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There's a lot going on. A bunch of things to talk about. We'll get to the political news. But I just want to the Oscar nominations were announced today. There was a time in my life not that long ago where this was something I was excited about. Where This was something where it's like, what, what is it?

What movies have I not yet seen and et cetera, et cetera, and I've tried to make a point

of, and provided they weren't boring or whatever, I'd try to see them.

This year is, I think the first year where I, there's some more movies I don't have any idea

what they are, never even heard of them, than are.

You're just watching Hollywood become less and less relevant.

I think that's a good thing.

I do wish that we had entertaining movies.

Let's see we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Ten, they nominated ten movies for the first time.

Normally, they up did a couple years ago so they could nominate ten so that they could

use it for marketing purposes and say, oh this is nominated for best picture and when they

upped it i think only one year in the first 10 years maybe 15 years did they actually nominate 10

it used to be just five and they're like well we got. You're telling me you couldn't just pick another one.

You just couldn't throw it in there.

Like, movies are so bad you couldn't find one more worthy of just pretending.

Because most of these, let's just be honest, are pretending.

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