Thank you all for coming.

Thank you all for coming.

Thank you all to the live studio audience that's sitting right here observing this. Oh, yeah. The most prestigious award show of the year. Not, not, not the first time. Not the second time, not the third time. But the fourth annual had in the office award show. Oh,. It's it's glorious. This year has been

actually fucking awful. Yeah, no, it's bad. It's been, it's been crazy. Straight up a bad year. And,

you know, the, the worst part about it all was just being unable to contend with the amount of

shit that happened at once. Just unable to keep up. I feel like I lost a lot of my sharpness

that I used to have this year because I couldn't, there was no time to let a story sit because the stories were happening. Sometimes the stories would happen an hour before we go. Sometimes the stories would happen an hour and after we start, but it didn't matter because that was outdated by the time it was time for the next episode. There was no time for analysis, no time for critical thought. No. Just horrors. How am I supposed to keep up with this? How am I supposed to think about the why or how why something happened when it's just happening and another thing happened another and another and another. Yeah. And with that being said, we are going to talk about all that today. And I think this year, more than any other year we've been doing this, it was difficult to put this together, not because we didn't have enough to talk about because there's just too much. There's just too much. It's so much, so much I forgot. And this year, we're definitely going to

benefit from the fact that we've got the voting to go through, obviously, you all cast your votes in the Hiddle Award show, at least I hope. And then we have the bracket to go through later. And I definitely used the bracket this year as a way to like

catch the stories that we're going to miss

in the voting itself because there was

just so much man.

So much. That's the biggest theme of way to like catch the stories that we're going to miss in the voting itself because there was just

so much man so much too much that's the biggest theme of 2025 is just too much yeah yeah and we're

going to review all of it here probably the last award show of the season oh for sure maybe unless

they do some into the next year i don't fucking know yeah well like a lot of them are in january we're

kicking off awards season really i think but maybe some happened i don't i don't who know. Well, like a lot of them are in January. We're kicking off awards. Oh, that are they? I think. But maybe some happened. I don't, I don't, I don't, who keeps up

with those anymore? Nobody. Only you guys keep up with this. Only people keep up with the number one

award. Number one award show podcast. All right. Then, uh, I think it's time to get into this. But actually before we get into it,

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