It's really great to be back.

It's really great to be back.

Welcome to another Hiddle Award Show, third annual 2024.

It's right.

It's the most prestigious award show of the season, folks.

And, you know, right here, it's coming out for the Wednesday.

Weenies on the new year.

On the new year.

As we ring in 2025, we take a look back.

We reminisce and we engage in hindsight to see who exactly was the worst and best in various different categories.

That's right. We are handing out awards today, the coveted most beloved prizes and all of entertainment are coming from this award show today.

As we peer into the past and see what what this great year

had in store for all of us exactly it's it's really it's really a time of celebration

um and and that's just it it's a time of celebration i'm celebrating i'm celebrating it's the hit of

award show 2024 folks nothing nothing went wrong this year no nothing. Nope. All good as we will surely get into.

So if you don't know what we do around here, we're going to go through each of our categories that you hopefully voted in throughout the past week.

It's your civic duty. We're going to award our hitonies, if you know what I mean. And then we are going to do our yearly bracket where we break down what the worst discourse was this year. Yes. And that'll be coming the second half of the show. Boy was there a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately we get into all of that, as we always do at the top of episodes, we're going to remind you to go check out the Patreon. Please. We are heading into a new year. We are. And this means it's another year of Hiddo. And, you know, I've enjoyed being a humble podcaster. It's nice. It's a small operation, but I think we get a lot done. We pump out a lot of content. But I'm tired of being humble. I am. I need you guys to blow up my ego. Yeah. I want, and I want the, the inflated ego to be justified. Exactly. I want to have reason to have the inflated ego because we just have that much money. So head over to the Patreon, support the show. And of course, early access to all of our content. And you get in on the Hiddo Postcard program. Maybe next time around some of you will be getting some educational attainment in the mail. We'll see. And that's what I was going to say you know 2024 you know hit oh look looking back on the year for the podcast itself we we unlock the postcards we unlock the postcards for our laurel members of the Patreon we've sent out what three uh yeah three so far three this year all bangers all bangers beautiful handwritten notes on the back signed Sign by one of us truly. We just hit a thousand on Discord last night. That's pretty cool. And we were definitely not anywhere near 1,000 at the beginning of the year. So lots has changed. I meant to look at the Patreon analytics before starting the show. But we've gained like a couple hundred patrons in 2024. So hit out to the moon, basically. Hit a hit a 100% to the moon. We got the postcards next year. Let's get that community art challenge. Mm-hmm. Let's get that community art challenge and whatever else is in store for us. But before we get onto our categories, as we always do, we have to read, we have to read our five-star reviews that you left. And we do thankfully have some today. If you're getting your reviews read on the 2024 hit of award show, you should feel very special. Absolutely. Because this is, you're on the stage in front of thousands of fans right now. You're immortalized with all the wonderful things and people that we will be talking about later on. That's right. So you should be happy to be here. We're glad that you left your review.

If you want to leave a review and have it read on the show, maybe you'll have your review

read on the first show that we record in the new year. Oh, my goodness. Go to Apple Podcast, leave a review. If that doesn't work, message us on Instagram or something. Uh-huh. If you remember if you're foreign and wrong and bad, then you have to send it to us on Instagram.

If you're from Europe especially, boo.

Boo.

Boo.

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