So the Academy Awards happened last night. And it was less of a failure than usual,

more entertaining than usual. Sure, it was still like nine hours long. But it had its

moments. Oppenheimer walked away with Best Picture last night. Christopher Nolan properly

walked away with Best Director last night. Killeen Murphy walked away with Best Actor last

night. So Oppenheimer did it really well. Barbie, which was my second biggest priority, failed. Barbie did not do well last night. And there are people

in the office who will die on the hill of saying that the reason Barbie got nominated for so

many awards specifically because I made a 45-minute review actually burning Barbies. And so then

every member of the academy felt a moral obligation to nominate Barbie

in categories. It had no business being in. It won one award for Best Original Song, which of

course was pretty much the only thing that Barbie should have been up for in the first place.

Best Supporting Actress went to Divine Joy Randolph from the holdovers. But overall,

it was not nearly as bad as the Oscars of past years have been. However, the Oscars is still a trash fire filled with trash human beings. And this is the

message for today. Hollywood is a place filled with people who do not share your values. In fact,

they do not like your values. Yes, they are very beautiful,

and yes, they are very glamorous. And also, they have very, very small moral brains. Their small moral brains are not capable of understanding the world around them. They live in this little

artistic bubble, the Bohemian Grove of Los Angeles, in which everyone is tolerance of everyone

else's excesses and which everyone

thinks exactly the way that they do. And if only everyone thought like Hollywood, then they too

would have massively dysfunctional marriages, drug problems, and screwed up children. Then everything

would be better. That is the way that Hollywood thinks about itself. They are the expositors of

higher morality to you, the tiny little peons of people, to you, the humdrum little people. And there was a lot of that last night. So I want to go through the good, and then we'll get to the very, very moral bad of the Oscars. So the good. First of all, let's just point out that Jimmy Kimmel should never host an Oscars again. Jimmy Kimmel is not good at hosting the Oscars because he's an unpleasant human being.

You know who actually is quite pleasant on camera, despite the fact that he's had a bunch of moral foibles of his own, which he's admitted to, obviously, is John Mullaney. So the highlight of the Oscars Award evening was John Mullaney, who had a minute and 30 seconds. And John Mullaney was the best thing on the show. here was Malaney last night, introducing the category for best sound design.

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