Hey, everyone, it's Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Christian Toto.

Christian Toto is one of the few people who has at least started to build an infrastructure

to support the arts and talk about the arts with knowledge.

His website, Hollywood and Toto is the one place, really, you can go for knowledgeable

movie news from people who are not far left.

His podcast now also called Hollywood in Toto,

so it's easy to remember, is also on the air with him talking about movies, just with the kind

of knowledge that we just don't get enough of on the right. Christian, it's great to see you. How

you doing? I'm great. Thanks for having me. So I wanted to talk to you because I'm looking at the Oscars.

And I've never really seen anything quite like this before. And I'm assuming that this is kind of a

reaction to Donald Trump's election maybe, that these are some of the most this is some of the most aggressively hostile nominations

of films that no one has seen

and that if they saw them,

many, many people in the country,

I would say probably over half of the people in the country,

probably almost everybody who voted for Donald Trump,

would just look at them and say,

you know, this is absurd. I don't want to see this. I mean, the most egregious is probably

Amelia Perez, which is about a drug lord who becomes transgender. And not only that,

the guy who thinks he's a girl, who is transgender, has been nominated for best actress.

So, very aggressive with the brutalist, a three and a half hour film about brutalist

architecture, conclave, which has transgender people overrunning the Vatican.

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