John Hodgman, of Maximum Fun’s Judge John Hodgman, was driving in Acadia National Park one day when he came across two young hitchhikers—a young couple that had simply hiked a little too far from ...

Maximum Fun owner Jesse Thorn is selling the podcast company that he founded almost 20 years ago. Rather than surrendering the network to a big tech company or media conglomerate, he is selling it ...

Here’s a positive (and fascinating!) piece of news in what’s otherwise been a particularly rough stretch for the audio business: Maximum Fun is taking steps to become a workers cooperative. A few ...

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Keep this between you and me, though. It’s confidential, they said. Since we last left you… Podcast-land saw the release of two extremely high-profile projects: The Michelle Obama Podcast and Nice ...