The Oscars Podcast

(00:00) Alex and Freddy discuss the next coming of Return of The King in Everything Everywhere All At Once plus a lackluster award show. What does A24 winning every major award mean for Hollywood? and Gen-Z and Millennials place in it? (09:47) Who should host the next Oscars? Hopefully we can be done with Kimmel and move onto more interesting hosts. (18:25) The season Finale of The Last of Us discussion time. Which side are we on? Joel or the Fireflies?

Can EEAAO win every single award? Will it become the next return of the king? We give our personal Oscar picks and speculate on what movies will take home academy awards. (01:50) The best picture winner.

The Darksaber will be ours. The Knapp's shall rule Mandalore!!! (00:00) We are finally back on track moving the plot forward for Din and Baby Yoda leaving Mos Eisley for the wreck that was Sundari. Will Bo-Katan make a play for the Darksaber? Is the cult and creed Mando lives his life by a bad thing? How long has it been since Mandalorian season 1?

The more love we share the more we hurt those around us. (00:00) Alex and Freddy discuss the eight episode of The Last of Us - When We are In Need - Directed be Ali Abbasi. Ellie and Joel's violence and separation. Ellie's leadership capabilities and the scariest scenes in zombie shows and movies. Then we move on to ATTACK ON TITAN (16:44:70) The final season has been happening for what feels like decades now. Are we Jaegerists? Do we care anymore? We also talk possible AOT spinoff ideas that will be better than Boruto (we hope).

Mandalorian is back for season 3 and the boys baith in the waters of the Knapp family caves to restore there honor in the take arts. (00:00) Is this episode just a rehash of Mando's story from Book of Boba Fett? WILL WE SEE EZRA? WILL WE SEE ASHOKA? REBELS REUNION THIS SEASON? Then we move onto Anime Corner (16:29) The Knapp Brothers discuss if there are any Shounen protagonists who actually win their fights by themselves. Goku never does. Linktr.ee/TheafternoonknappMusic by Slip.stream - "Letter Opener Love" - https://slip.stream/tracks/50403d20-1a12-4a7f-9425-2644fec50149

(00:00) Alex and Freddy are back for week 7 of The Last of Us - Left Behind. We discuss, the purpose of flashbacks? Storm Reid's future stardom, and the writing structure of The Last of Us. (19:45) Followed by a discussion of the aftermath of Succession, Barry, and many other longer running HBO shows coming to an end. Will The Last of Us seize some of the juice left behind. (29:57) At the end FINALLY - Anime Corner - How many parts will Attack on Titan's final season be? How much is Eren's POV missing from the final arc and naming our favorite shounen protagonists. Music by Slip.stream - "Letter Opener Love" - https://slip.stream/tracks/50403d20-1a12-4a7f-9425-2644fec50149

Ari Shield, host of the Say Good Say Better Podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1895698 Joins Alex and Freddy on a trip to the quantum realm to easily defeat our foe and half assadely set up phase 5 of The Afternoon Knapp Podcast.(00:00) Antman and the Wasp Quantumania Review - Plus a crash course on how we got here, everything from Antman 1 to Loki. Then at (23:33) we get the presidential bet of a lifetime. Ari Shield vs the Knapp's. Finally at (31:43) we get the second part of our Antman review. Plus, a conversation on what Disney should do with all it's huge IP's. MCU+SW crossover?Music by Slip.stream - "Letter Opener Love" - https://slip.stream/tracks/50403d20-1a12-4a7f-9425-2644fec50149

Freddy and Alex are joined by Friend of The Pod Ari Shield, fantastic imporv-asationist, a master of the YES AND studies and Host of The Say Good Say Better Podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1895698 - he joins to talk The Last of Us Episode 6, post apocalyptic storytelling, and the Knapps story of living with FATNESS and ObesityYou can find Ari on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/therealarishield/Music by Slip.stream - "Letter Opener Love" - https://slip.stream/tracks/50403d20-1a12-4a7f-9425-2644fec50149

Alex and Freddy are back discussing the fifth episode of The Last of Us. Before segueing to an overall discussion of Anime tropes and the modern Anime seasonal landscape. What's popping right now? Where is Alex up to in One Piece? And the latest season of My Hero Academia.

Should this episode have been added to episode 5? Is Joel and Ellie the ultimate apocalypse family? And are straight up adaptations a waste of time? Alex and Freddy dive deep into, Please Hold My Hand - Epiosde 4 of TLOU. (18:25) to conclude the show the brothers talk a way too early Emmy bracket - does The Last of Us stand a chance against succession.