Unabridged: Let’s Never Talk About These Oscars Again with Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was this past Sunday, and we’ve got a lot to talk about. Today, I’m joined by Vibe Check co-hosts and friends of the pod, Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford, to recap all things Oscars, discussing everything from our Timothée Chalamet burnout to why people pitted Sinners and One Battle After Another against each other, and a whole lot more. This is a follow-up to my pre-Oscars chat with Saeed and Zach last week on Vibe Check—you can listen to that episode here.
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| 0:43.3 | Hey, everybody, it's Tracy, host of the stacks, and you're listening to another episode of the |
| 0:47.1 | Stacks Unabridged, our Patreon and Substack exclusive bonus episode. |
| 0:51.6 | Today I'm joined by two friends of the show, Syed Jones and Zach Stafford, |
| 0:55.6 | hosts of the Vibe Check podcast, one of my absolute favorites, and we are reunited to talk about |
| 1:02.0 | this year's Oscars. We're talking Timmy. We're obviously talking Michael B. Jordan. And we're |
| 1:08.4 | talking about one battle after another versus sinners. |
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