From Relay, welcome to the 11th annual Upgratees Awards this evening's proceedings are brought to you by our broadcast partners, share shot, FitBod, and Data Citizens

Dialogues, Simulcast from London, England, and Mill Valley, California, I am one of your

hosts, Mike Hurley, and joining me as my illustrious co-host, Mr. Jason Snell.

Hi, Jason.

Hello, Mike Hurley.

How are you?

Oh, I'm so excited.

It's the Upgradees. It's the 11th annual

Upgradies, which also means it's the 10th anniversary of the Upgraties. It is. 10th anniversary of

the Upgraties. That first Upgraties, I know I mentioned this last year. Ten years ago, I was in my

in-laws upper, like one of their guest bedrooms at a really uncomfortable desk and a really

uncomfortable chair but i remember it so well because it was like yeah i've got this podcast now i got

my new job where i'm doing all this podcast and we're doing these things and i got to go up there

and everybody my whole family and lauren's whole family are all downstairs and i'm i'm up uh up in a

stuffy room doing uh doing what turned out to be

the

very important milestone

of the first upgradeies, which at

the time I thought, well, remember

at the time I thought, this is a little bit silly

because I had been coming out of like the Eddie Awards

and all of that and this was, it was like, this is just

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