This week Clint walks Katie through the fascinating history of The Oscars! What is the Academy? How does the voting process work? Who is Oscar and why is he holding a sword? They discuss criticism such as bias, commercialism and lack of diversity, the decline in ratings and where they were during the "slap felt around the world" last year. Plus! A bunch of facts you probably didn't know about the Oscars and Katie's well rehearsed Oscar speech! Enjoy! (Get out your Wine Mug and drink every time Clint says “muckity-muck”!) **** 1:00 PA parody on the oscars / Clint sneaks into the PA premiere screening 3:00 Oscar ratings// hostless Oscars? // woke culture 4:15 Horror movies at the oscars? 4:45 Clint gives some basic history 5:00 Katie straps in for a wild ride *cue the theme music* 6:20 Katie had her 30th bday at the Roosevelt Hotel. It was grand. There was a bowling alley. 8:15 People cared about movie stars in the 30’s 9:00 Joe and Katie watched a romcom IN A REAL MOVIE THEATRE 10:25 The Oscar statue… 11:05 The origin of the name is lost to history…. 12:45 No spoilers, please! Oscars get engraved at the after party. 13:15 Oscar statue re-sale value. Prob ok to resell if you’re trying to save your wife. It’s just a statue. 15:15 Other Oscar achievement awards // Tom Hanks was just getting started when Katie was in HS. 16:05 Katie attends a “night before” Oscar party and has a friend who won an Oscar 17:10 Joaquin Phoenix doesn’t campaign.. but does get an Oscar 18:30 writer/directors are awesome 19:40 How do you become an Academy member? 20:45 A lot of the members are old white guys. 22:30 Kathryn Bigelow wants to win because she is awesome 24:00 Requirement for submitting a movie to the Oscars 24:30 Terrifier 2… Oscar bound??? 25:15 Kathy Bates and Misery / Kathy Bates went to SMU and inspired Katie to start journaling. 26:00 Is Katie a serial killer? Or just a journaler? 27:00 Katie hasn’t watched many Oscar movies. She is sorry. 27:55 Tangerine and the Iphone4 29:00 We gotta preserve the theatre experience! (And also bookstores.) 29:50 Screeners!!! 31:00 Katie spills the tea on her pal who won the Oscar 35:25 Katie woke up in France and learned about Chris Rock and Will Smith 40:20 Playing off an acceptance speech… 43:15 Host or no host? 44:00 Social issues or celebrate movies? 46:00 Covid Oscars 48:30 Populist movies are still cool! 51:30 Leo, it’s your time. 53:30 Will Smith and the room where it happened. 54:15 Roma 54:45 Don’t just be mad on twitter! People are trying to figure stuff out. 55:30 Gender non binary at the Oscars… Katie says “hey, let’s just give best performer awards and call it a day.” 57:00 Fun Oscar facts! 57:20 Meryl Streep is GOAT 59:05 In A Dream World: “45 second Oscar speeches” 1:02:00 Clint turns the Oscars into Carrie!