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Speaker 1: This is the Iron Rapport podcast, and this is an

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Speaker 1: emergency podcast. This is the whitewashed of the Oscars or

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Speaker 1: the White Oscars or the Oscar Snubs podcast, the episode

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Speaker 1: about the Oscars, my opinions at the Iron Rapport podcast

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Speaker 1: and the opinions of my sidekick, Gimo Nettie. And we're

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Speaker 1: doing it. We're doing it. I'm gonna jump right into it.

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Speaker 1: So the Oscars were announced last week and Gimo Nettie,

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Speaker 1: how many of the films that were nominated did you see? Zero? Okay?

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Speaker 1: So Gimo Netti is not going to be speaking in

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Speaker 1: specifics because he doesn't see fucking movies. Me, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, I saw most of the films. And the

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Speaker 1: big snub that they are talking about is for the

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Speaker 1: film Selma, which is the civil rights drama about the

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Speaker 1: March Dr Martin Luther King. Great film, first time director,

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Speaker 1: black female African American female director. She was not nominated

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Speaker 1: for Best Director, but Selma the film was nominated for

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Speaker 1: Best Picture. Good okay, And obviously it's a predominantly black cast.

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Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey had something to do. What she might have

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Speaker 1: produced it, she acts in it. People are pissed at

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Speaker 1: this director was not nominated for Best Director, but the

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Speaker 1: film was nominated. So for Best Film they give eight

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Speaker 1: film nominations, okay, and they were this year American Sniper,

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Speaker 1: which I saw, which is great, Birdman which I saw,

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Speaker 1: which is great, Boyhood would which I liked, Grand Budapest

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Speaker 1: Hotel which I liked, the Imitation Game which I liked,

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Speaker 1: The Theory of Everything which I really liked, and Whiplash

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Speaker 1: which I liked. And then for Best Director, Alejandro You're

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Speaker 1: new too, I can't say his name. He directed this

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Speaker 1: film called Birdman, should win, great fucking film, totally innovative, unique,

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Speaker 1: one of a con film. Richard link let Her Boyhood,

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Speaker 1: Bennett Miller, Fox Catcher, Wes Anderson, and Morton Tilldom who

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Speaker 1: did Imitation Game. So the problem is is that someone

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Speaker 1: was nominated for Best Picture but not Best Director, and

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Speaker 1: no other black performers were nominated in any other categories

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Speaker 1: for acting. What do you have to say about this

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Speaker 1: whole controversy. I don't like the picketing about there being

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Speaker 1: no black people getting awards or whatever nominated for the

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Speaker 1: awards for the Oscars, What do you have to say

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Speaker 1: about the Oscars? They're good and like you told me,

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Speaker 1: you said, you know, film is it's not like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, the best. You can't. It's subjective.

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Speaker 1: It's not sports. It's not arm wrestling, it's not the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Here's a couple of things how I feel

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Speaker 1: about the Oscars. Number One, Raging Bull was nominated for

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Speaker 1: Best Film Versus Ordinary People, in Raging Bill lost to

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Speaker 1: Ordinary People. Good Fellas was nominated against Dances with Wolves,

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Speaker 1: also directed by actor turned director Mr America Guy Kevin Costner.

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Speaker 1: That film one and and that film won Best Director.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the eighties, after all the films

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Speaker 1: in the eighties, all the great films in the eighties

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Speaker 1: were released, Raging Bull was voted best film of the

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Speaker 1: entire decade. Nineties good Fellows was voted the best film

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Speaker 1: of the entire decades. So the point is is that

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Speaker 1: the Oscars, and I don't mean to say that they're

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Speaker 1: they don't mean ship, because if I ever got nominated

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Speaker 1: for Oscar, I'd be fucking happiest ship. But you have

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Speaker 1: to keep it in perspective because they've gotten it wrong

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Speaker 1: many many, many, many, many, many many times. Even this year,

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Speaker 1: American Sniper was nominated for Best Picture. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't be more of Hollywood's golden man. Clint Eastwood

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Speaker 1: was not nominated for Best Director. So is that a snub?

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Speaker 1: Is that a wasting? You know? It's like if Clint

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Speaker 1: Eastwood so you know, so that's probably his best film

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Speaker 1: that he directed, in my opinion, or his best film

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Speaker 1: in a while, um since the Western, which I can't

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Speaker 1: I think it was called Forgotten Unforgotten, I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: It's a good film. It's a great film. He I

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Speaker 1: think he won the Oscar for that. But if they're

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Speaker 1: gonna leave off this first time director, um Ava, who

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Speaker 1: did a fantastic job in Selma Clintic, I mean there's

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Speaker 1: always disappointments. Who gives a fuck making it about race?

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Speaker 1: And in the last few years so many African American

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Speaker 1: performers and directors have been acknowledged it. It doesn't always

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Speaker 1: it's not always about racist doesn't have to be a protest.

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Speaker 1: Stop piketing over bullshit, stop pickting over fucking bullshit. It's

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Speaker 1: a fucking everybody, not white people. Play cut the fucking

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Speaker 1: ship the fucking oscars. Yeah yeah, come on, Oh you're

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Speaker 1: gonna pick it outside that and you're gonna hashtag ship.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is also like you're picking over someone

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Speaker 1: the director of Selma not being nominated and other actors,

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Speaker 1: the lead actor who was great as Martin's The King

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Speaker 1: not being nominated. Did you see the fucking movie? Did

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Speaker 1: you go to everybody that tweeted about the Oscar whitewash

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Speaker 1: or the white Oscars or the black snubs or whatever

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Speaker 1: the funk you're calling it, did you see the movie?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna say yes, but I don't fucking believe because

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Speaker 1: if everybody who tweeted about that ship saw Selma, Selma

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Speaker 1: would be a huge box office success. So you are

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Speaker 1: you just tweeting because you feel like it's it's something

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Speaker 1: to protesting playing about or did you take your ass

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Speaker 1: to the movies? But you know, motherfucker's are gonna get snubbed.

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Speaker 1: Al Pacino he did not win. He got nominated, but

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Speaker 1: he did not win for The Godfather One Godfather to

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Speaker 1: Dog Day Afternoon, Cerproco, Scarface Carlito's way, that the best

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Speaker 1: ship he's ever done. He didn't win for So it's like,

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Speaker 1: was that an Italian American snub? He doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: be a fucking protest obviously, the oscars that have gotten better. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: there were years and years and years where they were

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Speaker 1: shipping on black actors and black directors. But it's gotten

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Speaker 1: way better. It doesn't have to and even if it isn't,

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Speaker 1: it's not worth a fucking protests. It's not all right,

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Speaker 1: it's not worth a fucking protest. What what? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What were you saying earlier about us? Yo? Stop picketing

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Speaker 1: number one for everything? Right. You can't force this motherfucker

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Speaker 1: to love you. You can't force somebody to do the

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Speaker 1: things you suspect. So the point I'm making is instead

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Speaker 1: of picketing, you should fucking try to do your own ship.

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Speaker 1: The only way we get awards is when they have

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Speaker 1: us in them servitude positions. And this is what I

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Speaker 1: don't fucking like the movie The Help, Yes, did you

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Speaker 1: see it? Yeah? Okay, you didn't like it? The Butler,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you see, But you don't like that, did you know?

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Speaker 1: You know why I don't like it as a black person.

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Speaker 1: I don't like it because they make it seem like

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Speaker 1: those people were delighted to do those things. But what

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Speaker 1: if they were. They weren't. Okay, they weren't, And that's

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Speaker 1: the time that black people don't want to fucking remember, right,

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Speaker 1: so you get your billionaire and these are the movies

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Speaker 1: you make. You see, that's not a good time for

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Speaker 1: us collectively. We're in a we're in a we're done,

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Speaker 1: we're dominated, we're in a position of servitude. We don't

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Speaker 1: want to see that on the screen. Why don't you

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Speaker 1: fucking make movies, you're a billionaire, movies about the triumph

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Speaker 1: of the human spirit, meaning the slave that's in the

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Speaker 1: fucking field, right, that runs away and fucking burns down

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Speaker 1: some of them plantations and and runs through the forest

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Speaker 1: all the way to Canada. But Django had that that

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Speaker 1: that Jango was a fucking comic book. What motherfucker a

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Speaker 1: slave gonna be walking with with with with this? Motherfucker

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Speaker 1: See look at Spielberg Schindler's list. That's triumph of the

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Speaker 1: human spirit that's coming out of that ship. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not delighting in that, right. You think that fucking Butler

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Speaker 1: was happy? He he wanted to kill him. Motherfucker's that's

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Speaker 1: what I don't like. Good ship. Gie Moody on the

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Speaker 1: Oscars The Oscars, This is the I m Rappaport podcast.

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Speaker 1: Here's another thing I want to say about the Oscars.

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Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese, another Italian American. Maybe there are. Maybe they're

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Speaker 1: gonna start picking. Maybe they're gonna start picking. Did not

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Speaker 1: win Best Director for Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver,

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Speaker 1: Mean Streets right there. He didn't. He didn't those I

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Speaker 1: don't watch movies, and I saw that ship King of

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Speaker 1: Comedy after hours. Alice doesn't live here anymore, of course,

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Speaker 1: Raging Bull. He didn't win Best Director for nominated good

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Speaker 1: Fellas Cape fear Yo. By the time he won an Oscar,

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Speaker 1: it was a joke good Fellas. He didn't win an

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Speaker 1: Oscar for So I'm just saying again, it's not it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's not always racist. It's like sometimes it's it's and

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Speaker 1: you know. And then al Pacino won Best Oscar for

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Speaker 1: Best Actor for Scent of a Woman, which to me

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Speaker 1: is is a subpar Alpaccino performance. You can't look into

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Speaker 1: it too much. It's just it's it's it's not fucking roight,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's not totally correct, it's floored. I mean,

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Speaker 1: can you say fuck them when they don't nominate you,

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Speaker 1: but cry tears of joy when you do win one?

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Speaker 1: So the same people that that are making you cry

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Speaker 1: because you're so happy because you won one. You say,

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Speaker 1: fuck them. It's it's I don't know. These guys are

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Speaker 1: just looking. People are like, it's shocking. You know what

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Speaker 1: happened in Paris, that's shocking. They're like, it's shocking, the

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Speaker 1: shocking Oscar snubs. This is the I Am Rappaport podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is an emergency podcast about the fucking Oscars and

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Speaker 1: I think we covered it. See Selma before you make

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Speaker 1: an opinion about it not being nominated. That's my first

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Speaker 1: fucking thing. And what other films you gotta if you

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Speaker 1: go to the movies and see all the films, you

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Speaker 1: can't just did you see all the films to make

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Speaker 1: an opinion? You didn't, You can't be talking ship. You

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Speaker 1: will say about Marianne Color I can't pronounce the name

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Speaker 1: beautiful French actress. She's nominated for Best Actress when she's

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Speaker 1: in a film where she's speaking French. I don't agree

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Speaker 1: foreign films you should get nominated for for a performance

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Speaker 1: and that's not in English perious. This is the Oscars.

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Speaker 1: It's American film. That's why we have Best Foreign Film.

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Speaker 1: If you want to do Best Foreign Film, uh performance

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Speaker 1: by a woman, do that. But you can't have a

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Speaker 1: French speaking actress in the same category as an American

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Speaker 1: speaking actress. That's just me. That's just my opinion about

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Speaker 1: the Oscars. Anyway. This is the Iron Rappaport podcast. My

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