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Hey, Real Talk. We are back for the new year, 2026. It's exciting. You know, the new year is always fun because there's lots of things to look forward to.

And we thought it'd be really fun here at'll talk to talk about what we are excited for in movies for the new year this is going

to be a big year in movies i feel like and so what better time to talk about the now at the very

beginning of the year we're going to go into our most anticipated movies of 2026. So it's just me tonight from the

Real Talk crew, but we brought in two experts, our Oscar experts, and you know what, we usually

save them for the Oscars because they have so much movie knowledge more than Gabe Wes and I

combined. One of them has more than that so but we're

like you don't want who better than talk about movies that they're anticipating than our

friends Nathan and Matt so let's bring in Nathan let's bring in you first how are you doing

how are you been and are excited to talk about the new movies for the year i'm doing well and

it's been a bit since i've been here but i do feel like it's been more recent than oscars we we got

together over the summer i think didn't we we did we did not even so didn't we talk about like

our favorite summers like our combined favorite summers that's right that's exactly right

well we each

picked a year. It's all coming back. I think it did 1985. That's right. Yes, that was a lot of fun.

And you're right. We try to bring you all on. I don't know why we just decided on Matt and

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