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Crime in Sports

#260 - Michael Jordan's Idol - The Unrealizedness of David "Skywalker" Thompson

Crime in Sports

James Pietragallo, Jimmie Whisman

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4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

This week, we look at a man who could have been one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Number 1 overall draft pick & every accolade that exists. He was even Michael Jordan's idol. So, how did this sure thing turn so wrong? Cocaine. Cocaine. Oh, and cocaine. His career was even ended at Studio 54, of all places. A tragic story, that everyone should know about. A wild, unexpected tale!

Win a national championship, float through the air like you're weightless, and throw it all in the garbage because of sweet, sweet cocaine with David "Skywalker" Thompson!!

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Hello and welcome to Crime and Sports! Yay! Yay indeed Jimmy! Yay indeed! My name is James Petrogallum here with my co-host.

0:35.0

I am Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you folks so much for joining us one and all again back this week for more craziness.

0:42.0

We're a role of crazy. There's been a lot of crazy, just complete lives that are all drugs and nuts and crazy stuff.

0:52.0

That's kind of Crime and Sports sweet spot. I got murders good or something like that. That's interesting and it's a nice change of pace.

1:00.0

But what we really want to see is someone's rather promising life turn into just a series of disasters really because that's where the comedy is and that's where we are today is a matter of fact.

1:12.0

It's one of the most promising people. This is Michael Jordan's idol as a matter of fact this guy.

1:18.0

Oh! Put it that way. He's the guy who Michael Jordan idolized in fashion himself after. It tells you what kind of play he is and we'll get into all that.

1:26.0

But first want to thank everybody for your reviews. Very helpful Apple podcasts that purple icon. Give us five stars and I don't know why. Whatever just do it please.

1:35.0

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1:42.0

All your merch and everything like that. Everything that has to do with Crime and Sports and small town murder and if you're not listening to small town murder, I don't know how else to convince you.

1:51.0

It's a hilarious crazy show about insane murders. What else do you want? Fantastic.

1:57.0

Yeah. Last week a guy murdered his whole family. You know what his excuse was? You know what his excuse was? He thought they were aliens that have come down to harm him on his isolated hilltop weird house. That was his excuse. That's the kind of family was.

2:12.0

It's family kids and everything all aliens come again. They finally came for me. So there you go. Stuff like that. Listen to small town murder. Check that out. Also listen to PSI hate this movie because I just had to watch a did a watch along of the last twilight of my head almost exploded.

2:27.0

So you got to suffer through that with me. Get your get your tickets to live shows all throughout 2022. There have been some people going. Oh, I see you'll be here this weekend. And I'm like, nope. That's next year.

2:39.0

I don't know what whatever the clubs website say all that doesn't matter. Check out our website. That's our that's where we know where we'll be. You know, no matter what they say, we don't have a plane ticket to go there. We're not going to miss it from somebody outside the venue. They're like, where are you guys?

2:56.0

And why are you there? What are you doing? Yeah, here's. So check the website before anything. Shut up and give me murder dot com for all of that. Patreon dot com slash crime and sports is where you want to be for all of the very, very good stuff.

3:11.0

The ones we just put up Saturday or Sunday were amazing. We did the Atlanta gold club is the crime sports bonus. And that is a strip club in Atlanta where you can find out what Bill Gates Patrick Ewing and Madonna have in common.

3:26.0

Nothing you think absolutely not lot in common. Are you looking for the Michael Jordan of sex? She's in there. She's in there. There's another thing that there's a lady in there who referred to as the Michael Jordan of sex. So that's an interesting episode.

3:39.0

And the other episode, the small town murder bonus was even crazier and you get access to everything. Obviously, if you're a patron, all the different episodes for both with that is was the big sons of Sam conspiracy where I read a 25 hour book of a guy who was just packed full of conspiracy theory.

3:58.0

And it is insanity of why why David Berkowitz didn't act alone and all this. And there's a couple good points. And then a lot of really crazy stuff where word association from the letters and you have to hear it. It's absolutely insane. So

4:14.0

that's what I was talking about. I was like, yeah, that makes sense. And then by the third one, I was like, the fuck am I talking about what is he talking about? Yeah, you take two things. You know, that makes sense. Then when you try to make it 10 things, it just doesn't stretch that far. It doesn't go. And we have all of that in there. It's a lot of literally a 25 hour book. I read for a bonus episode. So you want to check that out.

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