1 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network. 2 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: It's Thursday. It's Oscar's week. That means it's time to 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: enter the Thursday Thunderdome. On today's show, our special guests 4 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: will compete alongside my co host, my bff, my companion 5 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: professional sports better Simon Hunter, in an epic test of 6 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: wagers and wits that will chew them up and spit 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: them out like a tainted batch of Bazooka. Hello Simon, 8 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: Hello chat. I'm I'm noticing a theme here. We had 9 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: a four twenties show and then today's Earth Day. It's 10 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: very uh, it's a hippie week for us here on 11 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: the Action Network. Totally tubular, dude, we are rat like that. 12 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: I'm four good Simon Today, You've got to really strong challengers. 13 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: Our first guest is a true Hollywood insider, a top 14 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: talent manager at Mosaic in Los Angeles and recently named 15 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: and I say recently, like you know, within the past 16 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: three years, one of the forty most powerful people in 17 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: comedy by the Hollywood Reporter. Also an Oscar savant. Michael Lasker. Welcome, Michael, 18 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: Thank you great, great to be here. Thanks that intro listen. 19 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: I could go on longer. I feel like if anyone 20 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: is laughed at anything on any streaming service in the 21 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: past thirteen months, there's a very good chance you are 22 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: involved in it, or someone you represent is involved in it. 23 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: That's how powerful you are. More important, more importantly, you 24 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: are something of an Oscar savant. Like if I asked 25 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: you to name the best picture non knees from a year, 26 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: random year, say like, could you do it? Yes, easily, 27 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: give me the best picture nominees from pureminees. Well, one 28 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: thing I want to be clear on because people debate 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: this all the time. When you say a year as 30 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: related to the Oscars, any true Oscar insider knows it's 31 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: the year the movies were released, So it's released years 32 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: that would be like Oscars technically because that's when the 33 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: show aired. So for ninety four it's of course Pull Fiction, Shoshank, Redemption, 34 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: Forrest Gump, Quiz Show, four Weddings in the Funeral, and 35 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: it's a legendary year because Forrest Gump one, and you know, 36 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: you had two other candidates you know that are like 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: famous movies forever with Shaw Shank and Pull Fiction that 38 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: some people thought should have won so a great year 39 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: from movies. Regardless, you have proven your Hollywood insider nous 40 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: and your total geekiness all in one very technical my pleasure, 41 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: you are perfect for the Thunderdome. Our second guest maybe, 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: And I think I've told her this outside of my 43 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: family and sometimes including my family. My favorite person in 44 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: the world. She commands a cabal of hard working gambling writers. 45 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: She's the second most notable alum in the history of 46 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: AZUSA Pacific University. Katie rich Creek, Hello, Katie, Hello, Thanks 47 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: for having me, and I'm I'm honored to be right 48 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: up there with Christian McCoy a on this list of 49 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: APU alum. All right, here's how the game is played today. 50 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: You'll all answer two kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia 51 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: questions about sports, sports, betting, the world at large in 52 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: this case Oscar's. Second, completely subjective and totally assinine, open 53 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge. And 54 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: a reminder for Michael and for Katie, I'm generally rooting 55 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: for Simon and I'm going to do my best to 56 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: make sure that he puts himself into position to win 57 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: um by the end of the show. To accumulate points, 58 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: you must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convinced 59 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: me that your responses to those open ended prompts are 60 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: better than the responses from your opponents, because, just like 61 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: sports betting, you can't get them all. Right, let's begin 62 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: Part one all things Oscars Today. We'll be celebrating the 63 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: nine presentation of the Academy Awards taking place this Sunday night. 64 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: And while American sports books taking bets on the Oscars 65 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: is exciting, those golden statues aren't the only Oscars worth 66 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: talking about. To prove who the real Oscars expert is, 67 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: I'll ask you three questions, one about the Oscars the award, 68 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: one about sports figures named Oscar, and one about Oscars 69 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 1: in pop culture. Katie, here is your Oscars Award question. 70 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: This actor is one of the greatest film performers of 71 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: all time. He's been nominated for a Best Actor Oscars 72 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: six times and has one a record three times, including 73 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen for Lincoln. He The answer is 74 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: not named Oscars, It's just Oscar topics. Yes, correct, So 75 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: it's Daniel day lewis very good. Also, I was gonna 76 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: be so embarrassed for you in front of Michael Lasker, 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: who's a incredibly powerful person in Hollywood and an oscar expert. 78 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: If on the first question, when we're touting you as 79 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: the Oscar expert at action and having listened to your 80 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: podcast about the oscars here you get that wrong, would 81 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: have been sad. Here your sports oscar question. This boxer, 82 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, nicknamed the Golden Boy, earned Olympic gold 83 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: in ninety two, was the world's top rated pound for 84 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: pound fighter in Oscar Dalaya. That's so easy. That's that's embarrassing, Katie. 85 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: Here's your pop culture question. Renowned fashion designer Oscar Dala 86 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: rent A first rose to international fame as a coturier 87 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: for this iconic and fashionable first lady. No, it's not 88 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: jack Kennedy. It's totally Jackie Kennedy. That seems way too old, simon. 89 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: Director James Cameron shouted, I'm the chain the world after 90 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: winning Best Director for this film, which tied the all 91 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: time record with eleven total Oscar wins. Titanic. Very nice. 92 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: Why was that first pair of boobs? I saw you 93 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: always got something, don't you will? By the way, totally 94 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: appropriate you would say that, and I would say, I 95 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: saw that movie, walked out of the theater, it was 96 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: crying hysterically, and ran into a woman I went to 97 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: college with I hadn't seen in four years, Perfect Simon. 98 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: Four years ago this month, Oklahoma City thunder guard Russell 99 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: Westbrook logged his forty second triple double of the season, 100 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: breaking the year records set by this iconic star nicknamed 101 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: the Big Oh is it Oscar Robinson? Oscar Robertson. I 102 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: will give it to you because he was close enough, 103 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: and I know in your heart what you meant. Well, 104 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: I'm here for you, buddy, Simon. The popular packaged meat 105 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: brand Oscar Meyer promotes itself with a fleet of these 106 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: iconic vehicles, first introduced in nineteen six. One summer, our 107 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: producer Matt Mitchell drove this vehicle around the country representing 108 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: the Oscar Meyer brand. Are you're talking about the Oscar Meyer? 109 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: We are like hot dog car thing they drive around 110 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell? Can I give him credit for that? Absolutely? 111 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: And I need the proper name, Simon, the proper name 112 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: for that car, um the Wienermobile. Yes, well done? Oh 113 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: my god. Also one summer in the suburbs of Chicago, 114 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: where I grew up, I ran a hot dog cart 115 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: selling hot dogs, and it was Oscar Meyer. Chad Millman 116 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: is proud of himself. Michael, are you ready? You've been 117 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: very patient. This is tough. I mean, they just did 118 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: incredible work. They did incredible work. They are both nailing, 119 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: and it's the best Simon has ever done. I expect 120 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: did nothing. I also, I would like to point out 121 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: when I was a freshman at USC I was a 122 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: seat filler at the Academy Awards, which for the seven 123 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: movies was when Titanic One Love Titanic, Great Night, Great Oscars. 124 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: So you were in the building, Yeah, I watched it happen. 125 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: Whose seats did you have to fill? Who was the most? 126 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: That's a great question. So you know, they tell you 127 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: right as you line up outside of the auditorium and 128 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: right as the show starts, they say, you're just gonna 129 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: take any open seat you can find. I went about 130 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: fourteen rows back from like the right side facing the stage, 131 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: and I said, next to this older gentleman, and I 132 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: realized after about five minutes it was Army archer Army 133 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: Archerd is not alive anymore, but Army Archerd for every listening. 134 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: Was the most famous like variety reporter for this publication 135 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 1: Variety for like seventy years. So I sat with him. 136 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: The show started, You're like forty minutes in and I 137 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: started talking to him, and he told me that his 138 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: wife wasn't feeling well and his wife didn't come. So 139 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: I took him my like placard that they made you 140 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: wear around your neck. I took it off, I put 141 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: in my tuxied pocket, and I stayed the entire nights 142 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 1: with the Army Archer for three and a half hours. Now, 143 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: the downside of that is my buddy I went with. 144 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: He sat in like five different seats through the night. 145 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: He sat next to like Julie Christie and like all 146 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: these famous actresses. But it was super fun to just 147 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: like have a seat and be there. I was basically 148 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: sitting behind Matt Damon's parents the whole night. So that 149 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: is that's when Matt Damon and Ben affleck one for 150 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: good will hunting. I feel like that is one of 151 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: the most sought after positions as it comes around to 152 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: Oscar Week. You were a college student, you were a 153 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: seat filler, you were wearing a tuxedo. Yeah, did you 154 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: rent the tuxedo or did you own it? Great question. 155 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I am from, I worked at 156 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: a tuxedo shop, and so I was home for spring 157 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: break and I went to the tuxedo shop and I said, hey, um, 158 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the Oscars in two weeks. Could 159 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: I get a tuxedo from you guys? Then you can 160 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: say that one of your tuxedos was worn to the 161 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: Academy Awards. So that was the tuxedo I was wearing. 162 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: And they're in lies the early learnings of how to 163 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: be a manager and an agent? Uh. In nine, Michael 164 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: Alpaccino was nominated four but did not win the Oscar 165 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Glen Garry 166 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 1: Glenn Ross, What's your hired? Four? Just to help us? 167 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: Does that seem clear to you? To help us, not 168 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: to funk us up? But he did receive his first 169 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: and only Oscar that same year, I mean the Best 170 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: Actor Oscar for his role in this film. Alright, so 171 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: the Son of a Woman. Now again technically that is 172 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: the year of n but it's the Oscars that that 173 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: aired in ninety three. Now, that was his eighth Oscar nomination. 174 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: If you want me to name the other six that 175 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: preceded Glen Gary Glen Ross, the Center of a Woman, 176 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: I'll do it right now if I would like you 177 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: to do it, and I will give you extra credit, okay, 178 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, Best Supporting Actor, Godfather nineteen seventy three, 179 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: Best Actor Serproco nineteen seventy four, or Best Actor Godfather 180 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy five, Best Actor Dogday Afternoon. Keep in 181 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: mind that is four straight years the guy is nominated 182 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: for an Oscar. I mean that's pretty unprecedented. Nineteen seventy 183 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: nine Best Actor nominee for Injustice for All, So that's five. 184 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: The sixth nomination is nine Best Supporting Actor for Dick Tracy. 185 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 1: The seventh is Glen Gary Glenn Ross, which is ninety 186 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: two Supporting Actor. The eighth is Sent of a Woman 187 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: Lead Actor. He wins ninety two, and then he finally 188 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: got his ninth last year or The Irishman. So he's 189 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: been nominated nine times now. I can't decide if you're 190 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: super fun at parties were totally insufferable your second question 191 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: after a network of gamblers bribed him with five thousand 192 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: dollars Star outfielder Oscar Happy Felsh became a key figure 193 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: in a plot to intentionally throw the World series a 194 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 1: massive scandal commonly referred to by this nickname. It's the 195 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: Black Sock right, the Black Sox Scandal? Very good? It 196 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: was a movie movie called A Men Out made by 197 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: John Sales. Third question, the classic preparation of veal Oscar 198 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: is veal cutlets topped with crab meat blanche asparagus. And 199 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: this more commonly seen on eggs Benedict oh so hollandaise sauce. 200 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: Part one. Here is the prompt. Ready, The prompt is, 201 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: since the dawn of the motion picture, professional athletes have 202 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: found their way onto the silver screen. And whether you 203 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: were moved by the seminal performance of Shaquille O'Neal in 204 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: Kazam or were overcome by subtle technical brilliance of Dennis 205 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: Rodman in Double Team, all American filmgoers agree we need 206 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: more film roles for athletes. Your task is to remove 207 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: an actor from a famous starring role, substitute in an 208 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: athlete of your choice, selling on why your choice would 209 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: achieve the most ridiculous results imaginable. For example, a young 210 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: Hayley Joe Osman from the sixth sense, take him out 211 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: and replace him with a fully grown Jerome Bettis as 212 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: the child who sees dead people. Are you ready, Simon? 213 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: I am so looking forward to your answer on this. 214 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: Thanks sad. Yeah, And I also try to skew it 215 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: towards you because I know how much you love yourself, 216 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: So I know if I give it a little bit 217 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: into Chad's life, he usually gives me the point. So 218 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, it felt pretty easy. The Fridge Perry, 219 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: I would love if he was the Terminator. Just the 220 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: thought of him on that motorcycle treated the shotgun with 221 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: a little white kid on his back would just be 222 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: amazing visually. So the Fridge is the Terminator to me, 223 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: it would just be amazing. Especially for that time period. 224 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: That just would have been an amazing combo. Here's what 225 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: I love about what you just did. You didn't just 226 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: take like an athlete of today and put him into 227 00:13:53,480 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: any random movie. You matched time period with very happy, 228 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: very smiley, wonderful athlete who would like be the perfect 229 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: comedy antidote to what the Terminator needed in that specific era. 230 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: Love it, Love it. What does William Refrigerator Perry think 231 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: of the Pontiac Resian. You open the door, the light 232 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: goes on. Michael and Katie, you guys are screwed. There's 233 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: no way you're topping that. But Michael, you can try. Well. 234 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: First of all, I'd like to point out, ironically, maybe 235 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: Simon knows this that in the original Terminator they wanted O. J. Simpson. 236 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: So speaking of you know, football players before they cast Arnold, Wow, 237 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: that I did not know. Oh yeah, oh yeah. So 238 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: I was thinking about this last night, and by the way, 239 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: can I say one thing? Can I just say one thing? 240 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: He would have killed that role. Shame on you. Okay, 241 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: So I see about this last night, and I was 242 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: trying to connect back to my youth and something connected 243 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: maybe to my family. So okay, my pitch is Bubba Smith, 244 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: who played High Tower in the Police Academy films, which 245 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: probably anybody or thirty has never seen. But you know, 246 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: he won a Super Bowl the Baltimore Colts, and he 247 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: went to Michigan State, where my father went to college. 248 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: And I thought it'd be funny if Bubba Smith played 249 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: now the Snacks back to the Oscars, if he took 250 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: over the role that Rob Williams played in Dead Poets Society, 251 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: which he was notmated for an Oscar for nine because 252 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: Bubba Smith like that cannot emote and only has like 253 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: one phase of his you know, speaking, I feel like 254 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: I'm in pretty good shape, but I have to work 255 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: hard on it every day. But remember, in order to 256 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: get to it, you've got to go through it. And 257 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: to see him play this incredible teacher who's inspiring all 258 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: the kids and so forth. And by the way, I 259 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: always loved Bubba Smith. He sadly he died um of 260 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: like hypertension in his house like ten years ago, Police Academy. 261 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: Those were all brilliant. Kudos for getting even closer to 262 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: my heart. Then Simon did um and uh seeing him 263 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: like trying to get ethan Hawk he spanned on a 264 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: desk in Dead Poet Society would be out standing. Captain mccaptain, 265 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: Mr Ndition, That's that's high comedy. So I mean, I 266 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: don't know, man, he's giving you a run for his money. 267 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: And I like he had many layers there. He he 268 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: connected it to his family, he connected it to sort 269 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: of what would be the complete antithesis of what that 270 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: role required. Katie. That's a tough one, I know, but 271 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: it seems like we might have saved the best for 272 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: last on this one. So the bar I was using 273 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: for this when thinking of an athlete was who are 274 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: athletes who obviously are very athletics skilled at their game, 275 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: but don't look like they are actually athletes? Nicola jokesch 276 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: for example, looks like he plays basketball in foot flops. 277 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: I'm not using him. I'm gonna use Vince will Fork 278 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: because I think he'd be funny and pretty much any role. 279 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: But the role I have chosen for him is as 280 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: Ralph Maccio. We're placing Ralph Maco in the Karate Kid. 281 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: I think that means I don't even know what to say. 282 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: That is, I'm in the middle of Cobra Kai right now. 283 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I started thinking about Vince Wilfork 284 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: as like the older dad in Cobra Kai. Oh my god, 285 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: Vince Wilfork getting lessons from Mr Miagi. Katie I would 286 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: sell out best seller. That is that is really good 287 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: coming on a strong simon, How do you feel about 288 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: Katie's answer? Honestly, like, I like both their hitcher is 289 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: better than mine. I would say Katie's is funnier. That's funny, 290 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: like Vince Wilfork, Like she said, he's athletic. You can 291 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: watch the hard knocks back in the day. He was 292 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: kicked the field goals and cowboy boots. He is an athlete, 293 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: So I like that. Pick a Vince Wilfork. Michael, I'm sorry, man, 294 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: she won the round the first of all. I thought 295 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: it was a brilliant answer. Love Kardi, kid, I have 296 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: finished Cobra Kai and Cobra Kai is amazing. And again, 297 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: as a kid from the eighties, what those guys Herds 298 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: and Slashburg and Josh Hield did to that actually really brilliant. 299 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: People talk about it in our business all the time 300 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: of like a new unique way of reinventing something really clever. 301 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: Katie wins that round. Nice Jack, Katie. Part two. All 302 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: sports betters know the phrase bad beats, but fans of 303 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 1: the oscars are also familiar with defeats pulled from the 304 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: jaws of victory. But whether it's awards season or your 305 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: favorite team's postseason, it feels like some bad beats made 306 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: everybody mad. Let's highlight a few Katie. Golfer John Daly's 307 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: began his golfer John Daily began his rise as the 308 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: PGA Tours Anti Hero with his win at the Championship. 309 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: One man not celebrating was second place finiture Bruce Litzky. 310 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 1: It was the closest he'd ever get to winning a 311 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: golf major, although he was once on the winning side 312 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: of this by any old golf competition between Europe and 313 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: the United States, the Ryder Cup correct wrap it around Simon. 314 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: Many grown ups inside and outside of Hollywood were mad 315 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: when the Academy gave eleven year old Underdog and a 316 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: Pack Win the award for Best Supporting Actress in pac 317 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: Win's Underdog win came over the likes of Oscar winners 318 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: Emma Thompson and Holly Hunter, as well as this actress, 319 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: the only Oscar nominated performer on the Netflix show Stranger Things. 320 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: No way you're getting this. You are not even in 321 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: the ballpark of getting this. I should know because I 322 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: used to love Beetle Juice as a kid. Man, Like, 323 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite movies. Is that one 324 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: on a Rider? Oh my god, you totally got it. Yeah, dude, 325 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: I used to love Beetle Juice as a kid. I know, 326 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: Like I probably shouldn't been watching that as like an 327 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: eight nine year old, but oh my god, I love 328 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: that movie. Well done, Michael. The January NFC Championship became 329 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: one of the most devastating upsets in NFL history. Despite 330 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: a fifty one record and an electric offense led by 331 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: All Pro quarterback Randall Cunningham, this team lost to the 332 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons after kicker Gary Anderson missed the field goal 333 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: for the first time all season. Okay, so nice see. 334 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: I was going to say, you would think it's the 335 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: Eagles because of Randall, but no, wasn't. At the Minnesota Vikings. 336 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: They were fifteen and one that year, and Anderson hasn't 337 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 1: missed in two years. That's a pretty good man. If 338 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: you say, do you think Harry Anderson bank this field goal? 339 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: The answers from yes, nine yards away, Pa, it was 340 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Look that that's a little you know. 341 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: Well you didn't know because my father is from the 342 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: Bronx is that we were big NFC East people, even 343 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: into well intul So, Oklahoma because of the Dallas Cowboys, 344 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: who we hated. But everybody in Tulsa in that area, 345 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: they all they all adopt the Cowboys. So we're rooting 346 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: for the Giants every Sunday just always hated the cowboys. 347 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: Here's my question. Your dad is from the Bronx. How 348 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: do you get ends up at Michigan State and then 349 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: goes to Tulsa the army. He was in the r OTC. 350 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: And then he went to Korea after the Korean War, 351 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: and then he still owed them like two years. They 352 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: sent him to Fort Sill, which I think is in Lawdon, Oklahoma. 353 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: So then in the early sixties, him and his army, 354 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: but he would go into Tulsa on the weekends to 355 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: like go to bars and meet girls. And you know, 356 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: he liked Tulsa. It's a really pretty city. It's kind 357 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: of like Pasadena for people in California. They're listening. And 358 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: he stayed. He got a job, and he stayed and 359 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: that was it. And then he met my mother through 360 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: his sister at a wedding like seven years later, and 361 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: she moved from Boston to Tulsa, and my brother and 362 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: I were raised there. And that's it. I've only been 363 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: to Oklahoma once. King Fisher, Oklahoma. Okay. Sure, I covered 364 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: a rodeo there. Okay, that sounds right, and it was fantastic. 365 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, Oklahoma, Oakland a city. I think 366 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: the babe a whole area where it's just Brick Road, 367 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: where it's all bars on this one street especially, I 368 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: went when the thunder were good where it was like 369 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: you went to a Durant see Westbrook, you just walked 370 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: to the bars. I was like, you know what. Oklahoma, 371 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 1: My one of my childhood best friends is this guy, 372 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: David Holt, who's the mayor of Oklahoma City, and we 373 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: sort of have this rivalry because I'm from Tulsa, he's 374 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City has just been laughing Tulsa 375 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years. They got the thunder obviously, 376 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: but they've also just done well you're referring to I 377 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: think it's called Bricktown, and they've just done all these 378 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: incredible projects in their city to like boost the city. 379 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: And you know, they've built a new convention center. So 380 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: it's a source subject for Tulsa's um. But David is 381 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: doing he will listen to this at some point. He's 382 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,959 Speaker 1: doing an incredible job. David does what is right. Uh, 383 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 1: despite being the mayor in a red state. I'll leave 384 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: it at that. I feel like Michael is the Forrest 385 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: Gump of this podcast. Somehow he like is connected to 386 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: all of these things through the course of time and history. Uh, 387 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: and I think that's utterly arm Katie Europe. One of 388 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: the most bizarre out of nowhere wins in Oscar's history 389 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: occurred in two thousand and seventeen, when a film was 390 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture on stage. 391 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: The embarrassed presenter was Warren Batty, one of the most 392 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: successful figures in Holliday history and the producer, director, and 393 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: start of Thism based on a comic strip, which was 394 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: nominated for seven Oscars. Guys, you gotta give me trivia 395 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: for the years I was alive for Nope, that's this 396 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: is your punishment for being and successful. You get harder questions. 397 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: I'd like to point out, if I've already named this 398 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: movie earlier, the podcast Yes You Did. Al Pacino was 399 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: nominated for an Oscar for his role in this movie. Oh, 400 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: I hate it here because wonderful phone a friend moment 401 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: and I have completely dropped the ball by having terrible retention. 402 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 1: So far, nobody's missed the questions, so you might have 403 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: to miss a question. I can't. I can't even give 404 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: any more clues. Comic strip movie. I have no idea, 405 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: doesn't work, could mean anything? Fibre. Have you no sense 406 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: of pride? Here? What's it doing? No sense? No such 407 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: up yesterday? I'm looking for get Why do I got 408 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: foot soldiers first? God, that's not even in my brain. 409 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Simon inside the Tokyo Dome 410 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: in a massive upset seemed to depress just about every 411 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: boxing fan in the world when this thirty seven one 412 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: underdog knocked out Mike Tyson, the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion 413 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: of the world. Who is the underdog? Oh god, I 414 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: should know this because of the gambling aspect, and it 415 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: was like one of the biggest underdogs ever in boxing. 416 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: I know it's Buster is the last named Douglas Buster 417 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: Douglas it is. But I can't believe like that. It's 418 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: not so prominent in your brain. I was born in 419 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. But like you're you're 420 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,479 Speaker 1: a sports fan, this is one of the most iconic 421 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: moments in sports history. I know it's depressing. I feel 422 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: you on that, But I can tell you about some 423 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: rapper right now and you'd be like, I know that 424 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: is I'm like that guy has been number one with 425 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: the Billboard for two years. So that's just how age works. Buddy, 426 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: don't try to make me feel uncol don't make this 427 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: about me. Okay, you two old, You're just an old man. Michael. 428 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: At the two n two nineteen Oscars, underdog Olivia Coleman 429 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: defeated minus four fifty betting favorite Glenn Close for Best Actress. 430 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: It was another close but no cigar moment for Gwen, 431 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: her seventh Oscar nomination without a win, including a Best 432 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: Supporting Actress nomination in this baseball film. The film is 433 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: The Natural. Now also Glenn Close, who like you know, 434 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: been a stage actress, nominated for three Oscars in a 435 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: row as she like entered movies. So it's like nine 436 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: two world according to garb three The Big Chill nineteen 437 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: eight for The Natural, and then she gets nominated again 438 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: in eighties seven for Fatal Attraction for Best Actress and 439 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: then eight eight for Dangerous Liaisons. I think Olivia Coleman 440 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: is amazing. She won for the favorite, the favorite, which 441 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, despite sharing a name with this podcast, 442 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: I didn't love might might take on that, I mean, 443 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: I adore obviously, Glenn Close is amazing Levia Coleman is amazing, 444 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: incredible on the Crown and a lot of other stuff. 445 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: I think the thing would happen there is that the wife. 446 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: That movie was like being manufactured to win her an oscar. 447 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: The movie was good, it felt a little bit like 448 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: a TV movie, and the favorite I think was just 449 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: kind of greater than the sum of its parts because 450 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: of all the great acting and the filmmaking. I actually 451 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: in the Academy in that moment it sort of felt like, 452 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: we don't want to give it to Glen Close for this. 453 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: We want to give it to her for something that 454 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: is more deserving. And you know she's gonna lose again 455 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: on Sunday with Hillbilly Elogie, I mean, the Grandmother and 456 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: Minari is probably gonna win. So look, Glenn Close is 457 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: a legend. She seems from you know, she has got 458 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: a pretty public persona now on Instagram. She seems to 459 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: be really cool and really kind of get you know, 460 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: the joke, and she's fine. She will get an Oscar 461 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,719 Speaker 1: for something she'll be deserving. And Olivia Coleman also up 462 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: against her again, this is right, that's right. Going Close 463 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: also the most dominated actress to not win an acting 464 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: award thus far. Yeah, I think that's right. Olivia Coleman. 465 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: I have probably watched Moura Olivia Coleman during the pandemic 466 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: between The Crown, The Favorite and broad Church than anything else. 467 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: She's amazing. She's everywhere, and she's on Fleabag in the 468 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: second season. I mean, she's right. Credible actors. All right, 469 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: here we go some Oscar winning for this is the prompt. 470 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: Some Oscar winning films age better than others, and some 471 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,239 Speaker 1: just make people matter and matter. If you could go 472 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: back in time and hand one Oscar name and a 473 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: nominated film, it's rightful award. What would you choose? And why, 474 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: Michael your first? Alright? So I was when I thought 475 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: about this yesterday, I was going to, uh say, pull 476 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: fiction to win Best Picture over for Scump. And we've 477 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: kind of already discussed that earlier on the podcast. But 478 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: that you know, I was fifteen pull fiction change in 479 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: my life, and I Forrest Gump I thought was incredible too, 480 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: but it always bumped me out the pull fiction loss. 481 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna I'm gonna augment the answer and it's 482 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: gonna connect back something to Chad we talked about earlier, 483 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: and I think people will be surprised by this. I'm 484 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: going to pitch something that actually wasn't nominated that should 485 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 1: have been nominated, and believe it or not, A Few 486 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: Good Men, which was the movie that like really changed 487 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: my life that I saw five times in the movie theater. Um, 488 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: Aaron Sorkin was not nominated for the screenplay, and I 489 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: was always like befuddled by that, you know, I mean, 490 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because it was his play 491 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: that he adapted and they thought, well, who cares, although 492 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: they made tons of changes to turn it from a 493 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: play to a movie. And I just remember thinking like, 494 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: how could this not be nominated for screenplay? Like it 495 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: epitomizes screenplay. All it's is people talking. Um. That whole 496 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: year was like a weird coming of age year for 497 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: me because I was like die hard. A Few good 498 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: Men didn't understand why I was losing No. Unforgiven, And 499 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: then in college at USC I wrote a paper Unforgiven, 500 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: and I was like, Unforgiven the greatest movie ever made. 501 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: Now now I get it because I had grown up 502 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: a little bit. But um that I'm still giving you 503 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: two answers. Pull fiction should have beaten Forrest Gum and 504 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: a Few Good Men should have been nominated for Best 505 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: Adapted Screenplay Night to Night two. You want answers. I 506 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: think I'm entitled. You want answer the truth. You can't 507 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: handle the truth. I like your creativity. I like your 508 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: You're going outside the box. I like that you're bringing 509 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: up Aaron Sorkin and a Few Good Men, uh, which 510 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: is an automatic must watch. I have a greater responsibility 511 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: than you can possibly fathom. You are going to be 512 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: hard to beat in this round, Katie. You can try, 513 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: you know. I don't feel super confident now with that intro, 514 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: but I'll do my best. So my personal answer to 515 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: this is that get Out should have be Shape of 516 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: Water in seventeen. That's the movie I feel like people 517 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: that has stuck with folks for the longest. And no 518 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: offense to Gamel del Toro, I just didn't think Shape 519 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: Water was the best of the year. Um. But my 520 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: actual answer, because I'm pandering a little bit to both 521 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: you and listeners, um saving private Ryan over Shakespeare and love. 522 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: I can't remember what year it was, it was like 523 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: ninety six, maybe listen. It's a good answer, but it's 524 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: a cliche. It's also very obvious. Yeah, it's a total cliche. 525 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: I can't give you credit for that, Simon. So we 526 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: actually already talked about this. Uh, Titanic. People love that movie, 527 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: but do people realize that con Air came out that summer? 528 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: And when I think about star power and great movies, 529 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: con Air man Nicholas Cage just using sex, I mean 530 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: all the actors in that. There's so many big names 531 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: in Conna, especially compared to Titanic. Sorry, boss, but there's 532 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: only two men I trust one of those main it's 533 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: not you, and I was shot the budget of it. 534 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: I know everyone talks about the budget of Titanic, let's 535 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: talk about the budget of con Air. Unbelievable. All the 536 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: stuff they did in that movie. So a name that 537 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: should have won the Oscars, it's got to be listen. 538 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: That is a really that's a powerful answer. I do 539 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: love it. I feel like Conair, like in the form 540 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: of air driven disaster movies, can't hold a candle to Armageddon, 541 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: which probably also deserved an Oscar. And so I'm gonna 542 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: have to give you no credit for that. And I'm 543 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: giving Michael the win because he pandered significantly better than 544 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: either of you. By the way for the Thank you 545 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: for the record, Katie. I did think about say in 546 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: Private Ryan, it's night. But I did think about that 547 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: last night because I do think, especially in the Harvey 548 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: Weinstein you Know Me Too era, like a lot of 549 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: people already felt like Private Ryan should have won. And 550 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: then because the interging thing, Chad if I might um 551 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: about the Oscars and there was there was an article 552 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: about this recently. Somebody's tell me about that is the 553 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: year they look back in history as that is when 554 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: like hardcore campaigning started, and it was started at Harvey 555 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: Weinstein where they were like not just getting people to 556 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: see their movie, they were poisoning the well about other movies. 557 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: I think Chase Turned Love is a brilliant film and 558 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,959 Speaker 1: it won a lot of Oscars that night, so it 559 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: wasn't necessary undeserving. But I've watched them both since, and 560 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: same type of Ryan I think is a better film. Simon. 561 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. I thought you were 562 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: gonna say l a Confidential because that lost the Titanic. 563 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: But coon Air is a masterpiece, so good on you. 564 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,959 Speaker 1: That was a joke. I'm glad you told me. Now 565 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: I got to get back to the plane I would 566 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: love to get your take, Michael on Nick Cage, because 567 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: I have a friend who is presently watching every single 568 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage movie ever released, which is a surprisingly long list, 569 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: and now has the hottest take that Nicolas Cage is 570 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: the most underrated actor in history. So he's an incredible actor. 571 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: The weird thing about Nicolas Cage I gotta go on 572 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: YouTube and find this. He he wins the Oscar leaving 573 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. He's like on a red carpet somewhere, it 574 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: might have been at the Oscars, and they're literally like, 575 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: what do you want to do next? And he says, 576 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: with the straightest deface, is I want to be an 577 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: action star. And then he goes to the gym, he 578 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: gets ripped, and then he does the rock um next, 579 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: which is a masterpiece. I mean one of I saw 580 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: the movie four times that week he came out. I mean, 581 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: it's incredible. It's the only movie to ever pull off 582 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: the die Hard formula. That and Speed are the only 583 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: two movies that kind of I think evoked die Hard 584 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: in the right way. But no, Nichols Cage is a genius. 585 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: He's I mean, you know, he's got his own issues 586 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: which have been heavily documented. But he's a great, great actor. Also, 587 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: he won an Oscar. You can't be underrated if you 588 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: win an Oscar. Yeah, that's right. He made a different 589 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: path for himself. Alright, Part three, Here we go. Good 590 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: sports pass. Sports movies are great. Sports are great. Unfortunately, 591 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: sports movies are not always great. I will ask each 592 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: of you two questions about a sports movie. One good, 593 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 1: one bad. Speed round here Simon. Remember The Titans is 594 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: a good sports movie. But in the film, Player Alan 595 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: Bossley is not good. Despite earning Player of the Week 596 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: five times, he gives up two catches on the first 597 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: drive of the season and get benched. For a guy 598 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: who's never practiced playing cornerback. The role of Bosley was 599 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: a big Hollywood break for this young heart throb, a 600 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: two time Oscar nominee and star of the movie The Notebook. 601 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: This is why I hate the thunder Dome is I 602 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: could I've seen this name a million times now I 603 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: can't remember it is Ryan Goslin. Beautiful. Thank God, I 604 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: fucking love you for knowing that Michael as an Oscar's 605 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 1: expert will make this one harder for you. The Champ 606 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: was nominated for Best Picture in the nineteen thirties. The 607 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: Quiet Man, a movie about a retired boxer, was nominated 608 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: in the fifties. Okay, Since then, the Academy has nominated 609 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 1: four boxing movies for Best Picture for one point, name 610 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: the two that one best picture for two points? Name 611 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: all four movies nominated? Okay, the two. The one best 612 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: picture was Rocky in nineteen seventy six, Million Dollar Baby 613 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. The third one is Raging, 614 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: which was nominated, and then the fourth boxing film. You 615 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: just have to think for a second. You want to hint, Sure, 616 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 1: I'll take it ahead. The win, the winner, the Best 617 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: Supporting Actor came from this movie in the last fifteen years. Oh, 618 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, of course The Fighter Christian Bale for The Fighter. Yeah, 619 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: how about me knowing that clue without even getting anything 620 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: in the script from Matt Mitchell. Great question, because I 621 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: don't even know. I'm not knocking the question. I don't 622 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: even know if you think of The Fighter as a 623 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: boxing movie per se, because you think of the family, 624 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, You think of the sisters, 625 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: and you think of the drug addiction. But it is 626 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: a boxing movie. You're right, It's a really good boxing movie. 627 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: It's a great boxing movie. Katie. Airbud film about about 628 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: golden retriever who plays basketball. It's spurred four sequels, each 629 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,359 Speaker 1: one more embarrassing than the last. I will now list 630 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: the whole franchise for fun air Bud, air Bud to 631 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: Golden Receiver, Airbud World, Pup Airbud, Seventh Inning, Fetch, Airbud 632 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: Spikes back the original film. Buddy a dog would be 633 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,280 Speaker 1: game famous in real life, but appearing on this famous 634 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: Hosts Network TV show, which occasionally featured pets performing inane tricks. 635 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: But we'll find anything in there. If there's a dog 636 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: can't play, no roles for the dog can't playing basketball. 637 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: First of all, Airbud is right in my wheelhouse. I 638 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,720 Speaker 1: was born in ninety four, so the Airbud franchise carried 639 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: me through childhood. Second, I have never really watched network 640 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 1: talk shows, so I have zero glue. Who has a dog. 641 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: I know it can't be Fallon. I know it can't 642 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 1: be Kimmel. I have to guess it's either j Letto 643 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: or um, Oh my god, Letterman? Is it Letterman? I'm 644 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: gonna go with Letterman. Oh my, I don't want to 645 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: give it to you because like Letterman is so anathema 646 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: to your ability to think about like late night TV shows. 647 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,919 Speaker 1: But yes, it's a Letterman. Hey. His Netflix series was great. 648 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,840 Speaker 1: Enjoyed that quite a bit crap. It was crap, It 649 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,800 Speaker 1: was self indulgent. He wasn't the same Letterman. It was terrible. 650 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: Simon the two thousand one film Summer Catches a very 651 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,399 Speaker 1: bad sports movie. This summary is quote a rich girl 652 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: summering and cape cud as a romance with a local 653 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: poor boy who hopes to become a major league ball player. 654 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 1: It starts Freddie Prinn's Jr. And this actress Esquire Magazine's 655 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,720 Speaker 1: Sexiest Woman Alive in two thousand five and the wife 656 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,399 Speaker 1: of Justin Timberlake. That's a horrible review. That's a great movie, 657 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 1: especially when you're in love and it's Jessica Bill. I 658 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,520 Speaker 1: feel like that was her big sexual breakaway from Seventh Heaven, 659 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,359 Speaker 1: so I definitely remember the shift of me watching her 660 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: on daytime TV to her making out the Freddie Prince Jr. 661 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, this is aggressive. We are learning 662 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: so much about Simon's history with the ladies through his 663 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 1: movies with Titanic and now Jessco Bill and seventh Heaven, 664 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,799 Speaker 1: Michael should be right up your alley. The trade magazine Variety, 665 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: where Army Archard worked for many, many years, called the 666 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy film Here Comes the Tigers, a direct rip 667 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 1: off of the Bad News Bears with dull directing and 668 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 1: awful acting. This g rated pile of crap was directed 669 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: by Sean Cunningham, better known for co creating directing this 670 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: famous horror film about an abandoned summer camp. Um, okay, 671 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,760 Speaker 1: I mean that has to be Friday. It is Friday thirteenth. 672 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: That was a good question. That that was twisty. It 673 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: was the Yeah, Matt Mitchell's He's got a gift for 674 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,040 Speaker 1: this Katie film. A League of Their Own is a 675 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: great sports movie and its poster features three of the 676 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,799 Speaker 1: film stars. One is an Oscar winning actress. Oh my god, 677 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,360 Speaker 1: this is great. One is a two time Oscar winning actor. 678 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,760 Speaker 1: The other was an international superstar who performed the Oscar 679 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:52,240 Speaker 1: winning song Sooner or Later from the movie Dick Tracy 680 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: that same year. Name all three stars. This is really embarrassing, actually, 681 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: because I did an oral history for A League of 682 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: Their Own at ESPN where we interviewed like the screenwriters 683 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: and a bunch of other folks, and I just you know, Okay, 684 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: it's Jeanne Davis. I know it's Madonna. And then who's 685 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 1: the third You're missing? Don't the third Tom Hanks? I 686 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,000 Speaker 1: don't know the third. That's embarrassing. Yeah, that's probably the 687 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: easiest for anyone else. Now, I mean Tom Hanks might 688 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,920 Speaker 1: have might have will be Orson Welles for you. But 689 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: you know, if it were Chet Hanks, I would have 690 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: got it immediately. That's true, exactly. So al right, here's 691 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: the prompt for the part three. Some of the worst 692 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,880 Speaker 1: movies of all time have been based on a true story. 693 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,760 Speaker 1: Give me your pitch for the worst sports movie imaginable 694 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,840 Speaker 1: based on a true story from the last five years, Katie, 695 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 1: your first. The opening series between the Rockies and Dodgers 696 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 1: this season, there was a feral cat that ran onto 697 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: the field. There are tons of feral cats at Corus Field, 698 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 1: which I live like blocks from. So my idea is 699 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: to have a movie about the journey of the serial cat. 700 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 1: After it was collected by the security guards, apparently it 701 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: escaped from them. Where did it go next? Did it 702 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 1: hop on a train at Union Station right up to 703 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: the Rockies. I don't know. I'd like to find out, though, 704 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: I got a title for you. What is it? How 705 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 1: about the movie nobody's ever gonna want to see? No, 706 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: I saw it all over your face. It was not 707 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: it was not landing at all. Uh, signon, save us 708 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 1: from Katie's like horrible idea. This would this would get 709 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,880 Speaker 1: her kicked out of a pitch meeting in two seconds. 710 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,920 Speaker 1: That's the whole point. Though supposed to be the worst 711 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: sports movie, so I think she she knailed it. That 712 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: I was pretty it would be super boring. But also 713 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,759 Speaker 1: everyone would take their children to see it, um so 714 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: for mine. I obviously I wanted to say with a 715 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: pandemic to like, that's too easy. So I would love 716 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 1: if they did a movie like a like a sad 717 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 1: story about feeling bad for the Huston Astros for cheating, 718 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,480 Speaker 1: because remember Houston, like they wanted people to feel bad 719 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,359 Speaker 1: for them. They're like, people are being so mean to us. 720 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,799 Speaker 1: People are bowing us at these away games, calling us 721 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: cheaters scum bags. We all hate them. I would love 722 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 1: if they did a movie a like feeling Bad for 723 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,840 Speaker 1: the Houston Astros because people would just absolutely hate that movie. 724 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: It's not bad. That is a terrible idea. But now 725 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,239 Speaker 1: that I think about it, is it worse than a 726 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: movie about Ferrell cats at at the Rockies home stadium. 727 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, Michael, I feel like this could be 728 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,280 Speaker 1: right up your alley. You've probably heard so many bad ideas, Simon, 729 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 1: You're gonna love this. So I was. I was going 730 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,839 Speaker 1: through the internet last night and thinking about what are 731 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: some weird stories and what I decided cannot make this up. 732 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,479 Speaker 1: I have a very good friend named Todd Waldman who's 733 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,399 Speaker 1: from Houston and is the biggest Rockets fan of all time. 734 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: But my pitch was to do like almost a Robert 735 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,439 Speaker 1: Altman style, you know, like thirty character, you know, five 736 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: year story spanning of all the woes of Houston sports 737 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,839 Speaker 1: of the last five years. So you have three storylines. 738 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: You have the Astros getting found out for cheating, you 739 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: have James Harden being unbelievable but never getting over the hump, 740 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,439 Speaker 1: and you have j. J. Watt being unbelievable but being 741 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,279 Speaker 1: on basically a bad team. So my pitch was sort 742 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: of just like doing almost like a drama about like 743 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 1: the state of Houston fandom. Because of my friend Todd, 744 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,359 Speaker 1: So It's so funny that Simon brought up Houston, because 745 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 1: I was just trying to think of, like, well, what 746 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: are the sad moments sadly of sports the last couple 747 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: of years, and the Astros, I mean, that to me 748 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,480 Speaker 1: was a big deal because they were like, remember when, 749 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,480 Speaker 1: like they were on the cover of s I and 750 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: they were like, you know, they're gonna be the best 751 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,000 Speaker 1: for the next three years because they're scouting and blah 752 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,960 Speaker 1: blah blah, and it was kind of all a lot. 753 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: I kind of love that answer because I know a 754 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,879 Speaker 1: lot of folks from Houston too, and I can't tell 755 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,440 Speaker 1: you how many times I've sat in a bar with 756 00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 1: friends from Houston who, before the Astros won the World Series, 757 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,239 Speaker 1: would talk to me about how I'm from Chicago, what 758 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: talk to me about? How anything they're going through is 759 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,960 Speaker 1: Houston sports fans is worse than anything we ever went 760 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,000 Speaker 1: through as Cubs fans. And it is unbelievably boring to 761 00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 1: listen to uninteresting because Houston is not one of those 762 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,440 Speaker 1: towns anybody cares about. So I feel like this is 763 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,439 Speaker 1: terrible and nobody would want to see this movie, even 764 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 1: like people from Houston might not want to see this movie. 765 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,600 Speaker 1: It would make Michael, I'm giving it to you. Thank you. 766 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 1: All right, we head into the final round. Katie, I'm 767 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,759 Speaker 1: surprised that you're in last place with six points. I 768 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,760 Speaker 1: can't quite believe you still have not taken into account 769 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 1: the human factor. You're this definitely like the smartest of 770 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,560 Speaker 1: everyone on this this show, So this is weird to me. Simon, 771 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,839 Speaker 1: you're normally in front. As we get into the final round, 772 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,240 Speaker 1: you're only at seven. Michael, you're blowing the field away 773 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 1: with eleven, so I'm excited for you. This is the 774 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 1: last round. You guys each have to tell us how 775 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,000 Speaker 1: much you would like to risk. So close your eyes, 776 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,240 Speaker 1: very high tech, close your eyes, hold up your fingers 777 00:43:51,680 --> 00:44:00,000 Speaker 1: with your wager amount. Here we go. At the Academy Award, 778 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 1: the song Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now was nominated for 779 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:09,040 Speaker 1: Best Original Song. It did inspire a number of sports 780 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,640 Speaker 1: franchises on their paths to glory. One of those teams 781 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,279 Speaker 1: was the Portland's Trail Playzers, who played it during home 782 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 1: playoff games on their way to the NBA Finals. Unfortunately, 783 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,080 Speaker 1: something did stop them the Bad Boy Pistons, but the 784 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,560 Speaker 1: song's biggest champions are the Montreal Canadians, who's coach heard 785 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: it on the radio during a losing streak and distributed 786 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,080 Speaker 1: cassette tapes to every player. Just as the song promised, 787 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 1: nothing stopped the Canadians on their way to Stanley Cup 788 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,920 Speaker 1: victory over this team, who were led by a player 789 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,919 Speaker 1: known as the Great One. Please submit your answers while 790 00:44:48,000 --> 00:45:09,240 Speaker 1: we listen to the song. Our answers are in Michael, 791 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,120 Speaker 1: your first, Your your first first. The Great One is 792 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, married to Janet Jones, who was in Police 793 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: Academy five when they go to Miami. I know you 794 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,640 Speaker 1: know that yet better known for her role in what 795 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,480 Speaker 1: other sports themed movie? Well it's is it? Vision Quest? No? 796 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,120 Speaker 1: Maybe not Vision Quest? Janet Jones started an American anthem 797 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,640 Speaker 1: co starring Mitch gay Lord and that was in nine. 798 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:41,120 Speaker 1: That's right. Oh yeah, okay, mont Martreal Canadians beat So Gretzky. Um, 799 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 1: well at that time, I'm just gonna take yes here. 800 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,040 Speaker 1: I mean he he played for the Kings, I thought, 801 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say the l A the Kings. You 802 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,880 Speaker 1: are correct, the l A Kings. How much did you 803 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,600 Speaker 1: wager five? So you are now at sixteen? Oh? I 804 00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: also had l A Kings, but I put all of 805 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:02,759 Speaker 1: it in. I think I only had seven points on 806 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 1: at fourteen. Uh, so you're at fourteen. Well, you always 807 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,600 Speaker 1: go all in, so that's pretty good for you. Yeah. Finally, 808 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,439 Speaker 1: this is the only one I've gotten right in six 809 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,719 Speaker 1: weeks and I lost. It's totally true. By the way, 810 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 1: it is the first one you've gotten right, Katie, I 811 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,120 Speaker 1: played scared. I only wagered five points. My answer is 812 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,320 Speaker 1: also the Kings, which I only know. I'm not a 813 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: hockey man because I spent time working at l A 814 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,080 Speaker 1: news stations and was forced to learn about the Kings 815 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,600 Speaker 1: and the docks. Well. Listen, as any good Susan Pacific 816 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,400 Speaker 1: grad should know, you do your time at l A 817 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,040 Speaker 1: news stations and you get to know all about hockey 818 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,720 Speaker 1: all around Southern California. Super popular, everyone loves it. Michael, 819 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:54,880 Speaker 1: you are the winner, amazing highlight of my life. Thank you. Listen, 820 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,080 Speaker 1: this has been an endurance test and we appreciate you 821 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,520 Speaker 1: taking the time. Uh, and we appreciate you lay along 822 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000 Speaker 1: You Michael Ascar are the winner of the Thursday Thunderdome 823 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: Oscar's edition. Solomon and Katie put your ship in the box. 824 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,400 Speaker 1: You're fired. Listen before we sign off, here is a 825 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:17,759 Speaker 1: word from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO, Patrick Keene. 826 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:23,560 Speaker 1: Have you no sense of pride? Here? What's you doing alright? 827 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,760 Speaker 1: This has been the favorites from the Volume podcast network. 828 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,240 Speaker 1: My thanks to our guests Michael Laskar, Katie rich Creek, 829 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,680 Speaker 1: Simon Hunter. As a reminder of the Volume is now 830 00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 1: on YouTube. We've got new stuff up there every single day, 831 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,360 Speaker 1: including clips interviews from all the network shows. Subscribe to 832 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,440 Speaker 1: the Volume YouTube channel at YouTube dot com Slash the Volume. 833 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: Don't forget to join us this Tuesday for our NFL 834 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 1: Draft episode featuring former Bills Director of Player Personnel Jim Monis. 835 00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,720 Speaker 1: Please rate and review the show on Apple podcast download 836 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,439 Speaker 1: on Spotify. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time. 837 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,240 Speaker 1: Love you,