Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - Mario Day programming note, and MaxFun Drive heads-ups

Episode Date: March 10, 2023

Hey this is Alex! We made a special SIF episode about the Mario movie. Become a supporter to hear it!To become a supporter, start a Maximum Fun membership here: https://maximumfun.org/join It'll ask which shows you're supporting. Select "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating". Then that leads you to a Bonus Content ("BoCo") page, where there's a special Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Bonus Content Feed AND an all-of-MaxFun bonus feed. Our special episode about the 1993 'Super Mario Bros.' movie is hosted in the Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Bonus Content Feed.Join our Discord! We hang out there every week. There's also extra tips there for getting your bonus feeds. Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5Here's the link to Alex's special FAQ show about all things Maximum Fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNplapKs-wHere's the list of this year's MaxFun meetups on Thurs. March 23rd: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=142eOvPSsWQLACZJyd2b9e8sJcmjnc-w&ll=38.449103683287106%2C-98.16156520000001&z=4 Click the locations for details. And here's more info about that MaxFun Meetup Day: https://maximumfun.org/events/meetups/maxfun-meetup-day-2023/Thanks for reading/listening. E-mail Alex ([e-mail]) if you have any questions. And remember: trust the fungus.

Hey, folks, we have an extra special podcast episode for you released today. If you support this show, there's a whole nother podcast you can hear. Also, hey, this is me, Alex. I'm taping solo because this is quick. This audio file is a set of programming notes. And the big note is that you can hear a whole nother episode of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating right now. Me and Katie and our special guest, David Christopher Bell, the three of us got

together to tape a SIF episode about a movie for the very first time. It's about the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros., a live action version of the Mario video game. And that podcast episode is exclusive to supporters of this show. It's up in the bonus feed right now. Go to MaximumFun.org slash join to join the other folks who back this show. And's up in the bonus feed right now. Go to MaximumFun.org slash join to join the other folks who back this show. And then you can hear that special 1993 Mario movie episode anytime. We also released that today for two reasons. One is that today is March 10th, and March 10th, it turns out, is an annual Mario Day holiday for fans of Mario. They picked March 10th because M-A-R-1-0, March 10th, you know, M-A-R-1-0 looks like the word Mario if you write it out. Write it in front

of yourself if you need a visual. M-A-R-1-0, Mario. And then the other reason is our wonderful new podcast network. We made that episode as part of an event called MaxFunDrive. And if you're a longtime Maximum Fun fan, you know what that is. But MaxFunDrive is an event where Maximum Fun celebrates the supporters who make all these podcasts possible, and they get a bunch of awesome stuff. So I have a bunch of other programming notes about other awesome stuff you're going to get, because the official Drive start date is March 20th. Monday, March 20th. Starting with that Monday, and for the following Mondays after that, we're going to do a set of episodes with special guests joining me and Katie. Because as I've been saying, she's co-hosting with me every week, and we have fun guests still too. So next week's

episode, March 13th, that's me and Katie. And then starting March 20th, me and Katie are joined by a slew of special guests, starting with Elliot Kalin, followed by Jesse Thorne, Jordan Morris, Ellen and Christian Weatherford, and Jason Pargin. And then there's future weeks where there will also be guests, but we want to do a bunch of them in a row to really celebrate this event, really make MaxFunDrive extra fun for Sith listeners. to really celebrate this event, really make MaxFunDrive extra fun for Sith listeners. On top of all those fun episodes coming your way, there are also in-person parties for the Maximum Fun Drive. On the night of Thursday, March 23rd, they are doing MaxFun Meetup Day. Thursday, March 23rd. You can join me at the party in Brooklyn, New York. We're gathering at Minnie's Bar. If you just look up Minnie's Bar BK, you'll find that bar. You'll find more info. I'm also linking a map of all the MaxFun listener meetups across the U.S. As of this taping, I don't know of ones outside the U.S., but I think they'll happen because there's MaxFun people all over the world. Also, also, if you want to know

more about MaxFun in general, or if you have burning questions in your heart, I've got two more links for you in the description of this mini announcement audio podcast thingy. Just go to the description of this thing you're listening to. You'll find a link to join the Discord for this podcast, which is a chatting platform where I'm chatting and answering questions all the time. And then I taped an FAQ show full of behind the scenes stories and full of answers to questions I've been asked. There's a link for you to watch that or hear that anytime. So that's the gist. Starting today, you get a fun new episode about the Mario movie, the old one. And then in a week and a half, we start the Max Fun Drive party. And starting with March 20th, the regular SIF episodes have special guests joining me and Katie. There's also a live event in Brooklyn and other live events all over the place on March 23rd.

And I hope you understand that being part of Maximum Fun, joining up with this network, makes all of that awesome stuff possible. That is the thing driving this, that huge upgrade. When I kept saying that this is good news, this kind of thing is why. Also, I know I say this every week, but the podcast is only possible because of people supporting it. That has not changed. That is Maximum Fun's model. That's why they can run an awesome artist-owned, listener supported set of podcasts as a network. That's the entire thing running it. So I hope you'll consider joining the party. Go to MaximumFun.org slash join to join. And then you're back in this podcast, you're making it a thing. And among many benefits, you get an entire podcast about a 1993 Mario movie that is mostly the dialogue, Trust the Fungus. They say it a lot. I know that doesn't make any sense. When you hear the podcast, it will. So trust the fungus by joining. And thanks.