Brian Lear on WNYC now Sam Sanders take on the Oscars last night, and yours on the

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Some of you know Sam Sanders as co-host of Serious XM's News and Culture

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podcast. Sam, great to have you. Thanks very much for coming on.

Honors to be here. Thanks for having me. So did you think this was a generally

good year for movies, let's say among the ones nominated for best

picture or for that matter ones you think were excluded? Oh yeah I thought it was a

great year for movies I think Barbunheimer was so good for the industry.

I thought American fiction and past lives and poor things

and the holdovers were phenomenal.

I think the international films were great.

So in terms of the movies, I was a wow by this past year of films. I think the

Oscar ceremony itself was pretty safe but that's fine.

Yeah well we'll play I will tell me if you think this was safe. I thought it was at least funny.

Near the end, they seem to have a little time to kill, which is unusual for an Oscar ceremony,

which usually runs long, but they seem to have a little time to kill and maybe

they planned this from the outset, I don't know. They were keeping an eye on Donald Trump's

social media and apparently Trump took the opportunity to

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