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The Hi, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian Weatherford.

And this is just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite species of animals and rate them out of ten in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics. We are not zoological experts, but we try our hardest to bring the most accurate information we can. And this is the Max Fund Drive. You look forward to it every year. We look forward to it every year.

Welcome.

It's a fun time.

We're very excited about it.

If you're maybe a newer listener, you haven't listened to us since the last Max Fun Drive.

We belong to a network called Maximum Fun.

Maximum Fun is a worker-owned co-op that supports shows like ours and lets us keep making this show the way

that we want to make it right we get to make it totally ourselves we're not beholden to

anybody there's no network overlords bearing down on us breathing down our necks telling us what we

can and can't say yeah they gave us a piece of paper that said

directions and that's all I said on there. It said, do what you want. Yeah. So we get to keep making

the show the way that we want to make it because of support from the Max Fund Network and the

members who keep it going. So we are really only able to keep putting out episodes of this show

every week because of the financial support that we get from the members who like what they hear

and want to keep hearing it. So this time of year we spend a couple of weeks celebrating and really

thanking the people who give to us, but we also invite new folks to join and be a part of it for as little

as $5 a month. So we're going to talk later on in this episode more about details and rewards

so what you can get out of it. And I got to say, there's some really exciting stuff. Like I'm

chomping at the bit for this stuff. I think you guys are going to love it.

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