We're celebrating 10 years of The Whatnauts with an end of the year "grand prix" because you can call anything a grand prix, there's no rules stopping you! Two people talking about pizza can be a grand prix!! Kyle sees a chicken. Melissa sees a big glove. Between the two of us, we've seen Tenet 3.5 times and Interstellar 1 time and we're going to try to understand both. We also give out the yearly Review Show superlatives, recap the F1 season finale and the Game of the Year awards, imagine a Scrabble game that takes up your whole house, and talk about cow cinema.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (05:01) - Cinema corner
• (51:33) - Review Show awards and superlatives
• (01:39:11) - Episode 300 again
• (02:03:20) - Melissa's BIG news
• (02:20:31) - Formula 1 corner
• (02:36:11) - Pop culture lightning round
• (02:43:10) - Detour to The Game Awards
• (02:52:40) - Last bit of the pop culture lightning round
• (02:55:16) - Outro

Episode 310. We discuss the uncertainty of the F1 drivers championship going into the final grand prix of the season, and then get into our own show's "season finale" with the Rotten Tomatoes game! We predict the critics scores for 40 films premiering next year, and see how close our guesses were for the cinema of 2025. After being delayed multiple times, how was Kraven the Hunter received? Which family-friendly adventure and satirical horror movie both received a score of 93? What are our expectations for the tentpoles of 2026, some of which haven't even been officially titled yet? Will any movie include Lobo? How many distinct streets will be fought on in the new Street Fighter movie? Join us for the thrill of numbers!!!

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - The F1 corner
• (12:03) - Rotten Tomatoes movie predictions from this past year 2025
• (52:23) - Housekeeping
• (57:10) - Predicting the Rotten Tomatoe scores for 2026's movies
• (02:16:13) - Bonus predictions
• (02:30:05) - Outro

Episode 309. Is Louvre Detective going to be Teen Columbo's best friend or greatest enemy? What do you have to do to get a key to your city? Would you vote for a peanut over a human man? Could movie theaters drum up attendance by playing their movies in new weird colors? If you could schedule all of a year's sneezing into one day, would you? We also discuss night beef, big dumb action blockbusters like The Running Man and the Now You See Me franchise, the Miss Piggy movie, and Vegas, baby!!!!

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Kyle's got a Karting helmet
• (05:30) - The Proclamation
• (08:29) - Keys to the city
• (12:11) - SLIFF
• (16:47) - The Cinema Corner
• (28:01) - Teen Columbo is real
• (34:34) - Housekeeping
• (43:28) - Maybe Melissa will like The Game Awards
• (46:28) - Could we teach a class on podcasting?
• (49:20) - Pop culture lightning round
• (54:50) - The F1 corner
• (59:55) - Outro

Episode 308. We didn't intend this to be an episode where we make up movie pitches, but here we are. Kyle has an idea for the romantic comedy of the year starring heartthrob Wallace Shawn. Melissa has a Hollywood meta-thriller about an actor acting as his own dad. We talk about both Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the Talented Mr. Ripley, the biggest paintings we've ever seen, the end of Bugonia, the difference between miniseries and limited series, the difference between beach goth and coastal goth aesthetics, and asking strangers for their favorite Mark Ruffalo movie when you run out of normal small talk.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - BREAKING: Kyle is a weirdo
• (01:48) - The biggest paintings
• (11:48) - The MUNY garage sale
• (20:12) - Where would your life have diverged?
• (25:47) - The Cinema Corner
• (01:04:49) - Housekeeping
• (01:09:28) - Could we teach a class on podcasting?
• (01:22:54) - Pop culture lightning round
• (01:38:58) - The F1 corner
• (01:49:47) - Outro

Episode 307. Your ghost hosts A Warlock and Bob Chili from Chili's are here to turn past anecdotes into "scary" "stories." Drink your exclusive Mtn Dew: Void Suck flavor, and listen to tales of: TV characters asking for your help, genetic crossbreeding experiments to make new sports mascots, a post-apocalyptic world where the only apocalypse is that everyone who knows how to make Taco Bell went to live underground, goo city, a Kitchenaid dough hook for a hand, winning Terrible Immense Power in a raffle basket, aliens who don't understand Uranus jokes, and some real pitches for M&Ms: The Movie.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (02:58) - How our Halloween tradition works
• (05:31) - Let the scary stories begin!
• (01:12:28) - A little bit of housekeeping
• (01:14:06) - Outro

Episode 306. What real pieces of media are so strange and obscure that when you try to describe them, it sounds like an internet urban legend that you've just made up? We bring you endless circles, a scarecrow vigilante, little mouth guys, a robot in a mountain, and offbrand edutainment CD-Roms. We also read the notes written in Kyle's old high school copy of The Great Gatsby, learn about St. Louis wedding pastas, discover the pops, and argue about the proper division of items in fundraiser raffle baskets.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Real media that sounds like a creepypasta
• (00:30) - Circles
• (12:04) - The Scarecrow
• (21:38) - Mr. Boogedy and The Langoliers
• (26:29) - Gatsby is lonely
• (41:29) - The top secret CD
• (46:10) - Mort the Chicken
• (51:35) - Turn A. G Saviour.
• (01:01:55) - Cinema corner
• (01:10:41) - Dark Melissa returns
• (01:30:04) - Outro

Episode 305. New discoveries: putting stickers on a horse, an abnormal spike in Mimi per capita, and the secret of Taco Bell Shelter. Halloween is here with candy apples, baking competitions, new horror movies Him and The Long Walk, and the Korean drama Light Shop starting as a horror and then completely dropping that genre as the show goes on. We also discuss Movie Fantasy League strategy, the Emmys, the Game Awards, and how F1 races are either exactly what you expect them to be or wildly surprising.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - How do you know when it's Halloween season?
• (01:12) - Cinema corner part 1
• (10:27) - Him
• (16:18) - Cinema Corner part 2
• (23:04) - Movie Fantasy League is back
• (28:05) - Grandma names
• (35:40) - Horse stickers
• (43:36) - Taco Bell Pavillion
• (50:31) - Housekeeping
• (56:55) - Melissa won
• (59:26) - Pop culture lightning round
• (01:12:15) - More pop culture
• (01:17:07) - Formula 1 corner
• (01:26:50) - Outro

Episode 304. Friend of the show Jacquelyn returns for a fantasy draft of directors and their favorite actors to work with. A real film nerd's feast! Topics include: pairings so familiar they feel cozy like an old sweater, music videos, monster makeup, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, affable devils, chicken wing preferences, and Kyle MacLachlan making a fanvid edit of his and David Lynch's friendship.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:04) - Welcome and banter
• (10:31) - How does the draft work?
• (14:39) - Let the draft begin!
• (52:50) - The final teams from our Director/Actor pairs
• (54:16) - The ones that didn't get drafted
• (01:00:51) - Bonus questions
• (01:10:32) - Outro