Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ring Your Podcast Network.

Before you start the show, I wanted to tell you about a brand new podcast called Tea Time.

It's a bi-weekly pop culture show on the channel 33 Feed, where me, Kate Hallowell and Amelia

Wedamire have four minutes in each category to get at our strongest opinions about what's

happening in the celebrity world at large.

The episodes air every other Friday afternoon and you can subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or

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Good morning. I'm Amanda Dobbins and this is the big picture, a conversation show about

the Oscars. Sean Fennancy couldn't be here today, so I am joined by noted moviegoer and

ringer editor Chris Ryan, who loves the stars more and hates cartoons almost as much as I do.

Chris, good morning. What's up Amanda? It's, it's before 8 o'clock in the morning.

It's before you and I like to kind of move into our prime content making.

Yes, but here we are in Los Angeles because this morning, as you may have heard, the Oscar

nominations were announced. So we're just going to jump right into it. We're going to start with

the big picture's big picture. This is a problem and the big picture do you know what I mean?

Which is in this case, the Oscar nominations. Chris, how you feeling?

I feel pretty good. There's some really interesting snubs.

But for the most part, I feel like we're going to, we're in for a really interesting couple of

weeks here with the jockeying and seeing whether or not the movies that seem to be the obvious

walkaway favorites are able to keep their lead. Yeah, so we are going to talk about snubs. We'll

talk about surprises. We'll talk about bedding odds. We'll talk about Ethan Hawke. Don't worry.

We feel the same way you do, but first we kind of just want to take, you know, as this

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