The Superlatively Yes Podcast · Tanya Smith and Jennifer McCroddan

Let's Talk TV, Food and Little Bit of Sports

·1 hr 2 min·4 clips

The scar treatment is painful enough that Tanya says it almost makes her cry and feel sick.

Tanya and Jace open with their weekly Patreon rhythm. They talk about the show, the video for listeners who want the full hangout, and the fact that membership is only $5 a month. From there, the conversation slides into Fourth of July recovery and the travel plans already starting to pile up. Tanya jokes that if the day were a punchline, she would be it. That kind of self-mocking energy carries the rest of the episode. Her ethernet disaster is exactly the sort of ordinary failure that turns into a whole story here. She spent too much time trying to fix the connection before realizing the cable was never plugged into her computer. Jace lets the mistake breathe, and they keep squeezing the funny out of it instead of moving on too quickly. They move into family logistics and why escape rooms are not happening for her family. That opens the door to another easy riff, where one small practical choice turns into a bigger joke. TV talk shows up the way it does in a real catch-up, without feeling like a segment. A local-paper conversation follows. They joke about who still buys papers, whether older people are the main audience, and how odd it feels to rediscover print in a web-first world. Life360 comes up too. Tanya frames it as the kids always tracking her, which gives the whole exchange a playful, slightly accusatory edge. A quote about Little Flock and its generous, compassionate human spirit gives the episode a brief grounded turn. Even then, they stay loose and conversational rather than turning it into a speech. By the end, the running joke about being at a certain age keeps the episode from getting too tidy or too serious. It closes where it started, with warmth, teasing, and the feeling that the room could keep going for another hour.

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A warm catch-up that stays loose, funny, and easy to listen to.

Superlatively Yes settles into an easy, affectionate conversation between Tanya Smith and Jace Young. They move from recovery to Fourth of July plans, upcoming trips, Tanya's week, escape rooms, and TV without forcing a grand point, and the busted ethernet cable gives the banter…

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