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#67 Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut): Baby chefs, Baby Back Ribs, George Lucas

#66 Roman Mars (99% Invisible): City flags, stupid walks, shearing sheep

#65 Annie Rauwerda (Depths of Wikipedia): Living statues, #NotAllBots, the Holy Trinity Bikini

#64 Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs): Giving up on crypto, bear chandelier, Halloween puns

#63 UNLOCKED: Bonus follows from Traci Thomas, Josh Fruhlinger, Bridget Todd, and Jesse Thorn

#62 Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls On the Internet): 2+2 = applesauce, bringing chaos, three-way phone calls

Advice for using social media after a mass shooting, with Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls on the Internet)

#34 Lindsay Ellis (Axiom's End): Phantom of the Opera, 50 Shades of Grey, air disasters

#61 Jesse Thorn (Bullseye): Scruffy dogs, breakfast cereal, the worst albums of the 20th century

#60 Reggie Fils-Aimé (Disrupting the Game): Becoming a meme, becoming a Muppet, video game skills

#59 Danielle Friedman (Let's Get Physical): Cooking in the nude, human footballs, no filters

#58 T.J. Raphael (BioHacked: Family Secrets): Brooklyn moms, "monogamish," T9 texting

#57 Charlie Harding (Switched on Pop): Daft Funk, TikTok music, canceling Beethoven

#56 Justin Myers (The Guyliner): Fear of custard, writing about yourself, mixtapes vs. d*ck pics

#55 Josh Fruhlinger (The Comics Curmudgeon): Beetle Bailey, Hyperloop, bisexual lighting

#54 Traci Thomas (The Stacks): The dreamiest dreamboat, Dolphins Without Borders, banned books

#53 Broti Gupta (The Simpsons): Sumo oranges, Koko the gorilla, bears aren't real

#17 Ed Zitron (Where's Your Ed At): Joker memes, baseball isn't boring, the best tweet ever

#52 Hrishikesh Hirway (Song Exploder): Dadaist art, writer's block, trolling Trebek

#51 Alexis Gay (Non-Technical): Wool sweaters, divorcées, bonsai trees

#50 Shima Oliaee (Dolly Parton's America): Fake cousins, lazy exorcists, punching down

#49 Eric Johnson (Follow Friday): Evil coconuts, Disneyland, dog selfies

#48 Tom Scott: Fast fashion, the future of football, nice sci-fi

#47 Brooke Hammerling (Pop Culture Mondays): Baby Yoda, rich moms, the Bono of finance bros

#46 Best of 2021: Eric's favorite follows of the year

#45 Amanda Aronczyk (Planet Money): Circus nuns, Friendster, Tom Holland

#44 Bijan Stephen (Eclipsed): A quest for cookies, Tinder robots, imaginary video games

#43 Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson (Endless Thread): Meme history, happy dogs, and the cutest animal — elephants

#42 Alasdair Beckett-King, Morgan Sung, Lindsay Ellis, and Gavin Purcell: Bonus follows UNLOCKED

#41 Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood): Bruce Willis, very British words, bad art friends

#40 Gavin Purcell (Way Too Interested): Homing pigeons, Gollum, NFTs

#39 Samir Mezrahi (Zillow Gone Wild): Hidden treasure, reply guys, Spirit Halloween

#38 Reza Farazmand (Poorly Drawn Lines): Persian chicken, desert blues, Commodore 64

#37 Eric Molinsky (Imaginary Worlds): Spice Girls, colorizing history, James Bond's friend Chewbacca

#36 LIVE - Kara Swisher (The New York Times): Crypto bros, Uncle Satan, political sex scandals

#35 Dallas Taylor (Twenty Thousand Hertz): Phil Collins, finding joy, fake supermarkets

#34 Lindsay Ellis (Axiom's End): Phantom of the Opera, 50 Shades of Grey, air disasters

#33 Dave Jorgenson (The Washington Post): Hogwarts houses, wholesome comedy, Survivor

#32 Dave Pell (NextDraft): Florida men, Apple fanboys, Japanese roller coasters

#31 Morgan Sung (Mashable): Frog bread, astrology, poisonous mushrooms

#30 Four super-weird accounts you should follow (ft. Ed Zitron, Allegra Frank, Kevin Roose, and Freddie Wong)

#29 Four comedians you should follow (ft. Adrianne Jeffries, Zack Bornstein, Alie Ward, and Helen Zaltzman)

#28 Max Miller (Tasting History): Musical theater, insatiable curiosity, Lady Gaga

#27 Liana Finck (The New Yorker): Pit bulls, Hawaiian tortoises, bread shoes

#26 Alasdair Beckett-King: Mr. Blobby, Vine, paper puppets

#25 The Auralnauts (Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce): Funeral DJs, lightsaber ASMR, Howard the Duck

#24 Freddie Wong (RocketJump): TikTok magic, train surfing, singing skeletons

#23 Mark Chrisler (The Constant): Chicago's worst food, The Berenstain Bears, video games are art

#22 Ann Reardon (How to Cook That): Food fakery, glitterbombs, steamy photographs

#21 Follow Friday's new Patreon + Alexandra Petri, Rose Eveleth, and Ed Zitron bonus picks

#20 Franklin Leonard (The Black List): Ted Lasso, being a good ally, how to sell a book

#19 Alexandra Petri (The Washington Post): Smuggling drugs in fish, the end of the universe, yelling at "Cats"

#18 Rose Eveleth (Flash Forward): Underwater aliens, COVID journalism, the language of science

#17 Ed Zitron (EZPR): Joker memes, baseball isn't boring, the best tweet ever

#16 Adrianne Jeffries & Regina Dellea (Underunderstood): McMansions, dogs eating butter, persuading Joe Rogan

#15 Michael Tucker (Lessons From the Screenplay): “Jingle Bells," visual effects, the danger of common sense

#14 Allegra Frank (Slate): S**tposting, Instagram art, ice cube role-playing

#13 Nick Quah (Hot Pod): Gen Z musicians, sports journalism, video game design

#12 Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist): Blind dates, the word “queer," the wellness industry

#11 Rachelle Hampton & Madison Malone Kircher (ICYMI): The Tudors, The West Wing, Cate Blanchett

#10 Johana Bhuiyan (The Los Angeles Times): Funny TikToks, Filipina hip-hop, Brown dads

#9 Devindra Hardawar (The /Filmcast): Parasite, Hades, surviving a pandemic

#8 Zack Bornstein: Bigoted biscuits, stand-up heroin, Twitter politicians

#7 Kevin Roose (The New York Times): Boomer memes, the power of naps, and hustle culture

#6 Alie Ward (Ologies): Diversity in science, shy comedians, the gayness of paint

#5 Chelsea Rebecca (Dead Meat): Horror movie fans, the dirtbag left, pro wrestling

#4 Tre’vell Anderson (FANTI): Black journalists, hairy people in dresses, “love/hate”

#3 Jenn Takahashi (Best of Nextdoor): Ice-T’s first bagel, very good dogs, meme thieves

#2 Ryan Broderick (Garbage Day): Twitter trolls, ska music, goblincore

#1 Avery Trufelman (Nice Try!): “Thirsty on main,” distilled knowledge, future karaoke classics

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