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Welcome back to a numbers game podcast with Brian Gurdowski.

I am your host.

Thanks for being here again this week.

Lots of big news happening, especially in the podcasting world.

And I just want to talk about something for a second that it's not political.

It just made me laugh.

The Golden Globes

announce that they are going to give an award out now for best podcast starting next year.

This is the first major award show to give an award out for podcasting. And it is a big bag of BS,

in my opinion. Because, you know, when you think of the biggest podcast hosts in the country, obviously, I'm not the biggest podcast host in the country, but if you think of the biggest podcast hosts in the country,

obviously, I'm not the biggest podcast host in the country, but if you think of the biggest

podcast hosts in the country is the Joe Rogans, the Theo Bonds, Megan Kelly, crime junkie,

call her daddy, Ben Shapiro, you know, these massive, massive shows that have been on for years

and basically built the platform, none of them, in my opinion, are probably

getting nominated.

Like, none of them.

Because if you think about it, because Hollywood doesn't make a lot of movies anymore and TV shows

are like 10 episodes long and it's just not what it used to be even a couple of years ago

pre-COVID.

A lot of celebrities have moved to the podcasting world.

So you have like Amy

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