Shemera ibrahim is a culture writer and reporter from brooklyn, new york. She regularly watched the oscars but slept through last lines of the night. Why do you think so many of your friends are reaching out to you specifically to ask if you saw what just happened? You know, we're all remote, right? So there's no equivalent relea still of like coming to the work place and no coming to the water cooler, like, yell, what the hell was that rigt.
The Oscars were bordering on irrelevancy until Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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