Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - a holiday hello, and an invitation to enjoy an unstuck-in-time "Inspectors Inspectors" episode!

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

Happy holidays from us (Alex and Katie)! Please enjoy this holiday hello. Please also enjoy a new "The Inspectors Inspectors" episode in MaxFun bonus feeds. And see you in 2026!To hear all six episodes of "The Inspectors Inspectors", support us and grab your bonus feeds at maximumfun.org/join

Hey, folks. Sit out. Keeping it in. This is Alex and I'm with Katie. Hello. Hi. He cringled a little too hard there. I'm just holding eggnog in both hands. I'm double-fishing. He's got candy canes like dangling from his mouth, pretending to be a Christmas walrus. Oh, I should do that. We just did an episode about peppermint. It's on theme. Yeah. I told Alex, I warned him this would be hard to record with those dang candy canes in your mouth. But, you know, didn't listen. She's anti-wallis. She's anti most animals. Really doesn't like animals. Most people know this about Katie.

That's me. Real grinchy. Thank you for listening to this message, which is not a whole SIF episode, because like we do each year, this is the Monday between Christmas and New Year's. So we just want to say, happy holidays and truly sincere thank you to every one of you for being part. of our year and hopefully part of our next year. Yeah, happy holidays, guys. Consider this question, this Christmas riddle. How does the Grinch reproduce? You've never seen anything down there. And he doesn't wear pants so we know.

Is this because last week we were talking about peppermint reproduction and it's also green? That's probably why. Sure. You can have a reason for it if you want. But to me, the season is the reason to think about these questions. we also might have a little of a light energy right now because one second ago we finished taping a new episode of The Inspectors Inspectors, which is our present to you if you support the show. It is dropping in your bonus feed as this message drops in the public feed.

It's both a present to you and to ourselves because we love doing it. It's a terrible show, but we have a great time. It's, yeah, an incredible journey. And we've got like, so, We've run into a bit of a snafu in terms of getting access to the show, but Alex really worked hard to make sure that we could actually get this secret treasure of a show and watch it. Exactly. Yeah, you'll hear on the episode, if you're a Max Fun member, this is the sixth time we've done in Inspectors and Inspectors, and it's totally unique because of some streaming rights issues that we've looked into.

And so it's an all-new inspectors inspectors for you. It's also yet another thing we are thrilled we get to fulfill from the Max Fund Drive in 2025. And that pretty much fulfills everything because we unlocked poster art. We unlocked a collective nickname for ourselves as the first year of everybody being syphilopods. And then we made also another inspectors, inspectors earlier in the years. So those were the things you folks made happen and truly grateful to you for it. I feel like at Max Fund Drive, there's a lot of messaging about like drive, drive, drive. And then I like to also do messaging about you did these things.

Thank you. You know? Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It continues to sustain us. And it is you're like we're really, really appreciative of your support.

You don't have to, we're just saying this. You don't actually have to do anything. This is not, you don't have to follow up with anything. This is just, just thanks for doing it. You did good, so you don't have to, this is like, and so here's a request. Nah, just relax, kick back, drink some eggnog. You did great. Yeah, I'm having two, and it almost fits around my tusks.

It's all down my shirt. Yeah. It's a mess, and I cannot imagine the smell. Yeah, it's like, especially this specific inspector's episode, I was watching it with joy that specifically my wonderful buddy Katie is about to talk to me about it because it's like queued to that and also it's just it's always a treat making podcast with you buddy so oh thank you and I love that we get to do this show and do like a magic trick of people pick a topic and that's interesting and it's it's so cool I also when we make SIF episodes I try to not like

divert too much into how personal life is going if it's not relevant so I don't also divert a lot and thank you folks very often that's part of why I try to do this message you know Yeah, I'm, I just always love the fact that you guys are out there listening. It's, it's always fun talking to Alex, my buddy. I would probably do it anyways, but that said, you know, I know knowing that that people like it, people like to listen, listen to it and that, and you're supporting us like that. It's just, it's a great feeling and I really appreciate it. Yeah.

And, you know, hope you're all having a. nice, cozy, jolly, festive winter times, winter times. Same here. And yeah, of course, it gets to hear from me on Discord too. So the things I see also make it seem like it's going good. And I'm glad, you know, it's great. Yeah. Because, yeah, you all are a wonderful community of syphalopods, as you now called.

And so thank you for everything. And the other joy is we keep on going. This Monday we are off. Next Monday, we're back with an all-new SIF episode. And, of course, this Monday, we also have the inspector. inspectors for you. Oh, yeah. Double fun Monday. Yeah, in the future sounding year of 2026. We'll see you next Monday. And thank you. Yeah. Happy, happy holidays. Happy Kringle times. Happy Kringle times. I'm going to get a third agnick and hold it with my foot.

You got like, did you do your stretches before? You got to make sure you stretch before doing it. Absolutely not. Here I go. Oh, oh, oh, no. Oh, boy. Just kidding. I'm okay. This has been a PSA. This is the number one cause of sciatica is when you try to drink eggnog with your feet. So don't do it. I'm remembering there's a past sift about eggnog. I'm going to plug this into it. I'm going to make it a whole fake fact.

All right. Enjoy your nog, everyone. Yeah, enjoy your dog. We love you. Thank you, everybody. You know,