Dear everyone: AA Meeting is the weekly Stranger podcast devoted to the Academy Awards, from nominees’ odds to winner predictions to all the rest of that meaningless award-show bullshit I’m physically incapable of ignoring.

In the fifth and final episode, I wrangle with the big two of this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Best Director and Best Picture, obsessing on the vague ickiness of a Scorsese win, the hierarchy of the dead and famous, and reality TV’s culpability in the impending Oscar triumph of Little Miss Sunshine. Enjoy.