Hello,

Hail cheaters. Welcome to the Always Cheating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon.

Brandon, how are you? Doing all right. Yeah, we are, as you had mentioned before we went online, competing with the Academy Awards tonight.

Yep. Competing with, I don't know, just like the fact that there is no Fantasy Premier League this weekend.

We're competing with our desire to, should we, should we do a movie podcast tonight?

Well, I was going to say, I mean, we could, we could, you know, at the risk of, you know, everybody hating us immediately. But like, you know, the Academy Awards are tonight, do you have any, like, do you have a preferred movie, like, to win Best Picture of the,

you probably need to remind you what the Best Picture nominees is.

Well, my favorite movie, my favorite movie from the year was a different man, which...

I love that movie, too.

I don't think it was nominated for Best Picture. No, not only that, but Sebastian Stan was nominated for Best Actor for that, like, Trump movie that nobody watched, you know? I don't understand. Yeah. I'm not sure how many of you will watch a different man either, but at least that was funny and weird. And, like, I don't know how that movie pulled it off. I mean, for anyone who hasn't seen, it's this, you know, this person has, you know, I guess they're like facial tumors, basically, right? And there is like a, which is like a real, man sort of a thing. Exactly. And for anybody who's seen under the skin, there's, there's, the actor from that is in this movie as well.

And anyway, he gets this surgery. But the whole theme of the movie is basically like, you know, it's like this idea. It's actually to me, it's like exactly what makes film good, which is it's, or what film at its best can do, which is if someone just says to you,

what you are in the inside is what counts, right? That is like the most trite thing that you would never,

like,

nothing to you, right?

You wouldn't even, like, hear it in a way.

But when you see that sentiment expressed over two hours of film,

you feel it, right?

You're like, feel it in your soul.

And by the end of that movie, I was like, this is like borderline profound.

Like the kind of sentiment of this movie.

Well, that's very well articulated.

I agree.

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