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Speaker: Welcome to Lightning Round, an adaptation mini podcast.
Speaker: I'm Nate.
Speaker: I'm Nate.
Speaker: And I'm Chris.
Speaker: And today we have a very special episode for you.
Speaker: Happy New Year.
Speaker: I was going to say Nate, you're a couple days ago.
Speaker: No, the recording.
Speaker: Yep, I get it.
Speaker: But Chris and I wanted to do a kind of a fun year in review for 2025.
Speaker: I'm thrown off because we were recording this in 2025, so I don't know what to do.
Speaker: The year I'm talking about or when or any of that stuff.
Speaker: Time doesn't matter.
Speaker: Doesn't matter.
Speaker: But yet it comes for us all.
Speaker: Well, it does.
Speaker: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker: That's my attitude at the end of 2025.
Speaker: Give me a few days and I'll be ready to tackle the new year.
Speaker: I believe you.
Speaker: I believe you.
Speaker: I'm going to hold you to that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So we wanted to share some fun stats about how much we read, how much we watched, talk a little bit about the titles that we maybe don't get to talk about so much on the podcast because they're not adaptations, share some fun year in review factoids with you so you can get to know your hosts a little bit.
Speaker: Chris, why don't you kick us off and tell me what kind of information you were able to gather about your 2025 reading journey?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: If your Instagram looks anything like mine, and Nate, I'm sure yours has the TV and film equivalent, I've gotten 75 year-end reviews from assorted magazines.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: online, print sources, news networks, individual, everybody, everybody.
Speaker: And I thought it would be fun because also since we started the podcast, actually, this is something you and I used to talk about more often.
Speaker: And now our conversations are always focused around kind of what we're doing for specific episodes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So this is specifically sort of a recap of maybe what we didn't get to highlight.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Super, super broadly read a lot of fun books this year, obviously out of, I did, I did some numbers.
Speaker: I wasn't sure what numbers would be interesting to people.
Speaker: I finished 63 books this year.
Speaker: There are two more left in the year.
Speaker: Only 11 were nonfiction.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And only either, I think it was 54 or 55 were new.
Speaker: So that means eight or nine were rereads.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: New to you, right?
Speaker: But not necessarily 2025 publications.
Speaker: Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker: I see what you mean.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: 55 books that I had not read previously.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: And then I think it's eight rereads, which is far more than I normally reread.
Speaker: So that was cool to see.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: I have my, I went through and pulled out just the top seven, the only seven books that I gave five stars this year.
Speaker: Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker: The very first book that I read of the year, January 5th, so 358 days ago, called The Myth Makers.
Speaker: It's all about super cool graphic novel that my buddy Tucker sent me as a gift about the relationship of C.S.
Speaker: Lewis and Tolkien.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: I think some factoids from it came up during the Hobbit episode.
Speaker: Yeah, that sounds...
Speaker: I remember at least you telling me about it off mic, if not on.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm sure I showed it to you.
Speaker: Super cool book, incredible book.
Speaker: If you're a fan of either of them or graphic novels or anything, even if you're not, you should go read it and you'll become a fan of one of them.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So cool.
Speaker: Such a cool book.
Speaker: And I love the style.
Speaker: I love when authors choose graphic novel just as this will be a fun media.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Does it make sense?
Speaker: It's a different exercise.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: This absolutely could have just been like the book you gave me, the comparison of Prince to Dickens.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Absolutely could have been like that kind of long form essay, cover to cover, you know, and it would have still been fabulous.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay, I won't dive that deep into all of them.
Speaker: Stone Sky is the third book in the Broken Earth series by N.K.
Speaker: Jemisin.
Speaker: Incredible.
Speaker: Check out the whole series.
Speaker: The Hobbit, obviously.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Remains of the day, obviously.
Speaker: This one, while you and I talked a little bit off mic, I am surprised at myself that I gave Clockwork Orange five stars.
Speaker: I just remember from recording, you were hotter on that one than I thought you would be.
Speaker: I remember watching the movie and being like, oh God, Chris is going to hate this.
Speaker: I mean, it's a hefty book which we discussed.
Speaker: I think you reminded me of the linguistics angle.
Speaker: Yeah, right.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: But it was a cool book.
Speaker: I looked at it, I almost bumped it down to four stars, and then I thought, I probably will read this again.
Speaker: That's right, that is sort of your barrier for something being a five star book.
Speaker: A lot of fabulous books in here that I gave four stars because I know I will not read them again.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: I just talked, I think a couple episodes I was telling you about this, Kafka on the Shore is one I finished recently.
Speaker: fantastic book that one there's just so much to it i know i will return to it to kind of gather up more goodies cool uh and then fellowship of the ring those are all of my all seven from this year that i know i will read maybe not next year but certainly reread in the future and three of them are directly related to lord of the rings and tolkien
Speaker: I have a type.
Speaker: Yes, you do.
Speaker: I did read one Tolkien this year that I did not give five stars.
Speaker: Whoa, holy shit.
Speaker: What was it?
Speaker: Just finished it recently.
Speaker: Farmer Giles of Ham.
Speaker: Only got four stars.
Speaker: That was the one I bought from Tolkien's favorite bookstore next to the Bodleian Library in Oxford while we were over there.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: I got this instead of a $100, like 1977 calendar of portraits of Tolkien.
Speaker: And I regret it a little.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: I should have gotten the calendar.
Speaker: Maybe.
Speaker: Calendar, five stars.
Speaker: Okay, honorable mentions that I truly enjoyed and honestly might return to some of these.
Speaker: It's just not a for sure.
Speaker: Piranasi, I talked about it at the time.
Speaker: Very cool, very out there.
Speaker: Such a cool book.
Speaker: I think if you want to just not quite know where you're going and be ready to strap in for a fairly tame, fairly innocuous, but still riveting adventure, that's a good one.
Speaker: The Devils is a new one from Joe Abercrombie.
Speaker: Fairly big right now amongst those circles.
Speaker: Just a crazy motley crew going on an adventure.
Speaker: I think it's like if Tolkien had been willing to talk about sex in his books, like that's where we're going here.
Speaker: I think I've seen that one a few times on Goodreads.
Speaker: Didn't some of your buddies maybe read that one too?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: My book club did it.
Speaker: So every, all of my buddies that you've met, I mean, Brett Shand like proselytizes about that book.
Speaker: And it was it was a fabulous book.
Speaker: Very good story.
Speaker: The only reason it's not higher for me is it is not one of those.
Speaker: It's a it's a fun ride and a great adventure.
Speaker: It's not one that you need to return to, in my opinion.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Fragile Thrones of Power, I think I talked about when I finished it.
Speaker: That's another one in one of the V.E.
Speaker: Schwab universes.
Speaker: And she's just knocking it out of the park right now.
Speaker: Sweet.
Speaker: And then I had forgotten about this one.
Speaker: Return of the Native is a book by Thomas Hardy.
Speaker: It's like if sense and sensibility met importance of being earnest.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: They're pretty related already in a lot of ways.
Speaker: Yes, very much so.
Speaker: Very much so.
Speaker: This was a little more in-depth, a little more to chew on than, well, I mean, Importance of Being Earnest was originally a play, so I don't fault Oscar Wilde by any means.
Speaker: But if you like kind of the learning and uniqueness of the frankly baffling Victorian-era social expectations,
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Of much of our dear friend Jane Austen, but you want it to move at a little faster clip.
Speaker: This this is for you.
Speaker: Oh, cool.
Speaker: OK.
Speaker: So that's why that was an honorable mention in there.
Speaker: Yeah, cool.
Speaker: And a couple nonfiction honorable mentions just because I think I think if all you read is fiction and this is why I do it, too, I think you need to deliberately force yourself to go enjoy this hobby you love.
Speaker: But
Speaker: of a more factual nature sometimes.
Speaker: Expand your horizons, yeah.
Speaker: So I have all the Shah's Men and Silences.
Speaker: And this has become kind of my favorite approach to nonfiction of late, choosing an area of the world or a particular historic time and movement that I have heard about tangentially but know nothing about specifically.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: and just say, okay, what is accepted as a fantastic or one of the top histories on this material?
Speaker: Go find it.
Speaker: Learn a whole bunch about something I know nothing about.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Hyperfixation type thing.
Speaker: Yes, exactly.
Speaker: But for one book.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I feel fairly confident telling you I will never read another book about the Finnish Civil War.
Speaker: You say that, but you come back, you come with some weird shit to this.
Speaker: That's a fair point.
Speaker: That's a fair point.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Um, all the shots.
Speaker: My favorite is when you go, have you heard of the finished civil war?
Speaker: No, Chris, I have not heard of the finished civil war.
Speaker: Um, to your credit, I had not until I found this book.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: I think most people haven't.
Speaker: I think that'll be a surprising intro title synopsis of a book for most folks.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Had never heard of it, would never even considered looking into it as a historical event.
Speaker: But yeah, it's just so that was my way of saying I don't, I mean, if you want that one, I still have a copy.
Speaker: I'll loan it to anyone who wants it.
Speaker: I don't recommend that one necessarily.
Speaker: I recommend The Approach.
Speaker: Does that make sense?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Go find something you know nothing about and just read one book about it.
Speaker: You don't need to become an expert.
Speaker: You don't need to go audit a course at your local community college.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it was interesting for me.
Speaker: And the other one, All the Shah's Men, I do recommend everybody read.
Speaker: It is absolutely insane to hear exactly what Iran in particular was like not five decades ago until the U.S. decided we should go be the world's watchdog and quote unquote defend democracy and fuck up everyone else's lives.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: Yeah, that's my year in books.
Speaker: Can't believe I decided to end on that one.
Speaker: I'm very bad at this.
Speaker: That's all right.
Speaker: I'll pick it up.
Speaker: I'll pick up the mood here a little bit.
Speaker: I was able to pull most of these stats from Letterboxd, which does sort of track, just like Goodreads and other...
Speaker: There's several other movie and book apps that you can use to sort of log your viewing and reading and stuff.
Speaker: But one of the reasons I really love letterbox is because it, it tracks this throughout the year.
Speaker: So you can check into these stats at any given time.
Speaker: So this first factoid, it's going to blow your mind and I'm going to have to explain myself here.
Speaker: Total number of movies watched this year was 381.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: Well, I will say lots of those, my TV is in a separate room from the rest of my house.
Speaker: So a lot of those are like, I've thrown a movie on so that I can just have some noise while I'm like cooking or something.
Speaker: A lot of them are not like sit in front of the television and watch the full movie.
Speaker: like a lot of those are like that sometimes you know i'll see like i saw frankenstein in theaters right but i still wanted to support it once it hit netflix as well so i woke up one morning and turned it on and then like got in the shower and and got dressed like so okay yep i still log them because i do still sort of consume them but no that that actually explains a lot i'm certainly not watching nearly 400 movies
Speaker: in a year.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: That's well over one a day.
Speaker: Right, right, right.
Speaker: That's exactly what I was trying to do the math on.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Two dozen days that you sit and do a double header.
Speaker: No way.
Speaker: No way.
Speaker: That's every other weekend.
Speaker: Yeah, probably not.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Still a crazy number of those.
Speaker: This is a crazy number to 79 of those were 2025 releases between streaming movies and trips to the theater.
Speaker: That was 79.
Speaker: Oh my gosh.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: New movies this year.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: My top five of the year were One Battle After Another, which is an adaptation that we'll talk about actually in a couple weeks here.
Speaker: We just wanted to save that for a little closer to Oscar season because that movie is probably going to steamroll right through the Oscars.
Speaker: Fantastic movie.
Speaker: Best one of the year.
Speaker: Love it.
Speaker: Don't have a single qualm with it.
Speaker: Number two by just a hair, like they're almost tied.
Speaker: But number two is Marty Supreme, which is the Timothee Chalamet ping pong movie.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: You cannot pitch it like it's about like the 86 ping pong games at the Olympics in Tokyo or something.
Speaker: It kind of is a little bit.
Speaker: It kind of is.
Speaker: One of the many reasons I love this movie is because it is like a true blue sports movie.
Speaker: It's also an insane safety movie, you know, directed by Josh safety.
Speaker: So it has that very frenetic, chaotic, stressful, claustrophobic vibe throughout most of the movie.
Speaker: It's a character study.
Speaker: It's a romantic.
Speaker: not really a romantic comedy, I guess a romantic drama.
Speaker: It's all kinds of things bundled up into one and I can't believe that it works as well as it does.
Speaker: And I'm the first person to be critical of a Timothee Chalamet anything, but I just love this movie and I love him in it.
Speaker: And I just, I'm a little bit of a convert now.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: It's so good.
Speaker: I don't know that you would love it because it's meant to make you anxious and uncomfortable and you are not supposed to like the main character.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: As much as I would love to like share it with you, I think you, I don't know, maybe after a couple of beers at home under a blanket,
Speaker: you and blair can watch it or something like that uh-huh i have i've heard nothing but good things from everyone who has seen it so far it's i mean i was really this one and one battle after another i was just gobsmacked and and both times i like the next day tried to watch a movie at home or something and i was like i just can't i'm not even enjoying this because i'm still on the high of these two other movies that i just watched it was pretty pretty remarkable how much i love those two movies wow yeah
Speaker: Again, I won't go into so much detail with the rest of these, but the others of the top five, Wake Up Dead Man, which we've talked about, is the latest Knives Out movie.
Speaker: Fantastic representation for all the complications of religion and organized, well, Christianity, really.
Speaker: Sinners.
Speaker: I love Sinners.
Speaker: Have loved it since I saw it.
Speaker: I forgot that was this year.
Speaker: Oh, my goodness.
Speaker: That's been a long year.
Speaker: And then the last one that I wanted to shout out was Jay Kelly, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker: Just this really gorgeous movie.
Speaker: Yes, I've been thinking about watching it on Netflix.
Speaker: I didn't realize it was top five of the year for you.
Speaker: I was sort of surprised too.
Speaker: I sort of do keep track of the movies that I love from any given year get sort of thrown in a list on Letterboxd and I sort of softly rank them.
Speaker: So I was sort of surprised prepping for this episode that that cracked the top five.
Speaker: But, you know, I was looking at everything else and I think it does.
Speaker: I loved a lot of other movies, The Smashing Machine and Sentimental Value and Begonia, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker: But I do think that Jay Kelly sort of rises above those.
Speaker: wow yeah some fun other stats that letterbox pulls for you my most watched movie of the year was sinners i've seen it four times i think three theater trips i know dude this is how you get to 380 something movies yeah four four viewings of sinners a lot of that was like i saw it on my own and then you were like hey let's go see sinners right and then i had some other friends that wanted to see it and
Speaker: Then I went to a party where they were playing it.
Speaker: I like that kind of thing.
Speaker: So again, it's not necessarily like four times that I was glued to a TV.
Speaker: Was that award season wise?
Speaker: Was that long ago enough?
Speaker: It would not be pertinent or will that be up for awards?
Speaker: It's well within the window of this year.
Speaker: Awards, the awards window is January 1st to December 31st.
Speaker: Oh, OK.
Speaker: A lot of movies that release earlier in the year get forgotten by the time award season comes around.
Speaker: But sinners has been doing very well with precursors and it was just so widely celebrated and is still known as one of the best movies of the year to such an extent that it's going to be a pretty major player for awards as well.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: Letterboxd will tell you who your most watched actors are as well.
Speaker: Really fun except my top three, I watched eight movies with each of these three gentlemen in them.
Speaker: And it's sort of funny because they're three guys that are sort of known for being in everything.
Speaker: So it wasn't really a concerted effort or anything.
Speaker: Jeff Goldblum, Sam Jackson, and Harrison Ford, I managed to consume, which I'm sure most humans did, consume eight.
Speaker: movies.
Speaker: You know, we did Wicked with Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park with Sam Jackson.
Speaker: When we did that, I watched all of the Jurassic Park movies.
Speaker: And Jeff Goldblum.
Speaker: Yes, that's right.
Speaker: He is in Jurassic Park too.
Speaker: That's exactly how I got to eight Jeff Goldblum movies.
Speaker: And then the funny flip side of that coin is my most watched director was Steven Spielberg, who did
Speaker: Jurassic Park as well.
Speaker: And the Indiana Jones movies, which I rewatched for the first time this year in like decades.
Speaker: So that's where the Harrison Ford bit comes from.
Speaker: But I just thought it was very funny how how linked all three or, you know, four of those names were.
Speaker: I would not have guessed any of those three if you had asked me.
Speaker: I know I wouldn't have either.
Speaker: So it's a little bit funny that statistic.
Speaker: I'm like, I didn't really watch eight Jeff Goldblum movies this year, but I guess I kind of did, you know?
Speaker: That's incredible.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So a lot of a lot of movies, a lot that spit out all the languages that I watched movies in as well.
Speaker: English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Hungarian, Mayan and silent, a bunch of silent films.
Speaker: What you watched, you watched a movie entirely in every one of those languages are included at least entirely.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The primary language gracious.
Speaker: But yeah, that's sort of my year in review recap.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: That's so many movies.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I was like, what's a believable number that I could like lie and Chris wouldn't catch it?
Speaker: But then I was like, no, come on.
Speaker: Just tell him you watch 380 movies.
Speaker: One more.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, it's it's something, you know, I also was without my record player for a solid chunk of this year.
Speaker: So if I needed something in my space to make noise, I would just go throw on a movie.
Speaker: And yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: So I'm sure other years are not nearly that high.
Speaker: It's so, okay, when you said eight Harrison Ford movies, I was like, hell yeah, Star Wars.
Speaker: Mostly Indiana Jones.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: I forgot Indiana Jones existed.
Speaker: And then I guess he was in a Marvel movie earlier this year.
Speaker: I looked at what eight it was and it was... Didn't know that.
Speaker: Some other random ones.
Speaker: I watched Blade Runner earlier this year.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: That's like five or six right there.
Speaker: Maybe a Star Wars one was in there.
Speaker: Yeah, he's a fun one.
Speaker: Just three guys that are in everything.
Speaker: I just thought that was just so funny.
Speaker: And the guy that directs everything.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, that one doesn't feel like a surprise at all.
Speaker: No, he's I think he's if I like gun to my head, I'd probably say Spielberg was my favorite director.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Well, we also had a very exciting something that we wanted to share with everybody to celebrate the end of our inaugural year.
Speaker: Is that the proper use of that word?
Speaker: yeah we would like to invite everybody listening and those that just follow us on social media i guess to vote in the 2025 adaptation people's choice awards and chris and i are here to read the categories and nominees so these will be why was there a question mark at the end of the word read
Speaker: Read?
Speaker: I can't do that.
Speaker: So yeah, please be sure to follow us at adaptation underscore pod on Instagram.
Speaker: I'm going to link it down below in the episode notes as well as usual.
Speaker: And on January 1st and or potentially the 2nd, depending on how quickly I can get everything up, we will be streaming not only this episode, but the voting will be open for 24 hours for these awards as well.
Speaker: We'd like to hear
Speaker: your opinions and we look forward to sharing them on a later episode.
Speaker: So, just give a brief explanation of how voting works.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There's no electoral college here.
Speaker: There's no fiddling.
Speaker: We'll post the results.
Speaker: So there's no questionable results or anything because we believe in democracy.
Speaker: Unless we disagree, then we'll change it.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Why don't you read, do you have the document up?
Speaker: Yes, I do.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Why don't you read our first category?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: First category, best adaptation.
Speaker: And I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, Nate, most of these, including this category, we're talking just movies that came out this year.
Speaker: For the most part, there is one category where we had a little bit more fun with it, but most of these are movies that are adaptations that came out in 2025.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Okay, so our nominees, because we can only give four options, I believe, on Instagram polls.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So Best Adaptation, One Battle After Another, adapted from Thomas Pinchon's Vineland.
Speaker: Wicked, for good, volume two, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker: Frankenstein and The Housemaid.
Speaker: Hell yeah.
Speaker: Our second category is best Stephen King adaptation.
Speaker: Of course, it's the four main ones that we talked about in our Stephen King episode.
Speaker: We have The Running Man, The Monkey, The Life of Chuck, and The Long Walk.
Speaker: Wonderful.
Speaker: All you Stephen King fans.
Speaker: And I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, I think that was, did we establish it wasn't even all of his that came out this year?
Speaker: That's just the four we talked about.
Speaker: Yeah, correct.
Speaker: Crazy, crazy.
Speaker: So if you have a write-in and a compelling argument, let us know.
Speaker: if he had a different adaptation this year okay best lead performance we had a couple you know we're not serious people but more serious um so if you fancy yourself a connoisseur an expert of of nate's level and you want to get in your predictions for the real
Speaker: Oscars?
Speaker: Correct.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: The real Oscars.
Speaker: We have best lead performance, Leonardo DiCaprio from One Battle After Another, Cynthia Erivo from Wicked, obviously, Jesse Buckley from Hamnet, whoever that is, and Oscar Isaac from Frankenstein as Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
Speaker: Great, yeah, Jesse Buckley.
Speaker: We'll talk about Hamlet and One Battle After Another later as we get a little closer to the Oscars.
Speaker: Yes, yes.
Speaker: We also have Best Supporting Performance.
Speaker: And the nominees include Ariana Grande from Wicked for Good, Tiana Taylor from One Battle After Another, Jacob Elordi from Frankenstein, and Amanda Seyfried from The Housemaid.
Speaker: And then we get into the fun categories.
Speaker: It feels contentious to me to suggest which one of those gentlemen was the lead and which was supporting for Frankenstein.
Speaker: Oh, those are the categories that they're campaigning in for other awards.
Speaker: Yeah, that's what I figured.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Weirdest performance.
Speaker: Fantastic.
Speaker: Again, right in certainly welcome.
Speaker: So up first, we did not cover this one yet.
Speaker: I suppose in the future we may.
Speaker: Gal Gadot from Snow White.
Speaker: Sydney Sweeney from The Housemaid.
Speaker: Michelle Yeoh from Wicked for Good.
Speaker: Phenomenal memes about that one.
Speaker: And Theo James from The Monkey.
Speaker: Those are our four options for weirdest performance.
Speaker: Next, we have Best Dance Number, and it is the flash mob sequence in The Life of Chuck, the homecoming sequence also in The Life of Chuck, Where You Are from Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Wonderful from Wicked for Good.
Speaker: Biggest Loser.
Speaker: This category was Blair's contribution.
Speaker: Who do you think sucked?
Speaker: Uh, the wizard from wicked, Hank Thompson from caught stealing Dr. Victor Frankenstein from Frankenstein and Andrew Winchester from the house made.
Speaker: Next we have silliest accent or voice.
Speaker: We have Carrie Condon from train dreams, Mark Hamill from the long walk, Oscar Isaac from Frankenstein.
Speaker: And once again, Mark Hamill, but this time from the life of Chuck.
Speaker: Absolutely phenomenal that he's in there twice.
Speaker: When did this become a Mark Hamill trolling podcast?
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: When we got to... Oh, no, that's when.
Speaker: Yeah, when we got to Stephen King.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: This was the... I forgot.
Speaker: Blair suggested two of these.
Speaker: Phenomenal category.
Speaker: So we're going to give you a little background here.
Speaker: You are to picture the exact cast, not as themselves, but as their characters from that movie picked up and placed in a particular reality TV show.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: So best potential reality show, we have the entire family from Ian McEwan's Atonement as Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Speaker: Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker: We have the entire ensemble from The Importance Of Being Earnest dropped into Love Is Blind.
Speaker: A very clever choice there, Nate.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: We have Frankenstein as Big Brother.
Speaker: It's just so good.
Speaker: As long as you ignore what the show Big Brother.
Speaker: That was like the original reality show, wasn't it?
Speaker: Pretty much, yeah.
Speaker: I guess that and Survivor.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And then my personal favorite, the entire ensemble from The Hobbit, including 13 Dwarfs, dropped into Love Island, UK.
Speaker: Specifically UK too, because they all have accents that I can't understand.
Speaker: Obviously.
Speaker: Our final category is most anticipated adaptation of 2026.
Speaker: And we have Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, based on Homer's epic.
Speaker: The Magician's Nephew, directed by Greta Gerwig, of course, originally written by C.S.
Speaker: Lewis.
Speaker: Dune Messiah to be directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Frank Herbert.
Speaker: Yeah, attaboy.
Speaker: And our final nominee is Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on a novel written by Andy Weir.
Speaker: And we're very excited for really all four of those.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: So like I said, please go from here to our Instagram again,
