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welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of America Media.

That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.

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Off did over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinless and I am all by myself in studio.

I have to admit I was a little suspicious when Zach called in sick on Super Bowl Monday,

but it is now Tuesday and he does indeed have a very bad fever.

So we feel sorry for Zach and we miss him.

But that means this week we are just bringing you an interview.

No signs of the times or constellations and desalations.

But it's a great one.

We're talking to John Anderson and he reviews movies for American

magazine, so we wanted to pick his brains about the Oscars which are airing this Sunday. So here's our interview with John Anderson.

This is going to be a fun one.

I'm really excited.

I mean, what's more fun than talking about movies, right?

I'm the list of you.

And the ask me.

So maybe we could just set the stage a little bit.

So John, you are obviously a film critic who has seen all of these movies and then some.

Yes.

Yeah. And thought critically about basically all of them. Yeah. And thought critically about basically all of them. That's the

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