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A real talk. It is time. One of my favorite times of the year, we are talking Oscar predictions for 2025.

We've actually done quite a few preliminary Oscar episodes more than we usually have. So I feel pretty good about where we're at on kind of the state of the race. But this is the big episode where we actually make our predictions. And so with our, for this episode, we always have our Oscar panel and we've got our usual crew here.

So let's bring on everybody.

First, let's introduce Matt Hosley.

Matt, how are you doing tonight?

Are you excited to get back into our Oscar predictions episode?

I am excited, but because the nominations came out late and the award ceremony is early,

there's still six movies I haven't seen, so I'm not up to snuff again this year for this episode.

Yeah.

Well, I'm going to watch them, just not before this episode.

Do this episode a little closer to the ceremony, give you a little more time,

but just because of scheduling, we had to kind of do it now. So, Matt, I'm sorry, you didn't get to watch everything. But I still think you did really well. Well, thank you. Yeah. Yes, I'm ready. All right. So you're ready. You're excited. Nathan, so we've got Nathan Barbaugh here, one of our favorite Oscar episode guest. Nathan, how are you feeling about your Oscar predictions? Pretty good, I think. I've seen everything but two movies, but I'm kind of taking a tack from the tommy book this year and there's just two movies

i don't want to watch so i didn't watch them wait a minute that's not the is that my playbook

oh that's very you that is my playbook what they then yeah see this trend of just not watching

movies you don't want to watch are paying off there's only two i've seen everything else i've got like

fifteen i haven't seen so you're way ahead of me all right so nathan's ready to go game

come on in here what about you how are you feeling about this oscar race and oscar predictions

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