Todd and Eric return to the TodCast bracket to decide whether a family-filled episode about Todd’s past can defeat a homemade toy tournament. This is what happens when nostalgia, questionable scoring, and a complete lack of March Madness collide.
In this episode:
- Episode 99, “Embarrassment Like Only Family Can Provide,” faces Episode 136, “March Madness? No, It Is April Gladness! We Have Toys!” in the five-versus-twelve matchup.
- Todd remembers recording with his mother Paula and sister Crystal, while Eric points out that the family is now collecting podcast and IMDb credits.
- The family episode includes stories about book reports, pretending to be sick, puking on walls, science projects, bicycles, tree houses, and Todd’s questionable study habits.
- Todd and Eric discuss the special value of hearing their mother’s voice preserved in an audio recording.
- The toy bracket is revisited with its thirty-two entries, manual research, online voting, seed numbers, and a frankly excessive number of rules.
- Lego wins the toy tournament, while Kenner Star Wars action figures are remembered as an early casualty that Todd still finds emotionally troubling.
- Entertainment value goes to the family episode, largely because bringing in Mom and Crystal adds an extra dimension of self-inflicted embarrassment.
- Information value goes to the toy bracket, because listeners may learn about toys they missed while learning very little useful trivia from Todd’s childhood.
- Original audio quality becomes the deciding factor, with the family conversation defeating the more recent bracket episode despite both recordings having their own technical problems.
- The old recording includes fewer robotic Wi-Fi moments, less filler, and a more natural conversation, proving that sometimes the older episode wins the rematch.
From family stories and old board games to toy brackets, Lego victories, Wi-Fi robots, and the highly scientific process of awarding points for entertainment, information, and audio quality, this episode is a bracket recap with just enough logic to make the final result feel official.
Todd and Eric do not settle which episode is objectively best.
They simply score the competition, declare a winner, and promise to finish the tournament sometime before the next major cultural era.
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Produced & Edited by Eric Hersey – Strong Minded Agency
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