Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Mini Crush Monday on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Many crush in it, Many crushing? It is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Is that like a like a song? Or did you
Speaker 1: just make that up off the top off the dome?
Speaker 1: As you say, it's very well done. Shock. I like that.
Speaker 1: We should we should make that into a recurring theme.
Speaker 1: Many crush in it. Actually, you know what song I
Speaker 1: have stuck in my head is have we ever talked
Speaker 1: about Free to Be You and Me? It's starting to
Speaker 1: come back to me, but not I don't know if
Speaker 1: we have or not, Like I repeat myself on the show,
Speaker 1: but Free to Be You and Me was a record
Speaker 1: made by Marlo Thomas in the seventies, okay, with a
Speaker 1: bunch of her famous friends about acceptance of others and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's for children and um. They had a
Speaker 1: song on it called It's all Right to Cry, sung
Speaker 1: by Rosie Greer who was this big football player. And
Speaker 1: I sing that for Ruby when she gets upset sometimes
Speaker 1: she had a rough morning. That sounds like some sesame
Speaker 1: street this morning. It sort of is It's all right
Speaker 1: to cry. Crying gets the sad out all of you.
Speaker 1: If only that were true, If only crying was literally
Speaker 1: just expelling the sadness. If so, it would never return.
Speaker 1: It kind of helps, though, it does help, like if
Speaker 1: you've got a good cry m, it's cathartic. I mean
Speaker 1: I do like a good movie cry. I think we
Speaker 1: both are in the movie Crier Camp. Yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: I cry. I live for it. You know. That's how
Speaker 1: I know it's done a good job. Tears are flowing
Speaker 1: at my house. Noll uh Rosie Greer Boy. That album
Speaker 1: was great like that that would had a long dream
Speaker 1: to do. That is a stage play. It's free to
Speaker 1: Be You and Me album. I know nothing of this.
Speaker 1: I meks Is on it and Alan Alda and it's
Speaker 1: really really terrific and it's great to look back on
Speaker 1: it because it was a big part of my childhood
Speaker 1: and it teaches all the right messages. It's great. There's
Speaker 1: one bit called William Wants a Doll about a boy
Speaker 1: that wants a doll and plays with a doll. There's
Speaker 1: one about a girl being nice to her grandmother and
Speaker 1: it's like he's very progressive. That's very forward thinking for
Speaker 1: the time. I mean the whole like gender nonconformity already
Speaker 1: resolutely codified in a children's song in the seventies. That's
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Alright, No, we're gonna start off this week
Speaker 1: with another explainer since we're in the Oscar mood. By
Speaker 1: the way, everyone keep your fingers crossed. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of potentially pretty great guests on the horizon, but we
Speaker 1: need all the movie crushing vibes sent out there into
Speaker 1: the universe. Clap your hands, like to make it happens?
Speaker 1: He does style, No, tinker Belt style? Is that how
Speaker 1: it happens? You clap your hands when tinker Bell dies
Speaker 1: and that brands her back to life. Spoiler, Well, it's
Speaker 1: in the you know, it's it's it's it's it's audience
Speaker 1: participation in the play version of Peter Peter Pan. Okay,
Speaker 1: and they manifest that's how you manifest something. They don't
Speaker 1: really explain it. They just say you've got to clap
Speaker 1: your hands and that that makes tinker Bell come back
Speaker 1: to life. Well, we're clapping our hands to get a
Speaker 1: couple of good guests. One it's it's just a guest
Speaker 1: I've long sought after, and they said, hey, they may
Speaker 1: be available at l A. I think I know thee
Speaker 1: Oh really, well, I'm just talking to Ramsey and Ramsey
Speaker 1: about Yeah, you do know that one, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to jink out, not at all. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll go to l A for that. And there's another one.
Speaker 1: Our head sales guy is trying to build a sales
Speaker 1: pitch for a movie, uh, you know, to advertise on
Speaker 1: this show and others. And he said, Hey, if it
Speaker 1: came down to it, would you have this this director
Speaker 1: and writer on I was like, uh, I certainly, what okay?
Speaker 1: So I don't want to drink either one knows. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I know that everyone hates it when that one I
Speaker 1: don't know about, so I'll be surprised as the rest
Speaker 1: of us. All Right, nol. So what we're gonna do? Uh?
Speaker 1: This week can tinuing the little Oscar bits here and there. Um,
Speaker 1: this one is pretty Oscar heavy in different ways. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain to you all about the statuette. The
Speaker 1: Oscar statuette the most maybe the most famous trophy in
Speaker 1: the world. So I might say I saw a thing
Speaker 1: about how they make the Super Bowl trophy. I think
Speaker 1: Tiffany makes it the Tiffany Company, and it's like it's
Speaker 1: all handmade in hand, you know, sanded and you know
Speaker 1: forged in all this stuff, and it's a really great
Speaker 1: video behind it. Um, and I think it's worth like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a hundred thousand dollars something crazy like that.
Speaker 1: But is it a similar story with the Oscar trap? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. Uh, I don't think the actual value
Speaker 1: of the individual piece of hardware is that much because
Speaker 1: they're cranking out you know, yeah, this is just a
Speaker 1: single trophy then for the entire game exactly. But they
Speaker 1: have been giving this thing out since I believe nine.
Speaker 1: They formed the academy in nineteen seven and uh, actually
Speaker 1: it may have been uh no, no no, no, I think
Speaker 1: the initial awards bank in twenty nine. Listen to me
Speaker 1: stumbling through this already. Um. But they got together in
Speaker 1: n is an academy and that's when they started, um,
Speaker 1: kind of having organized talks about how they should do
Speaker 1: these awards, like getting the plan together, and they met
Speaker 1: in downtown l A. They said, I think we should
Speaker 1: do you know, X, Y and Z, And of course
Speaker 1: they said we gotta have a we gotta have a statue,
Speaker 1: a statuette. I don't know what the difference is statuette
Speaker 1: is just smaller, I guess, I think handheld. That's sort
Speaker 1: of a diminutive statue. Uh So, so they said we
Speaker 1: need a little handheld award. And there was an art
Speaker 1: director at MGM named Cedric Gibbons who designed a night
Speaker 1: with a with a reel of film, um and a
Speaker 1: sword and everything. And then they got a sculptor named
Speaker 1: George Stanley and actually actually formed this thing into a
Speaker 1: into a real a little statuette that you could hold.
Speaker 1: It was still sort of the the beta version, I guess,
Speaker 1: but that's where it initially came from. And then the
Speaker 1: first awards banquet was in May of ninety nine. Um
Speaker 1: at the Hollywood Roosevelt where you've stayed, did the very
Speaker 1: first Oscar ceremony. There is that, right, was it like
Speaker 1: in is there a ball room that I might have missed? Yeah? Here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was in the lobby, It was at the because
Speaker 1: of your desk, it was in the blossom room. Um.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty small affair back then though. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Roosevelt is still okay, so cool though, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's still very much like it doesn't feel like they
Speaker 1: just gutted it. Like it looks very much the same
Speaker 1: as it ever did, kind of throwback. I like it, um,
Speaker 1: and since then, I believe they've made about three thousand
Speaker 1: of these statuettes over the years. And it's thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half inches tall if you were ever curious about that,
Speaker 1: and it weighs. You know how people always talk about
Speaker 1: how heavy it is. It's eight and a half pounds.
Speaker 1: It's it's dense. So now I got to know them
Speaker 1: about the materials, Chuck, Well, they still love that film real.
Speaker 1: First of all, they have five spokes on the wheel,
Speaker 1: and it signifies its representative of the original five branches
Speaker 1: the Academy acting, directing, producing, writing, and then the technicians.
Speaker 1: They lumped all into one category, and this is sort
Speaker 1: of true to its original design. Um. The base, actually
Speaker 1: the big fat base, has varied a little bit over
Speaker 1: the years, but I think they settled that in and
Speaker 1: it has been exactly the same since then. Um. The
Speaker 1: official name of it is not the Oscar, of course
Speaker 1: that's a nickname. It's the Academy Award of merit Um.
Speaker 1: But everyone calls it Oscar. And this is where it
Speaker 1: gets a little murky, because there are a few competing
Speaker 1: stories of where Oscar got its name, and one of
Speaker 1: them is that the Academy Library. And I think this
Speaker 1: is the most widely distributed story. But there was a
Speaker 1: librarian at the Academy Um. Eventually she became executive director.
Speaker 1: Her name was Margaret Herrick and and when she saw
Speaker 1: the trophy for the first time, as the story goes,
Speaker 1: she said, it looks like her uncle Oscar. So that's
Speaker 1: sort of the leading story. But in nine they started,
Speaker 1: you know, they officially adopted that name, the Oscars, And
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the story. Man. Their solid bronze um
Speaker 1: painted I'm sorry played it in twenty four carrot gold.
Speaker 1: So solid gold. Oh sure, Well, the bronze is probably
Speaker 1: what's where the heft comes from, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: a yeah, gold is probably heavier than bron so that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a metal weight. I'm not a
Speaker 1: metal or just I know that Mega Death is the
Speaker 1: heaviest metal are they though. They're one of those bands
Speaker 1: where their album covers are always much more like scary
Speaker 1: than their music, kind of like they were like Iron Maiden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they weren't scary metal. Neither was Iron Maide. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: They like to evoke those things, but they weren't like
Speaker 1: this ship. They're like opera metal. Yeah. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: have you seen the trailer for the new there's a
Speaker 1: movie called The Lords of Chaos the Dark Metal about
Speaker 1: the black metal band. Man. I want to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It looks it looks uh. I have
Speaker 1: high hopes for it. But it looks a little bit
Speaker 1: like almost like a teen drama kind of thing, but
Speaker 1: with the whole black metal frame story, but with human sacrifice,
Speaker 1: hopefully in church burnings. Uh. During World War Two, no,
Speaker 1: all the Oscar was painted plaster for three years because
Speaker 1: of course, during the war they needed their medals. Times
Speaker 1: were tight to make bombs and tanks and things. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then after World War two ended, um, they said, hey,
Speaker 1: if you got one of those shitty plaster oscars, why
Speaker 1: don't you come on down here and trade it in.
Speaker 1: And they would go down to the Academy office and
Speaker 1: then get arrested because it was all a set up.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that, Simpsons. No, that's a common thing
Speaker 1: that police have done over the years, is is get
Speaker 1: people with warrants out to come to them by having
Speaker 1: some fake thing like you won the sweepstakes or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like theyre dumb enough. And Homer did that one time
Speaker 1: he thought he want to vote or something. That's so funny.
Speaker 1: He went down to the police. I just realized that
Speaker 1: Greg Daniels, who created The Office, American Office and Parks
Speaker 1: and Wreck, he was a big Simpsons writer. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that. And I was just rewatching Parks and Wreck
Speaker 1: of the Day and they did that exact same thing
Speaker 1: to Ron Swanson, serving him with like a subpoena or
Speaker 1: like a divorce papers or something. No, it was um.
Speaker 1: He had won like a year's free gift certificates at
Speaker 1: like his favorite steakhouse or something like that, and he
Speaker 1: came up and they're like, you've been served, and he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't like you, but I respect the effort. Oh.
Speaker 1: I love that guy. To get him on one day,
Speaker 1: what a dream, No serious, I just had no idea
Speaker 1: he came because I actually heard Conan talking about him
Speaker 1: on his his podcast, which is great, talking about how
Speaker 1: they kind of came up together as writers on Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live. And I did not realize he went back
Speaker 1: that far. Conan just snaps his fingers and he can
Speaker 1: get a guest and all he doesn't have to struggle.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna go into social studies. We're gonna
Speaker 1: segue right into a very kind of straight ahead us
Speaker 1: your question, um, what's your pick for Best Picture? And
Speaker 1: give us one sentence why? And well, right away people
Speaker 1: are naming things that aren't even nominated for Best Picture.
Speaker 1: Well you didn't specify that it had to be nominating.
Speaker 1: Oh no, be on my side. Okay, Chuck, who are
Speaker 1: these fools? Cast them asunder? Are you gonna go with them?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna you don't know. I'm only gonna do
Speaker 1: the ones that are nominating. Because there's a follow up
Speaker 1: question in another episode that where this is addressed. So
Speaker 1: by by the rules, everyone, Jennifer call your Pelton says,
Speaker 1: but he mean rhapsody. I truly enjoyed it, and when
Speaker 1: it was over, I wanted to see it again. That's
Speaker 1: all you gotta say. I saw it for the third
Speaker 1: time the other night, did you really? I have not
Speaker 1: seen it for the first time yet. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I really want to. Uh. Mary
Speaker 1: O'donald's is the favorite no On one of yours. It
Speaker 1: was beautifully shot, flawlessly acted, and compelling political intrigue and
Speaker 1: almost entirely about women for once. Yeah, and women are
Speaker 1: like badasses in it. All that the only I guess,
Speaker 1: not problematic aspect, but it's it's like it's two women
Speaker 1: beefing really hard against each other. It's like, why can't
Speaker 1: you be friends and take over the world, But it's
Speaker 1: also for the favor of another woman rather than like
Speaker 1: you know, and the men are these kind of ancillary
Speaker 1: idiot players in the story, which is kind of pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So don't tell me any more. No, I might go
Speaker 1: see that today. I think you should. It's fantastic. Is
Speaker 1: today You're like day movie day? I think so, that's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I looked at it because I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: in New York right now, so I cleared my schedule.
Speaker 1: Darryl Murphy says Roma not just deeply h and profoundly moving,
Speaker 1: but also glorious cinematography. I did not agree more with
Speaker 1: my friend John Hoskin says Black Panther because it was
Speaker 1: the only one he saw. That's yeah, you got to
Speaker 1: appreciate the honesty there. I like it. The Gooch David
Speaker 1: Gooch says, I haven't seen all of them yet, but
Speaker 1: Black Klansman was the best directed in a powerful movie
Speaker 1: I saw this year. Uh. Kristin Egan says, a second
Speaker 1: Black Klansman powerful, sure, but also wildly entertaining. It's funny,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, and it's like just does a good
Speaker 1: job of like balancing those elements. Yeah, even when it
Speaker 1: gets heavy, it doesn't get heavy handed. It gets it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like really dials it in and like
Speaker 1: really hits it. It's home. Yeah, agreed. Dylan Or says
Speaker 1: the favorite was his favorite Karen Schlump Hughes is Bohemian
Speaker 1: Rhapsody for its repeat watchability. I love it, Mortgage time,
Speaker 1: I see it, Karen, I was just talking about that.
Speaker 1: Greta Koni says the favorite so quirky and those ladies,
Speaker 1: The Death of Stalin. I saw it. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you think, dude, It's it's fantastic, right o. Man, just so.
Speaker 1: And that's another one that's so funny, but it's also
Speaker 1: gets kind of heavy for we like here and there. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: just such a great idea to like tell this truly
Speaker 1: true historical story. Uh, and just cast britt and Americans
Speaker 1: and just do your accent. You had to kind of
Speaker 1: wrap your head around that I know, but like you
Speaker 1: didn't want to see screw Chef. No, it's perfect. Oh god,
Speaker 1: I loved it and it's loved it. It's a foil
Speaker 1: that you don't even have to like lean into that hard.
Speaker 1: It's just you know what I mean. And everything else
Speaker 1: was so pitch perfect, but in terms of historical accuracy
Speaker 1: and like the sets and the cost and then it's
Speaker 1: like someone might see it and be like, literally screwed
Speaker 1: that one up. That acting was horrible, But no, it's
Speaker 1: totally it's it's perfect. The the makers of that, I
Speaker 1: think that the people that did veep um it's in
Speaker 1: Innucci is his name. Yeah, I want him to just
Speaker 1: keep doing these movies, just keep doing historical um comedies
Speaker 1: and exactly in this style. I want like five more.
Speaker 1: It's certainly a thing you could recreate. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: just pick any like you know you do ridiculous history.
Speaker 1: Just pick any cool historical thing that's absolutely true. How
Speaker 1: it would love it? So anyway, Mike Dickinson says, the
Speaker 1: Death of Stalin, I don't think that's nominated for Best
Speaker 1: Picture though, is it? I didn't see it? Was it
Speaker 1: not think it was nominated a handful of times, but
Speaker 1: it was in smaller categories. If anything, he snuck through. Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start reading even if they're not nominated, because
Speaker 1: Mike Doyle says, if Beale Street could talk, I have
Speaker 1: not seen that yet. I've heard it's really really great, though,
Speaker 1: I want to see it. And that's the Moonlight director. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man for sure. Uh a menace. Stimmler's is Black Klansman
Speaker 1: against Spike Lee because seriously, it's about time. Karen Drombowski says,
Speaker 1: a star is born as a former aspiring musician. It
Speaker 1: made me cry the drive home, and I generally have
Speaker 1: a cold, dead heart. I just watched the music video
Speaker 1: for one of those big songs that Bradley Cooper does
Speaker 1: with Lady Gaga's Good Shallow. It's fantastic, and the video
Speaker 1: is all clips from the movie. He just hopped up
Speaker 1: on stage. Whether they're in Vegas, I saw that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw that. These things all right, Well, it's he's
Speaker 1: great in the song. I don't know if they, you know,
Speaker 1: auto tuned him or something, but he sounds fantastic. Well,
Speaker 1: everyone's auto tune that day. I got some tradition on that,
Speaker 1: except a Dell never a del Chuck, never Adele meaning
Speaker 1: always Adele, never a Delma. She's great. Zack Pointer Old
Speaker 1: Friends is Black Panther because the voice it gives to
Speaker 1: many um J J. Verbino. Another nod for Beel Street
Speaker 1: Cat Talk, which was not nominate, but Ashley Reynolds loved
Speaker 1: that movie as well. You think they'll do that thing
Speaker 1: where they give it to Spike just because of that
Speaker 1: about time logic. Sometimes people doesn't feel like career Oscar,
Speaker 1: sort of like, hey, you you know, done this for
Speaker 1: so long and probably been ignored unfairly. Um, but I
Speaker 1: think it would be deserved for Black Klansman It at
Speaker 1: this point in his career to still bring the heat
Speaker 1: like you did in that movie. All for It. Ian
Speaker 1: lyons his Green Book, it's a near perfect film that
Speaker 1: tackles still so sadly relevant issues in an extremely entertaining
Speaker 1: and thoughtful manner with Vigo right, Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: see that. I haven't seen that either. Uh. Vassi Papadopoulos
Speaker 1: is roma perfectly shot and moving, and a couple more
Speaker 1: for the favorite. Tina Wright and Caleb Bryant both loved
Speaker 1: the Favorite. I gotta go see it today. No, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a very it's its own thing. Uh. I
Speaker 1: mean the closer thing I compared to is like a
Speaker 1: Kubrick kind of very Linden thing, but much more absurd,
Speaker 1: but not over the top. It's really hard to describe
Speaker 1: because it is very, very bizarre and psychedelic, but it's
Speaker 1: also a very formally like on the perfect kind of
Speaker 1: historical period peace like it's it's it's it's very You
Speaker 1: just gotta see it to God so we can talk
Speaker 1: about it. I can't wait no more, Noel, that's it.
Speaker 1: Karen Knox. One final vote for a black panther because
Speaker 1: it would blow most people's minds if it won the award.
Speaker 1: It would blow people's minds. Oh, I think that's probably
Speaker 1: what she meant. That would definitely blow some minds. Think
Speaker 1: it would too. I'm all about mind blowing. Uh. And finally, everyone,
Speaker 1: we are going to finish up with comment card Oscar,
Speaker 1: a dish I asked specifically for for Oscar related questions
Speaker 1: for me and Mr Noel over there. All right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna start with our old friend Vanessa Lopez. Are there
Speaker 1: any it is a great question. Are there any categories
Speaker 1: you feel deserved more attention or a category you feel
Speaker 1: should be created, she said, I think casting directors should
Speaker 1: get an award. That's a good point. Let's think about
Speaker 1: this now. I have a question for you. You're always
Speaker 1: doing these kind of behind the curtain Hollywood reveals. Surely
Speaker 1: the casting director interfaces with the director, like the director,
Speaker 1: could you know it's going to be like it's got
Speaker 1: to be this person, especially if it's like a writer director.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, The casting director is is fielding, is sinning
Speaker 1: the herd and finding people to present to the director
Speaker 1: to choose um or whoever is doing the choosing if
Speaker 1: you know, generally director, but sometimes if it's a big
Speaker 1: studio and a huge producer, they might have more say
Speaker 1: even than a low level director. And also we're talking
Speaker 1: about like some so often a smaller role that might
Speaker 1: not be on the director's radar. The casting makes a
Speaker 1: huge obviously, is that everything you know? And that because
Speaker 1: sometimes you go into it knowing like I wrote this
Speaker 1: movie firs whoever, like I know who my leads are,
Speaker 1: but we gotta fill this picture out. And casting directing
Speaker 1: is a is very much an art form to be
Speaker 1: able to sit through all and it's tough in that
Speaker 1: room to be able to see that magic, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it is why is that not a category? I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, best casting, and it could be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad category. No, it really isn't, because
Speaker 1: there are so many other categories, like aren't there's best
Speaker 1: Like what are some of the job type oscars you
Speaker 1: know that are associated with like the sound designer obviously
Speaker 1: and like you know sound editing and editing like that,
Speaker 1: an editor, sound designer. It's almost like they're limiting it
Speaker 1: more to the people that actually put their hands directly
Speaker 1: on the product, which I would argue that's still something
Speaker 1: a casting director is doing. Yeah, And some of these
Speaker 1: awards are group awards, like best Cinematography. Um, while the
Speaker 1: director of photography is calling the shots, um, there's a
Speaker 1: large team of grips and electrics who are making that
Speaker 1: shot look the way it looks so uh and that's
Speaker 1: why you will see. In fact, cinematographers are I think
Speaker 1: more commonly noted than a lot of winners for thanking
Speaker 1: their crew and the camera assistance in the scripts and electrics.
Speaker 1: And so, I don't know, I think I agree with Vanessa.
Speaker 1: Best casting in a film that would be great. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll move right on to Ian Lyons because this is
Speaker 1: kind of similar. He says, do you think stunt people
Speaker 1: should have their own category? Um, do they get a
Speaker 1: technical OSCAR? I don't know if it's because that's a
Speaker 1: whole other thing. It would be a whole other thing.
Speaker 1: But now you know the technical Oscars, the ones they
Speaker 1: host the day before. Oh no, no, no, no no, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think, yeah, they always get up at
Speaker 1: some point during the Oscars and say, you know, they
Speaker 1: have their Technical Achievements Awards, which is a whole other
Speaker 1: list that doesn't get like, they have their own ceremony
Speaker 1: on a different day and they it's just a much
Speaker 1: smaller affair, but a lot of like smaller tech tech
Speaker 1: awards go out there. Yeah, there's all kinds of ways
Speaker 1: to want to OSCAR. Then surely stunt coordination and things
Speaker 1: like that would be part of part of that, I
Speaker 1: would think, I bet you it is. Like the inventor
Speaker 1: of the steadicam won an OSCAR, like for inventing the steadicam.
Speaker 1: Like you can get awards in many, many different ways.
Speaker 1: But if it's not, I bet it is. But if
Speaker 1: it's not, then stunt stunt work should totally be recognized.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. There's an article on Indie Wire
Speaker 1: called seven new Oscar categories the Academy needs to create. Interesting.
Speaker 1: One of them is suggested is stunt coordinator. What else,
Speaker 1: first time film? Just ideas, breakthrough performer, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a loaded thing. Um, best voice performance
Speaker 1: that yeah, oh like for animated film, for animated stuff
Speaker 1: that that's basically best acting done in your warm up pants.
Speaker 1: That's very true. Um, let's see the best original soundtrack. Okay,
Speaker 1: these are not that great point being is this is
Speaker 1: a question. Soundtrack is not bad, but it's not bad
Speaker 1: because I guess they only get best song, which is
Speaker 1: maybe just like a historical carryover thing. But best soundtrack
Speaker 1: is I don't know, man, it's kind of like giving
Speaker 1: an award for putting it together a mixtape. Man, But
Speaker 1: that's you know, but what about like the Wes Anderson
Speaker 1: soundtracks and stuff. You're right, but you get an award
Speaker 1: for that for putting for basically compiling someone else's work.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that it's all about like
Speaker 1: little suiting the style and you know, having a match
Speaker 1: up and an aesthetic choice. I like hanky hanky is
Speaker 1: a thing that like detectives saying when things don't smell
Speaker 1: quite rise say things are a little hanky. That's true. Uh,
Speaker 1: Caroline Gaston says, asks this. Jack O'Brien, our our colleague
Speaker 1: over Daily Zeitgeist, often insists that OSCAR should be given
Speaker 1: out five years later so they can accurately award movies
Speaker 1: that have have more of a cultural impact. That's not
Speaker 1: a bad idea, Yeah, but the logistics of that sound
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that. Jack is is, you know,
Speaker 1: talking crazy talk. No, it's true, but I mean, but
Speaker 1: I see his point. We've but but but we are.
Speaker 1: We already know that the oscars aren't necessarily based on
Speaker 1: which movies the most cultural impact, and they've been coming
Speaker 1: less and less that over time. It's much more of
Speaker 1: a popularity contest and the whole who does the best
Speaker 1: you know, um for your consideration camp and all that.
Speaker 1: I agreed, agreed, And she says, maybe have Jack on
Speaker 1: as a guest. I am definitely gonna have Jack when
Speaker 1: I go to l A next time. He's already picked
Speaker 1: out pulp fiction. He's earmarked that and I told him
Speaker 1: I would save it for him. Matthew Gilbert asks, should
Speaker 1: the Departed have won an Oscar? I reckon? So, of
Speaker 1: course I remain baffled as to why Scorsese's other works
Speaker 1: didn't win him Oscars by this stage. I think maybe
Speaker 1: for the reason we just said, yeah, I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, because they're weren't there, Like, you know, Leonardo
Speaker 1: DiCaprio is in a tech Nicolson was in. It was
Speaker 1: just like a big and it also could have been
Speaker 1: one of those like it's about time things. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: the whole you know, maybe maybe Spike Lee will get
Speaker 1: it this year. Maybe. So, Oh, this is a good question.
Speaker 1: Fred Nurk says, if you could go to the Oscars,
Speaker 1: but only as a seat filler, would you do it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Hell yes I would. Yeah, that would be fun as ship.
Speaker 1: It's a big time commitment though, Now getting off the
Speaker 1: ball up, sitting down around with different people just scooting around.
Speaker 1: You think they'd move you do you think you like
Speaker 1: you'd be like they do that. Yeah, they move you
Speaker 1: around and fill seats. My first experience with anything like
Speaker 1: that was our I Heart Radio podcast Awards. That just
Speaker 1: happened that you you gave a miss to you couldn't
Speaker 1: be there elsewhere but it was. It was a much
Speaker 1: smaller affair, but it was very much that same vibe
Speaker 1: where it was like very selective as to who sat
Speaker 1: where and who was used to fill what space. Said
Speaker 1: at Jerry's stable, Mike Tyson, Mike Dyson, she told me
Speaker 1: that it was so mad they gave him my seat.
Speaker 1: Oh god, did they really? That's that a story? It's
Speaker 1: a story. Did you get kicked out of your seat?
Speaker 1: I never had a seat in the first place? Job,
Speaker 1: Oh no, I was relegated to a back room. Now
Speaker 1: I ended up in the balcony. It was fun. We
Speaker 1: had a good time. Interesting. I fear more about the story.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you uh Ian lines. By the way, um,
Speaker 1: one of our question askers actually was an oscar seat filler.
Speaker 1: He says he's done it twice and it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So Ian knows everybody. I bet it's fun.
Speaker 1: I wonder. I mean, I'm sure you have specific instructions
Speaker 1: to like not bother the people that much. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't like sit down next to Clooney, be like
Speaker 1: cloons dude, Now that Cluons is cool to the seat
Speaker 1: fillers though, Oh I'm sure. Yeah, you let them talk
Speaker 1: it's sort of like I probably you let them talk
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, kind of absolutely, and even then don't
Speaker 1: don't push it. All right, let's finish up with one more.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll finish up with Katherine Blair. If there
Speaker 1: was one thing you could change about the way the
Speaker 1: Oscars are run and organize, what would it be, Well,
Speaker 1: they should shorten it up a bit. Uh. And they
Speaker 1: have actually, because the one thing I was gonna say
Speaker 1: is just get rid of the fluff and the nonsense,
Speaker 1: too many dumb bits, and um, they've been doing that
Speaker 1: more and more. They have streamlined it a bit over
Speaker 1: the recent years. I I got tricked. I thought that
Speaker 1: it was true that, um, Nick Kroll and John mulaney
Speaker 1: We're going to host the Oscars as Hello guys, because they,
Speaker 1: you know, the dudes from Too Much Tuna or whatever,
Speaker 1: they Hello Broadway show or whatever. They're like these two
Speaker 1: kind of grizzled New York Upper West Side, like weird,
Speaker 1: weird dudes, lifer roommates. It's great. I saw the show
Speaker 1: on Broadways. Fantastic. Now it's on Netflix. We haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: You should watch, but I did see them host I
Speaker 1: think the independent Spirit words. Yeah, well, there you go.
Speaker 1: So they've they've got experience. So I kind of assumed
Speaker 1: that it was true. Um, and I guess they were
Speaker 1: just trolling and joking about it because I apparently they
Speaker 1: haven't picked a new host yet, because Kevin har kind
Speaker 1: of was problematic or made some tweet that was offensive
Speaker 1: and then he got like a homophobic tweet of some kind,
Speaker 1: and he got he got kicked off, He got kicked off,
Speaker 1: and then uh there then there were calls for people
Speaker 1: to put him back on, like Ellen de generous even,
Speaker 1: I think, is that right? Yeah, So they have no
Speaker 1: host right now. I don't know what the deal is they.
Speaker 1: I think they might go hostless and just have a
Speaker 1: series of people coming up and running the bits. Well
Speaker 1: that's sort of what I was getting to is how
Speaker 1: important do you think the host is? Does that make
Speaker 1: a difference for how much you enjoy? Isn't the host
Speaker 1: almost like it's total filler. You're just there to see
Speaker 1: who wins the awards, like who care? Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: main role of the host is sort of that beginning
Speaker 1: bit and then the rest of the show they do
Speaker 1: like a couple of various comedy bits, but it's mainly
Speaker 1: just to say who's coming up next? Um, And admittedly
Speaker 1: back in the day when Billy Crystal was doing his
Speaker 1: thing and had a nice run of hosting uh like
Speaker 1: kind of pretty pretty creative intro bits. Those are Those
Speaker 1: are good? But I don't know, man, Like I've complained
Speaker 1: last week about sort of the shine being lost for
Speaker 1: the Oscars. The older I get. Just just give him out,
Speaker 1: give him out, do it all off the air, do
Speaker 1: it do it all on the red carpet. Let's just
Speaker 1: have a red carpet and no a word. If I
Speaker 1: bet to the people that go would probably love that.
Speaker 1: Let's just do it over email. That way, no one
Speaker 1: has to see anyone. Everyone I hear talking about going
Speaker 1: to the Oscars as much as they say, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's so glamorous and Fabo's also like, you're there for
Speaker 1: five hours and it's a total chore. When you don't
Speaker 1: you can't drink. It's not like the Golden Globes get
Speaker 1: all lickered up at the Golden Globe, Is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have booze at the table. I didn't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Oscars, you can't, Like I think you can run
Speaker 1: quickly to the bar in between commercial breaks, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't expect people Hollywood elites to sit there for
Speaker 1: six hours or not drink, and yet they do. Who
Speaker 1: was it? Sarah Silverman had her little weed pin in
Speaker 1: her purse that right, yeah, on the red carpet a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, it may have been last year.
Speaker 1: They were like, what are you wearing? What's you know?
Speaker 1: All that stupid shit? And she said, oh, this is
Speaker 1: my dress of blah blah blah. And she said, and
Speaker 1: what about your accessories? And she went, well, and she
Speaker 1: opened her purse. She went, I have my weed pin
Speaker 1: in my purse. And this is before I was legalized
Speaker 1: in California too. Yeah. I was like, good for you,
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman. She ain't scared. All right, No, I think
Speaker 1: that's all we have for this week. It seems reasonable.
Speaker 1: Are you good? We're in a solid thirty my friend?
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's do it. Then. I don't want
Speaker 1: to reach thirty two minutes, so good bye,