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Mar 2022
34m 19s

The Oscars slap that launched a thousand...

The Guardian
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In Guardian Australia’s weekly podcast about internet culture, JR Hennessy joins Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun to discuss the Will Smith/Chris Rock controversy that sent Twitter – and opinion writers – into exhausting overdrive. But first, a discussion about seasonal changes: hot girl summer is over. Make way for the short kings 
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