It’s Oscars weekend. I’ve seen just one Best Picture nominee. Gonna rectify that soon after I hit send.

This week’s counts: 35 notable guests, eight new podcasts, seven deep dives and one controversial set of fake teeth.

Pod Take of the Week

“I don’t want him to win for talking through a retainer.”

That’s Glen Weldon, on the Best Actor nominee Rami Malek and his abundantly toothed performance as Freddie Mercuryin “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
My take: I’m rooting for “Black Panther.”
Spoiler: It’s the only Best Picture nominee I’ve seen.

Go Deep

1) “Scott Street”

Listen: Song Exploder

A 22-minute dive into the exquisite 5-minute, 5-second song.
Fact: The acoustic guitar played in the song was formerly owned by Glen Campbell.

2) Inside the Trump International Hotel

Listen: Skullduggery

A 1-hour, 2-minute deep dive into what’s really going on at President Trump’s D.C. hotel, with 1100 Pennsylvania’s Zach Everson and Rep. Don Beyer.
“It’s kind of in your face, isn’t it?” says Michael Isikoff on the Kuwaiti embassy holding its national day celebration at the hotel for the third year in a row.

3) Lennon and McCartney

Listen: One Plus One

The new Wondery podcast debuts with a six-part series on the main creative forces of the Beatles.

4) The Great Depression

Listen: American History Tellers

The deep dive kicks off with a look at the October 29, 1929 stock market crash.

5) The Making of a “The Simpsons” Episode

Listen: Scriptnotes

6) Love Hotels

Listen: The Trip

The Roads & Kingdom pod talks about the Japanese phenomenon with Toko Sekiguchi.

7) Pavement

Listen: Political Beats

True crime alert! These are love stories that inevitably become crime stories.

True crime alert, continued:Season-long stories about specific crimes, with “interviews of criminal masterminds, some of their victims and the detectives trying to piece together what really happened.”

Caterina Fake asks “creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side” of things.

The comedy pod from Smosh covers current events, YouTube drama and ”unqualified and unsolicited advice.”

Hosts Rico Gagliano and Faith Salie chronicle “the ups and downs of the world’s greatest and most dramatic collaborations.”

Host Katherine Goldstein examines “the real, three-dimensional stories of mothers” in a reported, narrative show.

Former NBA players Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles interview “athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture.”