Chapter 1: What insights does the episode provide about the future of streaming platforms?
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Chapter 2: How does the podcast discuss the importance of game day fashion?
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Chapter 3: What are the details of the Smirnoff merchandise giveaway?
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Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
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Chapter 4: How does Michael Jordan's perspective on playing relate to modern basketball?
Peacock, NBC Sports Now, that's Monday through Friday, 12 to 3, and also Apple, Spotify, Amazon. Sirius XM Channel 85 as well. We are continuing to add more and more networking possibilities. What are you shaking your head about? Wow, look at us, man. We're everywhere. Hey, number one podcast on Apple this morning when I checked.
I think we should get imaging for that, that we are number one on Wednesday mornings when you checked. That's right. Number one sports podcast. I saw something driving to the airport the other day. Someone's going to have to help me with this. There was a billboard, and I think the podcast's name was only in Miami. I'm not sure. The billboard said, number one podcast in Miami.
And I'm like, that can't be right.
Because that's me. Us.
I know you think it's you, but it's us. I was doing Dan Levitard. I know you were. Scene. I know you were doing Dan Levitard. Don't do another penalty, all right? You've done too much. Don't do it. But that can't be right. How can you say you're the number one podcast in Miami when you're not? I mean, you can say whatever you want. Thank you, Zass. No, that's false advertising. No, it's not.
You can do that.
Are you aware of what's going on in the world right now? So everybody can just lie to your face?
Prices are down 600%. Okay, so no rules. You can just say whatever you want.
I mean, I see CBS all the time. They say NCIS is the number one watched show in the country.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits of having a new approach to NBA coverage?
I don't know anyone who watches that show. Well, but wait a minute. Dan, have you ever heard a single person say, did you see this week's episode of NCIS? That's a good question. I always assume it's old white people in the Midwest. That's, I mean, that's what Yellowstone was doing. That's their slogan, CBS. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show.
Should CBS's slogan be old white people in the Midwest? Yes or no? The things that I wanted to talk to you guys about today before we get started in earnest, one of them is Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan talking. This has been received how? Because
A pre-taped interview that Mike Tirico did before the season that is going to run all season and be insights into excellence and is just old guy saying, in my day, I played all the minutes.
I think it's been received pretty positively.
Well, this is just Michael Jordan getting applause for an opinion. Amin is shaking his head no. I don't know what you guys are doing. The segment is called Insights Into Excellence. Excellence. Not insights into, oh, my elbow hurts. I need to sit down for two weeks. Excellence. He is excellence, and he's giving us his insights into it. That's it. That's the segment.
What are you guys searching for? More and better. Better than Michael Jordan?
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Chapter 6: How is the impact of Udonis Haslam's transition into broadcasting discussed?
Look, I can understand wanting more. Better than Michael Jordan.
Better.
And also, more, you know what they say? You leave them wanting more. This is show business, kid. Wake up. I don't want more of this. What? You're lying. You're lying. No, more of this I don't want. More of a taped interview. Milking a taped interview all season is not what I want. Would you feel better about it if he had different clothes on and it seemed like a different day?
Yeah, that would help. I probably would. If you change the locale once in a while, you know what? It's an excellent production note by you. Yes, that would help so that I'm like, so that later in this season when they're giving me the last drivel that they haven't already given me, generally speaking,
When someone sits down with Michael Jordan or anyone for an hour, what you get is the three best minutes. Here, you're going to get the whole hour. You're going to get everything he and Tirico talked about spliced out over time so that by the finals, there's nothing left. but Michael Jordan giving you cliches because they had to give you the best stuff early.
So here's Michael Jordan giving you the most predictable position possible about load management. Everyone's going to applaud this. Play as much as Michael Jordan does.
I never wanted to miss a game because it was an opportunity to prove. It was something that I felt like, you know, the fans are there that watch me play. I want to impress that guy. way up on top, who probably worked his ass off to get a ticket or to get money to buy the ticket.
You really cared about the guy who sat in the top deck of the palace in Auburn Hills to watch you when you came to Detroit? Yeah, because I know he's probably yelling at me. I want to shut him up. He's calling me all kinds of names. I definitely want to shut him up. You have a duty that if they're wanting to see you, and as an entertainer, I want to show. Right?
So if the guys are coming to watch me play, I don't want to miss that opportunity. Physically, if I can't do it, then I can't do it. But physically, if I can do it and I just don't feel like doing it, that's a whole different lens.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the recent World Series matchup?
Dan, Michael Jordan was 40 years old in his last year. He played in all 82 games for a bad Wizards team. He's allowed to talk like this. You look at his stats. He played 82 games every year. Yes, and you know what happened in that last season? The Wizards led the league in road attendance. In road attendance. The number one team. Not Shaq and Kobe Lakers. Not Allen Iverson Sixers.
Not the Knicks who have a million Knicks fans in every city. The number one road attraction that season was the Washington Wizards. You know why? Rip Hamilton. Because the best player ever was retiring? Because you knew Michael Jordan was going to play! Because he's going to play, and he was devoted to giving everyone in that arena insights into excellence.
I did enjoy him pivoting from the softer... If someone worked hard and paid their money to watch me play, I want to entertain that person. And then when Tirico asked the follow up, he's like, and shut that person up. What I actually wanted to do is I didn't want to hear anything from up there anymore because he's fueled by rage.
That's a great job by Mike Tirico. This is a good job in humanizing someone who is a part of NBA lore. Right. Who has built up a certain air of mystery around him. And it helps the entire segment because when he speaks, it has gravity, has weight to it because of who he is. He, Tariqo, identifies, hey, this is a... This is... something that humanizes you.
This is something that has you thinking about the common man. Let me stay here and further ingratiate you to our audience. Amazing job.
Two straight weeks where he's appeared to be human and then he pulled the rug and showed us I'm still Michael Jordan. And I love that, right? I love it. I don't want to get to know my heroes. Let him just be a mythological character.
But the other thing, Dan, which I think he's doing a great job of and NBC is doing a great job of, is it's not what I guess, and I love the TNT guys, but the TNT brand of nostalgia, which is everything sucks. We're better. These guys who do better. He never puts it in the context of right now. He just he says, why did you play all those games? because I felt like I had to.
Not like, none like these soft guys. He just said, because I had to in the same way where he said, would you want to play if you still could? He said, man, I wish I could take a pill and come back and put on the shorts and play again so that I can measure myself against what other people consider greatness. Again, on the surface, it sounds like he just wants to play again, guys.
He's a good analyst. Yeah, he wants to compete. But reality underneath is he's letting you know, hey man, I wanna see, you think I think this is good? What other people consider greatness. Exactly, as Jay Adande eloquently said, that is the pregame layup line of shade for Michael Jordan.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts reflect on the overall state of sports media?
Peacock and Amazon are doing a great job.
They're doing a fantastic job. And look, ESPN has upgraded by bringing in the Turner guys. I mean, the rest of their coverage could learn a little bit from that. But it also kind of shines a light on how bad NBA coverage has been over the last 20 years. I mean, you have an apples-to-apples comparison with Udonis Haslam right now. And he's just totally been unlocked. By Amazon. He's really good.
And it really, someone who thinks a little bit like a producer, makes me really disappointed in what the NBA producers have done over at ESPN, wasting talents like this. Because you watch Udonis Haslam on Amazon, and you're like, wow, ESPN could have used this guy.
This was a frustration of both David Stern and Adam Silver that ESPN could never get right. Never mind that you can't be inside the NBA. Nobody can be inside the NBA. but they could never actually get right the thing that you're talking about, which is just simply, for example, unlocking Udonis Haslam. I enjoyed Giannis against Brunson and the Knicks so much last night, and it was different.
It felt different than what I'm used to with my broadcasts, and usually most things are so familiar in sports that when something's different, there's almost an initial visceral reaction to, I don't like that better. It's too different.
I noticed the difference in the broadcasts, and I appreciated, last night specifically, just on a random Tuesday night, Giannis and Brunson watching the end of the game and it feeling different than all the other broadcasts I've been watching for 20 years. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of things. I told Mike before the show, it is production, because I remember...
Going to do SportsCenter, and when you're about to do SportsCenter, they say, hey, we need you for the 9 o'clock show. Your hit's around 9.30. Be there by 9.15. You're in the green room. Now, when I'm in the green room and there are NFL guys, the producers will come downstairs and sit with these guys for up to 30 minutes sometimes, watching film. Oh, should we use this clip? What about this?
What are you seeing in this cover too? Actual analysis that they're trying to produce for the segment. For me and for other NBA analysts, it's not just me. It was Tim Legler. It was everyone else who did NBA. You just get a bunch of really rote questions about, hey, what do you think the Knicks need to do to get over it? It was just no investment in it. And it goes back to Dan.
I've talked about this before, the thumb of the commissioner. Roger Goodell is on ESPN's ass to get their stuff together. But Silver and Stern were too. Stern was. Silver hasn't been. Not in the way, the direct and blunt way the NFL and the old NBA was. And I think that's a big reason why the new people came in and they're like, oh, dad wants it this way. He's not going to like...
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