Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Bruce Feldman. Join, as always by my colleague, Stuart Mandel. All right, Stu, we are now pleased to be joined by our guest, our buddy, Max Olson, who has been all over conference realignment. Before we get to that, I do want to throw something at you guys. It's just a, I don't know, as we're taping this, it's Monday morning. The brackets are out,

supposedly, for the middle of March madness. It dawned on me as I woke up this morning. So on

Sunday, my football, my little football team had a game. We had a bunch of stuff going on.

I feel like I was the only person in America who didn't partake in one of these two things.

I did not pay one bit of lick to the Oscars last night and I actually haven't looked at a bracket yet,

which is crazy to me considering that's, I would never have thought I would have been that person 10, 15 years ago.

How crazy does that sound to you guys?

Yeah, I was I was eager to ask you guys what you thought of everything everywhere all at once when you saw it in the last year. Okay. Thank you for bringing that up, Max. I actually saw it a few weeks ago. Hey. And I'm glad I did, right? Because I ended up winning every single word. Bruce, I watched the selection show and filled it out in real time as I always do.

Oscars, we didn't watch live. We, TV artists. But it was weird as heck, man. I could not follow what the heck was going on during that movie. Now, with a little bit of distance, I'm like, it was very creative. You know, it's unlike anything you'll see.

So I get why it would be, you know, very, get a lot of awards, right?

But I'm curious what you think.

I can't imagine, I don't, if you told me you watched that movie and understood it in real time, I don't believe it.

I know my guy, bruce is a big

fan of a multiverse storytelling uh on the on the big stage what do you think bruce i am not exaggerating

i have honestly no idea what you guys are talking about we're talking about the movie that won

best picture and pretty much every other award now

there have been years where what was that weird weird movie with the um about water

shape of water yeah didn't know what it was hadn't ever seen it there's definitely years

like that but i did see this one uh i saw two Best Picture nominees, that one and Top Gun.

I mean, and Top Gun, I mean, as far as movie theater experiences go, A-plus.

Yeah.

I think I saw six of them this year.

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