From Relay, welcome to the 12th annual upgradees, simulcast from London, England and Mill Valley, California.

This broadcast is brought to you by Century, eCAM, and FitPod. My name is Mike

Hurley, and I am honored to be joined by my esteemed co-host, a master of ceremonies, Jason Snell.

Hi, Jason Snell. Hi, Mike Hurley. It is good to finally get the ceremonies in line. They were out of line. They were causing trouble. Yeah. But I have gotten them back in line as is my job as the master of ceremonies. This is what we rely on you for. Ceremonies lined up. We're going to fly right here. It's the Upgradies again. 12th annual remember. Unbelievable. I like to think of it as the, what, 11th anniversary of the first annual. Yeah. I think about this often. Whenever I hear somebody say first annual, because you hear it, and then someone inevitably goes, you can't say that. I think to myself, you can't say that. You absolutely can. You absolutely can because I did. And now look at us. 12 years later, here we are. 12 years later, here we are. Because I knew this is going to be a success. I knew it was. The Upgradees of the award show where we get to crown our favorite things of the year in a wide variety of categories from media to hardware to stories of the year. You can find a history of previous winners over at Upgradees.com. And in the show

notes of this episode, there are appropriate links to all of the nominees. So I guess,

spoilers for the show notes. People ask for this every year. So I've gone through and taken

care of that for you. The way that the Upgraders works is Jason and I will be sharing our

personal nominations where we have them for each category.

We'll also share the top three nominations as voted for by our listeners, and you'll get to hear us then between the two of us deliberate who and who we think deserves the trophy of the year.

And also, as a reminder, for a category that can only,

you can only win on an app or a podcast or whatever, can only win a category a maximum of three

times. And then that winner will be raised into the rafters, given a lifetime,

upgraded to the Hall of Fame.

Really?

Lifetime achievement.

Hall of Fame is a different thing.

Oh, you're right.

You're right.

You're right.

Upgraded to the lifetime achievement.

The Hall of Fame is something that we honor every 10 years.

That's a ridiculous.

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