Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the volume podcast network. It's Thursday. It's

Oscar's Week. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome. On today's show, our

special guests will compete alongside my coast, my BFF, my companion, professional sports

better, Simon Hunter, in an epic test of wagers and wits that will chew them up and spit them out

like a tainted batch of bazooka. Hello, Simon. Hello, Chad. I'm noticing a theme here. We had a 420

show and then today is Earth Day. It's very to hippie week for us here on the Action Network.

Totally to be legit. We are rad like that. I'm feeling 420-esque good. Simon, today you've got two

really strong challengers. Our first guest is a true Hollywood insider, a top talent manager at

mosaic in Los Angeles and recently named and I say recently like, you know, within the past three

years, one of the 40 most powerful people in comedy by the Hollywood reporter also an Oscar

Sevant Michael Lasker. Welcome, Michael. Thank you. Great to be here. Thanks for that intro. Listen,

I could go on longer. I feel like if anyone has laughed at anything on any streaming service in the

past 13 months, there's a very good chance you are involved in it or someone you represent is

involved in it. That's how powerful you are. That's more important. We make too much credit,

but thank you. More importantly, you are something of an Oscar Sevant. Like, if I asked you to name

the best picture nominees from a year, random year, say like 1994, could you do it? Yes, easily.

Give me the best picture nominees from 1999. The best picture nominees. Well, one thing I want to

be clear on because people debate this all the time. When you say a year as relates the Oscars,

any true Oscar insider knows it's the year the movies were released. So it's the 1994

released years. That would be the 95 like Oscars technically because that's when the show aired.

So for 94, it's of course Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forest Cump,

Quiz Show, Four Weddings in a funeral. And it's a legendary year because Forest Cump won,

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