Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sikes. It is January 24, 2023, and we are joined

once again by one of American political journalism's most intrepid road warriors, Dave Weigel,

who is now a political reporter at Sema4, previously with the Washington Post and with

Slate. So first of all, greetings, Dave. How are you? It's good to be here doing great. Thank you

for having me. You're in sunny Los Angeles. I know you've been hopscotching the country. So before

we get into the nitty gritty of politics, and I want to talk about the RNC race, whether or not we

should actually care about this. I'm also very interested in what you saw in Chicago, where they have a

very, very messy, complicated, mirrors race. But since you're in Los Angeles, can we talk a little bit

of Academy Awards? I'm happy to. Yeah, I guess this is a controversial position to have really

liked that everything ever were all at once film. And I get the people thinking it went on too

long, because I think it did go on too long. But I was happy to see all the recognition that got

at this stage. The most dramatic of these showdowns is Peplanschett and Michelle Yo, right? That's

the one I think that has the most emotion involved in it. I think I'm on the Michelle Yo team,

mostly for the maybe like soccer dad mindset of well, Peplanschett's already had a couple of

Oscars. Get somebody else's chance. I always go through this process every year. I think a lot of

people do you look at the list of best pictures and you go, okay, I haven't seen that one. I haven't

seen that one. I haven't seen that one. So let's just walk through this. So triangle of sadness. I

have not seen you. I have seen that. That was the Palm Door winner. I didn't really like it. I see

the appeal. It's a satire about capitalism set first on a cruise ship. And then I guess that's

boiled the rest of it if I tell the plot. I thought it was fine. I saw it on a plane. So maybe

that shouldn't count. Nothing that she used. It's full greatness on a plane. I take your point there.

However, I actually have seen movies on a plane that were pretty good. And I've watched them

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