Hello and

panoply I'm Katie Rich the deputy.

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Bend, the award season

podcast from Vanity Fair and Panapley.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com, and we have in our New York studio,

our film critic Richard Lawson.

Hello.

And calling in from the coast, we have our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hi Katie.

We're missing Mike Hogan today.

He's still taking time for a victory lap

from his Oscars red carpet hosting gig.

But we have a lot to talk about Joanna,

you are freshly returned from South by Southwest where I understand you did more than just eat Kayso which I think is probably what I would do in your situation

I mostly just ate Kayso, but yeah I flew I landed seven hours ago here in the area and here I am

Your love love commitment is excellent so we're gonna catch up on South by Southwest and a couple of new releases as we take a little bit of a break

from strict awards talk as we move into the rest of the year but there might actually be

some awards talk to be done from South by. Joanna before we started recording

it sounded like you knew like the one true runaway hit of South By.

Some years you don't really know what to talk about, but this year there was something everyone was talking about, right?

It's a runaway hit in that I think it's a big narrative changer for the movie,

and that's the comedy

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