Benifer is back. Brad and Jen are friends again, and Paris Hilton is somehow still making headlines.

Twenty years later, we're living in the world that the 2000s tabloids created. On this series,

I'm going to tell you the story of a decade of American life through the trash we love to consume.

From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, I'm Claire Malone, and this is just like us,

The Tabloids, The Changed America.

Listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

All right, it's Monday, March 28th.

It's the morning after the most infamous Oscars of all time. If you want to hear my take from

the show on the Slapford around the world, we did an emergency pod last night, myself and Scott

Feinberg from the Governor's Ball. Today I'm talking to Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg and we're

going to get into the aftermath. The the show why they didn't step in,

what the ratings mean and don't mean if viewership probably spiked or didn't spike.

Then we will look at some predictions I made last week and see how I did.

Not bad.

Not bad.

All right.

I'm Matt Bellany and this is the town.

All right. I'm here with Lucas Shaw.

He runs the entertainment media team at Bloomberg, and he was not in the room last night.

I was in the room.

Lucas was having a little Oscar party at his place.

So he got the televised version of the slap.

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