Joanna, do you ever wish you could definitively prove that you had the right opinions about movies?

Uh, yeah, Neil, because I do have the right opinions about movies and television, right, Dave?

No, because I'm more right about those things, and I demand trial by content.

Oh, boy, what is trial by content?

Each week, we'll take on a huge question.

Each of us will bring a choice and combine with listener submissions and your votes, we will come to a decision.

It's trial by content every Tuesday on Spotify, the ringer.com, wherever you're listening right now.

Don't let Neil win.

Don't let Dave win.

All right, welcome everybody.

It's Thursday, March 24th, and we have a big Oscars Palooza show today, a special edition, two guests, both of whom are experts on all things, Oscars and the award show discourse, as they say.

So, Mark Harris is an author.

He is a prolific film tweeter.

We talk about the eight categories that have been bumped off the Oscars and

whether that's a good idea or not. Spoiler, I think it is. Spoiler, he does not think it is. It's great

debate. Then we got Joe Adalion on the show. We are going to be talking about the award show conundrum.

Can these things be saved? Will they exist in a streaming universe? Joe has opinions. He's written

on the subject and we'll get into all of that. I'm Matt Bellany and this is the town.

All right, I'm here with Mark Harris. In addition to being a fantastic tweeter, he is a journalist,

an author, his most recent book,

Mike Nichols, A Life is fantastic. I read it. I recommend it for anyone who wants a nice

portrait of Hollywood over the past few decades through the eyes of an incredibly talented

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