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An opinionated podcast by opinionated people. Hosted by Marco Arment and Tiffany Arment.
Top Four
English, Social, 1 season, 101 episodes, 3 days, 8 hours, 21 minutes
Top Four
English, Social, 1 season, 101 episodes, 3 days, 8 hours, 21 minutes
101: 64 Days of Phish
Our favorite Phish songs. (Finally.)
6/30/2023 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 32 seconds
100: Toasting Top Four 🥂
Our 100th-episode spectacular! Here's to 100 great episodes — well, 100 episodes, at least — and more to come.
5/29/2023 • 1 hour, 52 seconds
99: Fidget Toys
A terrible surprise.
4/30/2023 • 44 minutes, 55 seconds
98: Hot Pockets 🥵🥶🥵
We actually tried every flavor of Hot Pockets and lived to tell the tale.
3/23/2023 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 31 seconds
97: Jock Jams 🏀🎶🏈🎵📣
Are you ready for this?
2/28/2023 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
96: Cakes 🎂🧁🍰🥮🍥🥞
Our favorite cakes, in honor of Tiff's birthday.
1/25/2023 • 43 minutes, 38 seconds
95: Candy Canes
The best flavors among far too many candy-cane options.
12/23/2022 • 53 minutes, 20 seconds
94: Adventure Time Characters
Our family's favorite characters from the amazing, delightful Adventure Time series.
11/29/2022 • 51 minutes, 20 seconds
93: Halloween Music 🎃🎶
Our favorite spooky music for Halloween, plus new edible contenders for some of our previous rankings!
10/23/2022 • 56 minutes, 13 seconds
92: Nut Butters
The best, worst, and weirdest nut butters and non-nut butters we could find.
9/30/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 29 seconds
91: Hot Dogs 🌭
Celebrate the last weekend of the summer with the best rods of meat and plants we could find.
8/30/2022 • 57 minutes, 51 seconds
90: Bodies of Water
It's summer, and you know what that means…
7/30/2022 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
89: Weird Al Song Parodies
Our favorite song parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
6/30/2022 • 45 minutes, 34 seconds
88: Goldfish Crackers
Taste-testing every flavor of Goldfish we could find.
5/31/2022 • 52 minutes, 55 seconds
87: Peeps 🐤
We intended to rank the worst flavors of marshmallow Peeps for Easter… but we were in for a surprise.
4/8/2022 • 44 minutes, 59 seconds
86: Overplayed Songs
The most overplayed, overused songs from the 1800s to today that we never need to hear again, but we know we will.
3/29/2022 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
85: Series Finales 📺
Our favorite TV-show finales. (Don't worry, we're not ending this show!)
2/28/2022 • 49 minutes, 42 seconds
84: Jams, Jellies, Marmalades, and Compotes
Our favorite sweet spreadables.
1/31/2022 • 37 minutes, 40 seconds
83: Road-Trip Songs 🚙🎶
Our favorite songs for road-trip playlists.
12/22/2021 • 45 minutes, 34 seconds
82: Flavors
That's right. Flavors.
11/30/2021 • 48 minutes, 53 seconds
81: Halloween Monsters 🧟🧛🏻♀️🤡👻🕷🦇🐺
Tiff's favorite Halloween monsters, and the "monsters" that most scare Marco.
10/26/2021 • 34 minutes, 56 seconds
80: Hal's Pairings
Join your favorite "seltziers" (or "crunchographers"?) as we discover amazing culinary pairings between Hal's seltzer flavors and Hal's potato chips.
9/30/2021 • 44 minutes, 57 seconds
79: Fla•Vor•Ice
The best flavors to grab on a hot summer day as you push past the children to get to the front of the line.
8/30/2021 • 28 minutes, 28 seconds
78: Pasta Shapes 🍝
After months of delicious research, we've ranked our favorite extrusions of dried semolina. We tried every shape we could find — yes, even that one.
7/29/2021 • 50 minutes, 40 seconds
77: Simpsons Characters
Our favorite characters on The Simpsons.
6/28/2021 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
76: Seafood 🐟🦞🍤🦀🦪🍋🧈
Our favorite objects to eat from the ocean.
5/27/2021 • 43 minutes, 14 seconds
75: Beer Types 🍻
A tour of the world's best ways to combine barley, hops, yeast, and water.
4/30/2021 • 52 minutes, 2 seconds
74: Apple Products 📱💻🖥⌚️
How have we not done this already?
3/31/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 40 seconds
73: Lettuces 🥬
Our favorite leafy greens.
2/23/2021 • 49 minutes, 18 seconds
72: Pop Tarts
Nobody should have 30 flavors of Pop Tarts. But having found ourselves in that situation, we did what any podcasters would do: taste-test all 30 flavors and rank our favorites.
1/30/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 37 seconds
71: Christmas Episodes of The Office
In a special crossover episode with Somehow I Manage, we're joined by Merri and Stephen Hackett to rank our favorite Christmas episodes of The Office.
12/21/2020 • 57 minutes, 48 seconds
70: '90s-Representative Songs 💿
If you were scoring a '90s scene in a movie or TV show, what song would you choose to instantly transport people back to that time?
11/30/2020 • 55 minutes, 36 seconds
69: Card Games ♦️♣️♥️♠️
Our favorite card games playable with a standard deck — or at least by ruining the top half of one.
10/31/2020 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
68: Smencils ✏️👃
We somehow made a podcast out of sniffing 55 scented pencils.
9/28/2020 • 1 hour, 49 seconds
67: Sports ⚾️🏹🥌⛳️🤺🏓🏄🏽
The world’s worst sports commentators rank the world’s sports.
8/28/2020 • 51 minutes, 51 seconds
66: Face Masks 😷
Our favorite face-mask types, attributes, materials, and brands for varying circumstances.
7/29/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 38 seconds
65: Chex Mix Pieces
Our favorite pieces to grab from the bowl of this ubiquitous party mix.
6/26/2020 • 29 minutes, 56 seconds
64: Taco Toppings 🌮
Celebrating this year's Cinco de Mayo that also falls on Taco Tuesday, we rank our favorite taco toppings.
5/5/2020 • 34 minutes, 21 seconds
63: Minecraft Mobs
The Arment family's favorite enemies, animals, and other bizarre creatures in Minecraft.
4/30/2020 • 48 minutes, 40 seconds
62: Best Bluths
Our favorite Bluth family members from Arrested Development.
3/24/2020 • 38 minutes, 3 seconds
61: Candy Heart Phrases ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍
The best (or worst?) phrases printed on Valentine's Day candy hearts.
2/14/2020 • 42 minutes, 19 seconds
60: Waters🚰
This might be the stupidest thing we've ever done. And that's saying something.
1/30/2020 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
59: Royal Dansk Butter Cookies
Our favorite cookies from these classic blue tins before they're reused to hold buttons and sewing kits.
12/22/2019 • 47 minutes, 20 seconds
58: Cheeses 🧀
Our favorite types of cheese, taste-tested live for your enjoyment — or at least ours.
11/27/2019 • 59 minutes, 23 seconds
57: One-Hit Wonder Albums
Music albums that contain one-hit-wonder singles, but are also really great albums.
10/31/2019 • 45 minutes, 44 seconds
56: Instant Coffee ☕💨
We taste-tested 14 instant coffees, from mouth parties to tire fires, to discover if there's anything redeemable about this much-maligned beverage.
9/20/2019 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
55: LaCroix Flavors
Lauren and Jason Snell join us to taste-test and rank all 24 flavors of LaCroix seltzer.
8/30/2019 • 54 minutes, 17 seconds
54: Emoji! 📅
In celebration of World Emoji Day, we ranked our favorite emoji.
7/17/2019 • 36 minutes, 17 seconds
53: Band Names
Our favorite band names, regardless of the quality of the bands, or whether we've even heard of them before.
6/27/2019 • 27 minutes, 50 seconds
52: Eggs 🥚🍳
Our favorite egg preparations, from simple breakfasts to the fanciest parties.
5/29/2019 • 31 minutes, 55 seconds
51: Heist Movies
The culmination of months of research: our favorite heist movies, and why so many movies don't qualify.
4/30/2019 • 50 minutes, 59 seconds
50: Nuts 🥜🌰🥥🌽🍺
Our favorite nuts. Really.
3/29/2019 • 32 minutes, 27 seconds
49: TV Couples
To celebrate Valentine's Day, we rank our favorite TV couples. (Contains spoilers for popular '90s–'00s TV series.)
2/14/2019 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds
48: “Milks” 🥛
We taste and rank 12 different "milk" beverages of various animal, plant, and scientific origins.
1/29/2019 • 50 minutes, 36 seconds
47: Holiday Traditions
Our favorite Christmas or holiday traditions from the families that we're stuck with.
12/20/2018 • 34 minutes, 18 seconds
46: Woodland Creatures 🦔🐿🦉🦆🦌🐇
Yes, we really ranked our favorite woodland creatures.
11/19/2018 • 33 minutes, 40 seconds
45: Breakfasts 🥐🍳🍰🥞🍕🥓☕️
Our favorite breakfast foods!
10/26/2018 • 42 minutes, 57 seconds
44: School Supplies ✏️📓🖊
Our favorite school supplies from our youth.
9/9/2018 • 49 minutes, 16 seconds
43: Beach Movies 🏖
What qualifies as a beach movie, and our favorite picks from a summer of heavy research.
8/25/2018 • 45 minutes, 13 seconds
42: F•R•I•E•N•D•S
Our favorite characters from the hit '90s sitcom, Friends.
7/30/2018 • 54 minutes, 53 seconds
41: 21 Pringles and One Prongle
There are more flavors of Pringles potato chips than we ever imagined, so naturally, we had to taste and rank as many as we could get our hands on.
6/26/2018 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
40: '90s Albums 💿
Our favorite '90s rock/alternative albums.
5/24/2018 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 seconds
39: Merch 💸
Our favorite types of merchandise for podcasts, video games, artists, and other things we're fans of.
4/10/2018 • 41 minutes, 11 seconds
38: Tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Our favorite tracks in Mario Kart for the Nintendo Switch.
3/25/2018 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
37: Valentine's Chocolate Boxes 💝
Our favorite heart-shaped boxes of chocolates for Valentine's Day.
2/12/2018 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
36: Misheard Eddie Vedder Lyrics
Our favorite unintelligible Eddie Vedder songs.
1/21/2018 • 48 minutes, 1 second
35: Pies 🥧
Our favorite pies!
12/12/2017 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds
34: Stardew Valley Singles
Our top eligible singles of Pelican Town, with special guests Alex Cox and Myke Hurley.
11/8/2017 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 57 seconds
33: Pumpkin Spice Everything 🎃
Try all the things!
10/17/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 31 seconds
32: Fall-tivities 🌰🍂
Our favorite autumnal activities!
9/19/2017 • 30 minutes, 31 seconds
31: Nightmare Vacations
Our most dreaded, least appealing vacation destinations.
8/19/2017 • 50 minutes, 36 seconds
30: Summer Songs 😎
Our favorite songs about, from, reminiscent of, mentioning, or vaguely related to summer.
7/19/2017 • 47 minutes, 57 seconds
29: Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavors
We tested 24 flavors of ice cream for you. You’re welcome.
6/27/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 59 seconds
28: Kid Shows Tolerable To Adults
Our favorite TV shows for our kid to watch when we're in the room.
5/26/2017 • 25 minutes, 51 seconds
27: Girl Scout Cookies 🍪
We rank our favorite Girl Scout cookies and make Top Four history.
4/18/2017 • 37 minutes, 53 seconds
26: Holidays 🐰🎄🌭🏈🎉🎃🍺
Our favorite annual holidays… for very different reasons.
3/21/2017 • 38 minutes, 30 seconds
25: Dog Breeds 🐶
Steffanie and Joel Housman join us to rank our favorite dog breeds. (But they're all good dogs!)
2/9/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 58 seconds
24: Vegetables 🍆🥒🌽🥕🌶
In the new year, we help you navigate the challenging world of vegetables.
1/19/2017 • 34 minutes, 22 seconds
23: Christmas Movies 🎄
Lauren and Jason Snell join us to rank our favorite Christmas movies.
12/8/2016 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 40 seconds
22: Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Our favorite side dishes in typical American Thanksgiving dinners… and every meal in the following few days.
11/26/2016 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
21: Fifty Flavors of Lies
Our top four worst Jelly Belly flavors.
10/11/2016 • 38 minutes, 13 seconds
20: Jelly Belly Teaser
The best homework you've ever gotten from a podcast: Buy these jelly beans before next week's episode!
10/8/2016 • 58 seconds
19: Cereals From A Van 🚐
Special guests Paul Kafasis and Myke Hurley join Tiff and Marco at Cereal From A Van, a Portland food "truck", to rank everyone's top four breakfast cereals. Recorded live at XOXO 2016.
9/18/2016 • 19 minutes, 22 seconds
18: Childhood Console Games 🎮
Favorites from the NES, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo 64, with apologies to the Sega Master System, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and PlayStation.
9/7/2016 • 50 minutes, 24 seconds
17: Movie Genres
Tiff and Marco rank their favorite, surprisingly specific movie genres.
8/11/2016 • 23 minutes, 34 seconds
16: Starbucks Cold Drinks
Tiff and Marco go undercover into Starbucks once more, this time to find their favorite cold drinks.
7/11/2016 • 46 minutes, 12 seconds
15: Top Gear Episodes
Erin and Casey Liss join Tiff and Marco to rank their favorite Top Gear challenges and specials.
6/12/2016 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 4 seconds
14: Pizza Toppings 🍕
Tiff and Marco rank their favorite pizza toppings, interview a pizza expert, and taste-test the new topping sensation that's sweeping across Relay FM.
5/20/2016 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
13: Bagel Flavors
Tiff and Marco rank their favorite bagel flavors, followed by a science experiment.
4/13/2016 • 41 minutes, 6 seconds
12: Star Wars Movies
Tina and John Siracusa join Tiff and Marco to rank their favorite Star Wars movies. Even the prequels.
3/13/2016 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 10 seconds
11: Dunkin’ Donuts 🍩
Tiff and Marco try every doughnut at their local Dunkin’ Donuts.
2/11/2016 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
10: Starbucks Hot Drinks
Tiff and Marco go undercover into Starbucks to find their favorite hot drinks.
1/13/2016 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds
9: Christmas Music
Myke and Adina join Tiff and Marco for most of them to discuss their favorite Christmas songs.
12/9/2015 • 59 minutes, 16 seconds
8: Take-Out Food
Tiff and Marco discuss their favorite take-out food types.
11/23/2015 • 46 minutes, 39 seconds
7: Halloween Candy
Tiff and Marco discuss their most and least favorite candies typically received by American children on Halloween.
11/2/2015 • 22 minutes, 56 seconds
6: Board Games
Tiff and Marco discuss their top four favorite board games.
10/27/2015 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 54 seconds
5: Podcasts
Marco and Tiff rank their four favorite podcasts (right now).
10/16/2015 • 51 minutes, 34 seconds
4: Worst Weezer Singles
Marco and Tiff, both big Weezer fans from way back, rank the four worst Weezer radio-single releases.
9/28/2015 • 39 minutes, 56 seconds
3: Reality TV Shows
Marco and Tiff share their top four reality/competition TV shows.
9/15/2015 • 54 minutes, 35 seconds
2: TV Shows
Marco and Tiff share their top four TV Shows.
8/30/2015 • 51 minutes, 27 seconds
1: Video Games
Marco and Tiff share their top four video games.
8/17/2015 • 56 minutes, 8 seconds