Rascal finally understands the reason for the season

Episode Five of Rascal Radio Hour opens on bucolic scene of five bloggers gathered around the yuletide microphone, their heads swimming with fond memories of 2024 and dreams of the year ahead. They definitely aren't constantly quipping and sniping at each other, and not a single one forgets the name of their own website.

This raucous sendoff to 2024 might be our best episode to date, not the least thanks to having all five past and present Rascal members on hand. We finally christen our question section with a title, but only after Chase runs face first into the "is it a joke or a kink?" rule. The team wonder why there is so much divorced energy between them, and Thomas reveals part of his mysterious backstory. Lin and Rowan are left to muster some sort of professionalism, which goes about as well as you might expect.

Rascal is taking a break until the first of the year, although we have planned some wrap-up coverage for next week. Expect to see the whole team back and blogging on January 6, but until then we will be keeping our Holiday Special subscription deals live. If you haven't yet snagged a steeply discounted invitation into our community of paying supporters, this is legitimately the best deal we've yet offered.

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Here's an excerpt:

Thomas: I just want to say that Rowan mentioned I talk differently on [my] podcast and in Rascal meetings. I want to say, listeners, that's because Rascal meetings are really fun. Rascal meetings are the best meetings I've ever had in any job.

Chase: Aw!

Thomas: Yeah, it's a nice thing. Everyone's nice to each other.

Rowan: And we do basically this, exactly what you're hearing on the podcast. We just kind of run bits for half an hour and then go, fuck, right, we are a business.

Chase: Right, yeah, work! We got 10 minutes left, let's do work. Okay, so if you wanna send a question in, email us at info at rascal.com. Put question in the header if you can.

Caelyn: Rascal.com? What's rascal.com, Chase?

Chase: Did I say it? Did I say rascal.com? NO!

Rowan: Vindication, vindication.

Thomas: Okay, this is clearly a thing that's going to happen to everyone who's been on this podcast. They're going to make this mistake at some point. Let's see. I'm putting it up on the on the bounty board. Who's next to say rascal.com?

Chase: We got the big X's across mine and across Rowan's name. One at a time we're gonna get assassinated by the dot com.

Rowan: It's gonna be Caelyn.

Caelyn: Now, see, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start registering every "rascal dot whatever" domain I can and have it redirect to rascal.news and then you'll be just be like Caelyn, you said it wrong. You said rascal dot—I don't know—EO or something. And I'll be like, yeah check it out. See what happens if you go to that.

Chase: You're gonna empty our coffers that way.

Rowan: rascal.uk.co.

Chase: I want to get rascal.piss.

Caelyn: I just want to say the rule that if you make a joke about a kink three times it means you have that kink. So, you are currently on strike one for the piss kink.

Chase: Okay. Put it on the board. All right.

Thomas: I don't know why Caelyn was so sure that Chase was joking.