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On the amp part podcast today, we are talking about the Oscars. Welcome to our very sleep deprived semi-annual tradition of doing a podcast immediately after the Oscars.

I am Chris Huett and I am joined by, you know, the word hero is bandied around. I think a little bit too easily these days, but I'm joined by two real heroes who stayed up with me all night and in my flat. We are recording this in my flat, not a pod booth, not a studio, which is why I lead the sound might be a little bit off, but here we go. Here are the heroes. James Dyer. Good morning. How are you? To quote another well known Oscar pundits.

I feel like a pig shot in my head, which Oscar pundits said that with no with no. Yeah, there you go. Was he Oscar pundits? Yes. I think you're making that up. I think you're making that up and band drivers. How are you? I'm good. I was going to try and come up with a fun film reference, but my brain is not working at all. So I can't right now. This should be good then. Yeah. Because we're going to talk about the Oscars. We just spent the last it is probably only four hours, but it seems like a day.

The 90th Oscars ceremony, which most of you will probably know the winners by now. If not, this is probably not the place to find them out, but we're going to talk about the ceremony. We're going to talk about the winners and then we're going to go sleep. I'm going to sleep on my bed, which is about 25 feet away from from me. James, you got a two hour journey ahead of you. Ben, what do you live exactly where? Because you got several buses to take. Okay, I have no sympathy for either of you. So the ceremony has finished. It was hosted once again by Jimmy Kimmel. And what do we think?

Of the ceremony, first of all, do we think it was what would withstand the grand pampion of Oscar gigs? It was hella tedious, I believe, is a good way to describe this one. It wasn't one of the better years. It felt quite subdued. It felt quite labored as well. And if I were short on laughs, I thought the opening monologue was, we'd started with that slightly odd kind of fo old fashioned footage thing, which was excruciated. That was really weird. I didn't like that. But I thought his opening monologue was good. I thought he'd

dealt with some very difficult topics like the YC stuff very well. He kept it respectful and light, but slightly sort of gently humorous.

Yeah, there were a few proper laughs in there. Yeah, he struck the tone perfectly there. And that was an incredibly hard job. So I think he deserves a lot of respect for that. I thought the rest of the evening just felt a little bit, I don't want to say half-ass, but yeah, a little bit half-ass. I mean, even his mat Damon sort of like jokes in there, felt a bit stuffed in and thrown away as he was skipping onto other things.

Yeah, it wasn't what wasn't one of the better years. I think after all the madness of last year, it just felt quite safe in very many respects after that kind of opening monologue from then on in a lot of the winners and a lot of the kind of jokes and bits and things that they did. It just it wasn't very exciting. It felt like they just wanted to kind of keep it safe and easy and make sure that everything ran smoothly rather than kind of doing anything that interesting with it.

Make sure there were no massive screw ups, for example, with the best picture winner, which of course was presented again this year by Warren Betty and fade on away in this time. They got it right as these as far as we know, even now they could be.

I like it to be on phones. They got it wrong. They got wrong. I know you're furious about it from a different perspective, but we'll get on to it in a second. The Jimmy Kimmel thing's interesting. I thought he did a brilliant job last year. He did especially well during the moonlight.

La La Land Contra Tomp and a bit of French Filler dropped it there even though I'm tired. I have no idea what it means. The accoutrement of the Oscars were well handled by Benjamin Kimmel.

And this year I thought he was a little bit lacking.

Shall we say, the material wasn't there, the delivery wasn't there. There was a bit towards the end whenever the best picture would have had one and it was a shape of water.

And Guillermo D'Otaro had made his lovely speech and then the producer, Miles Dale, was played off by the orchestra despite the fact that they said specifically no one would be played off by the orchestra.

And there was the orchestra playing him off and Jimmy Kimmel comes on and goes, well, what did you want to say? And rather than bringing Miles Dale back to the podium to the microphone, it just kind of died a death for a little bit.

That was just appreciating. Yeah, not a nice way to do it. He should have just handed in the microphone quite frankly, but there you go.

Yeah, he should have done. In other words, it just felt like, you know, I was live tweeting it and a couple of times I said, God, how long is this show going to be?

Two and a half hours in? It seems like it's going to be endless. We thought it was going to be about four hours. It came in about four hours. It doesn't need to be four hours.

Well, there was that bit that when they did the thing where they got loads of actors and stuff and headed across to the cinema next door.

And I was just sitting there thinking like, we're only just halfway through. And this is going to take like a few minutes to get everyone out and across.

You're going to do the comedy bit. It's not going to be that funny. And then it's going to take everyone a few minutes to come back into the cinema.

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