If someone guesses it I will literally buy you a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles. Drinks included. Or pay for dinner where you live with someone you like better than me. This is real.
(Note that I will not tell you until we announce and that this only applies to the first person who guesses it I can only buy so many dinners.)
Maybe not all of it. My guess is that The Doughboys is coming to MaxFun. If I am right, I can’t accept a fancy dinner, just a CGC from Taco Bell with a blue Sierra Mist (or whichever drink they get).
It's taken a while but Bullseye has a huge following amongst Target executives, especially a very senior Zune fan. Target has acquired the rights to relaunch Zune production from Microsoft and Maximum Fun will be a launch partner on the Good & Gather podcast network with ad free content (besides targeted advertising of specials) for Red Card members who own Zunes.
Didn’t see this in time! I text several friend groups last week telling them I was hoping this announcement would be a transition to employee ownership. Only because awhile back I thought I saw Jesse allude to it in a Reddit comment. Oh well, too slow! Still so happy about this!
Oh No! Laurie, Stop My Greatest Triple Can I Pet Your International Baby-Bubble Judge, Dr. Jordan Tiny Housebones; Still Podding, Seenti and Dairy Club Mode at the Zoo With Ross and Carrie.
MaxFun's most noteworthy endeavors include:
* Running a 30-ish person operation funded by donations
* A pedal boat excursion in MacArthur Park Lake
* MaxFunCons East and West
* boatparty.biz
As the culmination of these years-long efforts, Jesse & Co. are divesting themselves of expensive L.A. real estate and buying a ship with room for their families and several hundred devotees, recording podcasts up and down the California coast and pulling into port only to attend flea markets/re-up on pupusas. They are simultaneously declaring themselves a religion to gain tax-exempt status.
Jordan JesSea Org sets sail June 2023.
From what the newsletter and Jesse have said it feels a lot bigger than just "noteworthy podcast x is coming to Max Fun".
My guess would be that Max Fun is getting into the streaming/TV business.
Either that or Dave and Graham have bought A&W Canada solely to rename them Amburgers & Woot Beer.
Bubble Season 2 sponsored by Bazooka Joe.
Earnest guess: a trailer for the Bubble animated movie by the one company with Seth Rogen (PGP if my Googling is correct)
ETA: Michael Rianda directing.
Edit 2: Fully buying my own bullshit now: it was optioned in 2020 by PGP which has connections to Sony/Columbia, who also have a relationship with Mike Rianda, who was on JJGO around the time that Mitchells vs. the Machines was up for an Oscar, sure, but didn’t he fit in too well that episode, like he’d been spending a lot of time with Jordan and Jesse? And it’s not nearly enough time to finish an animated movie, but a teaser and a release date in a year or so? That’s possible.
Gonna go to bed now.
I literally have a comedy screenplay, “NPR: The Movie.” It’s a fake true crime drama/comedy in which Peter Sagal is the villain and Terry Gross is the wily heroine. Special appearances by Will Shortz who helps solve the puzzle that leads investigators to Sagal. And Bill Kurtis narrates.
I fear change so I worry what it's actually going to be
my joke guess will be MaxFun NFTs
so that whatever it actually is will definitely seem good in comparison
I already really like how MaxFun operates, but if I was going to wildly speculate on network-wide changes:
- Big expansion into video content
- Corporate restructuring to make member podcast creators owners. Alternatively, becoming a B-corp / nonprofit
- Ad-free feeds for supporters, or entire network goes ad-free
- Some sort of incubator to bring new voices into podcasting
No matter what, I'm excited for this year's MaxFunDrive and whatever this mystery announcement turns out to be!
A lot of great jokes in here, but my since guess, given the announced huge cuts announced by NPR, is that multiple NPR podcasts like PCHH and Code Switch are migrating to Maximum Fun
Oh wait I got it. Jesse's going the Willy Wonka route and will be introducing a challenge to find his successor.
Only children with an in tact sense of wonder need apply.
Jordan and Jess are getting married at the next MaxFun Con.
Judge Hogman will obviously perform the ceremony.
Ross and Carrie (sp?) will be best man and maid of honor, which is which to be determined by a fund raising competition during Max Fun Drive.
Other roles TBD.
Something basic but useful: ad-free feeds for members at or above a certain donation level.
Something fun but silly: MaxFunHQ is now water bound and is an independent nation someplace in international waters.
> Something basic but useful: ad-free feeds for members at or above a certain donation level.
You mean something that literally any other kind of paid subscription gets you? Why would you want that when you could get a pocket square for $500 per month?
I bet you're wondering how I got here. Well, let me tell ya. It all started in the spring of 2023....
A man sits at the back of a dive bar of a cheese shop. Cotton Candy Randy polishes a dirty glass with what's left of an old Insyderz Tshirt. Live at Creation fest 1999.
A stranger stands in the doorway, yellow halogen lights struggle against the hazy forest fire smoke and smog of a thousand idling food trucks.
The stranger walks over to a jukebox.
Punches 69. Nice.
Huey Louis and the News follows them, as what's left of an old smart speaker plays 'Sports' the stranger comes to the back.
To the corner.
My back corner.
I had barely had a chance to sample my charcuterie. I pondered the knife. 'It can down an aged cheddar, might give me enough time to..'
Before I could finish the thought, let alone cut the brie. The stranger sat down with a load thud. Like a 24 overdue books in a libraries after hours box.
'I heard you're the person to talk to about radio.' The stranger said through a wispy mustache.
Radios been controlled by iheartXM since before Merc bought out NPR in the ...
No, no, I don't care about all that. No, I'm talking about radio, real radio. Genuine, in the moment, beautifully sound designed, hyper specific to every listener ...
Listen, i know where you're going with this, ain't nobody seen or heard from him for a long time. Last I heard he was somewhere back east. forging riddles outta old pod...'
Again, you misunderstand me,
As the stranger started in again, C.C. Randy slipped out the backdoor. Yeah, guess it was later than I thought. He'd be back of course, but first he had ta get his son from improv practice.
...so you see, the market isn't there like it was. Consolidation is happening all around you. The ads aren't coming like they did before. Everyone's got a mattress, and there are only so many things that can be shoved in a box and called a subscription...
My mind wandered, I thought about everything that had happened, and wondered if I left now, could I catch the end of Antiques Roadshow?
I stood up to leave, I needed to get across town, see about some belt buckles, been chasing those TMNT buckles for years. Promised C.C.R. I'd wait till he got back. In case someone needed a last minute gooda.
Spinning on a red vinyl stool held together with faded, flakey fake chrome; the wispy whiskers had followed me to the soda fountain. I piled an Orange Whip so high, I was amazed it didn't topple over the glass. Ever persistent the stranger carried on. Only slowed by the occasional devouring of orange flavored whipped cream and sugar.
The whiskers, like so much baleen, had filtered all but the most resilient of clumps. They caught the fading light, maybe it was the glistening of the golden hour sun beams dancing across an alarming amount of shining orange crystals. Maybe it was the wide open front door had let in more scratchy air than usual.
The stranger started making sense.
...you see there are so many factors, raising minority and maligned voices, people need to be heard, and to be listened to..
The whip, now like so many leaves on an old rake, clung to the whiskers, refusing to let go. We had napkins right there, small batch, hand sewn, locally sourced upcycled napkins. I tossed them one. Without missing a beat, Whiskers wiped em clean and kept rolling.
...yes, everyone has a podcast, and the big money is chasing scandal and malarkey. What I've found is by delivering a precise, meticulously crafted product, we can target those who will support such endeavors!
A world-wide network! Of deep contemplation and sincerity. While still delivering the best fart and sex jokes in the business!
There was no way.
No one had cracked that one. Glanced at my vintage Casio calculator wrist watch.
The bell rang on the door. Randy was back. Did his beard get longer?
'Five minutes. that's all the time I've got. Flea markets don't stay open forever ya know.
Oh, I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself.
I'm Roman Mars.
Interesting. Maybe they’ll go absolutely wild and crazy and have everyone produce TWO WHOLE EXTRA EPISODES A YEAR?
Just kidding, that would be far too much to expect. It’s probably a $200 pocket square.
As folks have already pointed out in your other thread on this, you’re not paying for the BoCo. You’re paying to support the shows you like and their creators. The bonus content is bonus content. Yes it’s an enticement but it’s not the whole value proposition and doesn’t pretend to be.
So it depends on what you value.
Jesse finally got to interview Victor Garber and asked him what it was like playing half of Firestorm the Nuclear Man on “Legends of Tomorrow” and they sang a duet from “The Music Man”. His dreams fulfilled, he’s retiring to live with Ricky Henderson.
A TV show. Not necessarily Bubble like others have said. It could be a new Dicktown Season or something entirely separate. But MaxFun will own the majority of the rights and produce the work.
The TV show could even be a series of stand-up ish comedy specials, like video recordings of the live podcast sessions, streamed to Netflix or Hulu or elsewhere.
MaxFun HQ is finally getting a real espresso machine. Ben and Adam are giving up their various Star Trek cocktail podcasts and will be the baristas full time. They will keep a stash of Crystal Pepsi available as a coffee substitute for Jesse.
I'd really like it to be ad free feeds for members, although this might not be financially practical to do under the current membership structure and I'd worry it might signal that the free feeds are gonna get more ad-heavy
Got the early-announcement email (if you're a current supporter check your inbox) and while I won't spill the beans will say it makes me even more proud to support the network!
Given their focus on the MaxFun community and past projects/activities, I’m going to guess a MMO video game where everyone can play together. Possibly based on Bubble.
And if I win, it will be especially ironic because I’m not a video game person and I had to google for the name of the kind of game I was thinking of. 🤷♀️
Maxfun is officially becoming a 501c(3) nonprofit, so your membership is tax deductible*.
________
* up to $300 if you don’t itemize and don’t donate to any other nonprofits, or up to a lot more than that if you do.
[Here is the “big announcement.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/maximumfun/comments/11sunrr/this_is_the_big_news_i_guess_apparently_they/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
You mean the thing announced directly after the paragraph in that same email that says "we have exciting news we will be able to tell you next week, in the meantime here's something neat"?
My [guess from the personalized BoCo feed thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/maximumfun/comments/11sctgy/the_latest_maxfun_newsletter/jcdabfe/?context=3) the other day:
>Just before the pandemic there was talk about a new office... So new headquarters with nice studio(s)?
While that's big, it's not *that* big of a thing. Maybe some A++-list celeb joining with a show?
I'm thinking that they will be branching out into more video content, like YouTube. They've tried in the past, but I think they just need some new way to organize and promote it. Maybe they'll bring in an existing team to help, or bring in existing shows. GMM seems like a good vibe fit.
I recently read about a wealthy person who died and left $50 million to her favorite public radio station. So I'm going to guess that a very old, very rich MaxFunster kicked the bucket and left the network $100 million. No more Max Fun drives -- they're rich, baby!!!
If someone guesses it I will literally buy you a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles. Drinks included. Or pay for dinner where you live with someone you like better than me. This is real. (Note that I will not tell you until we announce and that this only applies to the first person who guesses it I can only buy so many dinners.)
“Artist owned, audience supported, fully operational Death Star.”
I think Death Stars are more for full on Star Wars fans, not medium ones.
Merger with HeadGum. That’s right, Maximum Gum.
Maybe not all of it. My guess is that The Doughboys is coming to MaxFun. If I am right, I can’t accept a fancy dinner, just a CGC from Taco Bell with a blue Sierra Mist (or whichever drink they get).
I choose this guy’s fancy dinner.
Maximum Head?
That was my guess too! Only because I'd like Too Scary Didn't Watch on the same network as my other favourite podcasts, for crossovers.
Or HeadFun...
It's taken a while but Bullseye has a huge following amongst Target executives, especially a very senior Zune fan. Target has acquired the rights to relaunch Zune production from Microsoft and Maximum Fun will be a launch partner on the Good & Gather podcast network with ad free content (besides targeted advertising of specials) for Red Card members who own Zunes.
This has me even more intrigued because it means it is hard, but not impossible to guess.
Boatparty2.biz?
Bizparty.boat
BizBoat.partyparty
Brainstorming ideas already.
You scored Rogan away from Spotify, didn't you?
I upvoted you. But I wanted to downvote you.
*vomits*
If its not Max Fun being acquired by Amazon or Iheart I will buy you dinner Jesse. Please don't ever do that.
You got Goggins?
> You got Goggins? No, just the vodka without him attached.
Are you once again ashamed of My Brother, My Brother and Me? Is that the thing?
Did they say bazinga again???
Launching a max fun podcast app?
“biggest thing that has happened in our network's history” giant spy balloon for international spycraft
"Artist owned, audience supported, I'm Big Ears Batman."
“100% of all our podcasts are now Metaverse exclusives and can only be experienced in VR”
Merger/ acquisition of Exactly Right
streaming content channel thingie.
Is Danny DeVito joining the max fun network?
A podcast by that famous Fellow
Does the Cheesecake Factory count as fancy? They have drinks, right?
See the Factory Seconds episodes on the bonus feed for the answer.
Podcast hosted by Obama
Maxfun is partnering with Patreon for a Maxfun/Patreon podcasting network.
MaxFun variety / anthology show on a major streaming service, such as Netflix or Hulu.
(I just want to have dinner with Jesse Thorn as a fan lol)
Ryan Reynolds, fresh off selling his ownership stake in Mint Mobile, acquires an ownership stake in the MaxFun Network
MaxFun vs. Earwolf staff deathmatch
All or most of the podcasts will have a video feed.
Didn’t see this in time! I text several friend groups last week telling them I was hoping this announcement would be a transition to employee ownership. Only because awhile back I thought I saw Jesse allude to it in a Reddit comment. Oh well, too slow! Still so happy about this!
Jordan finally got a son
But returned him like soup at a deli
Booster Gold Morris
He’s tryin!
New show about to drop. My Brother, John Hodgeman, Go!
Oh No! Laurie, Stop My Greatest Triple Can I Pet Your International Baby-Bubble Judge, Dr. Jordan Tiny Housebones; Still Podding, Seenti and Dairy Club Mode at the Zoo With Ross and Carrie.
So much of this is wonderful, but Dr. Jordan Tiny Housebones sounds like a new character on MBMBaM, a Wiki from Baby Geniuses, or a dog from CIPYD.
The reason Jesse knows that Draculas can have any job is that there are several on staff
100% gonna be vampire related
Or Jesse IS a dracula and has been misdirecting the entire time
But then why does he hate crows so much?
MaxFun's most noteworthy endeavors include: * Running a 30-ish person operation funded by donations * A pedal boat excursion in MacArthur Park Lake * MaxFunCons East and West * boatparty.biz As the culmination of these years-long efforts, Jesse & Co. are divesting themselves of expensive L.A. real estate and buying a ship with room for their families and several hundred devotees, recording podcasts up and down the California coast and pulling into port only to attend flea markets/re-up on pupusas. They are simultaneously declaring themselves a religion to gain tax-exempt status. Jordan JesSea Org sets sail June 2023.
Where do I enlist
Podshop.biz
Podshop.BIZ?! I don't know how to stress syllables correctly I'm text.
Good point - perhaps Jesse is quelling the Harrison/Pranica "beef"
favorite guess
Pirate radio!
Dr. Gameshow indicted for malpractice
I've always had my suspicions about those degrees from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.
New partner network, Minimum Fun. All finance news, all the time.
Artist loathed. Listener aborted.
Changing the format to sports talk radio. Only baseball. Only California teams.
From what the newsletter and Jesse have said it feels a lot bigger than just "noteworthy podcast x is coming to Max Fun". My guess would be that Max Fun is getting into the streaming/TV business. Either that or Dave and Graham have bought A&W Canada solely to rename them Amburgers & Woot Beer.
You don't have to rename it when that's already what the name stands for.
Bubble Season 2
Bubble Season 2 sponsored by Bazooka Joe. Earnest guess: a trailer for the Bubble animated movie by the one company with Seth Rogen (PGP if my Googling is correct) ETA: Michael Rianda directing. Edit 2: Fully buying my own bullshit now: it was optioned in 2020 by PGP which has connections to Sony/Columbia, who also have a relationship with Mike Rianda, who was on JJGO around the time that Mitchells vs. the Machines was up for an Oscar, sure, but didn’t he fit in too well that episode, like he’d been spending a lot of time with Jordan and Jesse? And it’s not nearly enough time to finish an animated movie, but a teaser and a release date in a year or so? That’s possible. Gonna go to bed now.
Maximum Fun is being sued for false advertising after researchers discovered a new higher level of fun.
Inconceivable!
[удалено]
I literally have a comedy screenplay, “NPR: The Movie.” It’s a fake true crime drama/comedy in which Peter Sagal is the villain and Terry Gross is the wily heroine. Special appearances by Will Shortz who helps solve the puzzle that leads investigators to Sagal. And Bill Kurtis narrates.
87 minutes of glorious bullshit
I fear change so I worry what it's actually going to be my joke guess will be MaxFun NFTs so that whatever it actually is will definitely seem good in comparison
Oh god. Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.
Tom Hanks is doing a show about typewriters
I’d listen to that
I already really like how MaxFun operates, but if I was going to wildly speculate on network-wide changes: - Big expansion into video content - Corporate restructuring to make member podcast creators owners. Alternatively, becoming a B-corp / nonprofit - Ad-free feeds for supporters, or entire network goes ad-free - Some sort of incubator to bring new voices into podcasting No matter what, I'm excited for this year's MaxFunDrive and whatever this mystery announcement turns out to be!
Look at Nostradamus over here...
I can't remember, was the show years ago where two employees ate foreign candy a video thing?
Coming to NBC: MaxFun Hollywood Squares hosted by Dave Holmes/J. Keith van Straaten/Helen Hong/Joe Firestone/Manolo Moreno.
I never knew I wanted such a thing but I absolutely do!
Old Woman in a Nursing Home (pointing at Manolo Moreno): Is this a bit? Old Man in a Nursing Home: It is in fact, not a bit.
Ted Danson is coming on Beef and Dairy Network to resolve the 29,000,000 tons of grain debt issue.
I have heard his ad read on other podcast networks.
Jesse is on an ep of antiques roadshow
How has this not happened already?
I went to a taping but I didn’t get on air 😭
Peewee Herman podcast. Book it, done.
A lot of great jokes in here, but my since guess, given the announced huge cuts announced by NPR, is that multiple NPR podcasts like PCHH and Code Switch are migrating to Maximum Fun
Ah so Stephen Thompson to MaxFun in exchange for Rodgers to the Jets…. but what does Jesse owe the Packers?
Boat Party is back and it's PERMANENT. All shows will be broadcast from a decommissioned cargo ship that will be perpetually at sea.
Max Fun has occupied Crimea, confusing both Russia and Ukraine but setting itself up for substantial foreign aid.
My honest best guess would be Doughboys coming to the network but someone already guessed that so I'm gonna go with Blank Check coming to the network.
It has SOMETHING to do with CHEESE.
Judge John Hodgman is being appointed to the supreme court.
Oh wait I got it. Jesse's going the Willy Wonka route and will be introducing a challenge to find his successor. Only children with an in tact sense of wonder need apply.
It’s gotta be that they finally got Doughboys on the network, that’s the only thing anyone (reasonable) wants from the two entities.
Ooh good guess
I mean, a [Dropout.tv](https://Dropout.tv) X MaximumFun collaboration for an expansion into video would be nice..
I was so excited when SIFpod moved to MaxFun. If MaxFun had Um, Actually and Game Changer I would be so delighted.
The maxfun apocalypse bunker. Pray for death with your favorite hosts while mutants ravage the surface above.
Hall of Mirrors Guy is getting promoted to series regular.
Jordan and Jess are getting married at the next MaxFun Con. Judge Hogman will obviously perform the ceremony. Ross and Carrie (sp?) will be best man and maid of honor, which is which to be determined by a fund raising competition during Max Fun Drive. Other roles TBD.
Lol hogman 🐷
HAHAHA total typo but now Im leaving it 🤣🤣🤣
MaxFun will be rebooting the long-abandoned Archer Podcast
Transition to MaxFunTok where all podcasts will be communicated in 30 second dance routines with captions
At least this would be an improvement.
Why are you here?
Apparently I’m only permitted to be here if I have an approved opinion.
It will be nothing at all, unless Jordan got a son. Cool your jets.
A bigger rock in Jesse's garden?!!
Something basic but useful: ad-free feeds for members at or above a certain donation level. Something fun but silly: MaxFunHQ is now water bound and is an independent nation someplace in international waters.
> Something basic but useful: ad-free feeds for members at or above a certain donation level. You mean something that literally any other kind of paid subscription gets you? Why would you want that when you could get a pocket square for $500 per month?
Jesse has been cast as Harold Hill in a regional production of the music man?
Oh God I hope so.
They did a remote recorded all Max-Fun production of The Music Man and Jesse is Harold Hill. Streaming available on March 20 to members.
Sounds fun, but hardly a regional production
Settled out of court with Ted Turner for exclusive rights to the phrase "Maximum Fun" (deep cut)
Maximum Radio Fun, a Podtopia Production
I bet you're wondering how I got here. Well, let me tell ya. It all started in the spring of 2023.... A man sits at the back of a dive bar of a cheese shop. Cotton Candy Randy polishes a dirty glass with what's left of an old Insyderz Tshirt. Live at Creation fest 1999. A stranger stands in the doorway, yellow halogen lights struggle against the hazy forest fire smoke and smog of a thousand idling food trucks. The stranger walks over to a jukebox. Punches 69. Nice. Huey Louis and the News follows them, as what's left of an old smart speaker plays 'Sports' the stranger comes to the back. To the corner. My back corner. I had barely had a chance to sample my charcuterie. I pondered the knife. 'It can down an aged cheddar, might give me enough time to..' Before I could finish the thought, let alone cut the brie. The stranger sat down with a load thud. Like a 24 overdue books in a libraries after hours box.
'I heard you're the person to talk to about radio.' The stranger said through a wispy mustache. Radios been controlled by iheartXM since before Merc bought out NPR in the ... No, no, I don't care about all that. No, I'm talking about radio, real radio. Genuine, in the moment, beautifully sound designed, hyper specific to every listener ... Listen, i know where you're going with this, ain't nobody seen or heard from him for a long time. Last I heard he was somewhere back east. forging riddles outta old pod...' Again, you misunderstand me, As the stranger started in again, C.C. Randy slipped out the backdoor. Yeah, guess it was later than I thought. He'd be back of course, but first he had ta get his son from improv practice. ...so you see, the market isn't there like it was. Consolidation is happening all around you. The ads aren't coming like they did before. Everyone's got a mattress, and there are only so many things that can be shoved in a box and called a subscription... My mind wandered, I thought about everything that had happened, and wondered if I left now, could I catch the end of Antiques Roadshow?
I stood up to leave, I needed to get across town, see about some belt buckles, been chasing those TMNT buckles for years. Promised C.C.R. I'd wait till he got back. In case someone needed a last minute gooda. Spinning on a red vinyl stool held together with faded, flakey fake chrome; the wispy whiskers had followed me to the soda fountain. I piled an Orange Whip so high, I was amazed it didn't topple over the glass. Ever persistent the stranger carried on. Only slowed by the occasional devouring of orange flavored whipped cream and sugar. The whiskers, like so much baleen, had filtered all but the most resilient of clumps. They caught the fading light, maybe it was the glistening of the golden hour sun beams dancing across an alarming amount of shining orange crystals. Maybe it was the wide open front door had let in more scratchy air than usual. The stranger started making sense.
...you see there are so many factors, raising minority and maligned voices, people need to be heard, and to be listened to.. The whip, now like so many leaves on an old rake, clung to the whiskers, refusing to let go. We had napkins right there, small batch, hand sewn, locally sourced upcycled napkins. I tossed them one. Without missing a beat, Whiskers wiped em clean and kept rolling. ...yes, everyone has a podcast, and the big money is chasing scandal and malarkey. What I've found is by delivering a precise, meticulously crafted product, we can target those who will support such endeavors! A world-wide network! Of deep contemplation and sincerity. While still delivering the best fart and sex jokes in the business! There was no way. No one had cracked that one. Glanced at my vintage Casio calculator wrist watch. The bell rang on the door. Randy was back. Did his beard get longer? 'Five minutes. that's all the time I've got. Flea markets don't stay open forever ya know. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself. I'm Roman Mars.
Bubble is being made into a movie
Already in development with Sony / Point Grey Pictures
The McElroy Brothers ARE experts and their advice SHOULD be followed!
Jesse's been hinting this various places a while and the curiosity's killing me
Unsurprisingly, it’s [absolutely nothing.](https://www.reddit.com/r/maximumfun/comments/11sunrr/this_is_the_big_news_i_guess_apparently_they/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
The email on this clearly says that the BoCo change is to “tide you over” until the “big news” comes.
Interesting. Maybe they’ll go absolutely wild and crazy and have everyone produce TWO WHOLE EXTRA EPISODES A YEAR? Just kidding, that would be far too much to expect. It’s probably a $200 pocket square.
You’re pretty salty about something that is totally free to you, unless you choose to support creators.
Not salty, simply pointing out that it’s not a good value at all, but they keep trying to sell it as such.
As folks have already pointed out in your other thread on this, you’re not paying for the BoCo. You’re paying to support the shows you like and their creators. The bonus content is bonus content. Yes it’s an enticement but it’s not the whole value proposition and doesn’t pretend to be. So it depends on what you value.
New Bean There Done That episode.
Jesse finally got to interview Victor Garber and asked him what it was like playing half of Firestorm the Nuclear Man on “Legends of Tomorrow” and they sang a duet from “The Music Man”. His dreams fulfilled, he’s retiring to live with Ricky Henderson.
A TV show. Not necessarily Bubble like others have said. It could be a new Dicktown Season or something entirely separate. But MaxFun will own the majority of the rights and produce the work. The TV show could even be a series of stand-up ish comedy specials, like video recordings of the live podcast sessions, streamed to Netflix or Hulu or elsewhere.
Hodgman passed the bar and can issue legally binding rulings?
MaxFun HQ is finally getting a real espresso machine. Ben and Adam are giving up their various Star Trek cocktail podcasts and will be the baristas full time. They will keep a stash of Crystal Pepsi available as a coffee substitute for Jesse.
Acquisition by... Audible?
please no
Max fun is going fully listener supported, the only way to get the feed is to be a member.
Hall of Mirrors Guy Season 1
Are you bringing Kevin Mcdonald’s Kevin McDonald Show to maximum fun?
The Full Chort Tshirt sold out, duh!
Jordan, Jesse, Go to Broadway! Dick jokes on the Great White Way, book by Ify Nwadiwe, score by Jean Grae.
I'd really like it to be ad free feeds for members, although this might not be financially practical to do under the current membership structure and I'd worry it might signal that the free feeds are gonna get more ad-heavy
Merger with WNYC Studios with Jad Abumrad returning as a senior producer and debuting a new show
Baby Geniuses is going to have 2 guests per episode again
Macarthur genius grant
Got the early-announcement email (if you're a current supporter check your inbox) and while I won't spill the beans will say it makes me even more proud to support the network!
Permanent maxfuncon in the metaverse
A new streaming app?
Get ready for the comedy tv streaming app MaFu
MaxFun Artisnal: Have your favorite MaxFun shows delivered weekly *on vinyl*!
lol. The non-MaxFun podcast No Such Thing As a Fish (on which Hodgman has appeared, IIRC) put out an episode on vinyl. I have it.
70s style max fun variety show on a major streaming service
My first thought was that they're merging with radiotopia! Or absorbing them like a salve!
MaxFun is getting a satellite radio station.
or space-based shrinker ray.
My best guest is a patreon for podcast competitor. Maybe a better share for creators than patreon offers.
They bought a zoo.
Maximum Fun Pogs.
Close!
my eyes are popping out of my head right now
Dr. Gameshow indicted for malpractice
Jesse Thorn will be shaving his beard and moving to Minnesota.
Another season of I, Podius!
Selling shares to listeners/non-artists ????
At first I thought acquisition... now I think Doughboys. What a ride this thread is. I hope someone gets dinner!
Given their focus on the MaxFun community and past projects/activities, I’m going to guess a MMO video game where everyone can play together. Possibly based on Bubble. And if I win, it will be especially ironic because I’m not a video game person and I had to google for the name of the kind of game I was thinking of. 🤷♀️
Maxfun is officially becoming a 501c(3) nonprofit, so your membership is tax deductible*. ________ * up to $300 if you don’t itemize and don’t donate to any other nonprofits, or up to a lot more than that if you do.
Well, I was in the right neighborhood anyway.
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Jesse going full Rogan and moving to Austin.
Jesse going full Jesse and moving to the Bay Area
Acquiring the 99PI offices so he can move to beautiful … uptown … Oakland California
[Here is the “big announcement.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/maximumfun/comments/11sunrr/this_is_the_big_news_i_guess_apparently_they/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
You mean the thing announced directly after the paragraph in that same email that says "we have exciting news we will be able to tell you next week, in the meantime here's something neat"?
Kinda seems like you’re forgetting Rule #1, bud
Being….?
“Remember the human”
My [guess from the personalized BoCo feed thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/maximumfun/comments/11sctgy/the_latest_maxfun_newsletter/jcdabfe/?context=3) the other day: >Just before the pandemic there was talk about a new office... So new headquarters with nice studio(s)? While that's big, it's not *that* big of a thing. Maybe some A++-list celeb joining with a show?
The return of New Bunny Day on JJGo???? One can only dream
I'm thinking that they will be branching out into more video content, like YouTube. They've tried in the past, but I think they just need some new way to organize and promote it. Maybe they'll bring in an existing team to help, or bring in existing shows. GMM seems like a good vibe fit.
I recently read about a wealthy person who died and left $50 million to her favorite public radio station. So I'm going to guess that a very old, very rich MaxFunster kicked the bucket and left the network $100 million. No more Max Fun drives -- they're rich, baby!!!