Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
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What is the significance of Cuervo in the podcast?
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
Cuervo.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Who is Brian Windhorst and why is he important?
An emotional Amin keeps talking during the break about his and our beloved Brian Windhorst, inaugural member of the Jonathan Zaslow Toole Hall of Fame. Amin is friends with Brian. No, I've never heard him say it out loud. I like Brian Windhorst and I know him a little bit. I cannot call myself a friend of Brian Windhorst, but I have admired the work that he has done for a long time. And your defense of Brian Windhorst during the break, what were you getting mad about while you were staring at your phone?
No, it's just the number of people who seem to think that Brian went to high school with LeBron, like he was off the school paper covering LeBron. And I'm like, no, Brian Winters is like my age. We're much older than LeBron. Brian Winters was out of college and a grown man working in newspapers when LeBron was first coming up as a phenom. As many local newspapers, I know people don't read newspapers anymore, but once upon a time, kids, newspapers had writers that were assigned beats. The beat was the thing that you covered. And some people covered The local NFL team, and some people covered the local hockey team. But the entry level in the sports department, Dan, was you were covered what? What would you cover?
Not for you, but in general, a newspaper journalist. I mean, you could cover high school. High school. You cover high school. So Brian worked for the Akron Beacon Journal, I believe, and he was covering high school. I wonder who was playing high school sports who was really good in Akron at that time. Not really good for Akron. Not really good for Northeast Ohio. Not really good for Ohio. Good nationally. So of course he covers LeBron James, right? And then LeBron gets drafted. And so what does the Akron Beacon Journal do? Hey, the most impactful high school prospect ever, perhaps, is going to the local team Hey, guess what beat you're on now, Brian Winhurst?
The Caspian. But what are you defending him against? Because our show can thank its economy to LeBron James. Sure. The entirety of our show, given what South Florida sports has been for 20 years and given what ESPN built for us specifically upon LeBron's arrival in Miami, what are you objecting to? Brian Winhurst is exceptional at his job, hard stop. Brian Windhorst is an incredibly hard worker, hard stop. And Brian Windhorst is also disliked because people simply think that he has been at the economy of LeBron since he was young, which he has been. It has been very profitable for a lot of people to be around the economy of LeBron.
Brian Windhorst exists in this weird space where half the people hate him. Because, oh yeah, you hate LeBron. You're always hating on LeBron. And the other half of the people who hate him are like, you're always in the tank for your guy, LeBron. And when the populace hates you for two completely polar opposite reasons, you know what that means? Sounds like you're pretty fair. And the people who love LeBron are mad when he doesn't say LeBron glazy type stuff. And the people who hate LeBron hate when he's fair and he says good things about LeBron. Sounds like he's a fair guy. But what I am objecting to, to answer your question, There's three major points of ignorance that seem to get repeated a lot as I'm seeing all of this, right?
Number one is that Brian, like, went to high school with LeBron that somehow, like, and has been kind of just mooching off the kid, the cool kid that went to high school with me, right? Which isn't the case. He is a journalist, right? He's covered the dude for decades. longer than anyone else, continuously, right? Number two is that Brian Woodhurst wrote four books about LeBron. That's weird. Like he's a stalker or something. LeBron is one of the most public figures who draws a lot of attention and has lived a lot of lives, right? In the time he's been in public space. And so, yeah, there's a lot of material to be written about that. And the guy who has covered him longer than anyone else, of course, would be that, right?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the significance of Cuervo in the podcast?
0:01–0:43
2
Who is Brian Windhorst and why is he important?
0:43–6:41
3
Why is journalism misunderstood today?
6:41–9:19
4
What did LeBron say about his preferences on flights?
9:19–13:07
5
How does the public perceive media and journalism?
13:07–17:18
6
Is Dan Le Batard a mouthpiece for the Miami Heat?
17:18–24:00
7
What are the benefits of using BetterHelp?
24:00–35:02
Speakers
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