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It’s that time of year where we pack up our neon party-house transforming boxtruck, drive across the country, and break bread with old friends and new in this beautiful country we call home. This time, we’re bringing one of our all-time good-time favorite bands, Harmonica Lewinski on the road with us! We'll be leaving Vegas on August 20th, and driving into Orlando on September 5th. The path in between is our playground. Let’s get you in on this fun. Do you have an art collective that throws costume parties just because they can? Are you known for your colorful backyard parties? Do you own a llama farm with a play pit? Do you know of a cool bar with a banging’ outdoor area for a boxtruck and surf-rock excellency? Is it your birthday? Is it your unbirthday? Are you just looking for an excuse to celebrate? Game on. Tentatively, we’re hitting Oklahoma, Texas, and the deepest dirtiest south until we get to Orlando. If you can bring the people, we can bring the freak. Email support@freakerusa.com with your event ideas / suggestions / hopes and dreams!

Freedom isn't free, but today the opposite is true. Free for freedom! From now until July 5th, for every 3 Freakers you buy, we'll be throwing in a free Murkah Freaker! Our dear Murkah is a patriotic gem that you can only get your paws on through special occasions like this one. Home of the brave. Land of the freaks.

Guess what, y'all? We're in Texas this week, a fascinating place with fascinating people. Willie Nelson. Cowboy movies. The entire city of Austin. Chuck Norris, the Texas Ranger. Tex-Mex. Friday Night Lights. Beyonce. Yes, Beyonce is 100% from Texas, and while her fanbase intensely loves her, even the Beyhive will never be as enthusiastic as Texans with their state pride. Texas invented state pride. No matter where you are, home is sweeter when you love where you live. It's Friday and we're here to help! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring gift codes to Maptote! Handmade in Brooklyn, Maptote is the love child of a cartographer and a stylist who fell in love, got married, and popped out a company! Tote bags, tea towels, zip pouches, notebooks, wine totes, apparel. You name it, they've illustrated your state on it. And it looks good. Damn good. Each winner gets a $20 gift code to Maptote and a Lance Tiny-Arms Strong Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram & show us why you love where you live with the hashtag #FreakerMap for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Do you have an art collective that throws costume parties just because they can? Do you own a llama farm with a play pit? Is it your birthday? Is it your un-birthday? Are you just looking for an excuse to celebrate? Game on. We're taking the Freaker boxtruck and one of our all-time good-time favorite bands, Harmonica Lewinski, on the road this summer! Do you want to play with us?! We'll be leaving Vegas on August 20th, and driving into Orlando on September 5th. The path in between is our playground. If you can bring the people, we can bring the freak. Email support@freakerusa.com with your event ideas / suggestions / hopes and dreams!

With last week's release of Jurassic World, there are now three types of people in the world: people who have not seen it, people who want pet raptors, and people who are lying to themselves about not wanting pet raptors. Even though we're not in the business of genetics, we ARE in the business of making dreams come true. Make way for the tiny arms and hold on to your butts, kids. Ladies & gentlemen, give a warm welcome to the newest member of the Freaker family... Lance Tiny-Arms Strong!

One cannot simply be fresh part time. Staying fresh is a full time life choice. You can't have luxury designer shoes with holey socks. That's a pretty nice pet ocelot, but who makes that heinous leash? Do you even have a bear rug for your smartphone, bro? You in this to win this OR WHAT? Don't worry, we're here to help. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Snoozz Hibernation Rugs from Revolution Design House! You may remember Revolution Design House from a couple months ago when we played favorites with their glorious boxcar planters! The boys (and girls!) are back in town this week with the Snoozz Hibernation Rug. Snoozz understands that luxury is a mindset, and that everything (inanimate or otherwise) in your life has fancypants potential. Why charge your phone like a vagrant when you could give it a 5 star resting lounge that manages charging cords and dampens phone vibrations? Fresh to death. Each winner gets a Snoozz Hibernation Rug and a Fresh Prints Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and show us in the comments how to relax and recharge with style for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Heads up to all of our academic collectors: there are 3 new collegiate designs on the site now! Give a warm welcome to the University of Louisville, University of Minnesota, and a second design for the University of Tennessee! Go team go! 

We're smack-dab in the middle of a stifling heat wave. Here are our top 5 tips on how to stay chilly when you find yourself inside of a volcano: 5. Take an exotic 2 week vacation inside of an air-conditioned Ikea. 4. Become a shapeshifting warg and become a penguin in the Arctic (I'm looking at you, Bran Stark.) 3. Quit your day job & start a members-only kiddy-pool appreciation-club. 2. Learn the art of seductive winking and practice on a refrigeration's company employees. 1. Stay fresh to stay cool. Ladies & gentlemen, give a warm welcome to our latest Freaker re-release... Fresh Prints!

  Remember the iconic TV Dad? The one throwing the baseball and swinging the hammer. Mending the fence and wrassling the gator. Chopping the trees and Liam Neeson-ing any punk that looks at his daughter. After a long day's work, Dad always managed to clean up nice. How did he do it? Tools. Man tools. The other kind of man tools. Secret man-tools. Wonder no more. We're here to solve the mystery for you. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring dapper man accents from Forge & Foundry!! Forge & Foundry is a one-man operation powered by Jeff Bridgers, who happens to also be one of our hometown's most talented blacksmiths! Working hard + feeling dapper = a winning combination. Each one of Jeff's handmade products is tried and tested in high intensity work conditions and is made with only the most natural of ingredients. Tough and handsome and Dad approved. Game on. Each winner will get a different assortment of Forge & Foundry goods and a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us why your dad is iconic with the hashtag #ForgeAndFreaker for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

With the recent cultural awakening of #DadBod fandom, fathers everywhere should be feeling pretty good about 2015. You're a hot commodity right now, Pops! DILFs for all! Father's Day is right around the corner, and it's probably high-time you jump on the "your body is a thunderland" bandwagon, if only to make Papabear feel special. As luck would have it, we have the perfect DadBod Medal Of Honor for you. For a limited time only (6/9 - 6/17), Dad Freakers are 40% off! Use code DadBod at checkout!

  Helloooooooooo friends!! If you haven’t received your Kickstarter reward package yet - don’t worry! Your probably not on your postman’s hit-list (yet) and you’re probably not the victim of mailbox embezzlement. Your package probably isn’t having an affair with another Kickstarter Backer. Your package probably hasn’t chickened out and left you at the shipping altar. Instead, it’s waiting waiting anxiously to be shipped home. Really. It won’t shut up about it. It loves you. It wants to freak you. So badly. But we can’t ship it until we have all of your chosen designs in from production - a process which has been just a tidbit behind schedule. We were able to start chipping away at the 5,000 Kickstarter packages in late May and we’re continuing to send ones we have the stock for! Around 30% of packages have already been shipped and we’re working diligently to get the rest of these babies out of our door and into your arms and onto your feet. When your package ships, you will get an email with tracking information! Thank you a billion for your patience and we can’t wait for everyone to be fully freaked! Love you, hug you,

Dear Wilmington,  Tomorrow is the first annual Willard Green Popup Market! "Sounds artsy, but what does it MEAN?" -you "The best of Wilmington's local businesses, makers, doers, livers, lovers & radass badasses are coming together for a community yardsale block party at Satellite!" -us Food trucks, boxtrucks, live bluegrass, good friends, old and new! Saturday-summer-living GO! 9am-3pm, see ya there!