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The Watch

One Award After Another: Oscars Recap. Plus, ‘Paradise’ Season 2, Episodes 4-6.

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about the Oscars broadcast, the shared dominance of ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners,’ and why this year's crop of films was so exciting (2:41). Later, they discuss ‘Paradise’ Season 2, Episodes 4-6 (52:30). Drivers wanted. Learn more at vw.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Jamie Yukich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I need sports to have to clear the room.

0:08.6

Stand up and walk now.

0:11.4

Hello and welcome to The Watch.

0:13.6

My name is Chris Ryan.

0:14.9

I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio accepting on behalf of Sean Penn. It's Andy Greenwald.

0:25.3

Did you hear where he was? Smoking? Yes. In Ukraine? In Ukraine. That's like, is that rumor? Did

0:31.0

that get confirmed? Who would confirm it, do you think? Zolinski. Oh. You'd be like I am here with

0:36.0

Sean Penn. First of all, your accent game remains supreme. He, I believe he's been weirdly silent. He has been. Zelensky has been. He's got a couple of things on his plate. Yes, including Sean Penn hanging out. He had Stel and Scars Guard on his ballot. He was a little... Oh, it's good to see you, man. Oscars Monday, the day after. You can feel a change in this town.

1:28.3

Finally, we can exhale. Andy Greenwald is right here. I'm Chris Ryan. This is The Watch. You can email us at The Watch at Spotify.com. You can follow us on Instagram at the Watchpod underscore. Watch us on YouTube, Ringer-T-TV channel, and watch us on Spotify. We're also listening to us. We're going to talk about the Oscars today. We're going to talk about the winners. We're going to talk about the broadcast. We're also going to talk about Paradise. Another property of the Disney Hulu Empire, the umbrella. We got last night late, it was updated. The Jane episode went up.

1:44.3

Yes. One of us has seen that. And it might surprise you who. It's pretty thrilling. It's great. Don't tell them. No, don't tell them. You have to like... You think people would listen to 42 minutes of Oscar conversations just to find out which one of us watched last night's Paradise? That's like my children watching three and a half hours of the Oscars to see K-pop Demon Hunters perform. Do you what I mean? You don't put the one thing that people are excited about at the top of the show. Bro, I feel bad for parents on the East Coast for last night. We're going to get to that. All right, so let's do, let's do some Oscars and then we'll get to Paradise later. Later this week, Pitt, Madison. Yeah. I might even talk about Marshall's brother. Wow. You really riding with him into these... My guy Logan Marshall Green came back for his... For his quarters. Wait, my old... I knew him years ago, Logan Marshall Green is on Marshals?

2:17.9

Yes.

2:19.1

And what do you think the Marshalls and Marshalls is about?

2:21.5

Now I'm more interested.

2:23.7

And you're the Greens today for those watching on video.

2:26.0

We did not, we're not covering DTF today.

2:28.4

Perhaps we will revisit, you know?

2:30.6

Do you want to save your thoughts on Rooster Ep2 for the end of the show? I'm waiting for everybody to see the conclusion, you know, where they find out that it's actually just a dream in Bob Newhart's head. Let's talk about Oscars. This part of today's episode is brought to you by Volkswagen. It's easy to sit back and follow the crowd, but all those award-winning actors and directors didn't get nominated for making work like everybody

2:51.0

else. They took chances and pushed themselves to create something uniquely their own. This is your

2:56.6

sign to do the same. From us, from VW, and from the other drivers out there, take control. Chase after

3:04.6

your ambitions. Because honestly, what are you waiting for? Before we get into it, specifically, do you want to clear the air between us? Because it seemed like you walked in here and you were like, you felt like I was distancing myself from you. Because sometimes you live text your reactions to any given pop cultural moment to me. And sometimes I come in and I'm blind and this is one of those. I don't know. I'm like, I'm, I don't know if you thought it

3:26.5

was a delightful broadcast. If you thought it was a tedious broadcast, if you thought Conan was

3:30.7

incredible, if you thought Conan failed to meet the moment. Tell me everything you felt. Let's start

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