The 2026 Versies Awards | House of Midnight - Free Transcript | The Ringer-Verse

Hello and welcome to the two thousand twenty six verses, the sixth time.

Somehow the sixth time that we are doing the verses, think your fifth and our sixth, the

“fictional award show that we do around actual award season to celebrate the nerd culture”

highlights that we loved and that the listeners and viewers of our various nerd culture podcast loved. The ringerverse family is here today, the midnight boys pew pew ringer! Dan, Joey, Steve, Charles, House of ours here, we don't have like a fun sound effect. Just pages turning and then a really long run time to end this year. We are going to explain the categories that we will be toasting this year and the new and evolved voting

process. Right after this. This is a world. In the last year, a love in the Bailsal Aufblütt and Magie, a whole week. This world is much more than a big Britain. From the online event in Italy, the Waren Star of the story, a decamere of TripAdvisor.de, Shrekstrich, Gross Britannian. Okay, now you just need to mark her she sounds so sexy.

That's not what she is.

“That's important to some members of this panel. It's not eligible this year. Because”

the two thousand twenty six verses, we are celebrating 2025 releases. Okay, so that is the first,

look at this, should we tell her? Twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty five. What a time to be a nerd. It was actually. Are you sick? Are we doing? I'm doing this. That's the classic man. How close can it get to me? All right, here's how it's going to work. We have champagne. We have trophies. The entire team has killed it, setting up the wonderful set. We have here.

We have some fancy montages. It's going to be great. We have 12 categories today. Everybody has actual tangible physical envelopes because it's the physical media era. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Shawn and the blue ray boys are not with us today. And yet we have something that we can call in our hands. I'm used to that on a podcast. I've done with you this week. Yeah, probably even though we've only done three podcasts this week, it might be the fifth time I've

said it. We will reveal the categories as we go through. Everybody will be celebrating various things today. And we open up the voting in advance to the public. So if you're tuning in for this pod, you might think this is all surprise, but you might already know what the categories are because you might have voted on them. The polling was up this week before we record it. And that means that we will be revealing for each of the 12 categories. Two votes. Interesting.

Power vote, this is steamed panel of nerds. And then the voting from this is steamed panel. The democracy. And then the midnight writers, the bad babies, the button mashers voted on the ringer.com, what a great website on Instagram, on Twitter, on YouTube. And so we will be sharing the opinion of the public. Will we agree? Did we agree with each other? Are there going to be some controversial ties? How will we be litigating that

in real time? We don't know. We didn't solve that part. Before we record it, we're going to figure it out in real time together. And I'm sure that will be fine. Any questions

before we begin, which is going to basically be here's the category, then you guys are

going to get to see some clips, a little highlight package, right? We're going to like to plan that there are no clips anymore. The first is here to appease that need and that

“concern. And then we're going to have a little bit of a discussion to remember to look”

juryate in this near term nostalgia. Then we're going to pull up the envelopes and say what one. That's it. I'm going to be done. We'll go home, except for Carlos, who's going to say that first season of Carlos. Let's get the energy up in this one. Alright, first category, Van Lathen will be presenting. What do we got?

I got to bring it up.

This is best visuals. Okay, this is an award. It's prestige award for the best visuals of

2025. Now we saw some really, really brave and ambitious autours. Really put that visual styles onto the screen. And now we're going to give you guys a short montage of some of the

“nominees for this video's best videos of 2025. Do you want to take it away first up?”

As a tag of the win trainer chair, Avatar Fire and I got you a good delirited. The black hole, Chancy, that's as a four first steps. Final play, chase slash fight, mission impossible, the final right.

Let's take it from behind the curtain. Avatar Fire and I almost nominated for anything until Mallory stormed the eyes. We listen, we want everyone to stay for the entire work show until the very end when we have some of the biggest awards. But there's a lot of overlap between categories. Yeah, yeah, I actually nominated Avatar. Cut out the court scene. Get high. Yeah, I said it. I support that number one. I really do think that my ability to read it like they do what the Oscars was very, I think everyone should do that.

I would say that. But secondly, I think that Avatar, there's we've now kind of boomeranged around on the Avatar stuff. How so, just like the Timothy Battle Valley comment to where it started off like we just like culture like now Avatar is overheated to me.

“It's a great opportunity. It's a great opportunity. People realize it's cool to hear on Avatar. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. Middle hour of the way of water, magical.”

Middle hour is the first hour or the first half hour, the middle hour is the hour in the middle.

We're talking about fire Nash, which is also a movie that existed. Yeah, this is a good category to celebrate some other films that aren't going to be represented in the. That's possible in your demon sliders. Yeah, if we were doing best visuals fantastic for which we are mission impossible with it be that or would I feel like the submarine scene actually had better visuals. This was more exhilarating to watching the theater because you're like, how did they do this, but the submarine scene was like really cool.

We all had the opportunity to dominate things and I'm pretty sure you did that. This is more of like a bigger spectrum. I know that I think I prefer in terms of action, the submarine sequence because it's like really tense and like, oh my god, he's like gunna drown, but then he's jumping from plane to plane man, you can't really say that's the opposite. And in this scene, he, that's much more tense because you know, it's a real plane and stuff like that, but like when you go back and you watch him under the water like the depth that you're seeing he looks like he's in the ocean of space.

“Sure, right, here's what the war goes to. Is there any kind of drum roll or situation like that?”

That's podcast because I was just going to read this. Wow, what does it say? Ash attack, it's a need to 7th form and the black hole chase, so three way time that's so fucking weird. But the fans say the fan said black hole chase, fantastic.

It was amazing, it's the best shot out for Avatar.

It's a very worthy winner here, I really think I would end on Twitter, which was a while ago and who knows how many, I know that more people wrote on the website, but mission possible was winning by a country mail and I was shocked.

The truth heads, the Scientologists are out.

“Interesting, are you actually using the team of cook in the books?”

No, I know there was like many platforms to vote on. It was. I forgot about the black hole of the task force, see. I was my first nominee. I'm thinking about visuals and singing the theater and I'm like, that was a scene where in that movie, I was like, oh man, we're cooking. Now did the movie continue that momentum? No, but in that moment, I was like, this is a fantastic foreplay.

Fantastic foreplay has a verse. This is an Oscar. Are we presenting the trophy in any way or there's just sort of... This is decorative, that's a trophy. We'll be accepting this on there. We'll be accepting this on there, but that'll be accepting this on Vanessa Kirby's behalf.

That goes to the guard. I like to thank Kevin Feijee, I like to thank Pedro Pascal, continue to live your life. I like to thank everyone that was involved in making this my agent. Everybody over at WME are in manual everyone. We all did this together, but I'm going to take this home for the entire crew.

Thank you guys. There we go. Sure for you. Before we get to the next category, you have one in actual Oscar. You've won it again in your award. What do you think is more meaningful? We're receiving an Oscar receiving an honorary versey here.

I think the versey is a way, way ahead, it's time to close. This is a big deal. Big deal in the industry. Yeah, big deal in the industry. There's fewer of them. Yeah, that's why you're wearing it.

Yeah, they'd be giving away. We'll do 24 next year. I'll tell you something else about the Oscars. Tell you something else about the Oscars. They were giving them away in the 50s.

Like for free, it's the 40s. I'm saying anything that was given away by things. It's kind of dubious. The versey started in the woke era. Are you saying that we're more diverse?

We're more cutting edge. There are a lot of things that we have. See, that the Bill Russell's heavy piece are all garbage. I'm saying anything happened before. Well, TV was black and white.

It's, I got to be skeptical of it. All right, it's fair. Let's see. We'll 200. Okay.

The next. Nope. Nope. Next category. Next category.

What is it talking to it? Do you have it in your phone? It's in.

“I believe you're email your Google Drive and your text messages.”

Okay. I apologize. It's good. Okay. Our next category.

This isn't going to be an interesting one. Best line. And because this montage features audio as well as beautiful riveting video, I will not say anything. I'm sorry.

I want to apologize. I'll do it for my next category. But I got to be able to hear them say the lines, right? Okay. Carlos, can we see the best line nominees?

Mr. Strawberries says fuck off. They don't even bother to like back to anymore. I suppose that's the final simulation. Because I love you. Anyway.

Thank you for the pain because the gummy gummy virus. Oh, shit. Just. Just kidding.

I'm going to get incredible feel.

And incredible feel. The nominees. Yes. And incredible feel. The nominees.

Can pop stuck in there, bro. We had and/or up on that screen. What am I really curious about? So like, not to spoil things. But like, yeah.

And/or will be well represented today. Yeah. Yes. Seniors will be well represented. Yes.

This is a category to honor another. But like, do you think the fans came through for the last? Which is I really potent. Not many here. Astonished if the and/or line does not win.

The fan vote by like 90%. I will say I voted for Joel. I voted for the United States. I just think that is. This is our opportunity here to get last of us in the mix.

We're going to have a lot of places to celebrate and/or. Justly and rightly so. That was great.

That moment was incredible.

That moment is perfect. And it kind of encapsulates what we love about the last of us. An important show in our universe. An important game in our universe. Add it's best.

“So that's why I would make the case for.”

The only problem with that is that the show suck this time. And so. It's not the way. It's not the way it is. It's not the way it is.

It's not the way it is.

It's not the way it is. It's not the way it is. It's not the way it is. It's not the way it is. It's not the way it is.

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“This is from actually because it's weird because we have all we also have best new character.”

Yes.

Even though one of the nominees is kind of a new character, but it's fine.

It's all fake. It's all fake. It's all fake.

It's all fake.

It's all fake. It's all fake.

“Sometimes the rookie of the year can be the MVP.”

Do you know what I'm saying? It happens. Sometimes someone's in supporting category. You're like, oh, yeah. You know, kind of where it happens.

When we call this a breeder, a carpeter, a new artist. You know what we talked about? I'm going to send a music for 10 years. How you the best new artist. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Here are the nominees. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey. A sign of the logo.

Oh, wait. The gold. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] The assignment is complete.

Yeah. Look, I don't know how things are done here in-- Boy Cavalier. See, Bailey. In the future, where I live, we move fast and we make trillions.

The Tinian Codex was forged two times a year ago. On a planet where sight was considered a disability. Oh, you're going to die if I wasn't here. Anything I had to. [MUSIC PLAYING]

I lied just twice. And a lie is stack more. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. [MUSIC PLAYING]

This is exactly what's going to happen. Yes, the Oscars. There's two real candidates here. Yeah. A stacked field.

- I feel, this is an incredible tattoo.

- Yeah, I have a very small kiss stack. - It's tough, it's tough. - Yeah, it's so tough. - Yeah, it's so tough. - Yeah, it's so tough.

- Yeah, it's so tough. - Right, right, right. - So how awesome Clay is? - Man, the clay is stuff,

“'cause she kind of takes it by surprise,”

especially in the first season. You're really like, it's looped in heavy. She's there, she's helping. She's like a great character in the arm, right? And that's season.

Then the season two, they take it up, not to turn it up. - It's played on, it's played on. - It's summertime, it's clay at times. It's just incredible work, by the actress. Just like, again, you have Diego Luna,

you have Stella Starters' guard, like you already have powerhouse people in that show. And for her to be there, and not only take up the amount of space, they she did, but also do it in a way that you're watching her, like, this is a powerhouse

performance with all those other actors. It's just incredible.

- It was amazing how the show took Lutheran,

who was kind of a linchpan of the entire resistance in this show, that was almost it's mascot. And then was able to send him off by empowering the narrative of her character to such a devastating degree. I don't know if I've ever seen it quite done like that.

I tried, even at that point, to think it would have been like if the end of the soprano's would have been Tony's death through Chris's eyes. - Yeah. - Or-- - Kind of, but like the soprano's ran

for so much longer and/or you don't like to see this. - I know, but I'm not necessarily comparing the shows as a one-to-one, but I don't know that I've ever seen it quite done like that. They really pulled Lutheran out of the game.

And then almost made him a mug of it. And it was fantastic story today. - Yeah, really good. I mean, Cleo is certainly one of the characters who, you know, Andor is one of the defining experiences

for Star Wars fans and also just fans of like John or storytelling. And we are attached to a lot of those characters from Rogue One, then to your point, we become very attached to certain figures

in season one. The fact that Cleo is one of the characters after two seasons of Andor are concluded, like dominating and animating not only thought and care, but conversation, really notable.

- Like left one of them. - Yeah, it's been off-conversations.

It's just, Cleo would be an incredible, incredible winner.

I don't think Cleo's going to be the winner. I suspect the votes went elsewhere. - Let me find out. - Oh, so let's listen.

“- And I think that would happen with Boyc Cavalier.”

I mean, I think Boyc Cavalier is an incredible character and it's an amazing performance. - What a name. - Not to get to you to spoil future categories. - There's another alien Earth best new character.

- That's the one that I am very interested in. - Yeah. - And so we weren't going to have two alien Earth new characters. - Yeah, there's Boyc Cavalier sneaking here, 'cause he's a new character.

- Can I ask you guys a question? - Yeah. - Is Boyc Cavalier in the Dr. Hugh Man, obvious name, all of a sudden? (laughing)

- He's Dr. Hugh Man. - Dr. Hugh Man? - Oh, he's really, it's really, it's really, it's like, he's pleasing. He's peed for Ace Cavalier Boyc Cavalier. - He's funny.

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“I think that the ringer verse vote is going to go to last of us,”

but the fan vote is going to go to Andor here. - Joe's death is just a reverted fan vote. - Joe's death is just a reverted fan vote. - Joe's death is just a reverted fan vote. - Joe's death is just a reverted fan vote.

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