And the winner is... outrage? Plus, if the economy is good, why does it feel bad?

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🗓️ 9 March 2024

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This weekend's Oscars ceremony will mark the close of awards season. But what has been an exciting year in film seems to have turned into an opportunity for outrage over snubs, "firsts" and more. Host Brittany Luse wants to know: Is the discourse over awards season stifling our love of art? Brittany is joined by Aisha Harris, co-host of Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of the essay "Award shows have become outrage generators. Surely there's another way?"

Then, politicians and economists are constantly telling us the economy is good. But with high grocery prices, high interest rates, and high rent - Brittany feels like there's something lost in translation. To get to the bottom of it all, The Indicator co-host Darian Woods joins the show to shed some light on what exactly makes this economy good while also feeling kind of bad.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from SAP Concur, a leading brand for integrated travel expense and invoice management solutions.
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0:15.3	concur.com. Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,
0:24.8	a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This weekend we finally reached the moment we've all been waiting for.
0:43.0	Or maybe the moment we've been waiting to end.
0:47.0	The 96th Academy Awards, aka the Oscars,
0:51.0	and the end of a very long award season.
0:55.0	Now I'm not going to sit here and act like I don't love movies.
0:58.0	I mean I even got a degree in film and I love to see my favorite films and filmmakers of the year get the recognition they deserve.
1:06.0	But while this year's Oscar-nominated films are some of the most exciting of the past few years, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall.
1:16.6	So much of this award season has turned into opportunities for people to get mad.
1:21.6	Just look at all the chatter about Barbie. For weeks, people have been whining
1:26.6	that Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig have been snubbed by the Academy, even though Barbie was nominated for eight awards, including Best Picture.
1:36.0	Look, winning an Oscar is a big achievement and something that can change a filmmaker's life forever.
1:42.0	But is our culture's focus on award seasons stifling our love of art
1:46.1	more than celebrating it? NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour co-host Aisha Harris, who recently
1:51.5	published an essay about this exact issue for NPR.org,
1:56.0	joins the show to answer that question.
2:00.3	Aisha, welcome back to it's been a minute.
2:03.6	Hey, thanks for having me.
2:05.0	Our pleasure, our pleasure.
2:07.0	Aisha, we're finally here.
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