McDonald's & The Oscars

**Jordan Okun** (0:40)
Welcome to Hollywood. What's your dream?
Everybody comes here. This is Hollywood. Land of dreams.
Some dreams come true, some don't. But keep on dreaming. This is Hollywood. Always time to dream. So keep on dreaming. Quick, what movie is that, you Hollywood geeks?

**Bob Koch** (0:59)
White Men Can't Jump. Wrong!

**Jordan Okun** (1:02)
What? None of you Hollywood geeks know the answer?
Were you not listening to the intro?

**Sam Pitman** (1:11)
Pretty Woman!

**Jordan Okun** (1:13)
We are off to a horrible start. We've just eaten so many calories at McDonald. Their brains are slowed.

**Michael Lasker** (1:21)
Pretty Woman, best actress, 1990 nominee, Julia Roberts.

**Jordan Okun** (1:24)
Okay, there you go. This is a Hollywood Air Jordan episode, an Oscars episode, and because Hollywood is all about having dreams and making it come true, I invited a few Air Jordan, Tinseltown, All Stars back to make one of our collective dreams come true. Film and television writers, Sam Pitman, Entertainment Attorney, Bob Koch, Esquire, and Talent Manager. To the stars, Hollywood's Sexiest Man, Ten Years Running is back, Michael Lasker.
And I, the four of us, we all shared the same dream. And it's a dream we've all been talking about and wanting to make happen for so long. And we finally lived the dream. The real McDonald's Happy Meal was devoured. There's nothing happy about a kid's Happy Meal. Isn't that right, Michael? Small French fry. Get out of here. A plain burger or a four piece chicken nugget. Get out of here. Apple slices from McDonald's.
Milk from anywhere.
That flimsy little red box with the handles.

**Sam Pitman** (2:34)
Get out of here.

**Bob Koch** (2:36)
The toy is nice though.

**Jordan Okun** (2:38)
But the real McDonald's Happy Meal, the after dark McDonald's Happy Meal, the order whatever the fuck you want, McDonald's Happy Meal, that is real happiness. And it just went down and happy. We are, although full, we are here to talk, living that dream. And the Academy Awards are coming this weekend, so we have to pick these Hollywood minds about the awards and test the awards season's Rain Man, Michael Lasker, because his knowledge is just so vast. It's just so impressive. It's just so sexy. So without further ado, Sammy, Bobby, Mikey, welcome back to Air Jordan.

**Sam Pitman** (3:22)
Thank you.

**Michael Lasker** (3:22)
Thank you.

**Sam Pitman** (3:23)
Do you guys know adult Jews who drink milk?

**Michael Lasker** (3:28)
I had some milk last week.

**Jordan Okun** (3:29)
There you go.

**Sam Pitman** (3:30)
Like to sip? Like with a meal?

**Michael Lasker** (3:32)
This is what happened.

**Sam Pitman** (3:34)
Or like with cereal?

**Michael Lasker** (3:35)
I have a two and a half year old daughter and a newborn.

**Sam Pitman** (3:38)
Yeah.

**Michael Lasker** (3:38)
And every night the two and a half year old daughter gets like a bottle of milk still, you know, like a cup of milk and I had eaten dinner and I looked in our freezer and noticed we had a lot of Girl Scout cookies. And I thought this is a time to have like a...

**Bob Koch** (3:52)
You didn't just straight drink.

**Michael Lasker** (3:54)
I didn't dip. I had a couple of the thin mints.

**Jordan Okun** (3:57)
Big Wave Dave has a nice cup of milk.

**Sam Pitman** (3:59)
He has a glass of milk.

**Jordan Okun** (4:00)
And a lot of people have it with dessert. It's nice.

**Sam Pitman** (4:03)
A lot of children.

**Michael Lasker** (4:04)
By the way, the three of you know that I just finished a rewatch of The Sopranos.
And two things that happened all the time when The Sopranos would eat dinner. They drank so much fucking coke.

**Sam Pitman** (4:14)
Regular coke.

**Michael Lasker** (4:15)
And they drank milk, non-stop. AJ was always drinking milk when he was like 14

**Jordan Okun** (4:19)
He was putting on weight for football at that time.

**Sam Pitman** (4:21)
That's right. I'm not sure if you picked up on this in your rewatch. They were not Jewish.

**Michael Lasker** (4:25)
I did pick up on that.

**Jordan Okun** (4:27)
Now we call them the Oscars Rayman. Now quick, anyone. How many Oscars did Rayman win?

**Sam Pitman** (4:33)
Two.

**Jordan Okun** (4:34)
Wrong. One.

**Sam Pitman** (4:34)
One more than that.

**Jordan Okun** (4:35)
Michael. How many wins? Who won?

**Michael Lasker** (4:38)
Well, I'll tell you.

**Jordan Okun** (4:38)
Tell me.

**Michael Lasker** (4:39)
It won Best Picture, produced by Mark Johnson.

**Jordan Okun** (4:41)
That's right.

**Michael Lasker** (4:42)
My dear friend and neighbor.

**Jordan Okun** (4:43)
One.

**Michael Lasker** (4:44)
It won Best Director, Barry Levinson. That's two. It won Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman.