The Superlatively Yes Podcast · Tanya Smith and Jennifer McCroddan

Bouncing Back, Burger Week and Primazon

·1 hr 10 min·4 clips

Tanya tells her doctor, “I feel dead inside,” and he immediately orders labs.

Tanya Smith and Jace Young greet listeners like they already know the room. They mention their Patreon setup early, including weekly episodes and video versions. The opening immediately turns into a microphone joke when one of them thinks the other may have been muted. That sets the pace for what follows. The conversation stays loose, teasing, and very conversational from there. Tanya says the point of the day is her week of unrelenting darkness. The line lands with affection, not despair. The dishwasher is the first villain in the story. It keeps failing at exactly the wrong moments. Tanya says she fixed it while she was sick with COVID. She describes lying on her belly and taking the bottom of the machine apart to get it working again. The repair story becomes one of the episode's best comic set pieces. Sean decides enough is enough and orders a new dishwasher. Tanya is thrilled by the Bosch replacement. Jace treats that excitement like a perfectly deserved victory. Then the conversation drifts into Fisherman's Friend cough drops. Tanya talks about them with near-religious enthusiasm. The cough drops get compared to little wafers, which opens the door to a joke about communion and divine help. Their humor keeps building through quoted lines and affectionate corrections. Shep's wisdom teeth extraction becomes another bright spot in the week's chaos. They both lean into how funny he is when he is medicated. Burger Week shows up as another ordinary detail that somehow deserves its own attention. TV talk sits alongside all of it. The hosts treat extra TV as a valid survival skill when life is already off balance. The episode keeps moving by association rather than by outline. One story hands off to the next without much ceremony. What holds it together is the warmth between the hosts. They tease, contradict, and encourage each other in the same breath. The result feels like being caught up mid-conversation by people who are glad you arrived. By the end, the week's mess has not disappeared, but it has been made lighter.

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A loose, household-chaos catch-up that turns everyday frustration into easy banter.

Episode 149 of Superlatively Yes stays loose and easy to listen to. Tanya Smith and Jace Young move through Tanya's week of unrelenting darkness, Burger Week, Shep's wisdom teeth extraction, TV talk, and the dishwasher headache without forcing any big arc.

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If you want one hilarious dishwasher rescue story, start here.

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