On the Empire podcast this week, Martin Scorsese and Lin ordered the Capitol return with

the controversial The Wolf of Wall Street, we tackle the Oscar nominations, try desperately

to ignore the razzies, and we speak to Juliet Lewis and welcome the wonderful James Purfoy

back to the pod booth. All that and much, much more coming right up on the only movie

podcast that contains the f-word 506 times. That f-word is Flippertee Jibbit. Flippertee

Jibbit. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the Empire podcast as ever. I'm joined

by three colleagues of such lethal cunningly at long last. I figured out the right emphasis

for that, so people don't go, this meant to be more after that. But no, that's the right

way to say it. Really? Okay. It is.

First up is our geek, queen, our ladies of hyperintelligence. She can finish the daily

planet crossword during her lunch break. And that's not easy. It's compiled by renowned

intellect, Jimmy Olson. It is, of course, Helen O'Hara. Hello. Hello.

Yeah, I'm not too bad. I do prefer the daily bugle crossword, but, you know, anything

and any port and a storm, obviously. What's a daily bugle crossword like? It's easy.

I like easy ones. Okay. Next up is our arthouse guru. A man who's just compiled this

very own igmar bourbon crossword. All the clues are down, really, really down. It's

Phil DeZemlian. Hello. Hi, Chris. That would be a downward, surely. Hey, you and he

last week, but there was chat of whether I was learning Polish. So I can watch the three

color trilogy. Yes. And I pointed out there in French at Philip Boratine and I'd like

to name check him onto a tweet of me to say that actually three colors white has whole

segments in Polish. And then he helped me with my because I'm learning Polish. That's

my thing for this year. I'm a podcast. Okay. And that's your comedic riff. Pause. Yes.

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