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All right guys. I was not even sure if I wanted to do an episode on this subject, but I watched the Oscars last night and it was possibly the most boring evening of my life. And because it was so boring, I felt like I needed to make something of it. I was like, I did not just waste three hours of my life to not make any content to just be posting on my Instagram stories. Because even though it was boring, I do have thoughts about why it was boring and where we should go from here. Because yes, there is always something, some sort of meaning we could extract from these big social events. So what you need to know is that this show was completely meh. What did I watch? Like it was relatively apolitical, much to the disappointment of thirsty journalists and conservative commentators everywhere who were sitting, ready to watch, ready to be outraged about everything. But it also wasn't entertaining. Nothing about it was fun. Like, these are professional entertainers. They are being awarded for being the best in the business. And yet I struggled. I. I painfully struggled to squeeze out a chuckle at various points of the show. But more than anything, and this is really what I wanna talk about today, is that I think it showed how far behind Hollywood is in the entire media and entertainment landscape and why they are still struggling every day to relate to my generation. Now before we dive into all of that, and I tell you what I actually did think was kind of funny. If you wanna see behind the scenes content, everything from Baby cows being born to me, taking my husband to Costco for the first time. Then make sure you check out cooperconfidential.com that is our subscription platform that we built from the ground up for, for you guys. And that is where all of that BTS fun stuff happens. Diving into this, I just have to say I think my vlogs are far more entertaining than what we saw last night, Sunday night on our televisions. All right, so before we get into my whole take about what I think Conan o' Brien was trying to communicate throughout the entire performance and what jokes he kept going back to, I do just wanna give you my overview thoughts. And number one, and I think this might be the most important one. We desperately must cut back the time allotted to the presenters. I mean, it was painful. It was painful. You have all of these award winning actors and actresses and they're on stage and it's just like I was sitting there on the couch like, oh my God, please get off the screen. Because it just wasn't funny. And yet they were so desperately attempting to be funny. It would be one thing if they just all got on stage and it was very meaningful and nice and serious and they moved on. But most of them were trying to do like bits and trying to be funny and it just fell flat every single time. Some of them were also just way too long. They were introducing a new category, a new category for casting directors, which was really nice and they wanted to give it the time that it deserved and I respected that. But they had an actor from every single movie that a casting director was being nominated for. And every actor on stage then spent like three minutes talking about the casting director was nominated. So by the time you got to the fifth movie, you're like, oh my God. It's been like 10 minutes of talking about these casting directors. And I'm so excited that you're nominated. Like, it's great that it's a new category, but like, I've got a baby to put to bed. We've got, you know, the big five categories that haven't even started yet. And we're sitting here talking about this still. It was just too much. Like, the only one that I actually thought was funny was this little bit that Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour did when they presented together. They were doing, I think, the costume and makeup awards and they did like a little Devil Wears Prada bit because Anne Hathaway is starring in devil wears Prada 2 that's coming out this year. And obviously it's connected. To Anna Wintour. And it is insane to me, like, this should be red flag warning sign that Anna Wintour has better comedic timing than the professional actors and actresses. And she didn't even say anything. All she did was just do her. Anna Wintour, looking across the audience, judged. She put her sunglasses on at the right moment, she said a funny line. That was it. And it was funnier than anything anybody else did. Seriously. Just have to say. Everyone else was way too rehearsed. They were way too excited about the jokes they were gonna be reading on the teleprompter. It was stiff. The timing and pacing was just terrible. Not it. All right, so that is my number one complaint. I was over the presenters. Now, number two, like I said in the intro, there was an obvious lack of political pandering. Like, Conan took kind of a couple shots, but it was like softball. And Conan's never really, like, the most political of, like, the late night guys. They were comparatively mild compared to the things that, you know, a Jimmy Kimmel or a Jimmy Fallon usually says. And most of the people who won those big five awards, like, you know, best picture, best screenplay, best actor, best actress, they thanked their mamas and God or producers, which in their mind is the same thing as God, I'm sure. But that was essentially it. No Iran, no ice, no Trump, nothing. Just producers and their mothers. Now, what I did think was interesting, though, is that while that big five category, they steered clear of that the people winning in the lesser categories, and I feel really bad saying lesser. I don't know a better way to describe that. But the categories that are not the big five, it was them that had the most pandering. Like, I don't know if they were trying to, you know, pay their dues or create some viral moment or whatever it was, but they were the ones doing most of the talking. Like, for example, K Pop Demon Hunters, which. And I don't wanna say that this was a smaller film, but again, it's not just one of the big five awards, but they won for best animated picture. And the creator of K Pop Demon Hunters got on stage to celebrate winning as a Korean and apologize to Kore Koreans everywhere that it took so long for someone who looks like them to win an award of this caliber. Like, lady Koreans have won before. Asians have won plenty of times. Like, did you forget that back in 2020, the movie Parasite swept the Oscars? Honestly swept every single award show. It was a Korean film, Korean director, producer. He won best director, I believe. Like, did you just forget that Are you so self important that you think you're the first Korean who has ever done anything? And that you're paving the way for Asians everywhere? Like, seriously, like, pipe down. It is nauseating. And then on top of that, and this might have been my favorite or worst le favorite political moment of the entire show, but you had the team from the Best Live action short film, and they got on stage and, oh, my God, it was like the political rain descended down from the heavens. And they were talking about how it was so amazing that their queer short film won and how it was produced by all women, and it was so amazing. And then this is just like karma maybe or something. But they had taken up a lot of their time on stage talking about how queer it was and how amazing it was and how it was all women. And then the one guy on stage really wanted to edge his way in to make a comment, and it was right on the heels of the woman saying that it was like a woman produced film. And they shut down the lights and the microphone started descending from the stage. Like the moment that the man wanted to start speaking, they cut over to Conan. And so Conan was just standing there and he was watching, and he was like, oh, I don't know, they're still kind of talking. And this man, this man was like, I'm not leaving, I ain't leaving. I have a political thing I want to say. And so the Oscars, they literally like kind of slowly pan back over to him. The lights went back on. The microphone slowly came back on the stage. And I was like, okay, you know, is he going to say something really profound? Does he want to, you know, did somebody die? Is there like an emotional thing that he really wants to get across? No. This man, after all of this up, it's like 35 seconds of awkwardness. He gets in front of the microphone and he turns around and he lists off the genealogy of all of the other women on stage and his own genealogy to celebrate how diverse the crew is on this short film. We spent all of this time, we raised the microphone back up for that. Like, seriously, get off the stage. Goodbye. Nobody cares that you're a Polish American immigrant winning. Like, seriously, it is just snooze fest. Get off stage. And then you had the winner of best documentary. They made a lot of political statements as well. They were talking about Putin. It really seemed more like they were talking about Trump. But you know what? I give them a pass because obviously it's a documentary. It was a political documentary that they made about Russian politics. So if they wanna talk about Putin, if they wanna talk about Trump, that's more in their lane. That's their prerogative to do so anyway, even though I'm complaining about those things, that was basically it. Like, in the grand scheme of the night, in the grand scheme of the red carpet, that was bas. Apolitical. Boring, sorry to say. I'm not really outraged. I'll make fun of people, but, like, I'm not outraged. I'm not, like, morally concerned about them right now. Like, it's just. It was a nothing burger, which is probably good because I think the New York Times will actually be outraged enough for all of us. Because, guys, even before the Oscars took place, they released an article telling actors to go out on stage and not be complicit and to go off on Trump, to go yell at Trump. Guys, they released this article three days ago, the day before the Oscars. It had not happened yet. They had nothing to be angry about. For all we knew, every single actor was gonna get on stage, talk about Iran, ice, whatever it is, and they were preemptively saying it's not political enough. What other planet are you living on? Anyway, I just wanna read you an excerpt from this because it is seriously so crazy, but the headline reads, oscar winners. Will you be complicit? Like, seriously. Get a grip. Anyway. But anyway, just listen to this, because it seriously is like, we live on two different planets. All right, so this author writes, actors are used to saying things other people have written for them, but right now, it matters a lot whether they can find the right words themselves. Opportunism is contagious, but so is courage. The question is not whether actors should become politicians, but whether citizens who happen to be very visible will, at a decisive moment, refuse to play the role that every authoritarian leader assigns them. Decorative proof that all is well on a night when the world is watching. A few clear words will not save the Republic, but their absence may help end it. Da, da, da, da, da. I mean, guys, like, when have we ever had celebrities shut up? When have celebrities ever not found the words and only stop stuck to the script? Like, what delusional reality are you living in? Like, did you preemptively hear that people were not gonna be making political statements? Was there some sort of memo that went out that we are not privy to? I don't understand writing this article and it not being satire. Somebody commented and said, I was just thinking, you know what the Oscars have been missing for the last decade? Insane political rants. From people living in a fantasy world. Kudos to the New York Times on calling Hollywood out. Would hate to see them miss this opportunity. Another person said, 100% facts. The new York Times is worried that Hollywood isn't leftist enough. Is that even possible? Actors must be wising up if reporters have to beg them to act out in public. True. Again, very little politics. The third point that I wanna make, and I know I'm like, doing all of these aside, I didn't expect to rant this much, but it just kind of the power came into me and now I just have a lot to talk about. And then I'll actually get into what I have to say about Conan. But the last thing I'll say is that I watched the Oscars and I did not watch any of the films. Like, usually I've seen one or two. And I will say, like a decade ago, eight to 10 years ago, guys, I watched every single film. I was still an actor in the union at that point. So I would get all the screeners. I would watch all of them, My friends and I would have Oscar parties with, like, specially made little hors d' oeuvres and appetizers that were kind of linked and had names that were in line with all the different movies. I knew who the directors were. I even knew, like, producers and writers and we would have, like, polls and prizes and games and all of that stuff. And this year I was like, okay, Marty Supreme Christmas Day. Like, that was essentially all I knew. I knew about Sinners just because of the BAFTA awards, everybody being upset, upset at the racist remarks made about Michael B. Jordan and Delray Lindo. And so the point I'm making is that I had no skin in the game. But I will say I do think it's interesting that the film, one battle after another, swept all of the major awards. Because just from my perspective, like, outside looking in on social media, it was clear that Marty supreme and Sinners had the biggest Oscar campaigns. Like they were putting money behind getting these films nominated, getting them in front of all of the audiences. Like, you were either in like two camps, Marty supreme or Sinners. Like they were going to switch, sweep the awards. And then you had this dark horse, one battle after another. I had not even heard of the film until last night. I, hand on the Bible, did not know that Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for best Actor until his face popped up on screen. Like, that is how disconnected I am. And so honestly, it does make me happy that they won, because I think that means that it was Actually a good film. Cause they were not spending millions and millions of dollars on social media campaigns. I guess people in the academy actually thought it was a good film. So that's great. But my not knowing about it, I don't know if that says more about me or it says more about the relevance of Hollywood. Which now brings to the main point that I wanna talk about in regards to Conan and his hosting and what I think the message of the entire Oscars show was. Because in my opinion, I don't know if you guys felt this, but there was a very obvious through line that Conan o' Brien as the host kept coming back to. And that fact was that the world is changing and Hollywood is totally disconnected and that they have very quickly fallen behind which shock of the century. Like, can't believe they finally got it. They finally realized that. But that's what he kept hammering into. And honestly, the parts of the show when Conan brought all of that up were actually the funniest to me because they felt honest, they were kind of self deprecating, they were self aware, which in my opinion makes for the best comedy. Like that's, you know, what I enjoy. And you know, like, so for example, I just wanna go through a couple of these. But right out of the gate. In his opening monologue, Conan joked about how next year some AI robot was going to be hosting the Oscars. And you know, obviously he might not be wrong. AI was a big topic of discussion throughout the night. And then immediately from there, he jumped into a roast of the Netflix CEO who was attending the Oscars for the first time. And I have to say, I literally was cackling out loud. This was the hardest that I laughed in the entire show. Just watch this whole little interaction.