Mallory Rubin

Typically, we do it at the beginning of January.

It makes a little more sense then as an annual preview.

But, like, we don't know if these things are going to be good.

Sometimes they're great and that's energizing and exciting.

Sometimes they suck and that is like despair inducing.

All we have is the possibility that we will get to share these things that we love and that mean things, that means something to us, right?

Collectively, individually.

So that is always, I think, the idea behind the hype draft.

Then we try to pair that with like what my people vote for on an Instagram graphic, certainly.

But this year I am going exclusively with what am I excited for?

You know, it infects the hype.

So we'll see.

Well, how, one of the questions, without tipping picks, I was going to ask you like, this year in particular, there are a lot of personal faves in the mix, right?

So do you have like, this is for everybody, but starting with Joe, a strategy, are you like,

some of my favorite things in the entire world are on this list.

And I don't care if people are gonna vote for them.

The point is to build a team of excitement that represents what's in.

But he's drafting after me.

He can have that.

But the thing that it is, no one else can have.