Hour 2: Work In A Salad
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What are Amin's thoughts on Inside The NBA?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Amin's going to join us in a little bit here. We'll get his weekend observations. I also want to get his thoughts on the conversation we were just having and play for all of you Mike Wilbon's last appearance with us where he was complaining like an old guy the way that Barkley and Shaq do about today's NBA. I was actually surprised by his response. because Mike Wilbon has loved basketball like very few people I've ever known in my life. To see him sour on today's sport actually caught me off guard. But before I do that, I wanted to ask David and all of you if you're watching specifically what's happening at CBS as Stephen Colbert does the best show he's ever done, freest show, talking politics nightly in a way that he's uniquely equipped for, and to see Jimmy Kimmel's evolution from the man show
to now he's regularly tackling politics and the both of them are doing something that's in the realm of Bill Maher while the established late night entity of Johnny Carson falls apart because Jimmy Fallon can't do what Colbert has always done. and what Kimmel has grown into doing, but CBS is bought and paid for.
What does Amin reveal about his Weekend Observations?
What's happened to one of our legacy media items is about to collapse as soon as Colbert leaves, and you will see nothing on there ever again that feels anything like what Colbert is presently doing. His show's on fire. Like, if you watch right now, he's honoring What Jon Stewart did when bringing The Daily Show up as a credible news outlet that's fighting for democracy, and it's a jester fighting against our dull, incompetent, corrupt, felonious king. A court jester who's doing his job correctly. But are you watching, David, everything specifically happening at CBS, where there is a billionaire corporate takeover that is trying to turn it into something that more resembles Fox News and isn't in any way something that is...
uh... in anyway aspiring to objectivity well fox news is actually not all that uh... in good graces either with the government and really what the bigger concern is is whether or not you can threaten to take away the license of a media company for not talking about an issue the way the president wants you to talk about it. That to me is the most concerning issue where you need them to talk about the war in Iran in a certain way, or you will threaten them with their lifeblood. It is absolutely should be scary to everyone here, no matter your political views. if there is a risk of a state-run media. And that's what we're talking about. I have not seen what is presently happening in media in my entire lifetime, not adult lifetime.
Even reading about history, I'd have to go back to McCarthyism to feel anything like what it is that is presently happening with the government weaponizing all sorts of things in order.
How does Mike Wilbon feel about today's NBA?
What about Cuba? I thought that was state-run. That was part of the problem with the state-run media. No, but that's talking you're talking about 1959. That's before McCarthyism. You're talking about something. The last thing that I could remember that feels anything like what is presently happening in and around the media where the government is actively trying to create fear that changes the way that all of these free speech enterprises do business. It's something I've never seen in my life. This is something that no one listening to this has seen in their life. They're coming after Tucker Carlson, too. I don't know if you guys saw that, accusing him of being some sort of Iranian spy, essentially, because he was texting back and forth with someone before the strike happened.
And that part was very surprising to me. Oh, it's not surprising. Right. He's now that's the whole problem with dealing with authoritarian policy is that you think you're in, but then you're out. And when you're out, you can't get back in. And everybody who's in becomes out. And then all of a sudden you're left with one person sitting alone at the top. Trump has lost Alex Jones. So this is the process that happens.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Amin's thoughts on Inside The NBA?
0:00–1:25
2
What does Amin reveal about his Weekend Observations?
1:25–3:14
3
How does Mike Wilbon feel about today's NBA?
3:14–4:31
4
What are the implications of Stephen Colbert's late-night show?
4:31–9:31
5
What concerns are raised about media objectivity?
9:31–15:09
6
What does Amin say about Marco Belinelli's documentary?
15:09–15:17
7
What are the highlights of Amin's Weekend Observations?
15:17–24:53
8
How does the discussion shift to the impact of AI on media?
24:53–40:14
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