Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com, And I'm here with our digital director, Mike Kogan.

Hey Katie.

And our chief critic Richard Lawson.

Hello.

Guys, it's summertime officially.

And I know Mike at least was hanging out at the beach with a corgi over Memorial Day weekend.

So someone has started his summer correctly.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

You and Queen Elizabeth.

She was there.

It was fun.

All corgi owners have the same vacation blends, it seems.

So later in this episode, we're going to share an interview that Laura Bradley,

our colleague at v..com, did with Jordan Clepper, the host of the opposition

with Jordan Clepper, was kind of a new entry in the late night scene. But first we wanted to maybe all

catch up with each other and catch up with the year so far because it's going to be June 1st.

It's the halfway point of the year.

And Mike you and I think of the poster children for catching up to movies really late around here

and we're very proud of ourselves for catching some good movies so far. And I think maybe more people could use

some guidance on what's worth catching up on. A lot of stuff from earlier in the year is available on iTunes. You can

rent it now. Black Panther, I know is on my local Red Box. So I think maybe we thought we'd start with Black Panther,

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