349 – Award Shows Are A Joke!

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Hi, this is Gary Jock, and you’re listening to

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the Geekcast Radio Network. This is Geekcast

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Radio, episode 349, folks. I am TF2 and Mike,

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and we recorded this before the 4 ,000th overall

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podcast episode for the Geekcast Radio Network.

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We recorded this in early April of 2025, so this

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is going to be in the past. So if you have already

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listened to All Things Transformers, episode

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444 of that podcast, that is the overall… 4000th

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episode we have recorded here at the geek cast

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radio network in 16 years of the network being

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online but i wanted to put this little preview

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here this little teaser psa whatever the hell

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you want to call it before geek cast radio episode

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349 where we talk about Something. I don’t even

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remember what the heck we talked about in this

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episode, but I’m going to find out as I edit

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it right now here on the Geekcast Radio Network.

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And without any further ado, here’s myself and

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Steve Megatron talking about something geeky.

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Oh, I remember what it was. Award shows are a

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joke. Enjoy, folks. Now, back to the show. Welcome

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to the 349th episode of Geek Cast Radio. Yes,

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that’s right, folks. We are back. And no, this

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is not a convention attention episode. This is

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a normal, everyday GCR that we’ve been doing

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for the last almost 16 years. We are, this is

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May something or other. No, not May. This is

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April something or other. We’re about two months,

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a little less than two months away from the 16th.

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anniversary of the geek cast radio network i’m

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of course tf2 and mike joining me is returning

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steve megatron how the hell have you been i’m

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bananas uh no i’ve been i’ve been doing pretty

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good uh finally coming out from under the rock

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i’ve been hiding under and uh looking forward

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to you know actually producing more content Yeah,

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I’ve noticed, and you’ll probably see this episode

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here soon, folks, but I’ve noticed in the last

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couple of weeks, because of how insane I am and

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how I’m basically doing daily podcasting, Studio

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2009 is in the middle of The Columbo Files, eight

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episodes, and then Michael Wilson and I are in

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the middle of kind of, sort of, almost, but not

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really wrapping up the podcast organization without

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a cool acronym, so the entire main slider. Columbo,

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Columbo, Columbo, Phineas and Ferb, Columbo,

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Phineas and Ferb, Columbo. Yeah, I’m almost borderline

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ready to take Studio out of the slider. Stop

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it. No. Don’t do that. It’s there too much, man.

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I know. Well, you know, it won’t be there that

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much longer. Well, I mean, it will be, but it

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won’t be. So after this month, it’ll be back

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to weekly. I think. Yeah, it’ll be back to weekly

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because episode 41 to 51 is weekly movie. It’s

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the Fast Saga, so it’s 11 episodes of that or

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something like that. I don’t remember. So, yeah,

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that’s what’s going on with the Geekcast Radio

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Network website stuff. And tonight, folks, award

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shows are a joke. I wrote an article about that.

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Yeah. A number of years ago. Yes, yes, you did.

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Yeah, it’s kind of one. If anybody knows my disdain

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for any of these award shows, it kind of comes

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around often because, you know, they do these

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every year and every year they’re a travesty.

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I even wrote one in December. Why award shows

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like the Oscars and Video Game Awards are a waste

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of time. I’m there right now. Yep. Because it’s

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all spectacle over substance. Like, it’s a total

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waste of time. And then, and then, because it’s

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funny because I had the, you know, the whole

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section about it being under fire, you know,

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about the selection process and then choosing

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the nominees and what qualifies as prestigious

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and, you know, what’s had the huge marketing

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budget. And the fact that they’re often not picked

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on artistic merit or innovation, but on industry

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politics and strategic marketing. Yeah. Only

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to have it confirmed. Which just, oh, this is

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funny. So anyways, I started seeing this on Twitter

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or X earlier today. There was this. post by and

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i don’t take everything at face value because

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people just can make crap up and it was by like

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film updates and they were like the academy is

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now implementing a new rule that members must

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now watch all nominated films in each category

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to be eligible to vote in the final round for

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the oscars and then the screenshot it’s got somebody

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going in all caps they weren’t doing that before

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And I was like, oh, this is funny. And then adding

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insult to injury, I decided to fact check. And

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it’s legit. So we have a number of resources.

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And yes, the Academy decided that members must

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actually watch the films before voting in category.

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It’s like saying, Mike, Steve, don’t just read

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the review off Wikipedia. I mean, that’s essentially

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what they’re doing. Like, oh, we’re going to

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judge it on the trailer and whether we like the

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actor or not. So anyways, this new rule is true.

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And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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is officially mandated that the members must

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watch all nominated films in a category before

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they can vote in that category, which I don’t

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feel like you could be a legit critic if you

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didn’t suffer through the film in the first place.

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True. That you’re pontificating should be something

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we all should care about. And especially, it’s

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kind of biased anyway, because they don’t take

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true consideration for animated films. They don’t

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do superhero films. It’s very much their closed

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basket of… Well, we’ve always done it this

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way and it’s always been these type of films

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and we’re not deviating. Yeah. And, you know,

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of course, the Academy has, you know, their track

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record with members only screening room. So they’re

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going to track them with this screening room

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app, which I think is wonderful. Yes. For films

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watched at screenings or festivals and the members

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must submit a form verifying when and where they

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viewed them, you know, obviously to make sure

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that. They’re not pulling this out of their hindquarters.

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So the ramifications of the rule are more informed

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voting, and it basically ensures that voters

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are making decisions based on the actual films

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rather than the reputation marketing or personal

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biases. I mean, it’s no different than any of

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these other geek pop culture websites out there

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that are, you know, having their personal bias

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and, you know, things about the reputation or…

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But at least… The ones that aren’t owned by

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Hollywood studio type stuff actually watch the

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movie and, you know, have a fair opinion one

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way or the other about it. But they’ve watched

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the movie. Yeah. And so this could also have

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the ramification of having potentially fewer

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voters because some may opt out of voting in

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certain categories if they don’t have time to

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watch all the nominees, which honestly wouldn’t

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be a bad thing because you might get some fresh

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blood in there. You know, people, some people

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that that want to actually watch some of these

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movies and not just, you know, nominating Pedro

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Pascal for, you know, 50 roles or Oscar Isaac

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or, you know, Benedict Cumberbatch or, you know,

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how they just kept getting shoehorned. I mean,

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it’s Chris Pratt right now, too, but they’re

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all being shoved in these movies constantly.

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But I think it’s also ramification of these stupid

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award shows. Yeah, but it could also impact with.

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you know, lesser known films benefiting because

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voters will be required to watch them rather

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than skipping them. Yeah. Which I know was a

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thing. I mean, it kind of makes sense that they’re,

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they’re finally leading to this, but this data

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that was compiled just further leads into my

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various articles where I’m complaining about

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the Oscars and the fact that they’re joke. And,

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you know, it’s, it’s saying historically there’ve

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been concerns that. They haven’t watched all

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the nominees, leading to questionable voting

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outcomes. And some of the voters having admitted

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they skipped certain films because they were

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too long or not in their style. Which, if you’re

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going to base it on a whole category, you should

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at least sample everything in that category and

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actually watch it from start to finish. I mean,

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if that is your job. Yeah, exactly. But it’s

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contributed to a lot of snubs and surprising

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wins where, you know, films with strong industry

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buzz lost out to more mainstream or familiar

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choices or, you know, some of the criticisms.

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And one of the reasons I consider it a joke is

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because they have their personal bias towards

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certain genres. Like they kind of skip over sci

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-fi. I’m not a personal fan of horror, but they

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do skip over that as well. And action films are

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typically overlooked in favor of certain types

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of dramas or things that, honestly, I wouldn’t

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give the time of day. And the funny thing about

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the drama category is that drama… Okay, maybe

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I’m not that into the drama category anymore,

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but I remember drama used to be a bigger deal

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in movies. I don’t know. I think, at least for

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me, other genres like superheroes, like sci -fi,

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like other things like that have taken over where

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drama used to be a bigger niche in that. It’s

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so weird. When I hear drama film, I’m like, what?

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What would that choice be? I know I’m… Out

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of it, folks. I get it. But, yeah, I mean, so

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there’s that, and then there’s the campaigning

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and politics. You know, how studios spend millions

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lobbying for awards. It kind of reminds me of,

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and this is something I’ve noticed from just

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being in marketing, the places that are putting

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on the awards, it’s very much a pay -to -play.

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So, like, if you own a business and you… don’t

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pay for the awards, you won’t win the awards.

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But if you pay and they like you, you’ll win.

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Yep. And so it’s kind of like it leads me to

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wonder how the process works. And I feel like

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it’s like that with a lot of awards. I feel like

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a lot of them are marketing payoffs. Oh, most

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definitely. And this is no different. I feel

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like they’re all kind of rigged. Because you’ll

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never see a small mom and pop business win compared

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to a chain. Or you won’t see a smaller movie

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win compared to a franchise that’s been around

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or a director that’s highly acclaimed by the

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critics of the awards. But they’re not… You

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kind of get where I’m going with this. It’s very

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suspicious in that. And so especially when over

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the years, many deserving films and performances

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have been blatantly ignored, leading to irritation

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with the audience for the critics. And then there’s

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been a lot of backlash for failing to recognize

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different, you know, diverse voices in filmmaking

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or different, you know, ideals like. I don’t

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have a problem with it. Like if you know, it’s,

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they should be doing it based on merit. Yeah,

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absolutely. I’m just hoping that it fixes the

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reputation and the credibility and makes it actually

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worth watching. Yeah. The fact that they’re having

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to do this set, you know, as a damage control

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to try and get the ratings back so that they

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can hit that magical 100 tells me that me thinks

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they’re not doing so well. Yeah, me thinks they’re

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not doing so well either. And the thing of it

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is, is like, okay, so lately they’re in the last

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two Oscars. This year and last year. I forget

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what the moment was last. There were two moments

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during the shows where I’m like, oh, that’s really

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freaking cool. That’s awesome. And that’s why

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I liked it. It has nothing to do with anything

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else. Except for those two moments, except for

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the show that happened last year. I don’t remember

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what the moment was, but the most recent moment

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that I remember is the Karen Culkin moment about

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his wife. That moment is why I love moments like

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that is why I love some of the award shows. Literally,

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he told them, don’t start playing the music.

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Literally, When you can do that and actually

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get them to listen to you, that’s amazing. But

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the rest of it, I could… I think the last time

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I watched a award show, specifically the Oscars,

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Phil Donahue was on with Raquel Welch in the

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90s. Oh, wait, that was Naked Gun. Whoops. But

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you get my point. Like, I just… I don’t…

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I don’t know. I’m happy for some of these people

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that win if they deserve the win. That’s great.

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That’s awesome. But other than that, I don’t

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buy into all this stuff. Yeah, I agree. I’ve

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not enjoyed really any of the award shows. I

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find them all to be just kind of… I mean, I

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get it. I understand they want to recognize people

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in their industry. They want to, you know…

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it is good to recognize accomplishments and growth

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and, you know, a job well done in the industry.

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I do understand that. And I do feel they have

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the right to it. However, it becomes a soapbox

00:16:01.679 –> 00:16:05.320
for the, for whoever’s winning to pontificate

00:16:05.320 –> 00:16:07.960
their beliefs and everything else. It’s like,

00:16:07.960 –> 00:16:11.320
and Ricky Gervais said it rather bluntly years

00:16:11.320 –> 00:16:15.879
ago, you know, thank your you know thank your

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creator thank your you know your family thank

00:16:19.019 –> 00:16:22.019
your you know spouse and say thanks for your

00:16:22.019 –> 00:16:24.960
word shut up and sit down you have no business

00:16:24.960 –> 00:16:27.159
telling anybody anything else like just yeah

00:16:27.159 –> 00:16:29.779
like just get your award and shut up and sit

00:16:29.779 –> 00:16:32.460
down and so like i kind of agree with that yeah

00:16:32.460 –> 00:16:34.980
like it’s it’s like yes you know i’d like to

00:16:34.980 –> 00:16:38.220
thank you know the people that got me here and

00:16:38.220 –> 00:16:40.980
things like that but like don’t we don’t need

00:16:40.980 –> 00:16:43.759
your whole political and everything else like

00:16:43.759 –> 00:16:48.799
just you know speak to the accomplishments of

00:16:48.799 –> 00:16:52.059
your peers that worked on the film with you like

00:16:52.059 –> 00:16:54.620
they got you where you are like yeah thank you

00:16:54.620 –> 00:16:56.539
to the great writer of the film that you were

00:16:56.539 –> 00:16:59.700
in that you won the nomination for or the director

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or your you know your stunt double or you know

00:17:03.440 –> 00:17:06.480
whatever like yeah whatever it is yeah Like,

00:17:06.559 –> 00:17:10.819
you know, use that as your soapbox to be humble.

00:17:10.980 –> 00:17:14.759
Yep, absolutely. And yeah, you should take some

00:17:14.759 –> 00:17:17.160
pride in owning and winning the award as long

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as it’s earned. You know, which it sounds like

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in some cases, I’m sure they were in other cases.

00:17:23.240 –> 00:17:25.220
I’m sure that people got snubbed for the wrong

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reason. But it sounds like with this new rule,

00:17:28.059 –> 00:17:30.480
it could improve the credibility. We’ll see whether

00:17:30.480 –> 00:17:33.380
it actually does anything, whether it’s worth

00:17:33.380 –> 00:17:37.609
it. Who knows? You never know. But, yeah, I mean,

00:17:37.670 –> 00:17:42.849
I’ve never understood, like, oh, you have given

00:17:42.849 –> 00:17:45.990
me accolades. I am now going to go on a tirade.

00:17:45.990 –> 00:17:48.869
Like, no. That’s what social media is for. If

00:17:48.869 –> 00:17:51.410
you want to go crazy, do it on social media.

00:17:51.890 –> 00:17:56.079
Do it on whatever. But don’t do it when people

00:17:56.079 –> 00:17:59.700
are praising you or people are trying to acknowledge

00:17:59.700 –> 00:18:03.660
your accomplishments of doing a good job or whatever

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kind of thing or doing an excellent job, not

00:18:06.039 –> 00:18:08.779
just a good job. Not everyone has a freaking

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Oscar. That’s an accomplishment in Hollywood

00:18:11.839 –> 00:18:14.940
that should be set above everything else. And

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I think that’s why the Oscars has always, why

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the Academy has always had. the higher standards

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why they they don’t do the superhero films why

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certain like the superhero stuff or the certain

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action stuff is excluded because i think they’re

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they’ve got their pinkies up in the air they’ve

00:18:36.980 –> 00:18:39.859
got their noses up at us and and they’re like

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oh those are just everyday films we want highbrow

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we want this we want that we want whatever and

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you know hey if you’re lucky enough to win that’s

00:18:52.400 –> 00:18:56.559
that’s awesome for you go enjoy it have a good

00:18:56.559 –> 00:19:00.000
time like you’ve already said thank who you need

00:19:00.000 –> 00:19:04.480
to thank and set the fuck down pretty much i

00:19:04.480 –> 00:19:07.700
mean i it is funny because i had this you know

00:19:07.700 –> 00:19:10.220
this article in december because the video game

00:19:10.220 –> 00:19:17.410
awards yep well the previous time April of 2021,

00:19:17.730 –> 00:19:21.170
the Oscars. It’s that time again. I wrote an

00:19:21.170 –> 00:19:24.750
article then, too. And again, I wrote, you know,

00:19:24.829 –> 00:19:27.390
each year, surprising to learn the picks that

00:19:27.390 –> 00:19:30.730
did and didn’t take home the golden statue. And

00:19:30.730 –> 00:19:34.750
it’s funny because I’ve complained about it literally

00:19:34.750 –> 00:19:38.869
every year. Well, yeah. I mean, I’ve spaced it

00:19:38.869 –> 00:19:43.299
out some, but it’s been the same boat. It’s a

00:19:43.299 –> 00:19:47.059
running gag that we do. But even my thoughts

00:19:47.059 –> 00:19:49.940
back in 2021, commenting on it, suffice it to

00:19:49.940 –> 00:19:51.640
say I haven’t seen a new movie in theaters in

00:19:51.640 –> 00:19:54.220
years. I am mostly a Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Prime,

00:19:54.279 –> 00:19:56.160
Disney Plus person when it comes to my film and

00:19:56.160 –> 00:20:00.259
television consumption. And then commenting on

00:20:00.259 –> 00:20:06.500
other things and hearing about the movies that

00:20:06.500 –> 00:20:11.309
came out during that time. Tenet, Mulan. you

00:20:11.309 –> 00:20:15.190
know, Borat sequel and all kinds of stupid crap.

00:20:16.390 –> 00:20:18.869
And then I complained about the like the Cal

00:20:18.869 –> 00:20:26.549
arts crap, which I still hate. You know, I, I,

00:20:26.549 –> 00:20:29.069
my own opinion there. And then I did another

00:20:29.069 –> 00:20:33.809
one in 2019 around the same time that particular

00:20:33.809 –> 00:20:37.269
year. I, I was interested in some of the stuff.

00:20:37.329 –> 00:20:39.910
I think, I think that was when they had like,

00:20:40.279 –> 00:20:44.319
Billy Crystal hosting? Probably. I don’t know.

00:20:44.359 –> 00:20:47.700
Something. And there were hosts that did a good

00:20:47.700 –> 00:20:50.920
job on there. But I basically said the same thing.

00:20:50.980 –> 00:20:53.099
Stop pandering with opinion sessions at the mic.

00:20:54.140 –> 00:20:56.279
Recognize content that everyone is familiar with.

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Shorten the program. Restructure the awards.

00:21:00.200 –> 00:21:04.740
Inclusion of variety. Boom. I have your plan,

00:21:04.859 –> 00:21:08.259
and I gave it to you six years ago. Thank you.

00:21:10.019 –> 00:21:11.940
That’s the thing I’m learning too. The, you know

00:21:11.940 –> 00:21:14.240
how I used to make those predictions, you know,

00:21:14.240 –> 00:21:16.140
like, Oh, Disney made, you know, it’s going to

00:21:16.140 –> 00:21:18.940
buy Lucasfilm or going to buy Marvel and you

00:21:18.940 –> 00:21:21.740
just watch blah, blah, blah. I’ve been predicting

00:21:21.740 –> 00:21:24.579
things with like websites and like traffic and

00:21:24.579 –> 00:21:26.700
just things that I’ve consumed over the last

00:21:26.700 –> 00:21:31.920
like couple of years. And it’s, it’s funny because

00:21:31.920 –> 00:21:36.339
when it comes to some of these things, like I’m,

00:21:36.589 –> 00:21:39.990
I’m ahead of my time and I don’t realize it at

00:21:39.990 –> 00:21:42.250
the moment until the time comes. And then I look

00:21:42.250 –> 00:21:46.369
back and I find something that I wrote and I’m

00:21:46.369 –> 00:21:51.369
like, Oh, me had idea and it was good. Yup. That’s

00:21:51.369 –> 00:21:53.450
right. And it took everybody else six years longer

00:21:53.450 –> 00:21:56.329
to find out. Just like when, when I wanted to

00:21:56.329 –> 00:22:00.950
do the GCRN live back in, in 2010, 2011. Yeah.

00:22:01.230 –> 00:22:04.190
And up through 2013 and we just couldn’t make

00:22:04.190 –> 00:22:06.940
it come together. And then all of a sudden, After

00:22:06.940 –> 00:22:13.039
2016, live streaming was all the rage. And still

00:22:13.039 –> 00:22:20.940
is. And video content shows. It makes me laugh

00:22:20.940 –> 00:22:23.460
because I’m like, we have these good ideas. We

00:22:23.460 –> 00:22:26.200
don’t necessarily have the time or the cash flow

00:22:26.200 –> 00:22:31.019
to make them happen. But we do remember them

00:22:31.019 –> 00:22:35.500
when it comes down to it. And I think the Oscars

00:22:35.500 –> 00:22:39.500
have their answer here. Authenticity. Yes, exactly.

00:22:39.799 –> 00:22:43.640
Be real. That’s right. Be real, folks. Be real.

00:22:45.400 –> 00:22:48.059
I’m hoping that they can turn this around for

00:22:48.059 –> 00:22:50.920
their sake. I don’t wish ill will on the Oscars

00:22:50.920 –> 00:22:53.079
or the awards show because I think it does stand

00:22:53.079 –> 00:22:56.700
for something good. It just needs to be retooled

00:22:56.700 –> 00:22:59.680
to not be what it’s been over the years. Yeah,

00:22:59.740 –> 00:23:04.039
it’s time to, like, I understand and I, you know,

00:23:04.039 –> 00:23:08.099
respect the tradition of the Academy and all

00:23:08.099 –> 00:23:11.359
that, but there’s a time and a place for tradition

00:23:11.359 –> 00:23:14.940
and there’s a time and a place for modernization

00:23:14.940 –> 00:23:19.920
of streamlining the system, of streamlining the

00:23:19.920 –> 00:23:24.920
product, of making it more accessible to today’s

00:23:24.920 –> 00:23:28.980
audience, because I’m sorry. It’s going to take

00:23:28.980 –> 00:23:32.839
me a long time. I don’t know if we’ll ever cover

00:23:32.839 –> 00:23:36.220
this on this network, at least not with me, because

00:23:36.220 –> 00:23:38.380
I don’t think I can sit through another three

00:23:38.380 –> 00:23:43.019
hours of that. But if I can barely sit through

00:23:43.019 –> 00:23:45.400
the Batman, what makes you think I want to sit

00:23:45.400 –> 00:23:47.579
through three and a half hours of awards ceremony

00:23:47.579 –> 00:23:58.910
in 2025 or beyond 2025? Oh boy. Yeah. I don’t

00:23:58.910 –> 00:24:01.490
have the, I don’t have the mentality to sit behind

00:24:01.490 –> 00:24:04.329
it and watch. I just, I don’t care enough to,

00:24:04.490 –> 00:24:09.849
uh, it took me, I think for it, no three days.

00:24:10.009 –> 00:24:16.349
And I watched that movie an hour a day. I just,

00:24:16.630 –> 00:24:23.410
so yeah, folks, while the title of the podcast

00:24:23.410 –> 00:24:27.200
does say award shows are a joke, It’s a comedy

00:24:27.200 –> 00:24:29.500
thing. It’s a title. It’s meant to be funny.

00:24:29.559 –> 00:24:31.599
It’s meant to hopefully have you people listen

00:24:31.599 –> 00:24:35.180
to our 349th episode, because episode 350, oh

00:24:35.180 –> 00:24:40.119
boy. And yeah, I mean, hopefully, you know, we

00:24:40.119 –> 00:24:43.839
will, maybe we’ll bring back the GCN Awards at

00:24:43.839 –> 00:24:46.799
some point. Probably not this year, but maybe

00:24:46.799 –> 00:24:48.559
at some point. I might bring it back for the

00:24:48.559 –> 00:24:51.119
tail end of the year, though. Maybe. You never

00:24:51.119 –> 00:24:54.299
know. So, yeah, so we got that. Anything else

00:24:54.299 –> 00:24:57.839
you would like to bring up with awards or anything

00:24:57.839 –> 00:24:59.900
like that? Well, the last time the Video Game

00:24:59.900 –> 00:25:03.779
Awards mattered was when they had Mark Hamill

00:25:03.779 –> 00:25:07.799
as the Joker for the Arkham City. Which was 2011,

00:25:08.299 –> 00:25:13.960
I think. Yeah. Oh, boy. We really don’t want

00:25:13.960 –> 00:25:17.200
to talk about Mr. Hamill right now, do we? No,

00:25:17.279 –> 00:25:19.319
I’ve already heard what happened to him. That’s

00:25:19.319 –> 00:25:22.779
what happens when you… when you pick a side

00:25:22.779 –> 00:25:27.700
and then you follow a paycheck, but that’s all

00:25:27.700 –> 00:25:30.220
I’ll say on that because I’m not about to jump

00:25:30.220 –> 00:25:34.839
into that, that vultures nest. No, I am not picking

00:25:34.839 –> 00:25:38.779
a side on the podcast. I have my own personal

00:25:38.779 –> 00:25:42.140
opinion and it’s not coming out here. Nope. Not

00:25:42.140 –> 00:25:47.599
at all. I do. But the man made his, he, he made

00:25:47.599 –> 00:25:52.599
his bed and now he has to lie in it. Do you have

00:25:52.599 –> 00:25:56.420
any idea how hard it is to win one of these things?

00:25:57.359 –> 00:26:01.440
Who do I have to kill to get an award around

00:26:01.440 –> 00:26:08.819
here? What? So you finally came to your senses.

00:26:09.140 –> 00:26:12.259
What was it? No one else famous on the list?

00:26:13.240 –> 00:26:18.339
Scared of what I’ll do? So what? is going on

00:26:18.339 –> 00:26:20.900
in your brain podcast wise, what do you got coming

00:26:20.900 –> 00:26:22.779
up? What do you got going on? Promote yourself,

00:26:23.000 –> 00:26:30.259
sir. So among trying to, uh, uh, finish podcasting

00:26:30.259 –> 00:26:32.240
reads world with you this year, I’m still working

00:26:32.240 –> 00:26:35.599
on altered geek. I know what I want to do for.

00:26:35.640 –> 00:26:39.059
I’m wire. I’m just having a hard time making

00:26:39.059 –> 00:26:41.920
it come to fruition or finding the time to do

00:26:41.920 –> 00:26:44.819
what I want. And so I’m hoping now that I’m done

00:26:44.819 –> 00:26:46.700
with some of these projects, I can actually,

00:26:47.529 –> 00:26:50.890
produce one and see if it’s what I’m wanting

00:26:50.890 –> 00:26:54.250
and if it’s not retooling it before I release

00:26:54.250 –> 00:26:58.369
the episode. Because I do want to revive MWire

00:26:58.369 –> 00:27:01.329
in a video format, not in a podcast format, but

00:27:01.329 –> 00:27:03.769
I’ll probably still export it as an audio and

00:27:03.769 –> 00:27:08.829
release it anyway. Okay, cool. So there’s that.

00:27:09.049 –> 00:27:11.309
I do plan on continuing with the Cyber Dragon

00:27:11.309 –> 00:27:15.730
Ball and Altered Geek and all things Transformers.

00:27:16.279 –> 00:27:17.839
and just kind of sticking with those four for

00:27:17.839 –> 00:27:21.579
a while. And then once, um, once we finished

00:27:21.579 –> 00:27:23.619
podcaster meets world, going back to altered

00:27:23.619 –> 00:27:27.259
track. Yep. Absolutely. All right, folks. Well,

00:27:27.440 –> 00:27:30.519
I think that’s going to do it. No ad break this

00:27:30.519 –> 00:27:34.819
time. I’m too lazy. I’ve been editing like crazy

00:27:34.819 –> 00:27:38.180
and I don’t feel like doing it. So no ad break

00:27:38.180 –> 00:27:40.920
this time around. We hope you enjoyed this episode

00:27:40.920 –> 00:27:43.019
of geek cast radio. Wish you’ll join us next

00:27:43.019 –> 00:27:48.150
time. When in the 350th episode of this podcast,

00:27:48.289 –> 00:27:51.470
if I hopefully plan this right and everything

00:27:51.470 –> 00:27:55.769
goes right with the numbers, it will be the Geekcast

00:27:55.769 –> 00:28:02.269
Radio Network’s 4 ,000th podcast episode in 16,

00:28:02.529 –> 00:28:05.509
almost 16 years, because it’ll be before the

00:28:05.509 –> 00:28:10.250
16th anniversary. That’s crazy. Holy shnikes.

00:28:11.839 –> 00:28:14.880
i started paying attention to this when we hit

00:28:14.880 –> 00:28:26.460
39 44 and i was like wait a minute no way and

00:28:26.460 –> 00:28:29.259
then i just started ramping up and ramping up

00:28:29.259 –> 00:28:32.700
and i started doing all the studio And the Studio

00:28:32.700 –> 00:28:34.920
Daily stuff, folks, that only really happens

00:28:34.920 –> 00:28:37.900
with Columbo, with the TV stuff, with Columbo

00:28:37.900 –> 00:28:41.099
stuff. And that’s going to taper off because

00:28:41.099 –> 00:28:43.960
Columbo, as the series goes on, the episodes

00:28:43.960 –> 00:28:47.720
get shorter and shorter per season. So like Columbo

00:28:47.720 –> 00:28:52.220
season five, I think, has three episodes. Columbo

00:28:52.220 –> 00:28:54.880
season six has like four episodes. And I’m like,

00:28:54.940 –> 00:28:57.950
oh, my God, really? Seriously? So it is what

00:28:57.950 –> 00:28:59.450
it is. And as I said at the beginning of the

00:28:59.450 –> 00:29:02.750
show, by episode 41, we will go back to weekly

00:29:02.750 –> 00:29:06.549
on Studio 2009 as we’re going to do the Fast

00:29:06.549 –> 00:29:09.869
Saga with my buddy Sean. He’s going to come on,

00:29:09.950 –> 00:29:13.390
and we did Ford vs. Ferrari a couple years ago.

00:29:13.450 –> 00:29:15.049
It might have been last year, I think, that we

00:29:15.049 –> 00:29:18.089
did that episode. So that’s what’s coming up

00:29:18.089 –> 00:29:22.190
for Studio 2009. We’ve got the pull bag coming

00:29:22.190 –> 00:29:29.119
back, hopefully soon. We’ve got, like Steve mentioned,

00:29:29.299 –> 00:29:30.980
all things Transformers and all the stuff that

00:29:30.980 –> 00:29:38.259
Steve and I do. I am working on launching a new

00:29:38.259 –> 00:29:43.240
segment for Studio 2009, another origin series,

00:29:43.460 –> 00:29:46.940
Origins and Television Watching. So we’ve already

00:29:46.940 –> 00:29:48.720
got the first episode of that recorded. I’ll

00:29:48.720 –> 00:29:51.180
record one with Steve, one with Optimus Solo,

00:29:51.319 –> 00:29:53.660
one with the comic concierge and other people

00:29:53.660 –> 00:29:57.740
will come along. as we progress through that.

00:29:58.980 –> 00:30:03.640
So that’s what’s going on there. Like Steve said,

00:30:03.799 –> 00:30:05.619
we’re going to finish off Podcaster Meets World

00:30:05.619 –> 00:30:07.960
this year. If Phineas and Ferb wasn’t coming

00:30:07.960 –> 00:30:12.359
back for a fifth season, Michael Wilson and I

00:30:12.359 –> 00:30:15.460
would have finished Phineas, the podcast organization

00:30:15.460 –> 00:30:17.099
without a cool acronym. We would have finished

00:30:17.099 –> 00:30:19.680
that off this year, but since it’s coming back

00:30:19.680 –> 00:30:22.559
for a fifth season, we’re going to do a whole

00:30:22.559 –> 00:30:25.839
bunch of other episodes to tide us over. until

00:30:25.839 –> 00:30:28.859
then so 40 new episodes of Phineas and Ferb for

00:30:28.859 –> 00:30:32.759
the TV series which means however the hell many

00:30:32.759 –> 00:30:35.700
more episodes for us which ruins the joke of

00:30:35.700 –> 00:30:38.960
the whole podcast when Michael and I started

00:30:38.960 –> 00:30:44.140
Phineas and Ferb podcast back in 2016 it was

00:30:44.140 –> 00:30:47.180
supposed to be 104 podcasts 104 days because

00:30:47.180 –> 00:30:52.180
in the show it’s 104 days for summer it was supposed

00:30:52.180 –> 00:30:55.519
to stop at episode 104 Well, now that they’re

00:30:55.519 –> 00:30:58.519
coming back and they’ve done this new movie,

00:30:58.599 –> 00:31:00.440
Candace Against the Universe, that they did,

00:31:00.480 –> 00:31:02.420
and now they’re coming back for Season 5, it’s

00:31:02.420 –> 00:31:08.980
like, great, guys. Thanks. Ruin the joke. But

00:31:08.980 –> 00:31:11.380
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