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You know, Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.

I am Ben Lindberg, Buttmash host, and senior editor for the

Ringer, welcoming you to a new year of Ringerverse recommends. The calendar and content are different,

but our passion for sharing our favorite recent releases with you is unchanged, as is the format

for this show. You probably know how these go by now, but I'll lay it out

in case you weren't with us in 2024. At the end of each month, the hosts of House of Our,

the Midnight Boys, and me, along with a few of our friends and accomplices, form a ringerverse

Voltron to create a minipod and video in which we pay tribute to some stuff we like that we

haven't had a chance to cover

on a full-length episode. Generally, these are releases from the last month, though some of our

Ringiverse recommends rebels don't always abide by that rule. We each select something, we explain

why we like it, and we tell you where you can find it. Then we put our tributes together,

and voila, we have ringerverse recommends.

I wrangle the recommendations, and then, like the collector on nowhere, I put them in my museum

and admire my curated collection of treasures. And what a collection we have for you this month,

hailing from the realms of movies, video games, novels, audio, live action TV, anime and animation, comics, no nerd culture medium left behind.

That lineup includes this month's listener nomination, which was sent to Ringiverse Recommends at gmail.com.

I'll save that for the end of the episode right before I recap the picks.

We're without Joanna Robinson's book corner this time, but Joe will be back on next

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