I think people are waitingin for different reasons. Ultimately, the big winner here is the oscars. But i i'm willing to bet that next year more people are going to be watching. People love mus absolutely, right? And so it's great, i don't know if great should be the right word s there. It's deftly stimulating for people to have an event to just gossip about rights, if you like. Oh, a celebrity is doing something unexpected in a time when celebrity image is so carefully constructed,. You know, everyone has such control over how they are received to the public.
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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