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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A trimmed telecast? A crowd-sourced award? DJ Khaled as a presenter? The Oscars are back like you've never seen them before. Guest host Elise Hu is joined by Pop Culture Happy Hour host and reporter Aisha Harris and NPR film critic Bob Mondello to talk about these new changes and their top picks for who's taking home the big awards of the night. Then, they play a game of Who Said That.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Alisa's daughter, Issa.
0:03.8	This week we preview the Oscars.
0:07.4	All right, let's start the show.
0:09.6	Okay, can you do it kind of natural?
0:11.0	Like you're not reading it?
0:11.8	Okay.
0:12.3	Okay.
0:14.3	Hey, this is Alisa's daughter, Issa.
0:17.0	Today we are going to preview the Oscars.
0:20.2	All right, let's start the show.
0:21.8	Yeah, I think that was the best one.
0:22.8	Did you like that one?
0:23.4	Mm-hmm.
0:24.0	Okay.
0:26.4	Hey, y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:29.4	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:30.4	Hollywood's biggest night is coming up this Sunday, which means it's time for us to talk
0:35.6	about the Academy Awards on this show.
0:38.8	Y'all know this.
0:39.8	Every year there's a call for the ceremony to be canceled or that it's out of date because
0:45.0	the most recent telecast was the worst one.
0:48.4	And actually, the 2021 Oscars show did draw the smallest audience to date.
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