Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby to get

ourselves a treat.

Delicious things to eat.

Greetings friends and welcome to a special bonus episode of Choppa Trap House. It's me

Will Manicra here and it is my favorite time of the year. That's right, this Sunday is the 95th Academy Awards,

which affords me the opportunity to take stock of the year in movies. But even more importantly,

it gives me the opportunity to do a soft launch of the next Choppa Trap House mini series.

That's right, you are listening to episode zero of the new and official upcoming movie mindset podcast.

And best of all, I can introduce you, although you probably already know her, to my co-host

for this project, the wonderful Hesadeni. Hesah, welcome.

Hello, well, thank you. Thank you so much for having me for this lovely excursion into the world of cinema.

We got much to discuss this year in the Oscars, but I would just like to give some context here to the listener.

You might remember a month or two back, we made fun on the show. The New York Times critics,

Aos Gott and Manila Dargis, their picks for the top movies of the year.

In one of their lists, there was a movie called Expedition Content that was described as staring at 40 minutes

of a blank screen and listening to noises. We made fun of that, that was seemingly ridiculous movie.

That is like the kind of something that the kind of movie that only a film critic would put on their best of the year list.

I made fun of it, thought nothing of it until Hesah listened to the episode and immediately texted me saying,

Well, I saw Expedition Content in theaters in all 40 minutes of the blank screen I was staring at was a stunning cinematic achievement. I thought to myself, this is exactly the kind of sicko,

the kind of movie poison sicko that I need to anchor this upcoming project with me.

I'm beyond saving, I'm beyond salvation. I was loving it.

It was a great movie. I liked it a lot. It was because it's about Michael Rockefeller, who's the guy,

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