Sodas and TikTok and Forced Nostalgia? What more do you want for our final season break episode? Don’t answer that question. Tom also introduces his new pastime: murderboards. We hit a reunion of too many years, and we recommend you all watch the Three-Body Problem, but mostly first, you should read the books, which will make you feel small. Happy day!
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We’re back with favorite guest Mandy Kaplan with another dish of consumable delights and this month we’re putting lip to bottle in a survey of sweet and regrettably savory fizzy sodas. For those looking to join, here’s the master list:
1) MOXIE2) SPRECHER ROOT BEER3) KEY LIME PIE4) RAMUNE GRAPE5) SEAL YA LATER6) BUFFALO WING7) SLIME LICKER
These come from fantastic Rocket Fizz stores in Beaverton and LA and we’re thrilled to have had the support of their managers and owners in picking this line-up… even if we didn’t love them all! 
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Stuck on finding the perfect birthday present for your loved ones? We're here to help! First, we're dishing on the word nerds' selections for "words of the year" - from "rizz" to "hallucinations," it's a vocabulary rollercoaster! Also, dive into the wild world of VR with us as Pete helps Tommy embrace the Vision Pro life, goggle dirt and all.
Links & Notes

• Oscars
• Selected Words of the Year
  • Merriam-Webster
  • Oxford Dictionaries
  • Cambridge Dictionary
  • Dictionary.com
  • American Dialect Society
• Casey Neistat's Apple Vision Pro Review

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We’re popping the top on dips this month and diving into the best and the worst of the creamy concoctions. We’re talking bean dips. We’re talking creamy spinach dips. We’re talking Ranch. We’re talking cheeses. We’re talking all the things that get jammed into jars and cans, ready for you to crack open this year... or many years in the future. 
Guest Mandy Kaplan is back, creeping out of the neon-lit protection of the Mandcave. You should go subscribe to her show, too! Right here on TruStory FM!
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Welcome to the first of our member bonus episodes for season 8 of All the Feelings! Thanks for hanging around, the whole lot of you. May this brief checkin bring you some holiday chuckles, two potential grotesqueries, and a textile mystery. 
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It’s the big finale of our eighth season and we’re going out with a curiosity: Transcendence. We kick things off with a good-natured debate about our podcast's unique episode numbering, likely a coping mechanism for our collective lack of understanding of the topic.Eventually, we get somewhere, though where that is happens to be unique to each of us. It turns out that Transcendence is a word that conjures emotions of “beyond” differently for us. For Tommy, the secret is in The Zipper, a risky carnival ride that illuminates his understanding of transcendence in spite of all warnings otherwise. For Pete, it’s about shedding baggage. We hope, dear listener, that this season has made for a fun exploration of our shared humanity. We’ve been thrilled by reports of listener groups popping up and hope to see those continue into next season. Between now and then, this show moves to a monthly schedule with abbreviated episodes in the public feed, and full member bonus episodes for Feeling Friends. We hope you’ll consider joining us on this break before we come back for next season’s exploration of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues. It’s gonna be weird. 

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Fear not, dear listener! This spooky episode of All the Feelings will have you shaking in your boots with harrowing tales of terror! 
Pete gets real about his deep-seated fear of angering the public. One wrong move and an angry mob might show up at his door, which he traces to the totally rational experience of watching his news anchor dad navigate turbulent times. Oh, also he lived through Misery... in a theater. Nothing like watching a live ankle crushing to stoke the fear vibe.But get this - fear apparently has an evolutionary purpose. Prey creatures needed it to avoid predators. And for early humans, it promoted group cooperation. Whatever, evolution.After debating whether fear or terror would be scarier if personified as a Greek god, the ghoulish hosts share nostalgic frights from their childhood. Here's a riddle: What's more terrifying than a ghost looking for his lost arm? The real estate disclosure laws around haunted houses.By the end of this episode, you'll be sleeping with one eye open. But you'll also have insight into irrational fears that linger from our past. As Tommy's therapist says, just because something scared us as kids doesn't mean it still applies. That’s old fear. Time to move on.So grab a night light and cozy up Uncle Petey and Tommy McGoo for an episode guaranteed to under-deliver. It’s the ATF promise!
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What does it mean to be an optimist? What is it like to look at the world and see not just hope, but possibility?
Yeah, we don't know either. I guess we'll never know.KIDDING... kidding, of course. But here's the interesting thing: It turns out optimism is much more complicated than we ever imagined -- and it's precisely because it is so much more than just being blindly good-natured all the time.
So this week, Tommy brings you a story of the dark side of optimism, one that ends in a crushing, embarrassing blow to his ego, and his back. And Pete comes with scales and stuff. It's like math, and he talks about it with the same level of understanding that he brings to his math studies. That is to say, you might have to work extra hard to understand what the hell he is talking about.
Also, there's a chance he brings up "Building Information Modeling" but fails to mention that he's actually talking about "Building Information Modeling" as he is talking about it.
But don't worry: the punchline of this whole episode is that the world isn't as bad as it seems and, in spite of all the "messaging" out there, humanity is low-key kicking ass right now if you know where to look.
Bonus round: Carl Sagan drops the mic on this episode.
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Pete and Tommy are dancing with the green-eyed monster as they take a walk down memory lane with their experiences with Jealousy.
Hey... Jealousy? What’s the deal? 
Why all the harsh feelings? What’s the skinny on you making us feel so gross and paranoid? Well, turns out there’s a new “gate” on the horizon and jealousy’s evolutionary history has a report. Meanwhile, we’re finally solving the mystery of the difference between jealousy and envy (maybe), and we have a report from our African field office with an extraordinary act of jealousy-busting empathy.
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