Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday April 26, 2021.

I'm John Paul Hortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. So apparently my colleagues here,

I'm not sure about Noah, but Abe and Christine did not watch the Oscars. And I'm only going

to talk very briefly about the Oscars because why would I talk at any length about the Oscars

because they involved movies that no one has seen performances that nobody cared about in the

COVID year that shut down movie theaters. And this is about movies and now apparently movies

are mostly online and streaming and all of that. And to the extent that that is the case,

the Oscars are going to die because and they are already dying because all the glamorous

leach from them and you know used to be in the old days that people watch the Oscars because

they never saw celebrities. They never saw movie stars. And this was the one time in the

year you could see them dolled up and dressed up. And now of course they have instas, they

have tick tock accounts, they tweet. And you know for the last 30, 40 years there's been

a entertainment tonight and all of that so that they're never far from us. They're over

present in our lives, not under present and therefore whatever mystery is exposed by

the Oscars has long since not been exposed by the Oscars. But at a vistically it was still

a very highly rated show and people watched it. And then the last five or six years it

has been tanking and now really last night and this is really the key. So last night they

staged a show that in the first hour of the show they had several clips from foreign

films in foreign languages with subtitles. They had boring categories. They had weird

speeches. There was no comedian so no one was trying to be funny. Regina King who was

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