Before we start today's episode, I just want to ask the listeners that is you for a massive favor.

I don't usually do this, frankly, because I forget every single year.

But this year, thanks to the lovely Becca on Twitter, I have an actual opportunity to ask people to vote.

It is the British Podcast Awards season, and it would be really amazing if you could vote for real-life gold stories in the listeners' Choice Award.

You just need to go to Britishpodcasts awards.com forward slash vote, and type in real-life gold stories into the search bar.

And then you'll be sent like a confirmation email, and in order to make your vote count, you need to click the button on the email.

And that is it. It literally only takes a minute, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that it is a really quick process.

I am under no illusions that real-life gold stories would win.

But if I get shortlisted, it is great advertising for the podcast, and that's it.

This is a totally indie podcast. I have no intervention from anybody else. I don't have a team. I don't have researchers or editors.

People working on my marketing or an agent. I don't have anything like that. It is literally just me.

So if I can find a way to get some free advertising in there, I'm all about it.

So if you could vote, that'd be great. Also, you can only vote for real-life gold stories once, but you can vote for as many podcasts as you like.

So if you have a podcast that you love, please be sure that you sling them a vote as well, especially if they're an indie podcast.

I obviously voted for the Poisoners Cabinet because they're my friends, and they make a great podcast.

And if you have a podcast that you love, just throw them a vote because you never know who's looking at the votes, who's looking at what votes are coming in, and it might be really good for an indie podcast that you love.

The link to vote will be in the description of this episode. It's British Podcast Awards.com-forth-vote. Thank you so much.

Hello and welcome to episode 161 of Real-Life Gold Stories. To kick things off this week, we need to thank some of our newest Patreon subscribers.

I would like to thank Lilian Mai, Amber Saunders, Molly and Garrett, Carmen Smute, Naomi Blakey, Molly K. Hareny, Amy Pickering, Norma, Kyle Ferguson, Simon Hurst, Katrin, Brad,

Rochine Ward, Alero, Orger DeGbe, Tambacchus, Emma, Julie Finland-Powell, Sean Alling, Bill Williamson, Hannah Levy, Carol L.J. Lingessel.

Thank you all so much for subscribing to the Patreon. I love you and appreciate you every single day.

And our film review this week. Our film review this week is a classic, an absolute 90s, BOP. It is The Crow. The Crow was released in 1994. It has 7.5 out of 10 on IMDB and 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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