WEBVTT - Mini Crush #55 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.320 Hey, everybody, welcome to Mini Crush Monday on a Wednesday. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.080 Many crush in it, Many crushing? It is that a thing? 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.640 Is that like a like a song? Or did you 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.800 just make that up off the top off the dome? 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.960 As you say, it's very well done. Shock. I like that. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:41.920 We should we should make that into a recurring theme. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.440 Many crush in it. Actually, you know what song I 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.080 have stuck in my head is have we ever talked 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.440 about Free to Be You and Me? It's starting to 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.279 come back to me, but not I don't know if 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.640 we have or not, Like I repeat myself on the show, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.480 but Free to Be You and Me was a record 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.160 made by Marlo Thomas in the seventies, okay, with a 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:06.039 bunch of her famous friends about acceptance of others and uh, 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.240 you know it's for children and um. They had a 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.039 song on it called It's all Right to Cry, sung 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.480 by Rosie Greer who was this big football player. And 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.040 I sing that for Ruby when she gets upset sometimes 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.000 she had a rough morning. That sounds like some sesame 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.319 street this morning. It sort of is It's all right 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.199 to cry. Crying gets the sad out all of you. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.640 If only that were true, If only crying was literally 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.800 just expelling the sadness. If so, it would never return. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.200 It kind of helps, though, it does help, like if 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.160 you've got a good cry m, it's cathartic. I mean 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.120 I do like a good movie cry. I think we 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.400 both are in the movie Crier Camp. Yeah, man, I 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.600 I cry. I live for it. You know. That's how 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.640 I know it's done a good job. Tears are flowing 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:57.120 at my house. Noll uh Rosie Greer Boy. That album 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.720 was great like that that would had a long dream 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.440 to do. That is a stage play. It's free to 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.600 Be You and Me album. I know nothing of this. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.880 I meks Is on it and Alan Alda and it's 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.520 really really terrific and it's great to look back on 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.160 it because it was a big part of my childhood 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.360 and it teaches all the right messages. It's great. There's 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.480 one bit called William Wants a Doll about a boy 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.240 that wants a doll and plays with a doll. There's 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.640 one about a girl being nice to her grandmother and 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.200 it's like he's very progressive. That's very forward thinking for 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.079 the time. I mean the whole like gender nonconformity already 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.680 resolutely codified in a children's song in the seventies. That's 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.959 pretty amazing. Alright, No, we're gonna start off this week 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.640 with another explainer since we're in the Oscar mood. By 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.680 the way, everyone keep your fingers crossed. There's a couple 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.600 of potentially pretty great guests on the horizon, but we 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.600 need all the movie crushing vibes sent out there into 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.560 the universe. Clap your hands, like to make it happens? 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.080 He does style, No, tinker Belt style? Is that how 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.440 it happens? You clap your hands when tinker Bell dies 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.600 and that brands her back to life. Spoiler, Well, it's 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.040 in the you know, it's it's it's it's it's audience 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.160 participation in the play version of Peter Peter Pan. Okay, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.639 and they manifest that's how you manifest something. They don't 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.240 really explain it. They just say you've got to clap 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.359 your hands and that that makes tinker Bell come back 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.400 to life. Well, we're clapping our hands to get a 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.960 couple of good guests. One it's it's just a guest 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.240 I've long sought after, and they said, hey, they may 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.280 be available at l A. I think I know thee 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.919 Oh really, well, I'm just talking to Ramsey and Ramsey 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.639 about Yeah, you do know that one, but I don't 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.760 want to jink out, not at all. But I was like, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.760 I'll go to l A for that. And there's another one. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.840 Our head sales guy is trying to build a sales 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.040 pitch for a movie, uh, you know, to advertise on 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.040 this show and others. And he said, Hey, if it 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.400 came down to it, would you have this this director 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.200 and writer on I was like, uh, I certainly, what okay? 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.560 So I don't want to drink either one knows. I'm excited. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.200 I know that everyone hates it when that one I 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.640 don't know about, so I'll be surprised as the rest 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.280 of us. All Right, nol. So what we're gonna do? Uh? 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:03.120 This week can tinuing the little Oscar bits here and there. Um, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.520 this one is pretty Oscar heavy in different ways. But 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.560 I'm gonna explain to you all about the statuette. The 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.480 Oscar statuette the most maybe the most famous trophy in 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.240 the world. So I might say I saw a thing 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.600 about how they make the Super Bowl trophy. I think 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.640 Tiffany makes it the Tiffany Company, and it's like it's 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.279 all handmade in hand, you know, sanded and you know 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.200 forged in all this stuff, and it's a really great 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.800 video behind it. Um, and I think it's worth like, 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.880 I don't know, a hundred thousand dollars something crazy like that. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.240 But is it a similar story with the Oscar trap? No, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.920 I don't think. Uh, I don't think the actual value 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.360 of the individual piece of hardware is that much because 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.120 they're cranking out you know, yeah, this is just a 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.599 single trophy then for the entire game exactly. But they 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.280 have been giving this thing out since I believe nine. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:56.679 They formed the academy in nineteen seven and uh, actually 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.840 it may have been uh no, no no, no, I think 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.160 the initial awards bank in twenty nine. Listen to me 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.719 stumbling through this already. Um. But they got together in 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.520 n is an academy and that's when they started, um, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.760 kind of having organized talks about how they should do 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.360 these awards, like getting the plan together, and they met 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.680 in downtown l A. They said, I think we should 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.359 do you know, X, Y and Z, And of course 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.600 they said we gotta have a we gotta have a statue, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.600 a statuette. I don't know what the difference is statuette 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.000 is just smaller, I guess, I think handheld. That's sort 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:34.200 of a diminutive statue. Uh So, so they said we 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.520 need a little handheld award. And there was an art 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.760 director at MGM named Cedric Gibbons who designed a night 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.400 with a with a reel of film, um and a 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.560 sword and everything. And then they got a sculptor named 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.920 George Stanley and actually actually formed this thing into a 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.520 into a real a little statuette that you could hold. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.240 It was still sort of the the beta version, I guess, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.919 but that's where it initially came from. And then the 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.159 first awards banquet was in May of ninety nine. Um 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.600 at the Hollywood Roosevelt where you've stayed, did the very 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.720 first Oscar ceremony. There is that, right, was it like 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.800 in is there a ball room that I might have missed? Yeah? Here, Yeah, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.080 it was in the lobby, It was at the because 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:23.279 of your desk, it was in the blossom room. Um. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.559 It was a pretty small affair back then though. Okay, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.400 the Roosevelt is still okay, so cool though, Yeah, it's 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.320 it's still very much like it doesn't feel like they 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.200 just gutted it. Like it looks very much the same 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.880 as it ever did, kind of throwback. I like it, um, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.479 and since then, I believe they've made about three thousand 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:47.000 of these statuettes over the years. And it's thirteen and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.480 a half inches tall if you were ever curious about that, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.720 and it weighs. You know how people always talk about 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.880 how heavy it is. It's eight and a half pounds. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.400 It's it's dense. So now I got to know them 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.719 about the materials, Chuck, Well, they still love that film real. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.080 First of all, they have five spokes on the wheel, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.760 and it signifies its representative of the original five branches 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.200 the Academy acting, directing, producing, writing, and then the technicians. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.520 They lumped all into one category, and this is sort 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.640 of true to its original design. Um. The base, actually 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.880 the big fat base, has varied a little bit over 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.920 the years, but I think they settled that in and 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.840 it has been exactly the same since then. Um. The 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.720 official name of it is not the Oscar, of course 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.080 that's a nickname. It's the Academy Award of merit Um. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.640 But everyone calls it Oscar. And this is where it 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.880 gets a little murky, because there are a few competing 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.480 stories of where Oscar got its name, and one of 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.720 them is that the Academy Library. And I think this 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.520 is the most widely distributed story. But there was a 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.800 librarian at the Academy Um. Eventually she became executive director. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.800 Her name was Margaret Herrick and and when she saw 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.880 the trophy for the first time, as the story goes, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.000 she said, it looks like her uncle Oscar. So that's 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.000 sort of the leading story. But in nine they started, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.680 you know, they officially adopted that name, the Oscars, And 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.119 that's pretty much the story. Man. Their solid bronze um 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.840 painted I'm sorry played it in twenty four carrot gold. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.000 So solid gold. Oh sure, Well, the bronze is probably 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.040 what's where the heft comes from, right, I mean that's 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.800 a yeah, gold is probably heavier than bron so that's true. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.080 I'm not I'm not a metal weight. I'm not a 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.760 metal or just I know that Mega Death is the 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.080 heaviest metal are they though. They're one of those bands 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.800 where their album covers are always much more like scary 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.160 than their music, kind of like they were like Iron Maiden. Yeah, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.560 they weren't scary metal. Neither was Iron Maide. Yeah, exactly. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.760 They like to evoke those things, but they weren't like 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.280 this ship. They're like opera metal. Yeah. Speaking of which, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.080 have you seen the trailer for the new there's a 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.760 movie called The Lords of Chaos the Dark Metal about 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.080 the black metal band. Man. I want to see that. Yeah, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.600 I don't know. It looks it looks uh. I have 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.400 high hopes for it. But it looks a little bit 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.240 like almost like a teen drama kind of thing, but 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.080 with the whole black metal frame story, but with human sacrifice, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.679 hopefully in church burnings. Uh. During World War Two, no, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:23.200 all the Oscar was painted plaster for three years because 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.240 of course, during the war they needed their medals. Times 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.760 were tight to make bombs and tanks and things. Uh. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.720 And then after World War two ended, um, they said, hey, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.120 if you got one of those shitty plaster oscars, why 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.040 don't you come on down here and trade it in. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.640 And they would go down to the Academy office and 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.880 then get arrested because it was all a set up. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.080 Do you remember that, Simpsons. No, that's a common thing 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.440 that police have done over the years, is is get 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.680 people with warrants out to come to them by having 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.839 some fake thing like you won the sweepstakes or whatever. 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.520 Like theyre dumb enough. And Homer did that one time 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.480 he thought he want to vote or something. That's so funny. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.480 He went down to the police. I just realized that 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.000 Greg Daniels, who created The Office, American Office and Parks 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.120 and Wreck, he was a big Simpsons writer. I didn't 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.280 realize that. And I was just rewatching Parks and Wreck 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:14.839 of the Day and they did that exact same thing 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.200 to Ron Swanson, serving him with like a subpoena or 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.320 like a divorce papers or something. No, it was um. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.400 He had won like a year's free gift certificates at 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.720 like his favorite steakhouse or something like that, and he 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.800 came up and they're like, you've been served, and he 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.880 was like, I don't like you, but I respect the effort. Oh. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.040 I love that guy. To get him on one day, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.720 what a dream, No serious, I just had no idea 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.040 he came because I actually heard Conan talking about him 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.640 on his his podcast, which is great, talking about how 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.560 they kind of came up together as writers on Saturday 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.199 Night Live. And I did not realize he went back 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.520 that far. Conan just snaps his fingers and he can 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.120 get a guest and all he doesn't have to struggle. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.320 All right, we're gonna go into social studies. We're gonna 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.000 segue right into a very kind of straight ahead us 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.720 your question, um, what's your pick for Best Picture? And 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:10.959 give us one sentence why? And well, right away people 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.280 are naming things that aren't even nominated for Best Picture. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.000 Well you didn't specify that it had to be nominating. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.920 Oh no, be on my side. Okay, Chuck, who are 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.560 these fools? Cast them asunder? Are you gonna go with them? 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.160 Are you gonna you don't know. I'm only gonna do 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.160 the ones that are nominating. Because there's a follow up 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.200 question in another episode that where this is addressed. So 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.120 by by the rules, everyone, Jennifer call your Pelton says, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.600 but he mean rhapsody. I truly enjoyed it, and when 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.040 it was over, I wanted to see it again. That's 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.440 all you gotta say. I saw it for the third 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:42.680 time the other night, did you really? I have not 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.520 seen it for the first time yet. I loved it. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.920 I'm gonna do it. I really want to. Uh. Mary 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.280 O'donald's is the favorite no On one of yours. It 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:54.720 was beautifully shot, flawlessly acted, and compelling political intrigue and 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.000 almost entirely about women for once. Yeah, and women are 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.840 like badasses in it. All that the only I guess, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.640 not problematic aspect, but it's it's like it's two women 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.600 beefing really hard against each other. It's like, why can't 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.360 you be friends and take over the world, But it's 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.839 also for the favor of another woman rather than like 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.079 you know, and the men are these kind of ancillary 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.440 idiot players in the story, which is kind of pretty cool. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.480 So don't tell me any more. No, I might go 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.880 see that today. I think you should. It's fantastic. Is 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:26.240 today You're like day movie day? I think so, that's awesome. Yeah. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.520 I looked at it because I was supposed to be 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.679 in New York right now, so I cleared my schedule. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.000 Darryl Murphy says Roma not just deeply h and profoundly moving, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.240 but also glorious cinematography. I did not agree more with 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:50.480 my friend John Hoskin says Black Panther because it was 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.360 the only one he saw. That's yeah, you got to 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.000 appreciate the honesty there. I like it. The Gooch David 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.240 Gooch says, I haven't seen all of them yet, but 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.680 Black Klansman was the best directed in a powerful movie 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:05.320 I saw this year. Uh. Kristin Egan says, a second 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.240 Black Klansman powerful, sure, but also wildly entertaining. It's funny, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.960 it's I mean, and it's like just does a good 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.160 job of like balancing those elements. Yeah, even when it 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.400 gets heavy, it doesn't get heavy handed. It gets it's 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.520 just kind of like really dials it in and like 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.520 really hits it. It's home. Yeah, agreed. Dylan Or says 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.040 the favorite was his favorite Karen Schlump Hughes is Bohemian 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.839 Rhapsody for its repeat watchability. I love it, Mortgage time, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.000 I see it, Karen, I was just talking about that. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.280 Greta Koni says the favorite so quirky and those ladies, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.760 The Death of Stalin. I saw it. Yeah, what do 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.760 you think, dude, It's it's fantastic, right o. Man, just so. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.920 And that's another one that's so funny, but it's also 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.480 gets kind of heavy for we like here and there. Yeah. Man, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.280 just such a great idea to like tell this truly 0:13:55.600 --> 0:14:00.800 true historical story. Uh, and just cast britt and Americans 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.960 and just do your accent. You had to kind of 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.719 wrap your head around that I know, but like you 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.840 didn't want to see screw Chef. No, it's perfect. Oh god, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.920 I loved it and it's loved it. It's a foil 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.120 that you don't even have to like lean into that hard. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.920 It's just you know what I mean. And everything else 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.800 was so pitch perfect, but in terms of historical accuracy 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.200 and like the sets and the cost and then it's 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.480 like someone might see it and be like, literally screwed 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.360 that one up. That acting was horrible, But no, it's 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.920 totally it's it's perfect. The the makers of that, I 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.400 think that the people that did veep um it's in 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.200 Innucci is his name. Yeah, I want him to just 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.080 keep doing these movies, just keep doing historical um comedies 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.280 and exactly in this style. I want like five more. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.320 It's certainly a thing you could recreate. Yeah, you could 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.640 just pick any like you know you do ridiculous history. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.680 Just pick any cool historical thing that's absolutely true. How 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.240 it would love it? So anyway, Mike Dickinson says, the 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.120 Death of Stalin, I don't think that's nominated for Best 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.680 Picture though, is it? I didn't see it? Was it 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.320 not think it was nominated a handful of times, but 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.800 it was in smaller categories. If anything, he snuck through. Mike, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.200 I'm gonna start reading even if they're not nominated, because 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.840 Mike Doyle says, if Beale Street could talk, I have 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.880 not seen that yet. I've heard it's really really great, though, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.200 I want to see it. And that's the Moonlight director. Yeah, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.560 man for sure. Uh a menace. Stimmler's is Black Klansman 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:24.080 against Spike Lee because seriously, it's about time. Karen Drombowski says, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.760 a star is born as a former aspiring musician. It 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.640 made me cry the drive home, and I generally have 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.680 a cold, dead heart. I just watched the music video 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.720 for one of those big songs that Bradley Cooper does 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.360 with Lady Gaga's Good Shallow. It's fantastic, and the video 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.200 is all clips from the movie. He just hopped up 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.360 on stage. Whether they're in Vegas, I saw that, Yeah, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.320 I saw that. These things all right, Well, it's he's 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.280 great in the song. I don't know if they, you know, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.920 auto tuned him or something, but he sounds fantastic. Well, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.160 everyone's auto tune that day. I got some tradition on that, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:59.200 except a Dell never a del Chuck, never Adele meaning 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.280 always Adele, never a Delma. She's great. Zack Pointer Old 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.360 Friends is Black Panther because the voice it gives to 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.600 many um J J. Verbino. Another nod for Beel Street 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.000 Cat Talk, which was not nominate, but Ashley Reynolds loved 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.560 that movie as well. You think they'll do that thing 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.680 where they give it to Spike just because of that 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:22.160 about time logic. Sometimes people doesn't feel like career Oscar, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.480 sort of like, hey, you you know, done this for 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.040 so long and probably been ignored unfairly. Um, but I 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.560 think it would be deserved for Black Klansman It at 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.560 this point in his career to still bring the heat 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.040 like you did in that movie. All for It. Ian 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.520 lyons his Green Book, it's a near perfect film that 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.440 tackles still so sadly relevant issues in an extremely entertaining 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.480 and thoughtful manner with Vigo right, Yeah, I want to 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.800 see that. I haven't seen that either. Uh. Vassi Papadopoulos 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.360 is roma perfectly shot and moving, and a couple more 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.720 for the favorite. Tina Wright and Caleb Bryant both loved 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.120 the Favorite. I gotta go see it today. No, it's 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.520 a it's a very it's its own thing. Uh. I 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.159 mean the closer thing I compared to is like a 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.119 Kubrick kind of very Linden thing, but much more absurd, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.000 but not over the top. It's really hard to describe 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.959 because it is very, very bizarre and psychedelic, but it's 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.520 also a very formally like on the perfect kind of 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.960 historical period peace like it's it's it's it's very You 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.239 just gotta see it to God so we can talk 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.960 about it. I can't wait no more, Noel, that's it. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.240 Karen Knox. One final vote for a black panther because 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.000 it would blow most people's minds if it won the award. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.840 It would blow people's minds. Oh, I think that's probably 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.840 what she meant. That would definitely blow some minds. Think 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.720 it would too. I'm all about mind blowing. Uh. And finally, everyone, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.760 we are going to finish up with comment card Oscar, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:55.320 a dish I asked specifically for for Oscar related questions 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.120 for me and Mr Noel over there. All right, We're 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.280 gonna start with our old friend Vanessa Lopez. Are there 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.960 any it is a great question. Are there any categories 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.320 you feel deserved more attention or a category you feel 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.200 should be created, she said, I think casting directors should 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:15.280 get an award. That's a good point. Let's think about 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.080 this now. I have a question for you. You're always 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.560 doing these kind of behind the curtain Hollywood reveals. Surely 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.760 the casting director interfaces with the director, like the director, 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.280 could you know it's going to be like it's got 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.320 to be this person, especially if it's like a writer director. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:34.600 Oh yeah, The casting director is is fielding, is sinning 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.360 the herd and finding people to present to the director 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.760 to choose um or whoever is doing the choosing if 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.200 you know, generally director, but sometimes if it's a big 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.960 studio and a huge producer, they might have more say 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.040 even than a low level director. And also we're talking 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.720 about like some so often a smaller role that might 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.760 not be on the director's radar. The casting makes a 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.120 huge obviously, is that everything you know? And that because 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.000 sometimes you go into it knowing like I wrote this 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.479 movie firs whoever, like I know who my leads are, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.480 but we gotta fill this picture out. And casting directing 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.840 is a is very much an art form to be 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.919 able to sit through all and it's tough in that 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.720 room to be able to see that magic, you know. Yeah, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.919 but it is why is that not a category? I 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.919 don't know, man, best casting, and it could be. Yeah, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.080 that's not a bad category. No, it really isn't, because 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.240 there are so many other categories, like aren't there's best 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.119 Like what are some of the job type oscars you 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.480 know that are associated with like the sound designer obviously 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.760 and like you know sound editing and editing like that, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.199 an editor, sound designer. It's almost like they're limiting it 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.680 more to the people that actually put their hands directly 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.000 on the product, which I would argue that's still something 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.959 a casting director is doing. Yeah, And some of these 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:57.840 awards are group awards, like best Cinematography. Um, while the 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.760 director of photography is calling the shots, um, there's a 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.439 large team of grips and electrics who are making that 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.320 shot look the way it looks so uh and that's 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.960 why you will see. In fact, cinematographers are I think 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.200 more commonly noted than a lot of winners for thanking 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.400 their crew and the camera assistance in the scripts and electrics. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.840 And so, I don't know, I think I agree with Vanessa. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:32.119 Best casting in a film that would be great. All right, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.080 we'll move right on to Ian Lyons because this is 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.520 kind of similar. He says, do you think stunt people 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:42.040 should have their own category? Um, do they get a 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.679 technical OSCAR? I don't know if it's because that's a 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.360 whole other thing. It would be a whole other thing. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:48.800 But now you know the technical Oscars, the ones they 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.680 host the day before. Oh no, no, no, no no, I 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:52.280 don't know. I think, yeah, they always get up at 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.800 some point during the Oscars and say, you know, they 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.560 have their Technical Achievements Awards, which is a whole other 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.560 list that doesn't get like, they have their own ceremony 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.400 on a different day and they it's just a much 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.880 smaller affair, but a lot of like smaller tech tech 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.880 awards go out there. Yeah, there's all kinds of ways 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.960 to want to OSCAR. Then surely stunt coordination and things 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.280 like that would be part of part of that, I 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.080