true thing (Robert Wells)Watching All The Films: Film chat podcast, but they've started with that one of the train coming in to the station and they're trying not to miss anything out (Robert Wells)...as well as a possibly-too-meta look at how we landed on how to do Kim Grazulis's idea of Quran Quran: A Muslim Perspective on pop rock group Duran Duran. PLUS! Did we just write the song of the summer? Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kylie Brakeman, Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

46 min
11/17/2025

Your Heaps Of Sound

John-Luke Roberts kicks off the fifth series of Sound Heap with a very special episode - it's all made up of our supporters' ideas for podcasts that could be on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You're going to hear: King's Queen: King Charles' unfiltered thoughts about deepcut Queen songs (Georgia McMaster)Theatre Corner: Hosts attend live theatre and movies and review the venue itself, ignoring the show (Kyle McCowin)PlatyPlus: a podcast which discusses which features would be good or bad to add to a platypus (Pia)Words?: the podcast of repeating different words until they have lost all of their meaning (Caleb Ruopp)Putting On Trousers - Left or Right Leg First? (Alec McLure)Doug: It's just Doug being Doug (Peter Rowe)Counting Paperclips Until I Run Out Of Paperclips (Jon D)Chowder Brothers Present: Bisques (Johnathan Munroe)Now That's a Knife!: the world's premiere knife discussion podcast (David Sinrilus)An American Names All The British Words They Can (Kim Grazulis)Plague Doctor Fashion Slapdown: A fun, flirty, leech-riddled recap of the very latest in Plague Doctor Fashion Trends (Mirabai Knight)Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinsoundheap

44 min

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4.2

out of 5

13 Ratings

so much podcast!

04/24/2024

madcheshirekatt

definitely more podcast than any other podcast i’ve listened to, i’d say. hilarious, wonderfully done, perfect amount of crabs
Fantastic concept, middling execution

04/15/2025

Sprinklepuddin'

This is a great idea for a show, but the individual cuts are rarely amusing. Had hoped it would find its footing with time, but no luck.
Hard to find from promos but funny

02/08/2024

ActiveEqualization

It sounded like “Sound Tea” the first four times I listened to your promo. I suggest hitting that P in heap a little harder to get to North American ears ! I think it’s too funny to hide under a silent P.
Sound Heap is undeniably one of the podcasts EVER

02/07/2024

You'relojfd

It’s legitimately a podcast, able to be listened to by (in my opinion) virtually anyone who can listen to other podcasts as well. Noises? Check. Word(s)? Big check. Podcast? Almost entirely. I almost gave Sound Heap only 4 stars since it doesn’t allow you to order food, sundries, and other home goods because it’s a podcast, but that’s a minor gripe that I have with ostensibly every podcast I’ve listened to in the past few decades. If deducted a star in light of that for Sound Heap, I’d have to go back and deduct a star from all the other products I’ve reviewed. That’s a lot of work. As a final note, I’ve been making some progress on a fantasy novel that I’ve been writing, and it has been a really enjoyable process. I think the soft magic system has been especially fun to tinker with, and I frankly feel like I haven’t seen another one quite like it. I play a lot of D&D, so I feel like I’ve been around the magic system block, so to speak, where the buildings are different iterations of mana, the people are spells, and the street buskers are cryptic origins with tenuous magical loopholes in the established system’s practical arcane mechanics. I always says I’d never write another novel, as the ones that I wrote when I was younger were kind of trash in retrospect, but in that same breath, I’d also say that I was/am incredibly proud of that young man’s determination and unabashed creativity. For years, I felt estranged from that boy, but through a lot of self-work and gentleness, I feel as though I have found him again. 10/10 Sound Heap is one of the podcasts EVER! On god. No cap. I can’t wait to start listening to it. “Tell me you love me For I need another thing To prove myself right.” -Boyboy the haiku man

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast – the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, which was set up in 2008, with a simple mission statement: “Make Too Many Podcasts,” and Lord knows we’ve been churning them out since then.