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Being the CEO of Maximum Fun is not as glamorous as you might expect. In fact, it involves a lot of running reports. That’s what we found out from Bikram Chatterji in our latest and final installment of our Naps with Normies series. Tune in and drift off for a quick snooze while the big boss of the whole shebang reveals how shockingly normal his work really is.
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You’ve heard of the Max Fun Drive. Perhaps you’ve heard us mention it eight billion times. We have to. It’s how we are able to exist. The person who runs the whole drive is April and while she won’t extoll you to donate during this edition of Naps with Normies, she will tell you all about all the spreadsheets and reports she has to run. Just a constant sea of precise low-key work to be done.
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John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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You’ve likely seen some of the famous pictures of former astronaut and NFL player Leland Melvin with his two beloved and boisterous dogs, Jake and Scout, Leland is wearing a space suit, the dogs are showering him with affection. It’s really wonderful. Leland, WHO HAS BEEN TO SPACE, tells us all about the dogs he’s had, what it’s like to orbit the earth, and he goes into a lot of detail about his lifelong hobby of converting trucks into campers. Leland is just the most delightful guy and you will love going to sleep with his voice.
Get your copy of Leland Melvin's new graphic novel, Space Chasers, with Joe Caramagna and Alison Acton, wherever books are sold.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Danny Baruela is responsible for you being able to hear your favorite shows at Maximum Fun, serving as the company’s Technology and Data Specialist. Unlike many people who we have as guests, he’s not a celebrity. Has no movie to promote nor album to plug. He’s a normie, with tasks to perform, a life to live, and a great deal of complicated computer things to keep track of. Get to know Danny as you settle in for a nap. With a normie.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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When you become a member of Maximum Fun at even the $5/month level, you get access to our entire library of Bonus Content, including this year’s Sleeping with Celebrities special: The Celebrity Parade of Dreams Supershow. We asked guests from the last year of the show to tell us their weirdest and funniest dreams to lay the groundwork for dream of your own. Here, for FREE, is a little preview of that episode to give you a taste, featuring Jenny Lawson, Josh Gondelman, Blaine Capatch, and Nate Corddry.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Laura Swisher, also known as Swish, is a senior producer at Maximum Fun, overseeing several shows, including ours. Unlike many people who we have as guests, she’s not a celebrity. Has no movie to promote nor album to plug. She’s a normie, with tasks to perform, a life to live, and so many dogs to sit. Get to know Swish as you settle in for a nap. With a normie.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.
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During the Max Fun Drive, we’re offering you special mini-sodes in our regular feed. In this one, host John Moe tells of fostering a rescue dog named Ducky who is really moved by being allowed up on the couch. So much so that he builds a vast network of used and donated couches for dogs to lie down and relax on. It’s a really impressive business model, especially for a rescue Pomeranian.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Certain movies would have you believe the dogs can play football but I think we all agree iguanas shouldn’t. They’re too delicate. They can, however, form eclectic musical ensembles and play mid-tempo music on bugle, triangle, oboe, and woodblock. This is the story of one band that did just that and was much beloved by a local football team, especially number 75.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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For many people, Steve Inskeep is a voice you hear in the morning on NPR in intermittent bursts, sometimes telling you about alarming news. We switch that around with Steve, bringing him to you for a bedtime appearance and speaking at length about things that are benign or even pleasant. Steve discusses the state of Indiana, Abraham Lincoln, the processes of the Library of Congress, and how to make your boyhood friends upset by calling a high school football game without favor or bias. Let his dulcet NPR tones send you off to sleep.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Obviously, Seattle has a rich and vibrant wizard scene. We all know this. Well, one day, one of the wizards turned a tugboat named Louie into a human being and Louie decided to do one of the most Seattle things possible: open a teriyaki restaurant. He was really good at it. The meat was not too soggy but not burnt, the glaze was sweet and just a little salty, the cursory salad was fine. And after a while, Louie had thoughts of expanding to new locations but then didn’t.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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During the Max Fun Drive, we’re offering you special mini-sodes in our regular feed. In this one, host John Moe tells one of his improvised and semi-drowsy bedtime stories. It’s about an onionman named Ed, who opens the shop of his dreams, selling all 21 types of onions. But in the effort to market his shop, he finds a love even greater than onions: dancing. Tune in and drift off to sleep as Ed leaves his vidalias behind to trip the light fantastic.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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You may know actress and comedian Mary Holland from the new movie Nightbitch or from TV shows like Veep, Bob’s Burgers, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Or you might know her from literally hundreds of escape rooms around the country, where she absolutely loves solving puzzles, cracking codes, and figuring out how to escape the room. And then she goes right back into another room and has to escape from that one too and the process continues. Hear all about escape rooms and the triumphant, satisfying feeling of escaping them as you drift off to sleep.
Follow Mary Holland on Instagram @maryhollandaise.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Samantha Irby, best-selling author of several hilarious books of essays, is one of the funniest and most delightful people you’re likely to come across. In this episode, we talk about all the things she likes to buy as well as the things she avoids on a routine trip to her local drugstore. We even comb through some of the newspaper circulars for her favorite store to see what she would like to toss in her cart and what she’d leave on the shelf. Look, there aren’t any shocking revelations here, no huge reveals, just a very friendly trip to the Walgreen’s that will have you chuckling off to sleep.
Learn more about Sam Irby and her books by visiting her website, www.SamanthaIrby.com.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Is it weird for a grown man to own lots and lots and lots of Cabbage Patch Kids? No. No, it is not. Therefore, comedian Mike O’Connell, who has amassed an adorable army of the pretend children that dominate his southern California home, is not a weird person. He is instead a person who thinks that to love something nice and sweet is a nice and sweet thing to do. Join Mike and drift off to a very cute sleep as he outlines his collection.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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You might know Anna Sale as the host of Slate’s podcast Death, Sex, and Money, which digs deep into topics that a lot of people would rather avoid. If you attended Camp Alleghany in West Virginia, you might know Anna as one of the many campers, spending idyllic summer days and nights having wholesome fun in the great outdoors. At the request of our listener Beth, who wanted to hear Anna’s voice on our show, Anna fills us in on all the warm camaraderie as well as the good-natured fierce competition that factor so heavily into the summer camp experience. Host John Moe, who met his wife while working at a summer camp, even helps Anna recall one of her favorite camp songs.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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You might know our guests, Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant, from their podcast Reading Glasses, their new podcast Reading Smut (debuting on Valentine’s Day), or from their overloaded physical and digital bookshelves that groan to support all that literary knowledge. Brea and Mallory share with us, in tones dulcet and sleep-inducing, how to sort through all those books and how to employ a spreadsheet database to keep track of all you’ve read and what you thought about it.
Review, listen, and subscribe to Reading Glasses on the podcatcher of your choice. This Valentine's Day, listen to the debut of Reading Smut at MaximumFun.org. Get your copy of the Reading Glasses reading journal, The No-Pressure Book Journal, as well as Mallory and Brea's other books, at the book retailer of your choice.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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We wanted to be ready for the Super Bowl so we called up NFL veteran punter Chris Kluwe for a lesson on all that goes into punting the ball to the other team. How much goes into punting? Turns out A LOT. Chris, who is a published author and game designer as well, guides us through each minute step of the punting process (and there are maybe, conservatively, a zillion steps) in enough detail to easily zonk you out to sleep. It’s NFL football but without any of the violence or thrills that might conspire you to keep you awake.
Get your copy of Chris Kluwe's debut novel Otaku wherever books are sold. Check out Twilight of the Gods, the tabletop RPG game co-designed by Chris Kluwe, at www.boardgamegeek.com, or the game store of your choice. Google "Chris Kluwe" for all his other many many creative endeavors. Chris is wild.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Comedian, podcaster, author, and all-around delightful celebrity Jamie Loftus is in the process of rediscovering her love of NeoPets. She values the lessons they taught her about the stock market, war preparation, and the complexities of a capital-driven economy. She also likes that the electronic pets are impossible to kill. It’s true, all you can do is completely, devastatingly bum them out. Listen to Jamie as she grapples with the liminal zones between pets, NeoPets, wake, and sleep. Then sleep.
Listen to Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) and The Bechdel Cast, as well as Jamie Loftus's various podcast miniseries, wherever fine pods are cast. Learn more about Jamie and her book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs at her website, www.JamieLoftus.xyz.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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You might know the actor Langston Kerman from his roles on the television shows English Teacher, Insecure, and The Boys. You might know him also from lengthy board game nights at his house where explaining and comprehending the arcane, byzantine rules of a game is a necessary labor of the occasion. Langston, fortunately, knows all the rules to games like Villainous and Scythe and will happily explain them to you in a calm and reassuring voice that will send you off to sleep without ever having to roll dice or draw a card. And that makes you a winner.
Listen to Langston Kerman's podcast with David Gborie, My Momma Told Me, wherever fine pods are cast. Follow Langston @LangstonKerman on Instagram.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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Jonathan Ames is the author of numerous acclaimed and popular books, including the brand new detective novel Karma Doll. He’s also a television creator, having come up with the series Bored to Death, wherein Jason Schwarzman played a detective named Jonathan Ames. When he’s not writing, Jonathan, the real Jonathan, not the character, enjoys a comfortable soak in the Russian bathhouses of New York and Los Angeles and, using his smooth and sonorous voice, is here to tell you about all that as well as the heat, the cold, and the importance of the towel as you drift off to sleep.
Get your copy of Jonathan Ames's newest detective novel, Karma Doll, wherever books are sold.
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John is on Bluesky @JohnMoe
John’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.
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