Podcast: Ray's Oscar Season Extravaganza

The Hot and Bothered Effect Podcast is back, and I fully intend on this being a monthly thing. I love doing them and I got too very excellent and knowledgeable gals on this month to talk about the upcoming Academy Awards Ceremony. Once again the posts have been broken up into sections for your convenience with the time commitment and comment stated before each one.

Part I: The Best Picture Race

We discuss the Best Pictures including Ray's prejudice against British people, the difference between Crispin Glover and Cillian Murphy, and why we need Kanye West to attend the Oscars. - 12:49

 

Part II: The Best Animated Feature Race

We discuss the Best Animated Features including how to do 3-D right, the prospects of Z-Bots: The Movie, and disgust with cost of movie prices. - 4:55

 

Part III: The Best Director Race

We discuss the Best Directors including Ben Affleck working to his strengths, the transitive properties of pity, and the value of degree of difficulty. - 11:19

 

Part IV: The Best Actor Race

We discuss the Best Actors including similarities between Rooster Cogburn and The Dude, Rosie's fawning over Ryan Gosling, and an awkward segue into the most snubbed actor of all-time. - 8:20

 

Part V: The Best Actress Race

We discuss the Best Actresses including Annette Bening's 'Always a Bridesmaid' Syndrome, Show Me The Nipple!, and how Jen Clary doesn't know Ray at all. - 10:23

Part VI: The Best Supporting Actor Race

We discuss the Best Supporting Actors including what makes Vincent Cassel the ideal sleazy European, the Organic Food Agenda, and whether Christian Bale actually free-based crack. - 11:32

 

Part VII: The Best Supporting Actress Race

We discuss the Best Supporting Actresses including Mila Kunis's character's status as a fun slut, the stagnation of James Van der Beek, and Ray's man crush on Guy Pearce.

 

Part VIII: Extended Talk About Best Pictures

Alright, I need to note something here. Something odd happened and the last twenty minutes of the podcast got corrupted. Both files got corrupted at the same point despite the fact that they were recorded using totally different devices. There must have been some sort of freaky EMP that went off in the room at 1 hour and 18 minutes into the podcast. I was able to salvage our discussion on Oscar hosts below (though the audio will be slightly distorted). However, I was not able to salvage this 8 minute section...so I'll just re-cap:

- We all agree that we like The Town and that it should be a Best Picture nominee

- Jen speaks very pejoratively of the Western genre

- Ray defends Westerns and all genres with his movie version of the "I Have a Dream" speech

- Rosie brings up that she really liked the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies and wonders how they weren't in the mix for Best Foreign Film

- Ray continues his ethnically-offensive views against foreign white people by stating that the Swedish are by nature a lazy people and that they probably didn't fill out the paper work

- Ray accidentally kicks the leg of one of Jen's chairs, breaking it and solidifying his status as a total douche 

- Rosie states that she felt bad for Eduardo in the social network, whereas Ray re-iterates his early point that he doesn't feel bad for anybody in that movie because they are all "Ivy League pricks"

- Rosie discusses her Director/Actor Talkback about The Social Network which leads to Ray and Jen explaining how the Winklevoss Twins were played by two people but that one guys head (Armie Hammer) was super-imposed on the other guy's body

- Jen feels bad for the body double, Ray says he should have looked more like the Winklevosses

- They bring up that Ray's brother Matt celebrates something called Winklevoss Wednesday

Part IX: The Hosts

We discuss the Oscar Night hosting situation including Jen's admiration for Steve Martin, why Nicolas Cage hasn't had his Oscar taken away, and Ray puts sound editors in their place. - 10:48

 

It was an absolute pleasure having Jen and Rosie on the podcast. I will be doing these at least once a month and if you'd like to be on please e-mail me at raymond.v.obrien@gmail.com and I'll see if we can't get you on. Thanks for listening.