Today, the crew honors a grand tradition in media coverage: criticizing awards shows.

Starting with the bizarre nominees for best soundtrack at The Game Awards and also exploring the unexplainable nominees for the 2025 Grammys, ending with a note on whatever the hell Nintendo's been doing this time.

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List of award nominees (in order of discussion):

The Game Awards:

Astro Bot

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Silent Hill 2 (2024)

Stellar Blade

The Grammys:

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlords

Star Wars Outlaws

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Production credits:

Hosts:

Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone

Ranakel

Edie Alexsander

Audio producer:

Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone

Executive producer:

Ranakel

Writing and publishing:

Edie Alexsander