Hi there!

It’s time for the annual MaxFun Holiday Gift Guide! Plus, it’s your last chance to get some cool limited-time merch from our moving sale. Let’s get into it!

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MaxFun 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

Need that perfect gift to tell your friend/partner/metamour/favorite bus driver/that one really nice barista how much they mean to you? Want a little treat for yourself? Whoever you’re shopping for, we’ve got you covered.

Our official gift guide contains some fantastic (and some fantastically silly) merch for our shows—and it also features cool non-podcast stuff from our hosts and producers, from novels to stand-up specials to collectibles (and more!). These talented folks do a whole lot more than talk into microphones!

→ 🎁 2025 Gift Guide 🎁

Hey, MaxFun members! Check your email for an exclusive discount code for the MaxFunStore—perfect for all your holiday shopping needs!

What’s that? You want even more MaxFun gift recommendations? Boy, have we got you covered!

🛍️ Looking for more merch? The official MaxFunStore has dozens of amazing gifts for the podcast lover in your life

📚Shopping for a bookworm? Our Bookshop.org storefront has books by MaxFun talent, plus book recs from HQ staff

🎁 Want a gift that’ll last all year? Gift a MaxFun membership! You make a one-time payment, and your giftee gets twelve months of bonus content, member-exclusive merch, and other fun perks. (Or put it on your wishlist, so even your friend who doesn’t “get” podcasts knows exactly what to get you)

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🍂 Highlight Reel 🍂

What’s going on at MaxFun?

	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is now old enough to rent a car! They’ve got a whole month of 25th anniversary celebrations going on, which kicked off with a great live taping at LAist with Rebecca Sugar, Jason Mantzoukas and Roy Wood Jr. Nick Offerman joined Judge John Hodgman to answer the most important question of all: is ketchup good on French Toast? Still sad that Archer is over? Experience it all over again alongside a rotating roster of Archer’s main cast on RePhrasing: An Archer Rewatch Podcast Wondering if Dispatch is worth the hype? Triple Click has your answer!
TV Chef Fantasy League said goodbye to Brian David Gilbert in his final episode, and Mike gave him a proper Noel-style send-off (with definitely real tears) ‘Tis the season for your favorite orange gourd, and We Got This wants to tell you all about the best edible uses for pumpkin Why are some folks so weird about left-handed people? Shmanners dove into the science and stigma of left-handedness MaxFun’s esteemed founder, Jesse Thorn, joined the hosts of The Flop House to discuss the greatest piece of cinema ever made: that one Smurfs movie with Rihanna and James Corden
	Are “Dopamine Detoxes” real or just another weird internet trend? Dr. Sydnee McElroy explains the truth on Sawbones Dan and Elliott of The Flop House flopped on over to Jordan, Jesse, Go! to chat Italian Brainrot memes, Jumbo’s Clown Room, and more The hosts of Reading Smut debated the most controversial topic in the romance community: Which romance tropes are the best? And which are… the worst?

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Check out our limited-time moving sale before it ends

Whether you’re looking for naming rights, vintage merch, or stuff that’s just plain silly, we’ve got you covered

Last month, we announced our move to an awesome new office space in DTLA. We’re officially moved into our new space—but just because the move is (mostly) done doesn’t mean our moving sale is!

You have never once gotten distracted while cooking and accidentally burned your scrambled eggs, because you make the best scrambled eggs this world has ever seen. Probably. I don’t know you, but it’s probably true. Boost your self-esteem with another compliment from a MaxFunHQ staffer for the low, low price of $10 Ever wanted to have your name immortalized on a desk in the MaxFun office? How about a field recorder, or maybe an elegant yet brutalist support column? Now you can! Move fast, though—of the seventy-seven items we put up, we’re down to just a handful left Immortalization not your thing? How about… mortalization? For just $5, we’ll write your name on a sticky note and stick it up somewhere at MaxFun, where it will carry on your legacy until it falls off the wall Move over, Pop Mart! Our vintage merch sale includes a bunch of cool mystery packs, including a mystery pin pack, a mystery patch pack, and a randomly-selected $20 gift from a MaxFunDrive of yesteryear

→ Get your goodies before they’re gone!

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We’ll be back in your inbox soon with some feel-good news and a couple of special treats just for you!

— C.N. and your friends at MaxFun

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