The Townies, Part 2: Who Won the Year in Hollywood?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In Part 2 of podcasting's biggest night, Matt and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw hand out the Executive Fail of the Year Award; the Savviest PR Move Award; the Mea Culpa I Was Wrong Award; the Suck It Haters, I Was Right Award; and the Biggest Self-Inflicted Wound Award. Then they declare which executive and talent won 2025 (00:07). Matt finishes the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Anaconda’ (34:57). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Email us your thoughts! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thetown@spotify.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0	Okay. Okay, we are here with part two of the townies. Craig, can we get a little bit more of the award show music? Sure.
1:06.0	I have some exclusive news as well. The townies have signed a deal to move to YouTube. Get ready. You're going to watch the townies on your phone. We could do video for select episodes each year that you sell a heavy, hardcore sponsorship. The townies live on YouTube, not a terrible idea. No, not a terrible idea. If everyone can have an award show on YouTube, ours would definitely stand out. Yeah, Bowen Yang started his own award show. Why can't we?
1:27.6	That's true.
1:28.2	Bowen Yang, you know,
1:29.5	innovator in the space. All right. So we're going to go to you too often. We do do. We are going to get right into it with the answer to our big teaser question from the previous episode. If you haven't listened, go to that. What is the bigger embarrassment for a once dominant filmmaker of 2025?
1:47.7	Alto Knight. episode, if you haven't listened, go to that. What is the bigger embarrassment for a once
1:44.7	dominant filmmaker of 2025? Alto Knights from Barry Levinson or Ella McKay from James L. Brooks?
1:53.0	This is the Megalopolis Award. This is the Megalopolis Award. Alto Nights grossed $10 million
1:58.6	worldwide, big international release.
2:01.5	Ella McKay is at what?
2:02.9	Like three and counting?
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