Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Real Talk, a movie podcast.

We are your go-to source for ratings and recommendations of past and present films.

I am your host, West Jones, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hey, this is Tommy, podcasting straight from Nashville, Tennessee.

The Movie Buddy Conway, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

And we're back.

What's up, Real Talk listeners?

We're fresh off the longest break that we've had since we started this podcast.

It's great to be back and we're really

looking forward to bringing you some great episodes in 2022. We've talked a lot about what we're

wanting to do and throwing some stuff against the wall and who knows if anything's going to stick.

But hopefully we,

between us three, we'll come up with something good for you. Tonight is a look back at the year

that was 2021 and what a year it was for Real Talk. And I just want to throw out a couple of highlights

that we had this past year. All three of us became official film critics as part of the Music City Film Critics

Association. And, you know, we don't like to brag too much about that. We like, we do like

to throw it out from time to time, though. Gabe, he pitched a movie called Velocanino to the screenwriter

of Shark Nato, Mr. Thunder Levin. And it was about Velociraptors erupting out of a volcano and terrorizing the world.

T-man, he was crowned the official Real Talk Harry Potter expert, but then he turned around and lost his horror cred by trashing the Shining.

And myself, I used my slithering powers to go undefeated in horror drafts, but those powers couldn't prevent me from getting called the Grinch, accused of not having fun while watching movies, being labeled a villain.

I mean, hell of a 2020, my boys.

I feel like I came under attack during that.

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