This is a brunch pre-Oscar's mini podcast that contains spoilers, but we can't imagine you care if you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers.

Well, I'll say, if you haven't seen the movie, you've probably complained about this one.

Joker.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Joker.

See, wasn't that so easy? You just played the Joker.

Yep.

Let's give you an Oscar nomination. Everybody going crazy, but you know what? The easiest role to play. It is the easiest role to play. Unless you're Jared Leto. Unless you're, yeah, people, people just hate that guy. We've talked about that. Everyone, he was, he overdid it, right? He started like sending people dog poop or something. Okay, so we can just jump right in. On the,

uh, on the, uh, was this difficult to do scale? This is very low. This was a very easy movie to make.

And most importantly, this was a very easy Oscar nomination to grab if you're Joaquin Phoenix. Waukeen Phoenix is a very good actor. Joker, possibly the easiest role in the world to play. So you give a good actor, but he's, but we got to, you let Barry Bonds T-Ball and he's going to, yeah, he's going to hit a double.

Yes and no, because like he's playing a, like the Joker is a very easy character to play.

But playing the guy before he becomes the Joker is a little bit more complex.

Sure.

And good for him.

He did a great job.

He did a fantastic job.

I didn't, it's so weird.

He's going to win best actor.

I don't want him to.

I don't need him to.

I didn't dislike this movie.

I certainly didn't dislike his performance.

I thought he was really good.

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