Hey, Upgrade listeners. Last week you heard our Best of the Upgrade 2018, and if you haven't heard it, be sure to download it. Since it's the last day of the year when this episode is coming out, we thought you might want to look back at the best of the upgrade 2017. There are lots of great hacks and tips and guests and laughs and song and drink and merriment.

Happy New Year from The Upgrade.

Enjoy this episode from our archive.

Hello, and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com.

We help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehackers Deputy Editor.

And today we are celebrating the end of the year.

Yay. What a year it's been. What a time. What a time we've had. To commemorate it, we are going to be discussing our favorite episodes of the upgrade. Yes. The best. The brightest. The most likely to succeed. Best conversationalist.

Oh, totally. Most infectious laugh. Most nicest eyes. That's the one I wanted. Oh, God. Best dressed.

I did not get it. Alice, yes. Are you looking forward to saying goodbye to 2017? I am ready to be done with

2017. Remember when we to be done with 2017.

Remember when we all thought 2016 was the worst year?

Yeah.

And people were talking about 2016, like it was this entity that was somehow ruining our lives.

Yes.

And the 2017 was going to come and make everything better.

Right.

Thanks a lot, 2016.

Thanks for nothing.

Like when another celebrity would die in the midst of it off.

You killed Prince. say like people ask how you're doing. You're like, I'm doing, I'm actually doing really well,

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