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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Music.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Very Really Good Podcast, everybody. This is episode 270. I am back in my studio, man. We're back. We're so back, it's insane. A lot of people said, I saw some articles online from people being like, oh, he's never coming back, it's never back, there's never a time where he's going to say we're back, but we're back, okay? I'm more back than a friggin'...
Then Australia, dude. Because they got the outback. Yeah, dude. I'm back, dude. I would like to apologize. First and foremost to the very, really good Patreon. It's, uh, I was on tour and it was very hard to do bonus episodes, but I'm recording one today and I'm sorry, and it'll be up at this. It'll be up. Okay.
I'm recording one after this episode, after I'm done this one, I'm doing, I'm doing two episodes back to back this one and then we're doing a bonus one. Okay. So if you guys want to, if you guys finish listening to this episode and you're like, dang, I want to have one more episode to listen to check out patreon.com slash very, really good. Um, it's, uh, it's so much fun over there.
There's like, dude, there's like what? Like 50, 50 frigging episodes on there, man. Uh, so yeah, you get access to all those and it's a good time, man. Um, we got on the bonus episode, we're doing a, uh, a deep dive, if you will. We're doing a, an investigation into Russell Hartley again, because he, there's some interesting developments with Russell Hartley and we need to talk about it.
So that'll be the, pretty much the entirety of the bonus episode. But, um, yeah. Uh, other than that, Guys, I have some shows coming up. I just announced some shows in the States, okay? The reason there wasn't an episode for so long because I just did, I think, I'm trying to remember the number, I think a million shows in Europe and UK. There's exactly one million shows.
And I'll talk about that in a second. But U.S., these are the rest of the U.S. states. Guys, these are the last... dates the last u.s dates of the goodfellow world tour okay um this is it if you live in the states and you want to see the goodfellow world tour if you want to see this hour live this is the last chance okay um And these are the last U.S. states I'm doing on this tour.
Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. Okay? Okay. So those are all the dates. All those tickets are available now. Tickets are frigging... They're flying, dude. They're like frigging hotcakes, man.
They're the hottest cakes you've ever seen. Don't touch them. Don't. Yeah, you should go to my website. You can buy them there. Dude... When I was... I remember... I don't know if anyone who's similar to my age will remember this, but, dude, I used to have to go buy tickets to stuff. I used to have to go to the mall. I used to have to go to a jean machine.
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Chapter 2: What updates does Kurtis share about his tour?
Cause that was like, uh, those were like a birthday gift for my like high school girlfriend. Um, and, uh, yeah, she was like, yeah, no problem. And then I just like handle, I just, and take a dude. I remember tickets $20 each. insane. 20 bucks. I was like, okay, there's two twenties. There's fast $40 for you. Here you go. Uh, give me my change.
You know, I, I didn't say keep the change cause I stopped, you know, and then, um, keep the change in my hand, put it there and keep it there. And then, uh, yeah, she gave me my tickets and I walked out of the gene machine. Isn't that pretty crazy guys? Is that the craziest fucking story I've ever heard in your life? Isn't it? No, man. I'm rusty, dude.
It's been a while since I've done this podcast. But now you don't have to do that. You don't have to go to Gene Machine to buy tickets for my show. You can just go to McCurtisConner.com, click on this fucking city you want to go to, and it brings you to the site. You click on it, you put a couple taps, and you're in. All right? So, yeah.
Those aren't the last dates of the Goodfellow World Tour, though, okay? There's a lot of, you know... there's one obvious place that I have not gone to yet. And, um, I'm, I'm going there. I'm up. Yeah. I'm yeah. Okay. Uh, I don't know if I'm, I never know what I'm allowed to say. I remember people on my, like my team were like, don't, don't get say it.
But it's like, well, why am I going to get fucking assassinated in my podcast studio? Uh, If I say, oh, I'm going to this country, a little red dot appears on my head and it goes, that'd be stupid because then I wouldn't be able to do the shows. But yeah, shout out UK and Europe, man. Shit was goaded, man. I loved it, man.
Shout out to everybody who came to the shows all over UK and the EU and the European Union. Everybody was sick, man. It was awesome. I ate so much food. I think I gained like fucking 20 pounds on this tour. But you know what? I don't care. Because the food fucking tastes so good over there, dude. London shows. We did fucking four shows in London. Brighton. Yo. Brighton's cool as fuck.
I love that city. That was cool. I only had like... maybe two hours to enjoy the city. But, um, I, I liked those two hours a lot. It's kind of, it's kind of, it's, it's good and bad to have in like my tour schedule. Cause I had like zero time to see all the cities, you know, we, uh, especially on this tour, we'd like, do the show somewhere, go to bed, wake up, airport, fly to the next city.
We'd have, like, maybe two hours to see it and then do the show. It was just a lot, so we didn't really have time to see the city, but at the same time, the less time you have in a city, the less time it has to, like, give you, like, a bad time, you know? Like... It's pretty easy because I can kill it. Two hours is pretty easy to kill. I nail that every time.
If you give me a couple days somewhere in the city, I can find stuff that I don't like about it. Everything was beautiful, man. Helsinki was sick. We got picked up in Finland. just how culturally different it is, is really interesting. We got picked up in Finland by this sweet driver.
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Chapter 3: What happened at the BookTok convention?
We got to talk about... We got some shit to discuss, man. We got some topical stuff, dude. What should we talk about first? Oh, dude, this is huge. This is massive, okay? Guys, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but this is official on the Golden Globes website, okay? Listen to this article, guys, the title of this article. Golden Globes Breaks Ground with New Podcast Award.
Where's the sound I'm looking for? Do I not have a gasp on here? Okay.
I guess I don't have one. But isn't that crazy? I can just make one. Guys. Podcasts can now win a Golden Globe. Meaning... I and this podcast, we can win a golden globe. Okay? I never used to have a goal with this podcast. Usually it was just like, I'm just going to have fun on here, shoot the shit for a bit, talk about some weird stuff that's going on. But now I have a goal in mind.
I need to win a Golden Globe. Even to just be nominated? Dude, that'll get me a Golden Globe right there. Let's read this. Okay. Cause this is insane. The golden globes is adding a new category to its award slate, honoring the best podcast of the year.
This new annual category debuting as part of the annual, uh, as part of the 83rd annual event on Sunday, January 11th, 2026 is a landmark inclusion for the golden globes by recognizing extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting. Shut up, dude. The medium has experienced seismic growth. Yeah. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. Um, Okay, what else?
As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognize new forms of storytelling, said Golden Globes president Helen Hone. Podcasts have emerged as a profound medium for sharing narratives and building communities across global generations. Okay, the top 25 podcasts will qualify for the award with a total of six final nominations for the category.
Comprehensive eligibility criteria. Additional details of what best podcasts will be announced in the coming weeks. Okay. So I need to make sure that my podcast is in the top 25 in the world. That's pretty... That is a little difficult. But... Dude, as if, dude. Because what are the other categories of the Golden Globes? Dude. You're telling me...
Something like Dune Part 2. Search Dune Part 2 on TikTok. Search podcast on goldenglobes.com. You're telling me something like Dune Part 2? Or a complete unknown?
The Brutalist. You know, A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Substance, The Substance, Wicked... Inside Out 2, like, you're telling me all of those can have an award, and then also, like, like fucking Theo Vaughn sitting down being like, so, Trump, you're kind of like a cool guy. That's like the, that's the same shit? It is, that, truthfully, as funny and hilarious as it would be to, uh,
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Chapter 4: How did the Golden Globes introduce a podcast award?
So, and they don't really care, but like this, I mean, if you're a book talk person, you know, if you're, you know, I mean, if you're especially sold this, like you advertise this like really cool event, you know, it's just like, and then you show up to this and it's like, oh, it's just like, this is a big, weird bookstore, you know? Um, I flew out for this.
The author who is from Texas said, I planned my pregnancy around this event like a clown. Oh, no. You planned your pregnancy around this?
Like a clown?
I've never seen a pregnant clown. So what the hell are you talking about? You know why you never see a pregnant clown? Because they've always got rubbers on them. It was a balloon joke, but also a condom joke. Yeah, how do you plan your pregnancy around this? You're getting busy with your husband, and he's about to, you know, he's about to friggin' pee out of his balls into you.
And then you're like, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't. The convention. He's like, oh, yeah, sorry. Sorry. All right, organize your apologies for events issues. Grace Willows, the organizer behind Archer Management, posted a video statement through her event planning company's TikTok page on the weekend, apologizing for the ball being not set up to standards.
Ooh, let's see that. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Okay. I'll start that again.
Hi, everybody. I am wanting to issue a formal apology. I do understand that the ball tonight was not set up to standards. There were a lot of issues with getting set up, and it was not set up well. I want to apologize. If you would like a refund, please contact me, and I will issue a refund immediately. Thank you.
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