Is it just us, or have tearaway cardboard packages become way worse? Maybe it’s just the freezer. Maybe it’s the world’s interminable slide into mediocrity.

Grant brings Cleats. He’s got some hip lingo to present to Mark, and a brief question about fashion.

Mark brings WuMo. He is happy to share the beauty of new life in the spring.

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