Welcome back to another episode of Houdinke Radio. Today's episode of the show is sponsored by our friends at

Brookladi, the award-winning whiskey from Ila, who we have partnered with here at Houdinke for the last

couple of years. Stay tuned for an update later in the show on what we're up to this season.

Hey, it's me, James Stacey, back at the helm of another episode of Houdinke Radio. Today, we thought it would be

fun to look back at 2024. This is actually going to be sort of a two-part series, which we're

pretty excited about. The first one, I'm joined by Tantan Wang, our editor and Malika Crawford,

our style editor. And the goal today, like I said, is just basically to look back on the last year, do a little bit of like a retrospective. I'm going to do the same sort of episode again with Mark and Rich, which

you will see in part two. But I really enjoy this time of year because you do get to kind of look

back and go like, oh, that did happen in 2024. Or, oh, I entirely forgot about that. Or I was so

tired when that happened, I ignored it. And sometimes

you find some new moments and sometimes you get to discover that people went a lot deeper than you

thought. I always enjoy kind of how all of watch media kind of starts to look back at the year

right around November and December. And we're recording this just before American Thanksgiving. So

we should be in a pretty good mood. We've almost got a couple days off here. And it's always fun

to do more Houdinke radio. So welcome Tantan. Welcome Malika. How are we doing?

Doing pretty good. I'm hungry. I'm ready for some Thanksgiving food. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And then a good nap. It's one of my favorite naps of the year, to be clear.

I do rank naps, and it's a top player.

James, are you a chunky cranberry sauce guy or the smooth one from the cam kind of guy?

I'm kind of indifferent to cranberry sauce.

I mean, I'll dabble, but I don't think I have an opinion

on the viscosity or texture therein. How about you? I'm chunky cranberry sauce all the way,

but I know people swear by the-the-butter, so maybe I got to give it a better run. I think so.

...