Where is my joy, where is my son, where is my happening, where is my happening, where is

my cowboy's going. working people have it harder and harder these days and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world

unite. Was that a, that's a surprisingly clear audio for a rally from from the 1930s and the Soviet Union?

Oh wait, that was the Oscars Oscars which was on Sunday night. We just

wanted to talk a bit about everyone's favorite cultural event of the winter, the

Oscars. I wanted to open with, well our sound crew had that wonderful quote from, I don't know who that was, I couldn't tell by voice, but you know, Marxist Sheik is as, well, it's nothing new in Hollywood, but it's still kind of jarring when you hear it like that.

I also wanted to raise just the irony of some of these things.

I just have two data points and then we can comment and have a bit of fun and James is going to share some fan

mail. But Natalie Portman had embroidered on her Dior Cape, all the female directors who weren't

nominated for Oscars.

And I haven't verified this or fact-checked it,

but it should be true.

But apparently, Natalie Portman's production company

has only ever hired one female director and that was Natalie Portman of

course.

And then Jane Fonda I loved.

I think she had posted a picture on Twitter but maybe it was just from the Oscars photo

crew.

But she bragged about wearing only non-blood diamonds

and ethically sourced gold from some boutique gold jewelry

and she was flashing it for the camera, of course. You just sometimes wonder at least two things, how deep the

well of just complete performance art all this is and it's just all fake, fake virtue

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