Oscars Recap & The Politics of Posting

Vibe Check

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Vibe Check, Saeed and Zach welcome back Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks, for an Oscars recap – from the biggest wins to the most talked-about moments. Then, Saeed and Zach unpack a social media debate: should you expect your friends to post about politics and the news, and is it fair to judge them if they don’t? Plus, they share their latest picks for “the vibes are on” and “the vibes are off.” ------------------------------------------------------ Saeed’s Poem of the Week: “I’m Learning Nothing This Night” by Reginald Dwayne Betts ------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	Girl.
0:01.0	Girl. It's like relief girl. It's like... Oh, yeah. Dare I say it? I'm feeling a little lighter, a little looser, a little brighter. We're letting go of something, I hope, right now. We're letting go of a lot of things. A lot of things. Well, I'm Saeed Jones. And I'm Zach Stafford, and you're listening to Vibe Check.
0:33.0	Today's episode isn't all about the Oscars, we promise.
0:35.4	We have the cherry on top of the Sunday.
0:36.5	That is melted.
0:37.4	It's done. Like, we're done. Take it away, waiter. We finished it. It top of the Sunday. That is melted. It's done.
0:38.3	Like, we're done.
0:39.3	Take it away, waiter.
0:40.3	We finished it.
0:41.9	It was not even that good. You know, there was one part that was good. And we're going to talk about that one part that was delicious today. So today, our friend Tracy Thomas, is back from the stacks. We've recorded an entire episode for those of you who are masochist and with like an hour of tape about
0:55.2	us breaking down every part of Sunday's award show that we watch. We broke down.
1:00.1	Side was live tweeting. What do you call it on blue sky? Live skating?
1:04.0	Live skeeting on blue skeeting? Oh, Lord. Because people call like them skeets instead of the tweets,
1:09.6	but of course, skeet, skeet, skeet for millennials.
1:12.5	It makes me laugh. They call it the skyline instead of the timeline. I don't know.
1:16.6	Wow, from the window to the wall to the sky until we fall.
1:20.6	Okay, all right. Stay focused. Come back.
1:22.6	Sorry, they brought me back to 2008.
1:24.6	Anyway, so we will have a long form of episode with our friend Tracy.
1:29.1	Tracy's been such a wonderful dear the past few weeks with us on Vibe.
1:32.2	Actually, the past month, we recorded our Oscars episode in February.
1:36.8	So those predictions, which we realized were mostly right, actually.
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