This is a brunch.

Pre-Oskers MIDI podcast.

It contains spoilers, but we can't imagine you care.

I like to be in America.

Okay, by me in America.

Everything free in America for a small fee in America. If you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers, there's no way you would logically seek out a podcast about the movie. Let us begin. Pete, which side? I mean, I'm a white guy, so unfortunately that means I'm on the jet.

Say the name of the movie, West Side Story, not which side are you on? And you're on the Jets? I think I have to be. You would have been put on the Jets. I would have been, yeah, I would have been drafted by the Jets. That's right. West Side Story. I would not. If I were drafted by the Jets, I would simply retire and play a different sport.

Yeah, West Side Story directed by Stephen Spielberg.

That's right. We finish each other's sentences. That's right. And Stephen Spielberg famously

finishes Dick Richards films because Dick Richards gets fired for movies for referring to the

shark as a whale.

That is true.

This is a movie that is up for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, also Best Supporting

Actress, Ariana DeBose, who plays Anita, Best Director, Stephen Spielberg, who replaced Dick Richards on Jaws,

best cinematography, best production design, best costume design, best sound. It has the third

best betting odds for best picture, which is a little crazy to me. It's got 92% tomato meter,

94 audience score. This is a good movie. This is a good movie. I don't know if I like

it as much as, say, your Chicago's as far as musical movies go, but this is not like a best

picture thing for me. No, it's, I mean, so I was disappointed that Steven Spielberg was even doing this

movie in the first place because he's a guy that has all the clout to anybody could ever

want in Hollywood.

He will make any movie that you could possibly, that he could possibly dream up.

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