Decider’s daily “What to Watch” recommendations are usually just a simple paragraph promoting something we enjoyed the previous week. But today’s “What to Watch” includes a bonus story!

Each year, everyone at Decider publishes a personal “Best of the year” article. In both 2017 and 2018, my list included my favorite podcast, Earwolf’s Hollywood Handbook. I personally find the deluge of end of the year lists to be monotonous, so my articles tend to include random pop culture moments from years past: the theme song to the hit TNBC series Hang Time, a scene from the 2007 ABC drama October Road, vintage Paul F. Tompkins American Idol recaps, the 1992 rom-com The Cutting Edge, you get the gist. Despite the fact that Hollywood Handbook was my favorite podcast of 2019, I didn’t include Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport’s wonderfully absurd fever dream of a podcast on my 2019 list. No biggie, right? Wrong.

Sean and Hayes mentioned the fact that I left them off my list during a January episode of Hollywood Handbook: Pro Version. I had let the boys down. So what exactly happened? How did I let down a show that I both love and am in love with? Since we were about to begin a new decade, Decider writers also published personal “Best of the decade” lists. I was scheduled to write one, but I caught a cold, took a sick day, and it got bumped from my schedule. That’s the biz, baby. I had an outline of what I was going to include, which I’ll share now.

Josh Sorokach’s Best of the Decade: Happy Endings, Community, You’re the Worst, Hollywood Handbook, the comedy of Jason Mantzoukas/Andy Daly, Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham (Playing House), Ben Schwartz, Sam Richardson/Tim Robinson (Detroiters, Veep, I Think You Should Leave), Joe Pera, and a title to be named later. If history’s any indication, it probably would’ve been the Hey Dude intro or something similar.

Best of the year is small potatoes. I was saving Hollywood Handbook, I was saving the boys, for best podcast… of the decade.

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