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The This Year Collection returns with another best-of for the Giant Bombcast! We put together best-ofs (i.e compilation show/highlight show/clip show/whatever else you want to call it) for podcasts and radio shows, and as is standard procedure for us each year, we’re opening up the new year with a Bombcast best-of.

Because the program is so long (nine hours) I’ve split it up into two parts. Check out the timestamps below for what’s what; we’re including the entirety of the Ryan memorial on the Bombcast because it was obviously an important part of the show in 2013. You can either get the show on iTunes or RSS or direct download the MP3s: Part 1 / Part 2.

Earlier in the year, we also produced our own memorials for Ryan: one two-hour clip show and one clip show interspersed with Summer Jams. Both are available here, and best-ofs for the rest of the Bombcast (the other five years) can be found at bombcast.thisyearcollection.org.

Hey, hope you guys enjoy it! Thanks for all of the great feedback over the last few years we've been operating. It's fun doing this stuff, but it's better knowing that lots of people really like it and come to look forward to it every January when we release these.

http://bombcast.thisyearcollection.org or http://thehotspot.thisyearcollection.org

That's Bound 2; more specifically, it's an interpretation of the Bound 2 instrumental by Canis Major.

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Included in the download.

For the most part yes; there are actually a few new clips, and some have been taken out. All of them have been rearranged, and the Suburban All-Stars songs aren't included -- this is pretty much a different beast.

Of course, but everybody knows what I mean when I put it like that.

Thanks for all the feedback on our original memorial for Ryan, featuring highlights from his time on The HotSpot and the Giant Bombcast. We said then that we were cutting together a version of the memorial that would be infused with Summer Jam songs.

As promised: the Ryan Davis Memorial, Summer Jams edition. The password to the ZIP is Ryan's "middle name," no caps.

I think it easily rates amongst the best things we've put together. I hope you enjoy it.

Ryan Davis Memorial Summer Jams Edition project update:

As we tweeted a week ago, I recently finished the first cut of the RD Summer Jams show. It needed work (as with all first drafts)—track choice, transitions between songs, that kind of thing. I did some work on the second cut this morning. It’s already sounding a lot better. We’re looking at a September release, probably on the 10th. (I can be that specific because the 10th is the beginning of our new month of bandwidth with our host.)

Related to that, I'm sorry I couldn't provide a higher quality copy of the song -- the only one I have was ripped off their MySpace page, and I don't know of any other version out there.

Thanks again to all of you for the feedback. We've completed about 47 minutes of the Summer Jams version of the memorial show. It's looking like it'll be about three to four hours long, so we're about a quarter done.