The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

Live from a windowless studio in Brooklyn, New York.

It's the 11th annual blankies. [MUSIC] All the stars are out tonight.

“Oh, is that Ella McKay's deadbeat pizza husband?”

I see on the red card phone. Okay, actually cheese and you're Hawaiian, Hawaiian. Just entering the red carpet, it's balls from is this thing on. Oh, looks like he spilled a gallon of milk. It's been a lot from you to carry around.

Gradually wishes she could be here with us tonight. However, she's at Gettysburg watching a civil war re-enactment.

But I'm going to have you find this man.

The paparazzi is loving our latest arrival on the red carpet. It's meringue wearing a stunning ash dress. I am the fire! Oh, my goodness. Samson, the alpha from 28 years later, just arrived with his date.

His giant penis.

“Oh, my god, it's even bigger than I thought.”

And now you're host for this evening, song and dance, man. Griffin Newman. Waaah, wonderful night for blankies. Blankies, blankies, who will win?

And possible nominees based on mostly just the things

that have been nominated ever or else, particularly Oscar, who knows where we're going to swing their taste. That for you. When you were young and your wife still had her hawk, you used to say, let him net live.

You know you did, you know you did, you know you did. But if this ever growing plague would make you some sick, that plague might make your wife cry. So let him net die. Oh, boom, boom, I had some pitch problems on that one.

And you sure, I was just, you know, it's a lot of buildup. And I was finding my way into it. That's all. He is the creature. He's got good features.

He is hot hot hot hot. Oh, Frankenstein Frankenstein. Frankenstein. But now we hate some 'cause he's hot hot hot hot. Thank you.

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♪ Doing circus tricks on globe trotter toys ♪ ♪ Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't ♪ ♪ You're absolutely sure that kids not yours ♪ ♪ Don't, don't, don't, don't ♪ ♪ You gotta fight ♪

♪ Man, man ♪ ♪ For you're right ♪ ♪ Man, man ♪

“- It's a dream. - Yeah, honestly, you didn't even need it.”

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♪ Because for good sucked ♪ ♪ Wicked for good sucked ♪ ♪ They nominate F1 ♪ - F1 made it. I was wondering. - I was wondering if F1 was gonna make it.

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I can't be exposed to the sun, I'm a smoker, I'm a stacker, I'm a neck blood snacker, I'm eating pussy in the club, that's all true, it's actually correct. Damn, scar's guard, why won't you come to your senses, you've been so damn pretentious to your daughters so long, not a project, L fanning says she's attached, but your, I, I ran out of lyrics on that one, whatever, secret, agent film, secret, agent film,

Bloomone Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode Abode The true blue moon, he will die Abode Abode Abode Abode, the whole, I feel like he's running low, he's performing these in the order that he wrote them down wrong, wrong, wrong, and you can feel the kind of, it's like the train is starting to slow down. Well, I guess you guys are forcing me off the stage and I can't perform the one battle after another song, I definitely crash. I don't really know, we need to hear it.

I know, we just have to know that I definitely had one, it was in, it was locked, and now he's putting it me out.

There weren't ten different drafts to win, one is the loneliest battle, never yet.

We tried a lot of things, I got to think the war room, the self-dolled war room, the war Frank Tigerwiger. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the jingle, the journey, the journey, the midnight. Turning out, turning out jingles, the good slay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had one battle or another, like one way or another, that was just one, doing one jump ahead from Aladdin. It was, it was tough, every, every one of these, I hit a wall after like two lines. One jump ahead would have been a little like really delving inward to the like the real real heads are going to get this and totally.

But you know, they can't all be done, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, go on you.

“That's spent that entire setup being like, where is this going?”

Penai, I couldn't quite, that's the juice. Yeah. Penai, yeah. You know, F1 is not my rest picture. It is. It was your list. Yeah. It was the 14th highest grossing domestic release. I've made my list. It made them mad.

I just don't say, I mean, it's not made them mad. It's just hitting the top. So sinners made more money than it. Yeah, yeah. So like if you're, you know, if you're ringing your hands over like, oh, we needed a blockbuster that's like, well, well, sinners. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm not mad. I'm just saying, I was just sort of looking being like, was there another blockbuster they could have nominated? What were the, what were the final totals on them?

A sinners and a 1st F1. It's domestic. It's not worldwide.

No, I know. But worldwide did F1 beat sinners. Oh, I think definitely. Yeah. Yeah. That was my influence. Oh, yeah. I mean, that was the rationale. F1, like, 633 worldwide. The international unit is made free 69.

Yeah. But domestic sinners is 279 to F1's 189. That's all. Yeah. I just, you know, they couldn't have nominated super in. I don't know, they are avatar. There's not really a lot else. There's not really, particularly when the juice for both avatar and wicked kind of ran out at the same thing.

That was the real thing. It did feel like a lot of people were mentally holding a slot. Yes. Or one, if not both. Yeah. And then when wicked falter, they were like, well, obviously the slot is avatars.

Yeah, a little bit. I remember, because I covered both things, giving it was like, it'll be avatars. And then post criticism is like, I hear a car rumbly.

“Yeah. Yeah. Also, a bunch of male married Oscar voters were at their ballots, right?”

Licking the quill, as they do in quill, right?

Right. About to write in avatar, fire and act. And then they hear the old battle acts wife with a rolling pin. As she does. Ah, yeah. Better not to be voting for the voting.

Don't you vote for the voting. I'm sorry. You thought to be sorry. Oscar voters are married to Italian nonons. There's a rolling pin.

That's all the cast members from the known as. I am. So you're such a man to vote for the vote. Wait, no wonder they're all like having a fairs or whatever. Like if the wife at home is like Strega, no, no.

Like I can. And that's been good. I work all day mixing the sound. I work my favorite street in the world. I do the ring.

I want to vote that a friend. Okay. Uh, welcome to our 2020 25. Like he's episode. That's right.

Oh, Frank checks. This is the 2026 ceremony for the films of 2025. That's right. Which makes this the 11th. The 11th.

Is that right? Yeah. Okay. So I erroneously texted you if you several weeks ago and thought this would be the 10th. But the last.

Last year was.

“That's the 2015 movie year was the first one I remember.”

Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the 11th. Yeah.

Oh, blankies. Who are you? I'm Griffin. I'm David Sims. And who's that?

It's Joe Reed. Okay. Reading range. The only person in my life who calls me that is Griffin Newman and I look forward to it. Just only once a year.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not a time. Yeah. But mostly in the ramp up or the wind.

One year. Yeah. Now the rebooting reading rainbow. Have you heard this? With whom?

Uh, someone called Michael Threats. Oh, of course. A great Michael Threats. 24 episode pickup. Where?

PBS. Okay. Well, that's good. I like that part of it. Yeah.

Paramount Plus. Reading your like Barry Weiss's book. Yeah. What do you want for me? Oh, brother.

Producer Ben is here. Wow.

“I gifted him today a vintage McFarlane toys.”

Okay.

A T-dog Mac violator action figure from the first series of spawn toys.

And he has wrapped it around his mic arm. And he's looking at it so lovingly. So we're almost feeling a little empty. I'm glad that there was some sort of put something. Personality brought in the space.

Yeah. Yeah. There's just nothing to do with the little something. Yeah. Yeah.

Colorful or sort of eye popping in our arms. Perhaps a church key. To absorb the sound. Yeah. Consider a church key once in a while.

Yeah. It's all sound absorption. I've got my baby Joe. You got your baby Joe. Oh, nice.

But it's greatly appreciated. Of course. Any time, buddy. I'm apparently staring at a photo of Austin Powers suspended in the United States.

Yeah. That maybe doesn't have to be there. I don't think for your guests to. Yeah. It doesn't seem a little aggro.

Maybe for the guests. Of course, when we cover the Austin Powers trilogy on Patreon, Murray Barty, Selena, aka woman, would not stop talking about how cut, quote. Oh, I remember that.

You have never let this go.

That was quite the opinion that was advanced. Yes. You really, it really got to you. So that lives on that desk for when Murray's joining us as fourth chair of mine. Sure, sure.

Sure. Also on the fact that there's some notes written that I think we're rat-lift, trying to jot some things down during a lady's episode. Connor, Andrew. Yeah.

All right. Let's see. Here's the thing I like about the blankies and the movies. Okay. We were just doing the count of like this is year 11, right?

We, we start off the blankies. The award ceremony as a franchise in our second year, but our first year as blank check. Right. We were like, where we were like three months into being blank check, right?

And we're all ready. We're like, you know what we should do?

“I do vaguely remember that being the vibe where we were just kind of like,”

let's just do like an Oscary episode. But also let's plan to our flag. This is what yeah. This is who we are now, but it made me realize. Last year we were all like fucking celebrating the decade of dreams.

Everyone was running down the streets, blowing like booze velos, and shouting about the decade of dreams. They were definitely doing that. But from a certain point of view, this year is when we celebrate the decade of blank check.

Because last year was celebrating nine years of blank check and one year of Griffin and David present. That's a good. Okay. So you are going to try to bring this.

Decades of dreams. It hit me the other day. Into a second. Like we're sort of like doing the faded, sad, like a sequel to the decade of dreams.

Right. It's a more honest decade of dreams. This is actually dimension returns. It's better. And then next year you'll be like,

And really, you don't start. Yeah. It's counting. The reference did begin until 2001. Yeah.

That's true. Real. Yeah. You weren't kidding about chicken scratches. I'm getting spark, perhaps.

Two words that look like bacon melts, but they can't possibly be bacon melt. And then burn before reading. Is that thing that I can do that? That sounds like I could bet that he didn't get to do.

Yeah. Yes. These were notes. Oh, I see.

“Is this IP that I've just to post into the universe?”

Yeah. What I'm talking about having it on the guest desk is first we get to do a little Kinsey test of how you feel about Mike Meyers and his cut boy. Yeah. That's fair.

And then you can see how far you can get trying to decipher Connor Ratliffe's handwriting. Right. Sure. This is the blanky words that we pick our winners.

You know, you're right.

I never thought about it that we just kind of did it.

Six episodes into our M-Night Shaman series or whatever. Just being like this is the thing we want to do. I don't remember the brief. There was no. We were basically like, let's do a words episode.

Yeah. Do you want to do it? And you were like, yes, sure. And then like, you know, day before it was like, what is it? By the way, we were just like, I don't know.

You're Oscar ballad. Yeah. I mean, it was not like we were like, all right. We didn't have a planning session. All right.

Super prepared. Like, wait. You're seeing that. It wasn't organized. It was also recorded in the hottest little closet.

Well, we're fun. Well, we're fun. I'm not going to deny it. I'm not going to deny it. And now look at us.

Now look at us. A larger window is room. Yes. But like, feelings that are, you know, that are higher. Why did I feel confident just being like, we shouldn't award

up. So let's ask Joe and do no further planning. Because I fucking know that all three of us. Yes. Keep nerd spreadsheet. It was not going to be a lot of work for us.

The work's done. Somebody asked me that the other day. Like, how do you prepare for the blankies? And I'm like, well, I keep lists throughout the year. Right.

Like, this is not like, I have to like, cram session. Yeah. The episode before it is signs. We barely started the show. Yes, series.

Yeah. It was four episodes deep. That's amazing.

So we fucking do it. Yeah, we nailed it.

I mean, do you know what?

Honestly, yes. You know what?

“What was our consensus pick for best actor that year?”

Michael, be doing for three. Yeah. Yeah. Is that come around again? Only time we've all lined up on an acting.

I don't have those kind of situations. I'm leaning towards no, but like, I imagine it's maybe happened once or twice. There's a wiki out there that that's. Yes.

There is. I know there's been a couple, like, two out of three. Yeah. Both you guys picked Jennifer Lopez for hustlers. I picked Florence Lebron.

James Buckett's period. What's she up to? She did Thunderbolts. I tend to consult that wiki a lot for my own picks. Because as I often on the fly go a different way in the moment.

And so I'm like, what? What? We're did the wind breeze me to that day. It's an interesting thing. Now that we're doing this for the 11th time.

Uh-huh.

Do you guys find yourself at all getting into the psychological game of?

Well, I snubbed that person of the wind. Oh, I do that. In 20. Of course. Like when these were private spreadsheets for myself,

I didn't worry about such things and now I'm like, I know.

“Do I owe this person or would it look shitty if I gave them a second award?”

I'm like, I privately do that. I privately. I'm like, well, I gave Leo his. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You bid for Wolf Wall Street. Like I do that to myself all the time. I made a switch to one of my lists this morning. And I literally had the thought of like,

they're going to be so disappointed that they should have this. Yeah, right. That was my novel. They'll be sad to have missed out. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, pews in that MCU. Quack my right now. I need her to do some more stuff. Yeah.

And I know she did a lot. And maybe worried about doing too much. What else is going on? I mean, next year she's in Avengers Doomsday. And she's doing three.

Yeah. And she seems to be one of those people who like. They have plans for that character seemingly because a lot of people are bringing back for that or being brought back allegedly. But like some of the breaks on be based points.

Well, okay. Yeah. Because I don't know for many of the points. I think they have a clear plan. But it does.

Sirens going off everywhere. And they're like. Hold on to that fucking legitimate movie star. Yeah. We have on a five-mixer contract.

But like life depends. The day of the chairs, right? You could tell like a good two thirds of those chairs are like coming back so that they can get kind of brushed off into the sun. Mostly.

Yeah. Yes, they're not. Ian McCellan is not going to do four McDonald's. Right. Right.

He is so funny. The McCellan went unco-bearable. I think I destroyed New Jersey. And I was like, is that a spoiler? And he was like, oh, I don't know.

I guess so. Just destroys New Jersey. I saw I got. That looks like a bad sub or something. And he just fucking.

Sorry, Ben. All these guys. Yeah. Over 70. If you put them in a Marvel movie, they spill everything.

Yeah. Well, like I've been spilling tea on big franchises since the Lord of the Rings. And he's like out of everybody in the Hobbit movie. Yes. Who do you have?

Um, uh, right. No. What's his name? No, but also the main Richard Arnold Richard Arnold. Richard Arnold.

Richard Arnold. Yeah.

“I don't think he said anybody by name, but I think he was just like, oh, everybody in that cast.”

It's gay. It is my look. I said this already, but like, I think it's why he's mad about him. Oh, I didn't know he was mad about him. Well, he threw some shade at him recently.

I can't remember where. He was like, I'm not. Oh, because it's a dress Shakespeare being gay.

He was basically like, I don't think it's very interesting to try and assign, you know,

this wonderful, his works, which are so important and interesting. This kind of like simple emotional story. That's interesting. And like, that was a perfectly valid point for him to make and he made it well. But to me, there isn't an encounter with the Kellons else.

Like, who cares about Shakespeare's wife. Shakespeare was, you know, he was not getting stuck all around. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I don't know if he actually feels that way.

Yeah. And he put words in him. McKellen's mouth. Getting dick all over London is the title of the spin-off movie. He was getting dick all over Britain.

Yeah. They were traveling. The Northlands, I imagine. We're just teaming with, uh, I don't know. Kelsey granted some interview where he was just like, uh, they were like, I'm sure you can't

say anything about, uh, Doomsday. And he was like, oh, right. Oh, I'm telling you that. A great time filming with Pedro Pascal. And like you just listed all the actors.

He had been in season so then people were making the grade of being like, right. So they're going to go into the pocket X men universe. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

And then I saw him on some other show where they were like, now I know you've got in trouble before for, like, admitting it because yes, I shouldn't have said I'd worked with Pedro. I shouldn't have said that. I choked the life out of the human George.

Right. See. Oh, you know what? This was some conservative show because they were specifically saying like, what was Kelsey gravity.

So grand as disaster. And I can exclusively reel the Doctor Doom fucks invisible woman. Sorry. He was like, uh, just imagining. Whatever conservative fuck was like, you said you had worked with Pedro Pascal.

What was it like sharing a set with him?

Oh, sure. How do you go? Pedro, I loved him. He's a terrific guy. You know what's interesting?

We only really had one real conversation. And it was him saying that he thought me too was a failure. Okay. And I was like, this feels like, I love it in your conception of Kelsey grammar that he's just sam the eagle.

I also love the idea of someone being like, Hey, Kelsey was a tough for you working with a left wing guy. I'm like, he's Kelsey. He was like, so fragile. Right.

Right. I think he's encountered a liberal. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

You weren't able to hide there. Yeah.

“I think he's figured out how to navigate that.”

It is life. Yeah. People act like he just like only does red to movies. Right. Right.

Right. No. He's like the old school Hollywood conservative. Right. Yeah.

He's like, look, I want my taxes lower in my cigars. Yeah. She for whatever. Here's pun years of him in bow direct. Just going to the RNC every year and being like, we got two of them.

Right. Exactly. All right, guys. We're going to do the point. He's going to do the point.

All right. We're going to do the point. We've got to do the point. Yeah. Let's do our, so what we're doing here on the blank.

Check a word.

Just for, for new listeners who this is their first episode.

I'm sure that's going really well for them. Is we, we say are essentially our Oscar ballots for the big categories. Yeah, that's what we do. Yeah, that's what we do here. Yeah.

Yeah. What kind of greatest is you all want to start with? Because I don't really care. I'm up for anything. We're traditionalists.

“I feel like we usually start with one of the superiors.”

We always do. Right. Is there a, do you, we could start first. Green plays if you wanted to get really? No.

I want to start with his supporting. Okay. Okay. Categories that are fairly wide open of the Oscars this year. They are.

Interesting. Sort of a fun twist. Yeah. I'm going to say this is an anti disclaimer disclaimer. Okay.

Anti disclaimer. This is the year that I finally just gone like it has become prohibitive to shadow ban movies made by people who have been on the show. Yeah. Oh. Well, because we're getting too far.

Yeah. So you're saying true. Humbercracker. You're, you're in. Near to cost.

I'm trying to think like who made movies this year. Are you sure? Are you? Yeah. You know, welcome in, buddy.

You're in the ballots. Yeah. Two movies. One of what I'm doing. Easy fucker.

You're in it. Easy mother fucker.

“Uh, but I was like we had some of it last year with, uh, I saw the TV glow, which was one of my favorite movies and we had Jane on the show.”

And it always been this thing of like, well, there's high level working people we've had on the show who I wouldn't really say I'm like friends with.

But to the listener doesn't seem like there's the same level of familiarity and is there implied by it. So even we're still trying yourself up. I went into the other thing of, is it more fair to just put all of them to the side so that I can't offend anyone by snubbing them. Yeah. But now it's just impossible.

Well, now there's enough of them. We're now they sort of like battle it out in this imaginary ballad. I, last year I did not nominate the film that I made Amelia parents. Of course I didn't want. I, I made them.

That's, that's like every part. Yeah. I wrote all the songs. Yes. You did all the, you did all the, you did it.

Yeah. You did all the tweets you did all the interviews after the fact. But also you didn't give you worse yourself because you were so tired of winning. You were winning so much. This year, um, my best friend Cynthia Reevo.

I decided to not include her because we are best friends. Sure. And I also can't actually attend our ceremony if we do one because I will be doing like 27 parts in one man Dracula. Perfect. And that's, I heard that was the same thing the Oscar said.

Yes. That they wouldn't allow me to look at for good and every kind of thing. But they're, but they're best friends with her. So they couldn't do it. Right.

The statue is her best friend. They hold her one finger supporting actor. Best supporting actor. Okay. Great.

So Griffin. Your supporting actress winner last year presenting this award. Okay. Was Renata Rhinseva. Yeah.

For a different man. Yeah. That's a good choice. And mine, both of ours, was Michelle Austin for her truth. So she's back too.

She's back too. So yeah. Griffin, whatever. You know, you're supporting actors. I look.

I tried not to overthink these this year. It was what came to me.

And I'll be doing some last second cuts in the category is where I have six people

jot it down mostly to see who's not being covered by you guys. Got it. But supporting actor. I had a pretty clean five. But he's your del Toro.

And a picture called one battle after another. And boy, if you heard the song I wrote for that. Yeah. You'd still be the last thing. You'd still be the last thing.

You'd still be the last thing. You'd still be the last thing. Big strong guys. Yeah. Tears in their eyes.

Michael Sarah the Phoenician scheme. Del Rey Lindo and sinners. A performance. I am pleasantly surprised to be aligned with the Oscars on. Yeah.

It was one of one of my punch the air moment. Yeah. Absolutely absolutely. Rave finds in 28 years later. Yeah.

He's there. And Billy Crudup in Jay Kelly. Nice. Very good.

Everything I know. A couple scenes. But one big scene. Yeah.

I would say I might put an additional title on this.

Is this the thermostat performance of the year? A little bit. Except to some people. Jay Kelly went from like 67 degrees to 68 degrees. Like no one got hot watching.

You and I like that movie. But you know what I mean? Like generally there was. But I also I'll say this. Yeah.

I had a different thought of an honorific while watching this performance.

“And once I at one point I was like, do I just put it to the side?”

Not put in proper best supporting actor. My thought was. Is this. The black box performance of the year. Where you go.

Why don't they build the whole movie? Yeah. Sure. Got it. Got it.

Yes. I think there's a juice to that like eight minute chunk of the movie. That is much as I like the film. I'm like, this is the fucking potent thing. If I'm bomb back.

Whatever I think I'm writing. Yeah. I get to that scene.

Even on paper before you cast crewed up and he knocks it out of the fucking part.

Hmm. I agree. Maybe this is the movie. Yeah. Maybe these guys spend the whole night together.

And that's the film. I can see it. Jay Kelly versus whatever that guy's name is. Yeah. Well the point is we don't know is we're proving the point.

Jay. Fucking Jay Kelly. I'm Jay Kelly. You're Jay Kelly. You're up here.

You're down here. That movie. Here's another word I'll throw out. Worst trailer of the year. You hated the trailer.

“You were always saying how like almost poison do against it.”

You saw an early screening of the movie. I did. You were like it's really excellent. I was like this thing looks like dogs. It was a fabulous film.

It was a fabulous film. I saw the thing. I was smoking that thing. I saw the trailer before like everything. I kept playing at the Angelica in the Paris when I was seeing a lot of things.

That's probably still a point. Yes. And I was just like, it is impossible. This movie will do anything to me other than. Leave me with an overwhelming desire to eat glass.

And then the movie started at night. It was just like the trailer makes it looks like fucking cinema paradise. You'll fall. Sure. Yeah.

It's cinema paradise. There's a real like genre of foreign film that is bad. That was loved. Yeah. I mean like cinema paradise.

So like this beautiful. It'll post. You know, huh? Colue. Colue.

It's only like example. Yeah. Which is like, which is a bad. It's not bad. It's like a sort of seven out of ten like sweet movie.

Yeah. But like where you're like, oh, this is, you know, this is kind of dumb. It's just a director like carrying the kid on the shoulder up to the stage. And not make a poster. I was covered.

I saw that film in theaters. Yeah. Yeah. Remember being very sweet. Yeah.

Look, we're not doing a happy birthday. Signing thing. Credit to Malay and the two of you were going to. That's your best recording actor. Yeah.

How to go. But I do want to say it's a shift that people don't know. But 10 minutes on Colue. No. You're right.

That like foreign film used to be the tree cliche. Yeah. Yeah. And the biggest change was it used to be to vote in that category. You had to go to a marathon screen to go to so many screen.

No, but you specifically. I think one of the five films were nominated. Sure. Sure. You had to go to a full day marathon of all of that.

That's crazy. And so the only people who would do that. The oldest people in the world. Well, right.

Who was always the third like ready for the treat Lee Layout.

Yes. The kind of sweetest movie. Or is it about the Holocaust or? Right. Which is always something like that.

You know, maybe it was the opposite. But I, I know certainly for the nomination process. That was part of it. It was the, I think it was more than nomination.

“You have to see you have three single one.”

It was the only retirees. Yes. Because no one said the time. But that's always been the double edged sword of the Oscars, which is. Ideally, you would like all the people voting on the Oscars.

To have seen all of the movies that they're voting on. And the realistic thing is the only people who do that are 80 year old people who have nothing else. And here's. Didn't done and here's didn't done. She has said she sees all the movie Joe. That's why she's our hero.

Who are your nominees for best supporting actor? Best supporting actor. I have Austin Abrams in weapons. Oh, yeah. Michael Sarah in the Phoenician scheme.

Who knows for this guy? So good. Billy Crude up in J. Kelly. Hell yes. Stack it.

William H. Macy and train dream. Okay. And Dylan O'Brien and Twinless. Is he supporting? To fudge it.

It's a twin. >> It's a tweeter in a twerr. >> It's a very good performance, but I guess he is, I mean the other one, the one I wanted to say by by too. >> You have a fun meeting. >> You and my is my podcast cohost Chris Files. >> I love these same opinion on that guy. >> What's his name? The guy wrote it. >> Same swinging. >> And director. >> And director. >> And director.

>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay, so you got two shared. >> No, I'm secret. >> They're crescent. >> Yeah. >> Both say the one I already forgot. >> Oh, Sarah. >> I'm so sure that I mean, yeah. >> Okay, okay, I'll do my. >> I'll do my. >> And we can discuss. I have been east of the tour for one battle afternoon. I have Delroy Lindo for sinners. >> Wow. >> I am going to just say that Reef finds a very obvious candidate for me.

>> I'm going to hold him out just to have a long time. >> I'm doing the same thing. >> I'm sticking up now. >> And obviously also his bone temple nom is inscribed in stone.

>> I would say I put him in lead. >> He saw the lead. >> I was so conscious.

>> The kid is the lead of the first one. >> Yeah. >> It may be kind of Aaron Johnson.

>> I was so conscious of my Adam Driver fuck up in Blanky's awards pass. >> Oh, sure. >> Where in the force awakens in last Jedi years, Adam Driver was my sixth. >> And I caught him on air. >> Right. >> And I was like. >> It's really in the third one. >> It'll be crush. >> For why does a skywalker, I'll come back around and give him the trophy. >> He did his best in Rise of Skywalker. >> Adam Driver is not the issue.

>> No, but I couldn't be like the difference. >> Yes. >> And he has actor ghosts to Adam Driver for Rise of Skywalker. >> The difference here is we've seen bone temple, bone temple does not pull a rise of snow. >> No, no, no, no. >> So sorry, so I have Del Toro and Linda. >> Yeah. >> Then I have Alexander Skarsikard and Pillian.

>> Nicholas Holt in Superman. >> So good. >> I consider it. >> And Matthew. >> Pinchil, I'm not sure how to say his name. >> In Newvilleville, who plays role Cotard. >> Okay.

“>> Where I was like, did Richard Lincoln later fucking open a blind tunnel?”

How did you find a guy who looks like Raul Cotard won like so much? >> Sure. >> And to get the coolest performance I've ever seen of a guy, Gadard is just annoying at him for five minutes and he goes like, "Ooh, okay." And I was just like, cannot take my eyes off this guy. >> It is.

I still have not seen that movie because it doesn't exist. >> I think it exists, but it's tough to watch it on Netflix. >> Yeah, it is crazy from the trailers and the images I've seen. How well he is physically matched every single famous French new wave behind the camera. >> This is the, like, I think all the performances in that movie are fine.

But that's right, you're just like, it's a magic trick. How do you get them all? Look like this when you look them up and almost all of them have zero previous characters. >> Yeah, you just like went around Paris going like, - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, we'll just like, show it up. - He literally does. - No, no, no. - Take a run, they hold me. - And twist it. (laughing) - A performance I really loved.

My winner's book, "Binney Sit Out Horror." - My winner has also been Hesiel Del Toro. - Binney Sit Out, I should say, was a close six on mine.

“I think all of the Oscar nominees are really good this year,”

so it was tough, leaving all of them up. But Binney Sit Out was my number six. My winner is, and I mean, I'm falling into the Oscar voter trap of a category for out-is-a-post, but my winner's don't want to bribe.

- I, yeah, I just don't like that little. I saw your, I thought a bunch of you had like, I'm gonna-- - People like someone out of that little. But I thought Delo was really good in that move. - Yeah. - And he's fucking excellent in sentences.

- I still haven't seen send help as well, so much, I know. - You fucking care. - I've been watching all the windows. - Goddamn. - Yeah, yeah, you've had your work kind of for us. - Yeah, yeah.

- Del Toro, for me, nudged over the edge by having Phoenician schemes wealth this year. - Yep, he's a great mess of value point. - There's a real like range of, oh, right, this guy is,

one of the most powerful screen actors ever.

- Yeah. - People have started to swing against him,

“not like in a negative way, but I've seen a little bit of like,”

all right, everyone, he doesn't need to win like-- - I don't-- - Ark on that performance has been interesting because when the movie first is insane, we'll be remembered for a hundred years, performance to me. - When people first started hitting the movie,

and pens seemed like such the obvious jump off, and he's like, great, supporting actor. - Jump down is so funny and weird at all. - And so the Del Toro thing started like this undergone like, "Am I crazy or is Del Toro the best performance in this movie?"

- Do you know what a kind of reminded me of? - What? - Departed where it's like, well, this is fucking Oscar play, if I've ever seen it for Jack Nicholson, working with Scorsese the first time,

and everyone starts to think like, "Is Bulberg secretly like the best performance in that movie?" - Yeah. - I don't like Bulberg in the movie, but like that was the Ark of that. - Yeah, you know, but it was a similar thing

where everyone was like pan, obviously, obviously,

but like, yeah, Toro's kind of incredible in that.

- Right, like, that was absolutely hard to have. - The movie, it sings the most. - Right, he's there. - And then it becomes fucking king of memes. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then it feels like, "Oh, I guess he's gonna get in."

Only shit, he's winning all the critics awards. Is he like, cakewalking his way to a win? And then it felt like there was some pushback on like, "What, we're gonna give him a second Oscar "because we like small beers?"

- Oh, that's, yes, yeah, give it to the meme guy or whatever, which like, I find so annoying. - Like, on one time, 25 years ago. - It's true, and he's, like, a titanic actor. - Yes, yeah, it's not even like an alien.

- Yeah, it's not even like an alien. - It's an Oscar-nom's total, like, you know, you should have more probably. - Yeah, it's been over 20 years since he was nominated last. - Was it 21 for him? - It was last nomination, wow.

- Yeah, it's so good. - Yeah, it's not like a comeback Brody, we're in the wilderness right? - Right, but it's right. - For like, you know what, this guy has continued to be good. - It's good, it'd be great.

- For another also older centuries in Korea, it was a crazy miss for him. - Yeah, because he did have the Oscar post that year.

to caught an nomination.

“If I think about Del Toro, too, is like,”

I think without him that movie fails in a way

that you can't say about, I think, any other. - So, the two reasons I give him the win. It's A because he also had Phoenician ski, right? And it's like, this feels like a year to fucking call it out. And B, you hear every story about how much he created

for that character. - Yeah. - Not just in like the look and whatever, but like actual core story themes and beats that then had ripple effects across the entire script.

- Yes. - It's not just if you pull that performance out, the movie's not as good. It's like the effect he had on the movie at large and the higher creative ecosystem.

- And his energy, his energy is so different than most of the other characters. And I think it draws you in closer. What I love, it's a great old master performance where you're like this guy has like cleaned his craft

down to the bone. You know, everything is so simple and unsure with him.

And he's always classically been one of those

who the fuck is this guy? This guy's just interesting to watch on screen. But sometimes he can do a lot. Sometimes he can be big. And even when he was giving more naturalistic performances

when he was younger, he was leading on a lot of sort of like, "No, yeah." - Neo James Dean, affectations. - Yeah, which he did. - He did his way through visual suspects,

something like that kind of stuff. - And you're like, this guy has just gotten to like Zen master effects. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's great, perfectly cast. - Don't know Brian, you want to speak on him for a moment.

- Yeah, so he plays two characters in Twinless. And Twinless is a movie that you start off, you sort of think you've got to handle on what's going on. And this guy meets a straight guy in a grief support group and there's an infatuation going on.

And you understand that like some things up, some things up with the James Weenie character and whatever. And then it hits a point where you suddenly jump to this flash back and you see Dylan O'Brien as his deceased twin brother, who is the gay one.

And not to be like the straight actor really gives us. But like it's just an incredibly,

“it's not only I think in a really authentic feeling”

performance, but it also is a blast of like energy in a very different vein. And again, it's a kind of thing where like that movie really needs this guy to sell you on in the span of one night. He kind of like broke this guy's brain,

that James Weenie's guy's brain. And I just think it's really

incredible, and then he go back to the other character.

And he just goes through this very emotional journey that I find really, really good. And there's a degree of like, Dylan O'Brien, little scene wolf guy, you know what I mean, like making good. And I really like that aspect to it.

And yeah, I just think it's that was a movie that stuck with me from when I saw it early in the season. Yeah, I was, I was not able to watch it Sundance because some busy bodies decided to pirate it and got it removed from busy bodies.

They were, they were screenshot and butts. Yeah, they sure were. They got in trouble. They sure were. So I wasn't able to see it until later in the year.

But I really liked it. I could have, I almost went with Bill Macy and Train Dreams, which that movie turned out to be a lot more divisive than I thought it was good. I liked that movie just fine when I saw it Sundance.

I thought it was very good. I thought it was nice. I thought Willie Mace Macy was nice. I did not anticipate it becoming right. The cinephile civil war movies.

I was really, really thrown by that. Apparently, people who read books have opinions. Well, that's, well, it changes the book. But like, that doesn't bother me because I don't have or change or whatever you want.

But Griffin, you were kind of wound by it, I feel like you were not. But you were not like, and I could not click into it. I might give another shot someday. I just need to call this out. Call it out.

I'm glad you put it. Put it putters and murmurs. Yeah. Because we've got a lot of messages. This thing screams at Sundance.

And immediately, people are blowing us. It's a lock, right? Passing us notes being like Macy and Train Dreams. We're willing to running down the mountain and saying, JK Simmons is going to win best supporting actor next year.

Out of the way flash screen, people just saying it's done. It's a lock. You know, possibly this put a burden on the movie that was hard for it to cross. Sure. But he comes on screen.

“And I immediately go, the fuck are these people talking about?”

So eloquent in them. Old timey vernacular does not make a putter or murmur. I would agree. And he can clearly in an old style of length. It's just he's got a corn cob pipe.

Yeah. It's just kind of throwing people in and like a big white beard. We're all that. Yeah. He's got a couture monster.

Yeah, that's good.

couldn't be more clear.

And yet it's constantly misinterpreted.

There was an iron lock putters and mirrors performance for me. So I'm going to turn the camera. Turn the camera. Turn the camera. Turn the camera.

Turn the camera. Yeah. Clifton Collins Jr. Eddington. This is why putters and murmurs exist.

That's an interesting. I had not. I have not thought too hard about Clifton. The fuck I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. Well, shall we? Should we put it in? We're talking about numbers.

Magic. No, that's the winner. I'm just letting people know. Clifton Collins Jr. The winner.

No one else. I guess we could get back around. Well, we'll have that conversation. Yeah. We'll get back to that.

“Is there anyone else you want to call out in your category?”

I really loved Austin Abrams and weapons. Much as I can. Excellent performance. I can answer. Great.

I don't know if Austin Abrams owns the middle of that movie to the degree that

Amy Madigan owns the last third of that movie.

But he holds the center portion of that piece. He picks up the torch with a palm. So well. Yep. And I really, he's so entertaining.

I love obviously. You know why I love Austin Abrams. Like former Blanky winner of mine for Halsey, is there? Yes. But I was just like, this, you, so many, it's just my honor.

This tweaker is going to be cannon fodder for, you know, whatever monsters are happening in this movie. And he becomes so like affecting weirdly and you really end up feeling for this guy. Yeah. And it really works.

It is a performance that is like using the lacking in judgment in a way that I feel like a lot of actors would play that character, condescendingly. Yeah. Well, also successfully ending all the humor where it needs to be. Yeah.

He's really good at it. Yeah. Michael Sarah. Michael Sarah. High five.

High five. So familiar. You also add in how good he is in the running man. I haven't seen it yet, but he is the best part of that movie. Not only that.

You get to his scene. Oh, but you know who else is good in running man. Really, make me see. He is. Yeah.

With weirdly high billing, considering the size of his role. Similar to train dreams. Good agent. Good agent. Really good agent.

And also not a lot of big guys in the movie, I guess. No. Michael Sarah shows up her like one extended sequence, like a 10 minute chunk of running man. And immediately you're like, huh, does this whole movie work a better, if Michael Sarah

is in the Glen Powell role? Yeah. I mean, most movies work better. Michael Sarah's in the lead role. I mean, really, I really feel like we as a culture have, or at least as like a cinephile

culture. Yeah. Turned on Glen Powell in a way. In the last couple of years. I'm still rooting for the guy 100%.

I am too. But like, I don't think running man is this fault.

“I think people have been a little quick to throw him under the bus and be like, oh,”

so that was a nothing burger. Like the days of what was the, oh, hit man. The days of hit man are sort of, I just seem like there's a lot of automatic hostility to the type of guy he's like, you know. The type of star role he plays right now.

Yeah. Uh-huh. And so it's like tougher from to win people over. And then, yeah, he made a couple kind of man movies and people like, all right, buddy. I knew you were reheated not just get out of here.

Yeah. I think we had like a 15 year stretch of like studios really pushing your, your headlins and your hunnels and your kitches. Yeah.

And all these guys who never quay.

Men who am a fan of, but yes. Yes. And I think there are still some residual kind of knee jerk resistance to what are they pushing this guy out of for me. Right.

And I think Powell works really hard to be like, I am not a siop right here. But then the second he makes one movie that doesn't work. People are like, I fucking knew it. I called it. I was never fooled.

But Sarah's really fucking good in running man and watch it. And the performance he's giving is very different that it's say anything he's ever done before on screen. It's a really interesting like hostile performance. Yeah. But you watch it and you're like, oh, right on top of everything else.

This guy did fucking like 18 months of kung fu training. But at great. Like he also can do fucking fight scenes in shit. And Phoenician scheme. I'm watching it in the first half.

I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the memes.

Of course. How are they not on a phone top. Yeah. Yeah. Westerners.

Yeah. He's on my career. He's doing it really well. It's a good fit. He's making funny choices.

“I like that he's playing like a fucking European Eddie Bracken role.”

Whatever. Whatever. This is good. But like, there's part of me going, is this all West Anderson's going to use him full. Sure.

Sure. And it is part of like the argument for why West Anderson is not fucking stuck in a rut. Yeah. Who ever thinks that is? Without ruining any of the twist of the movie, like halfway through, he just throws an entirely different assignment at Michael Sarah.

And it's like, right. This guy gets that we pigeonholed Sarah into doing like two things well. Turns out West Anderson has seen both twin pigs that return in Molly's game. Because he knows that. He's got that.

Like, right. Everyone likes to say this guy only plays himself. Yeah. But like, there is a pretty astonishing range within the tapestry of Michael Sarah's particular frequency. Michael Sarah only plays himself is really funny.

Because I don't know if I could give you a real good sense of who I think Michael Sarah is as a person.

Yeah. Yeah.

“You're saying blank only plays themselves.”

Yeah. So what you're saying is their performances remind you of how they act and interviews, which also might be an act. Right. You don't know who they fucking are. Right.

Right. Anyway. Wow. That was my little stump speech. Yeah.

Little rant mode there. All right. Turn the six hour camera off. That's good. Yeah.

I don't know. I just, you know, holds, that's a performance I adore. Oh, hold in Superman. Yes. So fun.

We've shoured praise on Del Roy Lindo on these episodes over the years. I'm crossing my fingers that he could come out of nowhere. It really feels like he's on a JJ. Sorry, JJ's Twitter rant or blue sky rant last night. What's JJ?

No. It was, it was a reasonable. I'll just start composing me now now. Follow the paper. I'm normally the one being like, you guys are too mean to JJ.

But this one, I was just like, it was a decent point of just like Del Roy Lindo should have had 12 Oscar nominations by now. It would be weird if you wouldn't say. For this. For this particular.

I don't disagree with that. I don't disagree with that. Who gives us shit? I, that's all. Well, if we give him an Oscar for this now,

I'm not going to be like that one. Excellent. Yes. Yes.

“And after, you know, I think the five blood snub is the most”

egregious of this decade. I agree, see this. You know, it's that. Better on trying to get a bit more than two. Yeah.

But with him, he's got the ultimate like,

how he never been nominated and they served in this performance on a platter.

Yeah. And I see sinners all year ago. And he pops up on screen. I'm like fuck, Del Roy is in the pocket in this. Yeah.

This movie's a hit. Yeah. There's a year to go. But could this possibly be an Oscar contender. He gets his big monologue.

It gets to like run throughout basically the whole picture. But be like just perfect supporting like juice. And it, it made me so happy that he has like stuck in the whole time. And it has been a legitimate contender. Who do you think will win the Oscar?

Right now my inclination stone scars. Well, I talked about this, Griffin was, Griffin was there lurking behind me when I recorded. Excuse me. It's called Purdue. Critical.

Critical. Dr. Dickens yesterday. And I mentioned that like our friend Kyle Buchanan's stone cold certainty throughout this season that once the industry awards happen that Sean Penn is going to run the table. Kyle has been making that. And that has.

The bath does sort of lean into that. So I don't see it. I'm, I'm hoping that that's not the case. Not because I don't like that performance because they do. He's, he's unbelievable in that movie.

But he has to ask. I just don't ask. I just don't ask. I just don't ask. And we're, if that thing fucking stuck to Benicio, we need to give him a second one and then Penn wins a third.

But Penn wins a third.

“I think that category is so wide open that it would be really.”

It would just be really fun if Delroy Lindo could because sometimes my thing with the words is sometimes when somebody gets nominated without a ton of precursors. Just like where did that come from? Yeah. You're like, well, clearly they must have really liked that, you know, they must have really liked that performance because they sort of disregarded the, you know, pencil sketch outline of the nominees and put him in.

We were also talking about this or you were talking about this on critical Darlings yesterday, but like sometimes people get a career boost from the snub.

Yes. Like as angry as everyone was that didn't get the five bloods nomination and the worst Oscar year. It led to like several years of discourse of being like the member when the fucking academy didn't. It can help. It got for sure.

I think a little bit in a way that boosted him in this, but this also feels like when you got to his monologue in the car, I was like, Ryan Kugler kind of knows what he's doing. Yeah. Ryan Kugler sat down and was like, someone needs to fucking figure out how to get Delroy Lindo nominated. Maybe. I'm going to give him like a combo, platter character where he gets to do everything.

I think Scar's guard will win because I think the Oscars really liked that movie and that's where they can award it. That's easy. Feeling as well combined. And he's another like sort of just major guy who's never gotten an Oscar nomination and it's a quasi lead role. And it's a dad and it's just a lot of stuff that they tend to vibe with.

Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know. Back to the blankies after these messages. Did it?

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Thank you. Very kind. Best Supporting Actress. Supporting Actress. Let's just putting Actress.

Okay. So our winners last year for Supporting Actress. For Griffin, the Twink from Manora, Mark, Eddle, Eddie, Freight. For me, to my surprise, Edward Norton. And for you, Joe, the Brutalist, Mr. Guy Pierce.

Thank you. I hope you'll be super normal. Presenting this award. I will do mine first. I guess.

Just to just to switch it up. Yeah. My nominees are. Tiana Taylor, forum, Bella, for another Enriching Hall, forum, Bella, after another Enriching mannequin for weapons.

Mariam Afshari, for it was just an accident. An una chaplain for Avatar Fire and Ash. Sure, yeah. Normal five. Very well.

Deeply. Yeah. Okay. That's that's all for my guys. I was fairly chalk though.

Yeah. The one battle girls have to be there. I went with Mariam Afshari for it was just an accident. Nina Haas for Heda. Yom Hyran, apologies if I did not pronounce that correctly.

For no other choice. Amy Madigan for weapons and won me Masaku for senators. Love her. Love that, um. I have to make one tough cut here.

All right. Well, you have an annual tradition. My tough cut was going to. Who I just wanted. My tough cut.

I mean, I'm one of two. My tough cut was obviously Tiana Taylor.

I think Tiana Taylor is incredible.

Yeah. I'm just doing all right without me. I love the Regina Hall performance. And I'm sort of cheating it by giving it my Sergeant Truman Award. Which is a performance where like I wish I could nominate it.

Sergeant Truman just for people who. Yeah. I like that. It's been Diesel's character. And believe Lynn's long time walk.

Got it. Got it. Love her. I know everyone remembers that. I think she's incredible in that movie.

Yeah. I think it is to the credit of the movie and the performance that it could so easily have the explosive Oscar moment that would have made it an undeniable contender. Much like Wind Diesel and Billy Lynn's halftime walk. When that movie, when that casting got announced. Yeah.

People are like Oscar now.

“Well, that's that's why of course we call it the Sergeant Truman course.”

Yeah. But it's that character is so defined by the quiet and what isn't said in the in-between space. And it's using credible eyes. I'm using that as a cheat to not give her one of my five. I have some great surprise.

Wait a second. Please drop your rolling pins. Una Chaplin and Avatar Fire and Ash Marisa Bella and Blackbag. Sure pot. Kirsten Dunst in Roof Man.

Yep. She's so good in that movie. Yep.

I'm I'm when we Musaco I will say I think is an incredible performance.

And was my vote for Sag this year. Nice. I'm dropping her for my five only because she's being represented by the Oscars. And I want to get my five weird people in. Emma Stone in Eddington.

Incredible performance. None of the performance I like. But Gary. I think an incredible performance. Sure.

Yeah, her.

“She was a tough guy for me because she's really good.”

She rules on that. The only problem I have with that performance is that it's almost too easy. Where I'm like, well, yeah, of course Nina Hawston playing.

The person who you can't get over who's so powerful.

She ruined your life. Walking around in that dress or that outfit. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm so much about like, oh, if you just like flip the gender that character, the whole text transforms, like, so rapidly, and it's like, no, but also if you just. Nina Hawston in that role. Right.

Yeah. Someone who also has played had a gabler before. Yeah. Yeah. Stand on both sides of the situation.

Yeah. Who's your winners, gentlemen? Joe, who's your winner? I'm here. I'm going on the fly.

I'm going to go with Mary. I'm a sharifer. It was just an accident. She's so good in that movie. My winner is Amy Maddie.

That was my almost. Yeah. I thought it was going to win the Oscar. But now I guess I feel like she might not. But it also might happen.

It could. It's still good. Yeah.

“I think that kind of goes pretty up in the air.”

That feels like a three way race. Tiana would me and Amy. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

I think the sentimental value women cancel each other. I agree. That's like an even three way. If I had a quarter after feels like a five way. Yeah.

If I had a crisp under $1 bill I'd put it on Tiana. But you know, I would too. But only slightly. I wonder if. By the way, Griffin, you owe me a crisp under $1 bill.

I got to do something with it. Oh, sure. Yeah. I feel like Amy Maddie can might pull it out at the end. Yeah.

For some of her son's scars guard of like the Hollywood firmament being like, you know what? Yeah. Thank you for all your service.

Did you see somebody finally asked her in an interview about the her and that hair

resurfusion. And her answer was pretty she stuck by it. And I was just like, it was pretty excellent. I think every interview she's done has been on time. Okay.

There are all those suits. My supporting actress winners need a house, which is like my performance of the year. Yeah. She's okay. And I getting to the earlier point.

We were making. I was like, Oh, but do I give it to her? Because I gave her best actress for Phoenix. Didn't I? And then I looked back.

And Phoenix was the year before we started. We started doing it. So that was like, that's my private spreadsheet. I put her in my best of the decade. Best actress lineup.

Yep. But because I haven't given her an award on Mike before, I'm going to need a house. Best of the decade, the podcast episode that caused COVID. Yeah. The last one.

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, guys, I'm going to go to a rowdy screen of cats and then live forever. Yeah. That's the way we're doing great.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, Vraying is mad at you though, and she is going to say you want to fire. I look. Yeah.

I just took us away. We'll have a separate conversation off Mike. Um, David, you and I agreed on Mary and Meshari though.

“I mean, I think she's never been in a movie before.”

This was by the tree with the tail light. Yeah. The tail light illumination was. I mean, there's some really good scenes and a lot of good movies this year. But like, that was up there for me.

I really thought for as much as I love the ending of that movie. And that's kind of what everybody talked about. But like, for me, the scene of that movie is that one, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, she, yes. Then that movie is one of my favorite to the years. Uh, yeah, Tiana and Regina. It's very obviously me mad again.

Yes. You know, did you conquer when when you saw the movie? Like, were you like, this is Amy Madigan? Like, when the character appears. I was not really, like, definitely didn't.

I was so in the movie. Yeah. Right. Like, so yeah.

And like, obviously, Gladys' first appearance is when she's apart from the little glimpses.

It's when she's in full wig mode. Yeah. And I was just like, it's kind of like the don't look now thing where I'm like, Did he just like find someone from another fashion? Yeah.

Like, I don't get it. What is this? Who is this? Right. My problem.

And then when you see her with the wig off, I was kind of like, Okay, no, no, no, this is who is this? This is an actress I know. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. No. My problem is that the release of that film basically Directly coincided with the worst of my no other choice. Yeah, I remember that.

Right. I basically took a while to see it. I couldn't see the movie for like a week. Yeah. Because I was a second vomiting from a dental infection.

So by dental infection. Yeah. Ben, I have gone. He's gone. He's gone.

He's gone. He's gone. Remember? My mouth was bleeding. Tooth stuff.

Yes. Right. My mouth was bleeding. Sorry. Within three days, people were already doing the like.

Can Amy Madigan get a. Supporting actress nomination. Yeah. Right. Right.

So life is a cheat. I'm blaming. No, we will see it is. Yeah. Right.

Totally totally. Uh, you loved Emma. I think that's not a performance. I like. Yeah, I liked adding to the life.

Me too. Sort of sits on the maybe. Oh, is my least favorite. I don't dislike her. I don't dislike her.

Your guess performances. But I don't. This was my favorite performance. She has given in many years. I thought it was the most different thing I've seen her.

I think she's capturing something really interesting for me, which is.

“The, you know, in a movie that is all about like everyone's living in separate realities, right?”

Yeah. Yeah. That for me is so accurately captures. The chaos of what it feels to be alive right now. And that no one can agree on.

Well, the ground we're standing right. Right. A very tricky thing of like, uh, people who have experienced, uh, extreme trauma, uh, can be disconnected from reality in a way that is a coping mechanism. Sure. Yeah.

You don't know. Yeah. Whether to believe Emma or not. Yeah. Even when you have endless sympathy for the understanding of what caused.

Yeah. This disconnect happened. Well, then you have dear Joe Connell and the other room breaking stick figure. Right. I think like, I think Emma Stone gets the kind of weird husk of that really right.

It really worked for me. I found it. I found a very good thing. Yeah. Um, I also just want to shout out, uh, Yom Hyran for, uh,

No other choice who plays the wife of the, of the guy that the main character is trying to knock off and is so funny. Yes. Yes. Um, it's very funny. Yes.

Because when a great running performance every time you run somewhere in that movie, I think it's very funny. Um, your winner's Miriam. My winner is Miriam. Yes.

Who's your winner? Me and a host. Right. Of course. Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to read you the blankies supporting performance winners. Okay. Or I'll go from 10 to 1. Okay.

10 miles. Kate and sinners. Great. Great. Fine.

Very performance. Nine addresses. I own and Marty Supreme. Eight. Steal and Scar's Garden sentimental value.

Seven Del Rey Lindo. Six Inga. EBS Doctor Lilius. Is that already set? Yeah.

It's quite a bit of discovery. Yes. She's great. Tiana Taylor is number five. Amy Madigan number four.

Shompen number three. Ray finds our beautiful doctor. Kelsey number two and Ray. Pinesio is their winner. Yeah.

That makes sense. It all makes it all. It all falls into place. It's the lightning seeds once said. Let's do our screenplays.

Maybe. Let's do it. Uh, I'm trying to think. Yeah. That's what we did last time.

Okay. Yeah. Let's do our screenplays. Okay. Okay.

All right. Okay. Original or adapted.

Uh, let's go original first.

Best original screenplay. Okay. I got. It was just an experiment. Hmm.

We're by Jeff Arpine. Secret agent. Written by Kleber. Kleber Filo. Centers written by Ryan Coogler.

If I'd like that kick you by Mary Bronstein. And Robert Caplaus. Boo. Blue Moon script. Or my five.

Interesting. Is that interesting? Fantastic. That's interesting. Uh, mine are blue moon written by Robert Caplaus.

Griffin in summer written by Nicholas Collier. Great. Got my ears burning. Love it. Maybe.

Uh, it was just an accident. If Arpine. Lerker written by Alex Russell. And Twinless written by James Weaney. My original screenplay nominations are.

If I had legs. I'd kick you. Yeah. Centers. Weapons.

Adding 10. And of course. Save it. Say it with me. My material.

I just want to point out. You sort of were getting a little Bob Duke. Are you there? Serenir. War.

Sorry. Parker Posi. Pox. Lucy Lou. Blue.

Um. My winner is. It was just an accident. Uh, which I think is. Uh, great in every way.

“Um, but uh, is a quiet, like crucial screenplay.”

Crucials. Yeah. Construction kind of movie. Um, but there's all good winners. Definitely.

Give that. Right. That's that got. No. Yes.

Right. Yeah. It didn't get. Best picture. Or director.

Right. The Oscars. Right. They went pretty. Yeah.

They have sent them all of that. You and they. They. Yeah. I assume.

I still assume. Coupler is winning there. Yeah. Because of the Oscar trend of. Oh, boarding.

Black directors. Screenplay. Yeah. Rather than giving them director. It's funny.

Like Lee Jordan. Yeah. Well, we got a screenplay. Warframe. Very Jenkins.

Yes. Uh, you know. It's just feels like. It's a very tidy split between one battle after another. Yes.

I of course. One and one to the other.

“And I think sinners is a kind of a brilliant, like brilliant, brilliant idea.”

And I was like, well, written movie. I'm not. It's just funny. Like it's just like such a visual. Fucking feast.

Yeah. Yeah. I hope he wins. I want him to win.

Look, there was always the thing of like original screenplay.

That's the cool category. Yeah. Yeah. That's the coolest movie that the academy has recognized. But it's a little too edgy or out there or new to win best picture.

It's the pulp fiction. It has sort of just become. We will let Black filmmakers get stronger. Right.

Or Nick Valonga. Of course. Well, we salute. Yeah.

“And you know, those are, I'm about to name two films that were not written by their directors.”

But John Ridley winning for 12 years of slave. Yep. Yep. And what's in Jeffrey Cheshire for precious? I believe that's correct.

Like there has been a last 15 years like this is the exact ceiling. And then really good point. Right. Yeah. Moonlight of course.

Just the weirdest Oscar shake down all the time. Shake out. I mean. Who are your guys? Winners.

It was just an accident for me. Also for me, it was just an accident. Wow. Who are you going for? It's a really good question.

Purple, purple. Um.

“Are you going to murder me if I pick material S?”

I'm going to murder you. No, I'm going to hear you talk about it. Because I was sort of, I did not like that movie. But I was fascinated by it. Yeah.

I think that movie is like the. It is exploding the subtext and all kind of Hollywood romantic comedies.

Into a like examination of how dating has basically just become.

Or rather partners have become another form of currency. And are like insane. Late stage capitalism house gave sure that the whole movie is about that we have basically reduced this to like a sense of belonging in your like. It's it's another thing you own in your brand portfolio.

Sure. Sure. Certainly for a particularly for a character like Dakota Johnson. Yes. And how much we've like gamified dating through apps.

And that's yes. Right. And then, you know, the people with the money to afford it bypass the apps by getting the bespoke Throwback experience. Yeah.

And that all of this doesn't actually consider what makes you. Want to be with someone what makes a relationship work. You know, the intellectualization of the kind of person you want to be with. Versus who you were emotionally drawn to.

And I just think it's like an incredible movie about people lying to themselves.

That is definitely true. I. Two things and neither one of this is to sort of discount your choice. One of which is I recently. I've made the somewhat bonkers decision to.

For the 25th anniversary of the movies of 2001 to watch the movies of 2001 throughout the year as they are released as they were released back on. So I watched the wedding planner. Oh, sure. Yeah. That movie scans on to material is so well in a way that I think doesn't do materialists any favors because it's like we were kind of doing a lot of these

points in five years ago. I would swear like, you know, a matchmaker and wedding planner, the, you know, they why did they even want to be together? Like, is this just that a symbol yet? You got to the other thing is. I like Pedro Pascal and some things. I think I'm very with whatever this is. He really does not meet the moment in that movie.

He comes across as such a TV actor in that movie. I firmly disagree. I think I would like the movie you would almost have to and like I admit my perhaps my single greatest movie frustration of 2025 is how badly he fumbled read Richards. It drives me crazy. Yeah, did fumbled it.

Yeah. But I think it speaks to from in my opinion why he works in materialists. I know all my defenses of materialists are this is a feature not a bug. Sure. But I feel very strong.

“That's how you end up looking into movies against consensus.”

You ended up liking the thing that everybody didn't like. I think and I feel like there are other performances in the past. I've referred to this way and I'm struggling to recall another one now. But I think Pedro Pascal is giving a great fake movie star performance in materialists. I think it is about his limitation.

Sure. You know, and how like it's like right, this guy should be like a giant movie star. Why isn't this working? Yeah. I think that's what he's trying to do. I agree.

And I think I had all of this what you're saying is saying to me, I'm really not surprised as movie did not do well. I think that's true. Well, I mean, it didn't make more money.

It made a hundred million dollars worldwide.

Yes. This is my whole take on this movie is I understand why it drove everyone insane. Because the marketing was, hey guys, what bringing it back? I was not baffled by the marketing of this movie. But I understand what you're saying in terms of like a commercial or so.

But like I was not like expecting anything out of the marketing. I just feel like every critic friend of mine who saw this movie early was like the tone of this is so bizarre. It's not a comedy. It's not funny. I did agree that it could not pick a tone.

Yes. But like the sexual assault plot line, especially landed like so fuddingly for me, especially the way she reacts to it was just like not. I did not track a human onto that behavior. But my problem with Pascal was like, I was like,

And he's coming off as someone with heads in this approach.

And I just like the whole time was just like, I don't understand who this person is. And the movie doesn't really. And like she's, yes, she's a little blinded by her stats and figures. Yes. Well through it.

But like I'm like, she, she can't have sexual this person. Right. Because he's crazy. Well, the movie is also so silly. Either to like move on from him.

He's like also true. And also feels like nothing. Yes. We should put maybe a spoiler alert around the section, the conversation. Because this is a danger we get into every or the blank.

He's where we start. Just throw on just random things. That's true people get a copy on the blank. He's episode specific. But first movie came out of me.

For me, it all works in the fucking kitchen scene where she like confronts him.

“And she just like unravels and is like, why is this not working?”

I'm everything on paper. Yeah. And I see. Yeah. I think his vulnerability in that scene totally makes it work for me.

There is like a desperate eager. Just sort of like kind of pathetic quality that feels very honest. Which I also think it's look part of the Pedro Pascal thing of who is this guy really? Right.

Well, I mean, that's sort of a lot of his essential totally thing totally.

Yeah. Yeah. I think there is there is one choice in relation to the sexual assault plot line in the movie that I think is a fatal mistake. Uh-huh. Which is having the following scene take place in real time on their doorstep where Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans profess their love to each other.

I think that cannot happen continuous. With what she is just being human. Just contributed to the feeling of like, I don't these don't feel like people to me in the slightest. Yeah. Like I just had that problem with it throughout.

Yeah. But like I really was just like this is not human behavior and satire or not. I've lost any grip on this movie because they just not behaving like humans at all. Yeah. See, it's just it totally clicked for me and part of it is also that maybe I have dated three different Dakota Johnson's in my life.

Anyway, that was my screenplay. That was my screenplay. Yeah. Because I'm realizing this is the one place I can sort of mount my case for. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's that. Or what? I mean, you have five nominees?

I know. The other four are probably better. I am. I am. I can't remember.

Yeah.

If I like that kick, you send us weapons adding 10 materialists.

Yeah. There's no really, these are those are good ones.

“I think 10 was, I mean, one of your favorite movies the year.”

Yeah. Well, we'll get to that. Yeah. Right. You know what?

I've made my case for materialists. I'm going to give it to a fight like that kick. Great. Yeah. Because I thought I was going to give Jack Trister Rose Burm.

But I think I'm going to swing on that. Just miss my swing. Yeah. I will tell you. The blankies winners are for original screenplay.

I'll just go one to five. Seniors was their winner and then Marty Supreme weapon sentimental by you. It was just an accident. And then adapted. One battle was their winner.

Oh, well, what about Stuart? Yeah. We haven't done it. That's a captured screenplay. But I'll tell you a minute.

One battle was their winner. No other choice. 28 years later. But Goonia. And wake up dead man.

Okay. My adapted screenplays. Let me see. One battle after another. 28 years later.

Hmm. Peter who jars day. Heada. All right. And Superman.

I'm glad you. I'm glad you had Peter who jars day. Those are my five. Hmm. Mine are HamNet.

Chloe Xiaow and Maggie Ofero. Heada. Need to cost a. One battle after another. Paul Thomas Anderson.

Peter who jars day. Iris X. Wake up dead man. Ryan Johnson.

“I was worried that Peter who jars day is just so much.”

Oh, we have these transcripts. No, but it's. It's. It's. It's so.

It's like it's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Trying to. What is my number. Five. Going to be. I also realized I fell into.

One of the bullshitty or Oscar things, which is. It's you're adapted if you. Have characters from previous movies. Yeah. I think spiritually.

I disagree with. But in this case, I wanted to nominate wake up dead man. Yeah. I mean, to me, right. Seeing wake up dead man is adapted as bizarre.

Yes. But it is. But I mean, but he's there. And otherwise. Otherwise, you all were getting songs on blue and I would have stood by it.

But. Well, I'm glad it all worked out. Stay tuned. I'm struggling with my number five here. Weirdly.

Well, give us your four. Yeah. Because I'm just trying to remind myself on what qualifies as what a little bit. My four definitely. Uh, no other choice.

One battle after another. Wake up dead man. And I've got mystery. Uh, final destination bloodlines. Good movie.

Is roof man adapted? Uh, I don't actually think it is.

It's not a true story. Yeah. So it's not.

You don't want to nominate.

I don't know. Yeah. What 20 years later had. Oh, I'll nominate 20 years. Correct.

Thank you, sorry. Yes. Yeah. That's exactly what I'm doing. Yeah.

So I'm three sequel sneak in in there. Yeah. Um. 20 years later. Yeah.

Just a fucking. It's a pre-screen play. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's my nominee for me. Yeah. I mean, I'm giving a win to one battle. Like sorry guys, like one battle.

I was going to say I would.

“But I'm breaking anybody's brains by saying one battle.”

Right. It's the best. And it's also a very interesting feed of adaptation. Yeah. It's like taking the guts of a book and.

Yeah. You know, messing it around in all kinds of ways. I take everybody's word for that because there's no way I. You don't want to find it. I can't read.

So I. It would be pointless. I'm I'm giving it to no other choice. Yeah. Uh.

Other than Benicio, one battle is like coming in like second for me in almost every category.

Yeah. Yeah. And that is based on a novel is. Yeah. By Donald West.

Yes. Thank you to everyone who sent me the. The, uh, cost is Gavras. Uh, film. All right.

You can start to find. Yes. The prior adaptation. Uh, and if anyone wants a link, I now have forty seven of them. So I have many ways to watch the movie.

Yeah. I can just go on it. I can surround my. I can just go on it. We're going to clip that.

Uh. As well. You don't need to go on it. Okay. Anytime I invoke gooning on the show.

“Listeners go does he just think it's having a lot of screens?”

I know what the other stuff is. I'm just don't know. I don't want to talk about it. You don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it.

What are your anime family show? Yeah. So true. Best animated feature. What are your animated films, Griff?

Uh, come here five. This is actually uh, tough to be here. And I will say I have not. I have some big blind spots. Um, I really haven't met little Emily.

Yeah.

But I mean, this is the problem is like, I'd be putting in some stuff.

I like, okay, just to fill out the five. Sure. That's the kind of, yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, the day the earth blew up.

Oh, yes, sure. Okay. Pop demon hunters. Yeah. And I'm like, what else do I even, like, I'd mentally haven't seen Arco yet?

Oh, sure. I haven't seen little Emily yet. Yeah. I was not crazy about Zootopia too. Um, I was not crazy about Ellie.

I was not crazy about Ellie. What about fixed? Uh, I really was not crazy about that one. It's a Jenny Tartotoski movie about a horny dog. Oh, right.

Oh, right. Oh, it was that I see for some reason. I thought that movie turned out to not actually like I know the joke. How hard it doesn't exist. But like, I thought Jenny Tartotoski.

There was a real threat of it being a Zazz love. Yeah. Yeah. It escaped in this game. And of course, we voted full episode to it.

Of course. Um, no, I don't even know what my, like, number three would be. I have some. Yeah. What about you guys?

Yeah, I have. Yeah, it's boring. Yeah. Because the Topia 2 and Arco and K-pop demon hunters. And then, yeah, I have to be like, I guess, Ellie.

I basically understand. Yeah. Yeah, it's a week here. I haven't. It's a week.

Emily, which.

“I think are in the same bucket for me, which is like, really care for Arco.”

I thought Arco was fine. I thought little Emily was fine. I thought Elio was not bad, which felt like a radical opinion to me because I think Elio got a lot of shit for some reason. I think Elio saw.

But like, Elio left my brain. Yeah. Yeah, Elio was over. I just barely remember. And like, if I'm doing three despise it.

I'm putting Elio into Topia and I don't think each other wants to. I'm fine. I really. I very much enjoyed. Yeah.

I enjoyed myself with Sootopia 2. And K-pop demon hunters is kind of my number one with a bullet, even though I think that movie is mostly a good time. Yeah. That is grafted onto a decent movie.

I'm trying everyone is having fun. Me too. I was a little bit like. I'm so grateful for this. The songs are now encoded in my brain.

Sure. I haven't seen Predator Killer of Killers, which I. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There are blankies put that in there along with Arco, Davey or blew up.

And chainsaw man, Ben's favorite part of the year was number two for them. And then K-pop demon hunters. I continue to struggle with the Nageal films. I cannot make sense of them. Yeah.

That guy's too kind of did nothing for me. The king of kings and David obviously. My favorite movie. Shane saw one to the. That's Ben's favorite.

I did not see that. I did not. I missed that one. Oh, Joe. Yeah.

Where's it? Yeah. Alright. Snakes is one of the worst films I saw all year. That's a speaker movie.

We've got talking sneakers. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. Trying Anthony Mackie. Tony.

It's starring Martin Lawrence, who this is.

If I can just animation there about for a second on over by sneaks.

That is the first voice over performance recorded entirely while someone is fully asleep. Just kind of put a mic by the bed there. We're doing a lot of sleep technology. Yeah. Yeah.

“That's what it sounds like the whole time.”

He was getting tested first sleep apnea and they thought while we were doing that, while we got them hooked up to machines, why not we also record a voice. Yeah. Any. Vocal performances.

We want to shout out this year honestly. No. I'm moving us on from. Yeah. We're all struggling here.

Yeah. We look. We talk. You know what? David Strithane and Andy Sandberg did great job in.

I took you to. The whole took the cast as great. Yeah. I agree with you. Marin.

The back guys. I haven't seen that one yet. I really just want to talk about goat which is 26. Oh, you're all about goat. A goat.

I still haven't goat yet. Okay. It's good. Number one move in America. Yeah.

I got it fair. Yeah. Joe. What you're witnessing is a very interesting inflection point.

The narrative of blank chat. Right. Which is I'm getting non-plused about all animated films. Ah. And David is going to see them with his daughter.

Sure. This is fucking rules.

“I, it's kind of a, I'm now in the, I think if there's an animated film.”

She's old enough for it. Yeah. Here's a cartoon. I'm going to go to see it. Yeah.

We're going to hoppers. We're going to marry a galaxy. Right. Like whatever the ones come in down the pie car. Copper.

Do you mean Merrill Streep's grand return to future films? After a bunch of years. Copper.

The first time Merrill Streep has played an insect queen and an animated film in 20 years.

I mean. After the film. Is that what we're talking about? Yeah. One of the greatest animatrix plays.

I literally was like the only reason I'm pulling that is because I've been in this adventure. Yeah. All right. What else should we do here? Have you guys, did you guys do nominations for casting?

Cause that's the inaugural, I did not. I don't do a casting. Mine was kind of chalk, except for I wanted to throw in Griffin and summer, which I was like if you cast really awesome kid characters. Can I just get it?

All dips on the other three seasons. Oh, Griffin and Spring Griffin. I will see. What are you going to do? She still has the other three.

You're doing a Romair. I want to complete the season. I just don't like it. I'll put a little move. Have you seen it?

I've heard it. Thank you. It's a real love winner. It is a really love it.

“The whole family that it's got a new Griffin love.”

Pan in Griffin and summer. Okay. All right. Interesting. But cinematography.

Best cinematography. Cinematography. Mine are Darius Congee from Marty Supreme. Michael Bowman for one battle after another. Alex Ashford, Peter who jars day.

Yeah. Gorgeous. Morrow hurts for serums. And Adolfo Villoso for train dream. Pretty moving.

Yeah. Probably going to win the Oscar? No, actually. I think it's going to be one battle. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a battle of Marty Supreme. I have 28 years later, which is my winner.

That's such a technique. Yeah. I have a Phoenician scheme. Because, of course, like every West movie basically deserves every tech nom.

I can. That makes up for one movie. But this is Oscar narrative. This is my brain. Yeah.

This is the first live action movie. He's done with anyone other than Bob. Correct? Yes. I can't remember what.

I don't know if there's a reason. I don't either. But he and Yomi got in a fight over like craft. But Yomi goes all the way back to bottle rock. He goes way back.

And then no other choice is my fifth. Yeah. Mine are 28 years later. Die my love. No, yeah.

No other choice. One battle after another. And Phoenician scheme. Nice. He does go all the way back to bottle rock.

Yeah. What fuck happens? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, Dublin, I was a king.

I mean, he's one of my favorite DPs. But you're right.

I will never stop yelling about this.

It makes no sense. Even when they don't like the movie, he should be getting like young Victoria style. Not many things. I think that's why I don't do it.

Yeah. It's a screenplay nomination. So clearly you saw it clearly you liked it. Yeah. And yet like no production design.

Yeah. You could go. Okay. So with that movie, too, Edgy at that point in time.

But now it should now agree. Right. And it's like. It feels like what happened last year with Ray Fines. Yeah.

Yeah. Not winning for Conclave or people were like, But he already has one. Right. Yeah.

This is another graphic book. Right. That's right. Or it feels like people are like, But hasn't West Anderson like having his movies

One like 20 craft awards. You will hear that from people being like, Oh, another, you know, Play for craft nominations from West Anderson. Right.

No. Actually kind of never. Deaths. One for. Grand Buddha.

And the Grand Buddha passed win. It won. When we make up and hear stuff like three or four. Yeah.

But it was a tech dinner.

Because like obviously. One for a person in photography. Yeah. It won for costumes. Make up a score and production sign.

So stock house.

“And it's like stock house and has his Oscar.”

Yeah. Maybe that's what they feel. But I don't know. I don't know. And I don't like it.

Yeah. It's bad. Yeah. The blankies winners here are our listeners were. One battle.

And then sinners 20 years later. Crane dreams and no other choice. So you know. Good looking movies. Good looking movies.

Yeah. Score. Best score. I've got some score nominees. Kind of chalky.

One battle. sinners. Sirot. Testimidivan Lee. And trained.

Testimidivan Lee is a good shout. Yeah. If nothing else. And I've kind of been like in many group text. I've been the sort of holdout.

Testimidivan Lee. But like their elements of that movie that like are really fantastic. I was left quite cold by that film. But I was. It's quite impressive.

You're one of a very many people who I've heard that from. And I'm glad to have at least some company. For some reason that became the like gay guy. Coslam. This year.

And I was like. There's some like actual movies with like gay character. I mean, I know that whatever Lewis Pullman in that maybe in whatever. But like I don't know. Everybody was just on the on the Cypher train.

And she's great. I love Cypher. A door that we'll talk about in a little bit. All right. I did.

I forgot to post this on a letter box when I saw it. But saw the film was very moved by it was very affected by it. Immediately came out with like a couple of really good pitches for if I had to write for the spirit awards. Uh-huh. Uh, testament of Stanley.

I mean, it's right there. Uh, Tim Robinson chair company parody. Where he shows up at the shakers. He's like, what's going on here? And they just keep singing.

That would be fun. That would be fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Because they know those great chairs. Yeah. I just wanted the home movie to be about furniture. Right. And then it like it's like, it gets like one line.

And then my third story. Make a furniture.

My third spirit awards pitch was a shake it off.

They do like a Daniel Blumberg style performance of Taylor Swift shake it off. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was like three good pitches right off the dome. I, you seem just like seeding with rage that the spirits did not take you up on this.

So they even acknowledged Emily.

“I think the spirits were kind of so odd.”

Editing because I drafted it in our other secret movie. Like we're part of what? And I got it for one dollar. And I was like, I'm going to fucking reap the riches with this. I'm the only one who has it on their slate.

And then that is the only major award it got all year. In these spirits were weird this year. And that like the nominations were so pleasantly like off the map. Yeah. Because they do the literature.

And that like really classic indie spirit way of like, Oh, this used to like give me 20 ideas for movies that I hadn't seen. Right. Yeah. And then because of that, the like it was so much more stark that like,

Oh, there's one per category that's like an Oscar nominee crossover. And so of course those ones were the ones the one. The one to train dreams. Yeah. Train dreams one.

Sorry, baby, which is not an Oscar nominee.

But it was also like everybody's pick for best first feature this year.

So like that one a few of them. And like Roseburn won very well deserved. But like is an Oscar nominee. My nominees for score were one battle. Marty Supreme 28 years later young fathers.

Yeah. Senors and tron areas. I did not see tron areas. I was waiting to have to see it because of the Oscar nominee. I believe it.

I mean, yeah, I'm now like wondering if I have the exact same five. It's right. Yeah. I mean, there's not the good scores this year though. I've been listening to.

I've been bumping back. Blackback score is great. The weapon score is great. We've been scores really cool. Yeah.

Not as much one to bump because it's so just, you know, disorienting but good. Uh, what are some other good say?

“Did you man score the weird sort of hodgepodgey nature of it?”

Not with standing, but it's good. And Lee for sure. I don't know. I don't know me. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. What? I gave what? Well, finalization of screenplay.

No. I'm just remembering that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

I think that is a perfectly structured screenplay. Yeah. I think that movie is so smart. I give it so much credit for like after six. Right.

No. No. This is the sixth entry. There were five previous. Yeah.

Showing up and just being like, this is clearly what all of these movies should have been all. Like just finding the perfect narrative structure and emotional like underpinning for one of these films. Yeah. I also think that movie does some of the smartest legacy. Well, shit.

I have ever seen. I agree. It is the opposite of the stuff that makes my teeth hurt. Where there is a, well, they essentially were like David Gordon Green's Halloween.

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furgestile, jumbled timeline where things keep on getting rearranged are all the trickle effects of this one incident. That is the cold open that is so good. Yeah. Yeah. I really liked it.

I thought it was really creative.

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“Maybe I wish I hadn't seen the trailer because the one trailer gives away so much of the”

backyard scene with the lawnmower and whatnot that I was like, but that scene has so much wrong footing and so many Mr. Racks. Oh, that's true. But I just wanted, I wanted that to understand why it's the same thing with the running man trailer where they give away so much of the one action scene in the hallway or the

elevator or whatever.

I liked that the first bloodlines teaser was the piercing tattoo shop.

Yes, which is the ultimate figure out exactly. So I was like, oh, this is a good sequence and they're ruining it to do the marketing and then you see in the context of the movie and you're like, no, this was the exact thing for them to study that character. Because it's context is totally different.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Can I give out a special honorific award? Sure.

Can I do one right after? Yeah. Of course. The first ever Iowa debris, memorial couldn't be more seated award. I say memorial because her time as a guest on a show is probably it.

Look, once in a while I come for lunch. I talked to Iowa largely about my kids, but once in a while Iowa will be like, kind of come back up and see some day and I'm like, hey, man, doors open. She is about to do proof from Broadway. Yes.

That's a New York. She's here. Oh, shit. She will also be fairly busy doing what is having seen, you know, the original production. What are the more debint?

Yes. I feel like we threw Spielberg Turnther and she said I only want to do Columbia Mainfield. She didn't say I only want to, but she did say I really want to do that. And, you know, again, it's fun, but you are honoring, of course, her iconic. I'm so seated.

I couldn't be more seated. I couldn't be more seated. Telling me it's not coming out for months, but I remain seated, you know, her tweet. So this is my award for the best performance with zero standing up. Okay.

“Now, I think it's important that the performance cannot textually be a character who lacks”

the ability to stand. Oh, I understand. It needs to feel like the actor is overriding any demands going, I got an idea. What if I just a little, what if I'm sort of in this chair here? What if I have an emotional connection to this chair?

I really shouldn't write it. Yeah. And, this award was inspired, and I think this is much like Potter's Emerald, something that was easy to fill every year, but it was inspired by seeing the performance this year. That was, in my memory, three or four different scenes and a couple different locations.

I'll see that. And every time I cut back to this actor in a chair, I was just going, oh, I hope he doesn't fuck up the streak.

I hope he never stands up.

Al Pacino in Dead Man's Wire. Oh, sure. Yes. I have not seen, but I've heard that his performance is a smidge low energy. The four different chairs by my count, four different chairs.

I believe I read that he shot the entire performance in one day. I also believe the movie takes place over like I think 72 hours, but he goes from like a country club to like, a couple different rooms in his home, different chairs, but this is all in screen. He's moving and we all end in dealing, but we never see it.

And he's doing a lot, but he could not be more seated, and it's a clear choice by big out. He'd go for like Tracy Letzon House of Dynamite or something like that, but he's leaning and standing. Yes.

Does he stand? Okay. Yeah. And he's going like, okay. Joe, it's there in the name.

They could not be more seated. You don't have to be easier. That's true. That's true. Yeah.

Nuremberg.

I've pointed out already.

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You don't have to be where they were like, you don't have to play like a crazy guy. Yes. Like, can I sit in the car? Yeah. Get out.

And another one was just like, what if I was sitting on this Vespa for most of his oh, yeah. The Pope's Exorcist? Yes. Yes.

Different. Then Bobby's the other one. He did. He did another movie called The Something Exorcism. Yes.

Yeah. Right. Almost felt like they were like, we just, we sort of see, gee, at a little different haircut on you from like deleted scenes from the ugly or extra. But he didn't want to about like, he's a guy who played an exorcist or something.

Troubled actor begins to exhibit destructive behavior. I don't see how Russes forward it would fight with that character. Am I not wrong? While shooting a horror film is in some sort of middle space between like real movies. Yes.

And like Bruce Willis depressing red box like Slop.

Yes. You know, kind of stuff. They're more legitimate than that. Yeah. It's, it's an interesting zone he's in.

But once again, this category, which exists and is open to you gentlemen for all years going forward. Yeah. This spiritually seeded, no.

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on the fly. I will have to punts until next year, but next year I'll come locked and load it. Yeah, just think about it. Right. Yeah.

Right. Mine is so on my podcast, this had Oscar buzz on our Patreon. We have been taken to doing what we call superlatives awards, which is all that we are to try to move you words from various places. The NBR, whatever tribute to integrity and, you know, filmmaking or whatever.

Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Best kiss from the MTV Movie Awards. The KM Palm Dog.

Things like that. And sometimes you make up around category. And as soon as we were done, I texted Chris and I said, I forgot the one category I wanted to do, which is best Wi-Fi on phone. Because the trope of the Wi-Fi on phone, Katherine Keener in Sully.

Keener in Sully is me. Absolutely. No, she's in a Keppipill. Correct. That's right.

I knew it was my phone. Yes. But the two. Yeah. Those are your twin pillars of like exactly what I'm talking.

I hope no pirates get you today, honey. All right. I'll see you later. Diane Lane in the perfect storm.

“Diane Lane in the perfect storm is on the C.B.”

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She never gets in the boat.

But Mary Elizabeth, Master Antonio's in a boat. She's right. She's in the war room. She's in the war room. She's the one on the horn.

Yeah. Like barking out instruction. Yes. You know who's in the war room. It's Tracy West.

This is true. Yes. And now he could be more seated. Joe? Yes.

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He's doing the like monologue from his play. But like he's like, you know. And I was just like, yeah, this is this is great. I get it. I get this right away.

And like the kid has good comedic instincts too in that movie. But like that's a really sweet movie. And I like how, you know, how it is not just about a silly guy. Yeah. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Oh, God. And they have him sort of latch onto this like straight guy who's this, you know, want to be very, very funny.

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I know. I mean, he's an idiot. But like, yes. So it really would also. I'm sure it would be too hard.

It's like middle school. It's sort of, but like, but like, not to be, but if he was a theater game. But if he was, yes, if he was a theater game or so, then just like a megalomaniac,

“like, but obviously why rough more is one of the most important movies.”

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's all about this guy being like, oh, I'm fucking insufferable. I'm a nightmare.

Abby Ryder Fordson also showed out is very good in that movie. From very, very God. And Katherine Newton, who is an actress. I've been resistant to has like one or two scenes where she just like knocks it out of the park. Yeah.

It's just so funny. It's just really funny that both Katherine Newton and Abby Ryder. Abby Ryder Fordson earned it because they are the two Cassie links. Oh, yeah. Right.

Oh. When is Abby Ryder Fordson? She's Cassie laying in the original anime. She's a little girl.

She's like Cassie in the first movie.

Never caught on. And then in the end game, there's the weird middle actress. Right. She just gives her a adult one. Right.

That's right. Yes. Who comes back home. And then in quantum media, Katherine Newton shows up. Like, of course, I'm your famously your daughter.

Right. Right. And it's one of those things like when they put Willah Holland in for Shelyne Woodley in the O.C. Yeah. Where they're like, yeah, Shelyne's just not glam enough.

We're going to sub her out. And then it's Shelyne just goes on to have her guys. Yeah. Yeah. And like, Abby Ryder Fordson's like, I don't know why you fired me.

Yeah. I'm doing great over here. Yeah. Yeah. She's great.

I know they had a time jump or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. Did you get all five out?

I got them out. I got them out. I got them out. Sorry. Who you're winning?

Even Hawk, I'm sorry. You're sorry. I love them so much on that movie. It's so good. I so fucking good.

“I think about what her buddy, host of article Darlings, Richard Lawson said.”

When he was talking to me about that film in August, we met up for drinks.

It was to talk about the idea of critical Darlings for the first time.

When you were Griffin in summer. I was when I still could like claim to that title. Yeah. And he was like, it's a shame that Ethan Hawk isn't going to get nominated. If he gave this performance on Broadway, they would attempt the Tony before that occurred.

Before that occurred. Yeah. Yeah. It's a book. Yeah.

They give him another trophy every night. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so nice that that performance like punch there. I feel it's incredible.

It's just not. I filled in for my colleague, Nate Jones, for our gold rush column. Well, he was on paternity leave this year for a few months. And I put Ethan Hawk in my best actor predictions. Almost as a defiant like, come on.

Like shame the double kind of a thing. Right. It's so sucks that this isn't going to happen. But like whatever. Yeah.

Like I'm just going to put it out there. And the fact that like that ended up happening. I'm like, what a weird like miracle that like now that it's happened. Yeah. We're just like, well, Ethan Hawk.

Yeah. You got nominated. But like think about that when I first saw Blue Moon. It was like a pipe dream that that would have been not made. It just felt like a niche movie.

Like I know it's like. So any pictures classics like it's not or had another movie that seemed like it was more about us growing on. Kind of a thing. Yeah.

But also like it's my the most fascinating thing about the season to me. Yeah. Was going in. It was like man. Fuck.

And best actor is going to be a bloodbath. Right. Everyone was correct about the Capri on Shalame. Yeah.

“That's why I must go high-tailed it to supporting act.”

Absolutely. Yeah. But from a distance it was like, okay, but we have Jeremy Allen White and he's a very interesting star. Yeah.

Wayne Johnson, the smashing machine. Brendan Fraser and Redsville family. George Clooney and Jay Kelly. Yes. Like you were like this is like the cup over flow with.

Yes. Or our biggest movie stars are rising stars past winners. People who are overdue. What fucking chances Ethan Hawk have like almost everyone wiped out. Yeah.

If you look at the predictions like eight of the 10 that people were predicting in August. Yeah. Yeah. And we ended up with like a perfect five argue that the.

Oh, so I have some people being like incredible.

You know, excellent lineup. One of the best ones is like someone was like, I really want a geologist and get it in there. And I'm like, I hear you but for like, for who? Like, it's a really, really tough one to try. I have to try and see as much as anybody loves train dreams.

Yeah. Love adjutant. And he's maybe in my top 10. For actor this year because it's such a good. Like leaving Wagner more off of my list is stupid.

Yeah.

That's a performance that I think is insanely good.

Yeah. And so good. And he was so hot at the near film. Oh, I believe it. Oh, my God.

I believe it.

“And I think Michael B. Jordan is fantastic.”

And I love that he got the nom. I still think of the Niki B. Jerk and joke from Golden Loves. It's so fucking good. It's so good. Yeah.

Yeah. No. Yeah. Like I normally wouldn't want to put like three Oscar nominees in my blank. He'll line up because I'm like that's boring.

But like what am I going to do? Like not nominate. Shall I? Like he's, he's my winner. He's great.

Um, that New York film festival performance. And I know festival fever whatever. There was no better venue to see that movie than that moment in that time. But like I love that performance so much. It's so perfectly both tailored to him.

And yet the way that like Josh softies like what if we make him Pockmarked and gauky and like it's a great. I want to throw that out. That's a best make up. Underrated best make up snub.

Yes. But it happens in like multiple areas of the film. It's some of the most subtle work I have seen. I really know him this year. Our, our, our final though.

I don't know anything about the ugly step sister. I stepped up so easily. Yeah. Good. Okay.

“And it's like, I like that gnarly things get now.”

It's like what if Cinderella had people like cutting people's nose on. It was like Cinderella with like, yeah, but with, um, a botched surgery. What a place in the world was a girl boss. Gosh. I was watching Marty Supreme and thinking.

And thinking, "Oh, have they just been putting makeup on Shalame this whole time and he had this?" Right, this is just heller S. Go on with this. That's a lot more awful. It's truly, it's so realistically done. Yeah.

And it's so subtle and even like Mr. Wonderful's hair piece. Uh, yeah. Which is like, "Oh, what if this guy's like 20% less balding than he really is?" Yeah. You know, these things that are like really hard to dial in.

I also thought that Anne Lee had some best image of makeup. And Lee is just one of those, again, things where I'm just like, "The craft given the scale of the action is very impressive." Yeah. But it also just like really makes you make a big difference.

I'm just like, "Oh, they dialed in the difference of like five years around the eyes." Also, it seems more obvious, but I mentioned this too. I was, I said this to Katie. Rich on our text chain. Weapons as a makeup nominee.

Kind of crazy. It's kind of crazy. It is crazy. They sort of snubbed weapons at the end of the day. And it's not just Anne Gladys, but there's a lot of, you know,

really good makeup. Definitely. The fucking Benedict Wang job is so minimal. Like, you know, yeah. Well, I'm also the parents.

The multiple stages of their makeup.

“Am I wrong in thinking that it was left off the hair and makeup short list?”

But it was on the casting short list. You know, I just don't know. It definitely, I believe it was on the casting short list. Yes. And I think you're right that it was not on the makeup.

But it ended up only getting the mad again performance. All right. Yeah. Screenplayers. Yeah.

It was interesting. I was double checking yesterday because of the incredible casting. And nothing else. Yeah.

Critical darlings conversation.

But PGA this year was nine out of ten overlapping the best picture line. It was weapons. It was weapons in over secret agents. Right. Which.

And I think by the week of the nominations, people were starting to think that weapons was going to stay in and that secret agent would sell it. So yeah. Yeah. I was going to say that in the PGA line.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

My winner is doing the rock Johnson. There you go. What an evolution. I mean, truly it's like to make up a word for black Adam just a minute. It is.

It's another like I would have given him the best supporting actor for. That year, which was prior to us. Right. Doing these on Michael words. So I haven't had to hand them on awards.

Right. That's when I was like this guy has like. Yeah. Fully come into his power. Yeah.

And then part of why I've been so hard on him for the last 10 years is because I'm just like do. You have so much power. Yeah. Why aren't you applying it to anything interesting. Also, you don't seem happy.

I know. To what it seems. I was hearing. I'll say off mic. But I was hearing some stories about him.

Uh, that of what a sweetie pie he can be. Uh, and how he's very good at like knowing everyone's name. And like in a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. In that kind of slightly poll.

I was like. I was like. Yeah. Right.

But still basically like, you know, very positive reviews.

Maybe he enjoys that one. No. He has like a good reputation in WWE too. He wasn't like. I feel like if he was a shit in WWE, that would have gotten.

It was the boss. It was the best. Right. But I, it's what I was saying earlier that like, many was like he was telling me how tired he was.

I'm having to do that all the time. Right. Because he wasn't actually a nice guy, but it was tough. The self imposed responsibility to be that version himself all the time. And this is this rare case of a performance that is like silencing the haters by also admitting that they were correct.

And I'm going to give the performance about.

When my ranking for all of the Oscar nominees publishes just like skip past the first ten or whatever.

Okay. Yeah. I will also, I need to point out that these awards are being hended up by Marian John by T's. Of course. Marian John by T's. And trouble winner.

Oh and to give it to me more. Yes. It's a mental choice. It's a sentimental choice. Yeah.

Who you say you're winner? You didn't walk. Yeah. There we go. Best actress.

But my best actresses are Jennifer Lawrence for Diamond Love. So I was born for if I had legs I'd kick you. Kiki Palmer for one of them days. Great call. Shout out for caught by the tides.

One of my favorite actors obviously. Love her. Julie Roberts for after the hunt. I almost put Julie on. Made it for me is quite great in that.

Good in that film. It's a movie that I had a lot of problems with. It didn't really kind of for me. Another. This had Oscar buzz movie that.

Yeah. And I just think she really brings the thunder in it and I truly wish you know everything had worked to support that performance better. Yeah.

“You know like, but I think she's so fucking good.”

It came up in some other. The scene where she choose the kid out in the in the in the. Her Tarsine. Yeah. Her big Tarsine.

One of those things were like the movie had basically lost me by that point.

I wasn't really invested in what was going to happen. But then I was just like, God, she's crushing this. Yeah. Yeah. So I also thought the scene would turn Garfield towards the end.

There is. There is. There's a great lot. Yeah. Yeah.

Garfield's just so close. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

It's a very frustrating movie. Yeah. We have this conversation in some already record episode that will come out in the next couple of months that I can't remember what prompted this. But I just want to throw it to you quickly. Yeah.

Because you're a bit of an expert in this field. Sure. We were discussing. We had Julia Roberts last 20 years. It's tough.

Considering that we win paper almost all of the choices are commendable. And within that run, she has had quite a few genuine box office hits and has another Oscar nomination. And yet you're like, how she not made a good movie in 20 years. I am. We can go to this because we did go deep on this.

We are a defender of which. That is back. Oh, no. Great performance. I want to throw it to you.

I want to see if there was one you would defend. That's the one. August, no, Sage County is just a quagmire that would take a longer time. But you're like, she got an Oscar on me. And for a lead role in supporting.

So that was some what are some. That was also the year of the selfie, which is a haunted photograph that has had its tentacles throughout history since then. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, well, you monster, not a good movie.

A lot of talent there. Wonder is a success. Big hit. Big hit. Take it to paradise.

We shall never be. Some money, but let's not speak about it. It's the most frustrating. How was this not a gentleman six? Right.

We've the world behind. I think is watchable junk. A lot of people just lock off the watchable. Yeah. Seek it in their eyes and movie.

I have actually seen a baby. We did it for our podcast. And that is a crazy boring movie. It's silly. It's silly.

I see that. But this is the other crazy thing. That we're saying. He is really good in almost all of this. Yes.

She has never the problem.

And she's off to the strongest act.

“And you're just like, why can't she fucking catch a break?”

She's definitely a robber. You know, she just can't catch a break. She was on going to perform. Really good on the SamSML TV show. Homecoming.

Let's not come on now. But I say this because her next movie is a SamSML. I know. She loves the guy. Yeah.

Which is fine. I mean, I, I. Someone's got to go. We throw out. So yes.

Can Wes Anderson please get his hands. I'm on. Bright. More. Right.

But the problem with that is there's probably like a list of 20 actors where I'm like, Wes, could you do this guy a favorite? Wes Anderson's like, you know, I don't just like randomly come up with shit. I take a while. Generating.

Also. Also. I'm like, who works with me. Well, and everybody who works with him, he retains. He loves.

So that's what the experience. Yeah. So it's tougher to get my feel. So says. He's been saying that he's like five plus times written a role explicitly for an offered a two

Jody Foster who keeps turning him down. Oh, she would be great. And you're doing fill in some of the gaps of like, oh, did tell to start to get some of those positions.

“Which are the ones that were written for Jody Foster?”

I feel like Julia has gotten into a Jody Foster adjacent spiky territory at this point. I wonder if she has Robert 10 could get her mom into one of those movies on a connection. Oh, sort of reverse.

Excuse me.

“She's going to have to work hard to get the role.”

I have to read for it. Audition for Wes. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it goes.

Okay. Come on.

Give me your best actresses.

Jody. All right. Jessie Buckley and ham nets. This is part of it. Rose burned.

And if I had legs, I'd kick you. Susan Shardy and I'm becoming a guinea fall. I love him. Kate Hudson and song song blue. Wait, Joe.

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I'm going to be done with that. I don't have a kid. I'm out on that move. It just lost me. Not any like a tool.

Just when the movie begins to be kind of like piled up suffering, like, you know, sort of different phases of suffering.

“I think it's also there's there's there's a sense of an ever going to play.”

Right. Yeah. You're on rails and you're like, we know what this is going to be. It's just going to be an endless area of body. Hamlet is my materialist and that everything that people don't like about Hamlet, I'm

like that works for me. Like that really works. I did not dislike it. But it definitely, I don't know, it lost me somewhere in there and I thought, well, everyone says the ending is such a undeniable knock at a wimmy back and it just didn't do

it for me. Well, and that's a fact doesn't do it for you, then you're the end. Yeah. I don't have anything intellectually against that movie. I love Jessie Buckley.

It'd be weird if you had something like that. Yeah. I got you. I got you. I'm over two.

For the last 18 months I've been telling people about I'm becoming a guinea fall. That was a movie that. Another interesting blind spot. It's an interesting blind spot. I mean, it's on interview.

I think. Okay. Reviewable. Festivals last year in a 24 for some reason, did that bullshitty qualify it and then push it to March or whatever.

He does it at all. I don't think right. That's right. Right. They put it in the mail.

I think they were. They weren't slow playing it, thinking that it would be submitted for international future consideration and then no country kind of claimed it. The problem I think is it's like it's sort of a zambian movie. It's a zambian movie that you can financing things like this.

But it's quite critical of like sort of patriarchal cultures or what I don't know.

Like it. Yes. Anybody listening to this?

“If that's what he is, is new to you hearing about it, like go check it out.”

It rules. It's so good. We also had our winners. Yeah. Who's your winner?

But, uh, burn. I'll just give you the 10 blanky lead performance. You said your winner. Yeah. This feels like the space to honor.

Test my family for me. But I also think it's like it's an astonishing performance. Oh, I also didn't, sorry to derail us for like half a second. I put O'Connor for Wakeup Deadman for you had mentioned in materialists. Yeah.

Or not mentioned materialists, masterminds of the M movies. He's doing something so different in Wakeup Deadman and he's like, you know, he's almost like Nebuchie quality. He has to that character. I think he's incredibly funny.

He's so locked in in that movie. And then you hit the bridge and ever it's seen. Yeah. And it's like, the scene is like a master piece of craft. Yes.

The way that he makes the sunset during it, even though inside, yeah. I love that scene. When he drops the movie. The best scene. Yeah.

So he's like, right. This is what I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No. When they announced that he was going to be in the new memoir blog. You got my wife. Yeah. And it was like he's going to play a priest and people were like, is he going to be

a guy pretending to be a priest? Like, is it the whole thing with Rush O'Connor the Scusey and if it's not a guy pretending to be a priest, then are they going to clean him up and isn't that we don't want from him? Right.

And then you're like, no, the idea is hyper earnest. Joshua Connor type is a priest. Yes. Yes. Yes.

The first time anybody's taken the movie away from Daniel Craig.

“I think Craig sort of most definitely sits in the back seat in that movie.”

I did a screenplay. I adore Craig and that movie. I do too. But I feel like I think I think your color is on me. Much the more main character.

He is, but I think Craig gets a little bit better. I think it's the best of his long performances. He's great. But I also saw that someone did a screen time clock and it's like 35 minutes. Sure.

Oh, no. Hannibal Lectures. Well, he takes a while to show up. Yeah. He's just him and Joshua Connor like being like silly guys together.

Yes. Really funny. Yes. The blankies I'll just give you. They're 10 or one.

We're not around. We all love. Yeah, 10. None of it's not made up of we all.

Watching that movie a second time, as I said, on critical darlings, really, she really emerged

for me. You know, my thing with that performance is, I think it's borderline, pedagogy front.

I think Stella and Renata are your leads.

Yeah. I think so. Dylan is not in as much as you think. Right.

“Putting Stella and supporting makes her being the only lead field.”

It makes it fill in balance. Yeah. Yeah. It's still her. She's excellent.

Her opening scene is like unbelievable. Yeah. All right. So Renata 10, Jesse Clemman's nine, another performance I really like. Jesse Buckley eight, Lee Biong-Hung seven, Ethan Hawke six, Jason Finnerty, from

one battle five, Michael B. Jordan four, Roseburn three, Leo two, Timmy one. That was there. Okay. There. That was there list.

Best director. My best directors are Paul Thomas Anderson, put Jeff Arpina, he Zach Craigher, Rajanko for call by the tides and Ranko, I got to see cop by the tides, I see it. I mean, it's it's for the the job boys, isn't it? Literally like him assembling stuff he's been filming for 25 years.

Then came for Rajanko, yeah. My best director lineup is Ariastor, Monofas fold Park Chan-Wook, Mary Brownstein, Paul Thomas Anderson. There you go. Mine.

Thank you. Good five. Paul Thomas Anderson, one battle after another, Mary Brownstein. If I had like said, kick you.

“Ranko Gler centers, Cleber, Mendonka, Fielho, for the secret agent and Jeff Arpina, he”

for it was just an accident. Who's your winner, guys? Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson. Yeah, I'm getting at the Paul.

I mean, a good job. Yeah. He didn't, he didn't in fact do a good job of directing a movie. And I've been on a no-ang sort of floor, the best actor a lot at Paul Thomas Anderson. Josh Hartman, just as Smith, well, got to mention that.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Just as Smith was mine, I imagine. Yeah. I was heart-knit.

Yeah. And I was. I was common to Ben Goffer. Right. Same thing.

Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. No. I might be very wrong about this.

But I, I just really feel like there's a director picture split coming this year. I, I, I, I feel like Snitcher, Snitcher, Snitcher, Snitcher. Snitcher, Snitcher. I was going to say I feel like Snitcher is going to snatch it, but Snitcher's might also snitcher.

Yeah. But the Paul Thomas Anderson, the best director, feels like, uh, only pro peck mountain style, nothing is like veering soft core. Picture is, is very much up in the air, but director seems solid. Yeah.

You, you can argue with it. Yeah. Which is interesting because, generally, lately, when there's a director picture split, director tends to go to the movie that is also going to clean up in the craft awards, which I think is going to be centers.

Yeah. When a few exceptions, I think one battle will probably win editing and cinematography. I mean, look, I'm ready to be wrong. But I know, I think one battle is, is winning. I think it's just one of those rare years kind of like the op-on-hammer year.

Where everyone's just like, we're not going to fuck around. Like, like, these movies don't come along that often. Like, you know, yeah. And I also think like a lot of, no country feels like no country as well.

Their views hit, September, never was just kind of like,

I think this is the movie everyone's going to remember. My question, though, is like, if in the no country year, their will be blood had made like six times as much at the box office. That's a fair point, but I just don't know because it doesn't seem similar to those two movies in that year.

But one battle, like, the imbalance is there. But it's not like one battle is like a moonlight style, like, no, it's not $12 million. I think it's like, centers is going to win elsewhere, and they'll just be like, yeah, we check the boxes. Yeah.

But I mean, PGA, this is to not to go all big picture or nature, but PGA will show. Because that's the preferential balance.

“And I think it will probably win size as well, right?”

Although, no, no, I think it's just winning. No, I'm sorry. That's what I mean. I, yeah. I thought you were saying, well, I think it's going to win PGA, but it'll be like, right.

It wins the preferential balance, which is what matters when it comes to best picture. Yeah. Because I just think most people like one battle, like, I will say that every turn centers is proving to be more broadly popular. I mean, I think it's much money, but like, I think within like industry circles,

within like, people like, there's just like, nobody seems to be like tripping up on the genre thing of it or the sort of, you know, and it's such a triumph. And it's like, you know, it's, it's a real, like, throwing up the gauntlet for like, no, fuck. The still matters.

I like big moves. I love how big it is. Give a shit about. I love how bold it is. If I, if I have a snag on that movie, it's a little bit like, I think it, it sets

up a lot of vampire movie stuff, and then it's just sort of like, and then the vampire stuff happens. But I think there's so much else that's right about the movie, that like, it mostly levels up for me.

Or it's critical to our lands.

We did a Oscar villain episode on Hamlet, and then I saw people going like, right,

become centers versus one battle. Sinners and Hamlet is an accurate, that's very online.

“But that's, that's what's interesting is you're like, it's a year where we kind of don't”

have a villain, and we don't have to create a villain. 2007, I feel like the last time where you're like, there were just two different tastes of. But also, Hamlet is a villain because it's like, the Oscar narrative, what it could have been a villain.

Yeah, it's probably out of the, you know, out of the top three or whatever, but like, the Oscar narrative of like, they like, already movies about making our, you know, like, versus like, big, you know, populous stuff. And Chloe, that was not. So, not to be like, the Hamlet is not to be like, there is a perception, I think, a little

bit that's a little bit overblown of this idea that like, Shakespeare stuff, always wins

Oscars, costume dramas, only one of the Oscars, like, big picture was on that train, I think, and I'm like, that's actually not the case. Like, it just, like, not lately, not in the last 25 years, not so much lately, but when we're talking about Oscar villains, what we're really talking about is Harvey Williams. Yeah. And like, we're talking about the machine he created, it's what people remember

the most. And the thing where you look back, we're like, why did Chuck a lot? Why did it side of your house rules? I don't understand. Why did all these movies that don't exist like that?

I was thinking about this the other day.

“I mean, that's what that fucking movie I swear, which just set Britain back a thousand”

years culturally by mistake is like, one of those Weinstein movies. Yeah. Yeah. I know it to be clear to not to him. If you believe it.

I haven't seen it yet. Yeah. You know, it's not this movie's fault, really. It has the vibe of those Weinstein movies of like, let's can be in a congressional hearing on Tourette after you saw this small indie movie.

You know, like it's like pushing a yes, pushing a, but also like sort of a discussion.

It's, it's a three million Epstein file documents get released.

One million of them are about the campaigns for different Weinstein company, right? Picture contenders. Right. Right. Including Peggy Seagull.

Same. I don't care how many members I have to fuck. Whatever it takes to come to fucking things. He relax. Yeah.

King's Beach is being a pretty good, but the ice square thing. It's like, it's one of those things where it's like, I've said this to you, you're like, yeah. It's genuinely upsetting that that happened in this very bad. It's also like a faulty tower's ask fucking insane sitcom incident of like, then being

like, okay. The path is who have a horrible track work on a race, have finally, finally given Seniors lots of acknowledgment. Yeah. There's going to be winner.

It's going to go great. Yeah. Where are we putting? Yeah. Why is he in the seat labeled "microfoam?"

That's what I understand. You know, it's like, it just sounds like something you made. It does. What this update, BBC.

“What all of the volume up for this hours that could go, like, what's it?”

It's just, it's so fucking like British, like, maybe in this like dumb, baffed away. You know, if this movie had this kind of like miracle underdog run in the UK and had a release share, it wasn't here, and then it was sort of overperforming at every step. And like, whatever the wind up to this and the lead actor beats Timmy, and the like, you know, the terminally online, like Oscar, Stattbrain people are like, fuck, does this mean

that this is immediately now the front runner for next year's best act to come back? Yeah, no. And I'm like, certainly not now. Well, it was like, this is like the inverse of the King Richard thing. Yeah.

We're the first moment we're becoming aware of this before it's extricably tied to a national

disgrace for a country and an academy. Yes, but they're just going to put this movie in theaters and four months of people are like a nice movie. Yeah. But I'm thinking certainly what they were hoping.

Yeah. And then they're still hoping to that anyway. Yes. Sorry. I don't mean to beat up when I swear.

Yeah. I just think like, almost every season, awesome. Our friends and everyone we follow and talk to is sort of going like, I'm going to be so fucking angry if X, X, Y, Z, yeah, right? And then you have people who are like, I kind of like, 19 17.

But you're saying it embarrassed because you know, right. And this year, it's just like, if sinners beats one battle, no one's like, fuck, I guess I think if one battle beats like fuck, if one battle beats sinners, I think a lot of people will be like fuck, like I think that's, but, but in very online circle. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, I don't think I really don't think that that stuff penetrates as widely as some people are quite possible. I think I can tell you that the Blanky Director nominee is PTA number one, Ryan Kougler, Parkchon-Wook, Josh Safty, Danny Boyle.

Those are their five. Wonderful. Wonderful. Back to the Blanky's after these messages. Seymour asked you about the story, also this swill flashback, just like some

rats. You know, I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star.

I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star. I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star. I'm not sure if you're going to be a star, but I'm not sure if you're going to be a star. Best picture. Alright, my top 10 of the year is right now, at least.

So it's changing. One battle after another number one, it was just an accident.

“Number two, weapons number three, sinners number four, cop of the Todd's five, secret agent six,”

Marty Supreme 7, 20 years later, 8th, blue moon, 9th, Eddington, 10th. Marty looking at him being like, "Yeah, I want to mess with that a little bit." But that's my 10. Yeah. Yeah.

I got like a 15 or 20 that I'm pretty strong about. Yeah. And I just made like 7 changes to my 10. But what I have, I'm going to count up. I'm throwing it in here at 10.

I swapped this in the last second because I didn't call out any other areas.

I just swapped in my 10 at last second. The shrouds at number 10. I'm moving. I still haven't seen it. I heard interesting things.

I mean, just peak, whatever you call it. It takes the murmurs case there that no one's really puddling in murmuring. Yeah. Even though it's sort of that tone. Traverse and obscures.

Possibly. But I think I think an excellent movie. Finution scheme number nine. People are just going to be embarrassed like 30 years. Right.

How many West movies got slept on? Yeah. And we're seen as like not one of his best. Six months later, people are like fuck. Was that maybe his best?

Yeah. Of course, at number eight, sinners at seven, weapons at six, my top five, lined up with my best director. But the order is testament of annually at five. If I had legs, I'd kick you at four.

No other choice at three. One by one after another at two.

“And my number one movie the year is adding to him.”

Yes. That's been my favorite. That's a choice. Yeah. I thought I was alone on adding to him.

I'm glad to hear.

I always like coming to Blakey's and seeing him not a long time.

Adding to him's got its fans out there. And a lot of them were on this website. X.com. Interesting. It's looks. It's very turning point.

That's fine. People talked about this is a year where it does feel like there were like two dominant thematic strains that ran through most of the high level movies. Right. And it was like a bad parents.

Uh-huh. And is reality collapse. And 20, 20 broken. Yeah. Right.

Right. Or things broken. Yeah. And we fix them. Is it all over?

How did things break? Kind of shit. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah.

I don't know. It probably just speaks a little more to my world view that Eddington has totally stuck in my crawl in a way beyond one battle. Yeah. Which I think is excellent and love.

“And even like seeing it the third time in theaters when it started.”

I was like fuck. The opening like three seconds of this movie already feel iconic. Yeah. And then everything that happens after this point already feels iconic. Yeah.

It really feels like a movie we've been studying for 50 years. Yeah. It's a text. Yeah. Uh, my list.

I'll start also from the bottom. Number 10 blue moon. Number 9 Eddington. Number 8 sinners. Number 7 on becoming a guinea fall.

Number 6 hamnut. Number 5 lurker. Number 4 train dreams. Number 3 Marty Supreme. Number 2.

One battle after another. And my number one movie is it was just an accident. It was. It wasn't fact. It's just an accident.

Yeah. Me and the the the can jury all. The top ten from the blankies. I'll just do an order. One battle.

sinners. Marty Supreme 28 years later. Happens. No, the choice. Senator.

No value. It's just an accident. Secret agent. Eddington. And now.

I'd like to turn it to Ben. Yeah. Anything here. What were all here for? Well, yes.

Of course. I just feel. We've we've reached that part of the episode. Yes. I need to do kind of a in memory.

Absolutely. In memorandum. Hmm. What do they call it? A memorandum.

But there you go. Random. What do you like writing from notes? Which is fine. I like this.

Yeah. But I sadly. My beloved cat pig. Yes. Yes.

But we all love. Yeah. I had for 17 years. Great. The best cat there was.

And she was a pig in the city. She was a pig in the city. She ran this city. Um. And so yeah.

I'm going to miss her a lot. But um. She passed away recently. Oh, yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

We recently. And so. Yeah. I don't know. Very recently.

You're in a raw state.

Then this is the first time we've recorded since.

Yeah. About half an hour into our episode. Ben. Texted BC group text max plus. Which is the kind of all hands on deck.

Guys, I'm sad.

And we're recording blankies right now.

And I need to think of what move. So I just want to know. Ben Ben. Ben's been on. Grief Island.

Yeah. He's been thinking about sure. AT or T.

“And if you have to choose now or any of his other great.”

You know. So yeah. I think also. I wanted to start there. Just.

Well, that's why you went extra long. Is because. We want to get Ben. And I've time to think of. That's why I bought Ben a violator.

Yeah. He's got Ben D. Arms and legs and is now wrapped around Ben's microphone arm. Yeah. There he is.

That's where he belongs. Yeah. So anyway, one to give that context because I am. Yes. Sad feeling little bump.

But still, let's let's have some fun. Have a little fun. Okay. So. Here we go.

Hmm. The wetdies. Okay. The golden mop. Right.

The slickest flicks of the year.

The movies that soak through. Yeah. What splished. What splashed. We're so lucky to have you.

Ben. Okay. Number one. Frankenstein. Mm.

Old timey dampness. Yeah. Yes. It is actually wet last. You're right.

So wet movie. Yeah. The big rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain. A lot on this to the creature.

I feel like. Oh, ice. Which we should acknowledge. Which is frozen. The hardest water of all.

Yeah. Indeed. Number two. Blood soaked. Yeah.

Sweaty. A lot of sweat. A lot of slick bodies. Very sweaty. Spit.

Spit. Yeah. Modally flicks. Yeah. Liquor.

Which sure? How would you spell that? Liquor. Oh, like. The lickest flicks of the year.

Yeah. And can I say it? Mike makes me horny baby. Oh, interesting. Okay.

So I'm getting a little wet down there. Sure. Sure. Sure. Oh, Mike will be Jordan.

“I thought we were going back to Mike Myers.”

And his cut body and the awesome powers. The religion. I know him is Mike. Okay. Okay.

Well, you know what? Let's just keep going. Yeah. Number three. Last breath.

Yeah. I told you. I adjusted by Sims. I don't even set underwater. It's set underwater.

Or is I like to call it underwater? Yeah. It is a wet movie. It's about the people whose job is to go all the way down there. Yeah.

Yeah. I like to call it the sea. Yeah. That is what you'd like to call it. Yeah.

And number five. Wet land. Okay. Yeah. It's the wetest.

It's good. That's good. Yeah. Number five. Sorry, baby.

For all the tears. Objective for my face. Okay. There's a bathtub scene in that one. That's true.

I toured that movie. Yeah. But what really got me was when the lead character. The character adopts the kid. Yeah.

Because they are sad. The poster. Yes. Yeah.

“And I guess I kind of knew that was coming from the poster.”

But because when I first got pig, it was a very similar moment in my life of like a

close friend passing away. I was very depressed. And a kid will really make your life a lot better. I'm sorry if I can just interject briefly. Yes.

You reminded me of category that I forgot. I thought we just threw out quick. Please. Yes. Truly one.

I've been working on all year. Yes. And I hope that this is not a one off trend this year. And this is a category that can sustain and fill out three nominees for every year to come. Okay.

It's the babe award or best fake hog. Oh, yes, sure. There were a lot of them here. It does this a trend that is trending. Yes.

Yes. I now just trust full of all cinematic penises because they do feel like there's so many of them are fake. Alexander serves guard in pillion. Yeah. Prince Albert.

I'm forgetting which guy it is in Splitsville. Kyle Marvin. Oh, right. One of the guys. Yeah.

But when it comes out of a shower and is really hanging. Big fake hog. Yeah. Obviously the first the inaugural winner of the beable. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Samson. Samson.

Biggest fake is hog I've ever seen. Yeah. For sure. Sorry, man. I just had to get that a rastains on it from walking.

Another wet movie that I did suggest to you was dangerous waters. The movie in which Jack Courtney feeds people to sharks. Right. Pretty fun movie. All right.

Yeah. Quite a bit of sharks. Dangerous animals here too. Sure. It seems like.

Dangerous animals. Yeah. And to the deep. You would love secret agent. Yeah.

A lot of shark stuff. Yes. Okay. Moving on. Next category.

The um no thank yous. We love to hear. Number one. Blue moon. A movie absolutely packed with references that I don't care about.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, okay. No slash Stuart Little. The fucker. EBY. I'm not a fan of his style.

No.

“I'm surprised to hear that because if you cracked open Stuart Little.”

Like today, the moment we finished recording, you would be texting us in 30 minutes. Guys, I'm rooting so hard for Stuart. He did so well. Now it's trying to make it in the city. It's gonna be a doctor said a bar.

And I feel like that was kind of striking. But no, I see what you're saying. Yeah. You don't really care about Oscar and Hammerstein and all that. No.

That's just yeah. Not my jam. Okay. Number two. Mm-hmm.

I would rather spend that half an hour, hour and a half, rather it was Steven Miller. Oh, watch that film. Have either of the tough choice? Have either of you seen Mercy? No.

Oh, no. There's just no. Spoilers.

First 90% of that movie, Chris Pratt felt like he was

England for that Iowa debris award and then he fucks it up. Oh. Chris. That was defer. Number three.

Deliver me from nowhere. I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. Despite your jerseyness.

Yeah. Send me somewhere else anywhere else. And that was a great impression of humanity at the large. Yeah. Yeah.

That decision was made. It literally is like doing public troops. Spot on impression. They were like, fuck. We need to go to the spring steam delivery.

And audiences are like, no. Doesn't matter. That's not going to work. That doesn't help. Yeah.

Number four. How to train your dragon. Mm-hmm. There you go. Yeah.

But Ben, would he be excited to hear that the now making a sequel to the live action remake, which is a remake of the animated sequel in which they are now recasting another actor who had voiced the character in the animated films to now play their live action equivalent as well. What a nightmare.

Now I'm the fantastic Mr. Fox character with the spiralized.

Yeah. Yep. God. Number five, Jurassic World rebirth. As is right there in the title.

There we go. It's our finest film critic. Do we really need to be reborn, though? Let the dinosaurs rest. Yep.

Ben, great take. Yeah.

“I think they're being reborn again as we speak.”

Yeah. There is a moment in that movie where a very tired dinosaur has wandered out of cobble Hill parts. That's right. It's taken a nap. Yeah.

Yeah. The one good idea the movie has. Let's get as far away. Yeah. Some honorable mentions.

Please. The bone temple for achievement in bone temples. I mean temple. And you know what? It might have this category.

Where was that production line nomination?

Like they may have the whole bone temple. We really, this is why we can't have nice things with those two movies. Yeah. The violator achievement award goes to Tessa Thompson as head up for being a delightfully evil little stinker. This is a great take.

Yeah. Very good stinker movie. Yeah. Yeah. We have one of our superlatives categories is homophobic enemy.

And despite the fact that she is queer and that movie that character, she is a homophobic enemy because she makes a lot of trouble. Require people in that area. Yeah. Weapons for its great stick work. Not often are sticks showcased in cinema.

What are we talking about here? Sticks. Sticks. Oh, a stick nap in the stick. She snapped in that stick.

Maybe a stick. Maybe a stick. She snapped in a stick. We're going. Yeah.

Branches are, you know, are. Stop looking at a picture of her. Right. Stop a stick over your head. Branches are so often seen.

Leaves a plenty. Yeah. Give sticks their do. Give sticks a chance. Yeah.

And lastly, pavements for achievement and featuring. Griffin Newman on the screen. This is true. Oh, this is true. Oh, none of the movies dare to do it.

I know. I want to see it more. Turn me on. It was nice to turn me on. Technically.

Does it qualify as this year? Was it was a 2025? I got to see it. Turn me on. Yeah.

People, Michael DeBurski film. Bell Pauly. Nick Robinson. Julia Shepplett. Nesta Cooper.

Just in my side. Just saying it hit the internet in 2024. And what? September. So that was great.

It's our November. Griffin and Autumn. I. Let me double track that. I think it did not go on to VOD.

And then it got an illegal hidden theatrical release. The best kind of the release. Yeah. I think it was not until January. But I count as a 2025 release.

Fair enough.

“And there was a movie that I think it would be very difficult to cut me out of.”

On the schedule for 2020. Damn right, baby. Hell yeah. What will be my final film role? Oh, I'm retiring again.

No. It's over. As long as you're doing this, you know, you're in the money forever, baby. And until people get sick of us, we could be tomorrow.

It could be yesterday. I just.

“No, I've got it in with me a threppleton.”

She can do it in another movie.

I'll just say, look, there's a curse upon me. Being optimistic about anything in my career outside of this podcast. But, but I, you know, I shot this thing in December. And I was like, the thing's got to guarantee the theatrical release. That's true.

Can I also tell you? It would cost millions of dollars to cut me out of it at this point. Not because of my contract. Because continuity. The buzz that whipped around my circles at the site of you and a

Muppet audience, by the way, was. Yeah. Significant. So the juice is still there. It was.

Well, that was, that was just Seth Rogan being a real man. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that's it for me. Wow. What a year. Good job. What a year. What a year. What a year. What a year. What a year. Well done. That looks like we made it. Yeah. Um, show this head Oscar buzz. Yes. I have not been on. We've been around for a while. I know. I know. I know many years because of my overwhelming.

“As soon as it would be. Yeah. Yeah. To zoom. Yeah. I did recently reach out to you and say we've gotten to a place of just enough healing that I think it's time.”

Can we say what the movie is? Uh, yes. We can't if that's if that's the movie you want to do. That is the minute of question. I've had the pen and if it's so long, it could be goes down. Oh, very good. Yes. What do you believe? I. I know. Mental lot. Yeah. To one. 13 year old. I'm so excited. We've been holding that one. The family in the movie is so functional. So I haven't really see. I have been too terrified to watch that movie for at least 15 years. We'll see. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah. I'm very excited.

Very excited to have you back David. We'll have to have you back as well. You were around for our 70s mini series a couple years ago. What did I do? You did don't look now. I love that movie. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but what should I do? Uh, yeah. Yes. That was very, that was very early. You just said

some mental value episode on, uh, I'm critical. I'm pretty excited. I'm so excited. Yeah. Yes.

That long last. Thank you for doing that. Yeah. Right. Unsurprisingly. Great co-hosts to get there. Okay. Richard Nelson, my friends. proud of these kids. I think these kids got a big future. Yeah. I think we really did a good job hiring, uh, to various. Yeah. Well, the samely smart film critics were going to. I'm like. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. I'm going to go see project tell Mary. I'm going to same screen. Well, then, I'm very excited for the

beginning. I got fucking invited to project tell Mary. Well, well, well, what a twist. I'm going to hand train station. You did. I love it here. Thank you for being flexible with you. Did I tell you also, uh, the, yes, two days ago when I came here and, of course, I slipped on ice and fell and hurt my knee, and then David hurt his butt. And did you also fall? Oh, no, I see. But two weeks. And then on the cab right here because I wanted to be in a cab because my knee hurts. Yes. Yeah. The

cabbie had to stop short and I lurched forward and banged my knee into the back of the scene front of me. So it's been a couple of days. But, uh, we're doing all right. Let me just clarify. David didn't hurt his butt slipping on ice. He hurt his butt because his wife backed up with a rolling pin because he was looking at a picture of the burning. I snap in a stick. She snap in a stick on his touch. You want this stuff, but look at it. The picture of mine. Look at the 30 babies. You look at

the picture of the burning. We're going to get some kind of anti-deformation leg on our ass about this one. But, you know what, uh, men don't, we're going to be looking at pictures of everything. Say, if I, if I, you know men, I know they look at the pictures of mine. If I, you know, I can see you know baby. I know I joke in a wacko with the stick. But I know men and the men, they look at the picture of the burning. You know, you know why you've been looking at a picture of a ring. You know,

I don't tell this to everybody, but between you and me, I've been looking at the picture of a ring. Men, they are the simple. All they want. He's still looking at a picture of a ring. Ben, we love you, you know. I'm so proud to come up with you guys. I love it. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I'll be to pig. Yes, uh, who has been such an important part of this podcast across all the years. Yeah. We recorded it at her home for two years. Close to yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so she's, she's,

she's been, uh, she was a silent participant in so many episodes. Yeah. And we missed her dearly and our thoughts are with you. Thanks so much. Yes. Uh, thank you all for listening. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe. Next week, crack at the bat, start of a new many series. That's right, Peter, we're Peter. Peter, sorry. I'm making you. We're part of the day Paris. Enjoy. Yeah. Oh, what a great many series. Parts that it Paris, guest list. Yeah, no guest. Yeah.

“We got it. We got it. I think it's a good many series. Majority in the cam. Almost all. We got some great”

return guests and people who haven't been on in too long. Yeah. We have a couple exciting first

time. You face. We got some new faces. Um, I'll have to rewatch a fearless before you do your

I want to say Isabella Russell. And he's known for is that not something. No spoilers, but that

“movie made David buy new sunglasses. You did. That's right. Um, that's all. Go listen to this”

head Oscar buzz folks. It's not just, uh, it'd be episode coming soon. And as always.

All right, keep pig. We stand a legend. We love pig. All right. Love you, pig.

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