#1584 The Red Barber Program

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Clay is joined by Dr. Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, and our west coast Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri. Both are deeply interested in American sports, both for the sport per se, but also for the window they provide on the larger dynamics of American life. This week’s topics: outsized college coach salaries; the madcap world of Bill Walton; the problematic temperament of Draymond Green; and the death of intercollegiality in American college sports. Dr. Kemper is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era. David Nicandri has written highly regarded books on Lewis and Clark and Captain James Cook.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to this podcast introduction to this week's program.
0:06.6	I call it the Red Barber program. You know I had Dr. Kurt Kemper on
0:10.9	with David the Candry and they really hit it off and they love to talk sports but
0:14.6	they not just sports per se but sports somehow as a window on the larger dynamics of
0:19.3	American life so I'm going to have them on for one or two segments once a month or every six weeks.
0:25.2	But this time a full show and our and our themes include the outsized salaries of
0:30.9	college coaches, the phenomenon of Bill Walton as a
0:36.6	sportscaster, the collapse of the intercollegiality concept of American college sports,
0:48.0	just these really interesting subjects,
0:51.0	but also Dreymon Green, you know, he's an amazing NBA basketball player for the
0:56.0	Golden State Warriors, but he has serious temperament problems and has cost the Warriors,
1:02.4	not only games, but maybe a national championship and is
1:06.4	sort of indefinite suspension. So I wanted to get their take on these things and
1:11.8	if you have thoughts on questions I should
1:13.8	put to them when we meet from time to time please let me know because I'm by no means
1:18.0	an expert on sport but I have lots of thoughts and questions and I'm looking to these experts to really help
1:24.8	sort them out and it turns out most of what I think I know may be factually true but it doesn't really
1:31.6	get at the underlying dynamics of all of this.
1:35.2	So thank you.
1:35.8	If you can help us as we pursue this great dream of listening to America,
1:40.7	as you know I'm going to be on the road all this year with my
1:43.8	airstream following John Steinbeck's travels with Charlie Tour of 1960 and trying
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