And we're back and by we're I didn't mean here. It's just me Lewis.

Lewis Fertile, back to host keep it. Ira is gone. You have to ask him where he went.

And I don't even know what social media he's allowed on anymore so I can't confirm or deny that he'll respond.

But today we have an amazing guest with us and he also doubles as my friend so it should be pretty juicy.

He is an acclaimed movie writer for the New York Times but more importantly now he's a New York Times bestselling author of Blood, Sweat and Crome, The Wild and True Story of Mad Max.

So we're going to get into the insanity of Fury Road with him. It's Kyle Buchanan. Welcome to Keep It. Welcome back to Keep It.

Thank you for having me Lewis. I was just thinking last night how long have we known each other now?

I met you when I was an intern at the advocate in 2007. That was the summer of things like Eve's tambourine. It comes back to me.

Rivly vividly. Kelly Rollins like this was playing a lot. Fergie's big girls don't cry. I'll stop.

And then straight up in 15 years then. Yes. No. Very vile. I can't believe it.

Kyle importantly. Kyle was the film critic at the advocate at the time and he was like you should come when you moved to LA permanently.

You should come to this poker night I throw and I didn't realize it was a poker night of just gay guys. So you went there and I was like 22 at the time.

And I realized all of the references that dazzled all the straight people in my life were completely commonplace among this group.

I needed a new personality immediately. I was still very dazzled. I remember when I met you and you were an intern and you could just speak about Valerie Bertonelli or the supporting actress race in 1954 like it was nothing.

Not something that I think most 22 year olds are capable of doing. I also remember when I met you you were a very layered person and I mean that very literally.

I believe our friend Andrew Cologne used to call you Scarfy yes because you would wear dress shirts sweaters and scarves in Southern California. Yes.

And well I was very confused because I move there in January and so I assumed oh it'll be you know.

Chilly I as an underweight person at the time I simply needed them you know it's like you remember the wayside schoolbooks how there was a guy a guy who turned out to just be a couple of dead rats and he was wearing a bunch of

trench coats over them that was like me I was that person. Yes Kyle is always been not just somebody who appreciates film really well to me but it's just thrilled to talk about it.

Thrilled to get into any era and you are specifically an Oscars junkie and that's why today we will be getting into this incredible and by incredible I mean extremely long Oscars journey we've been on this year.

I don't think there's ever been a longer Oscars journey has there there was and it was last year.

Okay true to have the longest season followed by you know just about the second longest Oscars season it's taxing you know it's glamorous but it's taxing.

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