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Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Laurence Ema coming to you from the
Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2: It is Oscar Monday.
Speaker 3: We watched the Oscars on a plane leaving Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: We were in LA to surprise a friend, our wonderful
Speaker 3: friend for her birthday and had a great time. Caught
Speaker 3: up with friends in Los Angeles for a couple of
Speaker 3: days and then flew back. But hey, thanks to American
Speaker 3: Airlines for the live TV. I really enjoyed watching the
Speaker 3: Oscars on the airplane, Unlike when I was on the
Speaker 3: airplane for the Super Bowl. Not everybody. In fact, I
Speaker 3: saw nobody else watching it. Like when I was in
Speaker 3: an airport for the Super Bowl. It's on TVs at
Speaker 3: the restaurants, people are crowding around watching. That was not
Speaker 3: happening for the Oscars. As a lover of pop culture,
Speaker 3: I wish that it was.
Speaker 1: I made mention as we were at the gate we
Speaker 1: were about to get on and this is minutes before
Speaker 1: the Oscars was about to start, and what I know,
Speaker 1: and there was there were some people that we had
Speaker 1: brushed into in LA were in the industry, so there
Speaker 1: was some mention of it, but overall, I would say,
Speaker 1: very little buzz, very little attention, very little care in
Speaker 1: the world for the Oscars, and there just isn't any buzz.
Speaker 1: And we were in Los Angeles, so you know you would.
Speaker 4: I hope the ratings are better. I want it to
Speaker 4: be good.
Speaker 3: I was, okay, first of all, again we should talk
Speaker 3: about it's a good show. We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: our favorite moments. I really thought the Oscars were good,
Speaker 3: but I did think about, like I remember reading the
Speaker 3: statistic that like twenty years ago, the Oscars. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to get these numbers right, right, but it was
Speaker 3: something at like twice the viewership it's set now. And
Speaker 3: then the Super Bowl was like way less, Like last
Speaker 3: year was the biggest. This past one was the biggest
Speaker 3: super Bowl ever.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, it was one hundred and twenty two million, and.
Speaker 3: It was like the biggest all thing ever watching it
Speaker 3: since the moon landing or something crazy.
Speaker 4: So sports has something gone up.
Speaker 3: The Oscars has gone down, and I do think people
Speaker 3: are crying out for a unified experience, and the Oscars
Speaker 3: could be that the problem is they don't spot like
Speaker 3: they've spent years not spotlighting the movies that the audiences
Speaker 3: are going to see. Like I did see a statistic yesterday.
Speaker 3: So last night, if you missed the Oscars spoiler alert,
Speaker 3: the Best Picture winner was Oppenheimer. And I saw a
Speaker 3: note a fact that the Oppenheimer is the first major
Speaker 3: box office like big box office movie to win Best
Speaker 3: Picture since Lord of the Rings Return of the King
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. It is the first movie since The
Speaker 3: King Speech, which was an independent film back in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: I believe that has made over four hundred million in
Speaker 3: the box office. So, long story short, this is the
Speaker 3: first time in twenty years the Academy has awarded a
Speaker 3: movie that its audience all went to see with the
Speaker 3: Best Picture award. So you're not giving people the content
Speaker 3: that they're engaging in. And I think that's a huge
Speaker 3: part of the problem.
Speaker 1: When we look back and you and I listened to
Speaker 1: podcasts all the time, Rewatchables or whatever, and you talk
Speaker 1: about these these crazy years when there were movies going
Speaker 1: against each other.
Speaker 3: Right, Like nineteen ninety four is this famously incredible year
Speaker 3: for movies. It was like Forrest Gump and I want
Speaker 3: a good Will hunting or maybe shawshank There were all
Speaker 3: these amazing movies all in.
Speaker 1: One year, right, and you're talking about these movies and
Speaker 1: you're like, how did they choose and best actor? And
Speaker 1: it was the greatest actors of all time going against
Speaker 1: each other. It's like, how did they choose? That's what
Speaker 1: we all tuned in for is we saw these great
Speaker 1: movies that we loved all year, we talked about them
Speaker 1: all year, and then they were celebrated. Now again different time.
Speaker 1: We actually had to go to the theater or you
Speaker 1: had to rent them from blockbusters, so you know, the
Speaker 1: actions could.
Speaker 3: Imagine, But imagine if over the past ten years, yeah,
Speaker 3: superhero movies which are which largely were very good. I
Speaker 3: mean I loved all the Ironman movies on it. What
Speaker 3: if they'd been awarding giving the moscars.
Speaker 1: Right, Robert Donney Junior won last night. He easily could
Speaker 1: have won for Iron Man one.
Speaker 4: Or he's incredible in these movies.
Speaker 1: Those movies fantastic. Now again those have declined and they've
Speaker 1: gotten bad. But for a while they were everything and
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 3: But no matter what, blowing out the box office, flowing
Speaker 3: out the box office.
Speaker 4: Like luckily this past.
Speaker 3: Year we had a return to people going to the
Speaker 3: movies with Barbie and with Oppenheimer awesome because to me,
Speaker 3: I'm happy to watch something at home, but I like
Speaker 3: going to the movies.
Speaker 4: It's a date night.
Speaker 1: Paltro Jon Favreau couldn't have won as supporting actors and
Speaker 1: actresses in those movies for Pepper Potts and for me.
Speaker 2: I mean they were great.
Speaker 4: It was the Academy's mistake.
Speaker 1: That is a huge, huge when when all those the
Speaker 1: Academy and the executives go, they're scratching their heads.
Speaker 2: Yef year, what are we doing wrong? Maybe it's them.
Speaker 1: It's always them, right, it's oh, people don't get us,
Speaker 1: and they dive deeper and deep or into these films
Speaker 1: that nobody sees. That is not to negate or crap
Speaker 1: on independent filmmaking, small filmmaking. It is wonderful. It is
Speaker 1: an art and those people need to be shown as well,
Speaker 1: but not at the Oscars. The Oscars is a stage.
Speaker 1: The Oscars isn't for tech technically, it isn't for the industry.
Speaker 1: It's to promote the film industry. That's really what it's for.
Speaker 1: It's to blow this film industry.
Speaker 2: Up into shows. Well, the thing is, it's right light
Speaker 2: on what everybody's doing.
Speaker 4: It's really the simple why put it on TV?
Speaker 3: If it's not gonna be for the people who for
Speaker 3: the people at home who are ninety nine percent of
Speaker 3: them are not in Los Angeles in this industry, why
Speaker 3: put it on TV then and just do your own
Speaker 3: little awards show, which I think is how it started.
Speaker 4: But if you're going to put it.
Speaker 3: On TV and you want people to watch, to me,
Speaker 3: it's actually rude to the audience at home to not
Speaker 3: nominate and let win the movies that they're loving to watch,
Speaker 3: Then why would they care? And guess what they haven't cared.
Speaker 3: So this year was a return back to that, and
Speaker 3: I hope it gets better from here.
Speaker 1: If there was a course correction at one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: I'd say they course corrected sixty percent.
Speaker 4: Barbie should have won some stuff.
Speaker 2: Barbie should have been nominated.
Speaker 4: Gerwig should have been nominated.
Speaker 1: Barbie should have been nominated for some stuff. We'll get
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Kimmel, but one of the I guess few
Speaker 1: things that Jimmy Kimmel actually was good and dead on
Speaker 1: last night was when he mentioned Barbie off the top
Speaker 1: in Greta Gerwig and everybody was applauding, and he said, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you guys are responsible for this. Don't applaud like your
Speaker 1: standing for Greta Gerwig when you didn't nominate her, and
Speaker 1: that that was actually funny that Jimmy Kimmel hit. We'll
Speaker 1: get to Jimmy in a little bit. But the fact
Speaker 1: that the Barbenheimer movement was everything this year in the movies,
Speaker 1: and Oppenheimer was so celebrated last night, definitely deservedly so,
Speaker 1: but Barbie largely was not other than like song and
Speaker 1: some other things they were nominated for, and I know
Speaker 1: Gosling performed, we'll talk about that. Overall, a pretty big miss.
Speaker 4: Well, it was a layup. It's just a right.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, again should have been nominated for
Speaker 3: Best Director, Margot Robbie should have been nominated, and she wasn't.
Speaker 3: And then it didn't even really win in categories. I
Speaker 3: thought it would like set and costume, Poor Things beat
Speaker 3: it Poor Things with Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo one
Speaker 3: more than I thought it was going to. And I
Speaker 3: think that's the voting of the Academy as kind of
Speaker 3: leaning towards that artseer, you know, more different movie and
Speaker 3: I haven't seen Poor Things.
Speaker 4: I've heard it's great.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it is, and you know what I will say,
Speaker 3: at least it as a really well known star in it,
Speaker 3: and Emma Stone Like audiences love Emma Stone.
Speaker 4: Last night and her speech was super cute.
Speaker 3: A lot of people felt Lily Gladstone should have won,
Speaker 3: and I actually think you could see it on Ema
Speaker 3: Stone's face when she got announced that she was like.
Speaker 4: Wait, I won.
Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio had famously been campaigning for her so hard.
Speaker 1: He was not nominated and did not show up last night,
Speaker 1: but he had been campaigning for her, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought that would really help this scorsesey as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't seen Killers of the Flower Moon.
Speaker 3: I've heard she's incredible in that.
Speaker 4: And would it have been? Nice?
Speaker 2: Time?
Speaker 3: So long?
Speaker 4: Let's take Jim about that last night. I liked that
Speaker 4: joke for Moon too.
Speaker 3: He kind of called everybody out and said all of
Speaker 3: your movies are too long. The average movie I'll get
Speaker 3: it wrong, but he cited the average movie nominated was
Speaker 3: like two hours and twenty minutes long or something. Give
Speaker 3: me a tight ninety Yeah, what happened to the hour
Speaker 3: and forty minute mon.
Speaker 1: My loved Oppenheimer, truly loved Oppenheimer. The performances, the movie,
Speaker 1: the story, everything.
Speaker 2: It was too damn long.
Speaker 1: I mean even that movie Man, there were so I
Speaker 1: could go in without even blinking. I could cut forty
Speaker 1: five minutes out of that film and it would still
Speaker 1: be too long.
Speaker 3: Well, if you want people to go see movies in
Speaker 3: the theater, I've heard a lot of people say this.
Speaker 4: It is this basic.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't have to take a bathroom break, like it
Speaker 3: should be two hours or less if they have to
Speaker 3: go pee and miss the movie.
Speaker 1: Just remember going to see Gandhi when there was you know,
Speaker 1: you had the intermission. I was like, what is happening
Speaker 1: because that was such a rare thing back in the
Speaker 1: day to have, Yeah, a movie so long that there
Speaker 1: was an intermission. And that's we're leaning into a Broadway
Speaker 1: play where there are intermissions where we got to take
Speaker 1: a break. But overall, as we get into the show, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about when I say the course correction, they
Speaker 1: did a better job because the show seemed more modern.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the Voice of God kind of talking, and.
Speaker 4: Alan Greer was doing the voice which I loved. We
Speaker 4: had some fun with it.
Speaker 1: Very recognizable, but less voiceover work like it's nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1: The set seemed good, the graphics were tight. There were stars,
Speaker 1: stars that we all recognize, because again, there are movies
Speaker 1: that we actually watched this year. So it just felt
Speaker 1: fresh and it felt good. It felt like we were
Speaker 1: going to have.
Speaker 2: A good time.
Speaker 3: I would give it the review of this is the
Speaker 3: best Oscars I've seen in a couple of years in
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 3: I thought the stage was beautiful, the production was tight.
Speaker 3: There weren't big misses, it kept moving. There weren't any
Speaker 3: presenting moments where it was like god, this written, like really,
Speaker 3: this is the best thing we could write. Nothing painful
Speaker 3: like that. And I also realized in watching it, you
Speaker 3: know it is hard. And I'll give Awards shows this,
Speaker 3: which is a struggle in the age of social media.
Speaker 3: This used to be the only place you could see
Speaker 3: these celebrities. It was on these awards shows, and it
Speaker 3: was really special in the age of social media. A
Speaker 3: lot of them have social media, but what you can
Speaker 3: get at these awards shows and what they leaned into
Speaker 3: a little last night, and I hope they lean into
Speaker 3: better in the future is just really rare cool moments
Speaker 3: of celebrities coming together, and like like watching Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker 3: and Danny DeVito together last night. They were so funny together,
Speaker 3: they were so naturally charismatic and what took it to
Speaker 3: the next level And I thought, Okay, someone really thought
Speaker 3: this out a little better. At first, you thought it
Speaker 3: was going to be a twins reunion. I was going
Speaker 3: to say the same thing, and then they cut to
Speaker 3: Michael Keaton in the audience and you realized they were
Speaker 3: playing off of the fact that they were both in
Speaker 3: Batman movies.
Speaker 2: And they both got killed by by Batman who was
Speaker 2: right there. It was Genie.
Speaker 4: It made it.
Speaker 3: Really fun putting Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling together, you know,
Speaker 3: listen and people need a reason those two were together
Speaker 3: presenting or acknowledging the stunt community on stage because they're
Speaker 3: doing the movie The fall Guy, about a stuntman that
Speaker 3: comes out soon. But they were in Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Speaker 3: They made they had fun with that.
Speaker 2: Like they were funny.
Speaker 1: They were funny, Yeah, and I loved I love Ryan
Speaker 1: kind of giving a shot at Oppenheimer, you know about briding,
Speaker 1: you know, Barbie, uh taking you know, rid and so
Speaker 1: it's just brilliant.
Speaker 2: It was really well done.
Speaker 3: I thought those moments were great. I guess we're getting
Speaker 3: into highlights. I thought the John seen a moment of
Speaker 3: him coming out naked.
Speaker 2: I agree, like, I'm sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know some people online are really been out of
Speaker 1: shape about it, but come on, it was really no
Speaker 1: different than what he wears in wrestling. If he'd had
Speaker 1: a little singlet on, which is what they wear their
Speaker 1: little briefs, it's the same.
Speaker 2: He had a card. I mean, it's not like you
Speaker 2: didn't you saw anything you weren't supposed to.
Speaker 4: But again, here's where they were.
Speaker 3: I thought it was funny and the writing took it
Speaker 3: to the next level. At first, I thought, oh, he's
Speaker 3: just going to come out and streak, and it wasn't
Speaker 3: going to be that funny. But the fact that he
Speaker 3: walks out and he says he's doing the award for
Speaker 3: costume design, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, that's costumes are important, maybe the most important thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: and again I'll give I'll give Kimmel credit here. Good bit.
Speaker 1: That was a good bit. He went back and had
Speaker 1: a little back and.
Speaker 3: Forth with whatever was writing last night. I kind of
Speaker 3: felt like, and I know, like Jimmy Kimmel and his
Speaker 3: wife Molly.
Speaker 4: I think it's McNerney.
Speaker 3: She actually was big in kind of the improv comedy
Speaker 3: scene when I was first starting in LA and I
Speaker 3: think she wrote for his show and now she produces,
Speaker 3: so she produced the show last night. I don't know
Speaker 3: who they brought in, but the writers they had for
Speaker 3: last night, it was elevated.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 2: It was different.
Speaker 1: I'll just say about Kimmel, you know, hosting that event
Speaker 1: is very hard. It's notoriously a very difficult thing. He's
Speaker 1: done what four or five years I think in a row,
Speaker 1: and he didn't do bad. I'd say I give him
Speaker 1: a B minus. Some of his stuff off the top
Speaker 1: of the monologue seemed tired, like like it's I agree,
Speaker 1: I've seen it before, and you.
Speaker 4: Know, I actually just thought he seemed a little tired.
Speaker 4: He seemed like a little like he just done this before.
Speaker 3: Like there were a few times when he came out
Speaker 3: and he kept going, how are we doing? I know
Speaker 3: it's long, and I'm like, well, if you're like, I
Speaker 3: don't know who else they could get to do the job,
Speaker 3: because that job is so notoriously dangerous for your career, Like,
Speaker 3: think of what you know, who you.
Speaker 2: Know first of all? Who everybody wants.
Speaker 4: Now give us John Mullaney.
Speaker 1: Give us John Mullaney. He was so much you let
Speaker 1: him host the Oscars. Jimmy, I agree.
Speaker 2: And what is a.
Speaker 1: Turnoff for the millions that are watching and there will
Speaker 1: be millions that are watches. Don't come out and crap
Speaker 1: on the show you're hosting. You immediately come out and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I know it shouldn't be but this is going to
Speaker 1: be long.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be boring.
Speaker 1: You're gonna all suffer through this, Like I am, let's
Speaker 1: just strap in, like what the.
Speaker 2: Yes, it probably will be long.
Speaker 1: And yes, even though they started an hour early, they
Speaker 1: still went over there allotted time last night. But I
Speaker 1: don't It's just it's such a thing to come out
Speaker 1: and just tell everybody how your show is gonna suck
Speaker 1: and then kind of go through and crap on some movies.
Speaker 1: We're imm a stone now. Of course, you see on
Speaker 1: social media where she kind of called Kimmel a prick,
Speaker 1: it looks like.
Speaker 4: That's some people are saying she settled the lip readers.
Speaker 1: For kind of you know, crapping on her movie. And
Speaker 1: then you had John mulaney come out and easily the
Speaker 1: best written comedic bit of the night that celebrated movies
Speaker 1: and it was funny. That's what we miss. That's the
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal, that's the Steve Martin, Jimmy Kimmel. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give him a failing grade. I'll give him
Speaker 1: a B minus because he moved the show along and
Speaker 1: he did have some highlights, but overall, I think we
Speaker 1: need a fresh start.
Speaker 3: Well, as you're saying, it's such good insight from you,
Speaker 3: as someone who's hosted how many live two hour shows,
Speaker 3: I was just thinking, what if you came out and
Speaker 3: started after the final rows with Hey, everybody, I know
Speaker 3: this is long and it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: This this is a rough night.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm contractually obligated to do this, so you know,
Speaker 1: just just bear with me, will you. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what what tone are you setting? It's this is the
Speaker 1: biggest night of the year, millions of are watching around
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 3: I think the problem is that statement he's making is
Speaker 3: to the people in the room. But first of all,
Speaker 3: the nominees are still excited. Like Robert Downey Junior has
Speaker 3: been in this industry for twenty years, the ups and
Speaker 3: downs he's had, as he alluded to last night, the
Speaker 3: man at one point couldn't get a job, couldn't get insured,
Speaker 3: he was a drug addict.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying anything he hasn't said. And
Speaker 3: he's now winning an Oscar like he is Hollywood's comebackstory. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but for so for him, he's excited to be there
Speaker 3: and like it marks a real moment of he made it,
Speaker 3: and he did it and he came back from the darkness.
Speaker 3: And so you're saying to the people in the room,
Speaker 3: this is going to be long, but you're saying to
Speaker 3: the people at home, go ahead and turn off your
Speaker 3: TV if you want. Like so, I think if he'd
Speaker 3: cut out those comments. Overall, I thought, again, it was
Speaker 3: well written, It moved well. I did laugh out loud
Speaker 3: a couple of times, and that's not the case for
Speaker 3: every award show. And you know, people looked great and like,
Speaker 3: the packages are really nice. I really liked the Well
Speaker 3: we'll get into that buty. Just sticking on Kimmel, I
Speaker 3: think that I remember him saying that he came back.
Speaker 3: I think because of Barbie and that's why he decided
Speaker 3: to do it again. And I can't imagine it's easy
Speaker 3: to get someone to do this, Like I wonder if
Speaker 3: they've asked John mulaney and he said no up until
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 2: I bet not because Kimmel's ABC.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And whether he will admit it or not,
Speaker 1: it's a big gig for him and you know, to
Speaker 1: be on that stage and to be that guy. But
Speaker 1: I think everybody's a little tired of him, and I
Speaker 1: think he's tired. And if I think, if he was
Speaker 1: being honest, he might say himself, if you interviewed him today,
Speaker 1: are you into this? Are you excited? Because it seemed
Speaker 1: like he was put out. I guess that's the best thing.
Speaker 1: I think when he came out for the monologue, he
Speaker 1: really seemed put out, like I can't believe you guys
Speaker 1: are doing this and I got to be here instead
Speaker 1: of I didn't feel the excitement. When Johnmulaney came out,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm in man, Let that guy do
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, let him cook. I am into his monologue,
Speaker 1: let him go.
Speaker 3: And then that presenting moment at the Oscars. I saw
Speaker 3: a lot of people tweeting and saying, well, he just
Speaker 3: nailed his audition for hosting the Oscars, Like now he's
Speaker 3: done the Governor's Awards, they know he can do an
Speaker 3: awards show. And then he did the big stage and
Speaker 3: he was really funny and crushed it.
Speaker 2: And that's my twenty twenty four prediction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think if he wants it,
Speaker 3: I think after last night it's his.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he wants it.
Speaker 1: We need him, Yeah, we need him. We need a
Speaker 1: f and the Academy does too. It'll be huge to
Speaker 1: have a fresh a change.
Speaker 3: And he's a little younger and like he is, and
Speaker 3: by that I just I mean younger audiences know him
Speaker 3: like our kids.
Speaker 4: They love his comedy. You know what I noticed, college
Speaker 4: kids love his comedy.
Speaker 2: The audience responded to him. And I don't mean us
Speaker 2: the viewers.
Speaker 1: I mean the people in that theater which are hardened
Speaker 1: and barely paying attention because look, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about you because I've been to the
Speaker 1: Oscar several times, so have you, and it is a long,
Speaker 1: arduous journey when you're in that audience because it's really
Speaker 1: made for TV, so you can't hear a lot. But
Speaker 1: what I noticed when they panned out, people were laughing,
Speaker 1: people were into his comedy, and he was killing the room.
Speaker 3: What a lot of people say about these hosting gigs
Speaker 3: is you have to find the person who appeals to
Speaker 3: the audience at home and in the room. Very rare,
Speaker 3: like it's tough sometimes if you get like I know
Speaker 3: Joe Coy, I mean he now infamously bombed at the
Speaker 3: Golden Globes this year. But what I heard some industry
Speaker 3: people say is no one in the industry really knows him,
Speaker 3: Like he's a stand up comedian with an audience in America,
Speaker 3: but he's not like well known and hasn't been in
Speaker 3: movies and people don't know him as well in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I guess, well, that's why Crystal and Steve Martin did
Speaker 2: so well for so long.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: They need, They need to feel like if they're going
Speaker 3: to get roasted, it's at least a friendly face to
Speaker 3: me it because there is going to be a little
Speaker 3: poking fun. So like, look, even Kimmel last night, he
Speaker 3: said something and seemingly I'm a stone and love the comment.
Speaker 3: But so I think people John Mulaney might be striking
Speaker 3: that right note of known to audiences at this point,
Speaker 3: even if he is isn't as famous as Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 3: but also known to the people in the road.
Speaker 1: So I give Kimmel a B minus and I say,
Speaker 1: we're moving on fresh Blood.
Speaker 2: What's your grade for Kimmel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give Kimmel a B plus and I'll give
Speaker 4: the show overall an A minus.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it was the most entertaining Oscars I've watched
Speaker 1: in quite some time, because again, I liked the addition
Speaker 1: of when they're announcing Best Actor, Best Actress and Supporting
Speaker 1: actor categories, they brought up five formers, so we just
Speaker 1: were inundated with star We saw stars, and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of big stars.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I know, Margot Robbie wasn't nominated, but she's there, Greta
Speaker 1: Gerwig was there, Emma Stone and al Pacino came out
Speaker 1: in the most bizarre fashion, but he got a standing ovation.
Speaker 1: And talk about an ainery, cranky old man that gives
Speaker 1: zero f's in the world.
Speaker 4: You know what, I'll push back. I don't think he's angry.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a moment.
Speaker 3: Okay, it was an old man movement. But he wasn't cranky.
Speaker 3: I have interviewed al Pacino a couple of times. He's
Speaker 3: very funny, he's very nice. I don't think he's cranky.
Speaker 3: I just think he's like I agree about the I
Speaker 3: don't give enough. He didn't even read the nominees.
Speaker 4: He walks out, Okay, best picture.
Speaker 3: My eyes see Oppenheimer, and everybody's like, is that the winner?
Speaker 2: The winner? It was so bizarre.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the pin ultimate moment, and I think
Speaker 1: what we're gonna have to do, much like maybe you know,
Speaker 1: for many jobs that are very important, we should have
Speaker 1: some sort of cognitive test. You should be able to
Speaker 1: read three lines. The nominees are the Oscar goes too.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: You have really two sentences you need to say, he
Speaker 1: missed all of them. Out of the two sentences, he
Speaker 1: said no.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's about an ability to read. I
Speaker 4: think he just didn't care to read him. I think
Speaker 4: he doesn't have enough time. He's like, I gotta go.
Speaker 2: He just stumbled out on stage.
Speaker 1: This is what we've been watching three and a half
Speaker 1: hours for we get out there and he's like mumbling
Speaker 1: something and he's like literally.
Speaker 4: And he has a newborn at home.
Speaker 1: Must he's scariest part to think that De Niro and
Speaker 1: Paccino sitting there with Okay, by the way, newborns.
Speaker 4: Two good jokes from Kimmel.
Speaker 3: One when Pacino came out, I think he said he'd
Speaker 3: got a sitter for the night. And two and this
Speaker 3: was like a joke and also just a moment of perspective.
Speaker 3: I think he said, Jody Foster and Robert de Niro
Speaker 3: are both here tonight. Forty years ago they were nominated
Speaker 3: for Taxi Driver and Jody Foster was old enough or
Speaker 3: was the age to be Robert de Niro's daughter tonight.
Speaker 3: She's twenty years older than his girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Twenty years too old to be his gold And Jody
Speaker 1: was like, Yep, that was that was a good That
Speaker 1: was a good.
Speaker 3: Berth Well and I love you just pointed out That's
Speaker 3: kind of what I was talking about earlier, is the
Speaker 3: power of these awards shows. They need to lean into
Speaker 3: bringing people together for special, unforgettable moments. People who wouldn't
Speaker 3: always be together. You might see them on their social media,
Speaker 3: but they wouldn't be with this other group and that
Speaker 3: was great with the bringing out the former winners to
Speaker 3: kind of give a special shout out to the current
Speaker 3: nominees in the acting categories, like to see on stage
Speaker 3: like Lupine and Yogo with like like Jamie Lee Curtis
Speaker 3: and and with you know, or to see like Sally
Speaker 3: Field along with like rig.
Speaker 2: It was great to see Oh j Low we have
Speaker 2: seen her in a while.
Speaker 4: J Lobby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these groups of women together, that was really cool.
Speaker 3: You're like, whoa, there's a lot of talent on this stage.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 1: It was just good to see stars. What'd you think
Speaker 1: of the Ryan gosling Ken song?
Speaker 4: I thought it was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I died that. You know what I
Speaker 3: loved about it? The breaking character that was maybe my
Speaker 3: favorite part. He starts in the audience. Billie Eilish is
Speaker 3: barely holding it together. Margot Robbie isn't holding it together.
Speaker 4: She's laughing, and he.
Speaker 3: Was just not taking it too seriously and having fun
Speaker 3: with it like.
Speaker 4: He knows he's On the one hand, he was playing it.
Speaker 3: As seriously as he should have, like giving it as all,
Speaker 3: but you could tell he was almost laughing.
Speaker 1: I wish ABC executives hadn't over hyped it. I wish
Speaker 1: they had just they had really been hanging their hat
Speaker 1: on this because I think they realized they failed miserably
Speaker 1: by not giving Barbie its due this year, so they
Speaker 1: really over I wish they had just said, you know,
Speaker 1: yes he's performing, or you'll but I was expecting something.
Speaker 4: They were ceasing to it.
Speaker 3: They were teasing it, they kept saying, and next up
Speaker 3: the performance you've been waiting for Ryan Gosling is ket So.
Speaker 1: ABC I think did a massive injustice to that. But
Speaker 1: with that said, give Ryan Gosling so much credit to
Speaker 1: He's not a singer. He's not a singer at all.
Speaker 1: Did he even sing in La La Land at all?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, this was interesting because so okay, he started in
Speaker 3: The Mickey Mouse Club, right, so he actually sang as.
Speaker 2: A kid, so did I. But we all go through period.
Speaker 3: And then and he said that being Ken kind of
Speaker 3: brought him back to those days, those like teenage performance days.
Speaker 3: But he infamously didn't perform when La La Land a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago was nominated for Best Song he
Speaker 3: sang in the movie, but he did not sing. I
Speaker 3: think John Legend sang City of Stars at the Oscars,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of like, wait, why isn't Gosling
Speaker 3: singing the song?
Speaker 4: So I sort of loved that he came back and
Speaker 4: really did sing.
Speaker 2: Okay, So to.
Speaker 1: Do that and to not be in a studio where
Speaker 1: you know you're going to have mixing and maybe a
Speaker 1: little help on your voice, this is live in front
Speaker 1: of millions but also your peers, and he wasn't just singing.
Speaker 1: He then did this the performance where you know, the
Speaker 1: cowboy had to start and the whole thing where he
Speaker 1: was in character. I give him so much credit because
Speaker 1: that's not just you know, a film performance that is
Speaker 1: raw live TV. You are, in the words of John Cena,
Speaker 1: bearing it all. I mean, you're really going for it.
Speaker 1: So I give him a hell of a lot of
Speaker 1: credit because he went for it and he nailed it.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a great performance.
Speaker 3: He was doing an ode to gentlemen prefer blondes, the
Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe pink dress scene. I thought that was with
Speaker 3: all dudes, and yeah, that was a great nod to
Speaker 3: movies past too.
Speaker 4: I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Great, Not like at the end when he jumped back
Speaker 1: down in the audience and Greta Gerwig was singing Emma
Speaker 1: Stone got out.
Speaker 3: I was so smart of him to give a nod
Speaker 3: to those women and to kind of shake hands with
Speaker 3: Emma his La La land co star. I think he did.
Speaker 3: He hit all the right notes of who to nod to.
Speaker 3: And you know what, everybody, I was seeing people some
Speaker 3: of like our friends who are reporters, who were in
Speaker 3: the room that night saying the whole theater was on
Speaker 3: its feet for that, Like he really speaking of working
Speaker 3: the crowd, like the Hollywood people were up and singing
Speaker 3: with him and actually having fun.
Speaker 4: And I think you felt that at home.
Speaker 3: Like if I was gonna nitpick, the only thing I
Speaker 3: would have done was thrown in a couple more like
Speaker 3: fun silly cameos of some kind, like he had Slash
Speaker 3: playing with him at the end, which I didn't see
Speaker 3: coming and didn't like totally understand, but great, But I
Speaker 3: kind of would have. I don't know exactly who it
Speaker 3: would have been. Maybe if you just picked another like
Speaker 3: I would have liked it. If maybe they cut to
Speaker 3: the audience and a few more other very like ken
Speaker 3: like stars like a Chris Emmons or something. Right, they
Speaker 3: were all there, Yeah, like they'd done like a like
Speaker 3: maybe they joined in just to like embrace their.
Speaker 4: Tenness or something.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you had a bunch of big like that.
Speaker 4: Could have been funny, but I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably Cooper's there.
Speaker 4: It make them all kens.
Speaker 2: Two things I noticed.
Speaker 1: One, it kind of takes you out of it a
Speaker 1: little bit immediately online and this is the world we
Speaker 1: live in of social media. You have the behind the
Speaker 1: scenes right like people are like, this is what John
Speaker 1: Cena was doing, this is how he got you know.
Speaker 3: Write those same reporters I just mentioned everybody video everybody in.
Speaker 1: The balcony posting behind the scenes videos, which kind of
Speaker 1: takes you out of a little bit. Don't don't show
Speaker 1: me how the magician's doing the trick. I wish they
Speaker 1: would ban that, but you know, that's that's the world
Speaker 1: we live in where all these reporters are up there,
Speaker 1: everyone's recording everything. And you know there's reports today that
Speaker 1: dimm A Stone was you know, out with Florence Pugh
Speaker 1: at the bar and she missed a bunch of awards
Speaker 1: and people It's like people are digging at things, and
Speaker 1: you know today Robert Downey Junior didn't pay ode to
Speaker 1: who was presenting him the trophy and snubbed him, and
Speaker 1: it was just stop, stop, Like everybody's there trying to
Speaker 1: dig for stories and to try and stir stuff up
Speaker 1: when there's not that. None of those things existed. None
Speaker 1: of those things are big deals.
Speaker 4: I didn't think people were making the amistone at the
Speaker 4: bar thing negative. Did you see that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was written up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've saw several articles written on it today And
Speaker 1: it's just and it's silly.
Speaker 3: Because there's this video for feeling bad. She's like, oh wait,
Speaker 3: I'm missing it. I'm like, oh, she was just getting
Speaker 3: a drink by the way.
Speaker 1: And I've been to this award show. It is very
Speaker 1: long when you're sitting there. I know Jimmy Kimmel was
Speaker 1: making fun of it, and he probably shouldn't have, but
Speaker 1: it is long. And in the middle there is a
Speaker 1: long stretch of awards that you're just you're not you've
Speaker 1: never heard of. And so you go out to the bar.
Speaker 1: And when you go to the bar, you should know,
Speaker 1: or the bathroom they lock the doors. You cannot come
Speaker 1: back in. So if Emma Stone is out there and
Speaker 1: the show starts again, even Emma Stone is locked out.
Speaker 1: She can't just walk back in and try and make
Speaker 1: it back to that award. You have to wait for
Speaker 1: the entire next block to go another commercial break, and
Speaker 1: then you can go back in, you know, so that happens.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is going to be controversial
Speaker 3: to say Hollywood doesn't like it when you start to.
Speaker 3: But there are a few awards we could lose. This
Speaker 3: is no shade to these people. Best Animated Short. I
Speaker 3: don't even know where to see these. These aren't in theaters.
Speaker 3: No one watching at home, like really knows, like as
Speaker 3: heard of or even Ken's like, how would you see?
Speaker 4: I mean, you'd have to find it. The Best Animated Short,
Speaker 4: where do I get that?
Speaker 2: Let's look at the Emmys.
Speaker 4: Are Best Documentary Short. I'll say that too.
Speaker 1: Best even best Documentary, Like here's the thing, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I love a doction.
Speaker 2: Well here's well, here's the thing, and I do too.
Speaker 1: And but the Oscars, the telecast is to please the masses.
Speaker 1: Look at what you're trying to do, so stop trying
Speaker 1: to please industry insiders by having them on your telecast.
Speaker 1: The Emmys are a good good point of this. There's
Speaker 1: some great awards that are handed out at the Creative
Speaker 1: Arts Emmys. The night before they hand out a ton
Speaker 1: of Emmys. I'm not saying, don't celebrate these people. Don't
Speaker 1: decorate them and tell them how great they are. Do
Speaker 1: we need to see it over three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: You could lose five awards and tighten that thing up
Speaker 1: and make it a great award show.
Speaker 3: I just think, know your audience and these people can't
Speaker 3: even find this content, so how would this so.
Speaker 1: Give them oscars. I'm not saying don't celebrate them, just
Speaker 1: do it the night before. If you guys are so
Speaker 1: impressed with each other and yourselves, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I mean last night there was a little bit where,
Speaker 3: like we said, Emily Blent and Ryan Goslin kind of
Speaker 3: gave a nod to the stunt community, and I thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, that's an award. I would actually rather
Speaker 3: see his best stunt oscar. Think about Tom Cruise jumping
Speaker 3: off the Clibb would have won it right with the
Speaker 3: motorcycle this year in Mission Impossible, like you know fast,
Speaker 3: like there's an incredible stunt work and people at home
Speaker 3: actually see that in movies and theaters.
Speaker 1: Last thing, I wanted a question for you has has
Speaker 1: something changed in that award season has gotten so arduous
Speaker 1: and so long, and maybe so much social media or something.
Speaker 1: A lot of people seem tired last night. Christopher Nolan
Speaker 1: has been so charismatic and just crushing it all year.
Speaker 1: When he got up for Oppenheimer, It's not like he
Speaker 1: was bad, but it wasn't like the guy I've been
Speaker 1: seeing at the bath and all.
Speaker 2: These other speeches.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Robert Downey Junior. He has been on fire,
Speaker 1: and I still think he did great last night.
Speaker 2: He was fun, and he was.
Speaker 4: Jus naturally charismatic person.
Speaker 1: Well just he's so easy to like, he's so likable.
Speaker 1: But I just noticed everybody seemed a little lethargic last night.
Speaker 2: There's a little fatigue.
Speaker 3: I just think, infamously, the Oscars is the end and
Speaker 3: people are tired. I mean, when I was at et,
Speaker 3: we would always be like, I hate to say it,
Speaker 3: because the Oscars is the big one, but we'd be like,
Speaker 3: it's the hardest carpet to do because you get there
Speaker 3: and nope, everybody's like, there's no more promoting left for
Speaker 3: them to be done. The votes are locked in, so
Speaker 3: they don't really want to do interviews because they're tired,
Speaker 3: they're burnt out, they're nervous, and like the interview doesn't
Speaker 3: really get them anything anymore because.
Speaker 4: The campaigning is over, the votes are locked.
Speaker 3: Right, And yeah, they've been doing interviews and making speeches
Speaker 3: and getting dressed like all for months now and people
Speaker 3: are tired. Yes, absolutely, Like you've also kind of you know,
Speaker 3: if you're on a winning streak, like Robert Donney Junior,
Speaker 3: you've probably made your best jokes, like you're a little
Speaker 3: what else am I going to say in this speech?
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that the fatigue is very real.
Speaker 2: I wish Christopher Nolan had mentioned Barbie.
Speaker 4: You made that point last night. You're so right.
Speaker 1: I just thought he had a moment to say something
Speaker 1: about Greta Gerwig It, even even if he didn't mention
Speaker 1: grete for not being nominated. Just Barbenheimer, right, just just
Speaker 1: mentioned this phenomenon that he was a part of and
Speaker 1: his movie was a part of.
Speaker 2: And look, I get it.
Speaker 1: It was his moment, so he thinked his people and
Speaker 1: it was all self indulgent, which I totally understand. He deserved,
Speaker 1: you know, he earned that, But I just thought, what
Speaker 1: a great moment to Margot Robbie sitting there, Greta Gerwig
Speaker 1: sitting there. Obviously, Oppenheimer A rising tide definitely lifted that
Speaker 1: boat as well.
Speaker 2: Why not in that moment, I.
Speaker 4: Thought you were so right. I thought it was a
Speaker 4: miss to not like, to not speak to people at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as like, like a lot of people pointed out,
Speaker 3: I mean the turned out the person giving him that
Speaker 3: award last night because it was the anniversary.
Speaker 4: Of was the list, Yes, Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's talk about that moment, Steven Spielberg giving
Speaker 3: Christopher Nolan his first Best Director Oscar. A lot of
Speaker 3: people were saying, Wow, this is kind of a passing
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 4: Torch moment in the industry.
Speaker 3: And I thought Christopher Nolan in that moment had an
Speaker 3: opportunity to say something about, like just to the people
Speaker 3: at home, like thank you for coming to see this movie,
Speaker 3: for coming back to the theaters, for having you know,
Speaker 3: for making this movie a huge box office hit, and
Speaker 3: like and yeah, and to acknowledge Barbenheimer and like the
Speaker 3: fun and joy of the movies. He said something like
Speaker 3: we're one hundred years into this business. Who knows where
Speaker 3: it'll go from here, But I wanted something like a
Speaker 3: bit happier and like like positive and hopeful, And I
Speaker 3: agree it would have been It would have been a
Speaker 3: cool thing to do because really the gals from Barbie,
Speaker 3: they were the ones who like, like remember they went
Speaker 3: and bought tickets to Oppenheimer, like they sort of started
Speaker 3: the lets support each other thing, and it would have
Speaker 3: been nice for him to put a button on that.
Speaker 4: In a full circle way.
Speaker 1: Before we wrap this up, any significant misses. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone goes back in history. It's like, Okay, here's here's missus,
Speaker 1: here's what IFFs. As I as I look at the
Speaker 1: categories last night, do you think there were any significant
Speaker 1: miss I.
Speaker 4: Would have liked Lily Gladstone to have won.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, I haven't seen either movie,
Speaker 3: but I just you know, for a Native American woman
Speaker 3: to finally win, especially after the Academy's history, Like it
Speaker 3: was really beautiful to see that song from Killers of
Speaker 3: the Flower Moon.
Speaker 1: P over All the movie was pretty ignored as far
Speaker 1: as far as winning last Night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that movie in Maes show really didn't win
Speaker 3: anything nominations wise.
Speaker 1: Or Bradley Cooper Man, he really tried to give it
Speaker 1: up in the press and tried to earn and then
Speaker 1: all he did was get baked by taking his mom
Speaker 1: to another show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I thought, you know, I thought that was
Speaker 4: a miss. What about you?
Speaker 1: I liked Oppenheim again. I think the biggest miss was
Speaker 1: just in Greta Gerwig not being nominated.
Speaker 2: Would she have won?
Speaker 1: I think still, Christopher Nolan, that was such an epic
Speaker 1: movie and it was so brilliant. You can't argue with
Speaker 1: Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan. I just wish Greta Gerwig had
Speaker 1: gotten that recognition.
Speaker 2: She definitely should have.
Speaker 1: And I think Margot Robbie should have been nominated as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, should I think Emma Stone is a
Speaker 1: very popular champion. I think she's a wonderful star to
Speaker 1: have up and great, you know, I think critically acclaim performance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: supporting actor, supporting actress.
Speaker 4: Robert Donny Junior, and Davine. Yeah, I mean, I think.
Speaker 1: Maybe the easiest lay up for all of us. We
Speaker 1: all wanted it, we all needed it, and the Academy
Speaker 1: actually gave it to us. So, you know what, kudos
Speaker 1: to the Academy for just giving us what we wanted
Speaker 1: for once. Yeah, we all wanted to see Robert Donny
Speaker 1: Junior on stage.
Speaker 4: I think we all right.
Speaker 3: Greta not being nominated was the miss Everybody kind of
Speaker 3: felt like this was Christopher Nolan getting a bit of
Speaker 3: a career Oscar moment, and so it was going to
Speaker 3: be his.
Speaker 1: And Killian Murphy very deserving as well. You could have
Speaker 1: gone to and you know, a couple of different directions.
Speaker 3: I think some people thought Paul Giamani was going to
Speaker 3: get the career Oscar for the Holdovers because he got
Speaker 3: missed in Sideways and his speech would have been great.
Speaker 3: But no one's complaining about Killian Murphy right. A couple
Speaker 3: other little wins. I did like seeing them. The writer
Speaker 3: for American Fiction Coor Jefferson, what a great Hollywood story,
Speaker 3: Like he was a TV writer. This is like the
Speaker 3: first feature film he's written.
Speaker 4: And I thought he made such a good point.
Speaker 3: He got up there and said, look, he kind of
Speaker 3: spoke to the industry and said, you know, just so
Speaker 3: everybody knows, like the next Corsees he's out there, the
Speaker 3: next two Ever's out there, instead of making one two
Speaker 3: hundred million dollar movie because movies have gotten so expensive.
Speaker 4: It is crazy to me, like if you.
Speaker 3: Think about it, I mean anyone, but you got some
Speaker 3: attention this year because it only costs like twenty million
Speaker 3: dollars to make, Like movies didn't.
Speaker 4: Used to cost.
Speaker 2: That's normal, that was normal.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're so expensive now.
Speaker 3: And he said, instead of making one two hundred million
Speaker 3: dollar movie, make ten twenty million dollar movies. And you
Speaker 3: might be surprised how it goes because this was a
Speaker 3: little movie that became nominated at the Oscars. And I
Speaker 3: loved that he said that, and it was such a
Speaker 3: good point. So that was a nice little moment and
Speaker 3: I hope people listen to him. And then I also
Speaker 3: loved like kind of speaking like Ryan Gosling, I'm not
Speaker 3: taking himself too seriously. The moment where Kate McKinnon and
Speaker 3: America Frera presented Best Documentary and they just did a
Speaker 3: silly bit about Kate McKinnon thinking that Jurassic Park movies
Speaker 3: were documentaries, and then cut to Stephen Spielberg in the audience,
Speaker 3: and Kate McKinnon made a joke where she said, like,
Speaker 3: it's go watch it because it's funny, But she ultimately
Speaker 3: made a joke of wait, but to whom have I
Speaker 3: been sending my tasteful.
Speaker 4: Nudes and Steve.
Speaker 3: They cut to Stephen Spielberg and he pointed himself, and
Speaker 3: I just thought, I love this man for like just
Speaker 3: have fun.
Speaker 4: You know, that's what it's about. The movies are supposed
Speaker 4: to be about fun.
Speaker 3: Entertainment, yes, connection, yes, statement making, but like a little
Speaker 3: fun too.
Speaker 1: And I loved the audience was set perfectly. And this
Speaker 1: is silly, but the director whoever directed last Night, had
Speaker 1: everybody staged perfectly. You had Scorsese, Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan
Speaker 1: all lined up. When you took a shot of one,
Speaker 1: you saw three geniuses, three legends. When you went over
Speaker 1: to Margot Robbie who was sitting behind, but you know,
Speaker 1: there was Emily Blunt and there was Ryan Gosling. So
Speaker 1: up front was Robert Downey Junior, and then you saw
Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper. They stacked the seat, they stacked the seats well,
Speaker 1: and they were there and it was maybe it was
Speaker 1: lit better, but I felt like I saw stars last
Speaker 1: night when we went to the audience shots, and that
Speaker 1: was well done.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the Golden globes where you were like, or
Speaker 3: was it the maybe I remember thinking.
Speaker 4: Actually Lobs was a Disaster of Us story the Globes
Speaker 4: in the Emmys.
Speaker 3: The Globes was like the tightest they've ever packed that
Speaker 3: room this year with the tables, no one could walk
Speaker 3: around them. And then at the Emmys the audience kept
Speaker 3: being empty, Like I was like, where is everyone? So
Speaker 3: you're right the Oscars, maybe they took note. They stacked
Speaker 3: that room. There was never an empty seat and all
Speaker 3: the stars were together.
Speaker 4: I really thought, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they had a new director this
Speaker 3: year or anew but like just production wise, it was
Speaker 3: very well done.
Speaker 1: It felt fresh, it felt good. It felt good because
Speaker 1: we went back to the movies this year and then
Speaker 1: we celebrated movies we saw, so overall, I give it
Speaker 1: high marks.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: When the ratings come out today, my guess is they're
Speaker 1: going to be up ten to twenty percent, as they
Speaker 1: should be because the movies were up ten to twenty percent.
Speaker 3: Well, and because the Big Barbie and Oppenheimer. I mean truly,
Speaker 3: I think it's Barbenheimer came to a close at the
Speaker 3: Oscars last night. I'll see it again. Oppenheimer was the
Speaker 3: first box office hit in twenty years to win Best Picture. Academy.
Speaker 3: Take note, if the ratings are up. People want to
Speaker 3: watch a show about the movies they went to see.
Speaker 2: We in this episode with question, oh, who won the night?
Speaker 4: Who won the night? Oh, I wish you'd prepped me
Speaker 4: for this. You have an answer going thinking.
Speaker 1: Award season obviously, Oppenheimer at Christopher Nolan. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go bizarrely, I think Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know he's a megastar, but he's just so. He's
Speaker 1: he's shown another side of himself, and I think he's
Speaker 1: endeared himself to not only industry, but also to us,
Speaker 1: the fans and the viewers as a just a real
Speaker 1: guy and a funny guy that'll poke fun at himself.
Speaker 1: And I think Ryan Gosling won.
Speaker 4: It was a big career booster moment for him. This
Speaker 4: this whole thing. Yeah, I mean I don't. By the way,
Speaker 4: a lot of people were like, where's his wife, Ava Mendez?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you see the tweets she sent out immediately it
Speaker 1: was great about get home and put the kids to bed.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so did you think it was great?
Speaker 2: Well? I thought it was cute that she said that
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of what was the last oh, when
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds was on and Blake Lively, yes, you know,
Speaker 1: tweeted at him about like, you know, when he was,
Speaker 1: you know, off doing his thing, and I think I
Speaker 1: thought that was cute.
Speaker 3: Well, she's getting on a backlash for it because people
Speaker 3: are like, wow, well, first of all, a lot of
Speaker 3: people are saying she's trying to do Ryan Reynolds Blake
Speaker 3: Lively but not succeeding. And then a lot of people
Speaker 3: are like, well, why weren't you just there.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: They've never been a couple to even though they met
Speaker 3: on a movie set, they've never been a couple to
Speaker 3: do red carpets together. I think she's just pulled back,
Speaker 3: and that's her personal choice. I will admit, maybe selfishly,
Speaker 3: I would have liked to see her there last night.
Speaker 3: I don't know how often your partner performs at the Oscars,
Speaker 3: but it would have I would have gone. I would
Speaker 3: have all. I mean, I felt like it would have
Speaker 3: been cool to see her there last night. And I
Speaker 3: don't know why she wasn't.
Speaker 1: I know, I guess in the industry, I also see
Speaker 1: this as a work night, and you know, especially for Ryan,
Speaker 1: like you're not going to be hanging with him. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be, you know, so I guess I
Speaker 1: give her a little grace and I know that she's
Speaker 1: home watching the kids or whatever. So I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see it both ways, but it didn't bother me.
Speaker 1: I didn't think, oh, but yeah, thank you. By the way,
Speaker 1: if I ever perform at the Oscars, you'll be I'll
Speaker 1: be there, and vice versa.
Speaker 4: So you think Ryan Gosling won the night?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Ryan Gosling wins the night. Even though
Speaker 1: he didn't win an oscar. No he didn't, but I
Speaker 1: still think he won the night.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm going to say that Gosh, I
Speaker 3: think you know, I think movies won the night. I
Speaker 3: think that for the first time in a while, like
Speaker 3: I've said, yeah.
Speaker 2: The industry actually won.
Speaker 3: The movies were actually the memorable from the Night before Tonight.
Speaker 3: The last ten years, I can't really name that many
Speaker 3: of the Best Picture winners, but I will remember that
Speaker 3: you're Oppenheimer won and that Barbie was up for a lot,
Speaker 3: and I'll remember Barbenheimer, and I hope that next year
Speaker 3: the Oscars do the same.
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