Sharp or Square - Academy Awards Betting Preview with Michael Lasker
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In a podcast tradition unlike any other, preeminent Hollywood insider and Academy Awards savant Michael Lasker joins Chad Millman and Simon Hunter to preview all things betting for Hollywood's biggest night. A longtime talent manager at Mosaic, Lasker has joined the show annually for half a decade now, sharing his wisdom about the Oscars with his photographic memory covering every major category. This year, nominees battling for Best Picture include ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ and ‘Bugonia.’ Best Actor nominees include fan favorites Timothee Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio, but Michael B. Jordan looks to take home the statue for his role in ‘Sinners.’
Lasker lets our hosts know where betting value can be found across the major categories, including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and more. If you're looking to invest in the Academy Awards, you've found the right podcast! #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by Hard Rock Bet. |
| 0:09.1 | We are part of the volume podcast network. |
| 0:11.5 | This is the show that makes the squares. |
| 0:13.6 | Sharper makes the wise guys pay attention. |
| 0:16.0 | No matter the topic, that is true. |
| 0:19.2 | Today, I am Chadmell and I am joined as always by my BFF, my companion, |
| 0:24.3 | my confidre professional better, my co-host, Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon. Chad, I'm coming in hot |
| 0:33.6 | today. I've got to take, I've been sitting on for a month. Oh my God. Because I know we're on |
| 0:37.5 | opposite sides of this one, majorly. I know this is a movie you're going to absolutely love. |
| 0:42.6 | And it's a little movie called Hoosers. And interesting. I love that movie as a kid. Now rewatching |
| 0:49.4 | it. I mean, 15, 20 years later, horrible movie. I think it sent coaching back about 30 years in American culture because this was such a |
| 0:58.5 | cold classic. |
| 1:00.1 | I couldn't believe it. |
| 1:01.4 | It's a story about a man to beat up a kid in college and goes back to coach kids in high |
| 1:06.7 | school. |
| 1:07.4 | And his whole thing is my way or the highway. |
| 1:09.9 | And I'm smarter than everybody and i was like oh my |
| 1:12.5 | god you know my idiots watch this and they were like you know what that's the right way to coach |
| 1:16.6 | bobby night and man i love the love the acting love the time period of it but my god jean hackman |
| 1:23.8 | shoof it was tough so why are you bringing that up now is it something that you recently rewatch and you've been waiting? Because today is our Oscar show and we will have our favorite annual guest on in a minute. But are you bringing it up because you just watched it? Saw it a month ago and I was sitting on it because I was like, I got to wait for the Oscars. I need to hear Chad's opinion, |
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