The Awards Girlies

Matt and Marisa address the rumors that they weren't together on Broadway's biggest night as they recap this year's Tony Awards. In the episode, they discuss Pink's hosting performance/audition for Chicago , the big winners, the beast speeches and some of the night's worst moments.

Marisa and Matt haven't been able to podcast in a while, so while they're mainly focused on the 2026 Tony nominations, stick around for their thoughts on: albums over an hour long, erotic fan fiction about unlikely TV shows, and what limited series Matt's parents are obsessed with. Also, because of who they are, they spend some time stanning Mother Mary.

Matt and Marisa wrap up the Oscar season with their fresh reactions to the big night. In the episode, they talk about the best speeches, the surprise (double) wins and the few bits that didn't work.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their category breakdowns with the big one: Best Picture. In the episode, they rehash one last time which films they think may not be their directors' best work, praise their non-nominated favorites of the year and make their final prediction for Sunday's winner.

Matt and Marisa tackle their penultimate category breakdown of the season with the two writing categories. In Adapted, they reveal which of the films' source material they've read or seen and in Original, they try not to keep dunking on Sentimental Value .

Matt and Marisa race toward Sunday's Academy Awards with another triple-stacked episode. While they deem this year's batch of Animated films a bit weak overall, Documentary proves to be one of the most stacked in recent memory and they hope for surprise wins despite a clear frontrunner in International.

Matt and Marisa race to finish the final Oscar categories before the Academy Awards this Sunday with a super-sized triple episode. In the episode, they defend F1 's nominations, the villainous turn in Timothée Chalamet's Oscar campaign and talk about the loin cloth cinema of Avatar: Fire and Ash 's costumes.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the news category: Best Casting. In the episode, they praise the wild and expansive casting of Marty Supreme , the brilliance of including two Jupe brothers in Hamnet and wonder if Sinners will take the first ever award in a sweep.

Matt and Marisa hit the home stretch with their category breakdowns with the trio of Shorts categories. In the episode, they agree on a clear front-runner for Animated Short, dig into a tight race for Documentary Short and realize this is the strongest group of Live Action Shorts they've ever covered.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Lead and Supporting Actor. In the episode, they admit that this year the boys may be more unpredictable than the girls, discuss which Supporting Actor they like more in One Battle After Another and discuss the surprise win for Michael B. Jordan at the Actor Awards.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the two they usually care about most: Lead and Supporting Actresses. In the episode, Marisa still can't quite understand the love for Sentimental Value , Matt gets to praise his girlie Rose Byrne and Matt is shocked when Marisa doesn't bring up a certain alternate for Supporting.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technicals. In Best Sound, they agree on a clear best in the category if not a clear winner. In Best Visual Effects, they wonder how some of these movies made it in, talk about how Matt's body rejected Jurassic World: Rebirth and express their love for the "gay whales" in Avatar: Fire and Ash .

Matt and Marisa continue the category breakdowns with some of their favorite and most unhinged: Best Song and Best Score. In the episode, they once again discuss Diane Warren's crimes against Oscar completionists, how essential music is to Sinners and how much the Academy did not want to nominate Wicked: For Good .

Matt and Marisa continue their annual category breakdown with two technicals. In the episode, they discuss their love of Train Dreams ' visuals, Marisa defends Frankenstein and they both suggest the same movie for alternate nominations—but in different categories.

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual breakdown of all the Oscar categories with a big one: Best Directing. In the episode, they talk about how PTA may be unstoppable, Ryan Coogler finally getting a nomination and suggest a few alternate nominees.

This episode, Marisa replaces usual co-host Matt Taylor with ThePopBreak.com staff writer, Sam Niles, who attended this year's Sundance Film Festival. In the episode, Sam talks about what it was like to attend the festival's last installment in Park City, gives us a rundown of new films at the fest and talks about the rewarding experience of seeing a few older films there too.

Marisa and Matt finally have a name for their EGOT-focused podcast! And they also watched the Grammys! In this episode, listen to their thoughts on the big four Grammy winners, learn how they would fix this VERY long award show, and find out which pop star made them both scream with delight even though they sounded quite bad! Plus, beloved sound engineer/Matt's husband Ben makes an appearance. Che...

Matt and Marisa watched the Golden Globes and they are... sleepy! But they still hopped on a microphone to record their thoughts. Find out where they think the major Oscar races are standing, who they thought were the hotties on the red carpet, and what they thought of the chaos the Golden Globes always bring to award season.

Matt and Marisa haven't seen each other in a while so catch-up with them as they gab about the latest movies, music, TV, and Broadway. Topics include: the return of Gwyneth to the Oscar season, how we're both ready to die for Lily Allen, which buzzy Broadway show Marisa hated, and whether or not Heated Rivalry is dumb (but we love it and you should watch it anyway).

Marisa and Matt have a wide-ranging discussion through all 4 of the EGOT Award Show races. Find out what movies (and celebrities) Matt and Marisa saw at the Toronto and New York film festivals this year, hear their thoughts on some of the fall's early plays, and listen to them chat about recent albums because they aren't really sure what the Grammy race is looking like right now. Tangents...

In this episode, Matt and Marisa talk about this year's Emmy awards! Come to find out which of the night's big winners Matt has a hot take about, stay to find out which shows from 10-30 years ago Marisa is watching instead of this year's nominees. Other topics/tangents include: if IP will ever be as good as Andor again, our favorite awkward audience interactions, and how we're not...

In this episode, Marisa and Matt take the EGOT award shows one letter at a time, walking through the state of the races (and also going on tangents about what they're obsessed with at the moment). Topics include: Taylor Swift's big new album, sad girl summer pop, getting Amy Madigan an Oscar, and the latest Broadway gossip about a bunch of silly boys.

In the latest episode of their "transitional period," Matt and Marisa talk about the Grammy race. Listen to find out their... complicated... feelings for this award show, and what they think of the current front-runners. And more importantly: stay tuned for a lot of Lady Gaga talk.

Matt and Marisa continue their "pilot program" of turning this into an EGOT podcast with their reactions to this year's Tony Awards. In the episode, they discuss their favorite speech of the night, the constant sound issues and completely forget to mention the incredible Hamilton 10th anniversary performance.

Marisa and Matt pivot into a whole new awards season: The 2025 Tony Awards! The duo talk about all the buzzy shows this season like Oh Mary! , Maybe Happy Ending , and the controversial Othello revival. Find out what show this season is one of the worst they've ever seen. And which Broadway star inspired them to take the show in a new direction?