Patreon Newsletter #63: January 2025

HRR Updates/News:

• We’re delighted to be returning to San Francisco Sketchfest this January 18th at 4pm at Gateway Theatre! You can find more info and tickets here: https://sfsketchfest.com/schedule-and-tickets/

• There’s also a handful of tickets left for JoCo Cruise, March 2nd to March 9th, 2025: https://jococruise.com/

• January’s Review Crew episode (Explaining a Scientific Topic) will be released on Monday 12/16 or Monday 1/13.

• The January Review Crew live-stream will be Monday January 13th from 8pm to 9pm CST. 

• Starting this month, we’re offering discounted yearly subscriptions for the Patreon. 

 From Adal:

Here’s what I was up to in December. Let me know if you have any recommendations!

TV:

• Squid Games season 2

• Bluey: Mini Episodes

• Somebody Somewhere season 2

• Pop Culture Jeopardy

• RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17

• Queer Eye season 9

Movies: 

• Nosferatu

• A Complete Unknown

• Wicked (4DX)

• Kraven the Hunter (4DX)

• Cunk On Life - this just came to Netflix and I highly recommend you watch it. Diane Morgan is brilliant as Philomena Cunk

• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

• A Charlie Brown Christmas - I had never seen this. Everyone is pretty fucking nasty to Charlie Brown and he’s kind of shitty as well. 

• Muppet Christmas Carol

• The Princess Diaries - I had never seen this and Jemma insisted I remedy that

• Nate Bargatze: Your Friend 

• Sweethearts

• Austin Powers: Goldmember
  

Other Stuffs: 

• Enjoying the new album by The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

• Quick read but I was moved by the book Small Things Like These

• Played a bunch more Blood on the Clock Tower along with Mastermind, Boop Game (an adorable cat based strategy game) and Crokinole; which I had never heard of but am now deeply enthralled by. I ordered myself my own board so I can get some practice in and then hold a Crokinole tournament

• Jemma and I couldn’t make it up to Canada so we spent Christmas in Vermont and visited the town of Woodstock which was particularly charming covered in snow. I had my first maple creamie (not a sex thing) at Woodstock Scoops and I wish it WAS a sex thing. Unbelievably good.

• Hello From the Magic Tavern is also performing at Sketchfest (with a very cool special guest) on Sunday January 19th at 7pm. You can buy tickets HERE

• Lastly, my sister Sadieh’s incredible play The Cave opens at the end of the month in Chicago at A Red Orchid Theatre! If you’re interested you can get tickets HERE

Adal

From JPC: 

Hey Riddiots,

Happy January! Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who listened to the show last year. I'm constantly humbled by all of the support that we get, the messages I hear on the voicemail line, the emails, the people who say hey after a Whirled News show in Chicago, the fan mail & gifts that you send to our mailbox, and all of the supportive comments we receive online. You all are truly the best. I also had an absolute blast recording the show and I'm very much looking forward to what we have planned for 2025. 

-JPC