Oscar preview with A.V. Club's film editor, how we got to HER and an animation-inspired cocktail
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We nerd out about the Oscars - the nominees and the awards - with A.V. Club editor A.A. Dowd. Logan Jaffe offers a sound-rich essay about how we got to HER's Samantha and why Siri, and so much of our technology, sounds like a lady. Then our booze nerd Rebecca Poulson offers up a cocktail inspired her favorite Oscar nominee.
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| 0:00.0 | Gravity is nominated for Best Film. |
| 0:11.0 | It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die |
| 0:17.0 | than spend one more minute with a woman his own age. |
| 0:23.5 | Eat your fish. Eat your fish. Eat your fish. Eat your fish. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita. And this is the Nerdette podcast. It's Oscar Week, nerds. |
| 0:38.3 | We'll have some Oscar predictions this week with A.A. Dowd. He's film editor for A.V. Club, which is like the actually serious part of The Onion. Serious like it's true. Not serious like it's all serious. |
| 0:43.5 | Oh, he's very serious. Well, he does take movies and the Oscars pretty seriously, so we'll be |
| 0:49.0 | talking with him about some things that he loves and or hates about the award show itself. |
| 0:53.3 | But first, Nerdette at contributor Logan Jaffe. |
| 0:56.0 | The last time we heard from Logan was way back when she was telling us about her nerdy summer |
| 0:59.8 | camp stories. She was a historical reenactor as a child and someone who's always had a love for |
| 1:05.8 | old and new tech, which is why it doesn't surprise me that she has a lot of feelings about the movie |
| 1:10.7 | Her. |
| 1:11.6 | Her is up for Oscars this year, and as Logan says, that's well deserved. |
| 1:15.6 | But the movie, which is about near future technology, got her thinking about why robots are so often |
| 1:22.6 | ladies. |
| 1:23.6 | What are you doing? |
| 1:24.6 | I'm just looking at the world. |
| 1:29.6 | And writing a new piano piece. |
| 1:32.3 | Oh, yeah? Can I hear it? |
| 1:34.2 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:37.9 | This is a scene from her. |
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