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We are back, and it's the beginning of one of our favorite times of year.

That's right.

It is Oscar season already.

I really thought that we just wrapped up the oscar season

for last year and we did but now it's back again because it's longer than ever and there's more

movies to talk about than ever before so i think we're just going to go right ahead and go into

talking about how this oscar season is shaping up what we're thinking about the

movies that are being mentioned about so far of course the nominations aren't

even out yet that's not going to happen until next year but there's a lot of

buzz out there the critics groups are already talking about what's being

nominated winners are being awarded so we kind of know what the shape of the race is going to be like

and we did this last year gave and i did we found it a lot of fun and it's also fun to kind of see

what our predictions were originally to what actually wins and so we brought it back this year

where like i said we're just going to kick off the oscar season at Real Talk talking about the shape of the race thus far in December 2024 and so we have a couple of our favorite co-hosts on tonight.

Gabe let's bring you on here first. Gabe, how's it going? Are you excited for the Oscar season and ready to

talk about some buzzworthy movies tonight? It's going okay. We've been sick around here, but I have a

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