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Originally released May 2021.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!An adventure designed by Justin’s daughter, Charlie McElroy, age 6. Join Tommy Pastrami, Little Suzie Buttons-Johnson, and Huey Poor as they try to make their way through the Fruity Pebbles Castle of Torment: A Scary Castle with One Hundred Rats.
Originally released March 2025.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!In this roleplaying adventure trilogy from gamemaster Stuart Wellington, The Slopsbottom Three -- Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, and fan favorite guest Zhubin Parang – play beachfront restaurant staff, on the first night of summer, trying to make it through a busy shift... but CHAOS is on the menu! (There’s 2 more eps after this one waiting in in the BoCo feed!)
In our new Maximum Fun bonus content series, where we take a look at media representation of podcasters, Podcast Movie Movie Podcast (And Sometimes TV Shows!), we're joined by the host of The Official Magic Tavern and No Skip Christmas, Arnie Niekamp to talk about The Christmas Challenge (2022)—a veritable will they, won't they, when will this end of a holiday film!
Originally released March 2023.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Just when you thought you finally figured out how to tell the McElroy brothers’ voices apart, they go and add another voice: Matt Doyle! The first words of this ep? “Well folks, this one’s buckwild.”
Originally released March 2024.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Before Troubled Waters, we had International Waters, where comedians from the UK and US competed against each other. Our friends and former writers for IW, Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan, join Dave for a throwback ep where they play some favorite IW games from back in the day!
When a bunch of Swedish Norwegians fail their Antarctic helicopter dog hunt, there's more than a few things left for the crew of U.S. Outpost 31 to sort out. But after the would-be surviving dog explodes into a meat column, it'll take more than a couple flamethrowers to get a handle on the situation. What's the least suspicious number of hand models to buy? How many guns does it take to smash a double pane of glass? Has Kurt Russell's hair ever looked better? It’s the episode that only stocks its bar with J&B Whisky.
Originally released March 2025.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Ify Nwadiwe (”West Coast Stu” and Stuart Wellington of the The Flop House (”East Coast Ify”) team up to explain one of their passions to Drea Clark and Alonso Duralde: Warhammer 40,000.
Originally released March 2025.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Would you like to live the thrill of being an ER Doctor, with a patient's life or death in your hands? Justin and Dr. Sydnee play through the tutorial of the board game Medical Mysteries: NYC Emergency Room, which lets the player do the exciting work of diagnosing patients. And how does it measure up to a real doctor?
Originally released March 2024.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn play and review Jesse's daughter Gracie's top 5 favorite video games. On today's episode, the Wayne's World video games for Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
Originally released March 2024.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!In this exclusive, non-canonical episode of Diary of a Tiny CEO, Tommy Starling - the most successful entrepreneur in the world who's under three inches tall - speaks to the founder of the Beef & Dairy Network about the B&D's WWII origins and how upsetting it is to talk to someone who's three inches tall.
Originally released March 2023.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Husband and wife team Teresa and Travis McElroy are joined by the Meme Librarian, Amanda Brennan, who is here to teach us about the history and etiquette of memes!
Originally released May 2021.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!A special extended version of Janet’s interview with Hodgman. This conversation led to the creation of E Pluribus Motto!
Originally released March 2023.THANK YOU so much to the members who support our shows! We’ve collected some fan favorite eps of Bonus Content, and we’ll recommend an episode or two every day!Rachel McElroy played the beloved video game chosen by MaxFun members: “Stardew Valley.” Then Rachel and her husband Griffin talk about her experience being the new farmer in town.
In our new Maximum Fun bonus content series, where we take a look at media representation of podcasters, Podcast Movie Movie Podcast (And Sometimes TV Shows!), we conclude our deep-dive into the television series, Alex, Inc., with Episode 5: The Mother-In-Law. Zach Braff and team try to come up with a name for the podcast company while the kids tackle reverse racism. Then, some jokes happen. Allegedly.
Here it is, the promised "fully produced for audio" version of Dan's comedy pilot, "FLYSCRAPER!" about a cheesy, unaired, 70's network sci-fi series by a legendary and reclusive author, getting "hallowed cultural artifact" treatment on PBS. Starring:Stuart Wellington as PBS host Ridge FlatlyElliott Kalan as Ben BurnsZhubin Parang as Harrison TalbotHallie Haglund as Linda LawsonNatalie Walker as Gloria ReynoldsJosh Gondelman as Gloria's assistant ClarkAlex Smith as GregFranny Powers as JeanetteGriffin Newman as Tomlin, the boy geniusJohn Hodgman as Tomlin’s DadBarbara Crampton as Tomlin’s MomJesse Thorn as Victor StankGriffin McElroy as The Criminal MastermindChuck Bryant as the Flyscraper AnnouncerMatt Koff as Tandy BrattakoffJordan Morris as Al Pacino ImpersonatorJenny Jaffe as Mae WestBen Harrison as William ShatnerAdam Pranica as Newspaper ReporterBen Hosley as Larry the GoonAlex Barron as Other GoonDan McCoy as Stage Manager, GPS Michael Caine, and Security Guardand introducing Audrey Lazaro as Fifi the DogSound effects and library music were used with a license from Upbeat.com.Original song: “Just Can’t Understand It” -- Music by Alex Smith and lyrics by Dan McCoy. Performed by Alex Smith and Franny Powers.
In our new Maximum Fun bonus content series, where we take a look at media representation of podcasters, Podcast Movie Movie Podcast (And Sometimes TV Shows!), we discuss Alex, Inc Episode 4: The Nanny, and wonder if Hollywood has a problem writing for people of color. Spoiler Alert: they do!
The thrilling conclusion of our 2025 bonus RPG adventure from gamemaster Stuart! Will Dan, Elliott, and Zhubin's feckless hash-slinging heroes keep the restaurant open successfully? (And this won't be the final adventure for our intrepid restaurant trio -- look for a second three-episode arc later in the year!)
In our new Maximum Fun bonus content series where we take a look at media representation of podcasters, Podcast Movie Movie Podcast (And Sometimes TV Shows!), we dive into 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong and the Titan Truth podcast with The Flop House’s Elliott Kalan!Pre-order Elliott Kalan’s Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense:https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/J/bo256157831.html
Lions and tigers and bears, oh shit! Glinda the Good Witch has gone missing and her bubble dispatched to find the three heroes of the realm. Unfortunately for the denizens of the Emerald City, it found Lady Godwin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and one Crawford Muttner, and it’s up to them to save the day.
The Dads are back! Brickett, Guy, Red, and Chip must make their way through conceptual reality and fight the four evil Uncles in order to defeat Walton Goggins and bring back the concept of FAMLEE.Addition music in this episode: "Line of Fire", "ChecksForFree", "Heading West" and "Dirt Road Traveller" by Jason Shaw: https://audionautix.com/.



















