Hi there, dear podcast listeners, it's Matt, your friendly host with a request, but a really special request, not one that we've done in the past.

Some of you may know that in 2011, Planetary Radio won the Coated Parsek Award and as you're about to hear these

are awards that are given out for podcasts that are related to speculative fiction, science,

fantasy.

Anyway, they're done at the DragonCon Awards each year in

Atlanta and we won in 2011 and that was much to the chagrin I think of some very

worthy nominees in our category because they do have this one category

for the facts behind the fiction that's the one that we took well we skip this

year or well last year I should say but we've received a promo that the Parsek people are asking

past winners to run and of course I'm doing this for only the most selfish

reasons because I'm hoping that one or two of you out there might just decide to nominate planetary radio once again.

I wouldn't mind going back to DragonCon to go up there on stage and pick up an award on your

behalf of course. Anyway here's the promo.

The Parsek Awards. Those strange and compelling trophies for

speculative fiction podcasting came to Earth in 2006 with powers and abilities far beyond those of normal awards.

The Parsek Awards have been known to make you a better podcaster so you can stand straighter, walk taller, and stop taking

separate bubble baths in front of sunsets. So what would you pay for such an opportunity?

Don't answer yet. Act now and nominate a podcast before May 27th and you too can help a

deserving podcaster turn his or her life around and win a PARSEQ Award. Go to PARSEQ Awards dot com and nominate a PARSCC award. Go to PARSCA.com and nominate a deserving podgaster.

Act now.

Operators are standing by.

So that's it.

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