Ladies and gentlemen, live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, welcome to the 73rd by

Weekly Flop House Mini!

Hello everyone, this is the Flop House Mini, a celebration of film, fun, and whatever we

happen to want to talk about at the moment.

Normally on this podcast we watch a bad movie, but tonight we're bringing you all the

glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards.

I'm your host for this evening, Elliot Kalin, and joining me are my co-hosts.

Dan McCoy, sorry, I was looking to make sure that it was, in fact, the 73rd as advertised.

Okay, I'm Stuart Wellington.

I appreciate Dan, your lack of faith in me, that I wouldn't look up the number all the

way.

I didn't know whether there was some kind of joke I didn't quite understand or whether

it was accurate, and I was just curious.

Really an accurate number.

Well, thank you both for joining me today on this celebration of the Academy Awards.

You know, the Academy Award nominations were just announced, and all the Hollywood is

a flutter over who will take home best picture.

We will be the surreal family comedy of everything everywhere all at once, the masochistic

mind trip of tar, or such original visions as the Top Gun sequel, the Avatar sequel, or

the remake of all Quiet on the Western Front.

But looks like we've got a lot of big new ideas in Hollywood these days.

This guy's not pulling me punches.

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