Yo, what's up, everybody. How's it going? Welcome to the Wizard and the Bruiser. We need some like Hollywood

music. You know what he mean? And bam, bam, bam, da-na-na-na-na-na. Oh, my God, Heldin's actually here.

Is that Jake right behind him? We got to get these pictures. Get those cameras out of my face. Get

those fucking camera. I'll kill you. I'll kill all of you. I don't care if another princess dies. I want those pictures. These paparazzi are killing me. Hey, stop. Those flashing lights are exacerbating the side effects of all the illegal drugs I'm on. Please, I've done so many illegal drugs tonight. I'm a manager and an agent and I love the emptiness of Hollywood.

I want to do some cocaine and break some car windows.

Because the year is over and we're going over the best Whizbrook episodes of

2023.

I love this episode.

This is where we take a lot.

I feel like have we done these just for Patreon bonus in the past?

In the past, we've only done it for Patreon bonuses.

But honestly, this year has hit different.

I don't know what it is. I just feel like

something about the, just the amount of like entire life-consuming topics we've covered. I don't

know whether it's just the luck of the draw. Maybe it's in my own advanced age. I'm like getting more analytical and

looking back on a lot of things that I took for granted. But there, I counted at least 18 episodes

that we've done this year that have like fundamentally changed my life, have fundamentally

altered the way I perceive the world around me,

or were just like fucking bangers that were super fun to engage with, that I honestly,

these are topics that I would have never given a second thought if it wasn't for the fact

that, God damn it, this is my job, is to dive into these fandoms, these communities, these

works of art, and just try and come up with a, what the fuck is the deal with these things?

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