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Hi, this is Rachel

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McElroy. Hello,

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this is Griffin McElroy. And this is

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wonderful. Time for a look back.

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We're always looking in front of us

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for dangers. Everybody's

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ready to defend ourselves and

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our home. And our troops. And our troops.

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How many people do you think just turned the podcast

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off because they realized it was a recap episode? No,

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people love this shit. Okay, good. Because I

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don't know about you. I have forgotten most

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of the stuff we talked about this year

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until I went back through our list in

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order to highlight some of our favorite shit of 2023. Man,

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it's what a wild

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year for a lot

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of different media categories. I

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wanted to ask when you said favorite. Yes.

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Do you mean like this was

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a favorite thing then and it's still a favorite

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thing now or like this was the most fun

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to talk about? No, I

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mean, this is work. What we do

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here. I like doing the

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show with you a lot. Oh, okay. I

1:19

like to shoot the shit. I'm your workwife. You're my workwife and

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I get to shoot the shit with like my best bud. But

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it is work, right? And so for

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me, it's all about just like pure

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quality. Interesting. Mine are a

1:31

lot like most fun to

1:33

talk about. Interesting. Okay.

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It's good that we're sort of bringing different energies. Because for me, it's like

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I don't... And

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listeners probably have noticed this. I don't always

1:43

bring a topic that is like my favorite

1:45

thing, but it has a good story behind

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it that I really like. So

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it becomes a favorite just by

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the kind of origin of it. I

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like that. Yeah. Do you want

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to do a small wonder before we... Whoa, yeah. Yeah,

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we should. And

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then what would be wild is if we

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could incorporate that small wonder into the recap

2:05

of just be like I really liked when we talked about

2:07

how did you include small wonders? Sometimes

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oh see I didn't okay. Okay. We

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obviously didn't talk about this very much.

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I think it's fine I'm

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gonna say small wonder Honestly

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one of my top three Three

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Christmas movies now Watched

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yesterday which was spirited brand

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new just came out last year on the

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Apple TV platform. It's a movie musical featuring

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Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds

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and Octavia Spencer and

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a bunch of incredible folks

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In that film and it's just it's

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fantastic. It really is. I feel like

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by being on the Apple TV platform There's probably

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a big chunk of people that haven't seen it.

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Yes But it is

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it is so funny and the

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music is good and the performances are

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great The message of it is also

3:04

good. It is. Yeah, like there's not

3:07

many more depths left to plumb in

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the like holiday movie like

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category, but I think that they they

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do a very

3:16

noble job of Talking

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about changing a person through the lens of

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a Christmas carol. Just great.

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Just fantastic. Can't recommend it enough I

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am going to say for my small wonder. I'm going

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to say bath toys. Okay For

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whatever reason small son has become more

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resistant to taking a bath Which I

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don't totally get because it's not like

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we put him through some kind of

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rigorous cleansing process. Yeah, he It's

3:43

been hard to get him in there and So I

3:45

went out and I got like a little bath toy

3:47

that looks kind of like a water slide and all

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of a sudden He's taken two

3:51

baths in like four days, which is

3:54

Which is rare for him. He's

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if you if you don't have kids or even if

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you And that sounds like not a lot of

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bass. Kids don't make a lot of

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stinks. They really don't. No, they don't

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sweat in a smelly way yet. No,

4:08

not yet. Well, they do. I

4:10

would say Henry does. Okay,

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I don't know why you have to put our stinks in the back like that.

4:16

Well, I'm just saying, Gus, it's

4:18

rare that he has a funk,

4:20

but I feel like Henry has

4:23

had a funk before. Once or

4:25

twice, yes. Okay. But yes, I

4:27

love playing with bath toys with Gus. Very,

4:30

very good. I don't know how he got so

4:32

deep, but he's really into water slides. Don't know

4:34

why. He's not... I mean,

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I guess he likes slides a lot. That's the thing,

4:38

right? I think one of those

4:40

videos came up, and he's always been a big

4:42

fan of slides. And then

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when you add the water element, the person goes very

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fast. So fast. Some of these

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water slide technology has also come a long way.

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Yeah, the little platform drops out.

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The little platform drops out. That's fun. There's

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the rings of light that you go through

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sometimes on some of these water

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slides that are illuminated from within. That's

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cool shit, man. Can I ask

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you a question about water slides? I

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do not have a lot of water slide experience in

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that I have ridden in

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tubes, but I've never put my body

5:16

flat on a water slide before. Doesn't

5:18

a whole bunch of water get in

5:21

your head? Like ears, nose, mouth? Not

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a whole lot. It just seems like laying down

5:27

in the water and then going very

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fast into more water would just send

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a bunch of fluid

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into your orifices. So

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what my issue is on

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a very fast water slide

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where the centrifugal forces are

5:43

considerable. The fluid

5:45

that reaches my head is my blood,

5:48

and it makes me go to sleep,

5:50

have a little nap. Have

5:52

a little inside the water slide sliding

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nap. That has to happen every day.

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Someone just goes to sleep on a water slide because of how much blood gets

5:59

in their head The g-force I have

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to assume yeah, it can't just have

6:03

been you It happened

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to me one time and I didn't

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didn't ride a waterslide for a while.

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Of course. How scary I can't Imagine

6:13

the experience of being a parent

6:15

and your child arrives at the

6:17

bottom passed out. It's a seepy boy.

6:19

That's terrible Enough

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about me 2023 let's okay. Let's

6:24

get why all right? I want

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to I Have

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a pretty huge like bucket of

6:33

stuff. Do you want do you want to we want me

6:35

to share the stats? Oh, I'd love to hear the stats.

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Yes, let's start with the stats. Okay, so

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this is all from wonderful.fyi

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It looks like we did exactly a

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hundred topics. That's Why

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old I mean right cuz like there's

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52 weeks in a year. Yeah, I

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guess we probably skipped Yeah, okay weeks we

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do to an episode. Okay, I again I

6:56

didn't count small wonders. That's fine The

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top category I saw there was

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a tie That's me

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poetry, right? No. Oh, wow

7:07

I I lumped any kind of game together

7:10

if it was like a video game or

7:12

a board game So

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there were ten games and

7:16

then ten food and beverage

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items Wow See, I

7:20

didn't pull a lot of food and beverage items off

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my off of my my calculations I

7:24

guess we did talk about games. I guess I did bring like

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The Resident Evil series and

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JRPG you did Zelda you don't

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risk you I did twister.

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Yeah the JRPG

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of Nine

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poets so close so pretty yeah pretty

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close. Yeah, some great freaking poets in there this

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year, man Yeah, I thought about picking a

7:48

favorite and I just couldn't do it like

7:50

I I would

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say of the nine poets Seven

7:55

of them were new to me. Yeah, sure like

7:57

only two had I heard of before we started

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this year's episodes. So

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they're all so fresh. I feel like

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I can't. I can't say

8:06

a favorite. I think the poem about

8:09

the mom flushing the fish down the

8:11

toilet. Yeah, that's recent. That's like coins.

8:13

That's Carrie Fountain. Carrie Fountain, that was

8:16

a fucking banger. You also liked

8:18

the Franny Choi, like what

8:21

is it called? Here, I

8:23

can tell you if I have it pulled up. Unrequited

8:25

Love Song for the Panopticon. Oh yeah. I

8:27

remember she wrote a poem to like AI.

8:30

Yeah. And

8:33

then I have five music

8:35

group slash artists. Okay, so I

8:37

did pull this. Okay. Because I

8:40

wanna say this year I

8:42

was going through the list and I saw Petey

8:44

on there. And I was like, that's a huge

8:46

one for me. I got real into Petey. Justin

8:48

sent me a link to Don't Tell the Boys,

8:51

which is a powerful anthem of male

8:53

friendship. And I found that

8:56

very empowering and wonderful. And then

8:58

I got to see Petey when he came to the

9:00

930 Club here in DC last month.

9:03

It was a fucking kick ass show. I haven't been

9:05

to a concert in forever and it was really nice.

9:07

However, I think you brought my favorite

9:09

music of the year. Oh, the

9:11

Beths? The Beths. That

9:13

was like the only artist I brought this

9:16

year. Well babe, you got it in

9:18

one, the Beth. Yeah.

9:21

What a tremendous band. Yeah. I

9:23

have been listening to them so,

9:27

so much if our

9:29

kids had not completely destroyed my

9:32

Spotify algorithm, I feel like the

9:34

Beths would have gotten my number

9:36

one spot with a full head. Maybe on

9:38

our drive to Huntington, we'll actually be able to listen

9:40

to music we like. I would love that. I

9:42

would love that. It would be

9:44

incredible. But yeah, man, there

9:47

is a music video for one of their songs

9:49

called Knees Deep, where they all,

9:51

I don't know if you've seen that one. You may

9:53

have brought it. Is it where they bungee jump? Where

9:55

they all go bungee jumping? That is like good move

9:57

food for me, man. If I'm ever not feeling great.

10:00

I watched that music video and it just puts a

10:02

little spring in my step. They did a Tiny Desk

10:04

concert. That was really good. I'm

10:06

wild about the best. So thank you. Thank

10:08

you for that. Was that it for music? Yeah.

10:11

Those are the two big highlights for me. We

10:15

also did three songs,

10:17

like three discrete songs. You

10:20

may remember Turn Down for What? Turn Down

10:22

for What, yes. I love it. I

10:25

also love Turn Down for What. It's like

10:27

my favorite. That was also a song

10:29

you brought. Oh, okay. What

10:32

was the third one? Oh,

10:35

and Stay, Lisa Lobe, Stay. Were

10:37

all three of those mine? Yes. Oh,

10:39

wow. Okay. I can

10:41

never pick a song because I don't typically have enough to say about

10:43

it to make it like a segment. Yeah. I

10:45

think all of those have a fun story,

10:47

either behind their creation or the music video.

10:50

Yeah. Each one of those,

10:52

I feel like there was a lot to talk about,

10:54

which is why I felt empowered to discuss them. We

10:56

kind of jumped over food. I did pull one food

10:58

thing. Okay. It was sort of really, I don't

11:01

know, characterized the year for me. And that

11:03

was Chupa Chup. We have

11:05

my weight in Chupa Chupa this year. Do

11:09

you have a secret stash again? I don't.

11:11

What happened to the minis? I don't know. They've

11:14

got to be in the pantry somewhere. We

11:16

got a bunch of like the little tiny, tiny ones.

11:19

They don't get them for me. That's not enough. No.

11:22

I need to eat four or five of those in order to

11:24

even feel anything at all. They're so small. I

11:26

talked about the size of the Chupa Chup being a perfect

11:29

lollipop size. Yeah. See,

11:31

it's too much for me. See, that's where you want to go. I

11:33

get real impatient with lollipops. I

11:36

like a dumb dumb actually, kind of like

11:38

that size. So right. It's good. Tiny

11:41

Chupa Chups are just a fraction of a hair smaller

11:43

than a dumb dumb. I guess because neither

11:45

of our sons have really ever finished

11:47

a lollipop. Like the smaller, the better.

11:50

That's a great point. The number

11:52

of 10% eaten

11:54

Chupa Chups that are... Oh, that

11:56

must break your heart. Every time. Especially

11:58

when it's one of the good flavors like the strawberries and cream. or

12:00

the soda

12:02

flavor. Heartbreaking every time, but

12:05

then you tube the tubes. Got

12:07

really into you this year. It

12:11

is wild to me that we haven't done TV.

12:13

Yeah, so the next topic I have, like

12:16

the next leaderboard is five TV shows.

12:18

I could do a whole episode

12:20

about the TV this year. I

12:25

think this is a strong year for a

12:27

few different types of things. I think it's

12:29

a great year for games. Talking

12:33

about small wonders in games, I

12:36

brought Baldur's Gate 3, which

12:38

was phenomenal. The Legend of

12:40

Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, which was phenomenal. We are

12:43

going to be weighing those two when

12:45

we record the best of these game of the year.

12:47

I have no fucking idea which one is gonna go

12:49

down. Was this

12:51

the year you got into Stardew? Or

12:53

was that last year? Oh

12:56

man, I think it was this year. No.

13:00

No, that must've been last year. No, it

13:02

must've been last year. Anyway.

13:05

Anyway. TV was

13:07

good as hell this year. It

13:10

was so good this year. I

13:12

have five scripted series on

13:14

my list, including Small

13:17

Wonders. And that is Our Flag Means Test

13:19

season two. Absolutely incredible.

13:21

The Bear season two. Absolutely

13:23

incredible. Poker Face, Berry.

13:26

Berry season four. Yeah.

13:29

And Scavenger's Rain, which is one that I

13:31

got into and you

13:33

did not, but is one of my favorite shows

13:35

ever. That's crazy. Then

13:37

when we get into the

13:40

unscripted category, specifically from our

13:43

friends in South Korea and Japan, it

13:46

was a absolutely

13:48

phenomenal year. Staples

13:51

hit hard. Survivor, both seasons,

13:53

fucking great. Amazing

13:55

race, fantastic. Great season,

13:58

great characters, great times. oldies.

14:01

But then like physical 100. Yeah.

14:05

So good. They are making a season two of

14:07

that. I was good at all of these yesterday.

14:09

Like hard. I wonder if they'll be repeats because

14:11

it seems hard to continue to find 100 strong

14:14

people. There's got to be some return

14:16

returning members on that one. I

14:18

like that. I like that. I hope that they like superglue

14:22

their shattered torso. Oh, that's

14:26

fun. That's fun. I like that. Love

14:29

Village. Yes. Love Village. A

14:31

fun twist on the sort

14:34

of the terrace house format where a

14:36

bunch of older folks find

14:38

love while living in and remodel. I

14:41

was crazy about that. I was so

14:43

wild about that. It had everything. It

14:45

was just like, there

14:47

was romance. There was just kind of reality

14:50

living together stuff. There was like home

14:52

renovation stuff. It was like, it was

14:55

a bunch of genres like smushed together.

14:57

I loved it. Two, the panel,

14:59

the two people, Becky and I

15:01

can't remember the guy's name, but

15:03

they were so, so good. Yeah.

15:05

Love Village. Love that one.

15:07

One another season in that one on my desk,

15:09

Pronto. Similar vein,

15:11

love after divorce, divorcees,

15:14

living together, loving together, laughing together. Did

15:16

we? We finished that back boy. We

15:18

did finish. Did we? We did. Yes.

15:23

Yeah. Because didn't, I'm

15:25

trying to remember the outcome. Wasn't it like, yeah, I

15:27

don't want to spoil it, but

15:29

I think there was a period of time where

15:31

we kind of fell off. Like after they leave

15:33

their little vacation, they like go out and live

15:35

in the real world and the show, it slows

15:37

down a little bit. The show was a little

15:40

bit slower. So we were, we kind of were

15:42

slow on the ending, but we did. You're right. We

15:44

did finish it. The traders, I

15:48

believe, great, great. Alan

15:51

Cumming bringing

15:53

everything, everything I needed and didn't know that

15:55

I needed a clever

15:58

game of deception. Yeah,

18:00

hiring on all cylinders. It was a

18:02

tremendous year for this genre of TV

18:04

that you and I I think are

18:08

Pretty well versed in at this point.

18:10

Yeah, no, you know what? I don't we

18:12

it's not common for us to see a lot

18:14

of movies Just having children

18:16

like we do, but I don't

18:18

think we really saw that many movies this year. No,

18:21

we Sure

18:23

didn't I'm trying to remember and we just went

18:25

and saw trolls three. We saw

18:27

the Barbie movie I

18:29

saw Oppenheimer by myself. Yeah, Barbie

18:31

was great didn't care for Oppenheimer

18:34

too terrible much You

18:36

see something with your family when you were on tour Probably

18:41

Definitely had a 4d x theater going experience

18:43

this year. Is it a fast movie? I don't

18:45

think it was a fast movie No, but it couldn't

18:47

have been a slow movie But

18:52

yeah, not not yeah, I feel like movies

18:55

I've we fell off of movies We had

18:57

to take a break from movies because TVs

18:59

was so good. It was very good

19:01

I think TV was so good this year.

19:03

Yeah, Barry finale fucking real

19:08

Episode 8 season 2 of

19:10

the bear forks the best

19:12

maybe episode ever. Yeah pieces 7

19:14

fishes episode There's so much good TV

19:17

out there, man So,

19:20

yeah, that was TV for me the only other

19:22

category I have where I lumped a bunch of

19:25

things together I have four

19:27

characters. Oh, okay We

19:30

talked about MC scat cat. Oh my

19:33

god, which that that's what I'm talking

19:35

about when I say like not like favorite

19:37

thing No, I love MC scat cat, but

19:39

that was fun to talk about that was

19:41

the world's first Marketing

19:45

based OC that was Huh?

19:49

Oh, I guess you could say that about like the mascot, right? Was

19:51

the annoyed the world's first

19:54

marketing based OC, but this was

19:56

the first I think transmedia cross-platform

19:59

full-course WordPress marketing original

20:01

character. And I'm

20:04

absolutely obsessed with his lineage and

20:06

history. You talked about

20:08

Grimace. Grimace

20:11

really blew up this year. He did in a lot

20:13

of ways that I don't really appreciate if I'm being

20:15

completely honest. Yeah, the whole evil

20:17

Grimace thing, it feels strange to me. It

20:19

feels strange to me. It's one thing if TikTok

20:21

wants to get his hands on Grimace and

20:23

make him to be a scary

20:25

killer guy. It's

20:27

another thing for Grimace to then show

20:30

up in a bunch of kids' YouTube

20:32

videos as a scary monster and in

20:34

Roblox as a scary killer named Grimace.

20:37

I hate that because the

20:39

youths must be

20:41

protected and be

20:43

able to make their own decisions about

20:46

Grimace. Yeah, I like that. No, I agree with

20:48

you. I don't tell me that

20:50

he's evil. Let me decide. Let me decide if

20:52

Grimace is evil. Of all

20:54

the McDonoughland characters, I

20:56

think he's the least evil

20:59

of them. Wow, interesting. If

21:01

I turn a corner in a dark alley. What

21:03

did Fry Girl ever do to you? Fry

21:06

Girl, I don't know who Fry Girl is. It was like

21:08

a bird. Birdie, I

21:10

think was- Oh, was that her name? Yeah, not

21:12

Fry Girl. There were Fry Guys.

21:14

Those were little kushball looking fellas. If

21:17

I saw one of those in a dark alley,

21:19

no thanks. If I saw Birdie, no thanks. If

21:21

I saw Ronald in a dark alley, no thanks.

21:23

But Grimace is just like, oh, hey. But

21:27

then he kills people with his milkshake? Fucking

21:29

grow up in America. I

21:32

brought the Charmin Bears, which

21:34

was very contentious. Was it?

21:37

Got a lot of backlash on that. Well, because

21:39

people found that, you know, it

21:42

was kind of like I discussed earlier in that nobody

21:45

really believed that I loved these bears,

21:48

which, you know, I don't. I don't

21:50

have like a little picture of the bears

21:52

on my fridge, you know? I think it's-

21:55

But I enjoyed the fact that they exist

21:57

and that somebody used them for this purpose.

21:59

Yes. I enjoy the story of the Bears. I

22:02

think that your inclusion of

22:04

the Charmin Bears and their great works

22:07

in this program really speaks

22:09

to your growth as

22:12

a mother of two pretty

22:17

poop and butt focused

22:19

boys. Yes, yes.

22:21

It is a gross

22:25

stereotype. If you got little

22:28

boys, they're gonna talk about poops and butts and

22:30

farts a lot. But it's that

22:32

for a reason because it is true. That's

22:35

exactly what they do pretty much around the

22:37

clock. I think that Rachel,

22:39

I think that 2015 Rachel never

22:42

would even think twice about the Charmin Bears.

22:45

That's true. So

22:48

that's gross, you think? I think that's gross.

22:50

Okay, good. Gross

22:52

doesn't have to mean good, right? No,

22:54

I like that. You're right, you're right.

22:57

Like black mold grows. You

22:59

know what I mean? Let's take a brief break

23:02

and then we'll wrap up the year. Well,

23:04

no, remember what we say? Yeah, I forget.

23:06

Let's steal you away. Let's steal

23:08

you away. Let's steal you away. Hey,

23:18

Griffin. Yeah. You remember weddings?

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Cameron Estadito. So

26:00

the fourth one, we're talking

26:02

about characters. Okay. And I felt

26:04

like you might bristle at this, but I was trying

26:06

to decide whether or not the Mothman could be

26:09

called a character. I think so. Okay. And

26:11

so far as like Bigfoot is a character

26:13

or, you know, yeah, I don't

26:16

know. I mean, it is mythology.

26:18

He has been a character in

26:20

things, including the hit Richard Gere

26:22

movie, The Mothman Prophecies. Although

26:26

I don't think you ever actually see the

26:28

Mothman in The Mothman Prophecies, which is pretty

26:30

strange if you ask me. Pretty

26:32

iconic looking. Well, it's like Jaws, right? You

26:34

just, you're waiting to see, you're waiting to see it.

26:37

Yeah. Except that the Mothman is not quite

26:39

Jaws because this would be like if Jaws

26:41

popped up from the water and was like,

26:44

your boat's extended war is expiring.

26:49

And then went back down. There's

26:52

some rocks up ahead. That

26:55

would be very useful. That would be cool. Helpful

26:58

Jaws. So

27:03

then everything else we talked about is just

27:05

kind of like grab bag, like the sciency

27:07

stuff I really liked. I talked about olfactometers,

27:10

you know, that like smell device. I talked

27:12

about smell dating. You had

27:14

a very stink focused. I had a stink

27:16

heavy ear. What do you

27:19

think that's about? I

27:22

think when you get to a certain point

27:24

and recording a podcast about things you like,

27:27

you start thinking about like, what do I like to look

27:29

at? And what do I like to do? What do I

27:31

taste? What do I like to listen to? Yeah. What

27:34

do I like to eat? Yeah. What

27:36

do I like to touch? What I like to touch? I don't think that much

27:38

do you? Now I do. Now you do.

27:41

That's where I'm at. I imagine, I can't

27:43

even actually, no, I can't even imagine what we

27:45

will be talking about a year from now. What

27:48

we talk about the nano machine.

27:50

Well, we talked 14 different nano

27:52

machine discussions. Those in there. We're

27:55

going to talk about our new hologram Butler.

27:58

Yeah. Yeah. ineffective.

28:00

I don't know what a hologram mother would

28:02

be. Well, he would tell us when our warranty was expiring.

28:05

Yeah, but it would be like all the social

28:07

discomfort of having a sort

28:09

of stranger in your home with you

28:11

with none of the like actual like

28:14

services that above. And the boys would just

28:16

punch him all the time. They would try. They

28:18

would pass right through him. Do you know

28:20

what I mean? Like hologram. Yeah, it's true. Why

28:22

don't they punch him? Why do you think our

28:24

beautiful precious boys would punch? I mean, you see what

28:26

they do with stuffed animals. Yeah, but this

28:28

would be a man. They don't punch men. But

28:31

it's a hologram. So

28:33

that so it. Yeah, I

28:35

guess they would know it's not real and there are

28:37

no repercussions. And so they would go for it is

28:39

what I'm saying. OK. Yeah. Should

28:42

we do that? Just to get some. No,

28:45

because you need the impact as an

28:47

adult. You need the impact for satisfaction.

28:49

And he wouldn't like is

28:52

he able to react to us? Would he be like, oh,

28:55

excellent. Hey, make a master Henry. Maybe

28:57

in the same way that like Siri

29:00

does, you know, like I'm not

29:02

going to play your game. I don't think I want to

29:04

punch the hollow butler. I'm not going

29:06

to want anyone to punch the hole. I'm not making you think

29:09

you don't have to. Oh,

29:11

you know what? I also talked about Scratch and Sniff. She's

29:14

rich. I know. Or

29:16

you did. No, I don't

29:18

think that's possible. I don't think that was you.

29:20

OK, that feels like a Rachel topic. OK. Although,

29:25

gosh, who knows? It's been so long. I

29:27

think that's all we have prepared. Anything else

29:29

about 2023 in review? I

29:34

know you didn't do the small wonders, but is

29:36

there anything else we discussed that that sticks out

29:38

that didn't make the list? Wait,

29:41

that we didn't discuss or we did discuss? I guess

29:44

that we didn't discuss. Oh, I

29:46

mean, I would have brought it. Yeah, that's a

29:48

fair point. You left no

29:50

stone on. What am I thinking? If

29:53

you had a pearl, you would present it

29:55

to the audience. Yes, that's a good point.

29:57

That's a good point. Well.

30:00

Here's looking forward to 2024. Hopefully

30:03

we will get even more good TV,

30:06

new chupa chupa varieties,

30:10

the new best album maybe,

30:13

more poets, more characters. I

30:17

will say a lot of what you and I do is return

30:19

to favorites of our youth too. That is true. So

30:22

we don't need 2024 to do all the work for

30:24

us. No, no, no. Although

30:27

maybe 2024 will Hamburgler

30:29

year. Maybe 2024 will

30:31

be Hamburgler year. I

30:34

think it's gonna be hard to say Hamburgler over

30:36

and over again. Hamburgler. Hamburgler.

30:40

Hamburgler. Anyway,

30:45

thanks so much for listening to our show

30:47

all year. Do you have any listener

30:49

submissions or are we gonna say that?

30:51

I didn't pull any for this one. But

30:56

again, we do. Yeah, that's something I can talk

30:58

about actually. I am glad for the return of listener

31:00

submissions. Yes, me too. wonderfulpodcastatgmail.com.

31:02

Still not getting a ton

31:05

of submissions in. So if

31:07

you wanna shoot us an email with a

31:09

one or two sentence description of what your

31:11

wonderful thing is. And then when we come

31:13

back next year, because we are not going to

31:15

have a new episode out next week, then

31:18

we will consider it. Maybe put it at the end

31:20

of the show. Yeah. Thank you

31:22

so much for listening. Thank you to Boann and Augustus for the

31:24

use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay. You

31:27

can find a link to that in the episode description.

31:29

Thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the

31:31

network. Go to maximumfun.org. Check out all the great shows

31:33

that they have over there. You're gonna find something you

31:35

love. I guarantee it. You can still watch

31:37

the Candle Night. Oh, you can? I was gonna say,

31:39

I wonder if you can still get in there. Yes,

31:42

for the next week and a half, you can do

31:44

so. If you go to bit.ly slash candlenights2023, you

31:48

can watch it on demand. It's almost two hours

31:50

long. There's a bunch of funny bits from

31:54

pretty much the whole fam in there. And

31:57

it was a true delight and joy to. watch

32:00

it with everyone else

32:02

and sort of chat about it and

32:04

it always gets me in the Christian

32:06

spirit. Me too. I think that's it

32:09

though. Please have a good rest

32:12

of your year, good holiday. Or

32:15

if you already had your holiday I hope it was

32:17

good. Yes. Hopefully you have some

32:19

time off of whatever your life demands

32:21

of you to recharge and

32:24

rejuvenate and renew and

32:27

we will see you rejuvenated

32:30

and renewed and

32:32

recharged and recharged and

32:35

re-placed and

32:37

replaced like the ship of thesis next

32:40

year in 2024. So long. I

32:53

hope that you will

32:55

get, I

32:57

hope that you will get.

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