Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.

And I'm Lena Morgan.

And this is our special 2023 end of year song versus song podcast.

For some reason, we're doing this in the middle of the year, our end of the year podcast, where we cover songs from this year.

Well, things are going great right now.

So I'm going to call this the end of 2020,

before it can take a downturn.

Yes, we are covering Miley Cyrus's Flowers,

the number one hit from 2023,

versus Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire,

also a number one hit in 2023.

And we have a special guest in the podcast booth today.

Please introduce yourself, sir. Hello, everyone. My name is Crash Thompson. And I am also one of these

music, talky video person type things. I've been doing this for over a decade, and I still have no

idea what we're supposed to call ourselves. I call myself a writer because if I tell people I'm a YouTuber,

I mean, yeah, people give you a weird look when you do that. Yeah, my own mom is ashamed of me.

Tells people I'm a drug dealer. Wow. That sounds like a joke, but it's, but it's probably not.

Anyway, I suppose a lot of people were sitting there going, this is so weird.

These two songs, you know, I mean, they're radically different.

They don't sound anything alike.

This is like if somebody, it's like if we did an episode that was like Bruno Mars when

I was your man versus like, I don't know,

...