Juggalo News Presents: The Carnival Grounds with Madd Maxxx and Reverend Television

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the second to last Joker's Card of the Second Deck, Yum Yum Bedlam. This album was one of the most unconventional Jokers Cards ever made, but nevertheless it earned its place in the annals of Juggalo Culture as a classic album. The conversation does go all over the place on this one, but the authenticity is at its peak as they...

On this newest episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend Television discuss the 4th Joker's Card of the Second Deck, Fearless Fred Fury, as well as the EP Flip The Rat. This was a very important album in ICPs history and thus is treated as such with a very important and long episode. There are nuggets of gold and wisdom hidden althroughout the runtime so hang in there! You'll be glad...

On this long awaited episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend Television finally make their return to the airwaves after more than a year of waiting with a very special guest, OG Juggalo Legend Boppo the Clown, as we discuss the 3rd Joker's Card in the Second Deck, the albums of Lost & Found that are The Marvelous Missing Link. This very thinly veiled homage to the duality of He...

On this long awaited episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss this years Gathering of the Juggalos as well as the state of the scene in general. Everyone who had been wondering what Maxxx was up to this year at the Gather need look no further than here because it all gets broken down with minute particularity. Load up and Lock in family.

On this very late episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend have their first discussion about the 3 part 2nd Deck Joker's Card they've been anticipating, The Mighty Death Pop. This discussion focuses on the core album itself and not the additional albums that are the cover album and Freaky Tales. This conversation also dips into the state of the underground at the time of the initial...

On this very special (and very long) episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend finally get to discuss at length the first album in the polarizing but profoundly important Second Deck of Joker's Cards, the ineffable BANG! POW! BOOM! This album served as Maxxx's reintroduction to the wonder and magic of The Dark Carnival, both musically and spiritually, as Maxxx had been very underwhel...

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the seminal Juggalo mixtape series Let Em Bleed Volumes 1 through 4, created by none other than the longtime Juggalo icon DJ Clay. They discuss not only the albums themselves, but also Clays' influence on Juggalo culture over time. To say that his contribution to the culture has been substantial would be an understatement, and...

On this very special episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend are once again joined (in person this time) by the long time homie and Juggalo Culture aficionado, Mike Landry as we discuss what we believe to be the hands down best Dark Lotus album of all time, The Opaque Brotherhood. We've referenced this album many times throughout the course of the podcast because it is genuinely a...

On this newest episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss one of the last compilation albums to ever come out of Psychopathic and the third in the series, Psychopathics from Outer Space 3. This album came out at a time when the division in the culture had yet to rear its ugly head, and whether things were peaceful behind the scenes or not, the family still felt as connected as...

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the post Tempest EP "The Eye of the Storm" as well as the era of the annual festival The Gathering of the Juggalos that is known as the Hogrock era. Hogrock was the name of the venue where the Gathering was held from 2007 until 2013, and it was, for lack of a better term, lawless. This was the birthplace of the infamous "drug...

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss Shaggy 2 Dope's second solo album, the incomparable Fuck the Fuck Off or F.T.F.O. as it is colloquially known. This album is light years beyond the first and is absolutely one of the best projects Psychopathic Records have ever released. From the amazing beats to the stellar delivery of his always original style of lyricism, t...

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss two of ICP's more polarizing albums, the EP the Calm and The Tempest, two of Insane Clown Posse's first efforts following the release of Hell's Pit and the end of The (first) Saga of The Six. These albums were not only famously produced solely by ICP but this was also the first time in many years that they did not have the ful...

On this newest and long awaited episode, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss an often overlooked and forgotten gem of a collab album, 2005's Furious by the immortal Soopa Villains, comprised of ICP, Esham, and Lavel. This album was teased for years before its eventual arrival, and in classic supervillain fashion the album signalled the end of an era, as this was the time when it can be argued the "fami...

On this first episode of the new year, Maxxx and the Reverend have a jovial little chat about the two next chronologically placed Forgotten Freshness albums, #3 and #4. Maxxx forgot to listen to the albums and can't stay in one place, and the Reverend isn't having it. Hilarity ensues. They also discuss the music. Happy 2024 fuckfaces, we're off to a running start.

On this very special final episode of 2023, Maxxx and the Reverend are joined by none other than TJ aka The Beastmaster as we discuss the final half of the final Joker's Card, The Wraith Hell's Pit. We reflect on the year that's passed, but also reflect on the changes of the last 20 years since Juggalos entered and exited the era of the 6th. TJ, Maxxx, and the Reverend have known each other for th...

On this very special episode, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss not an ICP album, but an album that Violent J wrote for the band Zug Izland, Cracked Tiles. This is a Juggalo deep cut that many newer ninjas aren't familiar with, but trust me when I tell you that it is one of the best rock albums of all time. Violent J didn't write the music but he wrote the lyrics, and the product is one of the most h...

On the first of this week's two episodes, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the second Dark Lotus album and the only Lotus album ABK belonged on, Black Rain. The two discuss the ins and outs of the album as well as the dynamic between the members in times past, as well as discussing their experiences of seeing Dark Lotus live in concert. This is one of the best album's Psychopathic ever released and...

On the second of this week's episodes (because I missed the upload last week and decided to just double up instead of waiting to release the next episode) Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the legendary Psychopathic Records concept album, Wizard of the Hood. They discuss not only the album, but also the performance that took place at the Gathering of the Juggalos in 2016. Many consider this to be the...

On the first of this week's episodes, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the second interstellar collaborative album from Psychopathic Records, Psychopathics from Outer Space Volume 2. With this album being more of an actual project as opposed to a compilation album like the first, there is a lot more to dissect. The boys also go off on a tangent about Twiztid and their current status in the Juggalo u...

On this weeks episode, Maxxx and the Reverend are joined by their first guest, the incomparable Wayne Da Payne, as they discuss the first half of the 6th Jokers Card, The Wraith: Shangri-La. The discussion actually dances around several different facets of Juggalo Culture, but most importantly Wayne regales us with a story of how he won the freestyle contest at the Wraith Release Party at Who's On...

On this week's episode, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss the second group project from Psychopathic Records, the gangsterific Psychopathic Rydas debut album Dumpin'. This project, while less grim than Dark Lotus, was taken every bit as seriously by the Juggalos when it was released in the late 90's. Bringing their signature style of lyricism to a swath of mainstream beats from artists like Nas and C...

On today's episode, Maxxx and the Reverend discuss maybe the most significant group release in Psychopathic Records history, the one and only Dark Lotus' debut project, Tales from the Lotus Pod. This supergroup, consisting of ICP, Twiztid, Blaze ya Dead Homie, and initially Marz of Ministry fame, lit the underground on fire with this project and it ushered in a new era of family unity. Seeing Dark...

On this episode of The Carnival Grounds, The Reverend and Maxxximillian discuss one of the early compilation projects from Psychopathic Records, Psychopathics From Outer Space Volume 1. This compilation only featured ICP, Twiztid, and Blaze (as well as one track with Myzery) but it is still regarded as one of the best compilations the label has ever released. Whether it's a collab with OG Gangster...

On this very special episode of The Carnival Grounds, Reverend Television returns to the podcast to discuss with Maxxx one of the most important and influential parts of the Insane Clown Posse's auspicous history, the infamous double album Bizaar Bizzar. This was Maxxx's true entry point to the family as his first show was a Bizaar Bizzar show, and the Reverend discusses his very unorthodox first...

On todays episode, Maxxx kicks it solo due to some technical difficulties that caused our last episode to be erased. On top of that, Maxxx just got the Juggalovid so he's gonna have to stay as far from the Reverend as possible for right now. Instead of just making everybody wait another week, Maxxx does a bit of a deep dive into his own origins in Underground and Juggalo culture, going from his bi...