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Cat Williams says he believes he was not put in films because of the Illuminati.

Season two returns swinging. The Kid is in School opens on Oscar nominees, with the hosts treating awards season like a yearly excuse to watch the same TV everyone else is watching, eat junk food, and look at cool outfits. That is the setup. The conversation quickly turns that annual ritual into a joke about how much of awards season is just people congratulating themselves while everyone else watches from the couch. One host says the appeal is not really the films. The other pushes back on that. Together they land on the simpler truth that it is fun to join the national viewing party, even if the only thing you care about is snacks and the spectacle. The show keeps its pace brisk. From there, the argument slides into comedians and the idea of comedy as a family. One host says he is not the type to want to go in on other comedians. The other immediately questions what that kind of loyalty actually means. They tease out the difference between protecting people and excusing them. They also keep circling back to the fact that any comedian can be both funny and unfunny depending on who is listening. Dave Chappelle becomes the clearest example of that split. Jerry Seinfeld comes up as another reference point, especially around the comedians he brings onto his own show and the work ethic that seems to connect them. Steve Harvey and Cat Williams sit nearby in the comparison, helping underline how taste shapes who gets praised, who gets ignored, and who gets remembered. The talk stays loose and argumentative. It keeps correcting itself in real time. That gives the episode its energy. Toward the end, the conversation drifts from comedy and awards season into the everyday annoyance of dirty subway stations. One host reports a kid calling a station dirty. The other jokes about showing her cleaner places, maybe even sending her to Washington, D.C. or Japan if that is what it takes. The running point is small but clear. The world is full of little things that become bigger when two people keep talking about them. The Kid is in School leans into that rhythm and lets the back-and-forth carry the piece instead of forcing a neat conclusion.

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Awards-season talk turns into a loose argument about comedians, taste, and who gets defended.

Season two opens with Oscar nominees, and the hosts treat awards season as a familiar excuse to watch what everyone else is watching, eat junk food, and pick apart the self-congratulation that comes with it.

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You want Oscar-nominee talk that feels like an actual back-and-forth, not a recap.

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