Attention Oscar obsessives: This is David Schmader. After years of tirelessly suffering in private, I finally have an outlet for aggressive obsession I’m required to devote to each year’s Academy Awards.

AA Meeting is a weekly podcast devoted to all things Oscar, from nominees’ odds to winner predictions to all the rest of that meaningless award-show bullshit I’m physically incapable of ignoring. Plus, I’ll have guests—in the premiere episode, it’s Stranger film editor Annie Wagner, with whom I discuss the basics of this year’s nominations, including the triumph of James Longley, the mystery of Borat’s “screenwriters,” and the dashing of Beyonce’s Oscar dreams. Enjoy.

(To see this year’s nominees, go here.)