Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
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What is the controversy surrounding the Jimmy Butler statue?
The oddball guys made it about themselves yesterday. Like, it couldn't be about Jimmy Butler. It couldn't be about Miami. It couldn't be about the story. It had to be about oddball. It had to be about how can oddball trick a journalist? How can oddball make a name for itself on basketball's big stage? Oh, boy. This is how we're starting.
That's not even close to what we set out to do. What we set out to do was to... honor and commemorate Jimmy Butler and we wanted people to come up to us and share their thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler statue should look like. if there should be a jimmy butler statue which most people agreed that they should i don't you're saying us i mean i don't remember you there well i produced the show oh okay i'm just saying like what that was the show objective was to have people come up and talk to us about a statue should there be a statue i feel like most people izzy were supportive of a statue very supportive nobody said no i mean where did you find the gentleman the artist where did you find him Oh, he's known. He's known in circles. He's from the opposite side of the world. He came from all over, across the world. He's made statues of some very famous people. I don't remember the names. One was Abdul Khalif Mukhtar, and then the other one was Sharon Stone. And so... Diversity. Yeah, he's been around. He's done a lot of great work around the world.
And we got him and he was gracious to do it. I mean, you know, it's just a look book. It wasn't really, he wasn't like sculpting right in front of us. Sharon Stone because stone. I mean, you gotta ask him, I don't know. But the point is, Dan. The point is, is that that's what was the aim, and then the team was approached by a journalist.
Who is Akbar Domestique and what is his role?
who was very fascinated by the work of Akbar, and so he talked to Akbar.
Well, but this was Jeremy's friend, and this was embarrassing. Like, what happened? For whom? For whom? It's never whom. What do you mean? For Jeremy's friend?
This is... I thought you were saying it was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend, a South Florida journalist, did not recognize me.
That was bad. You recognized Akbar. I mean, it was a bad thing for everyone involved, right? That no one here who's of note was recognized and that journalism is clearly very, very dead.
Maybe we're not as famous as we think we are.
I was the only one here.
Well, Akbar's very famous. He got interviewed by the media last night, so he's famous.
Well, he had a giant sign in front of him that basically said, come interview me.
I mean, I don't know. How could you guys, how? I know it's oddball. I know, I get it. It's oddball. I get it. But how could you guys make Jimmy Butler about you the way that you did yesterday? By creating news. By creating news that appeared in the Sun Sentinel, doing so, making the day about you.
Allow me, if I may. See, Dan is seeing this through his Dan glasses. In Dan's world, how can I make the, oh, guys, I gotta dress up like a chicken and then say something controversial and then people pay attention. That's how you do it. The way we do it is we actually go out and try to do the show and then accidentally, this is how it used to be, guys. Remember Boom Goes the Dynamite? That guy didn't show up that night and say, I'm gonna say Boom Goes the Dynamite and then everyone on the internet is gonna talk about me. He was just trying to do his job, but the way he did his job was so magnifique That it went viral. Now you got guys like Dan Levitard clickbaiting, trying to go viral. Let me say something crazy now. I'm dressed like Pirates of the Caribbean.
If it happens behind a paywall at the Sun Sentinel, did it happen?
Wait, but you can read it for like five seconds before the paywall comes up. So you can get like a different graph each time.
Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. If it happened behind the Sun Sentinel paywall, did it actually happen? That was a surgical slice by Billy Gill. What do you mean?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the controversy surrounding the Jimmy Butler statue?
0:21–2:08
2
Who is Akbar Domestique and what is his role?
2:08–4:40
3
What happened with the media at the Jimmy Butler event?
4:40–7:53
4
Why did the relationship between Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat sour?
7:53–12:08
5
How does Steph Curry's international fame compare to Jimmy Butler's?
12:08–16:11
6
What was the purpose of the Oddball segment and its outcome?
16:11–42:31
Speakers
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