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Bills Kickers and Barbie · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty fifth
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day of January. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me as we inchroway a
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little closer to the weekend introway a little closer to February. I want to
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start this morning. I just quickly. It's just a couple of things.
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This is kind of one of those grab bag kind of mornings. I've got
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a few topics I want to talk about. I heard that the Buffalo Bill's
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field goal kicker Tyler Bass deleted his social media accounts because they said he just
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couldn't handle all the threats he's been getting on social media after missing the game
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tying field goal against the Chiefs. He had an X account, he had
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an Instagram account, and he got rid of them. Now, first let
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me just say this. I can understand that decision. I could understand that
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decision just preemptively getting rid of them, even if you just had I could
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understand if you're a field goal kicker or a high profile athlete of any kind,
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but especially if you're a field goal kicker in the NFL, and if
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you had a person in your life, your spouse, your significant other,
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a child, someone who is related to you that you trust, a sibling,
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maybe even your agent whose job it was in the event of you missing
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a high profile kick like this, that they their job is to go ahead
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and put a pause on your social media accounts immediately, right they know that,
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within like ten minutes, they should be on that, because I'm sure
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that the hates and the hate and the death threats and all that stuff probably
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started right away, almost immediately. Now. I don't know if they know
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whether or not this is coming from Bills fans. I don't know if this
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is coming from Chiefs fans that we're messing with them. I don't know the
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dynamic. I don't know maybe some Jets or Patriots fans. I don't know
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really how our Dolphins, Like is somebody else in the division. I don't
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know how that works. I don't know who's making the threats. I know
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that the Bills and many of the players and supporters of the Bills have been
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defending him, and they should. I mean, that's they really should be
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defending him. Good for them for doing that. Okay, Now, if
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we're talking about people that have lost money gambling, and they're mad at him
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because he missed the kick and they're upset about it. It's on you.
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You're the one that's gambling. That's the other part of this. Okay,
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you're the one who decided. There's one guy in particular who was, like,
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you know, talked about losing a huge amount of money because of it.
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And again that's on you. You want to blame somebody, You want
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to blame somebody other than yourself. You're upset with a field goal kicker who's
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not having a good day. Now, what magnifies this even more is,
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of course this happens to be the Buffalo Bills. And I'm saying this,
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trust me. I'm just this is not me with an assault scenario. This
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is not me poor insult in any wounds. I'm just pointing out the fact
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that I'm a long time since I was a kid New York Giants fan.
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Okay, I watched Giants Bill's Super Bowl. I cheered when Scott Norwood missed
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the field goal wide right. I feel badly when a kicker does that because
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I know how much pressure that is. I know that that was a different
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era, that was a whole different time in the early nineties than it is
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now because of social media. Back then, you know, you feel bad
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for the guy. The guy missed the kick. You know, he's devastated,
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he let his team down, he could have won the Super Bowl,
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all those things. But to know that that guy also has to relive all
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this, right, you go through this thing where you basically like his family
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has to relive all this. Everybody like immediately when a Bills kicker misses an
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important kick and it was wide right as well, just like in the Super
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Bowl. So again it's like it's like that becomes salt in the wounds,
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right because forever, anytime, if you're a Boston Red Sox first basement and
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ball goes between your legs, you're gonna get compared to Bill Buckner. It
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all just gets relived all over again. So there's that. But the point
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I want to get to is this is not an easy job. Kickers in
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the NFL and in college, it's not an easy job. All right.
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You have people that do the like you got one job, Just do the
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one job. Buffalo is a very strange place weatherwise to try to kick a
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football. That's one thing. On top of that, it's not easy anyway.
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Okay, there's no such thing as a really easy case. And they
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had been kicking that night that direction ball was drifting right. Should he have
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made some sort of an adjustment. Maybe he tried to, and the ball
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still got pulled to the right. We got to be better than this,
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people. We cannot be angry to this level death threats and hate. We
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just can't do that. It's not okay, it's not okay. All right,
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another quick thought, and I know I'm gonna sound like this is probably
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dipping. Oh I know it's dipping a little bit conspiracy theory thing. But
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it's just something that I thought about yesterday. So yesterday morning, I was
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at the gym and you know, a typical GEM scenario where you got,
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you know, multiple TV screens across in the front, and you're working out
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and you can you know, you can't hear the TVs, but you can
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see them, and they've got close captioning on. And I typically get where
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some of the less obnoxious channels are going to be in front of me,
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because there's some I really don't want to see, don't care what they have
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to say, it doesn't interest me. And that's not what I want to
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watch while I'm working out. But I did have a view yesterday of the
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TV that was on NBC and it was, I guess on the Today Show.
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And there was a huge news story. And I'd seen this already start
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to pop up on social media, but the fact that NBC was dead dedicating
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a large chunk of time to this particular news story, and I believe it
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kicked off an hour, Like I think this was something that was at the
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beginning of an hour. I don't think this was one of those things where
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it was like I mean, typically with radio or TV shows, you you
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sort of you block out segments and you come up with, like, you
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know, your your lead for the hour. Then you've got, you know,
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like an ABC thing. And I mean, to me, this particular
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story maybe a D level story. This was like an A for the Today
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Show. This was I believe they kicked off the hour with this. I
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don't understand. While I do, let me get into my conspiracy theory.
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The story that they decided was the most important. Now keep in mind,
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we just this is coming off of yesterday. The story that should have been
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the lead story was New Hampshire. Okay speaking that was you know, and
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I know that CNN and I guess MSNBC were covering it. They're weird about
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how they covered Trump because they don't want to give him any screen time or
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whatever, any airtime. But that should have been the story, even if
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the story was just, hey, Nikki Haley is still in the race,
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because that's another thing that's happening. By the way, on CNN and MSNBC,
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they're trying to convince Nicki Haley to attack Trump more. They want Nicki
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Haley to carry their water and attack Trump more. And maybe I don't know,
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give them more things to say about Trump. But anyway, they weren't
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covering that. They were covering the Oscars. Now, this is the thing
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about the Oscars, and I gave you the laydown on it on yesterday's show,
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kind of a rundown on some of the interesting things about the Oscars.
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I know that many listeners of this show, maybe you don't care anymore about
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the Oscars. I barely still care. I've watched almost every movie that's one
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best picture. It's been something that I decided I wanted to do, and
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I knew at some point we were going to get to a stage where there
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was going to be a movie that would win potentially that I just would not
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watch. For different reasons. I was a little nervous. A few years
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ago there was a movie about an adult man and an underage boy having relations
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together, and I just thought, I don't I'm not going to watch that
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because to me, that's a whole different deal. That's not it's not legal,
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it's not okay. Why is this a movie that's being, you know,
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acknowledged as an Oscar Best Picture nominee. Thankfully, it did not win.
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There has been a movie that won that involved two men in a relationship.
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I didn't, you know. It wasn't something that I went, oh
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my gosh, I can't wait to watch this. But again it won Best
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Picture. I thought, well, let's see what this movie is about.
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I think I actually watched it before the Oscars. No, it wasn't Broke
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Back Mountain. That one did not win. A lot of people thought it
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should have won, or that it was gonna win. I did watch Broke
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Back Mountain. It was not a great movie. To me, it was
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very average. I was glad that it didn't win Best Picture because I didn't
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think it should have won it. But again, I watch a lot of
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movies. Okay, I wasn't gonna watch a movie about an adult man and
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an underage boy having relations together that wasn't my thing, Call Me by my
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Name or whatever was the name of that movie. I wasn't gonna watch that.
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Even if it won, that would have messed it up. That would
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have guaranteed that I wouldn't watch them all. And at some point I suppose
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that's gonna happen. But I do like to watch the movies that win Best
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Picture each year, and more often than not, to me, probably the
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right movie wins. It doesn't always win. Sometimes it's right in the moment.
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Sometimes, Forrest Gump, you go, yeah, I get why it
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won, and then years later you go, why didn't Shawshank win? How
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is it possible Pall Shank Redemption? You know, arguably the best movie made
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in the last thirty years. How does it not win? Right? Anyway,
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So that aside, I don't watch the award shows anymore. I don't
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care really other than just to kind of keep an eye on what might win
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Best Picture. And right now I guess Oppenheimer is the favorite to win.
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Barbie was nominated. There are some people that think how did Barbie get nominated
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for Best Picture? And they have started to say, now, if a
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movie makes a lot of money, it might get some more consideration than that
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would have once upon a time. I don't know how that works either.
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What I do know is that Barbie is nominated like eight or nine awards,
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but two of the awards it's not nominated for is a director. Greta Gerwig
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the director. Barbie not up for Best Director, and it's not also a
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Now I want to make sure that we stress this because there were nominations for
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some of the other people that were nominated. Okay, like America Ferrara,
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what is nominated Best Supporting Actor? Okay, that's worth noting that we do
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have at least one actor from the movie that was nominated, but Margot Robbie
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was not nominated. I'm sorry. And we should also mention in the Best
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Supporting Actor category that Ryan Gosling was also nominated. So you had America Ferrara
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and Ryan Gosling, but not Margot Robbie and not Greta Gerwig as the director.
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And there's people saying, oh my gosh, it got snubbed. It
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got snubbed. I am trying to figure out one thing. At what point
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did you know not? And this is all opinion based, you know,
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there has to be and there's a limited number of people who can be nominated.
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They used to say this movie got snubbed, and then they decided,
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well, we're gonna have ten nominees in Best Picture, up to ten,
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so that kind of cut a little bit of the the movie got snub talk
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out because more movies got nominated. So Barbie is up for Best Picture,
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it's got two acting awards it's up for but not Margot Robbie and not the
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director. Well, people saying that it's snubs. Not that other people are
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more deserving, but it's snubs. And there's NBC covering that particular aspect of
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this, I mean like like they're covering Watergate, like this is the most
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important thing they've like, Oh, they're digging into you know, Oscar so
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white history, they're digging into any controversy. Oh remember the time they didn't
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have a woman directors and they didn't have any nominee who in so and so
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category that wasn't non white, and all these sorts of things. It's a
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big focus for them. And they're saying that these two women, these two
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pillars of Hollywood society were snubbed. A couple of things. One, is
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it possible that the oscar just handed Democrats a little thing by not nominating these
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two so that they would have something to complain about. We know that abortion
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is going to be the main focus. Women are going to be the main
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focus for Democrats for this year. Is it possible that they would do that?
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Would they? I mean, I don't I'd like to think no,
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But is it possible that they would do that that two high profile women in
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this case get quote unquote snubbed to kind of feed that. I don't know.
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What I do know though, is they are going to take something like
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this again, don't waste a tragedy. How this is a tragedy, I
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don't know, but they're going to you know, they'll spend time talking about
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this, and then there is a certain strategy for the studio to try to
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get sympathy for the other awards, maybe for Best Picture by convincing people,
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oh, look what happened. The Academy snubbed Barbie, Barbie herself and the
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director. So you know, if you're a voter, maybe you should think
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about voting for Barbie for Best Picture, or make sure that America Ferrara or
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Ryan Gosling win the top prize in their categories because these two got snubbed.
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I mean, maybe that's what's going on, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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drinks. I wonder if this will have a better impact or an impact I
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I don't typically talk about zodiac related things. I do host a podcasts
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