The Favorites - Academy Awards Betting Preview with Michael Lasker
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The 97th Academy Awards are this Sunday night, as Hollywood's elite wait nervously for the most iconic trophy in American entertainment: the Oscar. Today is also a huge day, because Action Network host Chad Millman gets to welcome on his favorite annual guest!
Michael Lasker is a true Hollywood insider, a top talent manager at Mosaic in Los Angeles, and one of Hollywood Reporter's 40 Most Powerful People in Comedy. He returns to the show for his 4th annual Oscars preview, and provides plenty of insights into races across the eight major categories.
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| 0:00.0 | Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. |
| 0:05.2 | We went live from All-Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat, Greatest of Their Era. |
| 0:10.4 | And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s. |
| 0:13.0 | Major 5, Dirk Ford. |
| 0:14.5 | Asia is a league. |
| 0:15.6 | You won't believe who Steph left off his list. |
| 0:17.9 | That's so tough. |
| 0:18.8 | That's why we tap these conversations. |
| 0:20.6 | Yes, absolutely. I love it. Listen to Goat, G-O-T-E, greatest of their era, on the I-Hard Radio app, |
| 0:26.8 | Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is Mel Reed, L-P-Gy-Tor winner and six-time |
| 0:33.0 | Lady European Tour winner. And Kira K-Dixon, NBC Sports Reporter and host. And we've got new podcast, |
| 0:39.2 | Quiet Please, with Mel. And Kira, we are bringing you spicy takes on sports and pop culture, |
| 0:44.6 | some interviews with incredible people who have figured out how to make golf their superpower. |
| 0:49.0 | An I-Heart Women's Sports Production, in partnership with deep blue sports and entertainment. |
| 0:52.8 | You can find us on IHeart Radio app or |
| 0:54.9 | wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. |
| 1:00.2 | We all have a moment that splits us wide open. On my new podcast wide open with Ashland Harris, |
| 1:06.2 | I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics to explore |
| 1:12.8 | their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide Open with |
| 1:18.2 | Ashland Harris, an IHeart Women's Sports production on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or |
| 1:24.8 | wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. |
| 1:30.7 | You are cordially invited to... |
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