Hello and welcome to We're Obsessed, a podcast here on the Ringer Dish feed.

I'm your host, Jody Walker. The year is still

barely 2025 for just a little while longer. And I would like to formally welcome you to the Ringer's

second annual chronically online draft. We, we'll hear from her in a second.

We are joined here today.

To battle it out over the Internet's best main characters, the year's biggest bouts of

brain rot, the most viral moments of 2025, and to do that, I am once again joined by

my chronically online, ringer sisters in in arms and scrolling, Nora Princeati,

Kate Hallowell. How you doing? Welcome to the 2025 online draft. Hi, Jody. Hello.

thrilled to be here. Honored to be here. Kate is taking her assignment very seriously.

We're all taking our assignment very seriously.

We had an amazing time doing this last year.

And I feel like, you know, I was looking at our draft last year.

I was like, I think we really got it right.

Same.

Well, also recognizing that this is technically a competitive event.

Sure.

But also, I think last year was actually very different from this year.

Kate, as our guest, gets the first pick, got the first pick last year.

But last year, I feel like we all sort of knew what she was going to do with that.

It was Moodang's year, and no one was coming for her big, moist, round, bitey crown.

She was so slippery.

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