The Physical Media High Council Reconvenes!

The Big Picture

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4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Hear ye, hear ye! Gather 'round for the (somewhat) annual reconvening of the illustrious Physical Media High Council! Grand Maester Fennessey is joined by his three lords, Chris Ryan, first knight Timothy “Hitmaker” Simons, and the king of physical media Tracy Letts, to discuss the state of collecting and share some of their personal favorites from their respective collections (00:06). Then, they open up the mailbag to answer all of your questions regarding how to organize a collection, detailed breakdowns of their personal at-home setups, and share their individual 4K “grails” (1:35:00). Host: Sean Fennessey Executive Producer: Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan, Tracy Letts, and Tim Simons Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Expedia and Visit Scotland.
0:04.6	Start your story in Scotland.
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0:13.6	Discover castles steeped in legend.
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0:23.2	Start planning your own Scottish holiday.
0:25.7	Today at expeedia.com.uk slash visit Scotland.
0:33.2	Music It is I, Sean Fennacy, Grand Maester of the Physical Media High Council,
0:52.8	and this is the big picture a conversation show about that
0:56.2	physical media i am honored to be joined by the three lords the three leaders the three guiding
1:02.8	lights of this endeavor of course igor chris ryan here to help us with his chemistry just
1:09.7	let out of my room in the basement.
1:11.3	That's right.
1:11.9	The first night, Timothy hitmaker Simons.
1:14.6	Sire.
1:15.4	And the King of Physical Media, Tracy Letts.
1:18.1	Please, please.
1:20.4	Gens, thanks for reconvening today.
1:22.2	This is a semi-annual tradition.
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.1	This is the second time this quartet has come together for this endeavor.
1:29.1	As you can see, we're taking it very seriously.
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