From Relay FM, this is Upgrade 332 and welcome to the most prestigious night of the year.

The biggest event on the calendar, it is the Upgraders Awards.

This is the seventh annual Upgradies for the year of 2020.

This episode is brought to you by Dordash, Pingham, Sainbox and Hover.

I am one of your hosts. I am Mike Hurley and I am joined by my co-host for the awards this evening.

Mr. Jason Snell. Hello, Mike Hurley, how are you?

I am fine and dandy, my friend and dandy indeed you know how much I look

forward to this event I have been very excited and working away over the last week or so

to get everything together for today and I'm very

excited to start our award category shortly but we do have some things that we

you know we have the intro of the awards you know to kind of get everyone

settled in people are still taking their seats getting their drinks warming up we're warming up

so I have a couple of snow talk questions for you today actually because I had one that I thought of and then I also found one that was award related so I thought if we don't ask you now I might not ask you for a year so my question to you Jason is if you could

give an honorary upgrade a award to a winner in a category that we do not already

have for this year what would it be and who would it go to? I like that you're

asking this at the beginning because that means that I really can't give it to

anything even remotely close to what we cover. Yeah, because we don't know as we'll get to in a minute, we don't know who the winners will be.

Unlike other award shows, this just happens as we go.

I'm going to give an award for the best helpers of 2020 to public health professionals,

frontline health care workers, and vaccine scientists for all that they did in 2020 because you know

20 yeah the the scientific community the medical community this year

I mean it's surely going to be in our lifetimes just an unprecedented effort.

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