181: 2026 Oscar Reactions

Ocean waves, ocean waves. Recorded immediately after the 98th Academy Awards, Alex and Nick absolutely lose their minds as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” wins six Oscars.

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Do PTA mom, my niece do a PTA one? Yes. Yes. The one time that they don't say yes. Yes. Oh, God. Thank God. Oh, thank God, it's a standing. Oh. Oh, man. I'm dizzy. Oh. I'm dizzy. Oh, there it is. What a great man. What a great day. Oh, thank God I'm dizzy. I am, I can't stand. Take a knee. All right. Let's do it. Make it happen. The Oscar goes to one. Whoa! Whoa! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh, my fucking thing. Oh, my drunken feet. Oh, yeah. It's fucking around in here. Wow. Oh! It started out that way. Oh, it's. Oh. Sorry. I got to read to do that. Oh, wow. Hey, everyone. Welcome to. What are you watching our ballots with? Throw in. I'm joined by my best medic toes to how you do it there, Paul Thomas Anderson. I've said it since day one. I've never gone back on my word. It's a like a baby. It's a like. Well, you kind of went back. Oh, I sure did. But goddamn, it doesn't matter. Oh my God, we're not even like two intoxicated series. I've had a few small beers. It's true. But I think it's time. I'm just. I'm, like, drunk with joy. Well, the 98th Annual Academy Awards just finished, and it was a great night. Was it ever one medal after another? Take six. Yeah. Screenplay. Supporting actor for a no show. Sean Penn casting. One of the biggest surprises of the night. I thought that was a sinner's luck. Yeah. Editing. We did not call for one bad. I knew it right when it happened. I was like, this is going to make sense. Said it. I didn't it didn't feel like F1 as we were leading up to it, didn't feel like I didn't feel like it. And then bang, bang with the director and picture, I'm just, I'm overjoyed. PTA won every award he was nominated for. He's a three time Oscar winner. I love it. He was like, wow, he really make a guy work for it. Oh my God is perfect. I mean, how are you feeling, man? Dude, I was telling you about halfway through the show, just in terms of an Oscar broadcast, like, let's forget about the wins. Let's forget about all of that. If you're just talking about the show, dude, I loved every second of this. Fantastic. The opening of Canaan with the weapons bit. They they win. That's when I looked at you and I was like, Amy Madigan. That's the way I was, like, it was so hard for weapon. And then just like. But it was so funny. It was, it was, it was good. Yeah. And then it launched into a speech that I thought was a really great Oscar opening speech, because it, it, it dug right into Timmy right away. Right away. It's six minutes in. And I had yeah, I time sent it and but all the jokes were good. Like there were no duds and weren't she loved. I loved as a whole, the political, statement that this Oscars made, people weren't holding back. No, they weren't, and you know what I mean? That's what we need. We honestly like it. I mean, it is an Oscar show. There's nothing that's going to change because of what people say. But it's like with the direct, with the director of the, the, short made or. No, not the best documentary feature. The nobody. Yeah. Mr.. No, but he's like, he can't be complicit. We have to actually say something. And for an entertainment event to have a I don't care what anyone says, I'm going to say this. Yeah. And I love that Conan was doing it. There were a lot of winners, presenters, things like that that were happening. Love that. The flow of the show was always great. Yeah, it's performances top to bottom as a show. Aziz. Yeah, no, no, it's three hours and 38 minutes total. That also includes commercials. So when you whack out the commercials like and it moved, you know, these these things, these things used to go for 4.5 hours, didn't we? You know, I'm not I don't even care about like how many we got right. How many we got wrong. We'll go through it. But wow. Just. Yeah. Overall general tenor of the night. Great. Great show. Love the show. Yeah I mean genuinely no notes I did. Yeah. People I mean, Javier Bardem when he, you know, he came out there when he was presenting, he just straight it. Yeah. He hit the political stuff and. Yeah. Jimmy Kimmel was do it. It's Jimmy Kimmel. He's so bad. He was adopted. It's just it was funny. It was great. Yeah. It was. It was a really great night. I don't have any, truly. No objections with who won or what movie won. No. I'm fine. It's kind of. It's kind of hard to have objections to these wins. When you look at the totality and the importance of what they were. Yeah. You like we of course, you know, you and I have our views of what, to what we thought and certain ways. But, you know, like. Okay, perfect. If you were here earlier, everyone on the live stream, I put out, like, a feeler to everyone who was there, by the way. Thank you. Yeah, the live stream was a lot of fun this year. Every one of our mad movie buffs that showed up to our live stream. It is the best part of being in a podcast where we can be together. It's awesome. I'm just going to go off in a little bit of a note right here of just being like, we've been doing this for a little bit over five years. So many of you have been with us for the majority of that time. Yeah. And your emails, your tweets, your messages, all of it. It really is like we have found a film community here. Is is little or small, but mighty as it might be. Yeah, it means the world to us. And so, so for anyone who might not know, I was torn on the cinematography category is the one where I was like, I don't know what to do. So on the live, I impulsively was like, all right, everyone, I'm going to go with the majority on this. Like what they say, what do we all think? And my heart was with train Dreams. Everyone was like, train dreams, train dreams. So I'm like, all right, it's let's do it. And it did not go to train dreams. It did go to autumn derailed aka aka for sinners. Yep. But you know what? You and I both agree. We don't really particularly care for the look of that movie. Yeah, but God damn it, man, that's an important win in a lot of ways. Absolutely. It was one for and I again, no, no qualms, no disagreements, no objections at all, including that one I did predict. You did predict that. You said that from the beginning. Yeah. But I mean it's a it's a huge historical win and it matters. Yeah. Matters that these winds are happening. Yeah. Absolutely. It was it. Yeah. It felt like an important night. But they weren't it wasn't like they weren't putting the self-importance on it. Everyone's still it doesn't feel like that at all. I did love how much they were cutting to to me in the beginning. And then they stopped at because they, they were hitting him a few times, like, you know, the one guy in the speech, the two people exchanging saliva, he made a joke about opera and ballet. It was it was just great. Yeah, it was great. All I'm going to say is from a from a, audience participant of watching the red carpet, from watching him on the show. He looked like he was having a miserable night. He looked absolutely miserable. I'm Tim Shalom looked miserable in that telecast like that. They were just going to keep making fun of him or whatever it was going to be. But yeah, he didn't look like he was having a good time, that it did. I mean, he did not. No, no. And whose fault is that? Yeah. All right. How do we do this? You want to start at the beginning. He's going to start at picture and go that way. Let's do that. No because all right let's start with oh because because then all of a sudden we're going to go down to visual effects. And and the visual effects is the most important word. No visual effects we got. Right. Avatar I mean that would. Yeah. Again been weird. Sigourney got a little emotional when she's reading did that I like that yeah. Sound did indeed go to everyone though. We were like I don't know. Best live action short. What what a crazy whoa. Yeah. Like doesn't happen. I do think you were like, does this ever happened? The biggest one was Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand splitting actress. That was a top. That was great. Yeah, that was I think 67. That was not. No, that. Yeah. That was for Barbara's first ever performance. So that's crazy. And then I believe it happened in 2012 because I think it was like sound effects editing. And one of them was Zero Dark 30. And then one of them was something else. I don't know, but I remember that happened. And I remember Mark Wahlberg open the envelope and he's like, it's a tie. I'm serious. But the, Camille like, handled it really well. I mean, if if he didn't know that was a tie, he handled it well. Like, okay, I'm going to read one and then take a break and then I'll come back and read another. It was it was cool though. This. I feel like he in, I feel like he was told, well, they shouldn't be the people. There's only supposed to be like two people who know this. The people who read who. But but he handled it too well to be like, I kind of agree. Or maybe there was a note in the envelope that said, like, do one and do the other. Or maybe someone handed it to him before he went out and was like, be ready. Or, you know, something like that, like for the winners, but like, listen, it's a tie. Do one than the other. Yeah. Maybe, maybe. I mean, he handled it well, but an extremely rare thing a tie, the singers and two people exchanging saliva. One that. And what is strange category for there to be a tie. Yeah. And I kind of dig it because, you know, these are the types the this is the type of award where a lot of people don't see these types of things. And I think any type of controversy like this, that, that it was a controversial thing, but it does bring up a whole entire thing where, oh, maybe I should actually check these out. There was a there was a tie. Yeah. Let's look at some short films. Yeah, two of them. One and I it really makes me want to watch two people exchanging saliva because we still haven't seen that. But I'm glad both. One. What a cool little thing. And I like Conan being like congratulations for ruining 22 million balance. Yeah. Totally true. Best short animated did go to the girl who cried Pearls. We both had that one winning, so we've gotten them all right so far. Best production design. Frankenstein came through. It did we are we did the three that it won. Thankfully it won those. Production design original song. I was getting a little nervous, I guess. Yeah, you I was, I was and then it did go to Golden. I mean, it felt like it just had to. When they said that Lou Gwynn was also nominated for the song, I was like, is he get away to it one night? Like, this is crazy because he had already won for original score. This is for third Oscar. Yeah, third Oscar and not that long. I mean, it's first one was in 2018. Like, that's not that long ago. That's. It's just crazy. Good for him. The man is becoming the new and I don't yeah. Hans Zimmer I don't know if he scored. I mean he had to have scored. Oh God. The Odyssey. So I mean. Oh, yeah. One can assume he'll be back. I'll be back for a fourth in a row. Back maybe. I don't know, I, so that was score. Best makeup and hair styling. Frankenstein came through. Love that. We got that. Yeah. Best international feature that did the right thing. Sending a belly. Great win. Got a standing ovation, but I switched. Yeah. You switch from the secret agent. This is the first one that we got wrong. Best film editing. We both had F1. It's mad. Well, there were two moments where you you you had I forgot which one it was, but you had a feeling like, right in it. I think it was. It was Sean Penn. It was the supporting actor. It was Sean Penn and editing. I was like, feeling one battle. Yeah, that's what I said during editing. I go, we're wrong. Yeah. It's not a film. Not this. Yeah. And I mean, God, what a great one. I did look him up. He was the sole editor on Licorice Pizza. Oh, so he did that one together. But. And then he's done like assistant editing on a lot before that Inherent Vice. Oh. So there was a graduation to becoming a you're my guy. Yes. Wow. Which is a great kind of gift. Like you've been here for a while. He was really young. Yeah, I oh, that that was a huge surprise. One that I was happy to get wrong because I had we both had F1 winning. Can you just imagine for a second what it would be like to be that age? And you start out as assistant editing and PETA's movies? Yeah. And then at a certain point he just says, all right, you're the guys you like. I trust you with my movie. Yep. I mean, and it wins an Oscar. Yeah. Wins an Oscar is second one with Peta. Like, just as the, you know, sole editor wins an Oscar. Big, big surprise for us. We were celebrating. Yeah. Oh, that was great. That big won best documentary short. I did call all the Empty Rooms. I kind of talked you over to that, you know. That made sense. Good speech too. Well, because they had one of the mothers that was there, which I did not expect. She said such an important thing, you know, like, that's what I love. The political statements of everything that was made in this particular show I championed so much, like, it's like this. It wasn't like too much. It wasn't heavy handed. It was just perfect. But it's like a bunch of different topics. You know, they just pointing out there's some broken shit here, man. And there is what it is. Yep, yep, another one we got wrong. And I don't think I could have predicted this best documentary feature went to Mr. Nobody against Putin. Another fantastic speech. But I had not seen that film. We both thought the perfect neighbor and Igor in the earlier. Yeah in the live. It's right. Yeah. For Mr.. Nobody gets Putin. But that speech was that speech was speech made me want to watch the movie. Oh my god. And boy. And he spoke so eloquently to exactly what's happened. Exactly, exactly man. Best costumes I, I liked her speech too, but Frankenstein, came through with those three. It really did better. Oh, why don't you take this next one? Best cinematography? Yeah, I, I, I really did not expect this win. But, when it was happening, I was realizing I'm like, this is it's important. It's important. It is this, like, the needle needs to be moving in order. Like so much of the show, I love what they were talking about with, like, these international like, these are all artists and it takes thousands of people to be making trying to make something beautiful. And it needs to be an open door of all of this. So to award this not only the first woman to ever win cinematography, but the, a minority in of color, person of color to win, that is a huge deal. So I, I love the win for this reason, even though you and I both feel how we feel about the look of that movie. Not our favorite. And again, and what are we talking about? Art and politics. This or that. At the end of the day, what's going to move the needle forward in the best possible way? This is a great win. I'm not mad at any win this evening for shooting this one. I thought you gave a good speech. It felt like there was a lot of, you know, weight on her to like, you know, for that moment, it's a big deal. Yeah. So you know that's great. Yep. Standing huge. Yep. A long one. Long one. This is probably my biggest surprise of the night because since this award was announced, best casting I've said this is a walk off win for sinners. One battle took it and I was absolute. I'm still stunned. I just, I, I thought it was going to be sinners. I don't really know what else to say. And I was just overjoyed. Like God got it wrong. And I'm so happy that I got it wrong. The only thing that I kind of had any type of knowledge about with this was I went to a Q and A, a very, very, big Q and A at one battle after another, a month before it hits theaters had the whole entire cast, and it had Cassandra. Hulu. Candice. Tough one. Tough one. Yeah. Sorry, Cassandra, you're an Oscar winner. But her explaining the casting process for this movie, particularly when it comes to Chase Infinity's character. This had been years in the making and hearing how much she worked with non-actors for this movie, how much she casted, worked with Chase. These like, like, scenes were being, with Leo and PTA before she was even told she had the job. Yeah. So hearing just the story of this particular movie was what I was privy to. And I got to say, like, I mean, years of work into it, but how do you really start this award off? Right? You know, like, what do we what do we doing? So from just the experience, I had heard from her particular perspective of casting this movie, I deem it award worthy. But absolutely, you could say the same thing about every single one of these. But giant shocker, giant shock. That was we were like, whoa, okay. And then that made me I, I still, up until the end, said centers was going to take picture like I felt it. The pops in the crowd where the pops are the biggest for that. Oh my god, yeah, yeah. Anime feature K-pop demon hunters as predicted. Yep. I mean, yeah, we both got that one right. We both got supporting actress wrong. We said Teyana Taylor, it went to Amy Madigan and that was the first award of the night. And but with that, weapons intro I just went at it feels like it's got to be Madigan. Right? Like the whole intro was dedicated to Gladys, you know, and I'm again not mad at the win at all. Well, no. Yeah, well, good fun speech too. She was, you know, she always kind of goes off a little bit just by shaving her legs. Yeah, yeah, but it was funny. It was real, you know, even, like, thinking about the performance itself. She, it's so, she's so good. It's by moving in far the best thing in the movie. Like it's the reason to like go back to it. And I think that's the thing that people are talking about most. She's fantastic in it. When you look at the characterizations that both won tonight, we're about to get to oh, we're kind of skipping a little bit. But Sean Penn and Amy Madigan really did, in their characterizations of their work, really create something wildly like, how do you take what's on that page on the script and what both those particular actors did and were awarded for tonight? Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Like they have big choices that worked. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot with the makeup behind Amy Madigan, but even still like but she's like leaning into that, you know. Yeah. Good. So worked I still knew it was Amy Madigan behind the makeup. And it's still really really work. Yeah. We'll go to supporting actor Sean Penn one. We both thought Stellan would win. What a great win. And of course not. There I mean I love Kieran Culkin. He what can't be here to accept the award or he just didn't want to be. Yeah it's I can't believe he would I I'm very very glad that he won this award because I, outside of Rose Byrne, I when I saw Sean Penn, one battle after another, I go, this is an acting masterclass. Yeah. It it's like really is there every second he is on camera? It is such a specific, specific person that he is be becoming down to the physicality, the vocals like everything. And I can only imagine what each take must have been like. Oh yeah, like it's a different exploration of all of it. So well deserved to win, well deserved win. Glad, glad, glad we were wrong I yeah, that's another one. No, no disrespect to Stalin who was also an amazing performance. Yeah, truly great performance. I'm going to jump to the screen plays before and then we'll do the big four as the show did. When did out there screenplays we got right best Original Sinners. Fine. Good good good speech. I really liked his speech. Yeah. And then yeah, Peta did indeed win for adapted. That was his first award in Golden. Wow. I was happy. Yes you did I was nervous, I was no, you were, you were. You were more nervous at the beginning of that, of where I think, than any other award of the night. I kind of eased I kind of calmed down after Peta had won and I'm like, okay, okay, that's good, that's good. We'll start. We'll we'll go how? Well, we'll just do. Actress. That was a gimme. We knew it was going to be Jessie Buckley. It was Jessie Buckley, it was Jessie Buckley. And by far, you know, it's something when you know, you have an actor that wins every single award for this. Yeah. And, when you kind of track, like, it must be something. I mean, what a great thing to have where you have to kind of, like, track your speeches win by win. Yeah. Because you don't want to say the same stuff exactly. Like, it's it's a weird thing that you have to think about if you're in this position. Yeah. And this was my favorite speech he give. She gave the whole entire run. Same here the whole entire award season. Yeah I agree. And like I've always said, I, I've gone on record. I'm not a fan of this movie. None of that has to do with the acting across all boards. And I do think that she really delivered something really powerful with this. So all good things of Jessie Buckley. Yeah, yeah. Fair win. Very well predicted best actor I did, and you did at the end. We both predicted Michael B Jordan to win. Yep, he did indeed win. I liked his speech. I, he seemed stunned and I'm. Yeah again. No no no to it. Oddly, it really never felt like Leo and Ethan Hawke were in the voting for this, which is just so weird to me. And they went with Michael B Jordan over his probably main competition. And I agree, you know, the one thing that I really loved, I mean, he he just seems like the best guy. Yeah, he seems like a really cool dude. And in every interview, like I saw him on the, the actors on actors with the variety with him and Jesse Plemons. Yeah. And they talked about, like, Friday Night Lights. Yeah, yeah. Like that's where they got some of their starts and, just, you know, listening to the way that they view their own humility and the love that he got from winning this award. Yeah. It's beautiful thing to see. And also that speech where he was recognizing, you know, all of the fellow African-American actors, the so few such a short list that long. I mean, yes, a very, very short list. Yeah. And now that he's a part of that, and I loved what he said about he's like, you are all kind of putting faith in me. And I'm going to, I'm going to make you proud. Yeah I mean keep doing this. And so that, that was really, really great. Not there was no one else that was going to win that one. Yeah. It really felt like it was him. I was saying that kind of all night, all through the telecast. Like, I really think he's going to take this my favorite award of the night, best director. Paul, this is your favorite award win best direct. Yeah, that was the only one. That was the one I cared about. That best director was the main one. I cared about it, I love it. PTA has an Oscar for his writing and an Oscar for his directing, and an Oscar for his producing for Best Director. Just great. Oh, man, I was so happy, that was great, PTA baby. And then Best Picture, we both had centers winning. Honestly. Shocked. Yeah, I'm still shocked. I really thought because if sinners would have won, then one battle and centers would have split it. They each had five, but now one battle has six and centers has four. And I am happy. One battle. I think that is this is crazy. This is the third year in a row that my favorite movie of the year has won Best Picture. Yeah, that had never happened before. Oppenheimer. What a just what a crazy, crazy thing. And yeah, I'm glad that, centers was not ignored. I mean, it won big awards like original screenplay and actor huge awards. And I'm glad Frankenstein took what we thought it was going to take. Yeah, great. I mean, sentimental value. Got one weapons. Got the one that was nominated for Hamnet. Just got one. All good, all good. It was a well, yeah, it was a well dispersed. Yeah. They spread the love a little bit. And this, this is honestly one of those examples of where they really did spread the wealth. Yeah. All over. But I mean, really one battle did take, one battle took all of the ingredients. Why I really thought towards the end centers was going to take Best Picture because of just the, the, the humongous ness of it. I mean, it's huge because what you did find throughout the show was that it took the writing, it took the editing, it took the directing. Now, one could argue that if you've got the best written movie, you're awarding it for the best edited movie and the best director. Will you cast it? Oh yeah. Yeah, the best casting that you have made. The best picture. Sure. But then you give that award to what Sina's meant to so many people. Yeah, that's why I'm still kind of shocked, because to everybody else, you can look back and like, all right, well, there is the best well-made movie of the year and one battle after another, but that Oscar for Best Picture goes to, this. But that didn't happen. Didn't happen. Everyone took it all. I really thought they were going to split it, and they didn't. They got Best picture correct in my opinion. I do think one battle is by long and far the best film of the year. And this was I'm, you know, I am very happy I got 18 correct, which means you got 17 because you did not take my advice to go with centers winning cinematography. But hey, like I mean good great night again. It was just a it was a great show there. Hopefully they replay it here. Watch some of it. Conan did great color on the screen. The In Memoriam was really good. You know the oh man, it was really intense and sad, but very well done. The one thing that I really hope is, because they I, because I can't. Yeah. Because I can't remember when Gene Hackman was that must have been last year where they like. And then. Yeah, he died like I it was I remember doing like a kind of a remembering Gene Hackman pod right after the Oscars last year. So I don't know if they included him in last year's telecast, if it's one of those things. And then there there was a big omission there. And so the only thing I can really hope is that it it was all kind of put together to a point where they're going to include this next year. James Van James Vanderbilt. Yeah. I just, I know it sounds so silly, but, like, I was a Dawson's Creek kid. Yeah, I grew up watching that show, Varsity Blues. Sure. When I saw Rules of Attraction. Oh, yeah, I was like, dude, this guy is great. And then I was a big fan of Don't Trust the B and apartment 23, which was honestly a any I don't. I've never met a single person that has seen that show that does not agree that that show was funny as fuck, and it just didn't get enough viewership. It lasted two seasons, but it was a really, really good network comedy. It it needed a better audience. But then, like his, music video of blow with Kesha. Yeah. Where he's playing himself. He was always so good at playing the idea of James. Yeah, he was Jay and Silent Bob straight. Yeah. Yep. So I have a very, very warm spot in my heart for James Vanderbeek and I. I can only say that I really hope that this In Memoriam G gets next year, because it's like you have to he he's meant too much to kind of, our world of of movies. Yeah yeah yeah. That was the surprise. Hopefully. Yes. Again maybe they include him next year, but really, all told, just a great night. A lot of fun to watch. One battle take six. No complaints. What else. What do we miss. And the other thing you want to I mean, it was covered like most of my notes, honestly. I mean, honestly, no. Like, I, this what I would say this, I would say without maybe a couple of, like, conversations you and I had. This was my best showing in the Oscar ballot. You and I together. Yep. Outside of that, same as everyone that united front that we had about this really did come organically. It did. Like, I didn't try had all these ideas myself and what we were both wrong about, we were both wrong about. Except cinematography. Yeah. Yeah. I mean picture got wrong casting got wrong editing, supporting actor. So we still with it. Like there was no other like win. I could have had exactly. Yeah, yeah. And, I guess that means mad movie buffs. The, numbers that we had for Train Dreams were enough to beat the one and great Alex Withrow for his Oscar. Sorry. Prediction masterclass. I would have loved if it won, but I just thought it was a little too small. But it was great that it was represented. I'm glad he got nominated, you know? Well, he was winning a lot of awards along the way. I know, I know, but this is the big show, you know, like I think they made I mean, Cintas is a choice. A lot of people like the way it look and giving it to autumn is, you know, that's a big that's a big event. So that's the best part. I'm not mad at it at all. Well, so ends the VW fiscal year. That's right baby, we're going to do one battle commentary. Oh yeah. Best picture winner. One battle. That's going to be fun. Oh, my God, I just feel great. I feel this is so much fun. So this will mark our third PTA commentary. Well, we did Licorice Pizza. We're done. There will be blood and there will be blood. Yeah. So this will be our most our director that we have. We have an entire PTA episode of all of his movies we've ran through as a director's filmography. But we have done individual commentaries and what will now be three of those and a deep dive on Phantom Thread. So. And a deep dive on band with Mickey. Yeah, yeah, we love PTA. It was a PTA block. That's what you said? Yeah. The beginning. Yeah. Oh, man, what a great I'm good man, I feel great. This was. Thanks so much for everyone who's been along on this ride with us. This has been, you know, a lot was up in the air when the show started, and everything just kind of fell into place in a way that makes sense, and that I hope a lot of people are happy. If sinners was your favorite movie, it won some big awards. Michael B Jordan is a huge win and for us, one battle fans, what a great night. One battle take six. Frankenstein. Thank you for winning three. Yay! Seriously. All right, well, I don't, you know, stay tuned for the one battle commentary. We'll be very pleased and very happy to give that to you. There's going to be a lot of laughing during it. But yeah, I hope everyone enjoyed watching the Academy Awards. We obviously had a very fun night. Let us know what you thought of the show on socials at white W underscore podcast. But as always, thank you so much for listening and happy. Thank yeah you all you. It's so good. So much for listening and happy watching. I'm, just so excited. I'm a fool to do your dirty work. Oh yeah. I don't wanna do your dirty work no more. I'm a fool to do your dirty work. Hey, everyone. Thanks again for listening. Send us mailbag questions at. What are you Watching podcast at gmail.com or find us on Twitter, Instagram and Letterboxd at w w underscore podcast. As if my weekend cannot get any better, how about a little story time? Just real quick. Little bit. So I flew back yesterday on Tuesday from LA to Virginia. And I'm just I mean, I've still felt like walking on cloud nine. I feel great. What a great Oscar night. And I get on the plane. I'm getting situated, you know, putting the bags up and everything, and pretty much any time I've ever seen a celebrity in real life, there's. It's like that weird thing. It takes my brain, like a few beats to catch up and go, oh, no, that's. Oh, is it that person? Oh, no. It it's that person. Whoa. That's weird. So I see a woman board the plane very shortly after me, and I'm like thinking, no, that's not. And we lock eyes and she smiles at me like, you know, you do just that, your fellow plane passengers. And as soon as I hear her voice and she goes, hi, I'm like, oh my God, that's this is basic. Like, where are the glasses? You know, she look like she's basic. It sounded like this is basic. And without even really thinking, I mean, she had a bag to put in the overhead compartment and I just went to help her. I always offer to help people. So I did that, and she's just really sweet and like how there is still chivalry in the world. And I'm like, whoa. She puts her hand on my shoulder. I was like, what the hell this is? This is basic. It's you sitting like, really close to me. So, you know, we're sitting pretty close. I notice that she is alone in her row. And then I start thinking, I'm like, wait a minute, who is this is married to? That's right. The amazing production designer Jack Fisk, who was indeed nominated for an Academy Award this year. And as I'm working this out in my head, here comes Jack Fisk called to the plane carrying some food. I'm like, oh, oh. So, you know, I just like, talk to him a little bit throughout the flight. I didn't want to be annoying or anything, but if I feel the opportunity is right when you encounter people like this, I always just thank them. I never ask them for anything. No autographs? No. Forget about a picture. None of that. No. Listen to my pod. Nothing like that. I was just talking to them, and, they were extremely flattered about all the facts I was spitting, and and they just kept saying, like, how do you have our careers memorized? And I'm like, you don't understand. Like, this is my is art was my entire life. So that was it. It was just it was a what a crazy, unique, weird experience that after yet another great Oscars, I'm ready to fly back and mind my business. And I'm sitting next to, just Hollywood royalty. Hollywood royalty who, I believe still live in Virginia. Just it was a great, great end of the weekend. I hope everyone had a great time watching the show. Next time on what are you watching? It will be the one battle after another. Commentary. We already recorded it. It went great. That's the third year in a row we're doing a commentary for the Best Picture winner, so stay tuned for that. Thanks again so much for listening and happy watching. Oh yeah, I don't want to do your dirty work no more. I'm a fool to do your dirty work. Oh yeah. I don't want.