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Right, right, right.  \nJustin: This is the—  \nGriffin: Oh! You're right, you're right, you're right! So, yeah, I guess Pay the Piper maybe a little bit harder. The notes—I'm getting these notes back from the focus group that we hired to sit and watch us—  \nJustin: So yeah, that's so interesting.  \nGriffin: Yeah.  \nJustin: Let me try again, because I know that we have paid—this is the one bad thing about Max Fun Drive, which is the time that we come to you every year and say, hey, if you like the content that we make here in the Maximum Fun Network, if you could kick in a few bucks to help make that happen. The negative thing about it that a lot of people don't want to talk about, but I would like to get out early, is that we have already prepaid a consulting firm hundreds of thousands of dollars.  \nTravis: Yeah.  \nGriffin: So much money, it's crazy.  \nJustin: To optimize this drive.  \nGriffin: Yeah.  \nJustin: There is no way we are not already sunk—  \nGriffin: And Jesse—  \nJustin: Good money after bad.  \nGriffin: Taking a huge bath, we've never not been in the red, despite how much incredible support we've gotten, but Jesse loves this consulting firm.  \nJustin: Yeah. [chuckles]  \nGriffin: He is crazy about 'em.  \nJustin: Jesse's not even in charge anymore, it's a co-op run by the employees. [chuckles]  \nGriffin: Yeah.  \nJustin: But still, somehow he's the one—  \nGriffin: He still shows—he'll still text you like, \"Using the firm?\" And he does it in all lowercase, so you know he's being like kind of coy about it. But he  \nloves this fuckin' firm. But it is the Max Fun Drive, and this show exists because of people like you listening to it and enjoying it now, so please go to [maximumfun.org/join. There](maximumfun.org/join. There) are so many great, wonderful prizes. I don't know if we're supposed to call 'em prizes, but—  \nTravis: What's up, Trav Nation?! I'm your middlest brother, Travis 'Big Dog Woof-Woof Vroom-Vroom The Heater,' award-winning hat in hand, McElroy.  \nGriffin: What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 Under 30, media luminary, Built Ford Tough… I don't have a baseball one yet, Griffin McElroy.  \nTravis: It felt like the time to deploy it.  \nGriffin: Yeah, yeah, strong.  \nTravis: I was waiting for the right moment.  \nGriffin: Yeah, yeah.  \nTravis: So, this—we haven't said it yet, but this is Max Fun Drive.  \nGriffin: [chuckles]  \nTravis: Your chance to—  \nJustin: I should have mentioned that up top.  \nTravis: Yeah, we should have mentioned it.  \nJustin: I should have mentioned that up top.  \nTravis: This is your chance to support the art and artists you love, and that's us. Because the number one thing we are, artists.  \nGriffin: Artists making art, because of you, thanks to you for supporting us.  \nJustin: Sorry, I was just reading back over the past highlights of the MBMBaM bonus content, and I had completely forgotten that we re-recorded one of our episodes with Matt Doyle! [laughs]  \nTravis: Yeah.  \nGriffin: It was conceptual. 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